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Year: 1873

was gathered together upon the occasion of Jenny
Lnds first concert at Castle Garden. The seats
were sold at auction and produced something over
twenty thousand dollars.


am by no means trying to describe the Guild
hall affair OF last night. Such crush Of titled
swells; such bewildering array Of jeweed uni
forms and brilliant feminine costumes; such
solemn and awful reception ceremonies in the
library such grim and stately municipal addresses
and Persian replies such imposing professional
pageantry later on such depressing dancing be-
fore the apathetic Shah; such ornate tables and
imperial good cheer at the banquet-it makes q
body tired to merely think Of trying put all that
on paper. Perhaps you, SIR will be good enough
to imagine 1t, and thus save one who respects you
and honors you i've columns Of solid writing.


THE LUNATIC ASYLUM Is BLESSED WITH GLIMPSE.


AS regards the momentous occasion of the opera,
this evening" 1 found myself in grievous predica-
ment for a republican. The tickets were all sold
long ago. so must either 60 as q member OF the
royal family or not at all. After good deal of re-
nection 1t seemed best not to mix up with that
class lest political significance might be put
upon 1t. But queer arrangement had been de-
vsed whereby l might have Q glimpse OF the
show and l took advantage of that. There IL
an immense barnlike glass house attached
to the rear OF the theatre. and that was fitted up
with seats, carpets, mirrors, gas, columns, nowers
garlands and a meagre row OF shrubs strung down
the sides on brackets-to create an imposing
forest effect. suppose. The place would seat ten
or twelve hundred people. All but q hundred paid
. dollar and q quarter seat-for whats To look
at the shah three quarters OF q minute, while he
walked through to enter the theatre. The remain
ing hundred paid sl1 seat Tor the same
privilege, with the added luxury Of rushing
on the stage and gancng az the opera
audience for one single minute afterwards, while
the chorus sung "God save the oueenp We are
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

VIM. Renne & Sons, of Pittsfeld, Mass,
make speciality Of Renne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil, and the demand for it is steadi-
ly increasing year after year, and its use
by the families of our country is becoming
very common for caring all kinds of pain,
and can be used externally and internally
safely with success. Try it. Sold by most
dealers in Medicine.
Year: 1873

MEATs-When a joint OF meat comes
from the market, it is well to cut it mp
at once Separate your roasting piece,
Gut up the part for steaks, and put
away in your coolest place what is left,
to cook afterward. Take out the bones
you mean to make soup of, and boil
them soon, as they will not keep as well
as the meat. 1t is impossible to say
how long meat must be cooked, much
depends on the fire coal gives out more
heat than wood besides, persons differ
in regard to what meat well done means.
Redmeat like beef, must be cooked
rarer than white meat, as pork. A
good way to find how much done it is is
to stick skewer in near the bone II
blood follows it, it is not done, Gravy
for roast meat is made by putting some
Drowned -four in, also salt and pepper
and boiling water. In frying meat,
lard is better than butter. Mutton
and beef suet are good when the lard
seems hot try it by throwing in mite
of bread. When boiling meat or poul-
try, skim it often, or the meat will be
dark keep it boiling, Put fresh meat
into boiling water, salt meat into cold
allow one quarter of an hour to every
pound of meat. In roasting poultry or
birds be careful to baste and turn often.
The back, having little flesh requires
little cooking.
Year: 1873

