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Year: 1871

THE fearful sufferings Of the crew of the
bark Dashing Wave, China tea clipper, ship
wrecked on small island in the South Pa.
ciffic Ocean, are narrated in the Fiji Times OF
Jan. Z. The crew took to the long boat, and
Capt. Vandervord secured chart and nauti.
cal instruments, bnt strange to say no com.
pass was saved a case of colonial wine, bag
and half OF bread and two buckets were put
in the boat, but no water, aud for thirtyouo
days the thirteen men were In the open boat
without seeing land or ship or receiving any
assist ance whatever. For the first five days.
they had not a drop OF water, and theicaptain
divided a bottle OF wine daily among the thif-
teen men. After that they had rains, and
caught enough TO serve ont half pint Of wa
ter 10 each man rer diem. II was first design
ed to steer for the Kingsmill group, but the
cur rent was against them, aid then course
was steered for Ascension Island ard had any
of the party been able to row, they might have
reached it, but, weak as they were, all they
could do was to keep their boat before the
wind with the blanket sail. At last. alter
thirty days suffering, they reached Strope's
island, o. Caroline group, and We e received
by the King with the utmost hospitality. Ua
took the captain and mate to live with him.
and assigned quarters to the men in the town.
After thirty, eight days they we've takeD oil
by shlp which put in for provisions.
Year: 1871

AN INTERESTING CAsE.-Dr. Goldsmith
Of Rutland, one of Nermonts most noted
physicians, related in one of his addresses
recently, an incident occurring during his
army experience which has never appeared
in print before. Illustrating the power of
chloroiorm as = solvent OF feigned con
traction OF the limbs he said,-and we will
use his own language:


While in Jefferson Hospital there came
man who had run the gauntlet of several
hospitals, having been discharged on the
ground of the contraction of his arm.
which was bent up so that the hand nearly
touched his shoulder or breast. 1t was 50
rigidly fixed that | could not with any
strength (and the DIR. Is a heavy weight J
which seemed to me not to risk the break
ing Of his arm, straighten it, | directed
the nurses to watch him at night. and 20
to his bed and sieze his arm and suddenly
try to straighten it. They uniformly re-
ported that they were unable to accom-.
piish the desired result. He was then
allowed to pass ont and visit all the rum
shops at will, in the hope that under, the
influence Of alcoholic stimulant the case
might be solved, but it found no solution.
Year: 1871

An instrument has been invented in
Germany which will measure, with per-
feet accuracy, the heat of the hottest fur
mace. 1t is based ON the principle that
the resistance of pure metals to theelectric
current increases with the temperature in
very simple ratio. A platinum wire of
known resistance is coiled around a cylin-
der of fine clay, and covered with tube
Of the same material. The tube is con-
nected with Daniels battery of two cells
and with resistance measurer, and placed
in the furnace whose temperature is to be
ascertained. 1t is then only necessary TO
read off the indications of temperature on
the graduated resistanee-measurer. The
utility of such an instrument is obvious,
Year: 1871

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies,
and at as low rates at agency in the country.
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.


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Year: 1871

There were hundreds of others like
wise distracted, and many, made despe-
rate by whisky or beer, which from ex-
cess of thirst and in the absence of water
they drank in large quantities, spread
themselves in every direction, terror to
all they met"
Year: 1871

No PLACE.-A great many boys COM
plain that there are no places. Perhaps
it is hard to getjust such as you like
But when you get place-and there
are places-in this big country, we are
sure, has need Of every good boy and
girl, man and woman in it--when you
get a place, we say, make yourself useful
in it make yourself necessary to your
employers; make yourself SO necessary,
by your fidelity and good behaviour, that
| they cannot do without you. Be willing
to take low price at first, no matter
what the work is, if it be honest work.
Do it we'll; do it the very best you can.
Begin at the very lowest round of the lad
der, and climb up. The great want any
where is faithful, capable workers. =
They are never drug in the market
Make yourself one of these, and there
will always be a place for you, and a
good one too.
Year: 1871

