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Year: 1873

INGENUITY OF AN INSANE MAN.


The Lancaster (Penn.) Express relates
the following in giving an account OF an at
tempted escape by an insane man:


In the insane department of the Lsneas-
ter County Hospital there is confined man
named John Eichburne. he is not danger
ous. but is not safe to be let at large. A
short time since he managed to scale the
ward wall, fourteen feet in height, but was
shortly afterward captured. Yesterday eve
mig one of the assistants, in making tour
of the yard, discovered hid under pile Of
stones in a corner singular looking bad,
which he took to Superintendent Cox. On
examination it was found that this ball
was made up of rope, something thicker
tbsn broom twine, aud that the material
used in making it were the leaves of peach
trees. with which the yard is studded, the
bark of the small limbs, and some grass.
The rope when unwound is nearly 900 feet
in length. when in ball it is as large as 3
twenty-four pound round shot. It is so
tough that The strongest hands cannot teal
it apart. The man must have been work
ing upon it Tor several weeks, his objecI
being to escape from the institution by its
aid.
Year: 1873

There never was a specially in medicine
that was not pirated. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters Is ne exception TO the general rule
Fraud follows in the track OF the Great Vege-
table Restorative as II makes the circle OF the
world, and offers its pernicious limitations to
the sick at every turn, anxious 70 drench the
public with their trash. The imitators and
counterfeiters offer it by the gallon, the bar
rel, the hogshead, as well as by the bottle. Be-
ware of this deluge OF denominations. Bear in
mind thet the true article IL sold IN bottles
only, and the impress Of genuinsneaz is to be
found upon the glass itself, Is well as upon
the finely engraved government stamp and
the elegant label. The great vegetable tonic
prevents and cures all bilious disorders and
complaints OF the digestive organs and the
nervous SYSTEM maladies upon which the
vile limitations produce no more effect than
the POpe's Bull upon the comet.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Bissell of Saunders county, Ne
braska, expressed re Aently at farmers
meeting, in few plain words, the
spirit of the popular uprising against
the so called Republican party: dur
ing the war;" he said, ''there was a need
of this once great party, and we sup
ported it with all our might; but now
there appears to be no such issue on
hand. There is fight between lot
of dishonest politicians and the people,
who are becoming aroused at the cor
ruption of the day, and with this new
party Iintend to work"


Mr.. Bissell's remarks strike the key
note of the advancing political revolu-
ton. In the West there is the anti
monopoly movement; in the East an
uprising against Federal dictation; in
the South the protest of the negroes
and whites against the rule of the Ca
seyites and earpet-b -baggers. Every
where it is n revolt against the corrup-
ton which Presidential nepotism and
present-taking have rendered as gen
eral as the influence of the Federal
Government.


The new party of which Mr.. Bissell
speaks will include in its ranks myri-
ads who have voted and acted with the
Republican party. That it will be
merged into the Democracy is very un-
likely. Whether the Democracy will
be merged into it remains to be seen.


n Y Sun.
Year: 1873

NEW ORLEANS. Sept. "a. 1873.


Feiiee-C Citizens of Louisiana The Commit
tee of Seventy has. called Mass Convention
to assemble in this city on the fourth Monday
of November next.


The time is fast approaching when the cause
of the people Of this State will again be pre-
sented TO Congress for final adjustment and
settlement, and yaur committee moved by pro-
found convictions looking to the wellbeing of
the entire people of this commonwealth. have
concluded that Convention of the people of
the State would be the most acceptable me-
dunn for an appropriate presentation to the
Congress of the nation of the alarming and
unprecedented outrages committed against
the rights and liberties of the people of this
State. by which II government never elected
by their suffrage has been set up and estab-
lIsbetI by fraud and force over them.


Elect to this Convention your tried, truest.
and ablest men, and let US make one united
and combined effort to rescue our State from
the grasp of the spoliators and usurpers.


Let us make at least one last grand effort
to arouse the Congress OF the Union, and the
people thereof, to fun appreciation of the
means and methods, employed under Federal
auspices, that throttled the State Government
OF Louisiana.


We owe this much to ourselves and to those
to come after us. .t.....


