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Year: 1872

B& Gen. Beauregard express
ses himself as follows in a letter
TO the editor of Tie Neto Orleans
Times:


"To me it appears plain that to
insure success we must all unite
under the banner of the 'Consti-
tuition and the laws" Reunion
and REFORM honesty and univer-
sal amnesty That banner has
been lately raised at Cincipnati,
under the leadership of Greeley
and Brown; in the past. two of
our most earnest and dangerous
enemies, but two, also, of the pur.
est and most honest of men, who,
when they shall have said to tie
country, Let us have peace,
will mean it and will give us
peace, in spite of all opposition.
For my part, prefer having as a
friend one who has been my open
and fearless antagonist, to one
who has friendship on his lips,
but hatred ia his heart
Year: 1872

SNAKES. s.-The New York lSun,
which is seldom satisfied with
things, objects to the proportions
of rattlesnake recently seen in
Carter county, in this State. and
which is described as reaching
from one side of the road to the
other, while its body was as big as
an ordinary churn. The Sun says
"that was very badly proper
toned snake and that sit should
have been good deal longer or
else good deal thinner" We
should like to know who is run
ming the snakes of this State, the
State herself or the editor of the
New York Sun /? When things
come to such a pass that New
York arrogates to herself the right
to dictate to Kentucky the size
and shape Of her serpents, it is
high time for the trumpet to sound
to arms and for the sword to leap
from its scabbard. Louisville
Times.
Year: 1872

A RAP AT SNOBBERY.-A
sensible writer in an exchange
raps the sDobs over the knuck-
les in the following plain and
forcible language


"We envy neither the man or
woman who cannot speak to a
fellow creature out Of their own
circle, nor to anybody without
the formality ofan Introduction.
There is no computing the a.
mount Of profit as well as pleas
ure such persons lose by hedg-
ing themselves in with this stu
pid sense of tastidiousness. We
have always found more Of this
feeling among persous who are
touchy.on their social position,
than among those self-respect-
ing persons who thought moth
ing about it. A great deal of
ofintelligence is floating around
the world without being labled,
and those men or women who
have the good sense to recog-
Mise this fact and act upon it,
not only are they educating
themselves, but comforting that
pleasure which we are all bound
by the common ties Of humanity
to exchange with each other.
It seems to US that it is only
the snob and pretender who
take a different view of the ques.
tion."
Year: 1872

A remedy for the stings of
wasps, bees, ETC., that often
proves efiectual, is simply to
hold a chest key or any hollow
key over the place stung, press
it hard into the flesh for a min
ute or so, and when taken off the
poison will be on the surface of
the flesh and do no harm. A
thimble with tight top will do,
but not quite so well.
Year: 1872

The pews of the Methodist
church on the boundary line be-
tween Pennsylvania and Ohio
stand in the former State and the
pulpit in the latter. They are
bothered about conducting marri.
age ceremonies legally and grace
fully at the same time, in that
sanctuary.
Year: 1872

A wedding was indefinitely
postponed in the Northern portion
of the State, few days since, by
the bride taking French leave Just
before the ceremony was to be per-
formed. The bridegroom is said
to be the maddest man in that
section.
Year: 1872

Go at once to Gay & Porters and leave your
orders for the carriage or buggy you intend pur.
chasing the coming season. By doing so you
Will give them simple time to build one just to
your notion in every p rticul.r, and by giving
them from three to six months you will have q
much better job than if gotten up in hurry.
They are now putting up some as fine work as
oan be found in any city e-st or west. Go and
see them.
Year: 1872

FuRs FOR NoTHlSG If You don't believe it, go
and see Prescott. He has determined to clean out
his large stock at an early day, aud is doing it.
You would be surprised to SEQ the splendid furs
that he is now almost giving away. lie could hard
ly rush them Oh faster If he were TO pin green
back on each set he disposed of. Go and see and
YOU will be astonished.
Year: 1872

BLUE SEAL-Smith IL Rising, after rest OF
year, have resumed the manufacture OF their
f.mous Blue Seal cigar, brand that was known
and universally popular in the northwest. This
cigar ia made Of the choicest tobacco, possessing
a most delicate flavor. They are now prepared
to m uuf.cture this brand exteu.'vely and make
it even better than ever
Year: 1872

