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Year: 1869

The QUESTION OF GOVERNMENT MANAGE
MENT OF RAILROADS is exciting much atten-
ton in England, as well as some notice in this
country. The London Saturday Review, in
discussing the matter, says: uz


1t was one of the first objections started 10
the proposal of purchase by the British gov
ernment, that railway extension would be at
an end, and that the competition of the State
would ruin all the companies that endeavored
to maintain an independent existence Both
these fears are proved by the experience of
Belgium TO be grouDdless; and a third fallacy
IS demolished with equal effect. 1t is common
ly assumed that government management
must be more costly than company manage
ment, and cannot result in profit when carried
on side by side with what is called private en-
terprise. Like most other errors of the kind,
this notion derives itself from an undoubted
truth. Personal management by actual own.
ers is always more prosperous than delee ated
management by hired officials; but the mis-
take is to suppose that the action of Board
of Railway Directors has anything in common
with the supervision of two or three partners
in firm. Railway Directors are worse paid
and more negligent than the least effective of
public servants, and exhibit, as a rule, the
most hagrant vices of ohicialism, without hav-
ing the strong support which the officers Of a
government derive from their public position
Probably taking good companies and bad COM
panles together, the average management Is,
upon the whole, the very worst that any sys-
tenn either OF public or private organization
has produced, and the experience of Belgium
strongly confirms this view. The government
lines under the department of works are con-
fessedly conducted more literally to the pub
lie than any private enterprise has ever been,
and yet they have proved great financial
success
Year: 1869

THE Boston BOARD OF TRADE, on Monday
took action on several important subjects. l.
was recommended that the present nationa.
bankrupt law be made permanent anu 'nas
Congress be requested to protect ooninoiNe
against illegal exactions in the way Oh local
changes by States and municipalities and to
nrovide for the complete revision of the tariff
and internal revenue systems of the country
so that they may harmonize with each other.
A commission of experts for the revision of
the tariff was recommended.
Year: 1869

a n middle aged widow maiden lady well ac-
- quainted with genteel housework and willing TO
make herself generally useful in usual household al
ail ha 5d IN seturnoI IT, moderate salary and comtorta
this office for week, giving name and references
which will be treated confdentially. ia27diw
Year: 1869

has taken the hotel formerly kept by Mr..
Longee, and thoroughly repaired and re-
furnished it. Mr.. Davis is giving great salts
faction, and having this pleasant house it is
thought by all that he will make this hotel
one of the best in the State, and such an one
as this beautiful village is worthy Of We
predict for him success and especially during
the summer months.


Nine miles from Limerick is the beautiful
VILLAGE of
Year: 1869

II viii be seen by our indianapolis
letter this morning that the Demo
Gratis of the State Senate are seeking
20 promote trouble among the Repub-
licans Of the Legislature by stirring
up strife in the contest for United
States Senator. Mr.. TcURNER. of
Daviess, has consented to act part
which no Republican Senator would
be willing to sustain, and which none
of them ought to disgrace themselves
by countenaacing, however much
they may desire the defeat of Col.
CUMBAoK. Whatever correspond
enee may have passed between
Governor BAKER and Col. CUMBAcK
was of a private nature, having no
official character whatever, and can
not constitute subject of Legislative
inquiry. We know that Governor
BAKER has carefully abstained from
taking any part in the Senatorial con-
test, and we are satisfied that such a
movement as that of yesterday would
in 40 way be sanctioned or eneour-
aged by him. Up to the close of
last week the canvass among the
Republican members had been con-
Quoted in a friendly spirit, and no bad
feeling had been engendered. We
trust there will be enough good sense
and common prudence manifested by
our friends, so that they will not be
betrayed into the trap set for them by
the Democracy under TURNER, of Da
viess- If Colonel CUMB AcK is the
choice of the majority of the Repub-
lican Caucus, he should receive the
vote of every member of the party in
the Legislature. Such proceedings as
those Of Monday can only promote his


chances for election.
Year: 1869

ONLY one mixed train Of cars
passenger and freight combined-pass
over the indianapolis and Vincennos
Road each day. A good deal Of work
will have 10 be done before the road
can be said to be in first class condi
tsOn
Year: 1869

ST. CLA1RsvtLLE has an ordinance
which prohibits the hauling or delivery
of any kind of liquor within the cor
poration. It was never enforced till
this week when it was applied to bar
rel of whisky just arrived from Wheel
ing. The new Mayor says he will con-
tinue to enforce it.
Year: 1869

One by one they are passing away
The old of our town-to their inal resti
With reverence fashion the pillow of clay,
And pile up the earth on the quiet breast.


