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Year: 1872

SEA CAPTAINS MANIFEST


The Secretary OF the Treasury has issued circtl-
lar to collectors Of customs regulating the carrying
of nanifeStS by masters of vessels enrolled ana
licensed to engage In the foreign and coasng trade
upon the northern, northeastern and northwestern
frontier Of the United SateS Its effect Is to require
masters TO provide themselves with manifests In all
trict neither of which is u port. If tie voyage is
from port in one district to port in another, the
master is required to file manifest with the cOllcc-
tor ut the port of departure and obtain clearance
if the vessel receives discharges any cargo ut
intermediate point, the master will enter the fact
upon his manifest, which he will deliver 10 the col
Icrtor of the port at which unading Is completed.
If the voyage is from port inone district toa place
in another district where there Is no custom,house
the master Is required to proceed as beforesid, and
To deliver his manifest to the collector OF the next
port ut which lie shall arrive after leaving the place


When sailing between place In the United States
where there Is no custom-house to place where
there may be one the master must file with the col
lector of the port OF arrival manifest setting forth
all the merchandise takcn on board or unladen pre-
yious tn the arrival


If sailing between two ports in district or from
port place III the same district where there Is no
custOm-housc. the master must file duplicate mani.
fest with the collector of the port OF departure ana
take out clearing papers and If he touches ut inter-
mediate points he must report to the collector OF
such port and produce his manifest, which VIII be
certified BY such collector and delivered by the mas
ter to the collector OF the port at which the cargo Is
finally uDladen.


between Il place in one district where there Is no
cstom- house and place In another district where
there Is no cStonl-hoSe, must De reauS lor the III
spection of revenue officer when such vessel de-
purts from any district; and such vessel must clear
from port when laden with foreign goods exceed
ing the amount specified In section ls Of the act Of
1923.


Masters of vessels from any foreign port must OBJ
tain permit and comply with existing laws before
dscharging cargo or passengers and goods.


Wares and merchandise destined for any foreign
port must be reported but permit will be required
for tho unloading Of cargo brought from American
ports. ,, 8, .,,.,,,
vessels will not be required to report and clear un-
less such vessels In tow are without sail or steam
motive power, and not required to be enrolled and
licensed.
Year: 1872

FROM lie LOUISVILLE LeuSeT.


We have heard many stories told of
the 'suferings of a trip in an emigrant
ship from Europe to America, and read
details of many very shocking cases of
barbarity practiced upon the poor emil
grant by barbarous officers of ships;
but we have been furnished the par
ticulars, by several Germans who ar
rived In this city a few days ago from
Germany, of series of barbarities
practiced upon the passengers of the
emlgrant ship Holland, of the Liverpool
and New York line, that exceed IN in
fanny and outrage any thing of the kind
we heretofore read or heard


The Holland arrived at New York on
the Oath of March, after long and
boisterous trip, with five hundred and
fifty passengers aboard, all emigrants,
being at least two hundred more than
she had accommodations for. A num-
Der of these emigrants were for Louis
vile, where they arrived the latter part
of last week, and from some of whom
we got these particulars. The vessel
had been at sea but a few days when it
was discovered the stock of provisions
was very light. In less than week,
all the -four, potatoes and some vegeta-
bles were exhausted, and the passen-
gers were reduced to diet of ship bis
cult and horse beef, and this of the
poorest quality, and doled out In the
smallest portions.


Starvation began to stare the wretch
ed emigrants in the face, although the
ships officers and crew seemed to have
plenty of good and healthy food. To
all appeals for fair division of this
food among the emigrants the officers
and crew answered only with curses
and blows. Sickness broke out among
the emigrants, and in their desperation
some of them made an effort to secure
more food, but were knocked down, and
kicked and beat by the crew. Many of
these miserable people, men, women
and children, were exposed on deck to
the cold, and we're badly frozen. Our
informants state that the captain and
mate of the vessel were particularly
brutal in their cruel treatment of the
| poor emigrants, and as consequence
in all their sufferings there was much
sickness and many deaths during the
trip.


