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Year: 1872

The CarIist insurrectiou in Spain Is at
an end. 1t was never supposed that the
Carlists were capable of meeting the
Government forces in the field; some
time ago we took occasion to show why.
All that they could hope to do at best
was to hamper the movements of regular
troops by guerrilla warfare, cutting off
supplies, attacking isolated detachments,
and by making raids into the loyal pro
vinces of the Kingdom. They hoped,
meanwhile, that the Republicans and
other malcontent factions, of which there
is always plentiful crop in the peninsu-
10, might, perhaps, if not making com
mon cause with them, which was scarcely
probable, at least effect diversion in
their favor by setting up revolution in
some other quarter on their own account.
Year: 1872

NEW SPRING AND SUMNER GOoDs.-
The New York store have received their
new spring and summer stock of goods,
aud challenge an examination by the
trading public. They have received a
nice line of hats, boots. shoes, CATERS,
etcetera.


They call especial attention TO their
assortment of ribbons, such as trimmings
for hats, bonnets, and sash ribbon in all
colors.


The expenses of the house being very
small they can afford to sell with very
small profit, and will prove their s6ility
in this line to those who favor them with
call.


Thanking the public for past favors,
they solicit u continuance, and promise
to strive the more earnestly to deserve
the same in the future.


p s. They have received a full line
of their side lace serge CATERS made ex-
pressly for the Hickman trade.
Year: 1872

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There is an impression extending
among the people that, in the admitted
hard struggle before him for reelection,
President Grant will have the active aid
and support of the national banks. These
banks are some 100 in number, and
have capital of over $500. 100000.
The influence which they might exert
in any combined effort they should make
would be enormous. They constitute the
most compact and powerful single in
terest in the country, and if one of the
features of the presidential campaign
should be their apparition on the field
as ieagued auxiliaries of one of the con-
tending parties, and united supporters
of one of the candidates, the effect would
undoubtedly be serious.


The ultimate result of the extraordi-
nary experiment would be, either the re
election of Grant and the Transformation
of the national banks which. had done
the work for him into favorite appen>
dage to the semi imperial system that
would follow; or the defeat of Grant In
spite of the national banks, and the mer-
ciless annihilation of tie latter by the
exasperated victors. Neither of these
results is to be desired; either would be
widely and deeply injurious to the coun-
try, and either would be attended by
much violence and injustice; and for
these reasons the national banks will do
we'll to reflect carefully before they ven-
ture on the experiment which popular
apprehension attributes to them.
Year: 1872

The election for Directors of the
Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad oc
ours August the 18th, and it is under
stood that nothing definite in regard to
q connection between the Iron Noun
tain aud Northwestern will be determin-
ed upon until then.
Year: 1872

either by Wholesale retail. as cheap as
any other house IN o1Ir city. will give in
exchange for all kind Of produce and invite
competition with my neighbor merchants
and ask all to examine my stock before pur-
chasing elsewhere.


To ali that owe me, must say, they must
pay, as wish to buy for cash exclusively
and shall adhere strictly hereafter TO the
cash system, believing it to be best for all
parties.


feh5
Year: 1872

The Paducah and Memphis Railroad
exact S125, 900 from the town of Dyers-
burg, to secure that place as point on
that road. This is about one half the
assessed value of the town. Two years
hence Dyersburg will see the joke
Year: 1872

TTHANKFUL to ny friends for the liberal
Il patronage bestowed on me for the last
ten Years, would solicit a continuance OF
the same my motto Is quick sales and small
nrohts. dealing with all alike, and shall
keep full and complete stock always on
hand, and viii furnish
Year: 1872

