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Year: 1869

THIRTY-SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH


EIGHTEEN BODIES TAKEN FROM THE MINES


SAN FRANCISCO, April IA fire broke out
this morning. in the Yellow jacket Mine, at Gold Hll
Nevada which soon communicated with the Kentuck
aud Crown Point Mines. Thus far D. m) eleven bodies
been taken from the shafts Of the three mines.
other bodies can be at the bottom OF the
Kentuck shaft, but 1t is impossible to remove
them on account OF the heat It is uncertain
how many persons there in the mines. The excite
call the roll OF those at work sixty men were at work
in the levels OF the Crown Point mine IL is not
known how many escaped The distress is fearful The
wives and children OF the miners have eongregated at
the entrance Of the mines and are calling Tor their miss
Ing husbands and fathers.


EIGHT O'CLOCK, EyENING.-The latest reports from
Gold Hill state that the number known to be dead is So
five the Yellow Jacket eight in the Kentuck and % in
the Crown Point Mine The fire originated In the Ken
tuck Mne and is reported 60 be spreading toward
the Yellow jacket shaft The fremen have succeeded
in getting hose down thel Yellow Jacket shaft to the
level OF the fire, and hopes are en-
tertained that the flames will soon be
snbdued II not, when all expectation OF saving
lives abandoned the mouth OF the shaft will DO
closed and ventilation stopped and the fire thereby
Kentuck Mines unconnected with other mines under
ground hence there probability OF the fires extend


Virginia City is almost deserted. the people having
gone the scene Of the dsasrer TO render assistance
The San Francisco Stock Exchange Board have sub
seribed 600 and the money by telegraph Gold
Hill for the relief of the families suffering by the conha
grafton This catastrophe is the terrible that has
ever occurred In the mining districts OF this There
is general sympathy expressed FOR tho distressed.


SAN FRANCISCO, April 8.-The confagration
at the Cold Hin Mines is stll raging II appears to be
confined principally to the Yellow Jacket drift OWING to
the care which been taken prevent its spreading
The unable TO reach the hameg, but efforts
being made TO clear the drift, which will probably
occupy all day Eighteen bodies have been taken from
the burning mines-nne Of them from drift. The
Yellow Jacket Company have rescinded the dividend Tor
March The fire has had the effect TO render the stocks
OF the Yellow Jacket, Crown Point aud hentuck pan
icky and transactions in them are reduced values


LATEST.


Later advices from Gold Hill are TO the effect
that the fire has been fairly subdued and the victims
being removed from the different shafts Seventeen
yet missing and supposed to have perisned
in the flames The number OF lives destroyed Is 10
IL Is impossible to estimate the damages to property


The superntendents of tho Crown Point and kentuck
Mines report them uninured The stock or the yellow
Jacket Company declined to $40 por share tho Crown
Point TO sis, and the Kentuek to slA
Year: 1869

The Senate Finance Committee has taken
ample time to consider the nominations of
Messrs Bailey, Darling and Treadwell for Col
lectors of internal Revenue in this City; has
given a full hearing to all the charges brought
against any of them; has allowed at
torneys of distillers and whisky dealers
TO assail them and has finally
decided what we presume every well-infOrmed
person here knew from the beginning, that the
accusations so noisily urged were utterly
frivolous. 1t accordingly recommends them to
the Senate for confirmation. We congratulate
these gentlemen upon the result, and beg them
to remember that the country will look with
confidence, for the perfect vindication of the
Senate's action, to the returns of Internal
Revenue from their Districts.
Year: 1869

the absolute certainty of his guilt, few In the
face of those who had prepared this moral
spectacle for the Philadelphians, and, taking
poison in his cell, during the night. committed
murder then, if he had not before, and cheat
ed the galows of its second victim. The
ghastly picture of the days doings would
not be complete without the glimpse of the
after-piece which the careful reporters furnish.
University Professors are seen manipulating
the scarcely cold body cut from the gallows
and the stilled heart spasm2djGelly resumes its
pulsations, and the arms begin conynlsive
motion. Such is the flower of the jurispru-
dence and humanity of our time
Year: 1869