We desire to present the question, fairly
and sauareIv. to the Congress and to all the
people of this American Union, whether or
not it is permissible under eur form of govern
ment, for an inferior United States Judge.
supported by United States soldiers and the
Chief Executive of the nation. without refer
enee to and i'm defiance OF the will of the peo
pie as expressed by the ballot, to pull down
one State Government and set up another in
its stead.
Should Congress repusliate sueh repreheusi-
BILE practices we merely will obtain our rights !:
OH the other hand, should Congress permit



knew eur status; know that despetism has
usurped the place of constitutional govern
ment, and the quicker we know it the better.
Let the people of this State take an active
part in their own cause, which is the eanse of
every State in the Union and You may then
rest assured that all will yet be we'll


By order of the Committee of Seventy.


r. III. MARR,


Chairman Committee of Seventy.
JOSEPH COLLINS. Secretary.
Year: 1873

We have been informed by persons who have
been over the Bagrys Landing road from this
place, very lately, that the bridges across the
Bayous Marie Croquant and Taehe have been
completed and are now being used. There
was, however, great mistake made in the
building of the bridge over the Teche, near
Barry's Landing. It should have been draw
bridge. The Teehe, up to Barrys, is naviga-
BILE stream; fatboats with cotton come up to
Barry's every season during high water; and
the bridge as it is now will prove an obstrue-
tion to navigation. It Is to be apprehended
that the first boat whose progress is impeded
by this bridge, will cut down portion of it.
This would be misfortune for the public, one
that could and should have been guarded
against by constructing draw. We don't
know who the parties are who contracted for
the building of this bridge. nor by whom the
Police Jury was represented in the matter;
but we suppose that it was represented either
by commissioners or by the Road Superinten-
dent. BE this as it may, this error in cons
truetion should be attended to and corrected
before the high water season comes on. We
don't know whether the error is that of the
contractors, or of those who gave out the con-
tract, but it should be attended to at once.


We are informed and believe that a good
road from here to Barry's Landing can be
made, The worst place on the road now is at
Kings Bridge. This requires prompt atten-
tion, now that the dry season has set in.
broad and high levee here, of about $50 or 200
yards, thrown up with Judgment, would rem
der this part of the road practicable at all
times and for years to come. Why the over
seer of the road did not give more of his atten-
ton, and more of the time and labor of the
road hands, to this important work, this year,
we cannot understand sand we are not alone
in this inability to comprehend his neglect of
this part of the road Beyond Kings Bridge,
through Prairie Basse, and up to the Bayou
Marie Croquant, the road has been ploughed
up and left in fhat condition. In its present
condition it cannot be used. Should the win
ter set in before this ploughed earth is thrown
up by scrapers or hoes, it will be impossible to
travel over the road this winter. There are q
number of small bridges to be built along the
road. towards the building Of which no step
has been taken. In some places, bitches have
been cut across the read, the lumber for max
ing bridges over them procured and hauled TO
sthe spot, but nothing more done-to the pre-
iudice of the public.


Some of the work en- the road has been well
done-better than we ever saw on this road
but, unfortunately, it has not been all done in
the right places, where it was most needed.
We hope that this subject will receive its pro-
per share of attention from the authorities.
The power to compel the proper performance
of this much needed public improvement lies
somewhere-it is easy TO ascertain where-and
we, with the whole public interested, say, let
it be used, and that promptly. Let there be
no shirking of duty, no fiinehiug. Let no pri-
yate interests stand in the way of the salts
fying of the public necessities
Year: 1873

New York papers assert that If
Tweed were to tell what he knows, the
reputation of many of the leading
men who have occupied high positions
in the State of New York for years,
would fall to the ground. The old
thief is chewing the bitter cud of re-
flection behind the prison bars, and
keeping quiet now, but if partners
in crime who are yet free from the
clutches of the law do not find some
means of shortening his term of ofimpris-
onment, the hardened sinner will con-
clude that even the principle of honor
among thieves does not require him
to longer hold his tongue, and such
revelations will be made as will aston
ish the world. 1t is doubtful though
whether the occasion for such con-
fesssion will ever arrive. Oakes Ames
saved himself from expulsion by hold
ing that fearful memorandum book of
his over the heads of his fellow menu
bers, and Tweed will in like manner
burst his prison doors. The honor that
obtains among thieves, though it
could not save him from conviction,
will vet release him from punishment.
Year: 1873

