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Year: 1872

PARIS, January 20.-The rejection by
the Assembly, yesterday, of the pro,
posal by the Government in favor OF
the imposition Of a tax on raw material
is considered complete defeat for the
government policy Of President Theirs.
The decision of the Assembly provides
that a tax on raw material shall be
imposed as last extremity to which
the Government is compelled to resort
when all other means of taxation fail
to produce the revenue necessary for
it's expenses. The committee Of fifteen
appointed by the Assembly yesterday
will make a complete and thoroughly
exhaustive examination of the tariff.
At the conclusion OF their labor they
will submit a report to the Assembly,
which will again consider the subject,
probably during the present session.
The effect which the rejection Of Theirs
project may ultimately produce is yet
uncertain. 1t is stated reliably, how
ever, that Thiers, although exhibiting
much temper on the subject, is unlikely
to revive it as a cabinet question.


Resignation OF Thiers.


Theirs has rendered his resignation
to the Assembly. Great excitement
prevails in consequence.


LArER.-The excitement consequent
on the announcement of the resignation
of Thiers is intense. 1t is anticipated
that the Assembly will pass vote of
confidence in Theirs administration,
and that he may probably reconsider
his action and ultimately be induced to
withdraw his resignation in view of the
general apprehension which prevails OF
a German reoccupation OF the evacu-
ated departments.
Year: 1872

PURE STARcH-When starch is pure, it
is free from sourness and is purely white.
Inferior starch has a golden or yellow
tinge, the color of -four, indicating the
presence Of gluten Ia color not desirable in
ones linen, or is sour and musty. 1t is
absurd for the laundress to cleanse and
bleach and then discolor linen with i'm
pure golden or yellow starch. Duryea' S
Satin Gloss Starch is snow white, per-
fectly pure, and the most economical
starch known
Year: 1872

Mr.. Renne claims that the name Magic
Or is his trade mark" and that all
persons who use that name for medicine
do so at their peril, as much as though
they stole any other property of his, be
sides their extra meannessl The genuine
Renne's Pain-Killng Magic Oil is what
the people want and will have.
Year: 1872

From lands end to lands end that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to untimely grave
with bilious complaints there is but one truly great
and reliable remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

MINNEAPOLIS, January l2--There is
trouble between several Of the contrac-
tors and the Northwestern Construction
company OF the Northern Pacific
railroad. An unusually interesting
development is likely to be made public
in reference to a sharp practice In
forming a new construction company
and getting the Dakota contract 1t Is
believed here that q change will be
effected in the officers Of the road IN
New York.
Year: 1872

SENATOR SUMNER AT Hrs Posr.-Senator
Sumner is at his post in Washington, with re-
newed health and strength after his European
trip. In conversation with HERALD corre-
spondent published to-day, he avows his de-
termination to push through his Civil Rights
bill, defeated by his republican associates last
session, and declares that it shall yet have a
place in the statute book Of the nation. He
also intends to advocate the abolition Of the
Electoral College and direct vote for Presi-
dent by the people. After the steady and
united support given to President Grant by
the colored voters Of the United States, it will
be difficult for any republican now to oppose
the Civil Rights bill, nor can the democrats
consistently fight it in view of their Cincin-
nati-Baltimore platform and their support Of
the lamented Mr. Greeley. We shall there
fore be prepared to see Mr.. Sumner succeed
at last with his civil rights for the Southern
blacks, and we shall not be surprised if his
proposition for direct Presidential vote meets
with popular approval.
Year: 1872

TIE MORTAL RELICS OF HORACE GREELEY
were laid yesterday in the house Of his friend,
Mr.. Sinclair where hundreds of those near
and dear to him united in sincere sorrow for
the illustrious dead with those of his blood
who mourned their truly irreparable loss,
Strong men wept on beholding the white face
of the departed sage, beautiful in DEATH The
contrast between the sturdy, hopeful, intel
lectual giant of q few short months ago and
the silent shrouded form before them was too
much for dry eyes. It is announced that the
remains will lie in state throughout the day on
Tuesday at such place as shall be given in to-
morrow's papers, and that the funeral will
take place on Wednesday at eleven A. M.
Year: 1872

his advantages for taking the initiative are
such as no other President has possessed
since Monroe.


