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Year: 1871

| wondrous transformation is wrought /;
| here matter becomes the exponent of
mind. The Nforms" are properly
placed. The press slowly moves; its
arms are reaching for their strong en-
brace. "Stop the press J"


! The giant rests again. There is an
error of statement to be corrected, or
an objectional article to be Withdrawn
The types taken out and borne away
-corpses of dead thought.


Look now, again, at the mass of
type dead! Inert as the earth you
tread on. But see! The white sheet
| has fallen upon their upturned faces ;
the touch of the press baptized them ;
| the lite that was in them has passed
upon paper, and the new creation is
pregnant with thought; thing with
soul, for it can move the souls of
men. That sheet, so blank before, is
a living power now. A change has
passed over it as marvellous as if in
an instant the unwritten face of the
boy should pint on the burrows of age,
the lines of care, the impress of man
hoods experience, thought and toll.
Thus the paper is born, and goes
out into the world. No messenger
can overtake il. Its utterance is unal-
terable now. It may be explained,
but not erased. The printed word
can nc, more be recalled than the de-
parted spirit can be woed back to the
cold body which it has left.


Here, now, we have 1.-THE news
paper! Wonderful product of brain
and toll! One would think it shou id
be dearly bought and highly priced,
and yet it is the cheapest thing in the
world. Five cents will buy it. One
or two dollars will bring it to your
home every week in the year. And
yet, strange to say, there are men "too
poor to take newspaper"


They can pay five cents for glass
of beer, or fifteen cents for beverage
of unknown composition called a
cocktail" they can paw fifty cents for
circus ticket or dollar for the thea
ire, yet they are too poor to buy a
newspaper!-a newspaper which is
ticket of admission to that great
Globe Theatre, whose dramas are
written by God Himself, "whose
scene-shifter is Time, and whose cur
tains are rung down by Death !'-LWte
Taylor.
Year: 1871

The committee OF seventy, born OF the reform
meeting held recently at cooper Institute, met yes
Ierday afternoon at the Chamber OF Commerce to
evolve something like order out of the cnaos in
which they have since found themselves.


At the hour appQintea for the meeting reporters
from the different morning journals were on hand,
but were informed by the Secretary that there was


"NO ADMlTTANoE" FOR THE PRESS,
o resolution having been passed at previous meet
ing to that efect. The reporters were told, how
ever, that they might wait outside in the anteroOm
until the conclusion OF the meeting, and then 1t
would be seen what could be done for them.


For two hours and half the representatives OF
the press waited patiently, TIL finally the lookedfor
hour OF adjournment arrived. A scramble for the
door by members OF the committee delayed some
what the reporters approach to the Secretary's
table; but this being gained


BLANK RESPONSE


came from the Secretary that his lips were sealed;
tnat a committee OF TWO, consisting OF Henry Il.
Stebbins, chairman OF the committee, and ex Mayor
lavemcyer, its wee chairman, had been appointed,
to supply the newspapers with reports OF the meet
Ing; but what hour these reports were to be fur
nsled or how m many days were to elaPse before 1
Three reporters and the Secretary then started


IN PURSUIT OF CHAIRMAN srEBBINs,
but that gentleman was non est. subsequently the
reporters deliberately set about trying to find him;
but he had vanished, ana all efforts to find him





The above facts minutely set forth for the pur
pose Of warning the creduous against this commit
tee report. Ex.MayOr Hayemeyer, OF the report
ing committee was not present al the meeting at
all, ana Mr.. Stebbins was certainly not III possession
OF the Secretary's notes. But the information was
gained that the Chairman formally told the meeting
Just what ne meant to make public and what he did
not mean to. What mighty resolutions and speeches
and lots occupied the attention OF the meeting
WILL therefore. be kept secret for the present. Tne
proceedings Of


STAR CHAMBER


in hostile attitude TO an enemy, and both parties
being politicians, might be very interesting ir they
is certain TO be "cOoked before 1t is given to the
world, only the respectable part OF the minutes Of
the meeting certain to appear and these, OF
course, Will have the genuine ring OF reformation.
Year: 1871

repres entative of the HRRALp last evening,
after the appearance OF the letter OF Comptroller
Connolly declining to resign, obtained interview
with the Mayor, when the following conversation
took place:--


REPoRTER-Mr. Mayor, have you received the
reply OF Comptroller Connolly to your letter request
Ing him to resigns


MAYoR-l have not yet received the document,
but am aware Of It's contents


REPORTER SO far as can ascertain the general
opinion seems to be that Mr. Connolly Is right de-
Ginning to be the sole victim to appease the public in
dignation There be no question that his resig-
nation would be universally regarded tantamount
to an acknowledgment OF guilt, not alone In regard
to the original charges but also as 70 the burglary
business.