WOULD it not be well for our twi-
light contemporary, before making the
charge of theft against others, to be
sure that its own skirts are clear? 1t
charges us with stealing from Den
yer paper. The truth is that we simply
used some historical facts, facts that
have been published in fifty other pa
pers, either one of which is just as
much entitled to credit for them, as
the Denver sheet, and no more so,
while in the very number of the Er-
press that howls at us, there is an ar
ticle stolen from our editorial columns.
1t was mangled, to be sure, but the
substance was there, and this is such
q common practice with the Express,
that we have not thought it worth
noticing before.
Year: 1873

SENATOR SARGENT who Is anxious
that the franking privilege shall be
restored, is reported as saying that it
has cost the government 100000 to
buy scales to weigh mail matter with.
This statement of the Hon. Senator is
rather thin. 1t strikes us that scales
were needed and used in every post Of
flee in the country before the repeal Of
franking. If members Of Congress
still sent their trunks home by mail as
they used to do when their frank
Year: 1873

would pass anything through the
mails, it might be necessary to buy
larger scales than were in use in those
days, but happily that kind of busi-
ness is stopped, and Jim Stewart If he
should find it convenient to send q
Saratoga from Washington to Nevada,


will prefer the express to the post Office.
Year: 1873

Last Saturday evening a cOlOred child
about seven years old, daughter of Jake
Haste, was drowned in Sand creek. neal
this place. The child and its mother
were out fishing, and it is supposed that
it wandered off and fell into the creek
and was drowned before it could be res-
of1ad -Tleonfo,, Nome
Year: 1873

Last Tuesday evening between five


and six O'Clock, Frank Walker, son OF


P. Walker, living near this place, while


on drunken spree, overlook a negro


man named Henry Clarke, on his way


home, on the Troy levee, and shot him


with derringer pistol, from which he


will probably die. The facts are as fol-
lows: Walker was under the influence
of liquor, and had started to Newbern.
and when about a quarter of mile out
on the road mentioned, came across the
negro, Clarke, who had stopped to
water his team, and handing him a
bottle of whisky, ordered him to
stop it up for him. The negro did
so and handed it back, but Walker
was not satisfied, and again ordered
him to stop it up. The negro told
him it was stopped as good as he could
do it, which seems to have enraged
Walker, and with the remark that he
"would stop him, " or something to that
effect, pulled out his pistol and fired, the
shot taking effect just above the left
groin. Word was Immediately sent to
town of the affair, and party of men
with an officer went out and arrested
Walker, and lodged him in Jail in this
place. An attempt was made yesterday
to bail him out, but failed. The negro
has been living for the last seven years
with Mr.. George Terrell, near York
vile, and has good character. Since
the ABOVE was put in type, the negro has
died. Walker will be tried next Tues
day before Esquire Caldwell.-TrentOn
Ne1D8
Year: 1873

AUGUSTA, GA, July 26.-Ex-Governor
Charles J. Jenkins will publish a card
in the Chronicle and Sentinel tomorrow
reminding the people of Georgia and of
the south of the relief extended to the
south after the war by the ladies of the
southern aid association of Baltimore.
and calling upon them to assist in allie
Waiting the distress of the stricken city.
Year: 1873

AAS-- --N f+~-7'Ni5 ; A---i@'AAaa&kBAl AAA4SIf4


If the only grounds for objection to the
project is found in the additional repre-
sentatiOn in the senate Of the United
States, to which the south would be en-
titled by the formation Of another State
within her territory, we sincerely trust
that the proposed plan may be success
fully carried out. The APPEAL's cores
pendent viii pardon US for suggesting
that there is now no strife between sec
tions of this country, and that the gov
eminent Of the United States is the gov
eminent for the south as well as for
every other part or section of our Union.
We wonder if Marshall county really
Year: 1873

Have you considered what a certain
preventive of misgovernment may be
found in the faithful application OF this


doctrine? L believe such an application
Of il would correct almost every public
evil of which We complain. tits worth
your while to test its reach and efficacy,
and what a splendid doctrine it is for
such government as ours; how it
exalts the individual man, and how it
subordinates the government. 1t may
Year: 1873

