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Year: 1871

The exposition made by Messrs. Dawes
and Beck in the House Of Representatives
on Monday of fraudulent action of the
Post Office Department in the great Choir
penning swindle, in which the Postmaster
General is implicated, must, it would
seem, result in the impeachment and re-
tirement of that eficer.


The ofencs Is too rank to be overlooked.
The fact that Mr. Creswell brought his
former partner, Mr. Earle, with him TO
Washington, and Immediately after his
own appointment installed him as First
Assistant Postmaster General, and that
soon afterward MIR. Earle left that place
and opened a law Office as solicitor Of
claims against the Post Office Department,
has long been felt in Washington to be q
reproach and a public scandal But how
ever wanting in propriety such a connec-
ton between the judge and the advocate
was deemed and seen TO be, it was difficult
to emphasize the Iact in the absence of
knowledge respecting cases. 1t was easy
to see how readily corrupt relations could
be established, and how easily the public
treasury could be robbed by collusion.
even when it was impossible to fix the
charge of guilt


We called public attention to this ex-
NEdOIOlHdIy dItduSeucub Ol tuC new law
firm from Maryland Immediately after it
was established IN Washington But at
that time no scandalous practices resulting
from it has yet been revealed. Until now
the baseness of Messrs Creswel and
Earle has been quietly going on, the one
acting as attorney and the other as judge,
without any public exposure. All at once
an astonishing piece of thievery is arres-
ted Just at the point of its consummation,
in which those two gentlemen appear as
the chief actors. What other transactions
of the same general character have been
hitherto completed, or what others are
meditated, we are left to conjecture.


Enough is disclosed in the exposition Of
Messrs. Dawes and Beck to settle the case
of the Postmaster General and his partner
in the most peremptory manner. We
cannot suppose that 1t admits of any eth
er solution than tAst, having inflicted this
additional disgrace upon General Grants
Administration and the Republican party,
they must only retire to the places whence
they came.-N =. Sun, Radically
Year: 1871

IT is claimed that the majority of the
delegates to the French Constituent As
sembly just elected are Orleanists; and
that the grandson of Louis PHILIPPE, the
Count de Paris, will be chosen king. The
Bonapartists seem to be played completely
out, but royalty in another shape will be
likely to hold France yet, for time. The
time for the republic in France is not yet,
although all the grand, glorious and noble
reforms secured for France during the last
century are attributable wholly to that
great movement of the people, began in
1889. The old Bourbon dynasty was
tried second time and is not now thought
Of The Napoleonic dynasty and cheat
has also been tried the second time and
disgracefully and utterly failed. 1t may
be that the weak and non venturesome
family of Orleans may also be tried Sec
ond time, and then. in due course, be. told
to march eff and make room for French
republic, one and indivisible.
Year: 1871

The following singular story is current
in Richmond Va:


About two years ago Mr.. A. married.
In due time he became a father but his
wife died when the child was but a few
months old. On her death bed she ex-
hibited intense anxiety as to the fate of
the little one, she was to leave behind her
and earnestly besought her husband to
confde it after her death, to the care of
one of her relatives. He promised, and, l
believe he did for a while let the child
stay with the person designated by its
mother. Some weeks ago, however, Mr..
A. again married, and at once reclaimed
the child, who, as yet, had never learned
to speak a word and was even unable to
for few moments in its step mothers bed
ance from the bed When Mrs. A. re-
smiling and Growing, upon the middle OF
the bed In her astonishment she in
voluntarily asked


who put you there baby p


Mammal responded distinctly the
child that had never heretofore spoke a
word.


On a strict inquiry throughout the
household it was found that no one of the
family had been in the room during Mrs.
AS brief absende from it. This, it is SOL
emnly averred, was but the beginning of q
series ofspiritual visitations from the dead
mother. Whenever the child was left
alone it could be heard laughing and crow
ing as if delighted by che fondlings and en-
dearments of some one, and on these oc-
casions it was frequently found to have
changed its dress, position &c, in a man
ner beyond its own aided capacity. FL
nally as the account Is, the first Mrs. A.
appeared one night recently at the bed
side of Mr.. A. and his second wife, and
earnestly entreated that her darling
should be restored to the relative whom
she had indicated as the guardian of the
child on her death-bed The apparaition,
which, it is declared, was distinctly heard
and seen by Mr.. and Mrs. A and his wife
promised to haunt them no more if her
wish was complied with. Both Mr. A.
and his wife were too much awe-stricken to
reply but the next day the child was
carried back as directed by the ghostly
vsitant. Such is the story seriously
vouched for. by the principle parties con-
cerned, who are most respectable and in
telligent people, and no spiritualists.
Year: 1871

