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Year: 1869

Panic.


An InterVIcW with President Grant.


WASHINGTON, October 8.


AS commenta have been made In the
newspapers affecting the admlnistra.
ti0n In connection with the recent gold
panic, and much interest is felt on the
subject, the Washington agent of the
Associated Press tonight called upon
the President to ascertain whether
there was any foundation for the Insln.
uatIon or direct charges against the
administration. The President con-
versed with the utmost irankness on
the subject and said he had not thought
proper 10 publicly contradict the state.
ments concerning himself, as he had
done nothing whatever to Influence the
tages 10 private parties. While In New
York he had many voluntary advisers,
but he repeatedly said tothem that the
administration always held itself In
position 10 act as It seemed best, and
free TO make any change OF policy for
the public interest.


In the course OF the conversation he
stated that while on the eve OF going to
Newport, James Fisk, Jr., came on
board the steamer at New York, and
said to the President that Gould had
sent him down to aAk that he would
privately give them a determination
as TO what the administration was going
TO do on the financial question, The
President replied that the giving OF
such Information would NOT be fair,
and asked FISK whether he did not
think 80 himself. Fisk admitted II
would not be fair. The President then
informed him that whenever lhe al.
ministratlon was going to change Ita
action or policy, Inc Secretary Of the
Treasury would give notice through
the newspapers, as usual, so that everv.
body might, at the same time, know
what 1t was, thus excluding any posi-.
BILE charge OF iavoritism.


On the morning OF the panic friday
Secretary Boutwell, communicated the
state OF affairs In New York, when the
President said sell i've millions Of gold,
The Secretary replied he had come for
the purpose Of suggesting the sale Of
three millions, the idea Of selling gold
thus appearing to be In the minds OF
each at the time. A few minutes there.
after an order was telegraphed to New
York to sell four millions OF gold.


1t may be repeated that the President
had informed no one Of the purposes Of
the administration on financial SUBJ
lects, and the same remark 10 equally
true Of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Year: 1869

"A Milwaukee man, who deposited
$l00 In o bank, and was told the Inter.
est would be Eve per cent, came
promptly at the end OF the year with IS
IN small currency to pay that interest.
When told that the IS went the other
way, he looked up In aatonlshment, and
went away. wondering why q man
should pay him for being allowed 10
take care Of his money o whole year.
Year: 1869

The following curious story of crime and
retribution is told by the Dubuque (Iowa)
Times


For the last fifteen or twenty years there
has lived, about dozen or so miles south of
this city, farmer named Costello who in
has own community, and among those with
whom be was acquainted, has enjoyed the
reputation Of being an honorable and fair
dealing man. Matters prospered well on
his farm; he was all attention to his duties,
and was considered a good husband and u
kind father


Costello was born in Ireland, and lived
there till manhood He had settled down and
reioiced In the possession of Il wife and sew
eral children. But an unlucky day came,
when, In a dispute he struck blow which
made him fratricide-an outlaw and a
fugitive from justice Escaping the officers
Of the law, he fed the country, embarked
on emigrant ship, and came to America.


After many years of rambling through
this country, he came to Dubuque, where
by industry and economy, he succeeded in
securing good farm. Meantime, his wife
and children still remained in the old coun-
try, entirely ignerant of his whereabouts
He could not write to have them to come
out to America, for that would only lead to
his discovery and bring him surely to the
gallows. Besides it is but natural to sup.
pose that his WIFE knowing his terrible
crime, would hardly be willing to share her
life with his So, after taking the matter in
10 consideration, he married again.


But his terrible secret has at last crept
out. Last week his nephew. the son Of the
murdered brother, arrived here, and, after
securing the proper legal papers, proceeded
to the farm of Costello, aud had him ar
rested for the murder committed thirty
years ago. He is now on the way back to
Ireland, to be tried, and, if no circumstances
can be adduced TO justify the fratricide, he
is to suffer for it to the full extent.
Year: 1869

