smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1872

The Gar of all the Russias sees beyond
his nose. In the extensive system of rail
ways he is now building he uses a gauge
different from that of any adjoining coun-
try. He doesn't mean to have Prussia
running up to the walls of St. Petersburg
on her own locomotives, as she did to those
of Paris.
Year: 1872

the Part he took In the Cincinnati


Convention-He is Ashamed Of the


Company.


CINCINNATI, May 16.-The Wash
J ingtOn correspondent Of the Gazette


publishes letter from Judge Stan


ley Mathews, temporary President


of the National Liberal Republican


Convention, written to a personal
friend in Washington, who wrote to
Judge calling his attention to the
following extract from his speech
on taking the chair: "And so, gen
tlemen, in every department of the
governmunt. the slow poison Of cor
ruption, only not sufficiently slow,
seems to have pervaded the whole
CIVIL and political administration Of
the country, from head to foot"
The follOWingis Judge Mathews let
ter, which is published with his per
mission:


CINCINNATI, o., May 6, 1872.


MY DEAR SIR:-Nothins connect
ed with the recent disgraced and
disgraceful Convention at this place
has given me so much pain as your
note calling my attention to a state
ment taken from a speech of mine,
printed with the Interpretation you
evidently put upon it. Allow me, in
the first place, to say that IWss put
forward as temporary chairman Of
that Convention without an hours
notice, and that consequently what
1 said was totally unprecedented;
and in the next place. that the ex-
tract you make, and which, if 1 had
intended to be taken in its literal
sense, would be justly a matter Of
regret that it had been uttered, does
not represent the truth of my senti-
ments; on the contrary, I have no
reason to believe, and never have be-
lieved, that personally the present
administration we're guilty Of cor
rupt conduct or motives, and I
ought to have expressed myseIfs so
as to have avoided any such charge.
What l strived to say had reference
to the general corruption of our po-
litical life, pervading it in every de-
partment, whereby personal and par
ty ends seemed to be substituted for
the public good, and the latest
and best illustration of which
I am free to say is now to be
found i'll the action of the very con-
vention in the presence Of which this
declaration was made. I am greatly
at the whole matter, my
own participation in it included, and
have concluded, perhaps not sufi-
ciently soon, that as a politician
and President maker I am not a sue
cess. 1 greatly regret that I have
given cause of offense to you and to
many other personal friends whose
I may have seemed to have
questioned, but which I can assure
you was furthest from my thought.
1 hope you will be able to regard it
as though it had never been said.


Very respectfully your friend,


STANLEY MATHEWS.
Year: 1872

California papers say that within
the past few months half q dozen
men in California and Nevada have
made an aggregate clean up of fifty
or sixty million dollars, and they ask
who lost?
Year: 1872

country. The Mobile RcgiSter exposes a fabri-
cation by three cOlored men' Of Mobile, who
have issued an address to tho rural districts
complaining that the privilege of free speech
is denied them, because there was a slight
fracas the other night at public meeting IN
their city. The truth is that these men them
selves, with an organization to which they
have given the name Of the National Guard,
attacked meeting and for a few minutes broke
it up; that the only persons injured were
whites that some colOred men who attempted
to magnify the affair into political riot have
been committed for trial on a charge or per-
Jury and that the orator whose speech was
interrupted and the Radical paper of the city
both acknowledged that it was not disturb
ance for which white men were in any way
responsible. Nay, more, tho very signers OF
this circular have publicly confessed the same
thing.


We might afford TO laugh at the prepos-
terous efforts of the Grant organs and orators
to explain the Liberal strength by such tales
MS these but behind the desire to soften the
effect of the majOritics against them, there is
fear of q purpose, should tO-day's elections
result in favor of Mr.. Greeley, to seize the
Southern States by military force. Ono oil
John Thomas's roorbacks viii do as well as
any other lie as an excuse for proclalming
martial law and we shall not be surprised ii
tomorrow the tales of The N. ]. Times become
more horrible than ever, and John Thomas
send up cry for troops. Certainly Grant
cannot be reelected by a fair vote OF the peo-
pie; and we have too much reason to appre-
hend that his friends viii stop at no rascality
to keep him in Office by some other means.
Year: 1872

