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Year: 1871

Tho Letter Of Queen Victoria TO tho


British People.


Not since the death OF the late Prince Con-
sort has Queen Victoria so happily and so
successfully struck the chord of popular feel
ing as she has just done in her now famous
and ever-to-be-remembered letter to the
British public in the case of the Prince Of
Wales. 1t is not difficult to write letter;
bat there are circumstances in which letter
writing, as well as speech making, is perilous.
1t is SO easy 10 say the wrong thing-to say too
much or too little. The Queen has had daring
enough to break the golden silence, and she
has been singularly successful in saying what
it was necessary to say without saying either
too much or too little. So far as the contents
Of the letter are known to us, it is impossible
for us to refuse to admit that the Queen has,
more or less unconsciously, no doubt, made
one Of the very happiest political strokes Of
her whole life. Nothing could be more
happily conceived or more skilfully put. The
illness of the Prince Of Wales had
revealed an amount of sympathy with
the governing family which the Queen
was not without good reason for believing did
not exist. The Prince of Wales-her .'dear
son"-was notoriously unpopular. Even the
highest and most powerful journals of the
country had growled because of her long
continued retirement from public life, and
clamored for her temperance. 1t had been
stated that the Prince of Wales would never
he a fn thn
death or resignation was to make the end of
the monarchy. All Of sudden, however,
the loyal sentiment of the people is put to a
severe and unexpected test. The Prince Of
Wales, as the eldest son of the nation, and
the nations future King, is found to have a
strong hold ON the national heart. With the
sorrowing Queen and the sorrowing Princess
of Wales the nation sorrowed. 1t would have
been unwise to remain silent under this
almost unparalleled expression of sympathy.
How beautifully, however, the Queen puts it
when she ''desires to express her deep sense
of the touching sympathy exhibited for her
family by the whole nation at the illness
of her dear son, the Prince of
Wales!" How gracefully, too, she speaks in
the name of her beloved daughter, the Princess
of Wales Aud what could be finer than her
allusion to the late Prince Consort2 She had
found the same sympathy before, when death
took from her the ''mainstay of her life-the
best wisest and kindest husband that ever
lived" 1t will not surprise us to learn that the
Queens letter has made short, sharp and de-



Odgers and the Dlkes. If the Queen can
open the next Parliament in person we shall
hear no more for long time to come of British
republicans. The Prince Of Wales is likely
now to have fresh start in public life. It
will be his own fault if the golden opportunity
ia lost
Year: 1871

TALLY Protestant basis We may respect the inte
lecual ability and tine sincerity OF D0llinger and
sources at their command % viii compensate for the
lack OF that living faith In the doctrines OF the Bible
which made Calvin Luther and Knox irresistible In
tneir great connict with Papal error. Men
Will not go to the stake for the difference between
the Rome OF 1859 and 1871 ana yet II any great re-.
for which some at least would be willing to meet
the fate OF Huss or Cranmer,


The Hebreao Leader continues its history of
the Sabbath during the exile under Ezra and
Nehemiah.


The FreemGn's Journal and the New York
Tablet (Catholic) both indulge in Christmas
carols, and at the same time enjoy tilt with
their opponents of the Methodist persuasion.
The Christian Union presents handsome
new face and is filed to the brim with season.
able matter. Under the title Of 'svictory
and New Campaign" Mr. Beecher extols
General Grant for his initiative movement in
favor of reform in the civil service, adding -


There is but one addition that strikes as desir-
the same principle as admission to it-that Is, re-
m0vais should be allowed only for dishonesty or in
efficiency. We hope In time to soc this made part
OF the REFORM winch is hardly complete without It.


1t is to be noted, however that the great motive to
improper removals has been the 0esre to substitute
that the latter cause would be greatly impeded By
the examination test


The Methodist is also pleased with the
prospect Of civil service reform. How would
it do to have embraced among the Board of
Examiners, whose duty it will be to ascertain
the qualifications of applicants for Office, GER
tain number of the broadcloth and white
cravat gentry? Then the Offices will be filed
by capable and honest men-and no mistake.
The Board might occasionally become little
schismatic, if not dogmatic; but so much the
better-the real truth might, for that reason,
be more readily reached.