General Grant is expected to establish
civil service reform which will put an end to
the demoralizing scrambles for the spoils and
plunder which, since the time of jackson, be-
tween the outs and the ins, have been the
especial scandal of our popular institutions.
Give as civil service in which fitness for the
Office will be the law of the appointment, and
the bascr elements of our political contests
the idlers, hangers-on, vagabonds and rufians
who do the dirty work of scheming and reck-
less politicians-will be disbanded and dis
persed. Give the Southern States the generous
peace offering of universal amnesty and you
army from the supervision Of their local
afairs Proceed to that broad and fraternal
line Of action in reference to the New Dominion
and Cuba and Mexico and Central America,
which will have for its ulimatum an
American league of independent republics,
and our manifest destiny will soon
be developed to our government as
the fountain head and the defender and
moderator of this true American system. The
Monroe doctrine of European non-intervention
in American affairs removed Louis Napolcon's
French protectorate from Mexico but now
we want declaration of the new doctrine
from General Grant that the American policy
of the United States is not the absorption Of
Canada Cuba or Mexico, but such assistance
and influence as we may properly give to make
those countries independent and self-sustain-
ing republics.


None of these questions we presume, for the
reasons given, will be acted upon during this
short session of Congress. But, as it is ex-
pected that the law will be restored for the
meeting of the new Congress on the 4th Of
March, it will be wise for the President to pre-
pare for this contingency, because the country
desires that he, too, with his Inauguration for
another Presidential term. shall take new
departure, embracing not only new Cabinet,
but new, positive and progressive policy
upon oil the leading issues of the day touching
our relations and our interests at homo and
abroad
Year: 1872




The PLYMOUTH MEMORIAL. very prac-
tical and philanthropic direction in which the
members Of Plymouth church intend to COM
memorate Mr.. Beecher's quarter Of century
pastorate received its first tangible advance
yesterday in the subscription of thirty thou
sand dollars toward the fifty thou
sand dollars to be raised. II was
a noble subscription, but not more
noble than the purpose for which it is de-
signed, and the cause and the cost must GER
tainly commend themselves alike to the hearts
and to the pockets of the rich men Of Ply
mouth church and congregation. And
we have no fear that the remain
ing twenty thousand dollars will not be
forthcoming in time. Men Of wealth cannot
spend their money better than by erecting liv-
ing monuments to themselves which they may
rejoice in years before they die, and Ply
mouth church has set an example that might
be proftably initiated by others.
Year: 1872

The DANGERS OF THE DEEp.-A distressing
casualty occurred in the Bay at an early
hour yesterday morning. A five-hundred-ton
schooner, the Charles H. Mollett, foundered
in gale Of wind, and Of her crew of five men
one was drowned, a second frozen to death,
and the remaining three were only rescued
after they had undergone intense suffering
from the cold and when life was almost
extinct. The poor fellows were within signal
of Sandy Hook when their vessel went down.
Those who were saved chung to the rigging;
but the schooner had sunk on her beam ends
and was lurching over from side to side with
the force of the waves, plunging them at
intervals into the water. When morning
dawned the land was discovered close by, but
was only mockery to the survivors. One
unfortunate froze to death in the rigging.
The story Of their sufferings is graphically
told elsewhere.
Year: 1872

SHOULD SENATOR FENToN RESIGN Some
Washington politicians are advising Sena-
tor Fenton to resign his seat in the
United States Senate and 90 home.
Senator Fenton should do no such thing.
He is q shrewd, sharp legislator and
his experience in legislation, as well as
his intimate acquaintance with the policy and
motives Of his former political associates, will
be Of much value in the opposition ranks. AS
an old republican he will act with Senators
Sumner, Upton and other liberals; and if they
can make up their minds to give President
Grants administration genuine, dsinterestcd
support in all good measures and to oppose
and expsse all corrupt Legislation, they will do
good service to the country and help to lay
the foundation of political organization that
may yet become power in the land
Year: 1872

The Social SITUATION IN SPAIN remains in
An exceedingly troubled condition; but the
Treasury provision of the Kings government
appears hopeful Notwithstanding, if the inan-
cial facts which have just been officially stated
to the Cortes, with respect to the project Of a
new government loan, are reliable.
Year: 1872

