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Year: 1872

A WICKED TYRANT.-Neda Karu, the King of Corea, was, by nature and train. ing, bigoted, cruel and fckle. At one moment he would raise an humble serf to the highest office in day or two thereafter this same whilom favorite would be seen standing upon the execu- tioner's block for some real or fancied ofsense. The king's spasms of generosity toward his own subjects were invariably followed by acts of oppression toward those unfortunate Christians who were endeavoring to find means of subsistence within the realms of his kingdom. As a solitary instance, will state the fact that as Neda Karu was one day walking along past the public baths of his capi- tai, he suddenly professed to be annoyed by the confusion within, and upon being informed it came from the female bathers there, he immediately ordered every means of exit to be walled up, and thus miserably perished all the unfortunate inmates to the number of about three score During his bloody reign of some thing like thirty years, no less than thirty thousand people were put to death, while nearly one hundred and fifty places ot worship were destroyed by his orders

 The most fiendish outrages were daily practiced upon all foreigners. They were denied the privilege of purchasing even the common necessaries of life. Corean merchants were forbidden to ex- tend to them the smallest favors. Neither gold nor affection could purchase im- munity from the ty rants cruel mandate, nnd when some hundreds of them were forced by the kings prosecutions to leave his domains, they were forbidden the use of animals or boats, and were thus com pelled to travel out of the country on foot or perish in the attempt Death, even, was sweeter to them than life, endured under such manifold horrors. And yet the name of this wholesale butcher, this relentless prosecutor, this fend in human shape, is to-day looked up to by all native Coreans with all reverence and love.
Year: 1872

A SINGULAR MEETING. A somewhat singular episode of real life occurred on the piazza of the Union Hotel Saratoga the afternoon of the great race. A some what noted woman, formerly singer of some prominence, while walking with her present husband, chanced to pass, in her promenade, directly between two of her former husbands. The three men each of whom had loved the same woman end who hated each other mortallv, glanced at each other for a moment. The woman,in her beauty, her diamonds, and her airy summer dress, eyed all three curiously. There was a moment ary pause, then the lady and her escort stepped forth in diverging directions, and the episode was over. There are ever and anon strange meetings at Sara tOga
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
An uusimsly grave with bilious complaints,
there is bat Que truly great and reliable
remedy, aud that is
Year: 1872

Action In the Nisi Prtus Court OF


Philsdelphia to Prevent tho Com


struction OF tho stanhope and Other


Portions OF tho Road.


PHILADELPHIA, August IL, 1872.


The National Railway Company, regularly char
tered organization which processes to construct
double track railroad from Philadelphia to New
York, is meeting with much opposition from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who now have the
exclusive control Of the united railroads of New
Jersey. The National Railway leased the right on
July to construct the Stanhope Railway, road
which Is designed to run from the Pennsylvania
Railroad through some parts already designated.


AS some stockholders OF the National Rail-
way have brought an action before the Supreme
Court asking that tribunal to restrain the National
Railway from collecting the recent assessment Of
five dollars per share, levied for construction pur
poses, the ground that the lease OF the
StanhOpe's Railroad COmpany's franchise to the
National Railway was illegal, the plaintiffs In
the case bring forward document, signed by the
President Of the Senate and Speaker Of the
Assembly of New Jersey, alleging that the
charter OF the Stanhope Railroad Company was
surrepttiOusly altered and that the charter In the
original manuscript and that in the Office OF the
Secretary OF State are different. The National
Railway deny these charges, and state that no
matter what The opinion OF the Supreme Court OF
Pennsylvania may be the construction OF the road
will progress without interruption.
Year: 1872

MONEY CONTINUES EASY,
Notwithstanding the unfavorable character of
Saturdays bank statement, and although at one
time the rate on call touched four per cent the
ruling figure was three per cent, with exceptions
at two per cent. Time loans Still in demand,
and in discounts short date paper at previous
rates.


STOCKS ACTIVE, EXCITED AND IRREGULAR.


