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Year: 1869

OyERHAUL1NG Diplomats AccoUNTs.-A Washing
ton letter writer says that Judge Barton Fifth Auditor
is consulting Solicitor Bonield concerning number
of ministers, consus and commercial agents. who,
has been found by reference to the books in his office,
break of the rebellion, when they took sides with the
rebels. Those who yet alive, and their bondsmen,
will doubtless be called to settle their accounts We
don't think that any of the exdplomats need worry
themselves much about the Judges effort for if there
had been any chance of making anything out of them
some of the RAIDS long, ere this, would have bleed
them to the core They neglect thing of that
kind this long.
Year: 1869

The New Orleaus Picayune of the Sd, gives notice
to the world that Col Thomas P Ochiltree, of Texas
called at that office his way from Washington City
to his domic in Texas Our contemporary says: that
Tom gave up much information respecting the state Of
affairs at the capital. We have no doubt of it, for
Tom capable of giving glowing description Of every.
thing that chances in his way. Incidents even of
trivial nature lose nothing through his manipulation
Year: 1869

AN EARTHQUAKE WAVE IN THE PAcIF1c.-The Coast
Survey Office Washington is in receipt of informa-
ton of at very marked earthquake wave having been
recorded on sef-regsterng guage, in San Francisco,
few days since. correspondent says, from this
occurrence violent earthquake in some distant part
of the Pacific ocean may be inferred, OF which news
will doubtless reach this country before Long. The
earthquake Of Smonda, in 1854 and the eEe which
occurred in Peru in August of last year, we're an
nounced in the way. These waves travel across
the Pacific at an average rate of about three
hundred and sixty miles an hour, depending on the
depth of the water along the track of the wave From
observations made occasions to which reference is
made the average depth Of that ocean has been found
to be about two thousand fathoms.
Year: 1869

The GRANT FAMILY AND CoRBIN.-The Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial under
date Of the 29th gives little gossip about family
affairs, which, considering the important position and
standing of the family, is net without interest. He
gives his word that the President and Mrs. Grant
have ceased all social connection with their rela-
tive, Mr. A. R. Corbin, of New York. for his duplcity
in connecting them with the New York gold conspr-
acy. This gossiping correspondent says that when
Grant sold his house, in Washington City, to General
Sherman he gave his wife twelve thousand dollars of
the proceeds, which she forthwith transferred to Cor
bin, then present in Washington, on his bridal trip,
to be used in New Jersey real estate speculation.
This is the only money ever given to him by any of
the Presidents family, and is not improbable that
he used it for the purpose to convey to Fisk and Gould
the impression that he was the broker of the Grant
family It is certain that he did convey such i'm
preston to them and that they greatly influenced
by it in their operations The sale of gold finally dis
PEELED it. and disclosed Corbn in all the hideous du-
plicty of his character.
Year: 1869

A GENTLEMAN in London fell in love
with portrait of beautiful girl which he
saw in photographers saloon, and de-
clared he would make the original his wife.
You cannot do So" replied the photo
grapher; "for she is only servant" Ho
vowed that this should make no difference.
At last it was agreed that the gentleman
should dine at the photographers, s, that the
girl should wait upon him, and that he
should thus have ar. opportunity of seeing
whether his admiration was deep enough
to stand the sight of his goddess in cap
and apron. It stood the test, and very
soon the servant-goddess became the wife
The relation Of this story in London paper
is said to have already caused several pretty
servant girls to offer their faces to photo
graphers.
Year: 1869

It seems that Jackson county is not
alone the resort and headquarters of gangs
of robbers and murderers. Benton county
is equally notorious for the crimes com
united of late years by gang of cut -throats
having their headquarters in Pine town.
ship, near Rainesville. A gentleman
writing from Rainsville, December Gath,
gives the following account of the doings
ard tragic death of the chief of this gang
OF robbers and murderers and his family,
and some other items of interest. He says:


" A few days before we got out to the
Ridge, some men went to the house of
man named Shafer and shot him, killing
him instantly. He was very bad man,
harborlng horse-thieves and stealing for
his living.


