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Year: 1871

The special correspondent of the Tribune
writes from Knoxville an exceedingly
interesting letter about East Tennessee,
the following extract from which wegive
as likely to do us very great amount of
good. The correspondent after giving
many facts about our climate, soil, &C.,
says: r- .." |....N -s. ..s.s -


The most important information to a
Northern man wishing to move South is,
after all, about the disposition of the peo-
pie among whom he proposes to settle, for
however rich the soil and healthful the
climate may be, no sensible man. will set
up his household gods in community
where hewill be Obstracised, abused and
sneered ut as "a ID Yankee on account
of his Northern birth and advanced poll
tical opinions, and where ruffians in hide
ours disguise prowl about at midnight and
fog and shoot men for voting a Repubi-
can ticket, East Tennessee is happily free,
in spirit and in deed, from kukIuXism.
Here, as in no other part of the South eX
cept Western North Carolina, there is an
active Republican party composed of in
telligent native white men. And this par
ty composed is in the majority, electing
county officers in most of the counties, and
sending two Republican congressman to
Washington. The people are, however,
kind, sociable, hospitable, aud helpful to
each other and they cordially welcome
new corners. In nine-tenthS of all East
Tennessee Northern man coming to set
tie in the country would be much more
warmly received than one from the South.
The people suffered so much from their
loyalty in the war that they naturally do
not feel kindly yet toward their late perse-
cutOrs, the rebels.
Year: 1871

The Chattanooga Times says that a littl-
colored boy was drowned in that city on Faie
day afternoon. He fell out Of a canoe into the
river


Nashville gamblers have been brought to time
by one of their victims. They were fined or
bound over to appear before the Criminal Court,
according to the nature of their offense


Preparations are being made by Nashville
dealers to supply that city with coal from the
st. Bernard mines Of Kentucky.
Year: 1871

The number of churchmembers in Mad
agascar was 20,951 at the beginning of this
wear, while the native adherents numbered
231 ,759, the number of native preachers he
ing 1856 But these last by no means en-
brace all that virtually preach the GosneI
Many are constantly engaged spreading
the truth who have received no other train.
ing for such a service but that which the
Holy Ghost has given them.
Year: 1871

The Military Companies of the City the Grand


Army of the Republic, and other Organizations,
will form at three O'Clock p. NJ, ON Congress street
IN front OF City Hail. march through the principal
streets to the Western Promenade and be review
ed, the particulars of which will be hereafter Civ
Year: 1871

"The Battle of Dorking" is a graphic and
minute description of battle ,chich nerer
took place, and which is made to decide the
fate of England. The narrator personates
an old gentleman talking to his grandchildren
of events supposed to have happened fifty
years before. If the narrative had been
founded upon actual fact the story could not
have been told more graphically The folly
of England in not making suitable provision


to protect itself against the encroachments of
ambitious and pO Owerful neighbors, thei inva-
sion and subsequent battle of Dorking at a
time when the country was wholly unprepar-
ed for war and taken by surprise, the terrible
disaster which overlook it's arms upon that
fatal field, the diversion of its trade and COM
menee, the destruction of its naval suprema-
cy, the decline of its prosperity and the re-
duction of its people from power and afflu-
ence to condition of poverty and wretched-
ness IS told with great simplicity and power,
and reads more Ikea chapter of history than
il does like fancy sketch based wholly upon
imagination. Besides the description of the
battle the book contains number of very
sensible observations of political nature, in
teLded TO show the secret of Englands great
ness and power and how the same may be
frittered away and lost by the folly of its peo.
pie, or saved by wise forethought and proper
attention to the country's needs. Published
in pamphlet by G. p. Putnam IL Sons, New
York, and for sale by Fessehden Brothers.
Year: 1871

Will be given in the evening, at Congress Square,
head of High Street, also on Congress Street head
OF India Rockets and other Fire Works will he
displayed, during the Concerts, at the same places
Year: 1871