In the language Of the Gallatin Examiner,
we would say Did it ever occur to the
minds Of our people that their home papers
are their representatives abroad They
are, whether they wish them so or not.
They cannot help it. Strangers look to
them as the unerring representatives of the
people among whom they are printed. If
shabby and mean in appearance and thrift,
and unfavorable opinion is formed at once,
if the reverse, 1t goes to the locality How
important then to give them liberal sup
port. Let this be done, and the publisher
is able to command every means to i'm
prove his paper, and make it profitable to
him, and an honor to the place at which it is
printed. Let every man take this correct
view Of the matter, and have a paper, which
will be a fit representative of the wealth
and prosperous section in which he lives.
1t is his representative from home, and it
should be his pride to enable it to be one of
which be would not be ashamed. And if it
is also considered the hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars sent away for newspapers,
would all be kept at home, and kept IN Cir
culation among our people, the Importance
Of sustaing home papers becomes still more
important
Year: 1869

Last evening about dark Mrs S. L. Wood
son in reflling lamp with what is known
as coal OIL in the hall of her house at sc
Madison street. spilled few drops of the
fluid on the table. Then putting down the
can near the lamp she applied lighted
taper to the wick. a ciuder fell on the oil
which was lying around loose and set it on
fire. A colored girl who was superintend-
ing the operation, with great presence Of
mind sprang forward to put out the blaze
and upset the can of oil In a second the
whole mass Of oil burst into a flame, which
enveloped Mrs Woodson and leaped to the
ceiling, a hight of fifteen feet. The servant
girl then retired in good order. Mr.. Wood
son and some friends happened to be in the
next room and came promntly to the i'm
perilled lady's assistance. BY liberal and
prompt use of blankets the flames were
soon extinguished when it was found that
Mrs Woodson was more frightened than in
iured, and that the volunteer fire department
was more frightened than she was 1t was
remarkable escape, for if help had not
been Immediately at hand the result must
have been altogether different. This should
be a warning to all who handle burning
fluids arelessly.-Memphis Ledger, 9Th
inst.
Year: 1869

In estimating the increased political pow
er of the West we must add to these the Pa
cifc States. which in 1910 were not, which
now have only five members of Congre IS,
but which after 1870, will probably have
seven or eight, making in all SO members
west of Pittsburgh and north of Cairo. The
change between the period named in the
representative strength of New England
and the other Eastern or Atlantic States
combined will be substantially as follows:
Year: 1869

The eight-hour Law is sought to be avoid
ed by Government contractors, and the Ia
borers are not disposed to submit, and the
matter will shortly be tested in the Courts
The National Labor Congress, which will
soon meet, viii have something to say on
the subject.
Year: 1869

The man who had his attention first
turned to matrimony by the beautiful man
ner in which girl handled broom, now
says it was nothing to the way she handled
it a little while after he married her
Year: 1869

The South Bend, (Tnd.) Register relates
horrible accident which occurred at
Rolling Prairie on Monday last. a num-
Der of hands were engaged in threshing
wheat at the farm of Mr.. Brown, the
machine being set in the barn. John
Nichols was stationed in the barn loft to
pitch sheaves down to the feeder. While
engaged in his duties he made a misstep and
fell headlong from the loft, his head striking
the cylinder, which was running at fnll
speed. He was instantly drawn into the
machine, head first, and in less time than it
takes to tell it, his head and the upper por-
ton of his body were reduced to shape
less, unacceptable mass by the teeth of
the cylinder The sight it is said, by those
who witnessed it, to have been almost sick
ening one.
Year: 1869

We hardly know how to keep up with the
times. says the Hillsboro, Virginia Recorder.
Z horrible outrage is now related to US as
having been perpetrated by negro upon
the person of a young white girl in Catham
County, week before last. AS told to u.s. we
can but sicken at the black villainy Of the
Ohense and shudder to think Of the awful
punishment that followed. Ii there be in
the account we give any incorrectness, we


hope to be informed, and we will be quick
in placing it before our readers 1t was told
US as follows: The young white girl had
been over to a neigh Dor s-about three miles
of-and was returning when intercepted in
the road by a negro man who dragged her
into the woods. lie carried out his hellish
purpose and tied her to a tree There he
kept her all night. The next day he brought
her something to eat He told her he would
be back at night. But in the evening her
friends, who were on the hunt, found her
and she told them what the negro had said.
They placed a guard in ambush and caught
him when he came. They asked the girl
what they should do with him, and she said,
skin him alive And they Skjnncd him"
Year: 1869