MAYoR-I cannot coincide In that view. ] am
decidedly OF opinion that II Connolly had consulted
his own best interests well az those OF the city,
he would have acceded TO my request and resigned
position the duties Of which he no longer dis
charge with credit to himself or benefit to the pub
lie. Personally am friendly to Mr.. Connolly, and,
as conceive acted the part Of friend In asking
his resignation.


RRPoRJER--N0w that the Comptroller has declined
Year: 1871

a Vigorous Inquiry Into the Financial Affairs Of
the City and County Statement Of the Deputy
Comptroller Accounts Produoed-Ex-
animation as to the Method Of Conduct
ing Business in the Comp proller's


Oiiice - The Investigation


To BE Private.
Year: 1871

and quarter OF souls, and il is but
meet and proper that she should rear
on this proud Capitol Hill an edi
fee which shall be the pride Of her
future millions and worthy Of the
sons and it may be daughters who
shall enact her future laws and con
troll her future des,inics.
Year: 1871

Case of Er-Mayor Chahoon.-This case
which has occupied the attention not only
of the Hastings Court, but of the whole
people of this city, for the past week, came
TO close last night, when the jury ren.
dered a verdict of guilty, and ascertained
his term of imprisonment to be two years
| in the pententiary. BY request of his
counsel, further action in the case was post
poned until II o'clock this morning, when
Chahoon was brought into court, and after
being asked by the clerk if he had any
thing to say why sentence should not now
be passed upon him, replied, ''Nothing,
except to assert my entire innocence"
The Judge proceeded to pass sentence.
Judge Crump, counsel for Mr.. Chahoon,
then moved that the sentence be suspended
for thirty days in order TO allow him to
enter a bill of exceptions. This motion
was granted, and Chahoon remanded to
jail.


We take this opportunity to say that
throughout this trial Mr.. Chahoon has ap-
peared the same, and when he was told
to stand up, while sentence was being
passed, he exhibited the same calm de-
meanor which has characterized his con-
duct through the entire proceedings. His
wife has exhibited rare devotion to the man
to whom she is linked for life, and has
assisted, by her presence, her husband to
bear up amid the excitement of long and
tedious trial.


For the present, we feel no disposition to
comment upon the justice or wrong of this
case. 1t is one which our sense of right
demands we should view in no partisan
light nor should we give way to prejudice
or personal feelings. Our duty to society,
our obligations to law and public welfare,
all combine to still us in moment like the
present. We cannot be silent though as to
the duty of the Commonwealth and her
sworn officers. If wrong has been per-
petrated by George Chahoon, no sane man
can believe that he alone has been guilty of
crime. Shall he alone suffer, or will the
majesty of the law be vindicated by the im-
mediate arrest and trial of the equally
guilty We cannot believe that this mat
ter will be permitted to stop here, but that
a proper sense of honor and of justice will
at once determine those in authority to
search to the bottom of this affair, and do
their whole duty, regardless of whom may
suffer.
Year: 1871

Grand Bal and Pic-Nic.-The Iron
Moulders' Association will celebrate their
twelfth anniversary by grand ball and
picnic at Hattorf's Garden on the 4th of
July. The annual reinions OF these hardy
sons of toll have been occasions of much
pleasure and amusement, and we are in
formed that the entertainment to take place
on Tuesday next will be equal to any pre-
vious effort. Those who desire to enjoy
themselves with innocent pleasure, we don't
think they can do better than spend the
day with the Iron Moulders' Association.
Year: 1871

Paradise Lost.--Thc last opportunity
will be afforded our citizens tonight to wit
ness this magnificent work of art. Those
who have already seen it express them
selves highly gratifed with its many beau-
ties, and would advise the less fortunate to
go without fail tonight, and see this grand
moral and instructive painting.
Year: 1871