The director of the mint makes the
following statement of the purpose of
the government in paying out silver
coin AS in other countries where gold
is the standard, or measure of value,
silver coins are over-valued for the pur-
pose of rendering them inexportable.
They are manufactured and issued on
government account, the law, however,
placing, directly or indirectly, limit
on the issue to prevent redundancy.
If issued in times of specie payment
beyond the requirements Of the public
for change, such coin will not maintain
their purchasing power with standard
coin. Owing to various causes in this
or other countries, silver has declined
in value to point at which the govern
ment can purchase it with gold, manu-
facture it into small coin and pay it ont
at fair profit. The government has
recently purchased a quantity of silver
bullion sufficient for its purposes, at
112! cents per standard ounce, and will
manufacture it into coin at a fixed legal
rate, at 124 and four-tenths cents per
ounce, the differences between the pur-
chasing and issuing rate being within
fraction of u cents per ounce, or about
ten and a half per cent. on gold coin
paid in the purchase. This operation
is believed to be a more profitable one
for the treasury, and also more advan-
tageous to the public in the present con-
dition of the money market, than the
sale Of gold for legal tender notes, and
is not scheme for the resumption of
specie payments, but simply compli-
ance with the mint laws. A dollar in
United States currency will purchase
little more gold in the market than
dollar of small silver coin. The dollar
will therefore soon find its level, and
unless there be rise in both the prices
of gold and silver, small coins must cir
culate concurrently with paper money.
The government has in possession of
the assistant treasurer about FIVE hum
dred thousand dollars in silver coin,
and Mt the mint and assay offices, in sill
yer bullion and coin, about 100000
This stock is ample for the present.
This mode of paying ont silver coin
will be continued until circumstances
shall dictate contrary course as pro-
per. The government will exact the
full seigniorage required by law, but
will not undertake to control the dis
position of coin after it is paid out.
Coin will then become the property of
holders, who may do what they please
with it. This course was not decided
upon until it had been fully considered
by the secretary of the treasury. Out
standing legal-tenders, 1850, 28S,S8S
Year: 1873

HONESTY AN ACQUIRED QUALFTY.-
What makes a man honest? Honesty
is not a natural virtue; man must be
drilled to it. 1t is after a man has
looked at temptation when he has been
put to the proof, that he is to be judged,
There is not farmer on Long island
that is as honest as the men in Wall
street. Why? Because these men are
old veterans. The old farmer is as
good as men go, but he would probably
break down at the first offer. l asked a
friend, not long ago, who was giving me
a sad story of the purchasable values of
different members of society in the leg


islature how it was with farmers.
"Bless your soul, )" said he, they are
the cheapest stuff we buy in the legisla-
ture." I am not up for election, just
now, and therefore 1 am not obliged to
call farmers the "bone and sinew of the
country. Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1873

The Duke of saxony, eldest son OF the
late King John, has assumed the succession
to the throne Of saxony. His majesty issued
a proclamation in which he promises to up
hold the constitution, and announced that the
present ministry will remain in Office


OF the Ave or ak hundred depositors IN m
the banking house Of Jay Cooke Co., all
but about thirty have signed plan agreeing
to plsce the settlement in the hands OF the ex-
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue, hollihs
These thirty are either distant from the city or
cannot Al present be reached.
Year: 1873

Some parts of the city are nearly alb
solutely abandoned, You can walk
square after square, day and night,


without finding soul to talk to,


without finding an open door, or seeing
light or any other signs of life.


Death and fright have carried or driven
the people all away. An owner of
property in what is called the "infected


district" directed his agent, as a matter
of charity, not to call on his tenants for
pay on the usual day, and sometime af-
ter, when going through the neighbor.
hood, it was found that all his houses
were empty. Those who had not been
taken by the plague had been driven off
by terror. Business is at a perfect
standstill, when, had it not been for
theepiiemic, Memphis would now be in
the flush of trade and commercial &C.
tivity. A large proportion of the pri-
vate residences are closed, giving those
funereal appearance whichever have
had no such sad oecaion of mourning
within their walls. Most of them,
however, are associated in the minds OF
the citizens with scenes of disease and
death. Very few ladies are met on the
streets, save those wearing the badge Of
some charitable society, or the weeds
of mourning, The street cars are never
crowded, generally having but one OF
two passengers, and are scarcely more
numerous than hearses. Theaters, Of
course, are all closed, and so, too, are
more than two-thirds of the bar-rooms.
Year: 1873

Here we see heavy decline in the
gross wheat receipts from Russia dur
ing the first nine months of the present
as compared with the corresponding
perio IS in the two preceding years. At
the same time there is corresponding
increase in the supplies from the United
States. There is this year decrease
in round numbers OF 100000 cwts. of
wheat from Russia, and an increase of
no less than 100000 cwts. in the i'm
ports from the United States. The
falling off in Russian supplies is of
course result of the failure of the
wheat harvest in southern Russia, upon
which western Europe is so largely de-
pendent.
Year: 1873