The japanese paper handkerchiefs are
assuredly coming, if a cotemporary be
right. The paper collar manufacture now
has been extended to less prominent but
more important garments Of greatstrength
and fiexibility, which can be sewed with. q
machine, giving seams almost as strong as
a woven fabric. The inventor has partic-
ularly applied it to the production of pet
ticoats, which are either printed in imita-
ton of the fashionable skirts Of the day,
or stamped out with open work Of such
beauty and delicacy as no amount Of labor
with scissors and needle could initiate
The marvel is that these really beautiful
productions can be sold at retail at Is cts.
each.


Imitation cretonnes and chintz for bed
furniture are also made, a set costing at
retail about 81 so. The felted material is
so flexible that curtain may be twisted
INTO rope and shaken out again, showing
as little creasing as chinz similarly treated
There are also table-cloths embossed with
designs of great beauty. This felted pa
per may in the end have a serious infu-
ence on the production of the woven fab
rics it is intended To oisplace. Imitation
leather, impermeable 10 water, is likewise
made of it, and produces cheap and use
full covering for furniture, and even serves
for shoes-PGBeT Trade Reporter
Year: 1871

The time in which l live is bat small
moment of this worlds history. 1t is q
fight of shadow it is dream Of vani-
ty: it is the rapid glance Of the meteor :;
it is flower which every breath of heay-
en- can wither into decay it is a tale
which as remembrance vanishes; it is o
day which the silence of long night viii
darken and oVershadow. In few years
our heads will be laid in the cold grave,
and the green turf cover rs. The children
who come after US viii tread upon our
grave they Will weep for Us few days !;
they viii talk Of us few months; they
will remember us for few years; when
our memory shall disappear from the face
of the earth, and not q tongue shall be
found to recall it"-Dr. Chalmers.
Year: 1871

The amnesty bill has been defeated in
the Missouri legislature, which result
probably assures the calling of Il conven-
ton to amend the State constitution
Dislike of the Drake" constitution, and
desire for an organic law more in conso-
nance with the enlightened progress of
public thought, probably contributed to
the defeat of the bill in question.
Year: 1871

A BILL is before congress, and will no
doubt become law, which is known as
the fundamental enforcement act" BY
which the federal election law of last ses-
sion Is made more stringent, and extending
its operations to all cities whose popula1
exceed twenty thousand. The radicals will
not see that all such monstreus usurpauons
and tyrannical enactmeuts are calculated
to heighten the popular indignation which
if rousing itself to hurl the radical party
Fl ON place and poWer in 1872
Year: 1871

The Morton Smelling committee in
Washington is in want of large supply
of outrages. Anything will do SO long as
it can be converted or perverted into an
outrage. If any one in all the southern
states has had hen roost robbed, or any
man has got drunk and whipped his wife,
or any wife has run away with another
man, or nice verSs, Chandler and company
would be delighted to learn of the fact
Year: 1871

In the State Board of Equalization last
week at Columbus, Noble county was in
creased over the local valuation of the
town and county five per cent. Greene
county lands passed as returned. .Xenia
and other towns were reduced FIVE per
rant
Year: 1871

Discussion BETWEEN CoLoRED ORATORS
A discussion between the colored orators
Hobson and Arnold on the political issues
of the day will take place tonight at the
CITY Hall Instead Of at the Union Hotel, as
before announced.
Year: 1871

