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Year: 1871

itself to make demonstration to satisfy the
people. The Senate refuses to allow an in
vestigation to be made, although it is charged
by Republican Senator, on The floor of the
Senate, that widespread corruption and ex-
travagance exists to-day In the public
service; and now, when Mr.. Curtis is on
the eve of reporting upon some plan which
is thought to be requisite, ont comes the
cry that the commission is failure.


Presidential OpiniOnl about Certain


Journals.


The President is understood to have
lately said that the opposition Of such papers
as the New York Tribune, the Cincinnati
Commercial, the Springfield Republican and
the Chicago Tribune, did not affect him. as
they would not dare to bolt on his nomina-
ton; and he said their Republican readers
would make them swing into line before
the Presidential election.


Congressional Committee Clerks.


The question governing the appointment
Of clerks to Congressional committees, was
looked into to-day by the select committee
on reorganization of the civil service. A
bill will shortly be reported, showing what
committees require clerks, extent of the
service required, and fixing the compen-
sation therefor. 1t is the intention of the
committee to make general inquiry into
the clerical status of all branches of the
government, properly grading this branch
OF the service, and fixing the remuneration
of the salaried officers in proportion to
their responsibility and services rendered.
Year: 1871

Every young man, after he has chosen
his vocation, should stick to it. Don't leave
it because hard blows are to be struck, or
disagreeable work performed. Those who
have worked their way up to wealth and
usefulness, do not belong to the shiftless
and unstable class, but may be reckoned
among such as took off their coats, rolled
up their sleeves, and conquered their preju-
dices against labor, and manfully bore the
heat and burden Of the day.-Erek0sg
Year: 1871

A gentleman who has devoted consider
able attention to the subject of narrow
guage railroads, has this to say about their
introduction in this State: "The era of
narrow-guage railroads about to dawn in
Tennessee will work revolution in rail-
road history which will rebound to the pros
perity of the State and the speedy develop
ment of millions Of wealth."
Year: 1871

The Herald PROCESSES to have rel;a ble in
formation from Butler, Wilson and Weed that
they know nothing of the formation of an
anti-Grant party. Sumner, it is stated, is not
engaged in any such movement
Year: 1871

A morning paper announced, on Saturday,
that Controller Connolly was, through his
wife, transferring large amounts of registered
securities to another member Of his family,
We know nothing of the facts i'll this case,
but, if it be true. and this can be readily
ascertained by application in the proper
quarters, we suggest that this is
matter for the serious consideration
of the Committee of Seventy. If the
proceedings which have been begun with
such universal acquiescence of good citizens
are not merely farcical, they tend not only to
the removal Of our corrupt rulers from power,
but to justice upon them for their trangres-
sions. If it be proved that they have stolen
the money of the taxpayers, they
should be compelled to make restitution,
even to the uttermost farthing of their
possessions. Merely turning them out
of the positions they have disgraced
would be to them no adequate punishment.
Secure in the accumulatiOns of years of rob-
berry, they could bid defiance to public opinion
and await favorable opportunity for enter
ing again upon the field of politics. They
have no social position to lose. They would
be no more dcspised by decent people than
they arc at present. Their wealth would gain
them circle of retainers and parasites very
much the same as those who surround
them now, and after a while the pub
lie conscience, wearlcd with the power


full effort required for dismissing them,
would begin to neglect and at last to forget
them. But if they are prosecuted to the point
of making them disgOrge their plunder, they
would go into retirement with none to do
them reverence Their evil example would
become pOwcress for harm, if the influence
of their stolen millions could be taken from
them. 1t should therefore be matter for
immediate consideration to the Committee


whether an injunction should not be at once
applied for restraining these men from alien
ating any of their property pending the legal
investigation of their cases by the Courts.