several years ago some men tracked
horse thiefto his cabin. They INQUIRED of
this man Shafer if the thief had been there
and were told that he had not, but one Of
his little girls said the thief.had been there.
So the pursuit was continued and the thief
caught. Shafer and his wife then took
their little daughter out into huckleberry
patch and cut her throat for telling about
the thief Shortly after this it was found
out that Shafer was sheltering thieves and
murderers, and he was sent to the State
prison for one year. While there his wife
took sick with fever During her delirium
she would say, "Oh, how the little thing
screamsw The murder of her little daugh-
ter was working on her mind. She never
recovered, but passed to her final and
terrible account After her death her hus-
band came back, lived alone, and carried
on the same as before. So three men con-
cluded to put him out of the way. They
went to his cabin one evening with we'll
loaded shotgun. The old fellow was get
ting his supper, when one of them shot him
in the back with twenty-five swan shot
The next day man went to his cabin and
found him dead. Since this three more of
the same stripe have left for fear they
would be served in the same way"
Year: 1869

MAN AND WoMAY.-Whatever man is wo-
man will reflect his nature but then she has
the moulding of his nature and of his char
ecter in some degree, at least, in her hands;
and strong in her maternal and moral in
stincts, she will be able to do more for mans
spiritual and moral elevation, as an educated
Wle and mother, than in any virile occupa-
hon what ever, however honorably she may
MI 1t. 1t Is the unity in fitness of things
which constitutes, not only strength, but good
ness aud beauty. Let society abandon these,
and moral evils surely result. 1t is chiefly
among the cultured and luxurious classes Of
great cities that moral degradation of woman
Is observed, which consists in the abolition Of
the maternal instinct, and which leads direct
ly to the crimes of infaDcde and abortion
1t is doubtless true that in certain countries
the excess Of female infanticide but, in all
large and luxurious communities, both abor-
tlon and infanticide are extensively and
openly practiced by women


80 These crimes are not wholly due to pres-
sure on the means of subsistence, as is clearly
shown by the fact that they are comparatively
rare In poor countries like Ireland, and that
they originate in physical causes connected
with civilization, Is shown by the fact dom.
estc animals are apt to kill and eat their off,
spring. Even petted hens, when setting; will
chip and eat their eggs. If we inquire into
motives, it is usually found that, with the de.
feet ofthe maternal instinct, there is conjoin-
ed selfish egotism and self.indulgeuce on
the pert of the woman. Thus it is said to be
universal among the higher classes of Turkey
that the women after bearing two children
for the future proyokes abortion, partly to
preserve her form a-d beauty, and party to
diminish the number of her descendants.
Year: 1869

and restoring the government to the


Republican tack" save it from further


disintegration and ruin. But ii this is


not done, if "policy" prevail, if<the


stupid and cowardly fools who adopt
the Abolition "idea' of ''colored" men,
and assent to the Mongrel "amend-
ments," continue TO blind and bewilder
the MASSES, then. the accursed madness
Of the day must reach its end in horrors
unparalleled in human experience. The
de Jact0 government must finally come
to stand still for want of revenue to
support its standing army and enor-
nous interest on its public debt, or. it
will 60 down under the pressure of a
mighty financial panic in which its
bonds and greenbacks will shrivel into
nothingness as utter as if the great
globe itself were consumed by fire.
One way or the other, either by pros
tration next to death or a cataclism that
rends it TO fragments and scatters its
disjointed members to the utmost ends
Of the earth, the huge monstrocity that
now encumbers the land must now dis
appear forever. The States, relieved
from this gigantic monster, will take
care of themselves, and no doubt unite
together again under the immortatcon-
stitution of the founders Of American
liberty What may be the final dispo-
sition of the public debts, it is not nee
essary to anticipate, but it is reasonable
to suppose that the Confederate cotton
loan only will ever be paid, for that is
the only debt guaranteed by sovereign
States, and whatever happens or how
ever federations or considerations may
disappear, States are immortal, and will
outride the storm of the mighty Aboli-
ton madness of this century.
Year: 1869

The subjoined is an exact copy of a
written card suspended in the shop
window of a tradesman in Warrington,
England. One can conceive the
amount of provocation undergone and
the Indignation felt by the honest pur-
veyor of mousse traps before he penned
the document: "Notice l don't keep
twelve hole mouse trap nor penny ones
what keep I sell to respectable people
not to impudent Boys Hand Bad Girls
thatcomes to robbed me and annoy me
aud has Bad parents those that comes
into my shop shall be severely beat and
put into the cellar and took before the
magistrates those that comes into a
shop and ask for article that is not
made they must come to steal"
Year: 1869