Il young boy at Richmond bet "two bits +"
that he could lie down on the track bed and
let the train pass over him, and the train did,
though the boy was minus his head and cash
by the operation
Year: 1869

Dr. Moody, of Walnut Bend, Ark, was
caught in the shaft Of his saw-min last Fri
day and instantly killed. But few months
ago he lost his right arm in the mill, and
entering it On Friday for the first time, his
empty sleeve was caught by the band aAd
his left arm torn from its socket and his
lifeless body hurled against the wall.
Year: 1869

For several months past young man
who had been boarder IN private fami-
ly in Troy, N. Y, had paid some attention
to daughter, escorting her to the theater
and to church on one or two occasions =
There had, however, been no love making
on either part. About two weeks ago the
father of the young lady came suddenly
into the room where she and her mother
were sitting, and said to her, "Go- and get
ready, you are going to get married in an
hourn The mother confirmed the state
ment and told her to go for lady friend
of hers, living near, to stand up with her.
The girl asked to whom she was to be
married, The father answered, 'sTo Hen.
ry" (the boarder before mentioned.) The
girl took it for joke, and went for her
friend. When she came back minister
was present, and in less than ten minutes
she was a wife. She now seeks relief from
the marital bonds, alleging that she was SC
confused and surprised that she did moi
know what she was about, and that she
was married to the young man without hel
consent
Year: 1869

port of the allegations, and 1t is believed that no
evidence offered has been excluded from the con.
have shed any light upon the question involved.
or which would have affected the decision
OF the court The case was subm tied without srgu.
ment by both parties. The court say they gave TO
the subject fun and thorough investigation and sub.
INIT their conclusions. Referring to the evidence that
General Dyer said he was entitled TO royalty on
the Dlckenson and Zare shell, the court believe
the expression was not made with the xpectaton OF
deriving any pecunlary profit by that association.
oehce that he ever received any pecuniary advan-
tage irom it. and the court is satlshed that he has
not. Iney further say that his motive IN making
the remark was either the pride OF an inventor or
desire 70 protect the interests Of the United States


~ reference 10 the Charge that the displacement
OF General Ramsey, as Chief OF Ordnance, ana the
appointment oil General Dyer to that Oice had been


sat y ne an ae court say IT. Is clear 70
eral Dyer and was not controlled by any outside
influence but was alone determined by the convic-
Stanton and Assistant Secretary OF War Watson as
to his peculiar fitness ior tie position,


AS to the charge that General DYER was guilty of
wilful Misrepresentation and fasehood In claiming
to be the first inventor OF the plan Of casting soft
metal sabots ON the iron bodies OF proIecliles the
court say, from the evidence presented.
that they are Of the opinion that Gen.
eral Dyer was not the first person 70 propose that
plan. but that, although not the hrst inventor he
was an inventor OF it, and that he was the first per-
son TO recommend its use by the Ordnance Depart
ment. The court discover In the testimony no
ground for questioning his good faith and sincerity
IN making the claim OF originality oil invention.
Tne various charges against Dyer are noticed In
their respective order The court vindcate him
from all OF the accusations concerning projecules,
arms, wilfu suppression of a portion OF the record
III relation TO firing, reports DC. The report covers
l,S00 printed pages.


The opinion or the court was promulgated in gen.
eral orders from the War Department, which is that
mo further proceedings necessary in the matter
OF the complaints against Brgadier and Brevet
Major General A. b. Dyer, Chel Of Ordnance, in
his administration OF the Ordnance Department, as
contained In the report Of the JOINT select committee
ON ordnance, and the testimony accompanying the
same reported to the Senate or the United states,
July H. 1865" The report OF the court and the
opinion above quoted were approved and confirmed
by the President. The court OF inquiry was accord.
lnuly dissolved
Year: 1869

A chronick old bacheloriz invariably
ov the neuter gender, don't care how
much he may offer tew bet that it aint
so.


They are like dried apples on a
string-want a good soaking before
they will do to use.


suppose there il sum of them who
have good excuse for their nuterness;
many of them are too stingy to marry.
This IL one of the best excuses | kno
ov, for a stingy man aint fit tew have
nice woman.


