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Year: 1872

Any amount and every class Of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies
and at as low rates at any agency in the country
Expiration Notices Promptly Given.


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Year: 1872

When the business portion of Chicago
was laid in ashes last year, the press had to
rake the ashes of history to find 4 compar-
ison Moscow was the nearest parallelled
In time, but that was no accidental fire.
The great fire of London, which occurred
more than two centuries ago, furnished the
only adequate parallel in all modern histo
ry. But the world has not had to wait
another two hundred years for the sad sight
Of another great commercial city In flames.
The chief business quarter of the important
city of Boston has burned TO the ground
since last Saturday evening; the fire occur
ring just one year, one month and one day
after the burning of Chicago.


Although the district burned over is only
about a half mile long, and quarter of
mile wide, yet when we remember that
three-fourths of the great wholesale houses
of the city were in that compass, aud were
reduced to ashes by the flames, we can form
some faint idea of the literally wholesale
destruction Of property. The fire broke
ont in large wholesale dry goods store,
four story granite building corner of Sum
mer and Kingston streets, little more
then half way from the Common to the east
water front of the city. The general course
of the FIRE was north to State street and
India wharf, and east to the harbor.


The flames seemed to pass from roof to
roof, and owing to the proverbiaI narrow
ness of the streets, and the height of the
buildings, the fremen could not well com
pete with the fierce and fast spreading
flames. There does not appear to have
been much wind, till the heat produced its
own disturbance Of the atmosphere, as is
Year: 1872

How would you ike TO pass through 4
cyclone, that is, an ocean whirlWind lasting
nineteen hours? The steamer Greece en-
countered such a storm in September about
thousand miles northeast of New
York harbor 1t is said to have been the
most terrible blow any ship has reported
for quarter of century. Doubtless many
such have swept the ocean, and no ship IN
their path has lived to tell the tale.


On this particular occasion the Greece
made but two miles an hour with machinery
that had given out three times before.
Had it failed during the cyclone for three
minutes, the good ship with It's regiment OF
passengers would have swung into the
trough Of the sea, and gone down like bar
Of lead. AS it was, there she pitched, and
staggered and rolled, for nearly twenty-tour
hours, lying on her side every two minutes,
and then righting only to put her bow un-
der the ocean pillows as if she never would
come up again, then rising to roll once more.
Huge seas breaking over the sides of the
Year: 1872

common in great confagrations. 1t Is estl-
mated that about enc thousand houses were
burned apd about one hundred millions OF
dollars worth of property were consumed,
during the thirty six hours in which the fire
ragged, from Saturday evening to Monday
morning.


Great apprehensions have been expressed
as to the effect of this great disaster on the
already stringent condition of the finances
of the country. But the Secretary of the
Z. S. Treasury has it in his power to afford
relief to the money centres, and will doubt
less do so. The Insurance Companies lose
heavily, but many of them have a large
surplus, and can afford to pay all losses.
Some must fail, but the st. Paul Press is
right in saying that the country which
passed the Rebellion, and the Chicago
Fire twice the Boston loss) without q
crash, can carry the last burden too.
Crashes never come while credit and CON
fdence is good. The Chicago calamity
prepares the country for this, and credit
will not fail. The great loss is to Western
copper mines, railways and other interests
in which the wealthy and enterprising
Boston capitalists took such heavy stock.
Year: 1872




We seldom think Of this august body Of
men, and the intricate questions continually
coming before them, but they are iii reality
kings over the American people, and might
were they unjust or corrupt men, rule most
deSpoticaly by false interpretations of the
law and constitution, and colluSion with
corrupt officers in the executive department.
The consequences of Chief Justice Taney's
famous decision on the Fugitive Slave Law
and the feelings of the country at another
time over an opinion Of a portion of the
court questioning the conStitutionality of
the law which made greenbacks legal ten
der, show plainly how the financial, social
and moral interests of the nation, ar Vt the
mercy in great measure Of its Su preme
Court.


1t is a matter of graduation that the very
greatness Of the trust committed to this
body, necessitates the choosing of men Of
the highest character, both in knowledge
and probty, to fill It's benches, aud thereby
renders it next to impossible that any radi
cal and thorough subversion Of our liberties
could be brought about under the forms OF
law.


