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Year: 1872

PARGAINS IN HARDWARE and CUT
ID LERY, at 50 King street, corner of Royal.
The subscribers have on hand a large stock of
goods in their line, which were bought before
the great advance in prices-all of which they
will sell at a small advance on the original cost.
A trial is all we ask Call and see


mylI j. T. CREIGHTON & son.
Year: 1872

before which l shall be arraignec
will render their judgment agains
me. Whether my character be in
famous, whether I am no longe


worthy of the confidence of the peo


pie, will be decided in 1872, and un


til that final decision is rendered


care not how much my character i


aspersed by demagogues, for


know that a just and enlightened


people will sustain me. So far al


my public duties are concerned


I propose to perform them IL


the future as I have in the past


1 do not intend to be frightened


into the support Of any measure;


do not propose to be brow-beaten


into anything; I do not intend to


be influenced by any motives save


those which should govern an hon.


est, true man. While I do not


claim to possess all the honesty in


the State, yet I venture to say that


my character would appear as the


driven snow in comparison with the


character of those gentlemen who


have seen fit to. traduce and defame


me in their testimony before the


committee. If any one think more


than another has caused these
gentlemen to oppose me it is the


fact that I have at all times endea.


vored to exclude from the floor of
the Senate those lobbyists who have
corrupted the Legislature, if it has
been corrupted. How often have I
rose in my seat and asked that the
rules be enforced prohibiting those
men from entering the Senate
Chamber? How often have I asked
the presiding officer to protect me
from the opportunities of men who
were annoying me nearly to death
to get me to support their pet meas
ures? And yet these men have the
audacity to 60 before the con-
gressional committee and asperse my
character. If I have trespassed
upon the rights and privileges of
others; if I have been guilty of any
misdemeanor or malfeasance on Of
flee, there is a way to punish me.
Let these parties institute an inves-
tigation, and if I am found guilty 1
will bear the penalty without MUIR
muir. But until I am adjudged gull
ty by a competent tribunal, 1 ask
that these malignant vilifers be 81
fenced by the indignant voice of pub
lie opinion. If these gentlemen
must vomit forth something in de-
traction of my character, let them
confne themselves to the truth, and
not attempt by groundless accusa-
tions, to cover up their own hideous
deformites. The time will come,
and that soon, when I will be heard
in self-defense by the people, and
when that time does arrive these gen.
tlemen will doubtless be missing. I
shall not fail then to tell the people
what I know about these men. II
shall not attempt to cover up any of
my political or personal actions; I !
have done nothing that will not bear
investigation-nothing that I desire
to deny. Therefore, I can well af-
ford to meet these honorable gentle
men before the people 1 am sorry
[ have been forced to occupy the
time of the Senate in max
ing this personal explanation; but 1
deemed it my duty in justice to my
self, to do SO, as I will not have an
opportunity Of being heard before
the congressional committee. |
Year: 1872

A highly sensitive soul in
Wheeling, w. Va, hung him
self the other day because din
ner was not ready when he
came home. He was a dray-
man by occupation, and left a
family to take care of them
selves. Those are unfortunate
beings who are so constituted
that they cannot bear the ills
of life. Like fragile butter
flies, they are crushed by the
slightest burden, such, for in
stance, as the necessity o1
waiting half an hour for din.
ner. Poor devil of a drayman
He was too sensitive a spirit
fdf this cruel world.
Year: 1872

sOUTHERN SENSE.-A Nir-
ginia delegate stopped in front
of a newspaper stand this
morning and saw spread out
there a cartoon" of Horace
Greeley enjoying the specta-
Gle of Southern homesteads in
ruins, and women and orphans
weeping, the whole grim sketch
underlined with an extract from
the Tribune of 1862. The paper
in question was a Grant organ.