The Boston Pilot has timely article on the
foolish custom of standing treat in return
for drink from friend, whether that friend
wants to be treated or not. Says the Pilot -


Remember this, and IL is better to remember It on
this New Years Day than when your hair Is white
the god OF the treating system never closes his jaws
but he grinds from ve to ten feet OF good land that
might yours and your children's forever, II you
only mad courage TO stand out against TINS custom.
or whlSkey-iS q foot oil land.


This is practical way Of taking hold of the
temperance question, and it is gratifying to
find so appreciative pilot in the good cause
as our Boston contemporary.


There are signs of revival in some parts of
the country, although the spirit of grace does
not appear to spread as generally as we might
wish. But it is only necessary for the purely
pious and truly good to lend a helping
hand to insure the continued progress of the
good work. In the words of an eminent
divine 'Let it go on and let the new year
be marked by the beginning of wholesome
reform in the moral and religious, as it is pro-
posed shall be done in the civil, service of the
country.
Year: 1871

THE FRENCH FINANCES AND THE FRENCH


AssEABLY.-As will be seen from q cable
despatch in another column, the stance
of the French Assembly on Friday last
was more than usually long. The main
question before the house was the aug
menting of the circulating medilAa Of the
Bank of France. The discussion took q
wide range, and on several occasions Presi-
dent Theirs found it necessary to mount the
tribune. Some OF the members had spoken
violently regarding the insolent and intolerant
threats of the Germans; but President
Theirs, amid the uproarious applause Of the
house, made an end Of that part Of the debate
by declaring that silence was the best reply
to the harsh words Of Bismarck. The Presi-
dent, in the course of the debate, declared
himself opposed for the present fiscal year to
burdening the people with fresh loans. The
result of the debate was that the Assembly
voted 10 increase the note circulation of the
Bank of France by four hundred millions
of francs. The Assembly now stands ad-
journed until the Sd of January. A more
decided course or policy may commence with
the new year. .9 t
Year: 1871

west of the great lake OF Speke and Grant, is
another great lake, the Albert Nyanza, which
Is discharged into the Nile. But south of this
there is another great lake, reported to be
from six to seven hundred miles in length,
Lake Tanganyika, and the outlet of this lake
is the great mystery still to be solved. The
discovery of this outlet has been the main
object of DR.. Livingstone all these years,
during which he has made Ujiji his head
quarters. South of this lake, in his previous
explorations, he had settled the river system
OF Africa drained into both oceans but, when
last heard from, he had not yet ascertained
whether the Tanganyika is discharged
through the Congo into the Atlantic or
through the Nile into the Mediterranean.


But has this Lake Tanganyika any outlet?
Yes; river flows from it into the Nile or the
Congo, for it is fresh water. Lakes which
have no outlet are salt, from the evaporation
of their fresh water and the precipitation Of
their mineral properties. Such are the Cas-
plan, the Aral, the Dead Sea, our Great Salt
Lake of Utah, and q thousand others in both
hemispheres. If DR.. Livingstone had found
Lake Tanganyika salt water he would have
known at once that it was lake with basin
Of its own, and his only object would have
been to discover its length aud breadth. But,
finding it fresh water, he knew it was but q
head spring of some mighty river, and hence
his persistent search for its outlet. We hope
that our African expedition in search of DR..
Livingstone will be identified with the settle
ment of this interesting question. If settled in
favor Of the Nile, as we think it will be, some
of our readers may live to make trip up that
famous river to its sources through forty
degrees Of latitude. BY Sir Samuel Bakers
light metallic steamboats,, which can be taken
to pieces and put together again, this pleasure
trip from the Pyramids into the heart Of Equa-
torial Africa may yet be made by the Nile and
its great lake sources.


