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Year: 1867

The Cincinnati Enquirer explains the
reason why newspapers indulge in so
much of the horrible as follows:


Moralize as some will, the fact re-
mains that people like to read of hang
inrs, and they take delight in'the peru
sal of deeds of horror and crime.


There is a strange fascination about
them that cannot be described, but it
exists in full force. IT may not be con-
sidered very complimentary to be dis
puted. Why, says the mOralist, do you
newspaper men furnish your readers
with so much of this kind of reading
matter. that is regarded as so perniciOus
in its effects upon the public mOralsi
We answer, upon the great principle OF
the law, of demand and supply. IT
might as well beasked why the. hotel
keepe r furnishes his tables to- suit his
guests. The newspaper is more the
mirror of public thought. more OF the
reflection of the public wishes, than
auything else. Its duty,is, says one, to
take higher ground and bring the peo-
ple upon it. That would be like the
''nountain going to MOhammed,' and
it would be almost as difficult of sue
cess. Mr.. obiector and criticizer Of the
newspapers. few indeed would follow
YOU upon the elevated plane of thought
You would erect. 1t wonld be so eievat-
ed and cold that none of the nutriment
that sustains q paper would grow upon
its keen and piercing morality. Before
the newspapers had half educated the
people. il would die from want OF sup.
port. The making of the paper better
is very desirable thing; but the mis-
fortune is that it is a costly experiment
to those who undertake it. There are
few who want to be martyrs for the
public good, and they are generally
those who are in the enthusiasm OF
youth and ineyperience. The popular
taste prefers coarse and strong nutri-
ment rather than that which is Of a
finer and more ornamental character.
The practical newspaper man under
stands this and acts accordingly, and
those who censure the press for not
being better, might as well find fault
with a stream because it flows from
and is supplied by fountain above. :
Year: 1867

WEATHER warm and sultry. River
falling slowly, with nineteen and O
half feet Of water in the channel.


We noticed considerable grain on the
wharf yesterday.


There were no arrivals or departures,
yesterday, outside of the regular pack
Year: 1867

riot there "fell on his belly and sneak
ed under the speakers tables there dis
putting the small protecting space with
the speaker himself and certain other
prominent officers of the meeting. How
and when that individual crowied ont
on his knees and hands, we cannot
tell, AS other equally amusing scenes
were then engaging our attention, but
rs that individual was within touch of
us. we can affirm that he tells a wilful
faisehood when he says no saw anything
but the feet of the table under which Ne
was hiding. Asto any one dragging
Judge Kelley from out of the range
we must say that the Judge did that
little business himself by dropping first
under the table, and that "his friends"
seemed to be much more c9pcerned about
their own safety than that of their
friend, and it was some ten minutes
later that the Judge was seen making
all alone-ar $40 time for the Battle
House, The Times denounces the
Herdlds report "a an unmitigated false
hood and saws '.the individual who
telegraphed these ISLANDERS knew we'll
at the time that he was altering false
boods-that his terrer had completely
paralyzed him, except IN the eKercise
of his legs rs, soon as he could safely
leave his hiding place and yet, an in
nocent- persecuted but loyal peo-
ple is to be still more deeply humbled
on snch evidence as this"
Year: 1867

THE PRESIDENTS BOSTON VISIT. .
n he Masonic Committee have had an
other interview with the President. and
he has finally given them such assu-
rance relative to the time of his visit to
New England, that they have at once
commenced preparations to furnish an
escort of two hundred knight Templars.
Year: 1867

OF all the pleasant trips on record, by land
or sea, the pIeasantest we can call to mind
must have been the last journey of the passen-
gers by the California and Nicaragua Transit
Steamship Company from San Francisco to New