The Paper MW.-The new paper mill
company has set to work with every pros =
pect of success. The company is composed
of only some seven or eight gentlemen and
is to be under the superintendent of Mr..
W. B. Allegro, who as newspaper and
paper manufacturing man, in Virginia and
North Carolina, has earned and won high
reputation for business talent, and with the
capitalists with whom he has surrounded
himself, in this enterprise, will doubtless
be able to establish manufactory which
will ultimately result in the employment of
many hundred hands. At present no
paper is made here, and all that is used
comes from other cities.
Year: 1871

The address of Secretary Belknap, at
the annual commencement of Princeton
College, before the American Wing and
Cliosophic Societies, was one of marked
ability and interest. His subject was "The
Advantages Of this Country to the Man of
Education" and he told his story in graphic
and forceful words. Analumnus of Prince
ton, he seemed to enter very deeply into
the feelings of his youthful hearers and into
the genius of American institutions in their
rapid advance and silent, but steady, out
spreading. The secretary made happy
allusion to the Weather Bureau of the Sig
nal Service, for whose striking accuracy and
usefulness the country is much indebted to
Gen. Belknap. swB&
Year: 1871

WE have often spoke of the need of some
attention to ''men's rights" The New
Hampshire Legislature is cogitating over a
bill "for the further protection of the rights
of married men," which, we have no doubt,
married men will be duly grateful for.
Year: 1871

On this point she has nothing to be
ashamed of, taking into consideration all
the surroundings. OF railroads she can
boast of but one, aud that one was COM
menced but one year ago and is now in
running order for distance of one hun
dred miles, with rolling stock and equip
mcnts that will compare favorably with
Oregon and California Railroad, running
from this point southerly toward Sacra-
mento, California, from which point the
same road is now some hundred miles
this side, coming to connect with our end
of the road near the State line.
Year: 1871

Not so very long since report was
floating about to the effect that the
Emperor of Japan had prohibited
in his kingdom, and that
the celebrated Colossus of Buddha, as
the Daibooth is sometimes called, was
to be sold as old brass. The London
Times, on hearing of this, proposed
that the Minister of Public Works
should buy it and set it up in Hyde
Park. This great heather idol was first
brought into general notice in 1864, on
account of the great excitement caused
by the murder of two Englishmen, who
went to Ramakura to examine 1T. The
image, though in sitting posture, is
60 feet in height. It was formerly gilt
all over, and sits with the legs crossed
and the hands folded as if in deep
thought. Some idea of its great size
may be obtained when we state that it is
averred that five persons can stand on
the conjured palms of its hands, while
five more can find room to sit on the
thumbs It is of bronze and hollow,
and is placed in the center of a large
garden, which is surrounded by high
and massive walls. Originally the
statue was seated on an enormous Lo


tos flower, and was canopied by roof,
supported by one hundred columns


On each side of the gate by which ae


cess was attained to the Diabooth


stood an image twenty-six feet high


The image on the right hand had it'
mouth open and its hands stretched
out, while the one on the left hand hae
it's mouth shut and it's hands draw


back-signifying, first, Creation ant


Destruction; secondly, Activity an'


Passiveness thirdly, Life and Death
Year: 1871

A singular marine plant is washed up
on the shores in the vicinity of the
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa,
which has come into considerable use
as substitute for gutta percha and
similar substances, in the manufacture
of fancy articles, such as canes, pic
trlre frames, inlaid work, etc. It is of
a dark color, and, when fresh, it is
thick and feshy; but when it is dried
it becomes compact, and its surface
looks like a beautifully grained deer's
horn. After it becomes dry and hard,
it can be rendered soft again by steep
ing in water, and in this condition it
can be stretched and formed into various
shapes. 1t can also be reduced, when
dry, to powder, then made plastic by
soaking in water, and in this condition
it may be struck into almost any shape
in die press-coming out of the moulds
like articles formed of gutta percha.
The plant is prepared for it's industrial
uses by cleaningit first with weak caus-
tee alkali, and then with dilute sui
phuric acid, after which it is washed,
and before it is quite dry it may be press
ed into sheets or any other form. It then
may be rendered very hard by steep
ing it in hot solution of alum, after
which it is removed to q not room,
where it is dried, and retrains it's shape
afterward. Reduced to powder, it may
also be mixed with various substances
like india rubber, and moulded into {
great variety of articles.
Year: 1871