As yet, therefore, we may dismiss other
hypotheses of the movements of DR.. Living
stone and the HERALD explorer, and retain
the first, which we expressed on Saturday last,
that they are probably moving northward
with the course of the Nile.
Year: 1871

STEAM EXPLOSION In A STREET IN Scot
LAND.-A fatal and exceedingly melancholy
accident occurred in one of the streets of
Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. A road
wagon, propelled by steam, was being driven
in the city, when one Of its boilers exploded.
The vehicle was surrounded at the moment by
a crowd of children. Five of the little ones
were killed instantly and seven others fatally
injured, the bodies of the sufferers being
frightfully mutilated in every case. The news
telegram is not clear on the point whether the
wagon was used on trip experimental for the
introduction Of steam carriages on common
roads and city thoroughfares, or whether it
was being taken from the foundry for final
shipment to India for trucking purposes on the
great system Of highway which is being con-
structed there by the British government.
Year: 1871

THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL has just
added to its already prosperous establishments
a weekly edition, which will vie-for typo
graphical beauty and literary excellence-
with any other of our New York weeklies.
The editor of the Mail is gentleman who
considers literature high art, and aims to
cater for his readers with that end in view. Il
is also a Newspaper in the progressive mean
ing Of that term, and in every department do
voted tone and an enterprising spirit are mani-
tested. We cordially wish the Weekly MaI
abundant success.
Year: 1871

We publish to-day an interesting ar ticle on
New Years day, giving the manner of its
celebration in other lands and times as we'll as
among ourselves, and describing its more
pleasant aspects. 1t is in New York, how
ever, that New Years day has reached its
eliminating glory as festival. 1t has grown
to be to the good people Of Gotham even more
of an institution than it is in Paris, thanks to
our growing respect for Knickerbocker times
and customs. No doubt this year will see tho
old practice of ''calls" carried out with the
same enthusiastic heartiness as in the past.
Now and then o voice has been lifted against
the gross license that among ill-bred people
has sometimes marred the exercise of this
ancient and fondly cherished custom; but no
one has ever yet dared to propose its abolition.
We trust that this year ladies will temper
their hospitality with mercy and allow
their gentlemen friends to pledge them in bum
pers just as weak as they choose to take them.
Indeed, if little wholesome feminine
influence were exerted in this matter drunken
ness would soon be abandoned to the exclu.
sive enjoyment of men utterly lost to SELF
respect and absolutely free from any preten-
sions to refinement. Aud that is just what
should be the case in a community as enlight-
ened and civilized as our own.


Perhaps, however, New Years Day at
Washington is even livelier than in New York.
There the ladies have, to some extent, tho
same privileges as gentlemen. All through
the morning callers of both sexes are well
come visitors at the White House and the
residences of the Secretaries and Foreign,
Ministers, and it is only after two o'clock that
private social visiting begins. Then, Of
course, the ladies are at home to receive
their friends, and the day assumes much tho
same character as with ourselves.
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer thus describes the death-strug.
gle of Vallandigham:


Immediately after Tom Mcclellan and
his family retired the real death-struggle
began, and the strong, determined man
began the last grapple with the invisible
and relentless foe. The iron will had at
last lost complete control of the body.
The head would occasionally move with
a sudden jerky motion from side to side,
and the body from the hips upward,
would sway from side to side, and again
squirm and wriggle in involuntary at
tempts TO escape the crushing weight
that the patient felt to be resting on his
abdomen, where the fatal ball sped on
its mission Of DEATH The eyes, which
up TO this time had remained closed, now
opened with a stare that, together with
the tightly clenched teeth, visible be-
meath the partially parted and rigid lips,
and the pGlhd cheeks presented facial
picture of agony such as none who wit
messed will ever wish to behold again.


About halfpast nine o'clock, after an
unusually violent struggle, the eyes be-
gan to grow CLASSY aud the face to as
sumo that rigidly infallible sign Of death.
He remained perfectly quiet in this po-
sition for about fifteen minutes, when,
by sudden movement, the body stretched
its full length in the bed, the eyes closed,
and with a deep drawn sigh the daunt-
less soul deserted Its tenement Of clay,
and G. L. Vallandigham was dead.
Year: 1871

A drive to the extreme east of Paris


says the correspondent of the Londor


News, is an undertaking not to be per


formed without meeting with many OBJ


stacles, 1t is easy enough to get to the


Place de la Bastille, for the omnibuses


are running there. But the barricade,


begin there, and so do the corpses. The


writer proceeds: There is barricade


across the mouth of the Rue de la Re.