The chief interest OF the street centred In the
stock market, where the bears made sharp raid
early in the day, carrying prices down through
out the entire list Western Union led the decline,
going of TO 69h, but recovering later In the day to
r. The recovery is attributed to the correction
semofIlcially, OF false impression that the COM
pany had been selling their own stock, the sales
being stated to be by outside parties intimate but
not connected with the management. With this
rally In western Union the whole list reacted the
MARKET leaving of dull but strong The other
favorites were Union Pacific, New York Central
Lake Shore, Ohio Rock Island, G. q. and l. c. and
Northwest. ST. Paul preferred was quoted ex divi-
dcnd. The following were the highest and lowest
prices of stocks during the day.
Year: 1872

The public are requested to give their atte ntion to the above circular ,f | S J. GOLD, who has been so long l engaged in the business of Heating, and manufacturing apparatus for it.

 The plan upon which this new ap- paratus is made and operated is entirely new and novel.

 It is constructed upon the most sim pie and yet the most effectuaI principle of Heating yet discovered.

 There are a number of them now in operation in different parts of the coun- try, and the results of the trial have been very gratifying to both the invent or and manufacturer.

 The economy in the use of fuel and its heating capacity is t'uly wonderful, no such results having ever before been achieved by any previous invention

 It is only designed in this notice to call the attention of the public or any who may wish to secure what the in ventor says in his circular above,- '' ample warmth without injury to health, ,''-to this new invention which probably will come into general use in all our country homes, as we'll as in the homes of the wealthy who live iu the large cities and towns. It is subject uf interest to all who have homes where health, comfort and pleasure are sought after.

 TAny person who may wish par ticulars about the size, price or descrip ton of the apparatus, or any informa tion whatever, are requested to call ant \ see one in operation, or address
Year: 1872

The Postmaster General the right to reject
any and all bids If in his judgment the interests the
government require it also the right to annu the
time to perform faithfully any Of Its stipuations in
case OF wu attempt to impose upon the Department
stamps inferior to those in USE


PAYMENTS.


Payments for stamps actually Issued and delivered will
be made quarterly after proper ton and adjust
Year: 1872

1t would appear from the accounts that
reach us that the contending factions in
Osceola have abandoned their warlike demon
STATIONS and returned to state Of peace.


We hope that their common sense will prevent
any future outbreak on the part of either the
blacks or the whites Both parties had better
learn as quickly as possible to live together
quietly, as they must do, whether they like it
or not. The whites may regard the existence
Of the colored race as an unmixed evil, but
they cannot be permitted to exterminate their
former slaves, and so they accept the situa-
ton. Of course we do not wish the govern
ment Of the South to fall into the hands of
ignorant blacks and low, thieving whites
but the men who are guilty Of acts Of violence
are the persons most responsible for
the continuance of carpet-bag rule.
If the people of the South would only frankly
accept the situation, and prove by their con-
duct that they do SO, in short time no gov
ernment would dare to continue in power the
class Of men who have been plundering the
South for the last few years. There is feel
ing in the North in favor of Cancellation too
strong for any government to resist, if it were
not neutralized by hostile demonstrations
which occur from time to time in the South.
As the administration of General Grant during
his next term will have no object in continu-
ing the present unsatisfactory state Of affairs
in the South, we look forward to the inaugura-
ton of more liberal policy in our domestic
relations, which will secure to the nation peace
and prosperity. II is the duty Of the South to
Year: 1872