Its "a little curious the perfect equanimity with
struction OF course. it can hardly be expected to
be more excited when the extinction of another
planet-the sun, for instance-is fOretOld, it
il by Sacchini, an Italian astronomer. 1t appears
that bright Phebus is evolving enormous
masses of the vapor of magnesium. From this it is
deduced that the may ~ fall off in heat or bril-


lancy OF may ~ in renewing his heat and light so


increase the power of his rays TO make this world
no world to live in. There is something, it must
be allowed quite touching in the childlike confidence
which we all repose in the ability of the universe to
take care of itself. Comets dark days and thunder
storms in January, eclipses, earthquakes and vol
canc eruptions only frightenus for the moment and
when they are happily over we are quite at our ease
again. But, after all, it is very much so with all
abnormal accidents, pestilences, revolutions, an
arches family disputes, insolvencies and SO forth


We have a faith in the good Judgment of destiny.
and a trust that what seem to us alterations are
part of the divine order. The exceptional man or
woman fusses or frets. but the masses of mankind
move on with kind Of animal stolidity. lt Is this
unconscious and involuntary gravity which keeps
the world going Our business is with yesterday, so
far as the understanding is concerned; with to-day
for work and production with tomorrow we have
no business and no thought of it, and if we be wise,
no feeling but that of IA calm trust Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof and equally sufficient is


the good So whom, If over, the world Is destroyed,
the ruin will probably ind most men unexpectant
aud busy about the common adalIs OF ute-ealiDg
Year: 1872

Mr.. Henry Wilson said recently, If our
memory is not at fault, that he had no reason
to regret any of his public utterances. 1t was
rather bold remark for gentleman OF his
dubious political record with ever so many
thousands Of naturalized voters before him
and a little Know Nothing episode at his
back, to say nothing of other circumstances
which ought to have made him extremely
cautious. The Native American vagary he
may have hoped was forgotten; but ne could
not reasonably have expected us to overlook
his remarks in the Senate, last Winter, when
the appointment of the Committee OF lnvestlga-
ton into the Custom-h0use and other ABUSES
WAS under consideration. Mr.. Wilson ac-
knowledged then that there were wrongs that
reauired looking after, and he wanted stand
ING committee to ferret them out. Abuses
"have existed in the past" said he; they exist
Gin tbe present; they will exist i'll all
"the years to come more or less. depending en-
"tirely upon the vigilance of Congress- OF the
president, of the Cabinet, and the men ap-
"pointed to responsible positions under the
Administration"


But this was a very unlucky admission Mr..
Conkling. and Mr. Morton, and the other pa
triots of that faction, have been all this while
insisting that there are no abuses, that there
was no excuse for Committee, that Mr.. Ton
Murphy was the best Collector ever made ana
that the Investigations enforced at last IN the
teeth of their opposition proved "ruinous" TO
those who called for them, and to nobody
else Mr.. Wilson himself has been silent on
the subject ever since he was so unlucky as 10
tell the truth on the 18th of last December
Unless we are very much mistaken, he Is sorry
for that speech.
Year: 1872

Well, of all the places in the world, that tho
Philosophers stone should have been discovered in
San Francisco! But there is man there who
claims to have found out how to transmute the baser
metals into pure and shining gold, which lit is de-
cared) has been searchingly tested by the assayer
and declared to be the genuine article one thousand
fine. The lucky and learned man says that with
proper facilities he can manufacture gold by the tua
and can produce enough in a few weeks to freight
ship He resolutely refuses to disclose his secret.
and declares that it shall die with him-and wa
rather think that il will
Year: 1872

II seems settled by our tepid little clique of
LaOdiceans that nothing must be said about
Gen. Dix in this canvass, because he is an
elderly and respectable gentleman. One of
them is greatly scandalized that anybody
should ask his age, but the question is never
theless an interesting one. If he is "a, as he
says he is, then in the war of 1872, when he
served as Adjutant to Gen. Brown, he was IA
years of age, and such precOcity is noteworthy.
If on the other hand, as Vapereau and other
authorities state, he was born in 1892, the
fact of his having forgotten six of his birth