The week opens very dull and quiet at the
stock Exchange and in department are there any
licences OF the late perturbation. On the whole, the
stock market though dull has been strong the advanced
quotations of Saturday being well sustained Ihere mas
been a good borrowing inquiry for the more active
shares which denotes oversold condition OF those
specaes the movement to cover such contracts IL
doubtless partial cause for the frmness to-day The
more important dealings have been in Lake Shore ana
Ohio Mississippi, the brilliant rally III the latter on
Saturday giving rise TO the suspicion that they are
under the same clique management. Inc nrst
named sold ex-divdend Of per cent
this afternoon, the books having closed at O'CLOCK
though IT is not positively known when they will be re-
opened The stockholders meeting to decide upon the
SIS new stock is set down for July a. There has
been decidedly active movement in the Northwest
stocks at well advanced figures, compared with the
dealings since late depression Rock Island has been
practically neglected but firmly held this after
noon The Vanderbilt stocks steady, Erie dull ana
Union Pacific and St. Paul strong and higher Invest
ment securities neglected. In the miscellaneous
list Western Union was pushed forward about per
cent Consolidation Coal rising TO Al. Express shares
were steady The following table shows the highest and
lowest prices OF active stocks made to-day
Year: 1871

Greeley has written this book the planest and simplest manner
generally accorded the merit Of having set
forth The little pretend language that few fail to
"ders,and


have avoided could the Of terms and distinctions
familiar to the general ear


THE little Of oxygen hydrogen nitrogen etc have kept 70
myself since whatever might Of them woad he useless to those
ALREADY acquainted the elementary truths Of chemistry and only
"pepleung TO Others


fthee which viii not be readily and


fully understood Of fifteen then have
"faed paragraph simple and as lucid as Intended
Year: 1871

The book is and the good excellent advice
valuable h that aoounds in make really valuable TO any one
. sort Of business, occupation, or profession


II ought TO sell millions of copies Every family ought To have copy
they ought read and Tereadt 80, ,


ought the hands 0f and child In the
wor- they know IeadaB they R ought to be read to
them


=. The book published in handsome style Beautifully
printed. bound u ee mt cloth with gait back
Year: 1871

THE WrE.-If you wish to be happy and
have peace in the family never reprove your
husband in company, even if that reproof be
ever so light. If he be irritated, speak not
an angry word. Indifference sometimes will
produce unhappy consequences. Always
feel an interest in what yor husband un-
dertakes; and if he is perplexed or discour-
aged, assist him by your smiles and happy
words. If the wife is careful how she con-
ducts, speaks or looks, thousand happy
hearths would cheer and brighten her exist
ence, where now there is nothing but clouds
Of gloom, sorrow and discomfort. The wife,
above all others, should strive to please her
husband and to make home attractive.
Year: 1871

The Grass Valley Union is responsible
for the following:


Saturday night a special deputy sheriff
having charge Of some property at the lower
end of Main street, met with quite an ad-
venture. The property he has in charge is
peculiarly liable to be stolen, or to take fire;
hence watchfulness in the night time is
necessary. In making his rounds through
pile of lumber the officer startled happy
pair, the said pair running off in different d.
rections. They left hat and shawl; the
hat belongs to Caucasian head; the shawl
is "injun." An owner is wanted for the
hat; in this weather men should not 20 bare
headed. Officer Jack Allison can give the
particulars.
Year: 1871

CUI Bono ?-The "central organ" at Sac
ramento, in its issue of Sunday morning, de-
votes more than column Of its valuable
space to demonstrating the proposition that
judicial officers are eligible, under the Con-
stitution Of California, to hold the position Of
United States Senator. We are at loss 10
know why it should discuss this question
just now, to the exclusion of others of pres
ent interest, as it can have no possible con-
nection with California politics, unless indeed
some judge or justice ofthe peace is prepar-
ing to succeed Cole as Senator from Calfor-
mia. If such be the case, an announcements
of the fact would, perhaps, be in srder, and
also matter Of interest to the people The
"organ' arrives (and correctly, we think }
at the conclusion that judge of any Of our
Courts is eligible to the Senatorshp, notwith-
standing the provision of our State Consti-
tuition that "the Justices of the Supreme
Court and the District Judges and the Ceuil-
ty Judges shall be eligible to any other Office
than judicial Office during the term for
which they have been elected" The Office
of United States Senator is not State, but
a Federal office, created by the Constitution
of the United States, and certainly the pro-
vision of our State Constitution, quoted above
cannot refer to Federal office. But for
what good purpose is the question now dis
cussed ?-what Justice of the Supreme
Court or District Judge wishes to exchange
the ermine for the Senatorial toga? We
should ike to know what manner of man he
is; whether he be sound on the great ques-
tions of the day; whether he is a confederate
of the corruptionists that everywhere throng
the political higlw .ys; a tool of the monop-
oists that are robbing the people of their
patrimOny and fast subjecting them to the
tyranny of capital; or a man devoted to the
interests of the masses and the glory of the
country, who can be relied upon in the
great struggle now going on between homes
ty and corruption, the interests of the peo-
pie and the thieving rings that infest tho
Federal capital. BY informing us on these
points, and the mere mention of his name
will be sufficient for that purpose, the cor
gan will, perhaps, remove grave doubts that
have been aroused in the minds Of many
Democrats by its discussion Of the question
of eligibility Clara Argus.
Year: 1871