TERRIBLE BARBARIrIEs AT SEA.-We publish
this morning from the San Francisco Alta
California narrative of cruelties at sea, which,
If not greatly exaggerated, exceed in their
atrocious barbarity anything of the kind COM
ing to our knowledge for many years. The
vessel upon which, it is alleged, these savage
cruelties occurred is the ship Sunrise, and, as
it appears, they were perpetrated in the course
of long voyage from this port around sthe
Horn" to San Francisco. We agree with our
San Francisco contemporary that this matter
calls for serious and strict examination. and
that If the accused officers are innocent they
owe it to themselves to prove it. In any
event we trust that these horrible accusations
against them will be sifted to the bottom, and
that justice will be done according to the law
and the testimony.
Year: 1873

nationalism. This Is the phrase at which kings
are supposed to turn pale. 1t is the same
as Napoleonism and Robespierreism in other
days. And yet what is Internationalism but
what we see in Vienna, what was seen in
Pesth, what we hope to see in Philadelphia in
1876? The world is coming to it as surely as
it came to the dreaded doctrines of Robes
pierre-as it came to accept the instructions
of the French Revolution on the questions Of
property, equal rights, Church and State. 1t is
the law of these conflicts that what We first re-
ject we are swift to accept when need comes,
just as Austria was glad to accept Hungary
and concede more than she demanded. This
Vienna Exhibition, and these interchanged
courtesies like the visit to Pesth, show the
progress of events-that politics and state
policies follow the railway, the telegraph and
the press


With light comes strength, kindness and
friendship, and as the peoples in Europe gain
more light they ask questions which the kings
cannot always decline to answer. Why is it
that half million Prussians are kept
under arms to kill half million French
men-no anger between them-with wives
and mothers to love and lands to till,
ready to murder one another when one
emperor has distemper and another is trem-
bling for his crown? This question and others
more serious are being silently answered. We
are becoming international in spite of our
selves. The tawny Monsolian and the swarthy
Moor hurry to Hungary to receive Magyar's
welcome. We sing revolutionary hymns and
float rebel flags in honor Of the Emperor. We
unite in world exhibitions to see that the
world is large enough for all of us, and that, if
we cannot have peace with the kings, then
peace without them. It would be the oldest
lesson in modern history if an Austrian kaiser
in world exhibition had done more than
any one else to teach this 'sThe world
moves" and in its evangelical alliances, its
international fairs, and in the ennobling ad-
vances of their governments, and in their
social and commercial relations, the nations
are coming together.
Year: 1873

We are continually receiving communica-
tons referring to the Lighthouse Board and
intimating that the members are somewhat
remiss in the performance Of their duties.
One correspondent complains of the want of
a lighthouse at Harts Island Hell Gate) and
states that although the construction Of one
has been commenced at that point the work
has been suddenly suspended, and, it is
feared, will not be resumed nor the lighthouse
finished before the storms Of winter set in.
Another correspondent refers to the great
necessity for properly marking the highly
dangerous shoal dying, as it does, directly
in the track of at least three-fourths of the
vessels Of all classes in the entire coast trade
of the United Sates) at Winter Quarter, off
the coast of Virginia, by establishing light
house or ightship there. 1t will be remem-
bered that about year since the Lighthouse
Inspector of the New York district informed
our readers, in response to complaints then
made on the subject, that the Lighthouse
Board had the matter under consideration at
the time, and that he could confidently assure
those interested that this light would promptly
be erected. But another winter is upon us,
with its bad weather. thick fogs, &C., and
there is no light and no appear
ance of light or ightship at
Winter Quarter shoals yet. The Lighthouse
Board at Washington cannot plead ignorance
Of the urgent necessity Of light there, for,
besides the fact that o number Of petit
tions have been sent to the Lighthouse
Board for this light, list Of losses,
wrecks, and other disasters occasioned
by the shoal has been forwarded officially to
the Board. 1t may be here observed. that the
light at Chincoteague, Va, is eleven and a
half miles distant from Winter Quarter, much
too far, except in the clearest weather, to serve
both places; whereas light at Winter Quarter
could be passed close to on either side and
thus the shoal there, as well as those at Chin
colleague, could be avoided without the neces-
sity for burning coal and expending time, as
is now the case to keep off much beyond a
straight, and, if light were there, a safe
course. The soundings thereabouts are irreg-
ular and uncertain, and cannot therefore, be
depended upon in thick weather


| We trust the Lighthouse Board will give
their earliest attention to the above suggestions
and by prompt action save vast amount of
property, and perhaps number of precious
human lives, before the gales and tempests of
the fast approaching winter are over
Year: 1873

