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Year: 1872

An attempt is being made by interested par
ties to prevent the National Railroad Company
constructing line Of railroad through the State
Of the indifference of monopolies to the we'll
being of the public. We hope the parties re-
sponsibe for this attack on public interests will
receive merited reproof in the Courts Of law
The progress and development of New Jersey
were for a long time retarded by the monopoly
of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company
This monopoly was obliged, however, to aban-
don the obstructive position it had taken up,
and we hope that no combination of vested
interests will be allowed to hamper the free
development of the resources of the neighbor-
ing State. If the attempt now being made
should be persisted in the duty of the Courts
will be clear. They must secure the right of
way to every citizen, and monopolists, by pre-
venting the establishment of new lines of
communication, practically deprive the people
of their natural right to go where they please,
and in their own way. With the experience of
past years before us of the value of railroads
in encouraging the growth of industries and
developing the latent resources of the districts
through which they pass, there can be no
reasonable doubt as to the advisability and
advantage Of multiplying them wherever the
facilities exist. As the roads are built at the
expense of private companies these ought to
be allowed to be the best judges as to the neces-
sity for their construction. In no case ought
we to permit rival corporation, for its own
selfish interest," to arrest work Of public
utility
Year: 1872

The COLLAPSE OF THE LATEST SPANISH IN
sunREcT1oN. According to one of our latest
cable dispatches the insurrection which took
place few days ago in Ferrol, Spain, is
dead. It was our opinion at the outset
that the insurrection was local, not gen.
eral, and that it could not but result
in failure. Two days ago we learned
that the insurgents were hemmed in both on
land and on sea. Our news Of this morning


is to the effect that the insurrection was not
at certain hour put down simply because the
government was merciful. The insurgents
were shut up in the arsenal, and the command
ant Of the government forces delayed his in
tended attack because the municipal authori-
ties Of Ferrol requested delay on the ground
that arrangements we're being made for sur
render. The presumption now is that the
Ferrol attempt at insurrection has resulted in
failure, and that the would-be leaders of o
grand national rising are in prison. If such
be the fact, then Amadeus has won another
grand victory. Pity it is that the victory in
Spain should be clouded by cruelty in Cuba!
Year: 1872

WALL STREET was all agog yesterday to
fathom the proceedings Of the Bank of Eng
land directors at their usual weekly meeting
this morning with reference to the discount
rate, on the alteration or retention of which
depend the current speculations in the gold
market, and more remotely, but not less in
tensely the speculation in the stock market.
Wall street will do or undo to-day, according
70 the action of the Bank of England, almost
as promptly as the throng on Lombard street.
Such is one Of the many changes wrought in
the world by the cable. whose novelty is out
lived by its surprises.
Year: 1872

The MEXICAN BORDER TROUBLES have
entered on new stage. While we had o
Commission taking evidence of the outrages
upon Texan settlers along the Rio Grande,
the Mexicans, it appears, had Commission
Of their own at work receiving testimony on
the same subject, but from purely Mexi-
can standpoint They intend to assert
that they are not to blame that it is
only one of the normal conditions Of society
in such places, and that Americans are inte-
rested in the raids as we'll as the citizens Of
their republic. The diaphanous nature Of
these arguments will be appreciated when our
Commissioners make their report. COM
promise Of some kind is to be proposed, and
the delightful normal state of Mexican
society to be offered as q pattern for
the rest Of the world. Our govern
ment has all along, for the sake of
international courtesy, pretended to assume
that Mexico was willing but unable to stop
these outrages; but this attempted ralliation
of their enormity should lead them now to
speak as they think. Of course this Mexican
apology is Of piece with England's special
pleading regarding the cruisers, and all in the
interest Of keeping down any future bill of
damages. Are we to have Mexican edition
of the ''due diligence" &C., of the Geneva
correspondence?
Year: 1872

at sacrifice of blood and treasure which
swells to the proportions of the men and


money sacrificed by the First Napoleon in the
conquest Of Europe the people and govern
ment of the United States are free to speak