MILLINERY HEAD QUARTERS l have just received
u splendid stock OF millinery goods, which will
sell at cos, for the next thirty days to make room
for my spring stock. MRs. 4. HARPER,


No. 1917 Main Street
Year: 1872




Several days since we noticed a paragraph
from Norfolk paper, stating that the whale
advertised for Coles Museum, Menagerie and
Circus had arrived at that port per steam
er. The leviathan was described as being of
huge proportions, made of canvas painted
black with the fukes artistically appended bv a
master builder, supposed to be an apprentice of
the maker of Barnums mermaid. Well, the
whale arrived in this city on Saturday night. bv
rail from Bristol. He was not sporting in min
iature ocean of the briny element, but placed in
q wagon on q common freight car.


The boys found out that the monster was here
and went down to the depot in squads, perhaps
expecting to see the monster gamboling in the
flag pond, but they didn't "There was a fish
and his name was whale--he swallowed Jonah
head and tail" The urchins would cheerfully
have furnished Jonah for the occasion, but ht
couldn't take him in. The skeleton of Mr.
Coles whale is a wooden frame work, the cuti
Gle being of painted canvass and the epidermit
of some material resembling oil-cloth or paper
The teeth are of wood painted white and the
tongue of red cloth. The design is a fraud or
the public, and the execution is so poor that il
would not deceive any one, except blind man.
Year: 1872

1 wish to inform my customers and the public
that, although my wagon broke down on Satur-
tofore to deliver all goods purchased from me
or elsewhere, free of charge. Whenever a
wagon breaks down l replace it with another,
having two ready for such emergencies


In this connection l would state that have
as fine an assortment of staple and fancy groce-
ries as can be found in the city. Bring along
your baskets and have your marketing taken
home, JOHN LICHTENwANGER.
Year: 1872

Messrs Hough and Church had on exhibition
at their store on Gay street yesterday the Jersey
helter, NAB, raised by the late Gen. 4. S. Ewel,
at Spring hill farm near Nashville Nab was
sized by Pioneer, and is of Strawberry roane with
black points, Any one wishing to see her can
do so by calling at the store.
Year: 1872

Lottery buyers may be classified in regard
TO special characteristics in numerous subdi-
visions. There is the man who once secured
small prize, and has since spent twenty-fold
its amount in the vain hope of obtaining a
successor OF more respectable proportions.
There is the man who knows a man who
heard a fellow talking of another fellow he
once knew who had drawn a 'capital," and
he cites the misty tradition as a certain sign
that he is sure % have the same luck. There
is the man who saw the new moon over his
right shoulder the previous evening, and all-
gurs from the accident that he is to have
good run of luck. There is the man who
woos the goddess Fortune in dashing haphaz-
ard style, and pulling out the first ticket he
happens to get his fingers on, resolutely turns
his eyes ceiling-ward, so that he can thrust it
into his pocket without seeing what numbers
it bears; he has an unfaltering belief that this
way of doing the thing is vastly superior to
any other, and is certain to bring prize
sooner or later. There is the man who is an
exact opposite, and makes the selection of his
ticket a matter of close calculation of chances
by looking over the drawings for number of
days to get precise information as to what
numbers have been drawn, and from this
shadowy foundation divine what ones will be
drawn. He is devout believer in the SOL
emnly uttered axiom of the lottery dealer,
that during the year each number is drawn
an equal number of times; and if any one has
not been drawn for several days, he begins to
purchase tickets, bearing it with an unques-
tioning faith that is amusing to an unbeliever.
There is another man, however, whose faith
in his power of divination is as amazing as the
case cited is amusing; and this is the individ-
ual who is certain that selected combina-
ton of numbers is sure to be drawn, and who
rushes in frenzied haste from one Office to an
other looking for the ticket bearing it, and,
inconsOlable if he does not find it, neverthe-
less does not let fortune give him the slip al
together, but plays the numbers in that delu-
sive game called policy, which is to be de-
scribed. This sort of buyer can never be
mistaken. He is the person who rushes into
an office, eagerly calls for the ''Kentuckys,"
hastily looks over the tickets, departs as hur-
riedly as he came, and of whom the man be-
hind the counter remarks, before he is fairly
out of ear-shot, "One of the sharps-he's go
ing for sure thing gr'-"Lotte,y Gamblers"
By Ed,oord Crapsey, in April Galaxy.
Year: 1872

Among the acts passed by our late extra
ordinary Legislature was one with the fol-
lowing comprehensive title:


CHAP 700. AN ACT to supply deficiencies in former
appropriations and to pay the indebtedness OF the State
on account OF canals which deficiencies and indebt
ednes have been changed into liabilities for money bor
rowed TO pay them into certificates OF indebtedness
on which the State Is paying Interest and to pay
the Seating indebtedness OF the State and the estimated


liabilities present fiscal year not yet provided for
by law and raise money therefor by an Issue OF tho
bonds OF tho State and provide for submitting tho
question thereon to the people.