To such degree of starvation were
| these emigrants reduced that when
! their scanty allowance of food was is
sued to them they had to fight for its
possession, the desperation of the half
starved passengers, under the impulse
of self preservation, leading them to
try to take by force from the weakest
their share of the wretched food. The
horse beef, our informants state, was
absolutely half-rotten, and its stencil
almost sitting; yet the emigrants were
forced to eat it to save themselves from
horrible death by starvation.


The limbs of many women and chill
dren, as well as number of men, were
SO severely frozen, that in many cases
amputation will be necessary. A re-
port of the sufferings of these emf
grants wac made to the authorities at
New York, but our informants say no
attention, as far as they know, was raid
to it, 1t is a case that requires the
most ngid investigation, and if the
facts are as stated to us, the captain
and other officers of the ship should be
brought to the speediest and severest
punishment.
Year: 1872

A really wonderful escape from being
cut to pieces occurred on an English
line of railway, a week or two ago. A
young man employed by the London
and Northeastern Company as coke
filler at certain station, was returning
home from work, when he jumped upon
the step of passing goods train, to
ride to certain crossing, few hundred
yards southwark. In tlre darkness he
was unobserved by the driver, who,
therefore did not slacken for him to
get down, and thus, owing to the I'M
petus of the engine, he was not able to
bring up, when he leaped off
until he had run into the four-feet of
the next line Of rails Scarcely had his
foot touched the ground, when the
down train came up at speed OF fully
twelve miles an hour, and before he
could escape he was struck by the
front of the engine and thrown face
downward between the rails, where he
lay until the entire train-in which
there were nearly a score pair of wheels
passed over his PROSTATE body with
out touching it. Beyond few slight
bruises and scratches, he found himself


little the worse Tor his halr-breadth
nSnana ~ Ea-.
Year: 1872




in the syorld.


From the ST. Louis Times, April II. t i


On Monday evening Mrs Amelia
Brooks, aged 81 years, died at her resi-
dence in the alley bounded by Twenty
and Franklin avenue Mrs Brooks,
whose frame was but little more than
medium sized, had accumulated flesh
until she weighed between 900 and
1000 pounds. Until very recently she
had been employed as nurse in the
family of barber on Olive street, but
an irresistible tendency to plethora cur
tailed her sphere OF usefulness, and
she was accordingly retired by theibar-
Der, and another nurse of less pro-
nounced individuality engaged in her
place 900


Rather than see Mrs Brooks thrown
upon the cold charities of the world,
the barber gave her some money and
interested himself in procuring light
sewing for her With the proceeds of
her work, and the kindly aid of some
Sisters of Mercy, though the limited
construction of the portals and her
superabundance of adipose matter con-
fined her to her room and devotional
exercises exclusively. For the last few
weeks she has been confined to her
couch, a massive piece Of architectu-
raj upholstery, and on Monday morn
ing, though to all appearances in per-
feet health, manifested signs of APP
preaching dissolution. At / O'Clock the
whole of the left side succumbed to the
Power that reduces I" dust to dust, and
ashes to ashes At two o'clock she
became cognizant Of the necessity of an
exertion, but death had gained too firm
hold to be shaken off. At three
o'clock she reused herself, but the
| Black Shadow had extended over the
| back, and was gradually approaching
/ her vital parts. At four o'clock the
trouble was terri ole, and at six the
returns were nearly all in, with only
! two legs and an arm to hear from.
From this time until eight o'clock in
/ the evening the issue was certain, and
at nine the soul abandoned its earthly
| tenement forever


There was some little difficulty expe-
rienced in placing the body in its ''nar-
row final resting place" AS no coffin
could be found large enough, box
was built SIX feet long, twenty-elght
inches broad and twenty-six in depth.
Even this was not sufficiently wide ard
| it was necessary to compress the form
nine inches, but as that was the widest
box that could be got into the room
without tearing cut the front of the
house it was thought more charitable
to reduce the clay than to injure the
premises. Her dimensions were five
feet ten inches in height, twenty-eight
inches across the shoulders, and thirty
seven inches across the hips. Her arms
were thirty inches in circumfereneeand
her thighs sixteen inches in diameter.