SWEET PoRK.-It is beyond a doubt
that cleanliness has much to do with the
flavor of porS. The filthy state in which
many fattening hogs are kept has ten
dency not only to give rank taste to
the meat, but to render it positively un-
wholesome. A common mode of pen
ming hogs at this season is in rail pen,
without protection from the weather.
The consequence is that such pens are
not fit to keep living animal in; wet
and filthy. cold and uncomfortable as
they are, hogs will not take on fat, and
great proportion of food is wasted while
they are kept in them, while the filth, a
considerable amount of which the hogs
will consume, must be detrimental to
their health and to the health of those
who eat their flesh. 1t is not only safer
but more economical to give fattening
animals good shelter and dry beds and
litter, and keep them quite clean. The
labor will be well repaid.
Year: 1871

In Wabash and Michigan avenues,
and in all the places where the richer
class of citizens live, when the fire came
the distress was awful. Women who had
never known what care was, and con-
sequently we're, as one would suppose, ut
terly incapable of bearing with equanim-
ity such calamity as the destruction Of
their homes, yet here there were many
instances of heroism aud love worthy to
besungin story. Mrs Id, of Wabash
avenue, had been deserted by her ser.
wants as soon as it became certain that
the house was doomed they had gone
off, taking with them whatever they could
lay their hands on. She, her daughter
and her invalid husband were alone IN
the house, and the flames were rapidly
approaching. There was no help to be
expected, for everybody was bent only on
saving what he could Of his own proper
ty. There was not moment to spare,
and the two women actually carried Mr.
Id away in their arms and brought
him in safety beyond the reach of the
fire. Such instances were numerous alike
among rich and poor.
Year: 1871

All accounts agree that the heat of the
flames was intense beyond all conception.
Unbroken walls of stone or brick or
iron, with roofs of the same material,
would crumble away like sand before it


pTrCKv
Year: 1871

THE NO" PowER-The ability to say no
in lite is so valusble that it might be truly
called the safe side of ones character. II IS
an-almost sure sign of strong mind aud
socud heart. That queer clerical wit aud
editor, Sidney Smith, who could be sensible
in spite of ms fun, wrote the following very
grave paragraph on the power Of no" in
young men:


''The purity of moral habits Is, arm afraid,
of very little use tn mau unless il is accom-.
panied by that degree of frmness which en-
ablcs him to act up to what he may thiuk
right in spite Of solicitations 10 the contrary.
Very few young men have the power Of Mega
ton in any degree a, first IL increases with
the increase of confidence, and with the ex.
periencs of those Inconvenience which result
from the absence Of this virtue. Every young
man must be exposed to temptation lie eau
never learn the ways Of men without being
witness to their vices. Tf YOU attempt 20
preserve him from danger by keeping him out
OF the way Of it, you render him quite unGt
for any style of life IN which he may DC placed.
The great point is not 10 turn him out too
soon, and to give him pilot at frsi"
Year: 1871

The late session of the Senate of the United
States began in Mysteries and ended in a farce
Yet, between the hysterical investigation and
the farcical abandonment, some grave steps
were taken, and some grave questions raised
On these we purpose briefly to fix public
attention before. the whole affair passes through
universal contempt to oblivion.


!. On the morning when The TRIBUNE pub
lished the Treaty of Washington these things
were known about it That the Joint High
Commissioners had finished and signed it, and
that it was their individual if not joint desire
that it be made public: That the President
had sent to the Senate particular and per-
s0nal request by the band OF the Chairman OF
the Committee on Foreign Relations, that
it be forthwith published, for the infor-
nation of the people and the good of the ne
gotation That it had been shown freely, and
without injunction of secrecy, to sundry cltl-
zens That the Oldest and most trusted Sena-
tors desired its publication That the State
Department had shown it to at least one Editor,
and had furnished a careful though incOm-
plete synopsis of it to the press.


II. No law was directly or indirectly infringed
by The TRIBUNE's publication, and no pre-



THE TRIBUNE had only done its duty to its
readers, by furnishing them the earliest news
of q document of commanding public import
ance But the Senate decided Gn secret ses-
sion), in spite of the known wishes of the Gov
ernment and the acknowledged right
of The TRIBUNE, to investigate the
matter. Such investigation could have
but one rightful object. Whether any Senator
or officer of the Senate had betrayed its
secrets-that was thing proper to find out,
and perhaps worth finding out-albeit the men
who now urged it were notorious as the most
ready, in times past, to betray whatever
Executive secret they wanted made public.
With the settlement of that point the investiga-
ton ought to stop-the Senate had no more
right to inquire beyond than it had power to
punish.