THE ROYAL JAPs.-The troupe which
will appear at Assembly Hall tonight is


spoken of as follows by the New York


Sun


"The Japs have made very successful
hit. There is no question as to the aston
ishing perfection of their jugglery, and the
high character in its direction Of the enter
tainment they offer. The Distinguishing
thing about these droll fellows is their
strange, subtle, prehensile dexterity, and


exquisite equilibrium. When the heavy
looking boy jumps headlong sheer through q


gauze cylinder five feet long without putting 6
out the candles ranged inside along the
lower sides, he puts the old-fashioned hoops
and balloons Of our famous circus ire
trievably to shame. Nothing could be more


graceful than the exquisite curves Of the


whirling tape. while in the top-spinning
the strange fellow seems to have got an in
junction on the laws of nature and secured


q special order and exceptional law of gravi-
tation for this act only. In short, in all the


pleasant tricks Of this troupe we are forced
to recognize the traits Of an ingenious, pa
tient, and artistic troupe; and the thought
full observer will come away from the per-


formance with a strong impulse to study
their tricks and manners under graver
aspects and in lasting way"
Year: 1871

A TIGHT FIT.-On Thursday evening.
when the steamship VIM. P. Clyde, of the
Virginia Steamship and Packet Company 5
line arrived at Rockets, the river was
rising so rapidly that it was deemed eXpe-
dient to take the ship into the dock. This
was done, and her cargo outward bound
was received at the Boston she'd. Yes
terday the ship was advertised to sail at 5


O'Clock in the afternoon. at that hour the
usual preparations for her departure were
made, and the vessels head put down the
stream, and off she started. All went well
enough for while, and soon the Clyde was
safe inside the ship-locks and the upper
gates closed. But now came the "tug OF
war;" for when the wickets were raised
and the water began to so down pretty
well, it was found that the ship had
stuck" and cracking noise disclosed
the fact that the plank walk-away
across the ock.gates was about to be
torn away. And now what was to
be done A portion Of the. gates was
at once sawed out and cut away, and the
iron fastenings to the "martingale" Of the


ship severed with cold chisel. But the
tit" seemed to be tight at the stern.
This, too, was soon overcome by removing
the iron covering over the eagle; and now
all being ready, the wckets were lowered,
the water went down, the gates opened,
and the Clyde sailed gracefully out. There
was difficulty in the first instance in the
ships getting into the dock, her freight
being so heavy, but after being much more
heavily laden here it was of course; more
difficult TO get out, and was not accom-.
plshed until some time after 6 o'clock.


In connection with this vessel, it may be
proper to state that several members Of the
CITY Council visited the ship while in the
dock yesterday, in spite of the disagreea.
BILE day, and were entertained by the OF.
Year: 1871

Richmond Amateur Opera Troupe have,
after mature deliberatlon, thought best
to decline the invitation to give perform
ance in Baltimore for charitable object.


The ladies of the company very naturally
object to going out of the State on such q
mission. Its probable, however, that they


will go to Petersburg to open the new
onera-house there. The people OF Peters
burg are no more than home-folks" to the
Year: 1871

THE GRAND DUKE IN A Bathroom If
any one is curious to learn the etiquette
observed by tho Russian Prince in q ball
room, he can be gratifed by the following
report Of jenkins at the Governor 5
Island entertainment on Saturday:


"The ball was opened by General Nc
Dowell and the Grand Duke, Miss Nellie
Murphy being the first partner selected for
the Prince. The band struck up lively
gllop, and the General, with his partner,
started off in good time. The Prince es-
saycd Start, but had scarcely turned
around before his feet slipped and threw
was the floor. He quickly recovered him.
self. and then with some caution he pro-
cccded in good style. On returning his
partner to her friends she complimeutcd tho
Prince on being good gentleman to dance
with. The Grand Duke, as he appeared on
the ballroom floor after divestins himself OF
hat and long cloak, revealing his princely
head and dark, gold-studded uniform, was
entirely becoming to his high rank. Had
any stranger stepped into the place and
heen asked TO point out the most distin-
guished-lookiug man on tue floor he would
certainly have selected the Grand Duke.
His was the tallest figure there, and his per-
feet Selt-posSessiOn gave him a graceful bear
ing, and there seemed to be harmony in
every gesture. From all that has been seen
Of the Grand Duke Alexis it is evident that
he is not q lady's man. While acting as
escort be is always polite, and occasionally
gay. But he never flrts. AS soon as the
ceremony Of dancing is oyer-for it is little
more than a ceremony for him-he relieves
his partner of his company and goes his
way, leaving her to 90 hers. If he can steal
away he Will walk off alone, get in back
room, roll cigarette, and smoke it,
Year: 1871