"AVING LOCATED IN AUBURN, OF
i l. fers his services as Physician and Surgeon
to the people of town and surrounding country,
and hopes, by strict attention to his profession
to merit and receive liberal share of patronage.
For the present he can be found, when not alb
sent on professional business, day or night at
the American Hotel. fel1-my.
Year: 1871




Of the Public printing land feeced this
time worse than LittleHeld and Joe Hol-
den feeced her. But who's to blame for
it? Nobody says the majority report Of
the investigating Committee It is-ail
the result Of misunderstanding on the
part fthe Committee appointed to contract
for the Public printing who thought that
Moore (the CONTRACTOR meant the quadrate
EN-, while he (Moore) meant the letter NJ,
measured the nalroso scayi Well, that is
new mode Of measuring ems, and We
would like to do little printing for the
State in this way. No printer ever heard
Of measuring quadrate ems by the letter
M, l'narrow,) before. We never did
but perhaps we know nothing about it,
What is an EN- quadrate? IT is 81
short blank type, in thickness equal to the
square Of the letter Of the fount to which
it belongs. The letter N measured fiat
(g thus) will give you the measure oftae
quad en- in length Of line, but it lacks ssn-
siderable when measured thus M. This is
the way it seems Mr.. Moore agreed to do
the work. if we understand the Committee


-and the Committee felicitated itself
on having 'gouged' the Printer for once
and secured great saving to the State /!
But 10! the bitter got bit and nobody is
to blame. The Printer proved himself 700
smart for the whole Legislature, and as It
is seldom printers get half paid for their la
Dor, we see no use in making big fuss ov-
er it. But the Radicals will make party
capital out of it! Tell the RAIDS to go to


Boston. They're only mad because
the fat job didn't fall into their hands.


The majority report Of the investigating
Committee says:


ssAfter thorough examination and ma
ture consideration Of the evidence [they1
are of opinion that the contract, as explain
ed by Mr.. Moore to the Committee at the
time the same was under consideration. has
not been violated, and that no funds have
been improperly drawn


Then the majority report says:


Your committee would recommend the
passage Of resolution directing the auditor
to audit bis accounts, [from Sept. up. ]
provided the printed matter is counted by
the measurement Of I'm quadrate.


Now. we desire to say that the printer
does not live who has ever seen an "m''
guat,yute. and if the Committee means to
pay the printer by the EN- quadrate what
right has the Committee to disregard the
m contract which said Committee says has
not been violated?


The minority report charges the public
printer with the grossest fraud, and shows
that he has feeced the State worse than
Little6eld and Holden. and they seem 10
blame Joe Turner with It. We do not
see how or why blame should be cast a.
gainst Turner. He is no printer--had no
hand in making the bargain-and draws
such pay only as Mr.. Moore or the head
man in the mechanical department Of his
Office reports him entitled to. Ard after
all the fuss about it. we'll bet our old hat
that Joe Turner will not clear enough on
this public printing to buy ginger cake.
Year: 1871