The purposes of this act are to raise money
on the bonds of the State; first, to pay def
ciencies arising from the insuficiency Of the
revenues derived from tho canals to meet the
charges against them, and, second, to pay
large deficits arising from the neglect of
Legislatures to levy taxes sufficiently high to
cover their appropriations. The question is to
be submitted to tho people, whether they viii
Year: 1872

fruitful intellect he leaves rs as Lis legacy,
and with his record of eminent and laborious
service, in his youth for the cause of humanity
and in his riper years for the cause of democ-
racy, his example of a life pure and unspotted
in every social relation, his mourning friends
may confidently give up his fame to the keep
ing of tho country he loved and his soul to
the care of the God he w0rshiped.
Year: 1872

-c,t.cc were APPOINTED by Gov. NoGman; they
have begun at the right end of the business,
and, furnished with clue to the whole man
agement which can be followed with accuracy
we hope they will proceed thoroughly and
without favor to the end of their inquiry.
Year: 1872

1t appears that the partisans of the Admin
istration are already taking measures to ac-
cOmplish in this city, next November sub
version of the will of the people by means of
an organized system of crime at the ballot-box
as serious as that which has just overwhelmed
the second city of the Union with disgrace.
A correspondent explains how one particular
branch of this plan is to be executed, and
states that some of the preliminary steps by
which fraudulent votes to the extent of six or
seven thousand are to be obtained, have been
already taken. In these cases, the men who
are to act as, reDeatsEs aayea already taken
board i9 qtli5r Wards than those 6f their
present residences, and under assumed names,
thus providing for each man two places of
abode from which to register and vote, and
where no ordinary inquiry will elicit the fraud.
These men, of course, perjure themselves at
the registration offices. 1t remains to be seen
whether our citizens will permit this infamy
to eliminate, or stop it at once by prompt in
vestigation and exposure.
Year: 1872

The announcement Of the death of Fanny Perm
comes upon the public suddenly. although her
friends have long known the feeble state of her
health. Her loss will be deplored by wido cirole
of friends and admirers, and her husband VIII have
general and sincere sympathy in his atiictlon
Year: 1872

Gov. Scott calls upon THE TRIBUNE for
100000 damages done his character by pub
hcation of the statement of Grant candidate
about him. The Governor is somewhat tardy.
If he had been as diligent reader of THE
TRIBUNE as he should have been, he would
long before this have learned. among other
things which we trust would have been for his
permanent good. even more accurately than
this Grant candidate stated it, the precise es-
innate in which the majority of his fellow
citizens in South Carolina hold him.
We shall be greatly obliged to the
Governor if he will give us an


Opportunity to bring this libel suit to trial,
and trust he has not brought it merely for the
political capital which silly people sometimes
suppose they can create by bringing suits
with great flourish which are presently al
lowed to die out without notice. The people
of South Carolina will be very glad to testify
concerning Gov. SCOTS conduct, and we
promise him that they shall be called upon in
Year: 1872

How A PRINTER Cor His PAY
The Richmond Dispatch is responsible
for the following: "A circus company
in Iowayawe ed an editor bill for adver-
Using and refused 10 pay il. TLereupon
tie editor called upon the sheriff, who
the Bengal tiger, anu brought
him around to the newspaper office III
his cage. He was placed in the compos-
ing room, and during the first two days,
he not only consumed fifteen dollars
worth Of beef, but be scratched six dol
lars worth Of trowsers from the leg O. q
local reporter who eudeavored to stir him
up with Il broom handle, to make him
roar. On the third day the tiger broke
loose, and the entire force OF compost
tors descended the staircase with judi
cous sudderness. The editor was
alarmed to find his exit through the
composing rcum cut Oft, and that the
latch upon the =anctum door was bro
ken. So he climbed out Of the window
and sought safety upon the roof. The
paper was not issued for a week, ana
even after the tiger was shot, the editor
had to slide down the water spout, be-
cause he was afraid to descend by the
route by which he came.
Year: 1872