When she had been arrayed in burial
vestments it was found impossible for
seven men to lift her. Finally the box
was tilted to one side and she was roll
ed in, while the priests .chanted the
service of the dead. She was then
placed in large wagon. which pro-
ceeded carefully to Calvary cemetery
The wagon was backed up to the grave
and eight men and six rollers combined
their exertions to lower her into her
narrow bed The earth was thrown
upon her and neat tombstone erected
Year: 1872

AS the season OF the year is. just at
hand when a person need not do much
racing to "catch - a cold. we hereby
publish a few Of the many cures offered
to the public by charitable persons:


Sleep with hot brick at your feet
avoid getting it in your hat-keep out
of the cold air-keep yonr mouth shut
take hot bath-take cold bath
avoid bathing-avoid cold water-tie
on old stocking around your throat
when you are about to retire-rub your
neck with goose oil-take snutf-feed a
cold and starve a fever-eat Cayenne
pepper-drink hot catnip tea, sassafras
tea, black tea, white tea, green tea, dry
tea-wear fannel--eat pickles-chew
licorice root-take a sweat.
Year: 1872

The Journal Of the Telegraph an
nounces that the seemingly wild prob
lem Of transmitting messages both ways
at the same time, on the single wire,
has at last been solved. It does not
work to perfection, but It's entire posi-
bility has been completely demonstrat
ed. Those sanguine experimenters
who have so often tried to make two
railway trains going opposite directions
pass. each other on the same track may
now take heart. If the thing can be
done on the telegraph why not on the
rail?-PattersO Press.
Year: 1872

In the State of Ohio, there resided a
family consisting of an old man by the
name of Beaver, and three sons and
daughter all of whom are " hard pets, -
who had often laughed to scorn the ad-
vice and entreaties of a pious, though
very eccentric minister, who resided in
the same town. It happened one of the
boys was bitten by q rattlesnake, and
was expected to die, when the minister
was sent for in great haste. On his
arrival he found the young man very
penitent and anxious to be prayed with:
the minister calling on the family, knelt
down and prayed in this wise g Oh
Lord, we thank thee for rattlesnakes !;
we thank thee because rattlesnake
has bit him we pray thee send rat
tlesnake to bite John, send one to bite
Bill, send one to bite Sam and one to
give nip, and, 0 Lord, send the biggest
kind of rattlesnake to bite the old
man, for nothing but rattlesnakes viii


ever bring the Beaver family to repen-
tancen .a--.l5.-e.a. Z g H-4atH" /
Year: 1872

Nothing new has been developed in regard to
the late terrible railroad accident on Friday morn
ing. There is very general concurrence in the
opinion that the terrible calamity the result OF
caEelessness on the part of the conductor having
charge OF the wrecked train, and that the verdict
ct the jury il in the main correct.


The Company have certainly managed their
roads better than any other company in the coun-
try, and cannot be considered culpabe, in fault,
since it is impossible to provide entirely against
accidents. In this case had their rules been care
fully and properly followed, tie accident would
net have occurred. That it did occur seems al
mosta mystery; since the conductor, engineer and
brakesmen on the unfortunate cars, all knew the
New York Lxpress train was following close alter
them. The passengers themselves knew this train
was not far in the rear and yet strange lstlessness
sssms to have rested upon them; and no effort was
made to get out of the threatened danger. The
great freedom from accident on the road owing to
The care snd prudence Of the company and the
avoidance of casualties for SO many years, seemed
20 have secured such entire confidence that near.
1y every one felt perfectly safe. The sequel proves
that all had grown cupable, and that it takes some
such catastrophe at home, notwithstanding there
have been plenty of them abroad, to remind the
people of the necessity there always is for being
wAtchful, and careful not to depend on others
where they may secure safety by SO triaing an et-
1,Et on their own part looking for threat .ning
danger and getting out of its way Certainly an
active, nervous, restless mind could have given
t,msly warning for every passenger to get out, =
And bad not this strange and fatal confidence rest
x. 49, IL ~
passengers such would have been the case. As il
Il, the responsibility rests where it properly be-
longs, upon the conductor; but in future we hope
that no man who manifests impatience and fearful
rAtlessness for the sake Of his friends on such an
occasion. will be regarded as lacking in, nerve or
bsing too meddlesome.
Year: 1872

Oh, it is pleasant to think of the
dead, to descend down into the
grave and commune with the moui-
dering dust which years have mere
ly mingled with earth. Did they
not once walk the earth with usI
Did they not sit beside US, their eyes
glowing with affection, their warm
hearts beating in unison with our
own?