The Spanish Cortes began the discussion of
the new Constitution Oh Monday. 1t cannot of
course, be doubted that the draft prepared
by the Committee of Fifteen will be adopted,
with perhaps a few unimportant alterations.
The introduction of any amendment which
would alter the spirit of the Constitution has
been disallowed by the Government There is
n report that both Serrano and TOpete will
resign their places in the Provisional Govern
ment and that Directory will be formed !;
but no change of this kind is likely to affect,
in any way, the adoption of the new Consti.
tuition.
Year: 1869

The advocates OF public strnngulation, as the
best means of preserving public respect for
the sanctity of human life, must be sadly dis
appointed at the half-allowance with which
the ministers of the gallows in Philadel-
phia were yesterday compelled to be content.
One criminal, convicted of murder on evil
dence hardly conclusive, affirmed his innocence
in his dying moments, and bore himself upon
the scaffold with the fortitude of man who
has no reason to fear death. Another,
after likewise solomnly declaring his in
nocence of the murder of which he
was convicted, under circumstances which
at the least must be said to shake our faith in
Year: 1869

sense of isolation experienced by homeless
young men would give place to the comforta-
BILE feeling of being fed and cared Tor oy
friends. We doubt if to-day the CHRISTIAN
idea could be clothed for them in more practcai
and helpful form. For it is thought to be iaid
closely to heart that not one of us touches the
meaning of the Divine Master till ne mas
learned that wholesome food received with
thankfulness makes for us all LORDS supper
eaten i'm His holy presence.
Year: 1869

The promptness with which the House re-
sponded to the Presidents message concern
ing the reconstruction Of Virginia and
Mississippi, is in gratifying contrast with
the apathy or worse displayed in the
Senate. We are not willing to believe that
that body can really mean to act on the spirit
of the recommendation for delay till next De-
ceniber, offered by its Judiciary Committee. The
President represents the wishes of thepeople, and
ftly interprets the necessities Of the situation
Year: 1869

We thought we should have him up again
The World finds consolation in the Connecti-
cut election by rejecting that the Repub-
licans lose 1900 on their majority of last
Fall, while the Democracy lose but 1900 on
their majority of last Spring" That, you
see, makes Democratic gain" of 5,0OO-the
curious thing about which is that last Spring
the Democrats carried the State, while this
year, notwithstanding their heavy gains, they
lose it. Who said The Arithmetic Man was
dead
Year: 1869

Is it possible that even such a Legislature as
now fiourishes and wakes hot at Albany can
vote to double the enormous fees of our pres
ent Sheriff. We beg the Republican members
to procure and read Gov. Fentons veto ON the
act of last session before they earn the Sherifi's
money. If they spurn this advice, they will
wish they had Mt.
Year: 1869

Indiana Democrats are not satisfied with
their "appeal to the people" and now refuse
to organize the Legislature, unless the Repub-
licans pledge themselves not to take up the
XVIII Amendment. They are in fair way to
have more popular verdicts than they bar
ooiDad for
Year: 1869

The Washington correspondent Of the CincIa-
natl Commercial says


We can keep our carpet baggers in Congress
Just SO long as we disfrancbse the governing eie-
ment of the South. But the moment we grant
universal suffrage TO both master and man, the
carpetbaegers will disappear, and the Hills,
Thompsons x Co. will resume their places.


Aud in all sober earnestness to write IN y"
frank aud manly way" the net purport and up:
shot of our reconstruction measures at the South.
as seen in Congress, is not pleasant. No amount
of certificates Of election and formalities OF an
oath can make these gentlemen Of the hand
baggage real NJ. C.'s. When one makes bis
Appearance on the floor, we cannot look each
other in the countensnce without audible smiles
that are ndecorous. II the gentlemen would
only indulge in a little disguise to help on the de-
iuson, something might be gained; but not only
is the voice the voice of the enemy, but the look.
manner, dress and above all, the vote is the vote
of the alien.