to England touching her duty and her respon-
sibilities in this matter of tho slave trade in
Africa. England left this blotch of slavery
as legacy to this country. She agitated the
denominations Of the American institution and
the abolition cause here for thirty years. and
when the issue was joined in battle, slavery or
emancipation, she turned against us, took
the side of King Cotton and slavery, and
hence those Alabama claims But as the High
Joint Commission and the Geneva Tribunal
have settled that ENHANCEMENT on the basis of
brotherly love. we will let by-gones be by
cones, and simply urge upon England her
duty and her policy in regard to this slave
trade of Eastern and Central Africa. She has
the glory, through her bold explorers, of
fixing the names of Albert and Victoria to the
great equatorial fountains of the Nile but a
greater glory will be hers (and our govern
ment and people will give her helping hand
in the good work) in winning tina glorious dis
tincton of the liberator of Africa from the
slave hunter and the slave trader.
Year: 1872




It is not new to say that life is cheap in this
country; still it is but too true. A few weeks
ago some seventy of our fellows perished
barely twelve hours after merrily bidding
adieu to friends at one Of our wharves. A
Sound steamer, on which they started for
Providence, carried them, instead, to the
ocean bottom off Watch Hill An investiga-
ton into the causes and responsibility for this
frightful catastrophe was ordered by the Treas
ury Department It was conducted by in
spectors from various districts, in order to
secure impartiality. Their report shows that
they arrived at the same conclusion the public
did-that somebody was to blame and that
this somebody was the commander of the
steamer, his two pilots and the chief
mate Carrying out this conviction
by flaw in the law, it is not en-
powered to do-namely, to revoke the
licenses of these officers. Only the local
Boards are competent to revoke licenses, and,
therefore, the case must again come before the
Board at New London. Here we have an off,
cial determination that certain men have in
effect caused the death Of large number Of
people, and their punishment is simply to be
denied the chance of repeating the occur
renee. In Scotland, few days ago, fifteen
persons were killed by railway collision,
occasioned by the mistake of b switchman. He
was at once sent to Jail, and is held for trial.
This illustrates the difference in the care with
which life is watched over on the two sides Of
the Atlantic, and the comparison is one not
fattering to our national self-esteem. Clearly,
if the officers of the Metis are at all blamable
for the dreadful fatality of the wreck, their
culpability merits heavier penalty than mere
loss Of employment.
Year: 1872

The weather i'm This City Yesterday.


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: 1872

MEcHANIos.-They are the palace
builders of the world not stick is hewn,
not a stone is sharpened in all the lord
ly dwellings of the rich, that does not
owe its beauty and fitness to the skill of
the mechanic. The towering spires that
raise their giddy heads among the clouds
depend upon the mechanics art for their
strength and symmetry. Not an edifice
for devotion, or business, or comfort, but
bears the impress of their hands. How
exalted is their avocation, how sublime
their calling
Year: 1872

FASHION IN THF NEW AND IN THE
OLD WoRLD.-The young king of Siam,
cherishing a friendly regard for an
American lady who had, during the
reign of his late father, resided in the
royal city, requested her to send him
her likeness. This was accordingly done
by the hands of a mutual friend, and
the gift, as we learn from recent let
ter, was received with marked pleasure
by the monarch. But after long and
careful scrutiny, he asked with a puz-
zled air, "Has my friend changed her
nation or her religion? 1t must be one
or the other. The features are the same,
but the dress? This is not the costume
she wore when | saw her last"


And thus it ever is in the East. Ori-
entails cannot possibly comprehend why
the style of dress should be changed
unless of necessity. Among them each
nation and tribe has its peculiar costume
as well as its insignia of religious creed
and these fashions are perpetual, the
lapse of thousands of years ordinarily
being unmarked by any special change
Year: 1872

The slanderer mingles falsehood with the truth.
And serves the devil IN his viler work.
Within his lips there may be said to lurk
A fang more deadly than the cobra's tooth.
With keen, insane Unsuitable delight
He marks The accents Of victims tongue;
On idle words he safes his appetite.