GERMAN IMPERIAL CREATION OF NEW PRUs-
SIAN PEERS. Majesty the Emperor Of
Germany has, by the issue Of royal decree,
created twenty-five new Prussian peers. The
gentlemen who have been ennobled have al
ready served the State either in the army or
the civil departments of the government or
contributed to the sustention Of the monarchy
as land owners and taxpayers This vigorous
action of the Emperor was made an absolute
necessity in consequence of the defiant atti-
tude which the members Of the Prussian
Chamber of Peers assumed and maintained
toward and against the wishes of the people
and the policy Of the government by their
class opposition to the passage Of the Counties
Reform bill. Emperor William found that
the alternative was made to lie between the
destruction Of the Upper Chamber or the
humiliation of the throne and people. He
has solved the difficulty by wise and timely
exercise Of his prerogative, and thus illus
trated the working Of the German system of
government in q manner very favorable to the
wholesome conversation Of checks and bal
ances particularly when they are fairly ad-
justed and wisely weighed. Great Britain has
tided over public crises of like gravity in o
similar manner on several occasions, previous
to the final passage Of the Reform bill and
since. The Prussian peers of the ancient
regime have damaged the cause of feudal class
privilege almost irreparably by their course Of
opposition to healthy democratic progress.
Year: 1872

One of the highest merits of the
French system of manners is, that il
tacitly lays down the principle that all
persons meeting in the same house know
each other without the formality of in
PRODUCTION. Any man may ask any girl
to dance, or to speak to anybody at a
private party. This in no way extends
to public gatherings, where the guarantee
of supposed equality which results from
the fact OF knowing the same host does
not exist. But in drawing-rooms the
rule is absolute; everybody may talk to
everybody. This is an Intelligent and
practical custom; it facilitates conversa-
ton; it dispels all awkardness towards
your neighbor; it melts cold natures; i,
makes it possible to pass a pleasant
hour in house where you do not know
a soul it gives look of warmth and
unity to room. No one is obliged to
sit gloomily and in silence between two
repelling strangers. If you want 10
speak you are sure of listener. Of
course people are often regularly intro
duced to each other by the master or
mistress, especially at dinner parties; but
in those cases the object is to put name
upon them, not 10 authorize them to con-
verse; for that act no permission is re-
quired. The French have such a need of
talk, and, generally, they talk SO well,
that it is easy to understand how this
rule grew up, but the explanation should
not be limited 10 that one cause. So
ciableness is quite as real necessity TOR
them as character iS,and the first condition
of its practice is that all needless barriers
should be suppressed between persons OF
the same society; so, for this reason too,
liberty of acquaintance has been adopted
indoors. It's effect on manners, strictly
so called, is to polish them still further !;
for though you have the iudisputabe
right to begin conversation with lady
next TO you whom you have never seen
before, you can only do SO on condition
of employing all the most respectful
shades of attitude and language; you
cannot jump into intimacy with her, and
can only profit by her presence provided
you show yourself to be well worthy OF
it.-E,om Blackacood'S Magazine.
Year: 1872

If | were to give YOU motto TO 20
through life with, one that would stand
you for warning or counsel in any strait
in which you might find yourselves, | be-
lieve | would give 1t in this one word,
Now.


Don't waste your time, and your
strength, and your opportunities, by ell
ways meaning TO do something-do IL.
Only weakness comes of indecision.
Why, some people have so accustomed
thems' Ives to this way of dawdling alorg
trom.one thing'to another, that il really
seems impossible for them TO squarelv
make up their minds TO anything. They
never quite know what they mean to do
next, and their only pleasure seems to
consist in putting things off as long as
possible, and then dragging slowly
through them, rather than begin any
thing else. Don't live single hour of
your life without doing exactly what is
to be done in it, and going straight
through it, from beginning to end.
Work, play, study, whatever it is, take
hold at once and finish it up squarely
and cleanly, and then TO the next thing,
without letting any moments drop out
between. 1t is wonderful TO see how
many hours these prompt people con-
trive 10 make of day; it's as if they
picked up the moments that the dawdlcrs
lost. And if you ever find yourself
where You have So many things pressing
upon you that you hardly know how to
begin, let me tell You secret, take right
hold OF the very first one tl,at comes to
hand, and you'll find the rest all tall iu-
to file and follow after like company CT
well drilled soldiers, and though work
may be bard to meet VIII III il charges in
squad, it is easily vanquished if you
can bring it into line. You may have
often seen the anecdote of the man who
was asked how he had accomplished so
much in his life. "My father taught
me-" was the reply, "when l had any
thing to do, to go and do it,"