That pillow is soft 10 the time-worn head,


That load is light to the aged dead.
They have borne their burden of JOY and pains
They have had their portion of hopes and fears !;
They have wrought out their work, they have


gained their gains,


They have smiled their smiles, they have wept


their tears


II over now The record close,


And leave them there 70 their long repose.
Sneak of them gently, remember them we'll
They were children of earth, as we are now
They strove with temptation, they yielded ana ieli
And anon they conquered, as we still do;


Their history is what ours shall be


Speak of hem, think of them, tenderiy'
But few remain: and when they are gone
We shall fill the'places which they now hold
Our heads will be frosted, our bosoms be lone
Even our hearts will grow tame and cold;


And the faltering step and failing breath


viii remind US, too, Of approaching death.
Rivalry, coldness, worldliness, pride
WHY should we Weld TO their baleful thraii
Let Us clasp hands closer as downward we glide
Into the shadow that waits for US all


For soon We shall be among the old,


As the DAYS of our years will soon be told.
Year: 1869

The FAULT OF THE BoY.-"When was
quite a boy, says Smith, "my father ordereda
coat from an Israelite, and when the garment
came home, it was big enough for two or three
Of my size. The perpexed Jew, after vainly
trying 10 gather up the fullness in the back
with bis hand, so that the from. might set tight
declared at length that tie eoat was "goot it
was no fault Of te coat tc coat fit goot, fit soot
enough, but te boy vas too slim"
Year: 1869

C0rOner's Investigation Commenced.


Coroner Flynn yesterday commenced taking testi-
mony In the case Of John Hess, the German whose
death resulted from violence, as has already been
reported in the HERALD.


Officer Gavin, OF the Twenty-sec0nd precinct, de-
posed that the morning Of the I'd instant he was
on duty on Ninth avenue from Fiftieth to Fifty.
ninth streets; near the corner Of Fifty-seventh
street he heard the rap OF club, which he an.
swered and went to Fnty-third street, between
Eighth and Ninth avenues; about ten doors from
Ninth avenue, on the north side OF the street, he
found deceased lying In the entry bleeding from q
wound on the forehead made inquiries and found
he worked up stairs with tailor, who would not
take him in and ordered the witness to remove him
to the station house. which was done; deceased was
then sent to the hospital.


DR.. Pusey attached to the hospital. deposed that
q compound depressed fracture OF the frontal bone
he was intoxicated at the time; there were no
symptoms Of cerebral injuries about twelve hours
after admission the depressed bone was elevated;
until the evening OF the 9th inst there were no bad
symptoms; he then had chill: the next day he was
O'Clock A. M; an autopsy showed an extensive
under the dura mater al the seat or the fracture and
also general meningitis; the doctor says In his
opinion the cause OF death was meningitis, resulting
from depressed fracture OF the skull.


Not witness was present who knew anything
concerning the manner In which deceased received
the fatal INJURIES although Is stated he was struck
several times on the head with stone by one or two
parties who as yet seem to be unknown.


The Coroner sent word to Captain Slott, OF the
Twenty-second precinct TO produce the necessary
witnesses ana when this Is done the investigation


Captain Sott who has been in search of the par
ties alleged TO have killed deceased ever since the
occurrence, is still actively engaged In looking for
tlun 10 work upon, but in all probability more light
will sO0I ne thrown on the matter.
Year: 1869

Spcculations Regarding the source of tho


CaIamity-Who the Incendiary il Likely to


Be-Uupopularity Of the OHcers or the


Mines-Inportnnt Evidence Expected on
Tuesday. Ga-..a,.>. -


SCRANTON, Sept 12. 1859.
,Th9 despatph In yesterdays HERALD giving the
story about the malicious firing OF Avondale mine
shaft was the great topic OF conversation IN the
miners village OF Hyde Park to-day united with the
testimony given Ut the inquest In Plymouth
yesterday BY Morgan ana others, professional
miners OF long standing. to the effect that
the nre must have originated near the
top IN place OF at the bottom OF the shaft. The
current of speculation in the village has turned
away In great measure from ths consideration OF
how far the furnace in the mine responsible for
the fire to the formation of opinions to the man.
nsr and the motive Of firing the brettice from
above.