DAYS has a direct bearing on the sub
iect of his capacity for public work.
But at all events he is an elderly
gentleman, and as such entitled to be
treated with more decorum and respect than he
shows in his public references to the Liberal
candidates. This will always be carefully borne
in mind by THE TRIBUNE. lie is very re-
spectacle man also, which means, we presume,
that he has never been in Jail and has never
done a days work in his life. This will also
be remembered to his credit. But there is one
point of view in which the common people
must be allowed to consider Gen. Dix, and
that is as a candidate. He has passed his life
in the pursuit or the enjoyment of office, and
when he comes before us for our votes we
have some right to ask what are the antece-
dents of this veteran oflicehOlder A letter
which we print this morning from a valued
correspondent throws a little light upon this
question. AS new departures are in fashion
this year, the General ought not to object to
letting the world know chow many and how
prompt have been his efforts in this line. No
man ever travelled in lighter marching order,
so far as political convictions are concerned.
Year: 1872

The Ereaing Post is falling into a settled hypo-
chondra. The prospect of Mr.. Greeleys election
has poisoned the world for it, and made this brave
o'erhanging armament foul and loathly. 1t even
finds our investigation of the Bloomingdae Asylum
"unprofessional "-as if it knew anything about
journalism. But while abusing it disarms us by
making this sad and touching confession: "Wo arc
all of us so near idiocy or insanity that nothing in
the world is so easy as to fein either" The preva-
lence of idiocy and insanity in The Post has long
been evident to the public though from motives of
delicacy we have refrained from referring to it.
But it can no longer be kept a secret, we suppose.
for just after the honest confession above quoted
follows this wonderful sentence, which could not
have been written by any one in his senses; All
the physician has to certify to is not that the pa


ient is not insane, but that he " This is certainly
the view that many physicians take of their duty
when their consciences properly fortified by a
fee but it is startling to hear such sentiments pro-
mulgated by an elderly newspaper After this it
will be difficult for the genius who wrote that umi-
nous sentence to get certificate not that he Is insane
but that he is not
Year: 1872

Angels defend us! dreadful piece of womanhood
in the Lambeth (London Police Court, Maria
Mitchell, described as determined looking" was
accused last week of murderously assaulting one
Thomas Berry. She lived with said Thomas as his
wife; and being jealous, she first hit him over the
head with quart bottle; secondly, with lighted
paraffne lamp; thirdly, with piece OF iron. When
the policeman went in, hsfound the person bruised
and bleeding, to say nothing of his being on fire. so
was the domestic circle Maria Mitchell was sent up
for trial, and Thomas Berry went to his desolate
home to sweep up the fragments of the quart bottle
and to get the parafline lamp and his own head
paired.
Year: 1872

Read the shameful story of Hartranft's Off
cial career, which we reprint from the leading
Grant paper in Pennsylvania, and then you
will understand the tyranny of party spirit
which induces many honest men to support
him for Governor.
Year: 1872

A Liberal Republican, who has shown the
most painstaking industry in securing the facts
concerning the canvass in Ohio, presents else
where the cheering results of his calculations
We should be disposed to distrust his enthu-
siasm much more than we do, but for our
knowledge that he has written OF nothing
whereof he has not taken pains to inform
himself, and that his judgment has heretofore
been proved trustworthy.
Year: 1872

Our advices from Maine certainly give no
color to the sudden and universal chorus of
the office holders, that their cause is gaining
ground We even find in the letters of our
friends rather more confidence than we think
wise or prudent. To say that we are to carry
the State, would indicate change which
would be nothing iess than triumphant
Year: 1872

A Mormon Justice appears to have given
some sort of order to the Mormon police 10
descend upon two houses of bad repute. The
jealous policemen went there with axes ana
hewed the unhallowed habitations IN pieces
before the Justice. The act does not seem 10
have been regarded with enthusiasm among
the Gentiles, and there is talk of drawing
practical parallel between Paphians and Patrl-
archs by organizing similar descent upon the
many-wived mansion of Brigham Young.
Year: 1872