suggestion has been hastily made by that
rapid and hot-blooded journal, The Nation,
that the Tammany leaders would be better for
days hanging to lamp-pOsts. If the con-
ductOrs OF that paper know anything OF Amer
lean mobs they would not commit an error so
absurd and 80 savage. mob sometimes
hangs man who deserves it, but 1t is only
by providential accident In every crowd
which lynches a horse-thief the rinsleaders
arc almost sure to be thieves themselves.
In the wild gangs which drag q murderer
from Jail and hang him, there is no idea of
justlce-nothng but the keen love of excite


ment and larbaroM lust Of blood. ANY
Year: 1871

1t is a thanklcss task to expose a tithe of
the frauds and abuses of the Tammany Ring.
But when the Public School system is touched,
the people should feel that one Of the dearest
institutions of the country is threatened. On
another page of TIE TRIBUNE will be found
complete exposition of the condition
of our Public School Department, which
has been demoralized and all but
ruined by the corrupting influences ex-
erted over it by the selfish men who control
public affairs. Money wasted, the attendance
of scholars discouraged, sectarianism creeping
into the schools, contracts for books and sup
plies given to party favorites without regard
to the needs of the schoOls-these are among
the notable features Of our school system as it
now exists The catalogue of ills is long, but
| If is honestly made.
Year: 1871

Vigilance Committee which should assume to
"do justice" to Tweed and Connolly would
inevitably be composed in great part OF the
very classes who have been for years in the
pay of these men. There has been great deal
of unwholesome folly talked and written about
the essential justice Of Lynch Law and
Vigilance Committees. 1t all proceeds from
the fact that the persons punished often de-
served it. Haggerty was q noxious animal
but Reddy the Blacksmith had no right to
kill him. He deserves the punishment of
murderer for inficting on Haggerty the death
he deserved. The Lynchers of the West arc
usually, in moral character and standing, but
few degrees above the criminals they execute. A
New-York mob-court would be infinitely worse,
because the civilization of great cities pro-
duces sngularly perfecttype of cowardice and
fcrOcty. We hope to see the truth made
clear and the rogues punished. But in the in
tcrcsts of the State and the Nation, we would
rather see them go unwhipped than to see
crowd of citizens deliberately breaking the
laws 10 punish them.
Year: 1871

The inevitable Coored Man comes up again. this
time in the National Division of the Sons of Tenn
perance, which has just been holding Its annual
meeting in Boston. In various parts of the country,
persons of African descent, having become total alb
staiDers, have joined the Order and organized divi
sons Of their own. Then the question arose whether
they should be allowed representation in the supe-
rior bodies of the Order State as well as National
1t is enough to ill any sensible man with wonder
that there should ever have been any difference of
opinion on the subject. Temperance folks are pre-
sumed to be- at the least, benevolent and more
largely philanthropic than others, and If colored
men should ever be warmly encouraged it Is when
they are dscarding the habit of drinking sprituous
lquors-a habit which has done them specias@ FARM
and that continually. However, after great debate
in the National Division, good sense and healthy
human feeling prevailed over obsolete prejudice. aud
the following resolution was passed-Sl to 39:


Hae-,os Order Sons OF Temperance under jurisdiction
National Division Distinction
condition. but all alike equal before the law there
fore


Resolved That future action do deem It erp~ien
bodies In the territory account Of Of the
above named d snctons.
Year: 1871

Information bearing upon tho important
case to be heard to-day in Judge Barnards
Court is printed elsewhere. The people are
looking on with bated breath and anxious
hearts to see if 1t is possible, by the means
which the law has given u.s. to break the cor
rupt combination which now rules the City.
The cause is that of the people against
Messrs. Tweed, Connolly, and Hall not that
of any political combination or individual,
but of the people only. The issue is to show
if the people have legal remedy against mis-
government and corruption in Office. If we
succeed, it will be a popular victory for the
right if not it will be proved that it is pos
siblc for great city to have its hands tied
and its way utterly blocked. We hope for
the best.
Year: 1871

Il is not great while since public attention
was excited by the cruclties to live stock prac-
ticed on the great transportation lines between
New York and the West. 1t was found that
cattle were kept for days without food or
water, crowded in close and filthy cars, and those
that survived tho journey reached this city in
diseased and debilitated condition. A little
agitation led to reform. Tho over-crOwding,
wo believe, was somewhat lessened, and ia
ciities were provided for feeding and water
ing tho animals at convenient distances along
tho route. This was excellent 50 far rs it went !;
but a further reform is demanded.