The one great purpose Of the tax


paying citizens OF South Carolina is to
obtain, at an early day, an economical
| State government, which will, with


equal care, watch over the interests of
all classes of the people. This is more


directly important than the success of
any purely national movement. y Lib
eral Republican administration, in
treating this people with rigid impair
itialty and without political prejudice,


would give them that feeling of public


security which they have not enjoyed
for four years and more; but such an
administration would not, of itself, re-
lievc South Carolina from the evils of


eXtraragant expenditures and corrupt
Legislation. The people would be left
free to work for the regeneration OF the
State. They must, however, rely on
themselves, and on Themselves alone,
for whatever may be necessary for re-


turning our SCOTS, Neagles and Mack


cys into private life, and for filing their


places with capable and honest men.


This is the task. before u.s., whether the
.Cincihn&I convention be, orhc not, as


fruitful m beneficial! results as we'now


have reason to expect. It matters very


little, in some respects, to the peupleot


the North and West, who is elected


Governor and who are chosen as the


members Of their Legislatures. They


are sure.to have sound and trustworthy
government in any event; and they are


at liberty, in their States, to cause the


contest for supremacy to hinge upon the
National questions Of Amnesty, Reform
and, Decentralization. This is not the
casein South Carolina. The reelection,


next October, of men like those who
rule and ruin this State does not merely
portend the victory or Lhe defeat OF a
political principle. 1t means two years
more Of unblushing rascality; two years
more Of wholesale swindling; two years
more Of class legislation; two years
more of taxation which is fast becoming
contiscatiOn two years more of policy
which has no other aim than to drive
the white people out of the State, and
leave South Carolina to the control Of
the ElliOtts, Ransiers and Mobleys, who
live in fear of day when their mis-
guided supporters may know them as
they are. With decent Conservative
State Government in South Carolina the
people may retrieve their losses ana be-
come happy and content, although
President Grant be reelected. But the
election of Davis, or Gratz Brown or
Charles Francis Adams could not do
more than lessen the misery Of our con-
dition, if the e'crew who now govern US
were chosen for another term. TO the
welfare Of the State, we must look first.
That being secured, we may enter as !
deeply Us we please into the troubled
waters of NATIONAL politics.
Year: 1872

NEATNEss. In its essence and purely
for its own sake: says Halls Joutnai OF
Health, neatuess is found in few
Many man is neat for appearance sake;
there is an instructive feeling that there
is power in it. When Il man consnits q
physician or a lawyer for the first Time,
or comes to rent a house or borrow mon
ev, he will come in his best dress lady
will call in her carriage. A man VINO
mGaus business and honesty comes as
he is, justas you will find him in his
store, his shop, his contingencies.
The most accomplished gamblers dress
well; the most enterprising sWlndier5
are iault!esSly clothcd; but countless
multitudes are bur whirewashcd sepui-
c.,res. Many don't care As long as it Will
not be seen. Washington Allston the
great artist, the accomplished gentleman
suddenly left his friend standing at the
door Of a splendid Boston mansion as,
they were aouut entering for q party.
because he Just remembered that he had
q hole il his stocking. 1t could not be
seen or known, but The very knowledge
of its existence made him feel that he
was less Il man than he ought TO be !;
gave him a feeling @; inleriority.


When you see q neat tidy, cleaniE'
cheerful dwelling there you will lind q
joyous loving happy tamly.
Year: 1872

made or to be made by them shall
have and keep common seal. and may
alter the same at will; and shall have
and enjoy every right aud privilege in
cident and belonging to corporate bodies:
and the said company shall, and is here
by authorized to begin business in any
county in this State, and to establish
agencies at any points that may be
deemed advantageous to the interest and
benefit OF said company.


SEC. I. That all right conferred upon
this company, as provided for in the
preceding sections, shall be exclusive IN
this State, and all acts conflicting are
hereby repealed, and The company here
by Incorporated shall not be subject to
any laws that may hereafter be enacted


Sec. 5. That this act shall be
deemed a putlic Act, and shall con-
tinue in force for the term Of twenty
FIVE years.


Sec 6. That this Act shall be Of force
immediately on after its passage.