York. They left the former port on the eth
of April, and met with no remarkable incident
until they reached the transit across Lake
Nicaragua Here they were put upon little
steamer, only big enough TO afford shelter to a
portion of the frst-class passengers all the
others had TO lie upon the open deck. AT the
h cad of the San Juan River they were
transferred to another little shell, where it
seems that most of them were nearly starved,
simply because there was not room enough for
them all to grab" any food. There was too
little water in the river however even for this
shabby craft so at the first rapids the passen-
gers were put ashore in a heavy rain, and
compelled to walk two miles through the tan
gled brush, and across dangerous bridges,
scarcely wide enough to afford a fOothold-a
walk so hard and cXhausting that the ladies
tainted after it, At the second, and again
at the third rapids, this operation had to
be repeated. The transit occupied four
davs The food furnished the sufferers during
this time was so bad, said some of the passen-
gers, that they had to take vinegar to keep it
on their stomachs. When Mt last they reached
the ocean, a small steamer took them out of
the river into the rolling sea, and few life
boats put OFF from the Santiago de Cuba to
receive them. The way it was done was this
the passengers were taken up one by one and
pitched overheard, and the sailors in the boats
caught them, if they could, before they reached
the water; but sometimes they couldn't. For
hlnately, however, no one was drowned and,
somehow or another, they were all got up the
side of the steamship. Here starvation set in
again "We got rice twice" testify some of the
steerage passengers, "and rotten potatoes four
times. Salt beef and crackers were Our chief
food. We are so weak now we can hardly
"stand.n


The final catastrophe came at half past three
o'clock on the morning of the 29d of May In
a calm sea, the steamer ran ashore OH the New
Jersey coast at n moment when the captain
supposed himself to be 10 miles from land.
How such n .stupendous mistake came to be
made, nobody seems to know. But the passen-
gers testify that, although there was thick
fog, no soundngs had been taken; that the
captain had been several times warned that he
was huggng the shore; and that an experienced
Year: 1867




District respectfully request YOU to stand as the Repub
can for Democratic or Conservative, as the case may
bel candidate for Representative IN Congress or sta'e
senate, or Assembly, at the ensuing ELECTION


Here follow the signatures.l
OF course, there may be two or more rival
reauisitions; but almost any one might deter
mine, by simple scrutiny of the names at
tached to each, which of them was the more
responsibly and worthhy signed, though IL
should have the fewer names appended to It,
Usually. the weaker candidates would be with
drawn or quietly dropped, leaving the field
clear on either side to the man who ought TO
be supported. But, admit that the stronger
party in district would sometimes lose the
day through A plurality of candidates IN ITS
interest, we insist that the EVIL wouio pe iar
less serious than that now endured from the
rottcnncss or incapacity of the candidates
forced upon us by regular nominations"
Year: 1867

sc3,65ntain who was on board particularly re-
f56bsEot.r against the course on which the
steamer was fept J,: of the fre@on s1.. makes =.
the remarkable statement that Iue .oau,.aov ~
cuba had 0ra-ed the bottom a day or too
before; yet no watch was kept, aud the
officers only discovered their position by
the discoloration, indicating shoal water, an
instant before she struck Her head was put
about but it was too late.


How the 400 passengers and crew then tried
to get ashore through the surf, and how seven
were drowned and many more injured in the
attempt, we need not here repeat. The facts
are fresh in our readers recollection. We have
only to add, by way Of fully rounding off tho
narrative of the trip, that the survivors seem to
have been left on the shore to find their way
to New-York rs best they could, while tho
steamship company concerned themselves ex-
clusively with trying to save the vessel.


Men who have just passed through month
Of hardship, and have then narrowly escaped
drowning, are not apt to be in the best Of
tempers; and perhaps we ought TO make pretty
liberal allowance for the infrmity of human
nature in taking the testimony of these pas
sengers upon the incidents Of their voyage;
but, even with all the allowance which any
candid person can require, enough remains TO
show that the management of the whole trip
was simply dsgraceful. About the shipwreck
itself, there is no need of words. The simple
facts are better than the strongest and harsh
est comments.
Year: 1867

The y. ]. Times strangely says thst


"The Newspaper Press has very generally assumed
that was for interest 90 abrdge the rgOr OF the law
of libel Ms much as possibeto near as may be
to securing for it perfect imputy IN whatever IL may
say"


