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Year: 1873




TRANSPORTATION by WATER BETWEEN THE WEST
AND THE sEABoARD-A CANAL BETWEEN oswEGo
AND THE HUDSON RECOMMENDED.


In accordance with the invitation Of the Chamber
of Commerce, the Hon. William j. McAlpDe, who
has been long identified with the management Of
canals and railroads. addressed. last evening, n
cultured and intelligent audience in the large hall
of the Cooper Union on the subject of Transporta-
tion between the Interior and the Seaboard" The
object of the Chamber was to have the
subject thoroughly treated. and in view OF
the presence Of the Convention III this city
now agitating for railroad restriction and cheap
freights it was decided TO have the address
ing so that members of the Convention might avaii
themselves of the opportunity for enlightenment
The speaker was introduced in pleasant terms oy
William NJ. Vermilye, Second Vice-President OF the
Chamber and at the close of his address was ten
dored vote of thanks and requested to fnrnlsh a
copy for publication under the auspices OF the
Chamber The prominent points Of the address VIII
be found below.
Year: 1873

THE CITIZEN is inent member of

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 will be the effects the gah game of human life. It is that when the paper is read tS the public generally will Thoughtless and giddy people this as a jocose subject, but who have experimental knov regard it as a very serious one
Year: 1873

L1vERpooI, LIE BEET HARBon, July 6,


Via ANNAPOLIS, N. s., July


On the Gath of June last went to Liver
pool England, bound for three months
trip to the Western States Of America. was
undecided by what line TO go, but the guard
or conductor of the train told me that the
Inman line sailed that day at five O. clock, and
he furthermore added,


s4TH1RE's THE usAxAN AoNr."
pointing to a person with 'Inman line"
worked in gold letters on the front of his cap.
This gentleman, whose name was Freeman,
was exceedingly obliging, saw my luggage
safely deposited in the baggage room and took
me to the Inman Office. I asked and paid
for a twelve guinea ticket; but on Mr..
Freeman assuring me that if I took
twelve guinea berth might be un-
comfortable and perhaps find myself in
o room with five or six Others whereas, if
took fifteen guinea one should have q
berth with only one other. paid the extra
three guineas, the ticket clerk making no
remark, and consequently tacity agreeing with
the observations of Mr.. Freeman. As we
went of in the tug,


s4rHnz's THE WASHINGTON, SPLENDID


vEssx1,"


observed that individual, with very pardon
able pride in the tone of his voice. During
our first night at sea observed such extra
ordinary conduct on the part of one Of my
fellow passengers that I asked the opinion Of
the doctor on the subject, and he came to the
conclusion that he was laboring under an
attack of delirium tremens. As had no idea
of waking up one morning with my throat
cut, applied for and was given berth with
only one other occupant I occupied this
berth during the whole of the voyage and pre-
ferred it to my old one, the sole difference
being that the latter had port and my new
one opened on the saloon. The berths in
which might be uncomfortable and be bunked
with FIVE or six people existed only in


THE rERrnE IMAGINATION OF MR. FREEMAN,
as there were none but double berths in the
ship I did not discover until nearly at the
end of the voyage that I was occupying
twelve guinea berth. Mr.. Freeman may be,
and no doubt is, very efficient and money
making runner for the Inman company, but I
can hardly say that his statements are strictly
to be relied upon. We arrived ct Queenstown
all right and proceeded ON our way with some
thing like


EVE Hmpaxp AND FIFTY SOULS ON BOARD,
all told. The AEst daH out fnnm onsAnHhf'"u
Year: 1873

appeared as contenteo as possible under the
circumstances. The kindness of the people,
what few there are, is excessive. Every one is
engaged in alleviating suffering. On Monday
evening meeting of cabin passengers was
called, and about two hundred dollars were
subscribed on the spot in coin for
THE TWO HEROES, swANBuRa AND FERGUSON.