The delegate looked some
time, and said:


"That would be discourag-
ing, if our people down South
had not too much sense to mind
it. While we old rebels are
trying TO make our people for
get the war and their resent
ment toward the North, and
accept the whole situation for
the good of our children, these
organs are trying to keep alive
the embers Of hate and recrim-
ination for party uses. We
have been upbraided for years
because we were unrepentant
and sullen; and as soon as we
seek to reform that spirit all the
intellectual efforts ofthe North
ern party are exerted TO drive
us back to barbarism. We all
know, however, that everybody
in the North fought us, and if
we are going to take any North
ern man he will be found to
have some record against US
Pictures can't annoy us."-[N.
I. Herald's Baltimore Letter.
Year: 1872

A POINTED SALUTATORY.-
A new weekly paper has been
started in Bath county, Ken.
lucky. The editor says by way
Of salutatory: "We would as
soon expect to win a fortune
by betting against a pat hand
as to suppose that we shall
please everybody. No doubt in
the course of human events we
shall realize those pleasant lit
tie editorial episodes in which
indignant readers find no other.
soothing syrup for their
wounded feelings than by at
tempting to put a head on the
editor paint a mournful iex-
preston over bis eye; or, with
out consulting him as to wheth-
er be wants to be al angel and
with the angels Stand, endeav-
or to send him to that bourne
ION a dead head ticket from
whence no editor returns. We
stand six feet in our stockings
in the winter time-five feet
eleven inches and a half, with
out socks, in the summer sea-
son. Our principal amusement,
when boy, was TO throw one
hundred pound anvils over our
head, hold barrel of -four at
arm'slength, and practice other
muscular developments. Aid
ed by our early education in the
manly art, we shall endeavor
to hoe our own row, paddle our
own canoe, and hold a fun
hand in the editorial game Of
bluff"
Year: 1872

The eccentric 81. FL. Breckin-
ridge, one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of Penrsylvan-
ia, when q young man, was
challenged to fight a duel by
an English officer, whom he
answers as follows:


81 have two objections to this
duel matter-the one lest 7
should hurt one, and the other
lest you should me. 1 do not
see what good it would be to
put Il ball through your body
! can make no use of You when
yon are dead for any ordinary
purpose, as 1 would a rabbit or
turkey. / am no cannibal to
eat the flesh OF men. Why,
tLeD, shoot down human
creature, of whom I could
make no use? 4 buffalo would
make better meat; for, though
your flesh might be young aud
tender, yet it wants the firm-
ness which will take and re-
tain salt. At any rate it would
not do for a long sea voyage.


you might make a good
barbecue, it is true, being of
the nature of a raccoon or
opoSSum; but people are not in
the habit of barbecuing any
thing that is human now. As
to your hide, it is not worth
taking off, being a little better
than a two-year old calf.


$50 much for you. As for
myself, | do not like to stand
in the way of anythig hurtfuI.
| am under the impression
that you might hurt me. This
being the case, | think it the
most advisable to stay at dis
tance. If you meant to try
your pistols, take a tree or a
barn about my dimensions. II
you hit that, send me word,
and | will acknowledge that if
| had been in the same place,
you might have hit me-"
Year: 1872

Our people are swindled out
Of their money and health by
the use of the Internal mix
lures Of quacks, under the
general name Of bitters. The
vocabalaries Of all nations are
ransacked to give them names
to please the fancy, and ex-
cite curiosity. The bases Of
these frauds are the lowest
grades Of whisky. The very
fact Of their being sold so
cheaply should warn all who
are not natural fools Of their
nature and properties. Some
rough writer has divided man
kind into two classes-the
humbuggeTs and the humhug-
ged. This definition is strict
ly true applied to the manu-
facturers and consumers Of
bitters. The man who buys q
bottle Of bitters is paying for
a fraud perpetrated upon him
self, and not only this, he is
swallowing a poison in dis
guise. We will ciie an in
stance in which the nature of
these celebrated nostrums was
exposed, and it should warn
every one against all the trash
sold under the name of bitters.
Some time since the proprietor
of the celebrated Red jacket
Bitters instituted a suit againss
the inventor of the Red Cloak
Bitters for an Infringement on
his rights. During the trial
an analysis was instituted, and
the Red Jacket hell-broth
found to be composed of the
vilest Cincinnati whisky,
"doctored" with jamestown
(Jimpson) weed, dog-fennal
and other interesting way-side
weeds. We advise our friends
and the "rest of mankind" to
beware of bitters.-T Macon
Beacon.
Year: 1872

1t takes money to run a
newspaper as well as any
other business, and no paper
succeeds financially that car
ries on a dead-head system
Any mention Of the peoples
affairs they wish to see in
print, is worth paying for, and
when printed is generally as
beneficial as any other invest
ment of the same amount
Boston Advocate.
Year: 1872