The deadl-they are gone. Nay,
do not say they are gone. Let US
still enjoy the hope that they hover
round us in spirit, as they once did
in body. Snatch not from US the
solacing belief that their eyes are
upon us, though unseen.


When gloom Oppresses our spir-
its, when the heart aches with the
infections of Hfe's dull realities, then
indeed the memory of the dead is
pleasant to US. Say, We beloved
dead who once shed with us tear for
tear, and breathed sigh for sigh, are
We now needless of the anguish of
our souls2 Have We forgotten that
we once loved one another? And
thou, best ofall, thou on whose knee
we first learned to lisp the accents
| of affection - motherl 1t is long
since our eyes beheld thee, and we
are a child again when we think OF
| thee. Thy grave is far from US.
/ We have been a wanderer among
/ strangers. We are a dweller in q


strange land. Many years have
| passed away since we wept over the
/ little hiIlock underneath which was
] huried the bOsOm to which our in.
! fancy clung.
Year: 1872

a recent letter from Boston tells
this sad story: ga funeral process
sion passed by yesterday. A young
man told me a story that think has
a peculiar sadness about it. AtSar-
afoga last season, at one of the lar
gest balls, was young lady with
the most charming and fascinating
manners and graces. Her toilet was
equally as pleasing. She was the
belle of the ball-an honor accorded
her without dissent. Her attend
ant during the evening was young
man dressed almost gaudily, and
bearing himself with all the distaste-
full self-conceit of a brainless mil
lionaire. He was the son of a Bos-
ton leather dealer. He met the lady
at Saratoga for the first time last
season, and she, by direction of her
parents, who were also wealthy,
and who insisted upon the arrange
ment, became his affianced. PreVi-
Gus to this she had met a young
gentleman, also of Boston, of the
utmost respectability, of thorough
honor and integrity, but without
fortune. To him she had been
something more than friend, in
fact almost a betrothed. He was
Young, had risen by his own stern
efforts, and was it is said, possessed
of sterling abilities, which in time
must have won him wealth and per-
hans distinction. On the return OF
the lady from Saratoga last season
her engagement prevented her from
! further intercourse with her first
suitor, and he was dismissed. His
grief was pitiful. He strove not to
| reverse it by action; but the very


efforts he so laboriously made ex'
posed the poignancy of his wounds
| The lady lived with her husband II


the suburbs of the city at a large
| and costly residence for one month


after their marriage. By that time
the abuse of the husband compelled


an immediate separation. He wa
incontinently shipped to Europe


where he still remains, and the young
1 wife was left to gradually decline IL
/ health until death ensued; but no


before she had reprOached her pa
rents for driving her to the allianc'
which wrought such early ruin anG


blasted such bright hopes and expec


tations. As the funeral procession


passed up a public street, the frs
lover. while watching with blanche'


cheeks and moist eyes the sad cor


tege, fell to the ground while suffer
ing an attack of hemorrhage of tn
lungs. He was carried into ply


sician's office near, where he die


before the body of the one he 8


tenderly and truly loved was laid i


its last resting place
Year: 1872

Here is a bit of philosophy worth
reading. Ii is an exposure OF very
common delusion. Its a good rem
dsring on an old idea:


ssTwo things ought to be strongly
Impressed upon the young people
OF our country. The insecurity of
riches, even when acquired, and
their unsatisfactory character. -
There is no folly so universally cher
ished as the notion that wealth is
surely a means of happiness. Tho
care of a large property is one OF
the most burdensOme of earth's
trusts. The only material good
that comes from any estate Is TO be
made out of a moderate income far
more easily than a large one, and
with fewer attendant Disadvantages.
Few thoughtful men would under
90 tic entire stewardship of a large
estate on a positive bargain that
thew should receive no more for TAX
ing care of Il than ordinarily fal-
into the lap OF the owner The
scramble after wealth is due 70 a
wrong estimate Of good when 1t Is
gained"
Year: 1872