ET There may be something little
more serious in this Spanish sensation than
appears upon the surface, says the Kentucky
Courier Journal. II is just possible that
Grant has come to the conclusion that bis
bayonet game in the South won't win--that
the votes gained by the combined agencies
of terror and manipulation will be more
than balanced by the votes lost through
the discomfort and disruption which the
despotic and bare-faced cruelty of his
Southern policy threatens to cause in the
Republican party. There are no means at
hand of knowing whether this Cuban cru
sade is justifable or not. It is just posi-
bic, we say. that Grant has struck upon a
new plan for making certain bis own re-
election. And it looks alarmingly like
success. Suppose he should plunge the
United States into war with Spain upon a
plausible pretsxt. and come out with flying
colors. Military glory carried him to the
White House before. and. having miserably
failed in all things else, it is very plausi-
bic presumption that be will resort to it
again. IncipieDt disruption is everywhere
evident in the Republican party, and, un-
less something is done to stop it and pre-
serve the unity Of that party, the re-elec-
ton Of Grant is hopeless. A foreign war
would serve the purpose admirably, and it
is just possible, again, that poor, decrepit,
downfallen Spain is to be made the victim
Of cause for which South Carolina and
be South have been made to suffer.
Year: 1871

Mr. Jonathan Whipple of Mystic, Conn.
was probably the FIRST man in this country
to teach deaf mutes articulation and lip
reading. He was poor man Of limited
education, cultiva,ing small rocky farm
in summer, and travelling from one neigh
borhood to another during the winter as
u hog butcher. He had son who is now
forty five years Of age, who was born
deaf, but grew to be bright, intelligent
lad. The boy was not totally deaf, and
his father, who was possessed of most
powerful voice, could make him hear
when he shouted. For several years,
the only way in which Mr.. Whipple could
make bis son understand anything was by
shouting at the top of bis voice but IN
time the boy, BY watching his father 10
tently, learned to understand him by the
motion of the lips as we'll as by the sound
of bis voice. 50 the father mouthed to
him the things he had come to understaud,
but no one else could talk to him so as to
make himself comprehcnded. From this
beginning Mr.. Whippls went on to teach
the boy his alphabet, to instruct him 10
reading and writing, aud finally to artic-
ulste, 80 that now any stranger might
meet the sou and talk with him for an
hour, provided it was light, without motto
ing any popularity about him. The old
man and his grandson, a young man of
twenty, now have q family school where
they teach deafand dumb children to talk
and read from the lips of others the mean


ing Of what they utter, while At the same
time they are instructed in the usual
branches Of q common school education.
In this school object-teaohing is advau-
tageously used in great variety Of ways.
1t is q theory Of Mr.. Whipple that in
stances are very rare indeed where deaf
person cannot be made to hear some
sound and it 10 told of him that twenty
years ago ho was at the Hartford Asylum,
and on being assured that the children
there could not hear any sound whatever,
put HE fors6nger 10 his mouth, and
fetched tremendous whistle that caused
nearly overy one Of f.the pupils to start
with astonlshment.-N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1871

and returning home with him he died
the next day. The third time he him
self was taken violently i'll and had to
return. The old man at this became
superstitious. He believed that some
fatal impediment prevented the discov-
cry, and guarded the treasure. But he
transmitted the secret TO his son, and for
years young Newell had been persistent
in his desire to go in search Of the wealth
that lies hid in the Gulf


His first attempt, as those of his father,
resulted in failure. The cause of it is
not now recollected but it was sufficient
to deter his attempting it again alone.
At any rate he communicated his secret
to friend now connected with this
Office, first putting him under the obliga-
tions of an oath not to reveal it, and to
never attempt the discovery unless by
his direction or consent. So probable
did this tradition appear to his friend,
that, accompanied by Mr.. Newell, he
went in search Of the pirates wealth.
But storm came on. Thier boat was
dismasted and the rigging torn and lost.
After beating about in the lake and gulf
for ten days, they returned disheartened.
They did not reach, however, the island
they we're in search of and had no reason
to believe they would be disappointed in
case they should reach it. On the con-
trary, they believed that could they reach
the island the treasure would be found.


Since then Mr.. Newell has been per
sistent in his determination to go again.
He tried to persuade his friend to ac-
company him, but the sad experience of
his first expedition had disabused it of
its novelty, and induced him to abstain
from prosecuting his search again.