A TRIGHrFuL RAILROAD CATASTROPHE hap
pened yesterday afternoon to the mail train
going North on the Buffalo, Cory and Pitts
burg Railroad. Nineteen lives are already
known to have been lost and at least thirty
five persons are badly wounded The train
was slowed down in approaching Prospect sta
Lion. In crossing trestle bridge, within
Eighty rods of the latter place, broken rail
Threw the cars off the track. They crashed
Through the woodwork and were precipitated
nearly thirty feet. The engine, strange to say,
got safely over the bridge. The cars when
FALLEN and overturned took fire, adding the
tortures of fame to those caused the unfortu-
nate inmates by the shock and the fall.
Year: 1872

abstraction order our bills of fare. The Re-
ligion of Humanity-which in our present cal
low stage seems 90 much like that of Inhu-
manity-will wean us from the selfshness Of
inordinate appetites and sensual yearnings.
Our only refuge is to hope that we shall be as
inconsistent then as we now are; that animal
ism viii prove too much for us, and that in
obedience to its dictates we shall continue to
make holiday oat of what was originally
holy day. A year without Christmas is like
cage without canary and q canary without
song. 1t is good that our immured
civilization should occasionally hop and sing.
We are afraid to think what the condition of
the world will be when the bells Of Trinity no
longer give forth their Christmas chimes and
puta multitudinous tongue into the mouth of
moribund December-when the Post Office is
finished and the East River Bridge is built,
and the underground railroad completed, and
the earth is riddled with pneumatic tunnels,
and Tennyson's navies grapple in the central
blue, and not q drop of oil is needed 10
The astronomer who watches worlds grow into
being and other worlds expire may be par
doned for anticipating the hour when this
revolving atom upon which the human tragedy
enacts itself shall perform its last gyration
and then drop forever, unregarded, out of
sight. But the average man does not look,
and does not care to look, through physical
or mental telescope. He believes in the pc
rennity of Christmas, and we have not the
slightest desire to rob him Of so pleasant .
solace Tradition AYERS that during . hurri-
cane in Raleigh, England, an old church was
engulfed by an immense mound of DEBRIS but
during every Christmas-tide the villager who
treads the desolated spot hears, with reverent
fear, the church bells ringing fathoms beneath
him, faint as the horns Of elf-land and plain
tive as an infants wall. This is the kind Of
music Christmas makes in the popular heart.
Bury it as we will beneath mounds of practi-
cality and ghrewdness, you ere sure i to bear the
bells ring if you listen for them. And 80 we
welcome Christmas confident that it will be
celebrated with all the old fervor wherever the
English language is spoken and the New York
HERALD is read.
Year: 1872

\ TEE SECOND DAYS EXAMINATION AT THE
BroKEs TRIAL, which took place yesterday, was
without any novelty. The witnesses were all
Sor the prosecution, and all appeared on the
Brst trial. The public interest in the case
Eeems TO be reserved for the line Of defence.
Year: 1872

The IR1sH-ANDERsoN TRIAL, which has oc-
cupied the attention Of the public for some
time, was practically concluded yesterday At
half-past two o'clock the jury had heard the
summing up of the District Attorney and the
charge of the learned Judge and retired to
consider their verdict. UP to the hour of our
going to press the result of their deliberation
was unannounced
Year: 1872

SIXTY LOCOMOTIVES FROZEN UP in Indiana
will attest the severity in that quarter of this
tidal wave of freezing air from the Arctic re-
gions, the approach of which we announced
five days ago.
Year: 1872

That Cold ATMOSPHERIC TIDAL WAVE
The HERALD's PREDICTION FULFILLED.
the goth instant, in an editorial on the SUBJ
ject, we gave notice Of the approach of great
wave of freezing Arctic air from the North
west-that this wave had passed the Rocky
Mountains and was spreading itself over our
Northwestern States this side and along the
great lakes, and that it would descend upon
the Atlantic coast in intensely rigorous and
frosty weather for two or three days. And
since Sunday morning last from the Northern
Mississippi eastward to the seaboard this cold
atmospheric wave from the SHOWS of the
Rocky Mountains has given us wintry touch
of Dakota. Our editorial prediction was spe-
cifc and minute, giving in detail the move
ments and the causes of this current of
Arctic Dir, and the fulflment is as complete
as that of q scientifically predicted eclipse Of
the sun or the moon. Such are the advances
made by men of science, with the assistance
Of the electric telegraph in discovering the
laws of the fluctuations of heat and cold and
winds and storms
Year: 1872