Persons used to the care of cattle VIII hardly
need to bo told that these creatures will
neither eat nor drink as much as nature re-
quires while they are long journey by
rail. Change of hay and water affects them
unfavorably, and the excitement, the jarring,
tho discomfort, and the vile air attending
transportation in cars creates general disturb
ance in their system. The consequence is
that the stock arrive at New-YOrk in hardly
better condition than when they used to be
starved on the road. Many are taken
from the cars dead, and hundreds are led to
the shambles with sunken eyes, frothng mouth,
and limbs hardly able to bear their weight.
Such attic are diseased and their flesh cannot
be fit for human food


The remedy for this evil is to shorten the
running time on the railway lines which do
this species of transportation. BY any of the
routes it now takes a cattle train one hundred
hours, or nearly four days and a quarter, to
come from Chicago to New York, while an ex-
press passenger train makes the trip in day
and half, and a fast freight train in sixty
hours. We can see no reason why live stock
should bo so cruelty delayed, to the great
damage and often to the destruction of the
animals. The time is lost, not III keeping
down the speed, but in lettering at way-sta-
tiOns and switches without necessity. If
Western graziers were in the habit of
bringing their own cattle to market, and
seeing for themselves how the value
of steer is deprecated by these
four and a quarter days of confinement, suf-
fering, and starvation, q pressure would soon
be brought to bear upon the railroad COM
panies to effect change in tie timetables ;
but in most cases the drOves are consigned to
the care of ignorant, careless, and brutal
hired hands, or are sold at some of the West
ern shipping places to large contractors
These middle-men and certain extensive Oper-
ators here nearly monopolze the trade of
New York, and it often happens to be for
their interest to delay trains on the route
when prices run low. 1t is supposed that they
are able to do this by On understanding with
the railroad companies and both the stock
raiser and the consumer sufer in consequence.
Year: 1871

The CROSS Gazette cOOlly announces the result
of the Salzburg negotiations as being based on
The proposition that Austria and Germany re-
pudiate aggressive ideas. 1t is natural that
these Powers should unite to repel aggression.
especially as Germany has large newly
acquired territory which she wishes to defend
and keep; but that the reputation of aggres-
sion was the only or fundamental principle
upon which the two sOvereigns made any
agreement is not possible. Such an unmean-
Ing statement merely shows that The Cross
Gazette knows nothing at all of what happened
At the Sazburg conference.
Year: 1871

There is melancholy story going about of white
captive held by the Apache Indians who so amuses
them by his funny songs and comic dances that his
captors will not ransom him for any quantity OF
rum or beads He is supposed to be stray negro
minstre and We can easily imagine that he finds It
but melancholy business to sing the Old rafting
songs and execute the double-shniilc IN strange
land. 1t is enough to bring the jolliest end man
to his other and final end in presto time Always
dancing and singing for living must be duli WORK
but dancing and singing for dear life-what Indian
torture can equal this 7
Year: 1871

We see it stated that the whipping-post has been
rcGrected all over the State of Virginia, and in
Chesterfield County, especially, there is a Justice
Cox who greatly favors this method of punishment,
especially when the offenders are negroes. Strange
to say the blacks said to prefer foggng to i'm
prisonment. But although they may be satisfied
and Justice Cox Also cannot say that we like
fogging in great Virginia any better than we have


liked it in little Delaware. If culprits prefer it, why
that is only another argument against it. Justice
Cox doesn't fog them because they like it. but be-
cause it is cheaper for the county. Much he cares
for the preferences of the niggers"
Year: 1871

victims Of her arts to suppose that they were
lest or left by accident. For long time, the
detectives were unable to discover the myste-
riOus poisoner though 1t was found that deadly
drugs were skillfully concealed in the tempting
packages left about the city. And no motive
could be ascertained for the crime even when
traced to the woman, who is now in fair
way to be kept out Of such dangerous mis-
chief hereaftnr.
Year: 1871

KEEPING FRESH MEAT.-The follow
ing from the Rural American, will be
useful to farmers who are at a dis
tance from meat markets: Cut the meat
in slices ready to fry. Pack it in a jar
in layers, sprinkling with salt and pep
per, just enough to make it palatable.
Place on the top thick paper or cloth,
with salt half an inch thick. Keep this
ON all the while. Meat has been kept
perfectly good for three weeks in sum-
mer by this method.
Year: 1871