Among the interesting questions soon to
come before this court in addition to the
case filed Nov. >, wherein the State of
Wisconsin gives notice Of application for
Injunction against the Duluth Dyke, there
is a case from South Carolina which will
call forth an opinion on the KukIuX law; a
case from Illinois respecting the right Of
women to practise law under the XIVth
amendment; a case from Louisiana concern
inc the right of state to grant monopoly
of any business Gn this case the butchers
business) to any association of men for u
long period of time twenty-five years in
the present instance); also a case from Penn
sYlvania involving the right of State to
tax railway freights entering or leaving its
territory. Decisions on all these important
points will be looked for with no little
interest.
Year: 1872

It has been pretty well demonstrated by
the results Of the storm last Wednesday, as
portrayed elsewhere by our Duluth cores
pondent, that the scheme of building a
harbor on the open lake at Duluth, cannot
be carried out without an expenditure of
public money and private capital so enor-
nous, that it is totally mwarranted, under
existing circumstances. If there were no
otLer way of providing a harbor at so i'm
portant point as the western extremity of
r1al>0 superior, public policy and the ma
tional prosperity would require such a Law
lsh outlay Of money, as should be necessary
to construct one, by the projecting of an
ocean breakWater into the Lake from some
point near its head. But as matters stand,
it is literally throwing money into the Lake.
A natural breakwater of seven miles in
length, meeting another two miles long,
protects effectually from the Lakes utmost
rage, one Of the finest systems Of natural
harbors to be found on the globe.


The natural entrance to this system of
harbors is the safest, as it is two miles from
tad. nearest shore of the Lake, and seven
miles from the dangerous combination of
winds and currents, which are always
sweeping along the north shore, and pour
ing into the stormy corner which Duluth
thought to convert into 4 safe harbor Ma
ture always does her business we'll and it

will yet be proved in the case of the canal,
as of the breaiwater, that it is a serious
mistake to interf,re, in any marked degree,
along the north range, (Which is close to the
Lake; the south range being ten miles
back of the south shore) and the littoral
current sweeping along the north shore, will
always make the entrance of the canal a
most dangerous matter for vessels in
storm, as of course the breakwater can
never be so extended as to protect such
entrance At the same time if they wished
to ride out the storm they are forced to
keep near the natural, or common entry, to
find sea room, and could more easily enter
the bay by that route afterward than by
the artificial one.


We write this much to record our con-
victions, and with no hope of convincing
parties who are now thoroughly committed
to the costly experiment of battling with
the gales and the pillows OF Lake Superior,
in the most dangerous corner of the Lake.
\ reference to our past files will show that
our views concerning the Duluth break
water have been fulfilled to the letter, and
We expect yet to chronicle more sad waste
and destruction of property in that quarter,
unless wiser spirit shall soon animate the
Duluth managers, leading them to use the
St. Louis channel, dredging down to it
from the Northern Pacific docks, on the
east side of Rice's Point. They will yet
be forced to this course by the natural linn
itation there is to all expenditures, but not
until the present sources of supply have
ascertained the true state of the case by
some years of experience.
Year: 1872

There are souls which fall from heaven like
flowers; but ere the pure and fresh buds can
open, they are trodden in the dust of the
earth and lie soiled and crushed under the
foul tread of some brutal hoof-Jean Paul
Year: 1872

Some smart little boys in Western city
took onion bulbs the other day, and sold
them for gladiolus and hyacinth roots. The
addresses of these young gentlemen are a
matter of anxious inquiry with their Gus
toners.
Year: 1872

at o'clock p. NJ, for the purpose of forming State
Organization the object of which shall be to give uni
formity in our Pledge, Constitution and Bylaws,
throughout the State and to advise and counsel each
other as to the best Of promoting our glorious
cause, and disseminating the principles Of Reform
and total abstinence all over the land Our objects
are neither sectarian political but simply the ell
ovation Of fellow men, by moral means, thus lead
ing them into the path of higher and better life
Each Club shall be entitled to i've delegates.