The BRIGHT SDE.-Look ON the
bright side; it is the right side. The
times may be hard, but it will make
them no easier to wear a gloomy and
sad countenance. 1t is the sunshine,
not the cloud, that makes the flower,
Troubles gives sinew and tone to life,
fortitude and courage to man. That
would be a dull sea and thesailor would
never get skill where there was nothing
to disturb the surface of the ocean.
What, though things look little darkP
the lane will turn; and night will end
in broad day. There is more virtue in
one sunbeam than in a whole hemis-
phere of clouds and gloom.
Year: 1873

Diligence, tact, quickness and accu-
racy, good temper, controlled enthusi-
asm, the power to do without sleep and
an imperturbable digestion, all of these
combined in one man, say civil SER
want, will no doubt save him from be-
ing failure in his career. But they
will not secure him brilliant or rapid
sncress They, or some of them, are
among the conditions of success but
they are not the sole or essential condi-
tions. 1t is well that he should be dill
gent but it is better still that the great
man should think he is so. He may
strive much to be quick and exact in his
work F.; but he should strive more to
catch and keep his chiefs eye, To hap
pen to be always standing just where
that eye happens to fall to be ready
with his "Here am I, send me, when
ever the chief is considering whom he
shall employ on delicate business, and
then, of course, to do the business salts
factorily to be about his patron to oc-
cur to him; to observe him to oblige
him; and so, as the last and triumphant
achievement, to become the man of
whom his patron thinks the best and
the kindliest in his particular depart
ment or profession, and whom, there
fore, he means to send to the top OF it
this is the cheapest, the safest and tru-
est art of rising in life /; and this is what
is ordinarily meant by button-holing.


PRIVATE LIFE IN COUNTRY VILLAGES.
The little villages that nestle down
among the Massachusetts hills are
charming retreats, but do not know
that I should care to spend more than
five years of life at time IN any one of
them. And as for being retreats, Pm
not sure of that, since come to think
abOutit. You stand out in pretty bold
relief if you are a resident, still more
30 if you are a visitor. For instance,
there was an engaged couple in Will
liamsburg. not natives to the manner
Year: 1873

THE VIENNA EXPOSITION has been formally
opened, bnt the buildings not completed, and
The articles for exhibition have not been fully ar
ranged A telegram to the New York Herald
says 1t will be the end of June before the Expo
sition can be seen in full blast, and that seven
thousand car loads Of goods are on the way be-
tween Vienna and the frontier, which at the
most can only be unloaded and placed in position
at the rate of 200 cars day. Visitors 10 the
great Exposition are advised to stay away Tor a
month to come.
Year: 1873

HoU To Go West is the title of a little work
which lies before US giving all the necessary in
formation to person contemplating a western
trip 1t is in fact guide for the iron ways lead
ing into the great west and will be furnished free
of charge to those who write for 1t by the General
We7teTn Passenger Agent c. B. & q. r. L., Chi
cago, Illinois. The book Is supplied with maps of
the various sections OF the country and pen and
pencil sketches OF the various places of import
ance.
Year: 1873

A New Yorker has taken the contract of
furnishing two or three railroad companies
with al the tickets they require free Of charge.
The New Yorker gets hts remuneration from
the advertisement he Is permitted TO print on
the back OF each ticket.
Year: 1873

A report Gomez from Shanghai that the
Chinese are planning massacre Of all tho Euro
poans in tho interior Of the Empire. Tho provo
cation which has indhmod them to this bloody
design Is the refusal Of the Trench Minister to
come changes which the Chinese Government
wishes made in treaty.
Year: 1873

How the capital stock OF corporations shall DO
nsseBscd WIS decided yesterday by the State
Board Of Equalization. They rule that the
tangible property which has been already as
ecsscd and taxed shall DO subtracted from tho
yalue Of the stock [including tho franohise)
dor shall bo assessed and subject to taxation.
Year: 1873