The witnesses, you win notice by the evidence,
who opposed the originally accented theory OF tho
hre gave no intimatiOn as to whom they thought
responsible for the fearful noendiarism suggested
by their testimony. and the counsel for the mining
companies mado no attempt to secure IN expression
Of opinion on that head. On inquiry was Informed
that the counsel for the companies intended 70 re-
serve this point until they could secure an over
whelming amount Of evidence from experts Op-
posed to the Idea OF IRE coming from the furnace TO
the shaft and then they expect to show BY impica-
ton that some man or set OF men must have mali
oiously performed the work OF destruction and
death.


The miners have had qusrrelltngs among them
selves from time tmmemoriai but mono Of them
with whom conversed to-day give Any considers'
tt0n to the thought that one Of their number could
have deliberately meditated the destruction Of
human lives In firing the Avondale shaft S0me
ignorant, thOughtess thinner, determined to revenge
himself upon the company for some real or fancicd
wrong. might have played the incendiary, without
ever conceiving to what dreadful results 1t would
lead The inside boss Mr. Evan Hughes 1t Is said,
was unpopular with his Welsh fellow o0untrymen,
and the samo Ia said Of his brother, Mr. Benjamin
Hughes and the president and superintendent OF all
the mines belonging 70 the Delaware and Lsckawanns
Company.


Tho miners represent all nationalites. the prepon-
dance being Welsh; but even among these there are
ealousles and quarrellings from time to time. When
Mr. Benjamin Hughes, Thomas Carson and Thomas
Watkins come up to give their evidence at the in
quest Tuesday next flood Of light will be thrown
upon this now mysterious question, as these three
are among the most competent to give decided
opinion on the origin Of the fire.


The report that 1t was the Irish miners who
desired TO revenge themselves upon the Welsh must
be libel; for can nothing but harmony aud good
Will existing among these nationalites.
Year: 1869

around the spot, and DR.. Hammond and
Ben. Brown stepped forward and an
nounced that they were responsible for
the deed which had been done, and were
ready to answer for it, that Maxwell had
threatened their lives, and had tried to
hire men, with money, to kill them, and
that such wac their reason for killing
him.


We are reliably informed that DR..
Maxwell was most excellent gentleman
and good citizen. During the war he was
surgeon of the Sixth Louisiana Regi-
ment, in Virginia, was patriotic soldier
and stood in the highest estimation Of all
who knew him. He was formerly from
the parish of St. Mary. in Louisiana
and, we understand, leaves dependent
children and sisters to suffer his loss.
Year: 1869

A RADICAL CRITICISM ON ONE OF GRANTS
APPOINTMENTS. is folly to expect that the
appointments Of any new administration will
give universal satisfaction. Where one appli-
cant is successful hundred are disappointed,
and, with their friends, the latter go about
growing like bears with sore heads, until they
learn to appreciate the fact that the pursuit of
Office is one of the meanest occupations re-
spectacle people ever engaged in, and are
content to engage in some legitimate and
honest employment. There is some point,
however, about the following paragraph,
which we find in the Harrisburg (Pa.) State
Guard, radical paper 1--WE can say to the
head of the nation that if he sends an impair
tial gentleman to Harrisburg to ascertain the
state of real public feeling here on the subject
of the Post Office appointment, he will find
that the man appointed is the most obnoxious
in all respects in Harrisburg, and that the
manner in which he was forced into Office over
the heads of q soldiers widow and surviving
hero Of the war is regarded az one Of those
high-handed acts of tyranny which disgust
an intelligent people and weaken their conf
dence in the men who represent them"
Year: 1869

Although some thousands Of the faithful
have been rewarded and most of the first class
places inside the United States have been dis
posed OF, the wild hunt for Office still continues.
The vast and hungry swarm of expectants
which filled the Washington hotels and board
ing houses for the first week or two after the
Inauguration has melted away; but numerous
little gangs of claporous and hopeful ofice-beg-
gars still hang around the great charity hospi-
tails at both ends of the avenue. There were con-
siderable gatherings yesterday at the Treasury,
the Interior and the Post Office Departments, and
quite crowd of hopeful pilgrims at the White
House, Greeley being the most conspicuous
figure in the procession. The unsettled foreign
missions and internal revenue offices of this
city were the marrow bones of contention, and
with from six to dozen applicants with their
papers and hackers for every place, and with
Greeley in the foreground and Dana bringing
up the rear, it may well be imagined that
General Grant had a hard days work. But
they say he takes it all with wonderful
patience, except when his cigar goes out and
he has not another conveniently at hand.