Free entertainment will be offered to all delegates
who may attend, and free return tickets. over the
Railroads.
Year: 1872

A lady seeking situation became interest
ed in the advertisement of rich widower
who wanted lady to do light housekeeping.
So she wrote to the advertiser asking where
the lighthouse was, and if there was any way
of getting to shore on Sundays.
Year: 1872

We publish elsewhere the official pro
ceedings in the United States Senate upon
the bill removing the political disabilities
Of Ex-Governor VANCE. The course of
:he debate and the result are extremely
complimentary TO the distinguished Sena
tor who clamponed the bill, an! the no
less distinguished Sentleman for whose
benefit it was introduced.
Year: 1872

that the obnoxious amendment was to b
Withdrawn. lie simply gave 4 history {
the legislation, and beat all about tn
question without once coming to denif
CT the fact that he had left upon the Den
ocrats ali impression that lie was oppose
to the amendment Of which they CON
planned.
Year: 1872

The Grant press and the Grant speakers
are continually harping on the Indian policy
of the President. We do not know on what
their praise is founded, nor why they should
be repeatedly calling the attention OF the
people to this subject, unless it be on the
presumption that by SO doing they can make
are true, aud that things are realities which
do not and never did exist. Now, it will be
remembered that economy was one OF
the planks Of the platform on which Grant
was elected, and the incentive that induced
the framers of this instrument to insert a
clause to this effect originated from the pre-
vailing accusation at that time that johnson
had been shamefully extravagant. Now,
no one will deny, when the whole country
was engaged in civil war, the savages,
knowing their depredations could not well be
retaiated; inspired by revenge for past in
iuries, and prompted by the desire for plum
der, rushed in upon the frontier settlements
more frequently and in greater numbers than
for some time before or since. The war be-
tween the States being brought to a close,
it became necessary to use some means TO
restore peace once more to the set
tiers of the border States and Terrtorys; to
do so large sums of money had to be ex-
pended and a large sum was expended.
During the last year of Johnson's admins
tration the Indian service cost So, 9SS, ,300.
This is an immense amount of money!
was then so considered-so large that John
son was condemned for bis extravag lnce.
We do not presume to say johnson was not
extravagant, bat if so, what shall we say of
Grant, whose bill for the same service, dur
ing the year 1871, was the round sum o.
ST ,426 S07. Here is one Of two things,
either another brilliant example of economy,
which they harp so much about, or conclu-
sive evidence that Grants Indian policy has
been failure no less than every other act
Of his administration. Most of his acts of
extravaganza the people are familiar with,
but as most of them live SO far away from
the Indians and care SO little about them,
the Grant papers and speakers are presuming
on their ignorance in trying to make them
believe that, if in nothing else, Grant has
acted very wise in this respect. We wonder
what next?
Year: 1872

The PLACER HERALD will be furnished for
the cempaign, from now until the middle OF
November, for ONE DOLLAR in advance
1t will contain about fourteen columns of
original and carefully selected reading matter
a week, and will warmly and sincerely al
in the election of Horace Greeley and b.
Gratz Brown. Will some active friend of
the GOOD CAUSE in each precinct exert himself
in getting subscribers and forwarding the
names and money for the CAMPAIGN
HERALD Parties sending us clubs of
five or more names will be furnished copy
Of the HERALD free.
Year: 1872

BEFORE another issue the convention will
have met at Sacramento aud nominated q
candidate for Congress in opposition to Page.
We can only say, at this juncture, be sure
of your choice; none but man who has
been tried and not found wanting will suit
the people. Such a man they ask, and we
have sufficient confidence in the men who
will compose that convention, taking our
Placer delegation as sample, to assure the
people that they will not be disappointed
Year: 1872