There are three things that every
journalist is fated to see--death, ]. N,
and the subscriber who "gets mad" and
stops his paper, We have been immense
ly amused at an old fellow who stopped
bis Weekly journal because we did
not publish an article on education"
''composed'' by him. He came for
two weeks and paid FIVE cents day
for a copy of the Daily every morning
to see whether we apolOgizsd,a and then
subscribed for the Tri- Weekly, Chow
are you BY now" old friend i--Colsm-
bus Journal.
Year: 1869

She will vote, will be Of some nse in
the world, will cook her own food, will
earn her own living, and will not die an
old maid. The coming girl will not
wear the Grecian bend, dance tho Ger
man, ignore all possibilities of knowing
how to work will not endeAvor to
break the hearts of unsophisticated
young men, will spell correctly, under.
stand English before she affects French,
will preside with equal grace at the pi-
ano or washboard, will spin more yarn
for the house than for the street, will
not despise her plainly dressed mother,
her poor relations. or the hand OF an
honest worker will wear . bonnet
speak good, plain, unlispine English
will darn her own stockings will know
how to bake doughnuts; and will not
read the Ledger Oftcner than che does
her Bible. The coming girl will walk
i've miles day if need be, to keep her
cheeks in a glow; will mind her health,
her physical development, and her moth
er; will adopt q costume both sensible
and conducive to comfort and health,
will not confound Hypocrisy with polite
ness will not place lying 10 please
above frankness will have courage to
cut an unweicome acquaintance will
not think refinement is French duplicity;
that assumed hospitality, where hate
dwells in the heart, is better than con-
demnation; will not confound grace of
movement with silly affectation; will
not regard the end of her being to have
. beau. The coming girl will not look
to Paris, but to reason for hes fashions;
will not aim to follow . foolish fashion
because milliners and dressmakers de-
creed it; will not torture her body,
shrivel her soul with puerilities, or ruin
it with wine and pleasure. In short, the
coming girl will seek to glorify her AIa>
ker aud to enjoy mentally his works.
Duty will be her aim, and life . living
reality.-[Church Union.
Year: 1869

The Mirrors dead |! oh I toll ye bells
That sound at morn, at night and noon,
And awake the nations who have slept
Yes, raise their dust from out the tomb,
And hang it high in mid-air, where
The breeze from off the balmy sea


Will clank their bones, in welcoming
The sod that's cast on fate and theel
The Mirror, in whose murky folds
The viper hissed from morn till night,
And echoed every thought of man
That welcomed wrong, and banished right.
Sleep on thou'rt missed by none who love
A Country FREE TO each and all;


We will not deprecate thy dust,


But let thee sleep where thou did'st faH
Year: 1869

The following is brief summary of
an article in a late number of the 1tiantic


Monthly, on the recent discoveries and
improvements in surgery


BY the local application of a sufficient
degree of cold, insensibility can be pro-
duced in any desired part, so that man
with a most exquisitcly painful wound
on the arm, or fclon on the finger, can
now look down in his perfect senses, upon
the knife as it enters his own body, and
performs the most difficult operation
without giving him the least pain. A
French surgeon has invented an instru-
ment he calls the ssecrassur," OF crusher,
to perform operations dangerous in sur
gerry, on account of the loss of blood
from the smaller vessels, if performed
with knife 1t is formed of fine chain
gathered into loop, which encloscs the
part to be removed, and ty turning the
screw the chain is to be frightened till
Che parts are separated. The blunt chain
SO turns up and twists the ends of the
blood vessels that hemorrhage is pre-
vented


The eye is now examined by an instru-
ment called the opthalmoscope, by which
the depths Of the globe Of the eye can be
readily and fully explored, and through
its aid great deal of what has been
written and conjcctured about diseases of
the eye has been found to be wrong.
The intricate passages of the ear, the
nose, the whole of the windpipe and pas
sages of the lungs are now carefully
explored.