Each year adds to the commercial ties which
connect our interests with those of the several
European States. We now greet the arrival of
the Glamorgan, the pioneer of new line be-
tween New York and South Wales. This line
is established by wealthy company, its promi-
of the largest of British landowners, and is de-
signed to build up the trade of the port of
Cardiff and develop the resources of Wales by
direct trade in its products with the unlimited
market of the United States. They will bring
us Welsh iron and other metals, and what is
of more value to us, class Of hardy and indus
trious immigrants, and carry back our grain
and provisions. Every enterprise which
brings us direct trade with the ports Of the
Old World helps to swell the trade and increase
the prosperity of our metropolis but how
much more advantage should we reap from
them if good portion of the ocean steamers
carried the Stars and Stripes instead Of the
flags of our transatlantic neighbors? After
the dcpredations of the Confederate cruisers
had swept our shipping from the ocean unwise
legislation has persistently perpetuated the
evil. We estop our citizens from buying ships
in the cheapest markets and thus voluntarily
offer the foreign capitalists premium for
doing the business which should be in the
hands of our own people Were our shipping
merchants allowed to buy the low-priced Clyde
steamers and give them American registers
we should soon see America taking leading
part in the vast ocean carrying trade, with
its rich profits, and giving employment to a
large number of American seamen. To amend
this is one of the most positive duties of Con-
gress, and should be among the first subjects
to claim its attention.
Year: 1872

An adjourned meeting OF the committee OF the
Second Avenue Railroad extension was held yester-
day afternoon at 50 Nassau street. Nearly two
hours were taken up with the discussion Of legal
points, and but one witness was examined Mr..
Conoyer the President OF the Beecker street line,
who said that the new grant to the Second Avenue
Railroad was in his estimation worth $75,000 pro-
vidcd that the grant would extend for 100 years.


gentleman who was examined few days since
declared that the grant was not worth six cents to
any company, and another one, who knows thing
or two about railroad matters, informed the
that he as an individual would give that amount
for the franchise.


The commission who are examining the case, and
who are not experts In railroad matters, Will havN
some little difficulty Ia settling on just sum ~
the city.
Year: 1872

Convention. But there are broader and
deeper reasons than these for this substan-
TALLY unbroken popular strength of General
Grant He has made some bad appoint
ments; he has permitted too much triAing
and temporizing on the part Of Mr.. Secretary
Fish in reference to Spain and Cuba he has
apparently too much neglected the claims for
protection and security of our plundered citi-
zens along the Rio Grande; he has dealt too
leniently with those Mexican moss troopers;
he has carried his Quaker policy some
what too far with our refractory West
ern Indians, and we fear that he has
depended too much upon the bayonet
and too little upon the olive branch in his
policy of Southern reconciliation. He has
certainly alienated many old republican
leaders who were among his strongest sup
porters in 1868. But all these objections and
impediments are overbalanced in the public
mind by this paramount consideration, that
whereas oil the financial and business affairs
of the country will at least be safe with the
continuance for another term of this admins
tration, they may all be imperilled with the
sudden advancement to power of new party,
full of revolutionary reformers and dangerous


financial schemes.


The fixed financial and business interests of
the country, then, hold the controlling power
in this canvass, and dissatisfied politicians,
however noisy or numerous, are powerless
against the conservative judgment Of the
people. AS for the scandalous personalities
of fbo rtxy, Gvon NJ i,,ot
Greeley they have reacted against the offenders
Certainly while grateful people remember
the inestimable public services of General
Grant they will turn deaf ear to those who
recklessly arraign him as an imbecile, or
speculator, or despot, in his great Office In
chanan-when the expenditures of the
government were from forty to sixty
millions o year, and the financial and
business interests of the country were regu-
lated in each State by its local banks, it was
comparatively easy task for combination of
active politicians to change the administration
at Washington. But now, with universal
national currency quadrupled in the amount
as compared with our general circulation be-
fore the war, and with this universal currency
depending with our national securities upon
the national government, the people must be
satisfied, not upon political distractions, but
upon dollars and cents, that change in the
administration is demanded, before they decree
it. The inevitable negro, sometimes called
King Cotton, was the dominating power in our
political affairs down to the war and thence to
the Fifteenth amendment; but now and hence
forward the king in regulating the Presiden-
tial succession is the " almighty dollar" in
reference to the general financial interests Of
the country. In this campaign this potential
king is on the side Of the administration, and
hence the strength of General Grant; but in
the next contest for the government Of the
national Treasury he may be with the opposi-
ton. We can only await and watch the course
of events
Year: 1872