III. What they did was very different Mr..
Roscoe Conkling early heard that clerk of
one of Mr.. Fenton's Committees had done
some copying for THE TRIBUNE on the night
the Treaty was transmitted, and straightway
fancied-such was his eager and illogical hate
that he might be able to connect his dreaded
rival with it. Too shrewd, nevertheless, to
move first i'm the matter himself, he succeeded
in putting forward Mr.. Matthew Ii. Carpenter
in his place. subsequently, when he dis
covered the storm he had aroused he
attempted to evade the responsibility of his
act, by saying with an air of candor that he
did not originally seek the investigation; but
the subterfuge proved dear one. 1t was
shown that, while others were talking vaguely
about what should be done, Mr.. C0nkllng
carefully wrote out resolution, consulted
with Mr.. Carpenter about 1t, amended ito IN
sundry particulars that it might have wider
application than appeared on the surface. and
Year: 1871

mOckery of Justice in the story OF the tnree
sailors who have been detained as witnesses
oyer ainco last October, because they happened
to u,;tness n murder on board ship In the har-
hor of Montevideo. The murderer is still at
largo Going about his business and earning
b;o living. while these four men are rot
H,s in iail, because they can find
M hail for their appearance at some
Indefinite time, to give evidence in a case
which may possibly never come to trial. An
other simple minded sailor is detained as n
witness against man who passed counterfeit
money upon him. Another is held for the pay
mcnt of sums he never possessed and never will
earn as long as he is in Jail. 1t is these mon,
who have either done no wrong. or who have
committed faults 80 trfling that they have
gained nothing by them. who are forced to
endure the extreme hardshipS Of prison fare
aud discipline. while the rich and dangerous
rOgues have every comfort and luxury fur
nished them, for compensation which thief
can OF course more readily furnish than an
honest workingman. The $50 a week which
the Sheriff through his instrument. Mr.
Warden Tracey, exaots as the equivalent for
the treatment due a human being, is nothing





or burglar, whose gains are large and not
tainted with tho curse of labor. Nothing is
easier than 10 be liberal with stolen money ;
but an EOnest or unfortunate laboring man.
who by accident or nadvertcnce falls into the
clutches of these officers, must either suffer
the nameless privations of the pauper
prisoners, or undergo an expense which may
take the food from the mouths of his children.
OF course there is objection TO allowing
wcll-tO-dO prisoners to buy any comforts or
Injuries they can afford but a poor man who
is unable to treat himself to the luxurios
which the Sheriff holds at the DEPOSITION of
che most guilty Of bis guests sh6;!ld not suf-
! .tr, in addition to the fact of his impIisHi'
mcnt. the deprivation of every enjoyment
or decency Of life. 1t il only too evident from
the report of our amateur prisoner, that those
who are suspected of an ability to pay for the
commodities in the acq,nsitive hands of Tracey,
are persecuted by numberless vexatiOns to force
them to buy the privilege of eating and sleep
ing like civilized beings.


We do not know by virtue of what law or
statute our Sheriff pretcnds to Justify this sys-
tenn of conclusion and extOrtiOn. The inten-
ton of the law is doubtless to give to persons
detained for oifenses whose guilt is not proved.
and most especially TO those innocent persons
who are held simply as witnesses, as favorable
treatment IA is consistent with their safety,
and the economy necessary to the admin
israt0n of public institutions We sub
nit that the picture drawn by our
Intelligent and Trustworthy agent of the Jail
in Ludlow-st. does not answer these require
ments This prison seems to be used as a
and this. we take it. is neither lawful nor
decent
Year: 1871