There is the sscret-the magic word
nO,c.-Liale Corporal
Year: 1872

Whether to button or 10 upbutton the low
ermost button of his vest was vital question
with young Toots at his first party. When a
man came in with the lower button buttoned,
what should the difident and deprecatory
IoOts do but button up his vest at the bottomi
But seeing the next man with the lower button
open, Tools in bewildered perplexity relaxed
his own. To be or not TO be-" said Hamlet
in his despair To button or not to button"
said the excited Toots in his despair.


Now. the trouble with Toois was a lack of
what the French call 0pLom6-straight-up- and
down-edness. He had no confidence in his
own Judgment in matter that was, to his own
locuiion, "of no consequence at ALL" Nine
tenths of the men and women in society are
quite as cowardly in trfles as was Mr. Toots
The despotism OF fashion lives upon this
cowardice. Men and women wait 10 see what
shade oil gloves is proper, that is to say, what
shade OF gloves their next neighbor wears
before they venture to decide for themselves
taste IS nothing, picturesqueness is out of the
question:; the hair must lie long or short the
hat large Or small, the panier big OF little, the
vest bultoned at the bottom or not, not accord.
ing TO individual taste or preference, but ac-
cordDg TO the prevailing custom. And who
then set The fashions? The people who dare
to do as they pleasc.


For instance, it is still an open question
whether or not gloves are to be worn at a gen.
ueman's party. At the last one we attended,
lcelng, ike MT. loots, little doubtful on the
point, we counted and just one-half the guests
had brought their kids. But gentleman of
our acquaintance recently tried a more curious
experiment He found himself at a gentle
mans party without his gloves, and noticing
the evident division of opinion in regard to
the wearing OF gloves, he mischievously un-
dertook to abolish then for the evening He
managed TO get into conversation with each of
the gentlemen who wore gloves, and then
spoke little decidedly of Pie impropriety of
wearing gloves. The result was that he found
each man in Toots state of mind and before
the evening was over there was not glove in
the room: 1t only wants little positiyeness
to make fashions.


One of the worst effects of this cowardce is
that II gives, or seems to give, narrow Drained
people right 10 dictate. The more one i. a
slave to custom, the more does one resent any
assertion of personal liberty on the part of
others. have no respect for him." said q
man TO US the other day in speaking of an
eminent author; he parts his hair in the
middle" AMI he spoke as though parting the
hair in the middle were a capital offense.
Now, the author in question may regard a
part in the middle as more becoming than a
part on the side What right have the whole
family of Grundics TO prescribe where q mans
hair shall be parted?


To tolerate differences is the first lesson that
generous culture teaches man, and our sem
sitiveness about matters which are, like the
vest buttons of the gentle Toots, " of no con-
sequence at all" only goes to show the semi
barbarous state of what we call civilized So
ciety.-Hedrh and Home
Year: 1872

UNACCoUNTABLE.-The following story
is told of young lady and gentleman at
fashionable party in Nashville: The
young man was handsome and happy,
the young lady arrayed in lavender, rose,
&c, with gold-powdered hair flowing
over her swan-like neck. Finding the
heat OF the room too much for them, they
sought the cool shade of an arbor, where
they might listen TO the fountains fall
The music rose and fell, time flew on sill
yer pinions, aud after All absence of at
least an hour, our young friends r,-snter-
ed the brilliantly illuminated parlors.
The lady passed on in the dance, but the
young man was slightly taken aback by
his next neighbor informing him that
round his neck was the unmistakable
print of two arms in chalk and diamond
dust, on one shoulder large pile Of yell
low powder, and on his upper lip and
cheek diamond dust, bloom of youth and
yellow powder mixed up generally. The
ladY's hair was observed TO be several
shades paler.
Year: 1872

In order TO explain Walter John
sons testimony and his state of mind,
I must carry the reader back nearly a
week. The scene was DIR. Small's of
flee. Bud and Walter Johnson had
been having some confidential CONVEX
sation that evening, and Bud had got
ten more out of his companion than
that exquisite but weak young man
had intended. He looked round in a
frightened way.
Year: 1872

From the n. Y World.