The Committee Of Ways and Means have
had Mr.. Boutwell, fairly before them in an
exhaustive investigation Of his operations in
placing one hundred and thirty million dol
lars of the new loan in connection with the
famous Syndicate. The general features of
the story have been already developed and
are pretty well known to the public, but de-
rive new interest from their fresh and detailed
by the Secretary Of the Treasury,
under the pressure Of the committees inquisi-
ton as given elsewhere in our columns.


Mr.. Boutwell, adheres to his assertion that
he could not avoid the payment Of eleven per
cent interest on the one hundred and thirty
million dollars during the three months that
this amount of the debt was undergoing tran
sition from six per cent into five per cent
bonds. The new bonds, he testifes, were paid
for with certificates of deposit which bore no
interest but were secured by pledge of six
per cent and other bonds pending the expira-
ton of the ninety days allowed for the return
of the bonds called in for refunding. Here
lies the kernel of this very big financial nut,
which the Syndicate cracked to their great
profit. Mr.. Boutwell, protests his inability to
have done otherwise than as he did.


But why, we will ask, did he not hold the
new five per cents themselves as collateral for
the subscriptions to the new loan2 The pro-
cess would have been much simpler and GER
tainly more secure, for, as the Secretary says
in his testimony, he was at one time greatly
apprehensive as to who should bear the loss
should there have been any hitch in the Syndi-
cate operation, which by sheer good luck there
was not. BY holding the new bonds and de-
Quoting the interest on them until the sub
scribers redeemed their certificates of deposit
with coin or with the called six per cents, the
Secretary Of the Treasury would have nego-
tated the one hundred and thirty million dol
lars without the loss of the one and one-quar-
ter per cent interest thereupon that went to
the Syndicate. 1t is useless to plead that this
one and one-quarter per cent was q necessary
outlay. Had this commission or allowance
been given as an inducement to the SUBJ
scribers to the new loan the plea would have
some weight But every cent Of it went to
the Syndicate. The subscribers paid the full
rate for the bonds, just as if they had dealt
directly with the government.


The question suggests itself, then, Why can
not the remainder Of the loan be negotiated
without the Intervention of the Syndicate and
without the repetition of the jobbery of last
yearp
Year: 1872

antithesis between the primitive significance
of the day and the secondary character it has
acquired will strike all who reflect upon it.
Looking back for one hundred years, what
means this holocaust of capons, hens, turkeys,
geese ducks, beef, mutton, pork, pies, pud-
dings, nuts, plums and sweetmeats; what sig
Nifty the music and dancing, the conjuring and
the riddles, the forfeits and laughter and
repartee what portend the hot cookies and
foot-plough, the snap-dragon and wassail-
bowl, the yule log and the soused boar's head
the evergreen and the mistletoe, but that in
simple animal enjoyment mankind is striving
to forget the sin and misery which wove for
crown from sight beneath nosegay from the
hothouse, and are willing to forget the 'It is
finished" with the grace that is said over our
roast beef and plum pudding.


Some thoughts are due to the Christmas of
the Future, for we may feel pretty certain that
in time our frosty-bearded friend will pass
away and silently take his place among the
well-used and exhausted institutions of man
kind. With tho change that comes over the
popular religion the aspect of Kris Kringle
will change too. Possibly another generation
shall see him arrive at the lean and slippered
pantaloon. The only pantaloon he now con-
sorts with is that which accompanies harle-
quin. But oil this is subject to transfgura-
ton. If it be true that in Auguste Comte is
to be found the religion of advancing centu-
ries we must prepare to bid gradual goodby
to turkey and mince pie as distinctively en-
blematic of the Christmas season. Positive
philosophy will Law our tablecloths and cold
Year: 1872

IINHE above is an engraving of Steam Boiler con-
Il tanning 1900 feet of heating surface, built upon
new principle, namely that of stopping the verticai
circut 1tion, accomplished by of two horizon
tai didphrdgms running through the boiler, and
forming three water compartments. By this ar
rangement there is maintained three temperatures of
water -4.. -.i-r


The smeke and heated gases pass first through the
tubes in the upper compartment, then descend and
roturn through the tubes in the second compartment
thence again descending they pass through the tubes
In the third compartment. By this operation the
smoke, and heated gases from the furnace on their
tact with gradually decreasing temperatures of
water.