One ought to be started in New York for
the same purpose, in behalf of those noble
fellows who risked their lives for us. No
tidings have been heard yet of any relief
being sent, owing to hard-pressing business in
New York.


started yesterday for Annapolis, and hope
to be in New York tomorrow. When left
there were plenty of provisions for all hands
for some days to come. This is how the
Washington was lost


WHY SHE WAS LOST


is quite different affair. Many readers Of the
HERALD are not nautical men. will simply
say that they can only compare the navigation
of the Washington to the conduct of man
who gets on a horse and gallops in dark
night full speed down turnpike road, totally
regardless whether there are several gates on
the road and whether they are open or shut
Fortunately for u. we got threuah one mite
Year: 1873

It will crafty all the readers OF the
APPEAL to know that the peoples
ticket, with Busby for mayor, Locke for
tax-colIector, and Rogers for wharf
master. has been we'll received, and that
the chances for its overwhelming success
grow every hour. There can be no OBJ
lection offered to either of the candidates
on the score Of integrity or ability, and
as politics is not involved, their election
i. certain. Republicans as we'll
n, Democrats have given assuran-
ees of their determination te
vote for them, believing that
in so doing they will subserve the best
interests of the city. No better man
for mavor can be offered the public than
Major Busby. He has the confidence OF
al classes, and grows in favor every
day. His record has been carefully
canva1sed by would-be opponents, but
Isjling to find anything against him,
they have given up all opposition and
retired from the field. 1t is said,
with what truth We do not
know, that the Republicans viii
make q regular nomination. We hope
not. We do not want to see politics in
troduced into the municipal canvass.
But il they should, then we have only
to ask that no third party Obtrude upon
the field to divide or dis
tract the people from their plain
duty in such a contest-the plain duty
of voting to prevent forever the recur-
renee Of such curse as politics in mu-
uicipal canvass. The people have be-
fore Them in Major Busby, a gentleman
fully equal to the emergency
now mon the city, and we hope they
will. black as well as white, concentrate
upon him and make his election unanl-
nous. The administration Of our affairs
,eouires business tact and firmness in
the discharge Of duty. Major Bus
Inv possesses these qualities IN
pre-eminent degree, therefore let us all
stand by him, make him mayor, and
help him afterward in the reforms and
works that are certain to signalize bis
administration.
Year: 1873

Notwithstanding the terrible epidemic
through which our city has so recently
passed, and the great financial crisis that
has just swept over the country, we still
continue to maintain our stock in as full va
riety and as completely assorted in every de-
partment as heretofore.


To you who are fortunate enough to be able
to purchase your Dry Goods for Cash, we offer
inducements unparalleled in the history OF
the Wholesale Dry Goods Trade of Memphis.


We are in the daily receipt of goods of all
descriptions in our line, purchased at re-
markably low figures, during and since the
panic, and which we offer you should you
favor us with a eal) at prices that must COM
pei their transfer from our warerocns to your
shelves.


If in need OF Dry Goods, either Staple or
Fancy, try Us, and You will be convinced that
the Cheapest Market on the Continent is
Memphis, and the HOUSE of most attractive
prices that OF
Year: 1873

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
Pharmacy HERALD Building:-
Year: 1873

PEOPLE sometimes fancy that We can
not become wise without becoming old
also; but in truth, as years accumulate,
It's hard to keep as wise as we were.
Man becomes, in the different stages of
his life, indeed, different being; but he
cannot say that he will surely be better
as he grows onward, and in certain mat
ters he is as likely to be right in his


twentieth as in his sixtieth year.
Year: 1873

In the Spring of 1869, a little girl died Of
consumption in Frederick city, aged eight years
and three mouths A few days before she
died she called her father to her bedside and
said. Papa, when die, don't bury me deep
not more than 50 d,ep,' holding up her
slender and emaciatcd arm aud measuring from
her shoulder out. 90 it is so hard to be put
down so deep in the cold, damp ground and
please don't place any marble slab On my grave,
it will be So dark under it, and it will press
so heavy upon my little breast Sod my grave
nicely, aud plant a tree at its. bead 50 that the
wild birds can gathsr in It's branches and sing
for me- After pause she continued, But
It seems to Inc | would rather have our birds
sing for me than the wild birds.
Couldn't you let brother Willie and sister En-
ma bring our cage Of little birds out to tic
cemetery every Sunday morning and leave
them SIM % me all day2 Then when you
are all at church in town it won't seem SO lone
some out there by myself" Z few days after
this, Annie died, and her a1ectionate parent
did everything as she requested. She was
buried shallow, the grave nicely sodded and a
tree planted at its head. And still yet every
Sabbath morning, Willie aud Emma can be
seen going out to theicemetery with their cage
Of little birds to Annie grave.
Year: 1873