Some old bachelors git after a flirt,
and kant travel so fast as she doz, and
then konkludes awl the female group
are hard to ketch. and good for moth
ing when they are ketched.


A fiirt is rough thing to overhaul
unless the right dog gets after her, and
then they are the easiest ov awl to
ketch, and often make very best ov
wives.


When flirt really falls in love, she
liz as powerless as mown daily.


Her impudence then changes into
modesty, her cunning into fear. her
spurs into a halter, her pruning hook
into cradle.


The best way tew ketch flirt il tew
travel the other way from which they
are going or sit down on the ground
and whistle some lively tune till the
firt comes round.


Old bachelors make the firts, and
then the flirts get more than even by
making the old bachelors.


A majority of the hirts git married
finally, for they have great quantity
of the most dainty titbits of woman's
natur, and alwus hav shrewdness to
back up their sweetness.


Flirts don't deal in poetry and water
grewel; they hev got tew hav brains,
or else somebody would trade them out
of their capital at the fust sweap.


Disappointed luv must ov course be
all on one side, and this aint emmy more
excuse for being all old bachelor than
it is for man to quit awl kinds of
manual labor, jist out of spite, and jine
a poorhouse bekause he kant lift tun
at one pop.


An old bachelor will brag about his
freedom to you, his relief from anxiety,
his independence. This is a dead
beat past resurrection, for everybody
knows their aint more anxious dupe
than he il. All his dreams are char
coal sketches of boarding-school mis-
ses; he dresses, greases his hair, paints
his grizzly mustach, cultivates bunyons
and corns, tew please his captains, the
wimmen, and only gets LATED at for his
pains.


1 tried being an old bachelor till l
waz about twenty years old, and came
very near dieing dozen times. had
more sharp pain in one year than hav
had since. put it all in heap. | was
in lively fever all the time.


There is only one person who has IN
habited this world thus far that 1 think
could have been an old bachelor and
done the subject justice, and he was
Adam; but l hold it is every mans
duty to seleckt partner and keep the
dance hot.
Year: 1869

~ A strange woman has lately
died in Tennessee, named Rebeeca
Freeman. While yet in her teens, and
an orphan, she was engaged to be mar
ried; but her lover died, and she betook
herself to cabin built on the top of a
high and rugged hill, in an almost i'm
penetrable forest, where she lived the
life of hermit until her death, at the
age of 72. She kept the white slippers
and the apparel in which she was to
have been made happy bride. until
the day of her death, and would brood
over those remembrances for a half
day at time. Whenever the spirit Of
sadness fastened upon her she went to
her door and blew long tin horn for
hours at time.
Year: 1869

S There is a pair of Don Quixotes
now going the round of the newspapers.
and saying out-of-the-way things in a
style of self-deuying generosity which
people are laughing at in general. One
OF these is an Englishman, who will not
take more than half the American rate
of interest, because he does not think it
right to do so. Him they have al
ready set down as lunatic, mem con.
The other extravagant man is Profess
sor Wilcox, of Washington. who re-
fuses the franchise on principle-since
the ladies, who know more about the
locality than he does, are not to have
it. The Professor may not be alto
gether out of his senses, but great
many consider him 'mad south south
west" and fit subject for the Sorosis
Society," Y. Times.
Year: 1869

THE IMMOLAToRS."


The widest among the Russian fana-
tics are the Morelshchiki, or Immola-
tors. The leading idea is to mortify
the flesh for the sake of saving the
soul, and in order to do this efficiently
they have recourse to various means of
mutilation and death. Sects inculca-
ting the virtues of suicide and murder
naturally do all they can to keep their
existence secret, but every now and
then horrible story comes from the
interior of some gloomy forest or dreary
waste, which tells how some of these
wretched people have died. Sometimes
a pit is dug in the earth and half filled
with wood and straw. This is set
alight, and when the whole mass is in
a blaze, the miserable creatures leap
into the pit and are consumed in the
fire, wildly singing hymns as they
burn. At other times they meet in a
wooden house, round which they have
piled heaps of straw; and in it they
deliberately burn themselves to death,
their neighbors looking on quietly the
while, for the act is a sacred one; the
victims are undergoing "baptism by
fire." Some years ago, says Haxthau
sen, congregation of Immolators as
sembled at a spot on the left bank of
the Volga, and ageeed to put each 9th
er to death. But after six and thirty
of them had fallen, "the desire of life
awoke in young woman, and she fled
to neighboring village. The people
repaired to the scene of action, and
found two of the murderers still alive.
and forty-seven persons dead. The
two who were taken were knouted-ex-
ulting at every stroke at the martyr
dom they were undergoing" 1t is to
this sect that the Scoptsi belong, of
whom we have spoken in a previous
chapter.
Year: 1869