The CHINESE JuGGLKRs OurpoSE- Re-
MAhKABLE PERFORMANCES WITH BROAD
axE.--in Chapel district, TALBOT county,


ma, there resides man named Dill,
whose leats with the broad-axe are aston
lsh,ng: Sometime ago, In the presence of
several gentlemen, he threw his axe some
distance and stuck it In log. Drawinc
out the axe, be told q man present to stick
grain OF corn In the cut, and he would
throw again and split the grain of corn
open. The corn was put to the place he
threw again and split It open. A gentlema
standing by, believing it chance throw.
said he would give him dollar if be could
do 1t again. He threw again, split open
the grain of corn, and pocketed the dol.
lar. A second and third dollar was won In
tho same way. The man with the green
backs, finding that Dill was throwing on q
certainty, drew of. Dill then stuck an
eiyht-penny nail in the end Of log, threw
Mt it, aud drove it up to the head with the
eve of bis axe. This was too much for the
excitable man with the dollars, who said
pll give you another dollar If you can do
that again. The nail was put in place f; Dill
threw, drove it up again, and pocketed the
dollar. The greenback man ventured an-
other dollar and lost. Having lost five dol
lars, he came TO the conclusion that the cx-
pert axcman was too much for him, and let
him slide.
Year: 1871

COOP NEws-LaSt week we announced
on Official authority that work would be
commenced on the Cumberland Gap con-
ucction rs soon rs the same could be LAID
out. We have since learned that Colonel
L. +. Johnson, OF this place, has been APP
pointed to visit the landholdcrs along the
route and obtain the right of way, and that


nc will enter upon his duties at once and


prosecute the work with his known ability
and dispatch.


The corps making the preliminary sur
veys will be through with that work by the
first week in December, when they will go
10 locating. SO we may reasonably con-
cude that the work will he let to contract
early in the spring and Immediately pushed
through. Bristol Courier.
Year: 1871

+ The symptoms Of Liver
Complaint are uncasiness


and pain in the side. Some


times the pain is in the


shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss of
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive,, some
Stimes alternating with lax
1 with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hay
ing left undone something


which ought to have been
done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
Spirits. Sometimes many or
Year: 1871

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes a weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
onothor il bliphted with our own.
Year: 1871

EWHEOW.


THE barn of Henry Wright Of Lud-
low, was burned with contents on the
night of Nov. 18th. Cause, explosion
Of a kerosene lantern. A kerosene
lantern is a dangerous thing at best,
and ought never to be used.
Year: 1871

We most heartily congratulate our
neighbOr of the INTELLIGENCER upon the
success OF his little spurt Of enterprise in
procuring by telegraph from Charleston
a copy Of Governor jacobs excellent in.
augural address. Perseverance may per.
haps enable him to make the lNTELLI.
GENcER a live newspaper yet-RegiSter.


We feel profoundly grateful for this
recognition at the hands Of our great co.
temporary. II he had only condescend.
ed, in copying tho address from our
issue of Monday into his issue oi
Tuesday, to credit it to the ISrELL1.
oENcER, our gratitude would have known
no bounds. We feel encouraged now to
try again. II our neighbor would lend US
a few OF his Early Rose potatoes and
patent reversible griddles, we would no
doubt in time come to deserve another
notice at the hands of the only "live
newspaper" in the country.
Year: 1871

tion under which we could be governed
vastly cheaper than now and that the
economy thus wrought would more thar
compensate for the expense, trouble and
confusion. But what assurance have we
Of this? Under the present constitution, we
have to-day the most chcaply governed
State in the Union. That constitution
was made when prices were low, and all
the salaries fixed by II are far below what
they would be by any Convention called
now. ofthat there need not bo q mo-
ment's doubt. Indeed the raising Of these
salaries isa part of tho motive that makes
many gentlemen who aspire to official
dignites, jealous for Convention.