We begin to feel interested in the misfor-
tunes of Greeley and Dana. 1t has been said
that General Grant is not student over books
nor reader of newspapers. We fear, how
ever, that he has learned that Chief Justice
Chase was, even down to Tammany Hall, the
first choice of Greeley for the succession to
Andy Johnson, and that the hero of Vicks-
burg was only vigorously taken up at last by
"Old Whitley" as Hobson's choice, and that
consequently this hesitating Hobson has only
the claims upon this administration of an
eleventh hour man in the vineyard. We fear
that General Grant remembers the services of
Dana In the Army of the Southwest rather as
those of Stantons overseer than in any other
light, and that accordingly the General has no
very grateful recollections of Dana in the
tented field. We fear, too, in this military
view of the subject, that Danas volunteer efforts
in behalf of Greeley's promotion to the Court
of St. James have been rather dead weight
than benefit to Greeley, and that the unfor-
tunate philosopher, aware of this, has been
not less anxious all this time to get rid of his
superfuous friend than was poor Sinbad the
Sailor to be relieved of "the Old Man of the
Sea-" Well, patience is great virtue; and 40
we cannot discover any special comfort in the
grist Of nominations sent in yesterday for
either Greeley or Dana, the best we can do for
them is still to recommend patience, and to re-
mind them that we cannot all be captains.
Year: 1869

TRIED IN THE FIRE.-We must be choice
party in this town-the mass of people making
up the decency of city life. One of our par
sons produced on Sunday the argument that
of every hundred young men who start from
the country to endeavor city life ninety seven
go to the devil or perish at some station on
that line, and only three succeed in their
original object and become respectable citi-
zens. At this rate we are well winnowed
selection and represent higher average of
morality and virtue than can be found else
where. Our three hundred thousand decent
people are chosen from nine millions of coun-
trymen. What a weak and wicked set they
are-those fellows in the rural districts!
Year: 1869

Peters church, which stands on the corner Of
Barclay and Church streets, is in the line Of
one of the big railroad jobs, and if the bill
passes the jobbers will have authority to de-
molish the church and pay some ridiculously
incommensurate price for it. This fact has
brought out the pastor, who denounced the
job from his pulpit on Sunday. The Down
East parsons have thought politics ft for the
pulpit, and there is more reason for denounc-
ing from the same place this pest of our city
so intimately allied with public immortality.
Year: 1869

A FLARE-Up IN THE WHITE HoUsE-SRNAroR
Ross RAMPANT.--We refer the reader to our
Washington dispatches for the details of a
funny flare-up in the White House yesterday
on the part of the rampant Senator Ross OF
Kansas, and all about his imaginary share
of the spois. He was like the sheep that
went up to the goats house for wool. He
came back shorn. AS one Of the immortal
seven who saved Andy Johnson on the
impeachment, he perhaps thought he
was big man, and had the right of
a Conscript Father to speak his mind
freely to Johnson's successor. But he lost his
balance, swelled up into towering passion,
used some profane expressions, as they say,
lost his case, and left in rage. In BRIEF as
it appears, Ross, in attempting to play boss,
has met with loss, and has found that he
can't play the bully with Grant Should
occasion require, we hope that the President
will repeat the prescription to every other
Senator who may approach him after the
alleged dctatoral style Of Ross.
Year: 1869

SWINGING AROUND THE SOUTHERN CIRoLR.-
A correspondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal states that ex-President johnson ID
said to have disclosed his intention of visiting
every Southern State, to talk to the people
and say to them and show to them that he has
been the friend of the South. Il is evident
that adage about the burnt child has no
weight with Mr.. Johnson.
Year: 1869