There is a mysterious and sphinx-like COM
mercial gentleman doing business OF some
kind here in New-York, of whom we only
know so much that we ardenty desire to
know more. He is frequently mentioned in
the Southern and Western newspapers as
"tbe eminent merchant of New-York who
"says, IF Grant is beaten l will shut up my
"sbop at once.,n Now who is this far-seeng
and sagaciOus person Can it be the Georgia
Bond Mani Can it be Pig-lron Pope 7
What kind of a shop does the gentleman
kcep2 What does he deal in which it will be
impossible for him to deal in if DR.. Grant
should be forced to retire from the national
chair 2 That's what we want to know.


We can imagine the contempt with which
real men of business read or listen to silly
threats of stopping business which now and
then man who mixes politics with his
private affairs permits himself to utter. Those
who depend upon the help of President to
keep them from insolvency may stop business
when MI. Greeley is elected, and for a very
good reason but no good, sound, solid mer-
chant gets himself into such hObble that the
defeat of this or that candidate can prevent
him from paying his notes, and when parti-
san commercial man allows his tongue to talk
of suspending business, it is not improbable
that he may be looking out for some good
excuse for suspending; and his creditors on
their side had better look out for him.


We should be willing to make small
wager that there is not merchant in
New-York who has contemplated a suspension
of his business in case of Mr.. Greeley's elec-
ton. We do not believe that such can be
found; or, if found, we do not believe that
he will turn out to be respectable man in
good credit now. And if any man shall be
heard talking in such silly style, our advice
to those unfortunate enough to hold his paper
is to get it shaved at once, and at any rate of
discount, however awful.
Year: 1872




Wherever the people are allowed a fair vote
they speak with no uncertain voice. Georgia
voted in liberty and peace, and the result is
the imposing majority of $1,000 for the Lib
eral candi late. Whites and blacks divided
their votes as they should always do in u
wholesome political condition. and n majority
Of both races appear to have voted for
tho only party which can restore that
peae. and reunion which is so necessary for
both. Yesterday Connecticut held her town
meetings, and as these were not considered
worth buying or cOercing, there was fair
and spirited contest, resulting in spen-
did Liberal gains throughout the State.
We have gained over 200 in Meriden !;
nearly 500 in Danbury; we have
carried such Republican strongholds MS Nor
walk, Windsor, Andoyer, and New-Canaan.
All over the State our gains are distributed
with an evenness which shows. how wide and
how sweeping is the movement for Reunion
and Reform. 1t will carry everything before
it in November. Take Connecticut from the
list of doubtful States and add it to-day to
the Lberm column.


Thus one moro happy augury comes to
encourage those who to-day are to fight, in
the great central States, the fight for honesty
and independence against a gigantic system
of fraud, upheld and supported by the Presl-
dent in person. We have majOrities in each
of the three States. If the thievish hands OF
the Grant conspiratOrs can be kept away from
the ballot-boxes, we shall carry two of them as
easily as Georgia and Connecticut. But this is
the death struggle of corrupt system which
cannot survive a defeat to-day. Every means
which desperation and dishonesty can con-
trive will to-day be used to falsify the express
sion of the popular WILL The contest will be
severe, but the victory will be final If the
power of Cameron is broken to-day in Penn
sylvania, if Morton is to-day shaken from the
saddle in Indiana, we may hope for decently
honest elections for many years to come. The
conspiracies against the suffrage in both
States are vast and formidable. We do not
pretend to diminish their Importance
But they are not invincible. The
good cause received last week pow
erful Reinforcement in the magnificent
victory in Georgia, and to-day the independ-
ent voters of Connecticut send words OF high
and hearty cheer to their brethren in the hot
ter and wider field. The skies are bright with
promise Hate and plunder have had long
day. but the end is not far. The great work
may be finished before sunset 1t is worth
working for.
Year: 1872

The State election in Georgia last week
virtually settled the vote for President of all
the Southern States wherein clear majority
of the electors are whites. It's influence goes
even farther, since it shows that the negro
vote is very far from solid for Grant We
may now consider it certain that 20 States will
vote as follows:
Year: 1872