The Nation, which was warmly opposed
to the nomination of Mr.. Greeley, says:


1t is almost impossible to form as vet an
idea OF much value as to the political pros
pect. But it is pretty certain that Greeley
has gained steadily during the week, that
much of the ludicrousness of his nomination
has worn off and that the feeling in favor
of his adoption at Baltimore grows apace
among the Democrats. In fact, the South
ern Democrats have been labOring inces-
sanity, and with considerable success, ever
since the convention, to create an opinion
favorable to him which by the ninth of July
would be strong enough to make his adOp-
tion seem a necessity. The unknown ele-
ment in the problem is the extent to which
the Democratic convention can command
the allegiance Of the rank and file when the
ticket is no longer regular The calcula-
tion of the best judges is that twenty-five
per cent at least will wander off and follow
their own sweet wills when the chiefs give
up the game, and of these of course the great
mass would go for Grant. Mr.. Voorhees,,
OF Indiana, who is, if anybody is, in good
and regular standing in the Democratic
church, has declared his sentiments on the
subject OF Greeley in a speech which was
what the reporters call "excoriating," and
doubtless was very good statement of the
reasons which will operate most powerfully
against GT6eley at Ihe convention. 1t was
the more significant as it took the form of
comparison between Greeley and Grant
from the Democratic point of view, and the
result wass altogether in favor of Grant
Greeley having to bear the burden of the
Ku-Klux law and the election law, to say
nothing of his abuse of the Democrats from
time immemorial. Against his bailing Jeff
Davis, Grant has to show his preventing
the arrest Of Lee, Johnston, and other
Southern leaders after the surrender, and
ne has advocated amnesty if not as often as
Greeley, as much in proportion to his
means, But all the indications we meet
with go to show that Democrats of the


soornees way Of thinking are in a minor
and heavily supported by the party.
Year: 1872

=, boston Is likely to be the first city in the


East TO invest in narrow gauge railway.
II proposes line to run from The citv TO
revere ana Lynn beaches There could be
no more sensible plan for local travel than
gauge track, and Boston, with its deliSbtfn1
suburbs and long stretches Of peigbborin
beach, is finely situated for the Experiments
Year: 1872

law On arg charge preferred against him
anu not by military court-martial.


MIR. Perry, of Ohio, inquired whether #
was not incumbent Oh those who claimed
That ar. Howard was not a Spanish sDb-
Ject after residing in Cuba continuously for
zo years to show that fact.


Mr. Banks replied that the Spanish Gov
ernment was bound to show the man was
subject to its law.


Was He LOyaI7


A member of the Committee on FOREIGN
Affairs argued against the resolution. The
question was whether Howard at the time
OF his seizure by the Spanish government
was citizen of the United States. If he
was, then he conceded there had been
violation of his rights as citizen in the
matter OF his trial, and that the Spanish
government was bound under the treaty of
1875 to furnish the United States Govern
ment with copy of the record of the pro-
ceedings which it had not done. His own
conviction was that citizenship had not only
its rights but its duties, and he was not
aware that during the late civil war in this
country this man had assumed to have or to
discharge any duty to the government of
the United States.


Mr.. Amber said that for twenty-eight
years Howard had never set foot on Ameri-
can soil. He denied that any case could be
found in any law book to justify the claim
that this man was an American citizen.
The claim was an imposition. The State
department had been inclined to stretch its
authority, and bad been endeayoring to in
terpOse its kind officers between Howard
and the bloody, tyranical government which
was undoubtedly expressing him, Before
this Government interfered as a nation, it
should be sure it had the right to interfere.
Before it commenced to succor its citizens,
it should at least have good, healthy
ground Of suspicion that the fellows are cit
liens of the United States.


Mr.. Garfield suggested that this Govern
ment was resisting claims made against it
by British subjects domiciled in the South
during the war whom it had treated as
American citizens.