The antagonism between New England civilizs-
ton and that Of the South, previous 10 the war.
was not more deadly than Is the antagonism OF
interest now between these localities, and yet
these gentlemen u the paper collar and extra
dickey follow New England, and vote all TIE
time against the interests OF their own con


had long talk with csre Of these representa-.
tyes od iater3D.. last night and tried 10 convince
him that il would be well just for the appearance
of the thing. 10 cast vote now and then for the
region be claimed to represent. But no found
nv friend hsd an intense contempt for one-hslf OF
biz people, and q deadly hatred for the other
hff. II was Connecticut congressman elected
in the South.
Year: 1869

The appointment of Hon. George NJ.
Robson as Mr.. Bories successor in the
Navy Department furnishes to our oppo
nents another occasion for saying much
that is uncalled for, bitter and unjust
against our noble President, Mr.. Borie
and Mr. Robson. The Chicago Evening
Post speaks on this point very justly as
follows:


"We would thank some man among
those who are accusing Gen. Grant OF
folly, weakness, tavoritism and want Of
comprehension, to state, what he has done
to merit the censures that are so freely
bestowed upon him for his management
of the Navy Department? WMt evidence
have we, that the appointment of Mr..
Borle was not fit to be made? lie is a
gentleman of intelligence, of character
and of undoubted patriotism. He was
eminently successful in the management
of his own affairs; and, but for the fact
that he is in delicate health, there is no
reason to suppose that he would not have
made first-rate officer. That he had
little political reputation-tha he was not
known as brawler, spouting out political
common-places enlivened by malignity
and smut, all over the country-is fact
greatly to his credit. We are only sorry
that his increasing physical infrmities
have prevented him from remaining at
his post to vindicate by his economy and
wise management the excellence of the
Presidents choice. But as he is nothing
bat a thorough Republican, who stood by
the country with all his might and mind
during the war, and as he is a friend of
the great leader whose skill and devotion
at the head of our armies saved the Re
public, give him a kick and let him 90 |!


And now about Mr.. Robeson: Why
assail him in advance? Is it an 'ofense to
be called to high official station by the
President? If not, what else is he guilty
of, that his nomination should be thus un-
kindly received? True, he is not widely
known; but is that reason why man
of capacity should always remain un-
known? Why not give him trial before
condemning him? General Grant is not a
fool. He sees or supposes he sees in his
nominee the timber ofwhich good head
of the Navy Department is made. Why
not wait the result of the trial OF that
timber and see whether they are not the
| GROWERS who are mistaken. If it is be-
| lieved that party with a solid front to
present to the common enemy is no longer
desirable in this land in which all Copper
heads have ceased to rautle, and in which
the malignancy Of the rebels has been
changed to songs in praise of the Union,


the policy to which we refer may be all
| well enough, if it can be reconciled to the
dignity and truthtulness that are demand
ed of Republican Journalists
Year: 1869

We suppose that but few have read
the details of the wholesale removals
which have been made, and are still being
made in Washington and throughout this
Republic, for no other or better reason
than that some ether one wanted the
Office. Every day renews the fear with
which public employees look upon their
desk or examine their mail, fearing to
receive the notice Of their removal, while
on the other hand the character of many
Of their successors is SO miserable and
unfit, that one cannot suppress the con-
vichon, that something must be done to
remove this disgrace. What is to become
of an administration which by its ap
pointments acts in such a manner, as
fully to convince every observing mind,
that character, eapability, honesty, justice
and mercy are only empty names, but
that party obligations are the supreme
rules and guides for all who have an
Office within their gift.


We do not ask that our administration
should become kind of earthly provi-
dence, but we must declare, that Gov
eminent who manages its administration
in manner not only to weaken but
almost to destroy the peoples faith in
the value, even the existence Of honesty,
integrity, selt-denial, diligence and at
tentiveness, is acting In direct opposition
to public and private morality and patriot
ism. Every removal of an officer who is
dismissed for the only reason, that he
must make room for another person, who
knows nothing about the duties of the
Office, is lesson for the youths of our
country, that cheating and fattery alone
lead to success, but that faithfulness and
diligence are no longer of any account
whatever.


The bestowing of an Office (be the same
worth much or little) upon person void
Of an unblemished reputation, produces
necessarily carelessness for trying 70
preserve an honorable character, and
increases with our people the conviction
that good luck, persevering audacity and
a slippery tongue are the main requisites
for official success.