Mr.. Newell asked him then if he had
any objection to his (Newell) trying it.
To this he replied in the negative, and
they separated. Since then none Of the
friends of Mr.. Newell have seen him
alive.


He went away in his own boat, re-
Gently purchased and doubtlessly fitted
up for the purpose. How he met his
fate no one can tell; but his sudden and
untimely death gives room for specYla-
ton on the remarkable fatality that has
attended any search for the treasure of
Lafitte.


Sunday and Monday night violent
storm swept over the lake. 1t may have
caused his death; but on this hypothesis
the Wounds in his breast cannot be ac-
counted for. The supposition that they
were produced by his floating body
striking against rocks appears untenable.
The bullets of an assassin more likely
occasioned his death.


The curious and superstitious may say
that some mythical Cerberus, guarding
the pirates treasure, killed the intruder.
The mystery is like romance; and the
tale of his adventures and those of his
father are more singular than many that
give themes to the novelist or the ghostly
of the past.
Year: 1871

An instance of the renewal in sleep Of
an impression of memory calling up an
apparition to enforce it (it is the impress
sion which causes the apparition, not the
apparition which conveys the impress
sion) occurred near Bath about half
century ago, and it is related by Miss
Cobbe in an article on Unconscious
Cerebration," in the last number of Mac
millan's Magazine. Sir John Miller, a
very wealthy gentleman, died, leaving
no children. His widow had always un-
derstood that she was to have the use of
his house for her life, with a very large
jointure; but no will making such provia
sion could be found after his death. The
heir-at-law, a distant connection, natu-
rally claimed his rights, but kindly al
lowed Lady Miller to remain for six
months in the house to complete her
search for the missing papers. The six
months drew at last to a close, and the
poor widow had spent fruitless days and
weeks in examining every possible place
of deposit for the lost document, till at
last she came to the conclusion that her
husband could have made no such prom
Use, as she supposed, or have neglected
to fulfill il had he made one.


The very last day Of her tenure Of the
house had Just dawned, when in the gray
Of the morning Lady Miller drove up to
the door of her man Of business in Bath,
and rushed excitedly to his bedroom
door, calling out Come to mel Ihave
seen Sir Johnl There is a will" The
lawyer hastened to accompany her to
her house. All she could tell him was
that her deceased husband had appeared
to her in the night. standing by her bed
side, and had said to her solemnly,
There is a wilt" Where it was, re
mained as uncertain as before. Once
more the house was searched in vain
from cellar TO loft, till finally wearied
andsin despair the lady and her friend
Year: 1871

found themselves in garret at the top
of the house. 1T is all over" Lady
Miller said, | give it up; my husband
deceived me, and ! am ruined" At
that moment she looked at the table
over which she was leaning and weeping,
"This table was in his study oncel Let
us examine III They looked, and the
missing will, duly signed and sealed,
was within it, and the widow was rich to
the end Of her days. 1t needs no con-
juror to explain how her anxiety called
up the myth Of Sir John Miller's appari-
ton, and made him say precisely what
he had once before really said to her,
but Of which the memory had waxed
faint.
Year: 1871

Bury me in the valley


Beside some ripping stream,
Where blooms the modest lily


Amidst the emerald green;
And where the feathered songster
Will build its dOwny nest
Amid the fragrant rose-tree


That blooms above my breast.
Bury me in the valley


Where early comes the spring,
And where the towering holly


viii lasting beauty fling;
And let the distant sunset


Its gold and crimson shed
Upon the murmuring water


That glides beside my bed.
Bury mo in the valley .
Where tender breezes blow,
And let them murmur gently


My requiem soft and low;
And let the glistening dewdfop
BE pearls upon my breast.
With quantity carved though humble slab
To mark my place of rest.
Year: 1871

On Friday evening last, while young working girl
named Lizzie Baker was passing through McKtbben
street. on her way TO her home No. 15s Montrose
avenue. Williamsburg, boy whose face she did not
recognize pushed rulely against her. and when she
looked at him he drew knife or some other sharp
instrument across her face nrictlng q wound that
extended from her nose to her right ear. In
putting up her right hand to defend her face from
the murderOus assault the young girls thumb was
nearly severed rom her hand. The young rufan
eScaDed, and Is still at large.