The publication by The TRIBUNE OF tho pros
poet OF serious trouble in tho lake tunnel, in
volving suspension Of tho water supply, lod
the Common Council. last evening, to request
tho Board Of Public Works to make a full state
mont OF tho nature and o1tont OF the difficulty.
Year: 1873

He claimed that when Congress passed
the retroactive law of last session it had a
constitutional right to do so. He was not
saying whether it was eXpedient or not,
but no blush should rest on the cheek of
any man, whether he voted for the bill or
not, who took the money. If he had been
here, he should have taken it, whether he
voted fors it orsnot, and should have felt
Year: 1873

liar strange vision, accompanied
with an intense desire to go
to sleep. So great was this drowsiness
that she refused to go to breakfast, and
returned to bed and Immediately fell
asleep, She never woke again, the
state of como lasting until life was ex-
tinct. The strahgest and most terrible
part remains to be told. Her father,
Ben Harrell, who was known to almost
everybody in the lower part of the
county, and who was in Memphis when
Miss Patsy was taken i'll, coming up on
the Belle of Memphis, on the morning
on which his daughter died, was seized
with the prevailing epidemic and was
put off the boat in afdying condition.
In spite of all that could be done for
them, father and daughter expired with
in few hours of each other.
Year: 1873

Ships Of greater tonnage, Of course,
have to pay more, the rates for tOwage,
quarantine and levee dues being proper
tiOnably higher With view TO ascer-
tain what reduced tOwage and free
port would do for commerce, our report
er called upon a prominent citizen vino
is largely interested in the proposed new
tOwbOat association, and peopOunded
the following questions:


Question-What viii be the towage
rates under the new company you pro-
pose TO organize; and particularly what
will il cost 10 tow a ship Of one thousand
tons from the Bslize to this city?


Answer-We propose to charge ships
seventy-fiye cents per ton from the gulf
10 the city, aud twenty-five cents from
the city to the gulf. Thus $1,000 would
be the cost Of towing the ship you speak
of 10 and from the city. The present
towboat company charge 81 . per ton
UP, and fifty cents down, and If the up
bill is paid IN ten days after arrival, a
reduction is made Of twenty-five cents
in the down tOwage. Thus it now costs
the ship you now speak Of $500 for
towage 20 and from The city.


WHAT A FREE PORT AND REDUCED


TONNAGE WOULD DO FOR COMMERCE.


A free port and reduced rates Of ton
mage would bring thOusand-tOn ship to
port and send her 10 sea again at cost
& F..f1
Year: 1873

The wood seulptors' union Of this city
will have q representation at the con-
gress of mechanics in Cincinnati early
in July, when they expect a national
union of furniture-wOTkers to be formed.
Year: 1873

such, approximately, is an estimate
Of the cost TO the city Of free port; but
this expense would steadily increase
with the increasing demands of COM
merce.


WHAT IT COSTS TO BRING A THOUSAND


TON SHIP INTO PORT.
We have endeavOred to ascertain what
il now costs a ship Of a thousand tons
burden TO come into port, discharge her
cargo, load and depart, independent Of
the services in the immediate employ of
,such vessel
Year: 1873

LIVERPOOL, June 26.-The shah Of
Persia arrived in this city at two O'Clock
this afternoon in q special train from
London He was met at the railway
station by the lord-lieutensnt of the
county and the high sheriff, who escorted
him to st. Georges hall, where he was
received by the mayor. The cotton ex-
change was closed in honor of the visit
OF the shah
Year: 1873

An investigation is being set on foot
by Professor Beard, of the American
Institute, to determine whether the fish
of the Atlantic are showing signs of
diminution or not. Starting from
Mount Desert, Me-, this week, a gov
ernment tug will pursue the enquiry
along the entire coast line.