We suppose 1t it Is understood, too,-if
not it ought TO bO-that there are nulner-
Gus other axes 70 be ground il Convcn-
ton is called, Tho system of equal and
impartial taxation does not suit certain
very large interests in this State. Ger.
tain other large interests, in tho hands of
a comparatively limited number, want to
sweep away the clause that prohibits the
state from going into the internal i'm
proyement business. They want the
State to build railroads and turnpikes out
through the mountains to their wild
lands. They would have her pile up a
debt for this purpose as Old Virginia did;
that few persons might be enriched.
That is the kind OF economy that is in
store Ior us in the next Convcn-
ton. ssThe manner in which the
Legislature is manipulated now by pow
erful interests ought to be hint to the
people Of the State Of what would happen
in q convention. When our convention
was held in 1851, the surrounding cirCum-
stances and threatening future banished
oil Thought Of intcJcctlng into the instru-
ment they were framing any schemes in
promotion Of private interests; but it
would be very different now; and those
who want the organic law 10 operate
impartially on all, would have the best
Of reason to look upon convention with
apprehension. Nothing can be more Ger.
tain than that If u convention be called
this year, controlled rs III certain TO be, 1t
will De in many ways the most costly OK.
pertinent we have yet tried. t


No doubt Gov. JACoB, who left tho
partisan behind when he entered the cx.
ecutive chamber, understands all this and
was not willing to countenance such
schemes by utterlng anything in his in.
augural that could bc construed to Iavor
them. We judge him also to be q man
who knows something about tho philoso-
ply ofparty politics, and who realizes that
moderation is now tho surest sway Tor his
party to maintain its power While moth.
ing would so surely produce u reaction as
the adoption Of tho radical, sweeping pro.
gramme for tearing everything up by the
roots, advocated by number Of the most
active would.be leaders of the party.


II We have misjudged Gov. JACOD anil
his opinions We shall be very happy to
rectify the mistake, but We shall want the
correction to come from a more authentic
source than from the Register.
Year: 1871

The Register in reproducing Gov. IA.
coB's inaugural from our columns, rises
to explain that the Governor is not or
posed to convention, and the editor says
hc violates no confidence in saying so


Very likely he don't, for there may be
none to violate. OF course the Governor
will not feel called upon to rush into print
either to confirm or deny the statement


We violate no confidence in saying that
the inaugural fell like a wet blanket on the
revolutionary part Of the crowd assembled
In front Of the State House 10 hear it last
Saturday, and that the applause which
greeted portions of It came from those
who belong to the other wing Of the par
ty and from the Republicans, Wepreiert tc
Judge Gov. JACOB by his own utterances
and not by what Others may represent
and the tenor Of his inaugural is un,
friendly to the scheme for a convention


His references to enfranchisement show
that he considers when that is consum,
mated, rs it will be when the amendment
is ratified, the cause Of irritation and alien.
alton will have been removed, and thai
ail era Of reunion and harmony may be
expected to follow. The theory of those
who want a Convention Is that nothing
will have been accomplished without one


The Governor is warmly in favor Of en-,
couraging the settlement of the State
He is too sagacious q man not to understand
(and II he were not he would have long
since learned by reading the Register) that
intestine bitterness and commOtion consti,
tute IN almost insuperable barrier to i'm.
migration, and that there must be q peace,
full condition and friendly Feeling
throughout the State before strangers in
any considerable numbers can be induced
to lOpk for homes within its borders Hc
knows, MS does every intelligent per.
son, that the calling OF Convention
will renew the unhappy turmoil and bit,
terness that have divided our people for
many years, and thus neutralize all the
influences soon to be set in motion by that
mighty engine Of attraction known as
"Senate bill No. 73." a,


Governor JACOB also declares for the
most rigid economy and the lowest taxa.
tion, and recognizes the necessity Of M
early provision for our share Of the Vir.
ginia debt. He would be very inconsistent
to make the declarations he does on these
points and at the same time favor such a
general tearing to pieces and reconstruc.
ton Of laws, as would be made necessary
bya convention. What the Convention
itself would cost, though very consider.
able sum, would be but q small part oil
the expenditures It would render neces.
sary. 1t would take several years Of leg.
islation to perfect, codify and publish a
new statutory system; and all that, our
people know by experience, costs heavily.
OF course the Governor, like all others,
Except the few partisans Of d convention
whose purposes have mo reference TO the
popular wellare) must desire to avoid an.
other era of confusion and trouble and
chaos, in which nobody knows what the
law is and nobody can find out, such as We
are now just emerging from. But we are
speaking now more with reference to the
question Of economy. The gentlemen
who want their axes ground by a Con.
ventiOn say they would make a constitu.