The question of reforms in our public
appointments and removals is much less
important in a material, than it is in
moral point of view, although the mater
ial Importance in itself is almost immeas-
urable. The events of the last six
months have improved the prospects of
successin making reforms very materially.
Many of the most bitter party adherants
begin to acknowledge the urgent neces-
sty Of a change in this respect, and it is
only necessary for the obtaining of a
complete success, that those who feel
how degrading and disgraceful it is, when
public opinions represent almost wholly
the worst elements of the national life,
should press strongly and fearlessly
towards that point. We have succeeded
in silencing the advocates of reputation
and secured the honest payment of our
national debt Our duty now is, to bring
up the system of our administration to
the standard of our American society,
and we shall be crowned with success and
blessings of uncalculable benefit to the re-
publican institutions of our beloved coun-
try
Year: 1869

line ABOVE protest from one OF the
best men in our village aed county ex-
presses our personal views much better
than we can pen them ourselves, a pro-
test which we shall continue as long as
some of our community contemplate to
celebrate the fourth in the usual bolster
Gus and injurious manner.


If we would remember that great day
in any way adequate to its importance
and bearing, no Sunday, whether on the
4th of July or not, would be too holy for
us. to join in a proper celebration with
heart and hand for it were the grand
principles Of Christianity laid down for
the first time In that ever memorable
declaration of Independence and engrav-
ed on the grand portal of its immense
future on the fourth of July 1776.


The whole history of these United
States has been thus far, and still is, a
contest for the realization of these prin-
ciples, and the solemn remembrance of
that day is certainly most appropriate,
to strengthen and fasten the principle of
Equal rights of all to the enjoyment of
liberty and happiness" upon the masses
of the people without distiction of party,
and certainly Sunday would be, If not
the most suitable, at all events quite as
appropriate as any other day for the diff
fussion of these christian principles.


But if, by the manner of celebrating
that memorable day, those taking part
are braking the wholesome laws Of our
Country and opening wide the flood
gates of the lowest human passions, then
we are bound to oppose any such descra-
ton on any day and above all on a Sun
day.


And now a few words to my country
men: You are from a nation which
claims to be, and is, one Of the most en-
lightened on the Globe. and therefore
the best entitled to the enjoyments of
these same benefits, following the carry
ing out of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. You and | came here to enjoy
these blessings, denied to us in Ger
many.


Is it not our solemn duty, most of all,
to labor to the best of our ability, for the
continuance and spread ofthese same prin-
ciples to the benefit of ourselves and our
children, of this. now our, nation and of
the whole world? With this view can
you voluntarily consent to, or even assist
in breaking laaos aohich You haze saoon'
to support


Ifyou can, you are not worthy to be
American citizens, and if the laws OF
this country do not suit you and, you are
resolved to break them, the sooner you
leave these United States, the better
will it be fof the interest Of the grand
principles with which we ought to be
deeply impressed, to guide our conduct
with all circumspection and especially on
the ever gratefully to be commemorated
fourth day ofJuB.
Year: 1869

The Rio Janeiro correspondent of the
Providence Press, in writing of Ameri-
can colonists in Brazil, says they are
suffering to an alarming extent, many Of
them for the actual necessaries of life.
BE says:


at has been a severe task for the con-
sui at st. Cathsrine, the past two years,
to provide means for the destitute Amer
leans to get out of the country. Travel
ing by steamer is too expensive for that
class Of persons, and to travel overland
is almost impossible, as there is no such
thing as o road anywhere along the coast
of Brazil, and it is with difficulty that a
person can travel on horseback, on
account of distractions. The feeling
toward Americans is not good. Ameri-
cans soon get disgusted with the country,
add are only too glad to get back TO the
United States"
Year: 1869

ideal of female grace and loveliness
His passionate wooing at length won
sweet confession and sweeter promise
from the blushing girl, and in years
time he led her to the altar, fond, con-
fiding bride, giving her life into the keep
ing OF him she loved and trusted. But
his cup of happiness was not then full,
though it is brimming now-for the
sweetest babe that ever lisped papa
in baby accents, answers to the name OF
Lilly S.. When his daily work is
over-when the last "Covington and
Newport item" is penned for the daily
press of Cincinnati-her childish inno-
cent prattle beguiles the WEAKNESS from
heart and brain, and refreshes and
strengthens him to endure and conquer
the drudgery of local editors life.