These noble lines, from the SOUTHERN
MAGAZINE for the current month, preaching
eloquently the sublime hcroism of peace,
come with peculiar grace and effect from a
member Of the sex ever last to forget the
reyengeiul heritage Of War:
Year: 1872

We find the following interesting
facts concerning the traffic in coral in


the Pail Mali Gazette.


"Coral is found in more or less
abundance along the coast of Regency


OF Tun1s, Algeria and the Mediterra


mean shores of Morocco, as we'll as in
the neighborhood Ct Sardinia, Naples,
Leghorn and Geneva, and the coasts OF


Catalonia and Provence Between
Bona and Biserta there are certain
banks rich in the product, which are


regularly f1equented by the coral boats.


There are also many other banks well


known to tie fsherermen at from fifteen


to twenty miles from mainland, but


those furnishing the best quality of


coral are off the Island of Galita. Tt
grows on rocks embedded in the mud.
and never on those lying on sandy and
clear bottoms. The coral found on the
Barbary coast is principally red, but
black and white, as well as the much
prlzed pink, also exist The latter
kind is more frequently obtained on
the Galita aud Fratelli rock banks. The


price of coral varies from las. e1 lis.
the pound: but the light pink or rose
colored coral, being extremely scarce
and IN demand, is often sold for fifty
times It's weight in gold. Coral is chiefly
worked INTO articles of jewelry and


beads at Terre del Greco, Leghorn and
Genoa. Formerly MarseilIes was a CEN
ter for It's manufacture, but now not
more than three hundred or four hun
dred Workmen are employed on it at
that port. Europe takes comparatively
a small share of the usual supply of
coral, the South American States, the
interior of Africa, the East Indies,
China and Japan being the best markets
for it. The dredge of which coral is
collected is formed of two pieces of
olive wood, each about six and one half
feet long, firmly nailed and lashed to.
gether, crosswise, a weight, generally
stone of fifteen or twenty pounds, be-
ing attached to The point of juncture
The crosswoods are suspended with
kind Of net made of hempen ropes, APP
parently unraveled, and forming
bunches resem bling ship swabs. From
sixteen to twenty Of these nets hang
round the woodwork, four or five others
being attached to long rope trailing
from the center weight, while third
rope with nets is fixed to one of the ex.
tremities Of the cross. The tow-line is
tied to the center of the dredge, which
IS dragged along the bottom of The sea,
the boat being under oars or sail. When
the dredge is felt to have become fixed
to rock the boat is brought imme-
dlately over the spot, and the dredge is
hauled up to a certain height, by hand
IN the small and by capstan on the large
craft, and then allowed to fall again on
the rock, and so until it is perceived
that the nets and cordage have lost
their hold, when the whole apparatus
is drawn on board and cleared of what
everpleces of coral may have broken off
the rock and became entangled in it..
Year: 1872

A curious marriage has just taken
place in one OF the Partisan churches.
The bridegroom, while marrying his
bride, was utterly unable to give her
his hand. The reason was that he had
no hand left (nor right either) to ex-
tend to her. 1t was fortunate that it
was not the bride who was in this con-
dition, as the service would have had
to be dispensed with on account of the
ring formality.


The fact of the case was that the
brave General Sumpt, the bridegroom,
had lost both his hands at the battle of
Froeschwiller He had been ordered to
carry a message Of the greatest imme-
diate Importance to another part of the
battle field, and just as he gathered up
the reins of his horse in both hands a
shell burst and deprived him of both
OF them at the same instant Since
then he has been made General and
Commander of the Hotel des InvaIides,
although this place had been formerly
abolished. 1t is said, however, that
some genius has made him q couple of
iron hands, which serve so well me-
chanically that he can write his name
with one OF them. 1t doesn't make
much difference what member of the
body is lost nowadays-science can
supply it.