| Perhaps one Of the best results of
modern science has been through what is
called conservative" surgery, the rule of
which is to save all that can be saved
from the amputation knife. Many of our
| brave soldiers complained of the reckless
haste with which, in the late war, some
surgeons would cut off arms and legs on
account of trifing wounds. This COM
| plaint was often just. But one of the
most distinguished surgeons in the world
has lately written: CAT Kings College
it is rare to see all amputation in nine
cases out of ten excision Cor the cutting
out of the deceased portion of the limb)
should be performed in its stead"
A boy at the West was caught under
fallen log, and had his leg broken and
twisted upon itself at right angles with
his thigh, the bcnes protruding through
the flesh, and no doctor near. He lived,
and after weeks of suffering, was taken
a hospital. Modern conservative surgery
instead of amputating the limb, as the
old fashioned surgery would have done,
sawed off the protruding bones, turned
the leg back again to its place, and put
on an instrument to keep it of equal
length with the other, and now the boy
stands, runs and jumps with two sound
legs
Year: 1869

CHEAp.-Fifty thousand dollars is now
the standing price in California for
promising to marry lady and then
backing out. The dear creatures arc
very reasonable in the price they place,
upon their ssfond little hearts,
Year: 1869

BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.-Ihe follow
ing waif, afoat on the ''sea of reading" !"
we clip from an exchange. We do not
know its paternity, but it contains some
wholesome truths beautifully set forth !:


Men seldom think of the great events
of death until the shadow falls across
their path hiding forever from their eyes
the traces of the loved ones whose living
smiles was the sunlight of their existence.
Death is the great antagonist of life, and
the cold thought of the tomb is the skel-
eton of all feasts. We do not want to go
through the dark valley, although its
passage may lead to paradise; and with
Chas Lamb, we do not want to lie down
in the muddy grave, even with kings and
princes for our bed-fellows. But the fiat
of nature is inexorable. There is no ap-
peal or relief from the great law which
dooms us to dust. We flourish and we
fade as the leaves of the forest and
the beautiful flower that blooms and
withers in day has not Trailer hold
upon life than the mightest monarch
that ever shook the earth with his foot
steps, Generations of men appear and
vanish like the grass, and the countless
multitude that throng the world to-day
will tomorrow disappear as the footsteps
ON the shore.


A Chinese laborer not long ago muir
dered whole family of seven persons in
Peru. He was arrested and while the
parties who had made the arrest were
taking him to the judicial authorities he
was rescued from his guards by the in
habitants Of the town Guadalupe. They
took him to the public plaza Of the town,
covered his body with kerosine oil, and
then burned him alive in fire which
had been prepared for the purpose.
Year: 1869

DEEP SEA DREDG1Nas. One of the most
interesting results OF the recent dredging
of the sea bottom, near the coast of Eng.
land, prosecuted under the direction OF
certain eminent naturalists, and in vessel
furnished by the British government, was
the discovery that fine chalk is now steadi.
ly and continuously forming at the bottom
of the ocean, and that it belongs strictly to
the cretaceous epoch of terrestrial geology.
Year: 1869

PINE WOOD is OF great value in North
Carolina. They have discovere d q new way
of making turpentine. They char pine
wood in q retort, and the production from a
cord of wood is said to be ten gallons of
turpentine, worth 81: eighty gallons OF oil,
els Of charcoal, besides considerable in1lam-
mable gas; but besides this, the product
has market value of f$48.50; all of which
is obtained at a cost for work and labor of
SO.
Year: 1869

An English writer has been inspired
by the late Wall street panic, to write
an article for the London Economist,
under the caption of THE Incredible
powers of the American Chancellor OF
Exchequer." The writer states what
is manifestly true, that under the
greenback system, Mr.. Boutwell, has the
bower to make the price Of gold what he
pleases, as we'll as the rate of interest.
The Economist argues as follows:


The large daily receipts OF the Gus
toms are paid in gold, and if that gold
is kept IN the Treasury and not sold,
the price of gold can be raised as high
as the Government likes. Again, If the
Government first accumulate large
stock of gold, and then sell it for green
backs, it can raise the rate of interest
as high as it wishes. There is no money
at New York but "greenbaeks," and by
selling gold and keeping the paper paid
for that gold, money can be made
scarce at will. The Government is now
going to do so; but they are going &c
sell gold and buy bonds with the money
but they could do it, and it Is the most
extraordinary power ever conferred OF
any government. No finance minister
in Europe ever was the financial despoi
that Mr.. Boutwell, is in America.
Year: 1869