While doing average work, coupled with good
engine it will supply steam for $50 indicated horse
power.


We will guarantee that this boiler will shew 80
per cent more power with the same weight of coal
than any boiler of the heating surface in the
Market and will continue to do so, long 1t is
used and we will back our guarantees with Gov
ERNMENT BONDS.


The durability of this boiler is greater than any
other for the is that cold water is allowed
to come in contact with the intensely heated surfaces
the feed water being gradually heated it ascends
from the lower to the upper compartment


We would especially call the attention of Railroad
to the following facts that while running this
boierwith coal or wood the sparks are neutrazed
and none have ever left the smoke-stack or chimney
which in itself is a most valuable advantage never
before realized.


Confning ourselves to practice and not theory we
invite all parties in want of Steam Boilers to give us
a call


W. 7. BROWN & CO., General Agents.


dc18 Cor. Middle and Exchange SITS
Year: 1872

The new postal bill enacted before Con-
gress rose, authorizes one cent postal
cards for correspondence or for printed
circulars, similar to those which were in
troduced in Great Britain nearly two
years ago and are now in use in nearly all
European countries. Whether the card
shall be provided by flap to cover and
conceal the writing is for the Postmaster
to decide, who is said to prefer the open
card, and will order that kind only to be
manufactured. The face of the card will
bear one cent stamp, and will be pro-
vided with lines far the address, and the
back will be ruled for the letter. The
price of the card and stamp will be only
one cent. 1t will probably be three or
four weeks before they viii he ready for
sale, as TIE plates Tor printing have yet
;c be prepared Tn POSTAGE on circu-
lars, newspapers and other transient
printed matter, which under the old law
was two cents for every four ounces or
less small circulars, which formerly cost
two cents can now be sent for one cent,
an important reduction to business men
who use the mails largely to advertise
their business. The change is now in
force, the law being immediate in its ef-
fectS
Year: 1872

TAILLEss TROUT IN ScorLAND.--At the
late meeting of the British Association
some so-called tailless trout were exhibit
ed, which were said to occur in coxidera-
bic numbers in u certain loch in Scotland,
about a thousand feet above the level Of
the sea, and about one acre in extent.
It is so shallow that man can wade
through it, and has q stony bottom, with
q few weeds. Although surrounded by
other lochs, the tailless trout were found
exclusively in the one in question. The
precise nature of the mutilation was not
given. It was stated in the discussion
which ensued upon the exhibition of this
specimen that in other localities in Great
Britain there were streams in which trout
without tails, and sometimes without
other tinS. were not uucomEnou.
Year: 1872

The field Of Journalism is 80 very lim-
tied here rs to afford but little room for
varying from the old routine which has
always characterized the Carson press;
and while we cannot expect to startle this
community with the exhibition of novel
ties; and while it would be the hight of
extravagant folly for us to attempt such


mpossibilities as the publication of full
(or even eondensed) telegraphic reports:
and absurd as it would be for US to branch
out into the realms Of big newspaperdom !;
We cannot, in reason, be expected to sur
pass our worthy local contemporary in
much besides an exhibition Of our inhe-
rent goodness and amiability four we'll
known distinctive qualities); but We are
unlike our neighhor, the Register in SO far
as We do not intrude our journalistic lucu-
brations upon the sacredness of the
Christian Sabbath-for, as will be OBJ
served, we publish on Monday and not on
Sunday mornings. May our example not
be lost upon our unregenerated neiShbor!


Another of our new features-and this,
no joking, is something worth while-is
what appears to-day for the first time
in Carson (first time since the early
days, at any rate) namely: correct and
full reports of the evening transactions
of the San Francisco Stock Board. This
will enable US to accommodate our friends
here and on the river considerably in ad-
vance of any other papers.


So fast as other possible improvements
suggest themselves We shall make them.