WOMEN AND BABIEs.-In the early
days of California a woman could hard
ly walk through the streets of San
Francisco without. having every one
pause to gaze on her, and children
were SO rare that once in theater in
the same city, where a woman had
taken her infant, when it began to
cry just as the orchestra began to play,
q man in the pit cried out, ''stop those
6ddles and let the baby cry. / hayn't
heard such a sound for ten years. =
The audience applauded this sentiment,
the orchestra stopped, and the baby
continued its performance amid un--
bounded enthusiasm.
Year: 1869

S One very cold night. a jolly old
fellow who had been drinking too freely
at the tavern, started for home in gig,
and on his way was upset and left on
the side of the road. Some persons
passing short time after, discovered
him holding his feet up to the moon
and calculating to some unknown per-
son: "Pile on the wood! It's misera-
bly cold fire."
Year: 1869

Next in singularity to these people
come the Khlisti, or Scourgers the
Flagellants of the middle ages-whose
notion of religious service is a wild
dance accompanied by severe castiga-
ton. In the middle of the room in
which they meet stands vessel con-
tanning water, and to this they go from
time to time, in order to wet their
beads or to drink out of their hands,
They then resume their stamping and
their flogging; until they fall down Ut
terly exhausted, OF conyulsions seize
them, during which they utter rawlings
which they call prophecies. Every
Easter night, one of his secretaries told
Haxthausen, the fanatics "all assemble
for great solemnity, the worship of
the mother of God. A virgin fifteen
years of age, whom they have induced
to act the part by tempting promises,
is bound and placed in a tub of warm
water; some old women come and first
make large incision in the left breast,
then cut it off, and staunch the blood
in wonderfully short time. Other
barbarities follow, too shocking to be
told. During these operations mys-
teal picture of the Holy Spirit is put
into the victims hand, in order that
sAe may be absorbed in regarding it. l"
Afterwards wild dance takes place
around the tub, kept up by the whole
congregation until their strength is ex-
hausted. The girls who have been
thus mutilated are ever afterwards con-
sidered sacred. At the age of nineteen
or twenty they are said to look like
women OF fifty or sixty, and they gem
orally die before reaching their thirtieth
year.
Year: 1869

We say, then, to our young friends, do
not think Of educating yourself for the pulpit
unless God calls you to IL do not spoil a
good farmer by trying to make poor lawyer; ;
by no means think Of medicine unless you
have passion for it; no one can teach well


unless God has by special endowment of tenn
per and tact fitted him for it; but by no
means fail of good, liberal education, even
if it must be secured by no little self-denial


Whether you elect to be farmer, land there
is call now for intelligent agricuturists


and an immense rich country for the deyel-
opment Of capacity in this direction,) or a
mechanic, or a merchant, by all means secure
u thorough training in the sciences and Ian
guages-one will open the volume of nature
before you, and the other the worlds litera-
ture, aud both together will give breadth of
view aud a sell-remunerating culture that
cannot be otherwise gained. Nor yet rely
upon self-education as sufficient to compensate
for the lack Of thorough school training


He who ioregoes the opportunities for gaining
a thorough school training with the expecta-
ton that he will supplement his acquire
ments by private studies, knows little Of the
difficulties Of the work he assigns to his after
years. The absolute necessary expenses of a
college course are not large. Thousands of
men have worked themselves through without
physical suffering. No man ever regretted
the years he spent in intellectual training in
after life, but thousands have regretted the
thoughtless sentiments of youth which hurried
them too early and unready from the school
into the whirl of labor and care. We would
inspire our youthful readers of both sexes, as
far as We have power, to secure the best.
most thorough, and broadest education which
the providence of God enables them to obtain.