The last hope of the GRANTEES, which is
the Louisville movement. They know in the
Democratic ranks are some unprincipled sore
heads, who do not possess foresight enough
Or if SO they do not exhibit ito see
why it becomes the duty of every man opposed
to the bunglings and plunderings of the ad-
ministration to support the nominees of the
Cincinnati and Baltimore Conventions. Out
of these the corruptionists propose to make
stock. They now turn to this rotten ele
ment of the Democratic party which, by the
way, the party is proud to dispose Of, and
belying themselves, say, you were always
fine fellows; those old issues, why do you
abandon them? They are dead, but You
may resurrect them. If they were worth
battling for once, they are worth an effort to
resurrect now. justified only in their dan
gcrous advice by the fact that it can have
no effect, more than as they hope to create
division in party which have turned their
forces against the present corrupt Administra-
ton, with the determination to overthrow it
and establish in its stead an Administration
free from the taint of corruption, having for
its motto the perpetuaton of those sacred
privileges handed down to us by our fore
fathers. This Louisville movement must
fail, and it will. From it there is nothing to
be hoped, while there is much to be lost,
and how can honest men throw away their
time and disgrace themselves by supporting
it. 1t is an Administration move, based on
foul and corrupt measurs, and we warn
honest men to beware. Nor can we, nor
shall we, until forced to do so, believe that a
man with the wealth and honor of Charles
O'Conor will accept a nomination for any


flee from any such source. If he does, he
,ust 60 down to obscurty, remembered only


we remember the Tories or Cowboys of
le Revolution, opposed to the best interests


our common country. If he does not, he


rs nothing to lose, and everything in the


ay of future honor and immortal distinction


in store for him, if he continues in a
,urse consistent with his record To the
,ople we would say, the best evidence why
onest men should disregard this movement
the fact that all the Grant organs are doing
hat they can consistently to encourage it.
'rant or Greeley will be elected. Grant
dishonest, uuprncipled, untrue, and in no
ense a statesman. Greeley is honest, just
nd true, and is statesman of the highest
rder. Choose, each man as best becomes
n American citizen.
Year: 1872

SAN FRANcIsco PosT.-We offer as our
apology the press of business and confusion
occasoned by the fire for not mentioning 10
our readers in our last issue that the DdilY
Ecening Post, one of the ablest, and mo t
consistent papers which comes to our oiiica
has lately been enlarged and the price in
creased to two cents per copy instead of one.
There is no better paper of its size on the
Pacific Coast, and we feel safe in bespeaking
for it prosperous and conspicuous career in
Californian journalism.
Year: 1872

VINO ARE PURE Pit seems that the mo-
nopolists have been busily at work in sound
ing the metal of which each ndivid ual Of the
Sm Francisco Committee Of 100 is composed.
Some are found to be base, and already be-
gint bend under the weight which is brought
to bear upon them.
Year: 1872

NORTH CARoI1NA.-Day by day are the
frauds perpetrated at the late election in
North Carolina coming to light. Already
the condition of affairs are assuming such a
phase as to leave no doubt but what Merrmon
has received a legal majority, and will be
placed in the gubernatorial chair of North
Caroina by due process of law. It is how
ascertaincd beyond doubt that in only ten
counties there were 3, ,7S0 votes polled more
than the whole number of voters in said
counties. This alone is more than enough
to over-balance the majority which the Re-
publicans claim for the whole State, and
when the exact truth shall be made known,
it will be found that the Liberals and Dem
ocrats carried the State by some ten OF
fifteen thousand The Grant officials
finding that honest investigation is going 10
defeat them, uow threaten to imprison the
Secretary of State if he gives the certificate
of election to Merrimon, as has been rumored
is his intention.
Year: 1872