THE CoSrRABAND TRADE IN THE LOWER
BAY.-The smuggler schooner Grapeshot has
been thoroughly overhauled and repaired and
is now ready to resume her contraband busi-
ness. Sugar, coffee, cigars, or any other COM
modify from foreign ports upon which high
rate of duty is exacted, can be safely landed
at Keyport by the Grapeshot without the
knowledge or interference of Custom House
officers
Year: 1869

1t is matter of cOngratulation to the whole
country that the iniquitous scheme for grant
ing to the New York, Newfoundland and Lon
don Telegraph Company by act of Congress
the exclusive privilege to land ocean tele-
graph cables on the shores of the United
States was defeated. That company has OBJ
tanned the exclusive right to land the Euro
pean end Of an Atlantic cable in Great Britain,
and If it could only obtain the same exclusive
privilege in the United States we might bid
adieu forever to all hope of having another
cable to Europe, and satisfy ourselves as best
we might with being taxed by soulless
monopoly in telegraphic transmission to
Europe. The attempt was made to establish
this monopoly through the action of Congress,
but the exhaustive and conclusive speech Of
Senator Stockton, delivered in the Senate on
the 5th inst, laid the scheme out cold.


He has demonstrated clearly that no further
legislation is needed to enable any telegraph
company to land its cable on our shores, pro-
vided it obtains charter from State to do
so, and, furthermore, that Congress has not
the power to take from the States the right to
grant such charters. The way is now open
and clear to the French Cable Company to go
on with their much needed labors and multiply
our facilities for telegraphic communication
with Europe. If New York is hostile to them,
or if Massachusetts, requires submission to
connection with the Western Union Telegraph
Company, let them run the cable little south
of Sandy Hook, and New Jersey will give them
hospitable reception at Long Branch or any
other point of her shore they may choose to
select. Let us have more Atlantic cables, by
all means, and thanks to Senator Stockton for
his able defence of freedom in ocean tele-
graphy.
Year: 1869

MEXICO. news that General Sickles
accepts the Mexican mission follows close upon
the news of his conference with Grant on the
subject and we suppose this acceptance is
sign that the administration has positive
policy in regard to the neighboring chaos Of
nationality
Year: 1869

There is yet hope for the neglected and
oppressed white man of the south The
Chicago Post says southern white men are
jealous of "ieutenant.g governor Dunn's
manhood. Something we insist should be
allowed toa race of mean whites, debased and
degraded by the barbarism Of slavery, who
have enough Of the aspirations common to
civilized people to emulate equality with the
aKnlieh rnce of hlncka.
Year: 1869

Miss. Kate Field can suppress herself no
longer, but comes to the rescue Of her sex
by mounting the rostrum. Her dltidence in
rushing into the arena OF public wrnnE,inr-
will secure for her some indulgence
from the booted and spurrcd part Of the
Year: 1869

Net earnings . SOL ,yO5


Or IA $40 per cent. on the capital stock
of the Company, of $4,000,000.


We congratulate our Colorado neigh
bors on their nerve and prosperity, and
although the coieur de rose may derive
some of it's softest tints from imagina-
ton E fervid glow, they have undertaken,
in an energetic manner, that which will
give them, if they have not now, p.ac-
tical realization. The railroad era is
begun west of the Missouri every rail
that is spiked to the ties is a peaceful
victory for the Republic May Mon tana
soon feel the conquering hero tread.
Year: 1869

of December, 1919, he rode spirited young


horse, according to custom, to Hart's store,
accompanied by servant with CART to
make some purchases. Having finished the


business, he sent the boy and cart on home
ward, and after little time set out himself.
Before the boy reached home, the horse Mr..
Robinson had rode overlook him without
rider. The boy caught him and went for his
master, and found him lying by small run
that crossed the road. Aboutt the same time
some of Mr.. Hart's family came along, and
lifting the old gentleman from the ground
found their venerable pastor dead. The
tracks of the horse showed that he had
turned to the side of the road to the usual
watering place; and had made a leap when
he left it. The Messrs. Hart had met a deer
followed by dogs that had been on the chase
for some time; and there were marks which
showed that the deer had leaped the fence
near where the horse was drinking; and the
sudden leap of the animal from the water had
thrown the rider from his seat. 1t isproba-
bic that in any hour of that day he had suf-
fered more pain from his disease than all the
pains of dissolution. His end was an affect
ing comment on the exhortation he often had
given, to prepare for sudden death. He
was in his 57th year; and the 23d of his
ministry. SENEx.