And forth he goes. disgorgng them among
A world of slander-losers. Magnifying
The more they're spread. they tingle on the ear:
And those who tell the tale, and those who hear,
Are apt confederates in the work of lying:
Thus a fair fame among the ISLANDERS thrown
Is gnaw'd as hungry dogs delight TO gnaw bone.
Year: 1872

The Great American Desert" which
we school-boys quarter of century ago
saw on the map of North America, has
disappeared at the snort of the iron horse;
coal and iron are found to abound on the
plains as soon as the railroad kings have
need of them the very desert becomes
fruitful. and at Humbolt Well. on the
Central Pacific Railroad, in the midst of
the sage-b brush and alkali country, you
will see corn, wheat, potatoes, and fruits
of different kinds, growing luxuriantly,
with the help of culture and irrigation
proving that this vast tract, long sup
posed to be worthless, needs only skill
full treatment to become valuable.


One cannot help but speculate upon
what kind of men we Americans shall
be when all these now desolate plains
are filled. when cities shall be found
where now only the lonely depot or the
infrequent cabin stands when the iron
and coal of these regions shall have be-
come the foundation of great manufac-
turing population and when, perhaps,
the whole continent shall be covered by
our stars and stripes. No other nation
has ever spread over so large territory
or so diversified surface as ours
From the low washed shores of the
Atlantic your California journey carries
you to boundless plains which lie nearly
as high as the summit of Mount Washing
ton. Americans are digging silver ore
in Colorado three thousand feet higher
than the highest point of the White
Mountains. At Virginia City, in Neva-
da, one of the busiest centers of gold
mining, the travellers find it hard to draw
in breath enough for rapid motion, and
many persons, when they first arrive
there, suffer from bleeding at the nose
by reason of the rarity of the air.
Again, in Maine, half the farmers year
is spent in accumulating supplies for the
other and frozen half; all over the North
ern States the preparation for winter is
an important part of our lives but in
San Francisco the winter is the pleas



antest part of the year. In Los Angeles
they do not think it needful to build
fire-places, and scarcely chimneys, in
their houses. And one people, speaking
the same language, reading the same
books, holding common religion, pay
ing taxes to the same government, and
proud of one common flag, pervades these
various attitudes and climates, lntervls-
its, intercommunicates intermarries, and
is, with the potent help of the railroad,
fused constantly more closely together as
a nation. What manner of men, think
you, will be the Americans of 1912, the
product of so many different climes, Of
so various range as to altitude?-Jouyndl
Year: 1872

The latest dodge in the market line, says
the Chillicothe (Ohie) Constitution, is
larded corn-mea, or corn-meal larded.
This new article of commerce is sold for
lard, and Is composed of about equal quan-
titles of genuine lard and fine white meal.
The process of manufacture is to melt the
lard and then add the meal, stir
ring them well together. The COM
pound can be easily detected by its
rough and grainy appearance. The meal
is fully developed when the article Is melt
ed. When meal is selling at sixty cents a
bushel and lard at twelve and half cents
per pound ii does not require much of an
arithmetician TO count the profit. After
this specimen of moral honesty, the Yam
KEGS must knock under with their wooden
natmegs and Eastwood hams. Patent but
ter was bad enough, but ;orn-meal lard is
an advance in rascality.
Year: 1872

A YOUNG lady writes to an exchange
giving recipe for having fun. She says,
invite half dozen boys and girls to yOur
house when your pa and ma are away; put
haf-dollar silver piece in dish With mol
asses an inch deep in it, and offer it to the
boy who gets it with his mouth. The more
boys who try to get It, the more fun there
will be- That girl surely deserves a diplo-
mo
Year: 1872

The weather has been much milder 70
day with slight thsw. The river has risen
about one foot, and the ice gorge opposite
the city has cracked some, but the traffic
across it continues unimpared and is i'm
mense. Should the weather continue mild
for few days, and especially should rain
fall, there will be speedy breakup and g
resumption of navigation.
Year: 1872

Gossip and Gleanings.
Blue stockings-the empty ones.
A worthless bond-A vagabond.
The coming valentine will represent Cupid
with an improved breech loader.
The latest application made by young Ia
dies of their ill-regulated passion for needle
work is on dog collars.
There is a time for all things The time to
leave is when a young lady asks you how the
walking 10.