It is the wise observation - The Cincinnati Tines
that there was time when almost every Demo
cratic voter had the Democratic principles at hs
tongues end; but now no two Of them can agree as
to wha heir principles are" We believe the exact
opposite Of this absurd statement TO be true. Upon
almost all questions arising from the late war there
was always a great difference of opinion in the
Democratic party; but as to the true way in Which
we may get back to a restored Union there Is now
no difference worth naming. The Constitutional
Amendments in good faith accepted; there is no
longer any distinction between Hunker Democrats
and War Democrats; and, generally speaking, we
question whether the Democratic party has ever
been more thoroughly united than il is to-day. Ii
suits the purposes of the Presidents fugemen per-
sstently to msrepresent the present Democratic po-
stion Their sole is to declare that parties
are fixed. mmutable, and always what they have
been; though we can remember when this same Re-
publican party. before it became close corporation.
was glad to welcome all cOmeTs to its ranks, without
any questions asked. IL has grown suddenly eXclu-
sve and extraordinarily nice about its associates.
The time is at hand when it will not be so par
ticular.
Year: 1872

We hope for two of the three great States
that vote to-day, but if our friends carry
either one of them we shall have the better
chance Of success in November. The other
side must carry all three to-day to give them
the better prospect of reGlccting their Presi-
1anf
Year: 1872

Alas that we did not see this before the lull IN
sea-journeying The ocean nausea which Neptune
inicts upon those who invade his demeSnes has pro-
duced plenty of criptiOns-brandy and water, a
tight belt about the abdomen, dorsal recumbency,
Ell oL But now patient has hit upon most pleasant
preventive of which all who have been sea-sick
during the last Summer whereof the name is legion)
will be pleased to read A correspondent writes to
The Morning Post Nondon) that " though peculiarly
susceptble to the morbid influence Of tossing
boat" he avoids all trouble by curt'eying gently
SO as TO time his movements TO meet and oppose
the motion of the vessel" To do this il il simply
necessary we are told, to bend the knees but not
SO as to attract attention or make oneself con
spicuous" This may easily be done by one, but
imagine whole cabin full of passengers booing."
ducking, dippingl Could anything prevent the Old
sea-dogs, weather-pfoof and as well as ever. from
laughingf AS we understand it, the motions must
be kept up without cessation, or you are gone NO
sitting at table, no going to bed but an eternal ger
lexl1n. Neptune ought to be proptious 70 s1ch
humble and inconvenent reverence.
Year: 1872

Read the notice elsewhere of the way money
used to ZEE raised at the New-YorlI POst-OHicc
for political purposes, and of the way it is
raised now, under the Civil Service Reform
Administration of President Grant The little
finger of the Grant Civil Service Reformers IS
regarded by the poor clerks as worse than tho
loins of tho old lot.
Year: 1872

Sufficient noto1iety has already been gwen
to the lobby operations of the old Union
Pacific Railroad, i. d., to lead MS to expect
such statement as its President, Mr. Perry
has just made public. In a letter written
after tho failure of the Company to get an
extension of their road through Ncw-Mexico,
he said that the bill might have been saved
if the managers had been willing TO buy votes
by States.
Year: 1872

Let there be no holding back Of returns to-
night Inspectors must understand that their
proceedings this year will be watched with
much more than ordinary sharpness, and for
any misconduct fraud they viii be held 10
a severe accountability.
Year: 1872

We print to-day the official returns of the
Wyoming election, showing the revolution in
that Territory which has resulted in the cleo
ton of a Liberal Delegate. The current of
Reform must have some vitality to overruu in
this way the tOpmost plateau of the continent.
Year: 1872

Deeds done for temporary advantage often
return to do intriguing rOgues permanent dam
age. Mr.. Tweed is just now realizing this.
He got one Of his criminal cases transferred
from the General Sessions to the Oyer and
Termner, in the hope that Barnard or Cardozo
OF Ingraham, his old subservient tools, would
try it. But Barnard and .CardOzo are happily
out Of the way, and Ingraham's fears of a greater
power than Tweed's make him pOwerless to
serve his old master. And 80 it happens that
Tweed's trial on the forgery Indictment comes
up, on Monday next, before John r. Brady, the
last Judge in the State or the world the Boss
thief would have voluntarily chosen to preside
at his trial. We would rather have written
that the trial was to begin tomorrow instead
of on Monday, week hence. But even with
this delay conviction may be had before the
Presidential election; and in spite of Murphy's
bargains and The n. y. Timess suppression of
the news, Tweed may be breaking stone in
State Prison, instead of stufling ballot-bOxcs in
New-YOrk.
Year: 1872