PORT DEPOSIT, Nd, Jan. PA tele-
graph office has been opened in the second
story of the operators residence. The
river is following slowly. The gorge of ice
IS sill thirty-tivs feet high. The only
danger now is a rise above coming down
on This gorge, which would sweep away
half tie town. The damage in the city is
i,.lnHUsp
Year: 1873

The Speaker presented a message from
the President vetoing the act reducing from
two years to six months the time in which
new trials may be on motion of the United
States granted in the Court of Claims. he
President failed to see any advantages in
the proposed law and regarded i. as tend
ing to facilitate the preparation of fraud.
The message was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
Year: 1873

ASSAULT on A STREET PREACHKR.-John
IL. Hopkins, the prophet Of II new dis
pensation, who teaches the ultimate and
final descent of mankind into the ground,
WAS holding forth yesterday to the
thoughtful guests of the What Cheer
House, expoundlng his peculiar theologi-
cal ideas. In the midst of the sermon
graceless scamp, named STANLEY Richard
son, emerged from one of the resorts of
the iniquitous on Liedesdorif street, his
sinful propensities inflamed with inferior
whisky, and walking up to the preacher,
with one blow he drove his stove-pipe
hat down to his shoulders, thereby inter-
rupting the discourse. The congrega-
ton marveled among themselves, and in
CURED what manner of man is this, while
the preacher drew himself out of the hat,
and without waiting to turn the other
check any time TO speak of, he raised
heavy cane which he used to point his
arguments, and took after the emissary
Of evil at right smart gait. The fellow
made the circuit Of several squares. close
ly pursued by heprophet, when police
man intercepted his flight, and took him
into custody. On being brought before
the Police Court this morning on the
charge of assault and battery, complain
ants hat having been severely battered,
the culprit admitted his guilt, and re-
marked that the act was merely intended
us piece of pleasantly. He assured the
Court that complainant's religious doc
trines were mere moonshine, and he sup
posed that such rebukes of false prophets
and the putting down of heresy was quite
permissible. The Court intimated in re-
ply that the religious liberty was one of
the fundamental principles of the Con-
stitution.
Year: 1873

AN INouIRING MINp.-A little semi
pagan. who for the first time receiving
some religious instruction from female
friend whom he was visiting, found some
difficulty in understanding that our Sun
day had anything remarkable in it over
any other day At last, by dint of /" line
upon line and precept upon precept," he
was made to understand somewhat of the
sanctity of the day. Unfortunately,
however, soon after he began to under
stand things, coming from church one
Sunday he noticed the apothecary shops
open. His newly acquired moral sense
acquired terrible shock, and he entered
into very orthodox denunciation of the
unconscious compounder of simples.


But" he was told, "the druggist
must keep open on Sundays so the sick
people can get medicine.


Why, do the people get sick on Sum
day?"


Yes, just as any other day"
well, good people don't die on Sun
day, do they?"


Certainly"


How can that be? Does heaven
keep open on Sunday"


1t is needless to say that all further
grave conversation on the subject was
impossible.
Year: 1873

YOUTHFUL COUPLE of runaways in
Texas having obtained a license repaired
to clergyman on Red River and desired
MIN to perform the ceremony. He, how
ever, declined on account of their youth,
and for fear the law might hold him re-
sponsible. Not to be outdone, they
slowed themselves on a cottonwood log
and drifted far enough out into the stream
70 be considered out of the State, while
the obliging minister climbed on stump
az the waters edge and pronounced the
words OF the ceremony which made them
man and wife.
Year: 1873

VNHE PUBLIC WILL PLEASE TAKE NO.
i tice that l am in no manner connected
with the Stockton House on Meadow Valley
street; that will pay no debts contracted for
the support OF that establishment and that
am not, as might be supposed, the husband of
the proprietress, who calls herself Mrs Mitch
ell, but whose real name is Mary Corcoran.


jy23-2w THOMAS MITCHELL,
Year: 1873

what is being llOne-HOw il IL done


And all about it Most desirable


building lOcatiOns-An enterprisins


citizen who has made u mint of


money by his enterprise.