TIE EprHRrIc Is AT Irs WoRsT among us,
and we have reason to believe that, notwith-
standing the widespread suffering among the
unfortunate animals and the numerous
fatal cases yesterday, the disease is on
the decline in this city. The disgusting
sight on several Of the cor lines
yesterday Of wretched, tottering brutes drag
ging the trebly over-laden vehicles was to be
witnessed from morning until night Dum-
mics may now be used on the lines in this city
and it is to be hoped, if the arrangement can
be carried on under safe conditions, that the
enfeebled horses will get chance to re-
cover. The disease has reached Philadelphia
and Binghamton, showing that, If it spreads
further South, it will be by very slow degrees.
Reports from the cities northward and east
ward encourage us to think that they, also.
are recovering from tho visitation
Year: 1872

new sensation play was produced at this house
last night under the title OF "Auramania," which
the bill translates for us as "Gold Mad" It Is from
the pen OF Miss Johanna Prtchard, who sustains
the character OF the heroine through the most
startling changes OF fortune. Most OF the scenes
are well conceived but somewhat strongly di avn,
and tinged with the deep dramaticsm in which
the unWaShed delight.
Year: 1872

i wish l was an editor,


really do, indeed;
II &c ms to me that editors.
Get everything they need.
They get the biggest and the best
or everything that grows,
Ani get in free to circuses


And other kinds Of shows;
And when mammoth cheese Is cut
They always get slice,
For saying Mrs. Smith knows how
To make il very nice;
The largest pumpkin, largest beet,
And other garden stuff,
Is blown into the snncturn ty
An editorial puff;
The biggest bug will speak TO them,
No matter how they dress
A shabby coat is nothing, if
You own printing press.
At ladies' lairs they re almost huggcd
By presty girls, you know,
That they may crack up everything
The ladies have to show
And thus they get a blowout free,
At every Iarty feed
The reason is because they write
And other people read.
Year: 1872

Here is the way Horace Greeley reas-
oned with the Incorporate people of the
North who clamored for the hanging of
JEFF. Davis" in 1866. On the 18th of
April of that year, he spoke in the Tri-
bune as follows:


THE New y ork Times, doing injustice TO
IFS own sagacity in a characteristic attem pit


to sail between wind and water says Let


us hang JEFF. Davis and spare the rest We


do not concur in the advice. Davis did not


advise or instigate the rebellion; on the


contrary. he was one of the latest and most


reluctant of the notables of the cotton States


to renounce definitely the Union. His


prominence is purely official and represen-
tative: the only reason for hanging him Is
that YOU therein condemn and Stlgmatlze
persons than in hanging any one else
And to what good end? We are most anX-
ious to secure the assent OF the south TO
emancipation; not that assent Whlch the
condemned gives TO being hung when ne
shakes hands with his jailer and thanks hlm
for past acts of kindness; but that hearty
assent which can only be won by magma
nimity. Perhaps the rebels, as a body,
would have given, even a year ago, as
large and as hearty vote for hanging the


writer of this article. as any other man lIv-
ing: hence, it more especially seems to him
in1portant to prove that the civilization
based on free labor is of higher and hu-
maner type than that based on slavery
we cannot realize that the qualification to
inure to our friends from the banging of
any one man, oR4ifty men, s9Qt1d be allow
ed to Outweien this consideration"
Year: 1872

Nothing gratities us more than the
readiness into which the Democratic
journalists of this State, who opposed the
the nomination Of Greeley by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention, in adj
vance Of the meeting Of that body, as
they had a perfect right to do without
having their motives questioned-have
bowed to the decision of the highest tri-
bunal Of their party, and entered the
ranks to do battle for the overthrow OF
the Grant despotism under its chosen
leader Col. A. Y. Harper of the
States newspaper, in the conclusion Of a
graphic exposition Of the situation in
which the Southern communities are
placed, says:


Let us look to this new hope in the con-
tidence that something yet may be saved
from the wreck that has Sickened the true
patriot during the last decade Let us at
least. place the banner on the battlements
of despotism and make bold assault upon
the strongest works, if we die in the attempt
to make the breach No sentimentalism
here. now, but the earnestness of men that





the oppressed citizen-tOr the saving of the
Inheritance.