1t is kindly said of Rochester corpse that
although married man he was not addicted
to profanity.


Mount Hood is said to have adopted the
reprehensible habit of smoking, and the pso-
pie of the Northwest are looking for an erup-
ton.


A writer for an agricultural journal sug-
gests hens in the place Of dogs for families.
There is not tramp on the face of the earth
bus would like to hear hen bark.


Gather me garlands Of holly,


Rosemary, ivy and bays,


For gravity's nothing but folly


Till after the holidays
Year: 1872

ADVERTISERS naturally seek the means of
reaching the largest number of readers, and
those of the best quality. The Daily PRESS
fills the bill in both particulars better than any
other daily journal in Maine
Year: 1872

PRIVATE LETTER-BoXEs.-In view of the
delays in the delivery of letters by carriers,
resulting from the tardiness of servants and
others in answering the postman's ring or
whistle, the superintendentS of the carrier
service in this and other cities are endGiTor-
ing to impress upon the public the import
;lnce of providing a safe and conveniently
located box ut every house and place OF bI-i-
ness, into which carriers may drop their let
ters without loss of time. Our carriers arc
prompt and pains-taking in the discharge OF
their duties, but their movements are very
much retarded by being compelled to Waitat
doors until some one shall appear to receive
letters, and under these circumstances they
cannot make their deliveries rs promptly or
as sfreauently as would be desirable. Were
some kind of receptacle provided ut every
street door, this difficulty would be
wholly obviated, and less number Of
carriers would. be able to do a good deal
more work in Il given time, and do 1t
better than is now possible. The expense OF
suitable boxes would be very small, ana
would be offset many times by the benefits
which their general adoption would confer
upon the publicin the increased effectiveness
of the carrier. system, and were the depart
ment to make such provision the condition
OF Tree uellfefy, tue puDiiS No"iu navy ~
reason to complain of the injustice of the
requirement. The system of private lock-
boxes was introduced in London several
years ago with the most satisfactory results,
and until we have them here we cannot eX-
pect to make our carrier service as perfect or
efficient AS it should be. Boxes are now pro-
yided in some instances, and it is hoped by
every one connected with the Department
that they will come into general use not only
here, but in all other cities having free de-
livery system, especially If NC arc 10 have
postal cards,
Year: 1872

DEAD OR DfISG.-Whcre the hair is unnaturally
dry you may be sure that 1t Is dying; and unless
artiiiciay vialzcd it will be as dead as leaves
IN November. Feed the whitening flbres and stiml-
late tie torpid scalp with LYONS KATHAIRoN, and
the evil, which must otherwise soon culminate In
badness will be speedily remcded. 1t Is absolutely
necessary for the health Of the brain that 1t be kept
moderately moist with preparation capable Of
nouiisbng and invigoratingi LYONS KATIIAIRoS
fulils these conditions, and is the only article that
actually puts neto life into the capillary tubes
through which the natural nourIshmcnt has ceased
TO pass This pure and harmless vegetable prepare


ton Is absorbed by the skin of the head to the roots
CT the hair and passes into the laentsby the force
Of capillary attraction.
Year: 1872

TIVE WEED SEwING-MACuISE-This Is supc-
rior family machine, straight needle, and lcckstich,
easily managed and kept IN repair, and adjusts Itself
to every varciy of work. We have made careful
inquiry of those VINO have given the machine tho
rough trial IN tho family aud have for several weeks
had one in our Office that we might, Of our own
knowledge, bc able TO recommend the machine in
it stood the test and now able to give it
our hearty endorsement. 1t took the first prize at
the Paris Exposition as family sercin5-mdchtne,
and We believe it TO bc of the most desirable in
the market.-BoSton Congregationattst and Re-
rOrTer.
Year: 1872