The Boston Commercial Bulletin is
for the subioined story:


Pages or elastic cords that we're in
very general use, when long dresses
were worn on the street, netted small
fortune to the first introducers, Messrs.
Lewis, Brown & Co., of this city. They
had held in stock, very long time a
large lot of English elastic cord of coarse
sizes, and had been unable to find any
sale for them. One day the idea sug-
gested itself to one of the firm that this
cord could be used to loop up trailing
dresses. They started the novelty, de-
signed the hook, and in an incredibly
short time had disposed of all their
dead cord, and had their parties in
England clean up the British market.
The result was that when the rush first
set in they held the only stocks ano
supplied the whole country. Fifty


girls were constantly employed in this


city putting up pages.
Year: 1871

Edward Dicey writes in Appleton s
Journal:


Of all the changes in the aspect of
Paris which most strike a visitor who
has not seen the city since the days of
the Empire, the greatest is one which
it is easier to appreciate on the spot
than to describe at distance. [ know
not how better to express it than by
saying that the life has somehow gone
out of Paris. It is not only that the
streets are half empty, that carriages
have well-nigh disappeared, that the
shop windows are bare Of wares, that
trade is obviously at stand-still, that
house after house is shut up, that there
is no building going on, that beggars
are to be met with everywhere; there
is besides this an unavoidable impress
sion forced upon you as you walk about
the city, that Paris has outlived it's
prime Much of this impression may
be owing to the circumstances of the
moment, but still even when order is
restored under settled government, I
question if the recovery of Paris will be
a very rapid, or even thorough one.
Beneath the Empire Paris was devel-
oped by artificial means. The wondrous
aggrandizement and establishment
of the city were out of all proportion
to the natural growth of the country,
marvellous as that growth was. And
the artificial stimulus afforded by the
imperial system being removed, the
grandeur of Paris has, think, collaps-
ed for many a year to come. Except
in the improbable event of Napoleon
ic restoration, and Government likely
to be established in France must re-
y more upon the provinces than upon
the capital. The desire exhibited by
the great majority of the Bordeaux AS
sembly, elected as it is by universal
suffrage, to remove tllo seat of Gov
ernment from the banks OF the Seine.
was not merely an ebullition OF provin-
cial jealousy or reactionary partisanship,
but was the expression of wide
spread, popular conviction that the
virtual supremacy of Paris is fatal to
the welfare of France While France
remains nation, Paris must, in my
Judgment, remain it's permanent capi-
tal But the Government of the future
will have no motive to maintain, still
less to augment, the Importance of
Paris; and therefore I see no prospect
that in our days Paris will ever recover
her pristine grandeur. That her loss
may prove the gain of France, must be
the wish of all who, like myself, be-
lieve that the existance of France as a
prosperous and powerful community is
essential to the welfare of Europe.
Year: 1871

evening the pink dress in which I had
SO many times told her she looked like
an angel, and whether she had her hair
loose over her shoulders, or coiled up
at the back of her head in the careless
knot which made her looked SO sweetly
womanly.


Then I got on my feet, and stumbled
about for another long, weary period.
After while [ fell down from sheer
exhaustion, and slept. My sleep was
very sweet, my dreams pleasant, and all
of her


How terrible was the awakening!
Again I resumed my search for an
opening, and kept it up until my
strength gave out and I was forced to
desist.


In this way passed the time. I had
no means of ascertaining how long I
aa' ~ there-daylight and night


same in that dreadful


- to be very hun
Year: 1871

Minerva Hall was filed to the utmost on
Friday evening by q selected audience. on
the occasion Of the complimentary concert
given to Miss Melanie May by her pupils.
1t is exceedingly gratifying to say that the
concert was a most complete success in
every sense. The music was judicious]y
selected and splendidly executed, and it is
not possible to name any portion of the per-
formance undeserving OF the highest praise


Mr.. Chase delighted the audience with
his splendid performance of the Star Of
Love-" and the ''Rose Bush" Madame
Blache was in excellent voice, and it would
be difficult indeed to surpass the soprano
aria by DOnizetti, or the duet LA Fee au
Roses performed with Mr.. Cassard.