Mr.. Banks denied that there was any
analogy between the cases.


Without proceeding further in the debate
the House took recess until 7:30, the even
ing session to be for action on the pension
bill,
Year: 1872




How He Stands as an Aspfrant.


SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 24.-The
Repu6tcd1l tomorrow morning will con-
tain the following:


CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS AND THE C1N-


CINNATI CONVENTION.


as arranged many weeks ago Mr.. Adams
sailed on his return to Europe yesterday
with his wife in order to be ready for the
meeting of the Geneva arbitration; Before
he lett, a gentleman interested in the Gin
cinnati Convention and desiring that he
should become its candidate wrote to him,
inquiring as to his views of the movement
which it represented and suggesting that
there should be some one in attendance
who could speak for him, to which there
came the following reply, with no restric-
tions as to its publicity:


Boston, Aprit 1S.-My Dear Mr.. Wells:
l have received your letter and viii answer
it frankly. do not want the nomination
and could only be induced to consider it by
the circumstances under which it might
possibly be made. If the call on me was
an unequiyocal one, based on confidence in
my character, earned in public life,and a
belief that | would carry out in practice the
principles which | profsssed, then indeed
would come test of my courage in an
emergency. But if / am to be NEGOTIATED
for and have assurance given that | am
honest, you will be so kind as to draw me
out of that crowd. With regard to what 1
understand to be declaration of princi-
pies which has been made, it would be
ridiculous for me to stand haggliDg
over them. With the single exception of
an ambiguity, see nothing which any
honest Republican or Democrat would not
accept. Indeed should wonder at any
one who denied them. The difficulty is
not in professions. 1t lies everywhere
only in the manner in which they are car
ried into practice. If have succeeded in
making myself understood, you will per-
ceive that can give no authority to any
one to act or to speak for me in the prem
ises. / never had a moments belief that
when it came to the point any one so en-
tirely isolated as l am from all political
associations of any kind, could be
made acceptable as candidate for public
Office. But | am so unlucky as to value
that independence more highly than the
elevation which is brought by the sacrifice
of it. This is not inconsistent with a sense
Of grateful recognition of the very flatter-
ing estimates made Of my services in many
and high quarters, but cannot consent to
peddle with them for power. If the good
people who meet at Cincinnati really be-
lieve they need such an anomalous being
as / am, which do not, they must express
it in manner to convince me of it, or all
their labor will be thrown away.


l am, with great respect, yours, ETC.,


CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.


To David A. Wells, Norwich, Conn.
Year: 1872

-"Garden island" is the name Of little
islet in lake Ontario, near the city of Kings
ton. The population is about thousand.
Twenty years ago law was passed that
no liquor under any pretense be brought
on the island. There is not a pauper or
policeman among the inhabitants and not a
case has come before the magistrate for fif-
teen years.
Year: 1872

The cornerstone of the new Publishing
House will be laid on the Sth of May with
appropriate ceremonies, and the names of
all persons and churches having contributed
any amount toward the erection of the
building will be deposited in the same.
The Christian Advocate of last week gave
the total contributions to the new building
Year: 1872

Henry Bork charged with larceny, was
yesterday committed to Jail by Justice
Baskette to await trial at the next term of
the Criminal Court. Tip Bucher, colored,
was committed to jail by Justice Cassety to
await trial in the Criminal Court on the
charge of burglary.
Year: 1872

WE WILL BE PREPARED TO PUR-
w chase all the WOOL that may be Offered
us during the coming season, and to pay not only
the highest price in Cash, but to pay as much az
can be realized in any market when expenses Of
shipping are deducted.


Win be glad to furnish quotations when Spring
shearinp commences.
Year: 1872

NHANTED-BY YOUNG LADY, A COMFORTABLE
w Room and BOARD with first class American pr-
yate family; would give German French music in
exchange best TESTIMONIALS given. Address GOVERN
ESS box 6025 Post Office