The TTmeS's knowledge of " the Newspaper
"Press" must surely relate to different class of
Journals from that with which we are acquainted
Time and again have we rcpelled and seen
other journalists repel, this very imputuaton
of a desire to secure for the Press perfect
"impunity in whatever it may say" Time and
again have we explained that what we sought
was utterly different from this-namely Pro
lection against legal annoyance as CONSTRUCTIVE
HbeIcrs trhere ereTy one kROWS that no libel
ous intent eristed. If Journalist Is
realty libelcr, we would have him
punished rather more severely than one
who merely nails his libel to the town
pump or hangs it up in a bar-r0Om. But we
do insist that an editor shall not be adjudged
n libelcr when the Judge and every man on the
jury kAOrS that he il not-tlat no purpose, in
tent, or dream, of libeliDg the complainant ever
crossed bis mind-when very often he was
unaware even of the existence of said con-
plainant until served with his writ for libel
(Wc for instance, were once made TO pay 800
and costs for libcling one of whose very name
and every item of whose history we were ut
terly and absolutely unconscious until waited
on by the sheriff in his behalf. Such justice is
n disgrace to civilization and the Press has en-
dured too much of it. The least it can do is
not to encourage the inhiction of any more.
Year: 1867

The EreRin9 Star. small but very popular ponny
paper of Philadelphia startled the enterprise that
city by moving from the office Of Forreys Press into
building Of its own fitted up with Hoe press Tho
philadelphia journals agree that in brief time the new
daily has attained great circulation II bids fair TO rival
the best OF the dailes Philadelphia wherein there Is
ample room for any good new daily paper TIE Star is
brightly edited by Mr. Charles School, and Is the moro
welcome because 10 is Radical
Year: 1867

No ARTICLE IN TIE WORLD has had so ex-
i.nsye sale as DRaKEs BsRs They hrs' sofa De-
cause they we're said good They sell because they are known
to be good They have stood the test Of time Of weak a anu


oo,n,eters The reason is plain The formula pub
bbd around each bottle they always made up to the original


standard They are the Government hospitals rconeaael
bv always produce an immediate penen
effect For cierymen merchants lawyers females and persons oi Sc
Ao.sv balts thew are wonderful They healthy appetite
they cure Dyspepsia Headache Liver Complaint AMI Constipation
they oo strengthen nygor they make the weak strong ana
the melancholy brilliant No person who feels FAINT weak @nRu O
ress unable 10 sleep to eat labor enjoy society can afford to
n o,, this agreeable ard certain tonic They sold everywhere
Year: 1867

Gen. Griffin properly prohibits the collection
of Rebel taxes levied during the war in Texas.
This is especially important in State where a
Judge can be found who decides that negro
testimony cannot be received in the trial OF
white men, and where civil officers refuse to
take national currency az legal money.
Year: 1867

We publish this morning an important ac-
count of Conference of Australian Colonies
The Conference decided upon the establish
ment of a Federal Council, TO which any
future questions regarding the colonies are to
be referred. This is the first direct step
toward the permanent consolidation OF the
colonies into one Australian people.
Year: 1867

TO CORRESPONDENTS ~
No notice be taken Of Anonymous Communications Whatever
intended for be authenticated by the name aud address
OF the ureruOt necessarily for publication but as guaranty for
his qood
Year: 1867

SPURIOUS NICKEL PIRCRs.-It would seem
to be one OF the evils resulting from the issue
Of base coin that 1t makes counterfeitinR com :
para'ively easy. This is the case with regard
to The present fve cent nickel piece, of which q
large umber OF counterfeits are in circulation.
especially in the South and West.


A gang OF coiners were trapped the other
day in Cincinnati, with a quantity OF these
spurious pieces IN their possession, as well as
the dies and apparatus for their manufacture
But there are evidently many more at work
successfully In other parts of the Southern
country, since the papers contain numerous
complaints OF such swindling


The horse.car companies Of New Orleans
have suffered loss to the extent OF many hum
dreds OF dollars by counterfeits OF this denom-
ination, and the presidents OF the roads have
finally offered reward of two hundred dol
lars for the arrest and conviction Of any one
passing or m making this false money.