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies
ana at as low rates as at any agency in the country


Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1871

Our readers will notice in our advertising
columns that please mt and valuable Home
stead is offered for sale in Auburn. The
property is situated i'll the southern portion
Of town, pleasantly located and well improv-
ed, with perfect title. Read the advertise
ment and apply for further information as
therein directed
Year: 1871

In mentioning the attempt of the four
Cinnamon to rob VIM. Gaissen, (Bill the
butcher) between Virginia and Lincoln, in
our last issue, mistake or two occurred.
There was no demand made for his money,
and the first he knew, as the team was walk
ing along, he was struck a terrible blow with
Il club on the side of the head; he stopped
the horses and sprang out Of the wagon, and
as he did SO he was struck again, and in
wardng off the blow he received it on his
arm and hand At this moment the four
Chinese raised yell and the horses started;
he followed and stopped the team and re-
turned determined to capture one of the
robbers, but they had all disappeared in the
chapparal- Hell. 4 some s75 or $50 i" his
possession, none of which the robbers got.
His arm, hand, and side of his head were
badly bruised
Year: 1871

WRITING SCHOOL Mr.. J. Buck will
open Writing School at the School House,
in Auburn on this evening, at which all the
branches of Penmanship will be taught
The terms will be twelve lessons for three
dollars, and where there are more than one
scholar from family, it will be but 81 so,
stationery included. Special attention given
to young men and misses who are just be-
ginning to use the pen, in teaching them the
proper positions. Private lessons given
during daytime at residents of scholars when
desired Persons desiring such lessons can
drop line in the postofice. This gentle
man comes highly recommended as one Of
the finest teachers of penmanship on the
coast; indeed this fact is known to most OF
the older residents in Auburn, as Mr.. Buck
taught here several years ago, giving the
best of satisfaction. In youth is the time to
acquire the proper and perfect use Of the
pen, and when once accomplished it is never
lost in after life. Parents and others should
not loose this opportunity, but DO at the
School-house this evening.
Year: 1871

Sr. PATRICK MINE.-This company has
had complete and thorough survey of the
mine, both OH the surface and underground,
giving the accurate direction and levels on
the surface, the size of the ledge at various
points in the shaft with all the levels and
thickness of the ledge in the same, thus
showing the exact relative position Of the
ledge at the surface and for a depth of 220
feet. The survey was made by I. 5.
DEPUTY Surveyor Samuel Bethel of this
place, and the map shows all the above
points at glance to the praeticed eye. The
shafts and levels show vast body of rich
ore exposed As the shaft decpens and the
levels extend the progress will be marked on
this map, and the whole interior of the mine
can be seen at any time by 6 lancing at the
map.
Year: 1871

A writer in the Louisville Daily Com
mercial has been visiting the beautiful
Cave Hill Cemetery at that city, and,
among the resting places of other dis
tinguished men, he describes the simple
grave o. George ID. Prentice, the poet
and Journalist, as follows:


As we walk by the hillside, we stop
and look with feelings of sorrow at the
humble spot where the Nestor of the
press, the man of princely intellect,
George d. Prentice, lies. The poet and
Journalist, whose pen evoked the admi-
ration of the world, whose name was
Synonymous with everything brilliant
and poetic in literature, lies an humble
and almost ttnLoticed grave. A little
Grecian canopy, resting on four columns,
with an urn in the center, and on top a
Tyre with a broken string-so sadly ex-
pressive of the music that has been lost
to the worlds all that represents in
material substance the illustrious dead.
On the grass which is springing up green
and fresh over the iowly grave, is a
broken goblet, in which, sometimes, is
placed some fowery tribute by a CRATE
ful and loving hand. This is all that
indicates the resting place of the man
that Kentucky should De proad to honor.
The remains of Courtland Prentice lie
near by, and are more distinguished in
their outward adornments than those of
his father
Year: 1871

such change must have very much
modified the climate Of Australia |
have no doubt that in past ages the diff
ferent races of men must have been far
more numerous than at the present
Those great revolutions that raised the
Alps from the bed of the ocean. which
submerged whole continents while they
brought others into existence, must have
swept away whole races of men, while
others were lost sight of, like the ten
tribes of Israel through amalgamation.
| think it is plain that the African was a
distinct race from the beginning, and
that the only reason for forming him as
he is was simply that all the earth might
he inhabited
Year: 1871

Shall /, wasting in despair,
Die, because woman's fairY
Or make pale my checks with care,
Cause another's rosy are2
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the fowery neads in May.