Dr. Fant's (West Point) Citizen con-
tains strong article on the fundamental
creed of the party of strict construction,
setting forth the grounds ofits previous OPP
position to the acceptance of Greeley as
the candidate of the Democracy-but
says:


Feeling a conscience void of offence in
our efforts to maintain the principles of
Constitutional liberty, we bow to the will
of the people as expressed through the Bal
timore Convention, but without the sur
render of Il single principle which VIC en-
tertain and cherish.


The Oxford Falcon sees nothing which
promises deliverance from the course of
Radical misrule but the support of
Greeley under the cirumseances it
says:


With this long, black catalogue of evils
inflicted upon the country staring us in the
tace and ringing in our ears, we turn from
freedoms shrine, where lie embalmed the
hopes OF the people, with deep, solemn
ard lasting protest against the outrage, and
will vote for Greeley i'll preference TO
Grant.


The DeSoto Times brings forcibly to
the intelligence Of its readers the good
ends that Twill be gained" by the election
of Greeley in preference to Grant, and
declares its choi ce in the words:


We still believe it would have been bet
ter lin the long rum to have scorned the
proposition to cealesce, bat as we are in the
minority, we good naturedly yield to the
majority and TO those who are worthy to be
trusted, and are going to make the best we
can ont of a very bad thing, for surely '"tis
an i'll wind that blows nobody good"
Year: 1872

L rom lilt AtlCdRO tribune.
Coming into the city on a c., b. and
q. train, as it entered the suburbs yes
terday, youngster about 10 years old,


with one leg amputated to very brief
stump, was observed handling his crutch
briskly along the side of the track, evil
IDENTIFY with a skilled purpose to get his
momentum up to that Of the rapidly
moving train. He did it and climbed
upon the rear platform, and sat down as
cool as though his feat had not excited
the wonder of a score Of passengers who


watched him. The appearance was as
if a lame lad had taken some risk to
secure a ride downward But ut Canal
street he climbed down from his perch,
and went back down the track with flying
leaps, like kangaroo, with the evident
purpose Of boarding long freight train,
already under good headway in the op-
posite direction. 1t was an exploit only
the most adroit (and venturesome) rail
way employe would think Of attempting,
50 great was the speed Of the train; but
again the brisk monopede achieved it,
clung like a Monkey to the iron ladder
on the side of the car, near the rear Of
the train, and went up, hand over hand,
with his crutches under his arm The
next instant he was running or rather
hopping with long leaps Mt full speed
along the top Of the cars, taking the
interspaces as easily as boy skips over
crosswAlk And then we learn that
this nudge is the victim Of an extraordi-
nary passion for riding on the ears. OF
course he lost his leg in this way at the
Great Eastern crossing eighteen months
ago, and was provided with attendance
and light crutch by the railroad compa-
ny. Any one would think the loss of
a leg would be lesson for lifetime, but
instantly on recovery he resumed his
sport, which mad become a passion
Since that time he passes his whole day
in the manner above noticed. His mis-
fortune has really equipped him with
means of locomotion with which he dis
tances all two legged youngsters. lie
captures every train that passes, takes
excursions into the country at will, sure
of being able to compass his return in
the same way. Railroad employees scold
and put him off, but his crippled eondi-
ton secures Kim immunity, and as he
never mounts a train until ii is in motion,
he gives them the option to stop the train
or throw him off. There is no moral to
the story beyond the mention Of the
fact If the loss of leg is no lesson to
boys to keep off moving trains, there
seems to be no remedy except to shorten
them at the other end. Perhaps, after
all, it is as well for the trains TO carry
this youngster as prominent advertise
ment to other lads of the peril of the
practice of which he is so noted an exam
nj