The New Orleans conductors and drivers
must be less sharp than ours in detecting
counterfeits. as there has been no special COM
plant OF any such swindlins In our city rail-
roads or other public conveyances. Perhaps
the genuine nickel pieces are rather more
plentiful with us than with our Southern
brethren just now-Ne,o York Post.
Year: 1867

grin Boston some Of the poll cemen are
making good thing out of the law against
keeping dogs without license 1t is said that
one OF hem cleared SIS besides his pay in two
days last week, by complaining against keep
of the fine for information. When policemen
become spies and informers for the sake OF
making money. they are very Apt to nerlect
cher and more important duties II Phi.ade lpAio
LedQeT.
Year: 1867

nkA, In response to the concession
which has been proposed by some who
conceive Conservatism to consist in
always getting precisely in the middle
ground between extremes, and to a city
paper which affirms that no one is now
in favor of taking off the two hundred
and fifty dollar qualification for negro
voting, the New York Day Book denies,
and says


Give the people chance now to vote
on this question, and they would, with
an overwhelming majority, vote down
negro suffrage ia any and every shape 1t
could be made TO assume. Put in a
million of dollars as the negro qualifica-
ton for voting, and it would still be
repudated and spurned by the
popular voice. The spirit and wish
of the white people is not to
vote with negroes at all. There is logic
in the common sense of the masses,
which teaches them that negro equality
anywhere, in anything, or at any time,
is an insult and wrong to their own race.
The more they reflect and reason upon
the matter, the stronger and deeper will
this feeling become 1t is not prejudice,
it is something altogether higher; it is
the natural and just instinct of race, so
much praised by Cicero, as the strong
est and most sacred bond OF So
ciety. The Mongrels tell of edu-
eating the people up to negro sut-
rage" But that would be cor.upting
them. 1t would be to degrade and de-
bauoh their instincts and tastes. The
desire for negro suffrage is ldhacy, il
is unnatural, and no amount of educating
can therefore ever make the thing other
wise than distasteful and offensive to the
masses Of the white people. The less
they are educated" the farther OF they
will be from all idea of negro equality.
You may as we'll talk of educating eagles
to live with buzzards 1t is against ma
furp
Year: 1867

na- The New York Post points out a
mistake made by Dickens; In Bleak
House. chapter IL, is the following SEN
tence: WEAKNESS of soul lies before her
as it lies behind her-Ariel has put a
girdle of it round the whole earth, and it
cannot be unclasped.' 1t was the Puck
of The Midsummer Night Dream, and
not the Ariel of the Tempest, that put
girdle round the earth in forty min
utes."
Year: 1867

IMPORTANT CIRCULAR FROM GENERAL BROWN


ALL FREEDMEN TO REGISTER.


The following circular has been issued by
General Brown to the subaltern officers of the
Freedmen's Bureau


BUREAU OF REFUGEES. FREEDMEN, AND
ABANDONED LANDS, Headquarters Assistant
Commissioner State of Virginia, Richmond,
Va, May 2S lS67.-Circular Letter.-It is re-
ported that many of the freedmen of the State
will fail to register under the Military bill,
through the agency of persons hostile to their
exercising the rights of suffrage The act to
continue in force. and TO amend IAN Act to
establish Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen
and Refugees" requires the officers OF the
Bureau to aid the freedmen sin making the
freedom conferred upon them available to
themselves and beneficial to the republic" It
is, therefore, clearly your duty to counteract,
as far as possible, the influence OF persons
inimiCal to the freedmen registering or voting,
and to advise and instruct them in regard TO
their rights under the above named bill and the
great Importance of their exercising these
rights. By availing yourselves OF the various
meetings of the freedmen, and other means at
your command OF spreading information among
them, not one in the State need be uniformed
in regard to his right and duty in the matter.
If any freedmen fail to register, through igno.
rance the Bureau officer in charge of the sub
district division where such failure occurs
will be considered derelict in the performance
of his duty. The opinion expressed in this
letter in regard to the duties of Bureau officers
is in accordance with that held by Major-Gene-
raj Schofeld, commanding this district


o. BROWN, Brevet Brig Gen, Asst Com.
Year: 1867

NIGHTNGALRs.--An unusually large number
of nightingales have assembled this spring in
the vicinity of Naumburg, Germany. They
from twenty to thirty in a wood, and remained
there eight days. During this time they held
a sort of musical tournament, two birds sing
ing solo alternately, and the performance
being occasionally varied by chorus in which
all the birds participated. 1t is positively
asserted by ornithologists who were present at
this singular concert, that there was not a
single female bird among the singers. Every
now and then the birds moved in a body to
another part of the wood, as if to test its
acoustic properties,
Year: 1867

CRITICAL CONDITION OF THE THRONE-THE ARMY


IT'S ONLY SUPPORT.