quette, before which, right in the faces


of the crowd, lie five corpses fostering


in the warm sunshine. They are the


bodies Of the National Guards who fell


in the defense of the barricade, but from


their appearance it would seem that a


large proportion of the troops considered


it duty to fire into the dead Proceed


ing up the Rue de la Roquette, we came


to the prison, the. court of which was


used as an execution ground The
evidences of the tragedy have not been
effaced; they are still visible in bullet
holes and gouts of dried blood. Far
and'wide, too, are traces of the Com
munist troops. There are piles of
arms, incongruous in shape and manu-
facture of clothes, often blood
stained /; Of caps and boots. The
Line are in great force about this
quarter, evidently one requiring
to be dominated with a high hand. The
chains of sentinels are continuous. At
every street corner the mouths of cannon
stare you in the face. The women hiss
denunclations at the sentries. The shops
are now opening fast everywhere, especi-
ally those devoted to the sale of funeral
wreaths. Pere-la-Ch presents de-
plorable sight the resting places of the
dead are much defled; the monuments
have been greatly injured by the firing
collins have been broken, and the re-
mains lie scattered over the ground. |
You may measure the dead not by |
humers but by the rod. They lie in a
double tier on the grass, powdered over |
with a coating of lime. There are many |
women among them, and faces the fero-
city of which makes one sick to look
upon. In one place there was hole
dug knee deep to hold the people while
being shot. The blood is still in pools
there. AT Belleville there is continu-
GUS chain Of sentries in the streets, and
strong posts at each corner are required
20 dominate the still active ferocity of
.he district. The women curse the SOL
iiers as they pass, who, on their part,
Imile at their impotent ebullitions of
ury. Scarcely any men are left in the
district. Those who are, curse and hate
With fury which no force can quell.
The Chateau d'Eau and the neighbor-
lood are CHASTITY ruins. Everywhere are
everywhere shell and bullet
marks -
Year: 1871

Some extraordinary mental phenom-
ena occur in drowning. AS soon as re-
spiration is suspended, by the indrawing
of water into the lungs, consciousness
is Immediately extinguished. From all
that can be gathered in regard to the ac-
ton Of the heart, that organ probably
acts, feebly, considerable time after
the function of respiration is suspended.
By its muscular force arterial blood is
driven onwardly to the head faster than
the veins bring it back, and consequently
the mind is plunged, as it were, into a
profound sleep; for loss of conscious
ness results from sudden apoplexy in
duced by an extra accumulation of blood
in the delicate texture of the brain.


When the pulsations of the heart stop,
then the tension ON the muscles relax;
and if no efforts at resuscitaton are
made, vital heat diminishes gradually,
and the change is an expansion of COM
pressed gasses in the cavities of the
body, due to the first processes of chem
ical decomposition. If the body, how
ever, is recovered Immediately, even
though respiration and circulation are
quiescent, it is possible to re-establish
the movement of the lungs by artificial
initiation, vigilantly continued for long
while. The trial is not always success
full, but so encouraging that the pros
pect demands the utmost perseverance,.


With the revived action of the heart,
the moment the lungs begin to take in
oxygen from the air forced upon them,
life begins to return. So it is admitted
by physiological philosophers that the
soul is won back, if it had gone, in the
act Of restoration; or else it is morally
certain its departure at death is a grad
ual process which may be interrupted
and reimprisoned in the brain by human
effort and skill. aLt4'G uH h |
Year: 1871

A LARGE number of Eastern journ, als are in raptures over a long letter of deliberate misrepresentations re- garding the conduct of the Apache

 Indians while at Camp Grant. It is perhaps needless to say it was written

 by Lieutenant R. E. Whitman, man who in Tucson exhibited the boldest practices of a drunkard, and of d gambler ill poor standing with his tiger" associates. So debased was his conduct, that a junior officer of his regiment refused to treat him as a gen. tlemln, and was with difficulty re- strained from preferring charges against him. And yet the great and enlightened press of America will spread such creature's statements abroad for truth, accompanied by con- ments which are still wider from the truth. The same great press refuse to accept as truth report on San Do- mingo by such well-known spotless men as composed the noted Commis- sion sent to examine that island and the wishes of its people specially in one respect, yet without knowledge or inquiring of the man or his subject, unquallfedly indorse the statements of Whitman-the man referred to before in this article. While the powerful press of the old States act with such obstinate inconsistency on d matter 1t knows nothing of except by hearsay, time spent trying to show it the truth is simply wasted.