Approved March 13, 1872.
Year: 1872

ing is the correspondence. between DR..
J. F. Ensor, Superintendent of the
State Lunatic Asylum, and Niles G;
Parker, State Treasurer


OFFICE STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM,


COLUMBIA, April II, 1872.


Hon. Nues G. Parker, State Treasurer.


DEAR SIR: Please inform me wheth-
er or not you are able at this time to pay
any portion of the appropriation made
by tile last Legislature for the support of
the State Lunatic Asylum ; and if not,
how soon YOU will be able to do so. The
credit of the institution is exhausted.
We are no longer able to obtain supplies
of food or clothing, and a condition as
desperate and disastrous in its effects
upon the institution as it is humlliatIng
aud disgraceful to the State, is staring US
in the face, and unless relief is obtained
in thirty days at most, some other dlspo-
sition must be made Of those who have
been placed here, under the care and
protection of the State. It is with this
view that l address you to-day, in order
that, in case the Stale is unable to take
care of her insane, some other provision
may be made for their care and pretec-
ton in time to prevent the dire ealami-
ties that will otherwise encompass them.
l need not remind you that the care of
the insane is regarded the first and most
sacred obligation Of every civilized reo-
pie. Hoping that you will make extra
ordinary efforts, if necessary, to dis
charge that obligation in behalf of the
people OF this State, in giving that re-
lief to the afflicted and suffering inmates
of this institution which the homer of
the State, the behests of Justice and the
claims of humanity alike demand, ! ami
&c., J. +. ENSOR, Superintendent.
Year: 1872

Our new sweet-scented road law prevents
any work being done on the roads until after
the May term of the Supervisors. All men
of sense know that work done on roads after
that time, the moisture to make the soil pack
being gone for the season, is a real damage
the dry soil grinding to dust and becoming a
nuisance. If our Supervisors exercise good
judgment they will order no work done until
next Spring, and then have it done when it
will do the roads some good. The money
collected will neither rust or rot until that
time
Year: 1872

VINO HAS 4 MINE TO SELL Amy one
having a hydraulic mine to sell will find it to
their advantage to examine notice in our
new advertisements, IN another column. 1t
looks like there was "money in II for some
claim owner.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, March 19.-The com,
mittee on commerce TO whom was re-
ferred the complaints against the
Southern improvement company will
hear committee of oil producers on
the subject who are expected from the
oil district in western Pennsylvania.
1t is alleged the Southern Improve
ment company have made a cOmbi-
nation with the New York Central,
New York and Erie and Pennsylvania
Central railroad companies, for a
term of five years, the object Of which
is to control all transportation of oil
at advanced rates, the rates under this
arrangement have already been. adj
vanced one dollar and fifty cents
per barrel on the oil which will
amount to an increase OF cost for
transportation alone Of over eight mill
lion dollars per annum, tWo-thirds of
which is to go to the Improvement of
the company Ia the shape Of draw
backs, and for which they render no
equivalent. The people Of the oil re
giOn are intensely excited, and they
are holding meetings and organizing
for self-prOtection. They have formed
secret political organizations which
they claim will enroll over thirty
thousand voters and be strong enough
to change the political complexion
of the State, II necessary to protect
their interests.
Year: 1872

boiler head lodged in MoOre's tannery
on Providence street.


The adjacent property, the walls OF
the buildings, and even the stack OF
the furnace were scarcely at all in
1ured. The lard tank near the boilers
and few of the wooden tanks ada
cent were overturned while the other
frail vessels were undisturbed. The
report of the explosion was not loud.
The fire did not communicate to the
eombustible materials adjacent, Of
which the quantity was large. Engi-
neer George Herringer, of the boiler
that exploded, was sitting near
them. He has been mentioned
before as severely, but not
dangerously wounded. he was only
a foot or two from the bOilers-the
nearest man to them.


When the boiler fell on little Alice
Thornton it was so hot that the men
could not lay hands upon it, but had
to get poles to lift it of her left leg.


The cause of the explosion has not
yet been given, and few persons ven
ture guess as to what occasioned it.
An investigation will probably fol-
low.
Year: 1872

The City of Buffalo to .ths OiI Regions.


BUFFALO, New York, March 49,
The city council to-day unanimously
adopted resolution to apply to the
legislature for permission to use the
bonds of the city in aid Of the Buffalo
and Tituvsille railroad.