Yesterday, in company with Prudent
Beaudry, we had the opportunity of
riding over the hills to the north of
the city, and were quite surprised to
see the progress made by the city in
that direction. 1t is so easy to accom-
plish what has been accomplished, and
this is so much;


Streets are being opened in all direc-
tions. Temple street, Third street and
Fourth street are being graded, and
Bunker Hill avenue is run parallel to
Spring and Fort, along the crest of the
hill.


1t has always been considered inn
possible to get water on these hills,
but with little labor, and at compar-
atively light expense, our friend Beau
dry has brought this around, and now
he is laying pipes all over the hills in
most prodigal way. Long lines of
bitches, and piles of pipe are every
where, and the holes are already dug
for pepperell and gum trees soon to
specNe the hill top and sides.


The tank which waters the hillsides
holds 5000 gallons and ought to keep
the people and land we'll watered, but
this is not enough for Mr.. Beaudry.
He proposes to erect still other tanks,
and put in an engine to fill them. The
supply of water is ineXhaustible, and
now it is put ''where it will do the
most good"


The view from the hill is most beau
tiful. Why people will dwell in the
valley when they can live on the hill
top is more than reasoning man can
see. Yesterday the snow capped
mountains in the distance were CLINT
ing and glittering in the pure sun
light and looked as though nature,
showing her joy that the rain had
come and was gone, was saying in her
own way and in the clearest tones,
"God is good, the harvest will be
abundant" The city lay at our feet
with its green and leopard-colored
orange groves, it's long lines of pepper
ell and its rippling willow-lined zan-
jas. The river stretched along and
could be traced by the willows which
grow on its banks. In the points of
the compass the country could be seen
for miles upon miles away. One
could scarcely help being romantic and
poetical If they lived upon the Hill.
Year: 1873

five barrels of refined oil per day.


They will be in operation in about six


weeks, and the projectors have no
doubt will so demonstrate the value
and availability of the deposit as to
cause for an enlargement OF the works


to a capacity sufficient to supply the


Pacific Coast. 1t is believed that the
oil can be produced by the company
at cost of 25 cents per gallon, and
when it is remembered that a like
quality brought from the East costs 55
cents delivered in Los Angeles; the
importance of the enterprise is appar-
enl at a glance. There can be no
doubt that the supply is inexhausta-
BILE. From ten to fifteen barrels per
day are collected from the surface of
the water as it flows from the springs,
a rude dam having been constructed to
hold the water while the oil is SKIM
med off. One we'll of two inches in
diameter has been sunk q few feet and
from this oil is flowing in small guam
titles in numerous localities in this
vicinity, and abundant evidence of
vast deposits is visible. The Superin-
tendent and Engineer of the COM
pany, W. p. Smith, is man of great
experience, trained in the oil fields of
Pennsylvania, and under his energetic
supervision we look for rapid devel-
opment of this important enterprise.
Year: 1873

The Express takes violent exception
to our suggestion that the railroad
should be extended to Dead-Mans ISL
and, and seems to think that If this
were done, the improvement OF the
harbor would be forever set aside.
Now the facts are simply, that an APP
preparation has been secured sufficient
to build a breakwater, and leave a
hundred thousand dollars to improve
the harbor. There is no probability
that under present circumstances,
much more can be Immediately had
A small sum, judiciously expended,
will make a safe and accessible harbor
inside the breakwater, and that har-
Dor can be extended inland as fast as
the needs of commerce require it, and
the money can be had to do the work.
But the question now is, how to get
harbor at once, with the means on
hand. With the railroad terminating
atWilmington, the harbor can only be
reached by the present expensive and
inconvenient system of lighterage,
but if extended to Dead-Man's Island,
the unexpended balance can be so ap-
piled as to at once be available.