From The Independence Beige, May 20-EUening.


News from Spain still presents the situation
under anything but a satisfactory aspect. Mea-
sures of rigor and arrests of the suspected con-
tinue, and the language of the President of the
Council in the Senate shows that the Govern
ment Itself is not at ease with regard to the
maintenance of order. Marshal Narvaez has
been compelled to admit that at the present
moment the Queens throne has nothing to sup
port IL but the army.


The Chamber of Deputies, though elected
under the pressure of the Government, does not
inspire the Cabinet with confidence; for the bill
it has just introduced upon the reform OF the
regulations of that assembly virtually annals
all parliamentary initiative, and all liberty of
discussion. Our Madrid correspondent gives an
analysis of this measure, which would be in
credible were it not true. Tue only outrageous
words in favor of constitu ional liberties are
still beard in the Senate. Signor Vaamonde,
an ex-minister, has made a speech upon the
policy of the Government, which proves that
patriotism and political sagacity are not yet
eXtinguished in the Peninsula.
Year: 1867

RAD NEWS AT THE TUILRRIEs AT AN UNFORTUNATE


MOMENT.


Paris MAY 2O) Correspondence Pal Mall Gazette
There is a story here TO the effect that very
awkward piece of news was made known at
the Tuileriesllast night that the Emperor MAXI
milian had been captured and shot Should
the Intelligence turn out to be correct, the
results OF the Mexican expedition will be de-
plorable indeed. The Emperor dead, his wife
mad, and the public debt here increased oy
two millions. -, -, .
The King and Queen of the Belglans being at
present in Paris the reception OF this news Is
still more untoWard.
Year: 1867

AQUA CREEK, June 1.-The President has Just
arrived here and the party are being transferred 20
special car There is no popular cOmmOtton the
people OF the country through which the party passes
not being aware of the Presidents presence
Year: 1867

Some new inventions, the Boston
Transcript thinks, are needed in this
country. Among these needed inven.
tions it specifies several that would be OF
great benefit 1t says there ought to be
a method devised Of using steam on com.
mon roads. Some cheaper material and
process for making paper is the great
want of the age, and, il realized, would
give a mighty impulse to civilization.
The heating and cooking in our houses
ought to be done by one and the same
apparatus. There is a need Of some
thing that shall be convenient as q pen
ell and as legible and durable in its
traciugs as those Of pen and ink; there
is a demand for uuquestionable water
tight blacking; and there ought TO be q
boot which should have some distant
resemblance to the human foot, and yet
both eomelJ to the eye and comfortable
10 the foot.
Year: 1867

H6~ The danger of excessive muscu-
lar exercise is proved by the recent death
of a student of Brown University, Mr..
Lemuel Grosvenor Perry. A postmorten'
examination showed that the death was
caused by an abscess resulting from in
hammation of abdominal muscles,
brought on by excessive exercise at the
time of the university match game OF
ball between the students of Harvard
and Brown, some two weeks since, in
which he engaged with great ardor. He
had been healthy and vigorous young
man, but was taken sick after engaging
in the game, and survived only few
days.
Year: 1867

HeA. Addresses to the Pope are pour
ing in upon his Holiness from various
quarters. The Bishops assembled in
Rome have assured him Of their fidelity
to his throne and to his teaching, and
declared that neither princes nor peoples
will permit the rights or authority of the
Pope to be. ignored. In reply to an
Italian deputation, the Pope said he had
always done what he could to aid Italy
and he hoped those who had charge OF
her destinies would save her from moral
and religious ruin.