A table of statistics has been carefully pre-
pared, showing the difference in the cost o
collecting the Internal Revenue in those
States where this duty devolves upor
carpet-bag officials and those where it is
collected by natives or respectable resi-
dents In the former the average per cent
of collecting, taking eight of the principal
States as standard is 1S5 per cent of the
whole amount of the taxes; while in the
latter the average cost is but 81 per cent
nearly. No wonder the down-trodden, op-
pressed people of the South extend the hand
Of greeting to honest old Horace Greeley,
when they so well know he never has been
known to go back on principle he once
advocated, and never ceases laboring for
for an object till that object becomes a fix
tue. Again, Horace Greeley and the people
of the South have opposed and abused each
other for nearly lifetime, but the points on
which they differed and the matters on which
they once disputed have for some years been
settled. The pen was not powerful enough
to decide these matters, and the musket and
the bayonct were resorted to- In this set
tlement, hcart-rending and deplorable as it
was the South was defeated and had to
succumb. The difference between Greeley
and the South through principle and not
hatred, is patent from the fact that no sooner
had the principles for which Mr.. Greeley had
contended become settled, than he turned
his pen, his energies and his money toward
relieving those same Southern States which
in the contest had become so complely strip
ped of everything tending to make life desr
able, even to their liberties and their rights
as citizens. A promise was made that their
rights, liberties and former privileges should
be restored. That promise has not been
made good, and it plainly appears that the
present Adminis,ra intends it shall not
be. Horace Greeley has labored for the
fufillment Of this promise, and now that he
seeks a position where he will have the
power to fulfill it, we say again is it any
wonder that the Southern people with every
honest man who desires to see the honesty
of the government and the integrity of the
nation maintained, should give their support
heart and hand to the Liberal candidates? D.?
Year: 1872

"Ah. I see," said the doctor,
land q picture. Sister or sweet
heart. perhaps3 Pity she isn't
here to nurse the poor fellow"


And so he went his round, taking
the picture with him; . picture
taat reminded him wonderfully Of
the girl away of among the North
ern hi'ls--the girl with misty violet
eyes and sunny hair.


The came who, two DAYS la'er
looking over the paper, saw
among the list OF the wounded in
that terrible battle the name that
was dearer to her than any other
The same who, five days later,
knocked at the surgeons Office Of
that hospital, and made inquiry for
q wounded solder, whose descrip
ton Ben answered precisely.
'Stay q moment = said the sur
geon, and he produced the little
bit of pasteboard. "T found it in
one Of the rooms; your face
brought it back to my memory"
| 'Show me where you found
this p


1


| But what need to prolong nv
story?


Perhaps not every one would
have taken that gaeat brown hand
in theirs and kissed that pale fore
head IS little Ella did, when {
moment later, she was ushered in
to where Ben was lying.


But abe did, and he, great awk
ward fellow that he was, actually
cried az she sat there and told hin
of his mother, who was unable t,
come when they read the news
and of poor Charley, sleeping 81
quietly in tine church-yard at home


But il Was some time before b
was again the same great, strong
breasted fellow chat he had ono
been.


But both health and sp irit
seemed to come back to him NOR
rapidly after certain day in tn
early spring when he and Ella ha
gone to see Charley's grave, an
Getting there by his head-ston,


she had told him all sbout th


poor fellows death, of his littl


sweet>heart away down in the SUI
ny South, and Of the message b


had left for her to be sent with hi
picture.


All this she told him settin


there by the little green mound
and more-fo- when he gathers


the little hands within his own, ar
looking again into the misty dept
of the violet eyes, asked her ii 81
: could love such great, old awl
, ward bear as he was, and she to


him yes.


Q And gathering the weeping for
, 70 his heart, he felt that
: was indeed very rich in the lega,
d which his friend had left him.
Year: 1872

For more than fifty years Penn
sylvania has given her electoral
vote to the winning candidate for
the Presidency. In that time the
State elections have always gone
the same way as the Presidential
elections. s s4e..s
Year: 1872

: CONTEMPLATED STRIKE.--It is as
serted that strike among the employees of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad company is imminent. The al
legged cause of the trouble is the action of
the president Of the company in requiring
the employees to sign an agreement to give
one months notice prior to leaving the
employ Of the company, or, in the event of
leaving before the expiration Of that period,
to forfeit all wages due for the fraction of a
month. The document in question requires
all men to sign an agreement not to make
any claim for personal damages in cases OF
accident, either on the road or in the shops.
Year: 1872

THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.-This famous
opera will be presented at the Richmond
Theatre tonight, Mrs. Oates sustaining the
principal character. This piece will afford
our citizens q fine opportunity of Witness
ing some of the finest acting of which this
lady is capable. The house was crowded
last evening, and the audience highly pleased
with the performances. AT the matinee
tomorrow evening the Daughter of the
Regiment" will be reproduced.