 But as we slide along, now and then, the men who put such stuff ill circula- tion because of their contempt of citi- zens, and their infatel notions of their own pompous selves, will get some notice. We shall take our time and choose our way and be governed by facts. While at work or play, or slandering poor citizens struggling for an existence, their pay goes on, and often much more which we may be provoked to make as plain as The New York Times has the robberries of the city officials of New York.
Year: 1871

It will be seen by reference to this

 document in our advertising columns,

 that Governor Stafford is anxious the

 Peace Commission shall receive some

 truth while in Arizona that the citi-

 zen should help it to this important element for use in the report which is sure to follow; that our people should exercise the highest proofs of their forbearance; that they do not permit the blind to alone lead the blind, but that light be shed abroad in the hearts and minds of those who have doubted our sincerity for peace and our reports of unprovoked deeds of savagery against us.

 The Governors own views of the only way to a reliable peace are set forth in his remarks made at Florence, and which appear in to-day's CITI- ZEN; but we presume he prefers to make the best of such conditions as may not be avoided and try to turn them to good account. Probably he holds that the citizens can lose nothing by extending kind treatment, and rendering information which, if given in the Commissioners report, will be to our advantage, and if ig- nored can still be made to show we'll for us.

 Upon any other reasoning, his proc lamation would hardly have been made, but the people will read it, and if its recommendations commend themselves to them, they will not fail to act accordingly. We have not doubt out the Governor has pondered the matter we'll, and believes the course advised the true one to promote the best interests of Arizona. He has hardly desire above that for the safety and prosperity of the strug- gling people of the Territory. His labors are constant to advance the in terest of all; to open up new sources of wealth to those now here, and to induce others to come and help hold the country and secure safety to all. Therefore we know the proclamation is made upon what he is convinced are the highest considerations of good for the people under existing circum- stances.
Year: 1871

A gentlemen resident on the Pima

 Reservation, tells us that recently he has seen more drunken Indians than ever before. Reports of the same kInd were made to Governor Stafford, as may be seen by reference to his published remarks at Florence.

 We have no knowledge of this in famous traffic beyond reports, yet that 1t is carried on there is no room for doubt. Only yesterday, citizen of Tucson informed us that he had seen Papago Indians lying in our streets stupidly drunk.

 All men who sell liquor to Indians are by law pronounced guilty of crimes, the penalty for which is fine, imprisonment, and confscation of property, and it is great pity that all those guilty are not punished to the utmost limit. Very likely some men who are guilty of this crime have no thought of its enormity, but there are hardly any who do not know that selling liquor to Indians is forbid den by both United States and Ter ritorial laws, therefore have no ex- cuse for such exasperating crimin- ality. There is hardly any condition of drunkenness indulged in b! whites that drives from their minds all sense of responsibility for their actions; with the Indian who has not been taught a proper regard for law and human rights, the case is different. At best, Indians are little better than sober savages, but when crazed with liquor, they have no self restraint and are liable to commit outrages that will be resented so terribly as to bring on conflict wherein many innocent people may lose their lives and property.

 District Court meets next October. In the meantime it Is the bounden duty of every citizen to ascertain if possible who are the guilty wretches. There are persons who have influence enough with the Indians to ascertain of whom they buy liquors and the means of detection. It seems clear that an ex- tra effort should be made to have some convictions obtained at the next term of the Court. We are we'll assured our Courts will infilct severe penalties on all such convicted scoundrels. Let the good people be on the lookout, in cluding the peace officers, and some of the vile rogues may yet meet with loss of their property and liberty, and the sooner the better for the peace of the community.