GRAND SACRED CoNCEnT.-Thc choir of the
Monumental church, assisted by the Wash
ington Octette, will in short time give a
second grand sacred concert, the proceeds of
which will be devoted to the repair Of the
organ and other church purposes. The
Monumental choir is the best in the South,
and is thoroughly appreciated by the people
of Richmond, while the Washington Octette
is composed of some of the best amateurs in
the country. Their combined attractions
will ensure successful entertainment.
Year: 1872

The THEATRE.--De Castro, the magician,
drew fine house last night. We have only
to say that lie is equal to any magician III
the country, and that he is likely TO have 4
successful week in Richmond.
Year: 1872

The BERGER ENTERTAINMENTS yesterday
afternoon and last night were largely at
tended, notwithstanding the bad weather,
and the performance on each occasion was
excellent. We hope we shall often see the
Bergers here again.
Year: 1872

THE GOVERNOR WILL EXECUTE HIS THREAT


TERROR OF THE POPE COUNTY PEoPLE-A


REIGN OF TERROR IMMINENT.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEI


LITTLE Rock, Aug 7.-Gov. Hadley informed
THE TRIBUNE correspondent to-day that he expects to
declare martial law in Pope County, and quarter the
State Militia there He professed reluctance TO do this
but said he die not believe authority could be main
tanned and the law enforced any other way He was
not able TO cite single Of resistance TO the authof


ties however and referred instance Of voleDce on
the part Of the aniClaytOn In the county, except
the alleged firing upon Deputysherif Williams, which
10 believed by Wiliamss own relatives to have been
done by himself in order to make picture Of Ku Kux
outrage The Governor charges In general terms that
the people In the county In defiance OF his
commands and determined not 10 obey the officers
Of the law; but he mentions no facts TO sustain
his position. Trustworthy information OBJ
tanned here shows that the account OF
the trouble given In THE TRIBUNE dispatch
from Memphis was correct In all essential particulars.
There have been acts OF awiessness In Pope County
except those committed by Hadleys militia and by the
Sheriff and his posse and martial law II proclaimed
will be solely for tts effect upon the election and will
indicate the Clayton Ring despair OF perpetuang
their power In any other way.


Martial law in Arkansas enforced by the militia,
wanton and atrocous murder political oppo-
Il win De declared has terrified the people OF Pope
County that they are ready TO submit TO the Sheriff
who has lust murdered two innocent citizens
and put their lives In his hands, rather than
have the militia sent among them The only lawlessness
proven against these people ibe after the wasde he'd
Year: 1872

A letter from q farmers Wife" at
Mendon, Ell Dorado county, California,
exposes a good deal Of the humbug
about high wages in California:


81 have a son twenty-three years old.
He never uses tobacco or any kind Of
spirits, and is desirable hand in the
harvest field. Hewent TO San Jose last
May, as we were able TO get along with.
out him on our farm. He soon wrote
me that wages were low, as the farmers
were working Cinnamon. Thirty doll
lars is all they have given
month in the Santa Clara VAL
ley the past seven years, except two
months, when they clip their grain
and while the thresber is going. Then
they will give $40 to two or three hands
among the twenty; the rest get ~ q
day; and at the end of the month the
men who have been getting 81 day
have not as much money rs those who
get $40 a month. The reason is, the
machine breaks, and the day hands
have no work and no pay; but they
have to eat. In the morning they are
called up at 4 o'clock and hurried to
the field by sunrise; in at II and out
again at l, and work as long as it
is light enough to see q head
of grain. 1t is often 10 o'clock before
they get their supper and get to bed.
This, tell you, know. I have lived
in it and seen it all. California is
glorious place for those who come here
with plenty of money. They intend to
get labor below 81 day as soon as
they can. As soon as harvest is over,
they say, there is labor on the railroad.
Yes, at just 81 day and board your
self. l have had men stop. nearly worn
out and out of money, and stay all the
nigh, that had been to get work on the
railroad. l have been in California
ten years. This is the eighth season
on the rancho. Until this year have
lived in San Jose. ! have travelled in
this State, and know all l wish to of
this beautiful land"