Jealousy, says Arthur Helps, the
Weli-known English essayist, is at
once the meanest and the most un-
accountable of vices. What be-
longs to US we shall have, inevita-
bly,, and what we want and have not
we shall never win by unreason. II
we are lovely we shall be loved; and
if we are unlovely we shall not be
loved, no matter whether any one
takes its place or not. Jealousy of
the wealth, the social Importance,
or the happiness of others, is alike
unaccountable and absurd. Your
own houseis not lower because your
neighbor's is four stories high and
brown stone. If he should fail, and
have to give up his carriage, it
would only crowd the horse cars q
little more, and by no means provide
you with chaise or buggy. What is
it in human nature that makes our
poor fare seem poorer because our
neigbor is eating roast duck and
drinking champaign? To envey the
love seems equally idle. Hearts keep
their accounts, usually, with very
tolerable fairness. We shall receive
that which we are worthy, no
more-and what is our own virtue
of our desert no fate can take away.
Year: 1872

At the Baltimore Convention, Jas.
S. Thrayer, the silver-tongued ora
tor of New York, said:


When the nomination of General
Grant was made, a canvass was un-
rolled. and there was presented to
that body a picture of man on
horseback shining in his military
boots aud in all the array of war
rior chieftain, the war song resound-
ed through that concourse and the
public men and actors stood forth,
elimmering in all the raven gloss Of
hate and revenge. Not one sentl-
ment of gratitude; not one word of
peace was uttered or went forth TO
the country. In the closing sences
of this Convention there is present.
ed TO YOU as the candidate of the
Democratic party a plain Amerl-
can citizen in humble attire, but
with a broad and radiant brow, a
countenance full of beneVolence,
speaking peace and harmony, as
pure and genuine type of AmerI-
| can character as was ever born on
the soil. The country will hail him
as the man whose reconciling geni-
us shall span the dividing stream
that rolls between the sections; and
before twelve months of his admin
istration, have passed the dark and
bloody chasm will be filed, and the
new-made earth viii not be pressed
by one hostile footstep, and in thS
| future of the country we will not


be able even to draw across the con
! tinent an imaginary line that shall
divide a united people. The stal
that glitters above the horizon give:


the promise of a bright and uDtrou


bled morning. Democrats, liberia


and patriotic men of ali parties, hal


it as a sign of peace. Recognizing


it as such, choral strain will as


cend from a united people, grand
sweet and musical as the bells o


Moscow, as clear and resounding az
a Jubilee Trumpet
Year: 1872

Uselessnes generates wickedness in
time, lust as certain as cause pro-
duoes effect. There never was a
truer couplet than this:


oFor Satan finds some mischief still


For idle hands 70 do"


While the wicked people are a
curse to the present generation, the
useless ones are to a future genera
ton, inasmuch as they are sowing
the seeds of a Wiekedness they
dream not of. Society Is full of
failures that need never have been
made: full of men who have never
succeeded; full of women who in
the first half of their days did moth
ing but eat, sleep and simper, and in
the last half have done nothing but
perpetuate their follies and weak
nesses, which viii in turn swell in
to positive from negative evils. The
world is full of people who do not
amount to anything. Every boy
ought to improve on his father; eY-
erV girl grow into a nobler, gentlcr,
more self-denying wOmanhOOd than
the mother. No reproduction OF
former types will give the world
the perfect type. This will only
come through generations of indus
try and virtue. Let all do their
| share toward bringing about this
millennium in human lives. "a
Year: 1872

Never accuse a child of a fault un-
less your are certain he committed
it. Children should not be treated
with suspicion. We should act to-
wards them in this matter as we
feel we ought to act toward others,
only with greater tenderness-nOt
less, as is usually done. We should
always put the best construction
possible upon their conduct; that
is, unless you are sure "a child Is. tell
ing a lie, and can prove it, do not
show the smallest hesitation in be-
lieying what he says. Far better
that YOU should be deceived, than
run the risk of showing a truthful
child that you do not trust him
Your simple trust may make lying
child truthful. Your doubt of hi;
truthfulness may make 4 truthful
child liar.