YESTERDAY morning certain ex-
editor was seen shouting through key
hole to a "Ioyal" voter to "ceme out and
save the country" Last night the same
Individual was seen trying to creep
through the same hole. If he had been
az small as he felt he would have sue
ceeded. As is was, he was badly stuck
at last accounts.
Year: 1869

To the Editor Of The Tribune,


SIR; Among the many General 0rders"
from the Navy Department there is So 90, dated
18th inst) that entails Considerable expense the OFF,
GERS Of the Navy 1t changes the uniform OF the
Navy for tie third fourth time since the begnnns of
the Rebellion Just before Mr. Fox went out OF office ho
compeed all the Navy officers to buy one OF his abOr
tion caps" with visors like brakes bills at cost OF "
per cap Soon after It was abolished Tor the present
Engsh can The full dress abolished during the
war and 50 soon all the officers had sold their
full dress suits away another General Order restored the
full dress again. To tho entire satisfaction OF military
taiors and at the cost OF months pay to tho poor
Navy officers" Now. gold lace Is very expensive aud
able TO snare 7 would suggest that a Board OF Navy
officers be detailed to devise uniform for the Navy and
then have Congress enact II into law that the uni
form cannot be changed by the caprice and whim OF
every Secretary Of the Navy. A Poor NAVY OFFICER


Netp York March l9, 1869.
Year: 1869

To the Editor Of The Tribune


SIR 1t is time for your attention to be
turned to the spring scales used in onr markets and in
many retail grocery stores There Is general dstrust
and suspicion TO their correctness and for the best
reason. However correct they may be when first used
they cannot remain so, because the spring gradually
grows weaker and at least onethrd do not weigh
enough Even they correct the habit which clerks
have Of throwing the article TO be weighed with bounce
upon the SCALE and of taking of before the indicator
fairly settles will give short weight They onght to be
banished entirely, and the balance scale with Iron
weights used exclusively These spring scales have been
subject to the closest scrutiny in Canada by the author
ties and as result their has been prohibited. We
ought be able they TO secure justice for the peo
pie am, &c, A.


Nelc- York. March T. 1869.
Year: 1869

We are permitted to publish the following
letter. addressed to DR.. Dixon:


EEw-YoRK, March "A, 1862
SIR I am highly delighted 10 find gentleman able
and willing expose the ascay conduct Of the ignorant
corOners and their assistants An old and respected
friend OF mine died last year after few days sickness
He was regularly attended by two respectable pbys-
Clans who gave their regular certificate OF death but
Just as the family about TO follow his remains TO
their last resting place, well-known Coroner made his
appearance and stopped the funeral ruthessy tore off
the sroud ordered assistance pulled the corpse out OF
the con and cut IL UP most disgusting manner and,
after narrowing the feelings OF the mourning wife and
friends roughly sewed the body the brains which he
had taken out Of the head having been pushed into the
stomach The coffin and dead mans covering were
smeared and sOled with the blood and mass OF fifth left
behind had been slain. The doctors did prom
se have the Coroner removed for this wanton outrage
but heard moro OF It, am glad at last you have
taken up their Yours, very respectfully


WM. PARKER, No. Is North Moorest, n. Y.
To Z. H. Dixon, esq, No. "a FIfth-ave.
Year: 1869

The colored people of Weeksville held a
meeting the evening Of the 25th ins to continue their
protest against the action OF the Board Of Education IN
placing white teacher in their school. Considerable
difficulty experienced in efectng organization Of
the meeting OWING TO the unseenly conduct OF number
Of young men, who apprchended that effort would be
made to rebuke the principal of the school. Mr. Morel
for certain deinquencies charged against him. Remarks
offered rejecting the protesting party foment
OF discOrd between the To this, Prof W. f.
Johnson and the Rev. ,R l.. Perry replied and resolu
tions offered by the latter gentleman (Which were
adopted the sense OF the meeting dlscaimlng any
have any contract broken that the Board Of Education
may have made with the teacher. few nembers OF tito
Board OF the opinion that c0Ored should be
cd