II the Administration do not succeed in
cheating enough to-day ito carry Pennsylvania
there will be such running Of descrters from
the beaten TO the victorious army as no cam
paign ever witnessed before Perhaps even
Gen. Dix may discover that he cannot support
the two Secession candidates on the New-IOrk
Republican ticket,-the candidate for Congress
man at Large who, in 1861, gave notice that
the war to suppress the rebellion would be
waged " in spite of his opposition and against
CHS endeavors; = and the candidate for Gov
ernor who, about the time of the secession OF
South Carolina, pledged himself to resist
coercion, and advised that we should divide
what we possessed on the one hand and what
we owed on the other and part in peace"
Year: 1872

Voters in New-York and Brooklyn are re-
minded that they have to-day an opportunity
of registering. The list of places for registry
in this City is too long TO print in these col
umns, but it is officially advertised. The
Brooklyn registering Offices were published in
full on the fifth page of THE TRIBUNE of Mon
day. Every man entitled TO vote should see
to it at once that his name IS enrolled, and en-
rolled at once.
Year: 1872

Probably the last important intelligence re-
spectng the Geneva Arbitration has been
given us by the publication of the document
containing the decisions of the Afbitrators.
From the summary, which we publish On
another page, it will be seen that the protest
of Sir Alexander CockburD bears slight re-
semblance 70 the tone of discussion in En-
gland on the question of indirect losses. We
have already been informed by telegraph that
the Chancellor of tho Exchequer has CEN
sured the Arbitrator for his remarks, which
we may regard as an admission that it was
thought our vanity needed to 'be placated,
and that Great Britain could afford 10 be
generous in this respect.


The meeting for tho Woman Suf1ragists
Year: 1872

Th5 OeVu Or18lnE Eocom0tt79s


The "Fat Contributor id writing
to the Cincinnati Times, tells the fol-
lowing:


At the time when / was in Colum-
bus, Pennsylvania, the community
was being startled or amused, accord
ding to the mental makeup of COM
munities' constituent parts, bv the
story of a haunted locomotive. An
engineer and fireman on the middle
division assert that while running
a night express one night last week,
the devil stepped on board the loco
motive and proceeded to run it with
out the aid of fireman or engineer,
those worthless falling back in not
very good order on the tender, where
they sat trembling observing the op-
erations of his Satanic majesty.
They aver that he not only opened
the furnace door and put his head in
to see how the fire was burning, out
that he actually. crawled in, and thew
could distinctly see him in the glar-
ing light industriously stirring up
the fire with his tail! This seems
Incredible, l admit, but both enei.
neer and fireman say they will swear
to it. Then emerging from the fur.
mace without hair being scorchaS
he proceeded to handle the levers as
though he had run a locomotive ali
his life, humming some diabolical
tune meanWbiila. He did mot crowd
on all she steam, as they expected he
would do, and run the train with. its
passengers to destruction at g devel
Of rate; but, on the other hand, he
used the accustomed caution, slack
ing up around the curves, and be-
having altogether like a careful, tenn
perate engineer, who recognized his
responsibilities. Once only did he
notice the two terror-stricken men
on the tender, and then he made an
imperious motion to the fireman to
fire up, and when he hesitated the
devil fired up himself so Internally
the fireman made haste to comply
with the command. It seems
strange that he didn't take advan-
tage Of his opportunity 70 run the
train to destruction, but he was
probably satisfied with the pace at
which the passengers were going to
the devil, anyhow, and accordingly
held his hand. Arriving at bridge
crossing a deep stream, he suddenly
waved them an adieu, and leaped of
the engine over the bridge and dis
appeared. The men say a blue fame
followed him, and they could hear q
great sputtering of the Sater when
he struck.