Christianity and OF civilization. The Doctor
thinks the true status of these gentlemen Is
that of recalcitrant children Of the one
Catholic Church of Christ If the Alliance
wants to find the road to true unity, un-
shackled liberty and perfect charity the
Doctor thinks they can find it only in the
bosom of the Catholic Church, whittier the
humblest priest would gladly lead them.


If Mr.. Beecher, who is back again in his ac-
customed place, had not told us that there is q
most striking contrast In the spirit of modern
science and the spirit of the New Testament
we should have believed it from what our eyes
see and our ears hear. But we have double
assurance now, coming from such excellent
authority. But in nothing is this contrast so
apparent as in things that relate to man. The
picture Of the gradual rising of man through
the possession of the graces and gifts of the
Spirit from mere sonship to the complete and
perfect likeness Of God was one worthy Of Mr.
Beecher, and was full of divine influences and
inspiring hopes


Rev. Thomas Penrose and Rev. John Ash
worth, both English delegates to the Alliance,
preached in Lefferts' Park yesterday on
present salvation-immediate conversion.


The general addresses and proceedings Of
the Alliance last evening will be found in
other columns Of the HERALD to-day.
Year: 1873

The trial of Marshal Bazaine, which com


mences at Versailles to-day, is an event that
will attract the attention of the whole civilized
world, In the ancient Trianon of Marie
Antoinette the Premier Marshal of the En-
pire will have to listen to much that will
recall with painful vividness the humiliating
disasters to the French armies before the un-
yielding hosts Of Germany. The whole
history of the terrible campaign may have to
be repeated. But the pain of recitation is not
the worst that may arise to the accused soldier


The present condition of affairs in France
may somewhat mitigate in his favor, but
Marshal Bazaine is too we'll versed in the his
predominant military chiefs of the moment
will demand rigid investigation of the fatal
failure Of Gravelotte and the subsequent fall
OF Metz It may appear somewhat strange,
in country where the sentiment Of military
glory has reached so far, that the soldier should
be held to 80 rigid IN accountability for his
acts in the field but it remains fact that
on almost every occasion where Marshal Of
France has put his name to the recapitula-
tion of an army the sentence of death
has followed trial by military tribunal.
Death or expulsion from the army is the
penalty for the offences charged to Bazaine.
The Due d'Aumale, who is not military gen.
eral, has been called upon to act as president
Of the tribunal-a fact that will probably call
forth strange commentary at the present
time; for who can fail to remark that son of
Louis Philippe is to sit in judgment on the
first marshal Of Napoleon the Third? Or who
will fail to discover that wider questions than
the guilt of the favorite marshal have received
new and astonishing interpretations?


The STRUGGLE IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY. =
Our French telegraphic dispatches disclose
the imminency Of an earnest struggle which
threatens the life Of republican government
in France. firm league of monarchist
Deputies in the Assembly in favor of
the accession Of the Duke Of Chambord
to the French throne as Henri V. is said to
number three hundred and fifty in a cham
Der Of seven hundred and thirty-eight
members. Another report assumes that
the monarchists have an undoubted majority
Of the Deputies In this state of affairs oil
the republican elements in the several sections
Of the Left are marshalling themselves for the
defence of the Republic in opposition to the
monarchist reactionary effort. French patriots
appeal to the republican sympathy Of the
United States fox aid and comfort In their
Year: 1873

THE HEAVY RAIN which watered this city
Saturday night last appears to have increased
in force to q violent storm in its passage up
the Sound, as we judge from the complete
breaking up of the schooner Joseph Baxter,
which had run ashore at Point Judith.