In an address - tne ,arme IS of New
Jersey, the othei. day,i the orator of
the occasion alluded to the fact that
Year: 1873

\ FOUR soldiers deserted from New Camp Lowell, April l5. One of them was from D troop, First Cav; one D Co.,, Twenty third Inf; two E Co Twenty fifth Inf They all deserted from the guard house. We do not know whether efforts were made to recapture them or not. AS a gen eral rule soldier who violates his honor and oath by desertion is of little service to his country, neither in or out of the army, and the army particularly is better oil without, than with such men.
Year: 1873

MAJOR FURRY, Quartermaster at the Tucson Depot, went up to Old Camp Grant last Monday and gave the finishing stroke to the last break up of the old post. The scene of its former glory has gone. The San Pedro will continue to How gently along and the tall cactus will stand sentry on the surrounding hills, but the guns of the nation will never again be turned upon her peaceable citizens famlshing for water, and no more paper mlsslcs will eminate from this fever hole to siander and abuse our people.
Year: 1873

The director of the suspended Hobo
ken savings.bank says that the doors
were not closed for want of funds, but to
allow an examination to be made, so as
to ascertain the exact amount of the alb
sconding officers defalcation. The liza
bilities are placed at one million twenty
three thousand dollars, and assets at
one million thirty-one thousand seven
hundred and forty-three dollars.
Year: 1873

From the Huntington lTenn.) Republican,


There was q convention assembled al
jackson on the twenty-ninth ultimo TO
take into consideration the formation of
a new State, to be composed of the
counties of West Tennessee, a portion
of Alabama and Mississippi, and a
number Of counties Of Kentucky. Hon.
Milton Brown, who has been but little
heard of in political circles since his
bold and foTcible appeals in behalf of
the secession of the State from the
Union, appears TO bea prominent leader.
There seems to be a feeling among some
Of our people that there is a disposition
upon the part Of Middle and East Ten
nessee to impose upon our western por-
ton of the State. or course there is
nothing substantial i'll the position. or
the whole matter we will have more to
say in the future. There is a portion of
our population OF such an unhappy dis
position that We scarcely know how TO
take them.
Year: 1873

There is nothing that helps one
over the rough places in life more
effactually than good nature. With
some this quality is simply the re-
suit of harmonious faculty and hap
py temperament with others it is
the offspring of philosophy and deep
thinking. The causes Of ill nature
we will always find to be in them
selves Insignificant, in proof of which
we submit the fact that any great
affiiction or calamity makes one in
sensible to all little troubles, and for
the time good natured and even tenn
pered. 1t is not to be supposed that
the good-natured person is not bitten
by mosquitoes, does not feel the
heat or suffer with the cold, is uncon-
scious of the dust and mud, may not
be afflicted with indigestion, is not in
sensible TO the inevitable infelicities
of this moral state. But he doesn't
allow them to rnffle the serenity of
his temper, to impair the sweetness
OF his disposition, to effect the affa-
bility OF his manner and the cheeri-
ness OF his tone TO those around him.
When one is at war with ones self
1t is not difficult to forget the showof
love for others, but he or she who
has as clear an idea of the rights of
others as ne has of his own, will not
allow any little personal trouble to
shadow the lives of those around
him.


In daily life we shall all find good
nature, like honesty, the best policy.
1t disarms opposition, takes the
sting from detraction, turns aside
malice, converts enmity into friend
ship and puts oil upon the troubled
waters. 1t is well to look on daily
life sometimes from the comical
standpoint; to be amused with the
total depravity of inanimate things,
to laugh at misfortune and make
merry at disaster, especially if by
cultivating this view we may tighten
the burden all must bear, and keep
our spirits from sinking under the
pressure of sorrow and disappeint-
ment. eff did not joke, l should
die," said Lincoln, and we do not re-
member ever to have seen his face
pictured when it wole scowl or
| frown.


One is rarely ill.natured when in
perfect health, therefore it follows
that whatever induces sleepliness,
nervousness, indigestion, headae hes,
should be carefully avoided that
"physical religion" or normal and
healthy condition of the body, should
be cultivated. 1t will be easy for the
person who does this success sfully to
be gay and genial nay, it will be
difficult for him to be cross g rained
snappish and Grabbed. as


When one is in really bad hu-
NOR it is well to give everybody
around pleasant notice thereof, so
that they may keep out of harm 8
way. A frank avowal that one is
possessed ola cross demon will fre-
quently do more to exercise the evil
spirit than any other ourse.-Neso


Tribune.