It is completed. Everybody recognizes the
importance Of increasing facilities for travel
ing tho length Of the island and relieving the
overcrowdod streets of the lower part of tho
city The widening of South and West-sts.
along East and Hudson Rivers to two hund-
red feet, would furnish such facilities and
relief more eflectually than it is possible to do
in any other way. There is no part of the
plan which will commend it more strongly to
New-York residents than this feature of
widened river streets and if assured of the
purpose Of the Commissioners to conduct the
work with strict economy and for the general
public good they will rejoice to see it begun
at once But in the carrying out of an I'M
mense undertaking like this, involving the
ultimate expenditure of many millions of
money, the people will demand the most rigid
economy and the strictest honesty.
Year: 1871

was aimed, and by virtue of this our Mayor
now assumes TO override the salutary and uni
vcrsally acceptable provisions of the old law
1t remains TO be seen whether this plot TO rob
olc Of oar most boneiicent charities, for the
purpose of throwing down all the barriers
that now restrain the multiplication of low
and immoral exhibitions. is to succeed. Some
little regard for public deccncy has been
shown by the stealth with which these con-
spirators have acted in the matter. and the
expression of decided and general dsappro-
baton may still prevent The further execution
Of thcr plans.
Year: 1871

To add to the horrors of the coal-mine dis
aster. it is now stated that the rescued men are
slowly dying from the effects of the noxious
gases inhaled 1t is but the opinion of the
physicians which we quote, and which we
would be glad to reject, but the terrible eff
fects of the inhalation of smoke or choke
damp are too well known to permit strong
hope that the opinion is erroneous. The
death is sometimes lingering one, but
almost always certain. The inquest has
developed that there were fully fifty per
sons in the mine at the time of the disaster,
nearly three times the number which. the law
allows. The Avondae disaster of last year in
cited the Pennsylvania Legislature to pass II
law prohibiting the employment of more than
twenty miners in a mine with only one shaft.
Possibly this second Ayondale VIII lnsplre the
LEGISLATURE to reduce the number of wOrkmen
liable to be victims of future disasters of the
same kind at least one half.
Year: 1871

The horrors of the Commune are supple
mented by eXcesses of the Versailles Govern
ment. The last fight in the Cemetery of Pere
La Chaise was simply slaughter, the maniacs
of the Commune, by resistance as vain as it
was inhuman, provoking terrible fire from
their enemy which destroyed alike the men
and the women and children who had followed
their fortunes. Since the surrender, the
men taken in arms have been shot by
platoons, a hundred falling at single
fire, and these summary military eX-
ecutions have taken place simultaneously
in three or four places. Such policy
is incOmprehensible to us, who have not shot u
single leader of n much greater insuuectlon
but such pOpulace as that of Paris is also
incomprehensible and fortunately unknown to
us. Humanity will condemn it without ques-
ton but it is uncertain if any other less
cruel course of action remains open to Nj.
Theirs. He must be cruel tO~maintain HIM
self, and it is doubtful if the most positive
action can now save his government from
dissolution,
Year: 1871

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Wishing to gain a positive and thorough
knowledge Of the interior workings of our
Jail system, we recently detailed one of the
most capable and trustworthy reporters of our
city department TO pass regularly through a
short term of imprisonment at the LudlOw-st
Jail, and to give an account of his expert
ence for the benefit of The TRIBUNE
His arrest was procured by q little
management, and he remained long enough
in Jail to prepare the graphic and full
report of the inside life of that Institution
which we print this morning. In everything
which he did he acted under the positive orders
of The TRIBUNE.


The result of his Investigations is such as
10 convince us of the truth of many rumors
in regard TO the acknowledgement of our City
Prisons in which we had before placed less
implict credence. The impressive and dispas-
sionate account he gives of the sHfferings of
the poorer class of prisoners those who are
unable to pay our thrifty Sheriff sl5lor $50 a
week for decent treatment, Will appear TO the
generous sense of justice of all our readers.
II is precisely the most innocent inmates OF
this gloomy place who are the SeVcieSt SUI
icrcrs by confinement There Is q frShliui
Year: 1871

Commissioner PleasOntOn insists that the
New-York Central Railroad shall pay the tax
ON its interest certificates. The validity of
the assessment is declared in strong language,
and the order for its collection, to the amount
of S1,15l 800 is positive. OF the justice OF
this decision there viii be little question,
though there may be some dilatOry judicial
steps taken to prevent its enforcement.
Year: 1871