That vessel drawing 8 feet of
water had gone in and out OF the
harbor at Wilmington is true, but
that any one would depend upon this
as regular thing needs no denial.
To make Wilmington accessible to
vessels like the Pacific Mail steamers
will require a considerable amount OF
dredging, and no man expects to see
this done in any reasonable time.
Then, plainly, the sensible thing to DO
is to extend the railroad to Dead-Mans
Island as we suggested, expend the
money we have, and can get, in OPEN
ing the harbor, and as more wharf
room is needed, the bay can be dredged
further back. We see no way in which
this will interfere with the present
improvements or render anything that
has been done useless. On the con-
trary, it will at once make available
the work that has been completed, in
stead of requiring the growing city OF
Los Angeles and the enterprising town
of Wilmington, with their extensive





commerce, to sit idly waiting for
harbor to be dug a long way into the
interior. If the Express sees anything
absurd in this proposition its vision
must certainly be assisted in some way
not accessible to ordinary persons.
Year: 1873

The Administrative leaders in the
United States Senate have done them
selves no credit in the composition of
the Committees of that august body.
The purity, ability and special fitness
of Senator Sumner, not less. than the
high respect in which he is held, called
for his restoration to the head of the
Foreign Relations Committee. The
people have cast aside ancient party
distinctions, the President has pub
licly recognized the fact, and the Sem
ate should have bowed to the decision
of the people by restoring him to the
place from which nothing but party
spirit removed him.


The people have set the seal of en-
phatic condemnation on railroad leg
islation, yet Bill Stewart, the attorney
and special champion Of corporate
greed, is made the Chairman of the
important Committee on Railroads.
The Senate is too much of an aristo-
cratic institution to suit the temper of
the people in these times, and its aris-
tocracy partakes too much of the shod-
dy to make it popular. Give us a
change.
Year: 1873

IF the family be settled in any part
away from the neighborhood of their an
cestral burying-place, it becomes neces-
sary Tor them TO seek out lucky spot for
the burial Of their deceased relative. In
many cases the coffin is kept for years in
the room where the ancestral tablets are,
and sometimes it is temporarily laid in
sort of dead-house hired or constructed
for the occasion, until it can be transport
ed to the original sepulcher of the family


or until lucky spot eau be discovered.
The Chinese are very superstitious on this
point and even in times of epidemic will
often insist on retaining collins in their
houses, and, as far as we are aware, there
is no sanitary or other authority to inter-
tere and protect the health of the COM
munity. Many will doubtless say that
all danger on this score is sufficiently
obviated by the care with which most
coffins are prepared; but the evidence of
our senses, in a cholera season at Pekin,
has taught us that the contrary is fire.
queDtly the case. Families at the very
bottom of the social scale, for economy's
sake, often inter their deceased relations
within few days of their death, but this
practice is much looked down upon, and
is considered a proof Of the parties being
sunk in the lowest depths of penury, as
well as wanting in due respect to the de.
parted. Professors of the art of Fengshui
literally wind and water), or geomancy,
arr consulted on the subject ofa lucky place
tor sepulture. In Central and Southern
China the SUBMITS and sloping sides un-
| cultivated hills are the most favorite spots,
especially if near water, and with a south
aspect. CotliRs are also buried in fields,
more particularly in the North, and, if our
memory serves US, we have seen more than
one large cemetery filed with low graves,
and surrounded by dwarf mud fences, in
the fiat country outside the walls of Pel1in.
| Again, to the west Of Chinkiang-once a
! tlourishing city on the bank of the river
| YangtsZe, at the entrance to the southern
portion of the Grand Canal-we have
rambed over hills where graves are as
thick as they well can be; many o. these,
in shape very much like horseshoe, are
even now still well kept and carefully
tended by pious relatives of the departed,
although the town itself is sadly fallen
from the position il enjoyed before the


rebels held il and leveled its prosperous
suburbs with the ground Rich families


often spend large sums of money over


their burial places, adorning them with


lifesize figures of various animals in mar


BILE, but the remains of friendless and poor


strangers are deposited in'any waste and


vacant piece of ground, with merely a


Slip of wood TO mark the spot All classes


in the country, however, do their very best


to have as snowy place of sepulture for


their dead as they possibly can, and to OBJ,


tain this end they are willing TO make
great sacrifees.-AH the Year Round