The interest Of the evening concentrated,
however, upon the performance Of Miss
Mays pupils, particularly the overture for
eight hands: We think that any competent
Judge of the subject would acknowledge
that the touch, time and expression dis
played by the pupils of Miss May are indis-
putable proof that she is teacher OF re-
markabie talent; teacher, not only, but q
pianist whose brilliancy of execution and
delicacy of touch, combined with true
artistic feeling of the theme, has been sell
dom equaled, still more seldom surpassed.
We sincerely hope that this concert will
Lead to wider appreciation of Miss May as
very superior instructor ON the piano.
Year: 1871

The Picayune says in reference to the
Calcasieu sulphur mines:


Having recently INDUCED in one or two
little pleasantries at the expense Of the
Calcasieu sulphur mines, we propose in re-
turn to give a few brief facts concerning
the respects of the working of the same by
the company formed in this city.


There were placed upon exhibition, yes
terday, at the office Of the company on Car
Ondelet street, a number OF glass Jars con-
tanning specimens of the crude and analyzed
sulphur obtained from the several strata of
the mine, which had the effect Of bringing
together quite a number OF gentlemen in
terested in the Calcasieu mining project


From the labels upon the jars and the ac-
companying chart upon which the various
strata are worked. it was shown that the
strata which yields the greatest results, viz
ninety-six and One-fonrth per centnm of
pure sulphur, is situated at a depth of four
hundred and eighty-six feet, extending
downward to a depth of four hundred and
ninety-si feet.


The extent OF the various strata, the de-
pOsits from which, when mixed together,
produce eighty per cent of pure sulphur is
one hundred and twelve feet in depth.


When the first shaft was sunk the sulphur
was reached at a depth OF four hundred and
twenty-eight feet.


In the present shaft, which is situated
about one hundred and fifty feet from the
former, the sulphur was not reached unit! a
depth of four hundred and forty-two feet
had been attained.


The eng gineer of the company, we are in
formed, is to leave in few days for Europe,
for the purpose of having a cast iron shaft
constructed, after the plan Of a recent in
vention by a French and Belgian engineer,
said shafts having the reputation OF being
by far the best now constructed for many
purposes. The company expect to be in full
operation at the commencement of the new
year, and we are afraid we should not be
believed, if We were to give an idea of the
profits they confidently predict will arise
from their work during the first season
alone.


A somewhat careful estimate places the
value of the sulphur already discovered in
the grounds Of the company at thirty five
million dollars. The capital stock is seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and no
increase of capital will be required to bring
the rich products of the mines to the surface
of the earth, from whence it may be ship
ped to the markets of the world.
Year: 1871

The new management of the New Or
leans, jackson and Great Northern rail
road have done everything possible to
accommodate through travel and to facili-
tate the speedy transmission Of through
mails. They have done excellent well,
and deserve due credit therefor. Now,
over the Mississippi Central and jackson
road, Colonel McComb being president of
both corporations, there is no detention at
Canton because the trains fail to connect
as they run between Humboldt to New Or
leans without change.


This remedies the delays that previously
existed when mails and passengers were
detained from six to twelve hours waiting
for the departing train from Canton in either
direction. The result is, that we have re-
ceived our New York and Western mails
with surprising regularity, and passengers
have not been compelled to wait over and
seek the accommodation Of waysitle hotels.


There was, however, one difficulty to be
bridged over, and that was the incon-
venience and vexatiOn arising from the
occasional necessity of waiting at local
stations one, two, three, four and five hours
for the incoming through trains. There
was but one way to avoid this evil, and
that was the establishment of an accommo-
dation train to run between New Orleans
and Canton, or some other point on the
road. The condition of the track and the
insutficiency OF the rolling stock have prob
ably had some effect in delaying the estab-
lishment Of a local train, but we now learn
that an accommodation train will be run
through the summer by the New Orleans,
jackson and Great Northern Railroad Com
pany to Magnolia and all intermediate sta
tions, to arrive i'll New Orleans in time for
business, and return in the evening, and
that season and Communication tickets will
be sold at rates to encourage summer travel
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