III she be not SO for me,


What care l how fair she be?
Shall my foolish heart be pined,
Cause l see a woman kind,
Or well disposed nature,
Joined with lovely feature?
Be she meeker, kinder. than
Turtle dove or pelican,


If she be not so to me,


What care / how kind she be?
Shall woman's virtue move
Me to perish for her lOye2
Or her well-deserving known,
Make me quite forget mine 0wnY
Be she with that goodness blest,
Which may gain her name of best,
If she be not such to me,


What care how good she be?
Cause her fortune seems too high,
Shall play the fool and dieY
Those that bear a noble mind.
Where they want of riches find,
Think what with them they would do,
That without them dare to WOO;
And unIess that mind see,


What care how great she be?
Great, or good, or kind, or fair,
will ne er the more despair.
If she love me, this believe,
will die ere she shall grieve.
If she slight me when WOO.
can scorn and let her go;


For if she be not for me,


What care l for whom she beP
Year: 1871




The danger to which the city of New
Orleans is exposed from the great ere
vase, which has occurred a few miles
above it, lies in its nearness to Lake Pom
chartrain-the city and the lake are six
miles apart--and to the fact that between
them extends a swampy waste which is
easily filled with the waters of the lake,
even by the effect of high wind blow
ing inland, thus causing the water to
overflow a large portion of the suburbs
of the city the streets on such occasions
resembling canals. Should the Bonnet
Care crevasse continue, or become
more extensive, the immense volume of
water pouring into the western extremity
of Lake Ponchartrain might so swell its
waters as to cause the lake to be forced
across the intervening swamp into the
city Of New Orleans, and so produce an
inundation. 1t is not an uncommon
thing to find a large section of the
city under water even after a
heavy summer shower of an hours
duration. While there would not
necessarily be any danger to life
in the contingency of an overflow, prop
erty would suffer immensely; and even
the extraordinary spectacle might be
offered of one of the small steamboats,
which ply on the lake through the Old
Basin steaming up the contiguous streets
to receive passengers from the second
story window of houses. This is pos
sibility, however, which would not be
likely to occur unless the Mississippi
should assert its power in manner un-
usual in its history. As it is, an i'm
mense loss has been inflicted upon the
plantations which have been submerged
by the crevasse. The question of the
Mississippi levees has always been q
matter of extreme solicitude to the
people of Louisiana living along the
low land borders Of the river; and, in
deed, it is not a cheerful reflection for
those so situated to feel that at high
water mark they lie down to sleep on a
level twelve or fifteen feet below that Of
the mighty river which surges above
them, and the waves of which lap the
top of the embankments that keep its
waters in check.
Year: 1871

That the negro was formed for the eli
mate Of Africa the whole structure of his
body unites TO prove. First, as a pro
lection to the brain against the direct
rays Of the sun, his hair is made to grow
short and curly, and he is furnished with
a skull Of enormous thickness. In no
other being do we see the wisdom of the
Creator more clearly exhibited than in
the construction Of the African. The
soles of his feet are Overlaid with thick
layer Of fat--a bad conductor of heat
thereby enabling him to walk at his ease
over the burning sands, and forming for
him a far better protection than any
contrivance the art Of man could devise.
And now you may ask why did God
make the African black2 | answer: in
order that he might be able TO keep cool
in that torrid climate A black surface
will radiate or part with heat much more
rapidly than a white one, an expert
ment that any one may try. Take two
vessels that are in every respect the
same-two teapots, for instance; let
one of them be covered over with lamp
black, then I'll them both with boiling
water, and you viii find the black one
will be cold much sooner than the bright
one. believe all scientific men agree
that since the creation Of man a large
tract of land stretching out from Africa
to New Holland has .been submerged,
and is now covered by the Indian Ocean.
This would readily account for the negro
being an inhabitant Of that country, and