We gaze into the glowing CRATE as we
think over ,hs story of how two lives
were blended into one, and we say in our
heart with spice of honest regret, If
you will, but not tinge of envy) lucky
fellowi Why don't such good fortune
fall to our lot2
Year: 1869

A metallic tube composed Of zinc and
copper, one-halfsn inch long and weigh
ing eleven grains, was recently, in ut
of coughing, expelled from the lungs Of
a girl twelve years Of age, living in New
York city. The tube, being the whistle
of an India rubber air-ball, was two years
ago accidentally forced into the upper
part of the larynx, and thence, in the
attempts to remove it by emetics, was
lodged in the lungs. During the whole
of tie period mentioned, the girl suffered
from an oppressive sensation on the
chest and from continued coughing.
During one of the paroxysms the tube
was elected This occurrence gives a
strong illustration of the remedial force
of nature, which is sometimes successful
in affording relief when all the resources
of surgery and medicine have been tried
and failed
Year: 1869

4 SUGGESTION ABOUT CATERPILLAR$.
The discovery of sne fnll grown cater
pillar by one of or most vigilant plant
ers has been brought to our attention
aud in such way, that we are disposed
to give the information full credit. The
worm was fully identified as the genuine
cotton caterpillar. and was nearly ready
to go into its web: We make this an
nouncement, not for the purpose of af-
fecting the cotton market, or producing
a panic among planters. but to put plant
ers on their guard, and to suggest what
seems to us of great Importance, that
the planters all over the country cause a
strict search of their cotton to be made.
with the view of DESTROY ing every worm
or chrysalis which may be found. One
worm or chrysalis killed now will cut off
thousands Of caterpillars in August and
September. For every ten destroyed
now, probably five bales of cotton will
be saved to tho planter when he comes
to gather his crop in the fall. The enor-
nous increase of the cotton worm in
passing through only three "crops, :"
while it il most unwelcome fact, is nev-
ertheless the key to the planters iudem-
nifty against it's ravages. Only destroy
the pioneers, or the first .'crop,1 aud
there is an end to all apprehensioDs of
danger. Search the young cotton, weeds
and bushes thoroughly for worms and
chrysalis now, on every plantation. and
the result will be failure in the cater
pillar crop" as certain as fate. Out
cAitd Telegraph, juno 23d.
Year: 1869

The result of the Virginia election
goes to sustain what we have said here
tofore as to the causes at work towards
Transformation of parties. Both can
didates for the governorship, Walker
and Wells, we're Northern men and men,
bers of the Republican party. But they
differed broadly with respect to the CON
stitution that was to be submitted to vo-
ters for ratification. Wells stood upon
the clauses requiring the test oath and
rebel disfranchisement," while Walker
went for giving equal rights to all in
point of qualifications for voting and for
holding Office. The one desired to have
all the disabling conditions imposed by
the conquering power upon the con-
quered vindictively perpetrated the
other opposed the incorporation into the
constitution of provisions that would
embody the spirit Of conquest on the part
of one class, and keep alive bitter sense
of wrong and deep feeling of disaffec-
ton on the part of another class.


The overwhelming defeat Of Wells
plainly signifies that, in Virginia at
least, the Republican party cannot hope
to maintain itself simply by nourishing
the passions and the policies which at
tended the progress of the late war. And
yet it is difficult to perceive on what
other basis it is possible for all the ele-
ments aud ambitions of the party, North
and South, to unite in cordial and effec-
tive harmony. Nominally, the Virginia
Governor elect is a Republican; but in
the canvass he represented the Conser-
vative interests of the State and was
supported by the influence Of nearly the
whole of its white population, against
an opponent who relied for success on
gaining, by extreme Radical professions,
the almost entire negro vote. Mr.. Bout
we'll is said to have remarked in Cabinet,
when asked whether he was for throw
ing the patronage of the government in
favor eff Wells or of Walker, that there
could be but one Republican party in
Virginia, and that Wells, as tho most
radical Republican must necessarily rep
resent it. According to this theory, Mr.
Boutwelfs party has suffered. in the first
State election in the South under Grants
administration, a disastrous defeat


The result OF this election is suggest
i've Of some gratifying reflections with
regard to the tendencies of the negro
vote. 1t would seem that about as many
negroes voted for Walker as for Wells.
The attempt to array them i'll 4 solid
body of voters against the mass of the
white population utterly failed. Let us
trust that the fact affords good ground
for anticipating the failure of any like
attempts by incendiary 1e,nagogues
anywhere else in the South.-N. y. Conn.,
naercial Bulletin.