The organization of the Viaduct Railway
Company is at last complete. We have often
said before, and we now repeat, that we are
not sure this is the best plan for the rapid
steam transit through the length of the city
we must have but it seems the only attaina-
bic one; and we hope to see it literally
encouraged and energetically prosecuted 10
the speediest possible completion.
Year: 1871

The correspondent of some Northern
journal, who recently visited the grave
of Sergeant S. Prentiss, writes as follows
of the last resting place of that divinely
gifted man:


a little more than a mile from the
beautiful haunted streets of Natchez,
close by the roadside, sweet umbra-
geous grove of towering shrubs and
trees bend over their pensive branches TO
the ground as if they overshadowed and
guarded some precious deposit a paling
eucloses them and although palace like
manson is near proudly endowered
domain, yet a sweet and sacred Stiffness
rests over the grove. Birds of melodi-
Gus songs aud glorious plumage pour out
the most thrilling harmonies there; aud
we'll they may for beneath the boughs
they stand on sleeps one whose voice had
more than the witehery of the ehoristers
of the fragrant forests of the South


And the thuuder-clouds' that often
times roll above the place of lowly rest
solemnly rehearsing its deep toned at
testations of its Eternal Creators sover-
eighty aud power, may hush for mo
ment, its fearful growl. He who sleep;
there could thunder like a Demosthenes,
and the flash of his intellect and the
coruscations of his wit were as dazzling
as those which leap from youder over
arehing canopy OF the storm


THERE SLEEPS PRENTIss The boy
from Maine, who came in youth to Miss
issippi to live--to win immortal fame
and who came back in the high noon oi
his manhood to die -and find SO sweet
aud quiet gravel
Year: 1871

Ancient and modern history is replete
with instances where nations have had
great ealamities come upon them at uu-
expected moments. War is a national
calamity, yet in that case the govern
ments are responsible But there are
others which are beyond the agency of
men, such as a great drought which de-
prives people of the means of subsis-
tence, earthquakes that engulf cities and
sections, great fires that burn up large
cities. OF the latter description is the
fire that has been burning up the city of
Chicago for several days past This fire
at Chicago is not only great local, but
a national calamity. The trade of Chi
eago had assumed large proportions, and
Its power and influence was felt in all the
money and trade circles of the country
To the extent this is true it becomes a
national calamity


There is one branch Of business that
must be very seriously affected by the
United States, we suppose, could hardly
pay the losses. Many Of them will be
broken, while others will be so crippled
that they cannot be regarded as safe.
Until Investigations are made and correct
information furnished no one knows
whether a policy of insurance on prop
erty is worth anything or not. Insurance
companies throughout the country should
be prompt in investigating their condi-
tion and reporting to the public.
Year: 1871

PAYMENT OF SMALL BILLs.-The
payment of small bills, is matter of
more importance than is usually attach
ed to it. There are not few who in
times when business is little depressed,
and the prospects for the future seem
more than usually unsettled will bold on
to their cash in hand, tell all collectors
who wait on them with overdue bills to
"cal again. while the payment would
not give them any serious Inconvenience,
and would 90 so far to give animation to
the markets throughout the country as
the universal fulfillment of the obliga-
tious at the first opportunity. If all the
little debts for the discharge of which
the debtors now have the cash actually
on hand we're paid at once, the wheels OF
business would be fabricated, and jollity
soon prevail throughout ths land.
Year: 1871




Which will you do, smile and mako
Others happy, or be grabbed and make
everybody around you miserable? You
can live among flowers and singing
birds, or in the mire surrounded by
fogs and frogs. The amount af hap
piness which you can produce is incal.
cuable, if you will only show a smiling
face, a kind heart and speak pleasant
words. On the other hand, by sour
looks, cross words and fretful disposi.
tion you can make others unhappy al
most beyond endurance. Which will
you do? Wear pleasant countenancei
let JOY and love beam in your eye
There is no joy so great as that which
springs from kind act or a pleasant
deed; and if you do kind act during
the day whereby some fellow mortal
has been made happy, you will feel its
glorious influence at night when you
rest, the next morning when you rise
and throughout the day when about
your daily business.