It's declared in Columbia to be q
fact, that when the train reached
the next station these men told the
above story, and actually refused to
run any further on chat engine, so
that it became necessary to substi-
tute other men for them in order for
the train to proceed. 1 give you the
story as it is current in Columbia.
It is q strange enough story at the
first blush, but Judging from the di-
abolical accidents that frequently oc-
cur on our roads, one might think it
was not so very rare a thing, after all,
for the devil to run trains.
Year: 1872

success in life. A constant, agonizing


effort to be as miserable as you can,


seems to be the warp Of social economy.


1t was different in the early days.


The relief which they found here from
the rigid forms of society-the absence


of the gradual scale inhuence--was ex-
tremely favorable to the culture Of the
philosophic mood which renders one
contented with himself and all the world.
Relieved from the spirit Of social intoxi.
cation, one could soberly smile at the
petty annoyances which fret the ambition
of the aspiring, from the cradle to the
grave. None Of these disturbed the
" forty-niner;" and if his food was not at
war with digestion, he rested at night as
peacefully as the newborn babes-albeit,
if miner, his bed may have been upon
a snow.bank thirty feet deep or in
trenebed in mud-puddle that threat
ened inundation, with an outrageous
oak or towering pine as shelter from
the storm overhead. All his hardships
we're Of a physical nature; mentally, he
was placid; and the situation was so
novel and interesting that he maryeled
that so many Of the ills of life resulted
from the very organization specially
created to prevent them-refined society,
Year: 1872

ST. LOUIS, March 30.-A severe storm of
thunder and tightening passed over the city at
3 O'Clock this evening, accompanied by hsavy
rain. During the storm terrific tornado from
the southwest struck the large brick market
house on Seventh street and levelled the north
erly half in the twinkling of an eye Most of
the roof and several heavy timers were carried
across Seventh street and striking the building
opposite, knocked two great holes in it exposing
the rooms So far as is now known only five
persons were injured, one Henry Wilde, a
butcher, seriously, perhaps mortally. A woman
name unknown, had her leg badly crushed and
man name unknown, had both arms broken.
The stalls IN the Market We're occupied and a
laIge number of persons were present making
purchases and it is wonderful that scores were
not killed. Aside from the slight damage
done to one or two building two or three blocks
distant, no other destruction seems to have oc-
CURED. 1t is likely the tornado struck the
ground only at this point, rose again and pass
ed on in northeastern direction and it may be
heard from some point in Illinois tomorrow.
Year: 1872

EMERALDs.-The Emerald Boat Club are to
give their grand ball this evening, at Fluent
Hall, and we would advise all those who have
desire to tip the light fantistic toe to pay
them visit.


The Emeralds propose to purchase a four
cared paper shell, and to enter upon the COM
ing boating season with renewed vigor. We
know the Emerals will baye good party and
fine time tonight.
Year: 1872

To the Editor of the Press.


Riding with a gentleman the other afternoon,
he called my attention. to the condition of our
cutters and culverts. A gang of men have been
employed with pick and shovel, who have made
small channel, at large expense, for the
water to run in. No attention whatever has
been paid to opening the culverts, the result is,
the water carries off large quantities of sand
and gravel hauled in last year TO repair the
streets. My friend owned and drove high
spirited horse innate to Steamboat) but under
standing driving, we escaped serious injury
The condition of our streets, cutters and cul-
verts is disgrace to civilized community. If
the Street Commissioner and Committee on
Streets are unable to prevent such state of
things let them resign. Other appointees
can do no worse.


Yours, truly, REFORM
Year: 1872

Aht bASIhhN bLOCkADE.


BANGOR, March 31.-The long DELAYED OPEN
ing of the E. & n A. railroad has at last been
accomplished and the train from ST. John ar
rived here at 9.15 Saturday evening, the block
ade having lasted just one week, dnring which
time as large force as could be employed have
keptcontinuously at work on both ends of the
line. 1t is to be hoped this is the last blockade
of the season. Although it has been showing
all day to-day, four or five inches of snow hav
ing fallen here. This makes the fourth snow
storm which has successfully followed the clear
ing of the track of this road. The blocking
snow-storms of the present month are without
a parallel in the past fifty years. The ice in
the Penobscot seems nearly or firm as at any
time during the winter and shows no signs of
an immediate breaking up. A heavy fall of
rain at this time would cause an immense if not
disastrous freshet