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Year: 1872

Miss Robbins 80 Main Street is now
in receipt Of her spring goods and in
vites the special attention of ladies to
her unique stock of hats and trim
mings, and inspection of prices. She
would also remind the ladies that she
is prepared to fill all orders in the line
of dress making and guaratees salts
faction.
Year: 1872

BAD LoCALITY.-The local of the Sacramento
Union is responsible for this. The man was
evidently a Sacramentan making tracks for q
better country: CAS- the express train on the
California and Oregon Railroad was en- route fol
Red Bluff from this city Sunday afternoon, the
engineer saw a man walking on the track few
miles this side of Lincoln, and in the immediate
vicinity of the spot where the unknown man
committed suicide last Friday morning. The
bell was rung as a warning to the pedestrian
who Immediately upon hearing it made a rush
from the track in the most ludcrous haste, his
hat flying one way and his cane another, and in
a second or two he had grabbed telegraph pole
and was shining up it for dear life. When the
train passed him he was almost at the top of the
pole, and was kicking vigorously to gain greater
hight, while his eyes apparently starting
from his head and looking as bright loco
motive headlight.
Year: 1872

on BooT POLISH. I've have had tested in this
Office some Of Mitchells Fluid Oil Boot Polish
and it works well, good as any to be found il
the market 1t is claimed for this backing thai
it keeps the leather soft and renders it more du
rable than other kinds of polish 1t can be
found for sale at Megere's New Drug Store.
Year: 1872

The anticipations Of monetary crisis to
follow the Boston fire sent the great crowd of
spectators yesterday to their conventional
gathering place OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Stocks were quietly bought and sold by those
who were unwilling to await the more popular
sentiment to be expressed at the regular ses-
sion of the Stock Exchange this morning, II
is easier to write history after than before its
occurrence, so that opinions as to what will
be the result in the money market to-day and
during the week of the great calamity as Bos-
ton must be more or less speculative. We are
favored this time with precedent in the Chi
cago panic, which was as short-lived
as it was illogical. People have often
wondered at the great rise in stocks and
the ease in money that followed the latter
event The explanation lies in the fact that
the Chicago fire, by destroying two hun
dred millions of fixed property, made
floating capital more abundant as compared
with the fixed capital of the country. Panics
in money arise from a too great preponder-
ance Of fixed capital as compared with float
ing capital or money; SO that, with the Hrst
effects Of fear and excitement gone by, the
present disaster ought to have really the
effect of enlarging the volume of money, as
compared with fixed capital. Meantime the
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who hap
pened to be in town last night, assures the
public that the government will use its money
to prevent q panic by affording instant relief
to the money market The situation should
be viewed coolly and calmly by everybody.
The worst has been done, now that the fire is
over. Panic and excitement will only aggra-
vate the disaster.
Year: 1872

block or two in order to save city, and in
stead of resorting to this means in eaarennis,
would do it before the loss as in Boston and
Chicago, had become appalling. The effective
results obtained in checking the progress of
the Boston fire by the blowing down of whole
blocks by the marines show US clearly how
much can be accomplished by vigor and de-
cision. 1t has been pretty generally recog-
nized as the most effective mode Of arresting
the progress Of flames in q city is to make
gap in their pathway, but owing to the want
OF some one in authority, whose duty it was
to order this extreme measure, it was only re-
sorted to in Boston when an immense amount
Of property had been already destroyed. The
marines acted with admirable GOODNESS, and
though their first efforts were not successful,
they persevered in their operations, and at
last succeeded in efectually checking the
hames This fact points out for our future
guidance the proper way to deal with fires
when they threaten to assume alarming pro-
portions, and shows conclusively the advan-
tage that would result from the appointment
of q responsible head with large discretionary
authority over the different Fire Departments
in our principal cities. With the knowledge Of
his responsibility public officer in this posi-
ton would be prepared by reflection to act
promptly and understandingly. He would
have the department thoroughly in hand, and
the result would not fail to be greater unity of
action in the department and q more intelli-
gent execution of orders. The salary Of an
able and skilful man, fitted by experience for
this post, would be saved hundred times in
the superior efficiency Of his department
He might also be charged with
the supervision of buildings. The danger of
erecting wooden Mansard roofs, thinly COW
cred with iron or zinc, is so manifest that they
ought to be forbidden by city ordinance.
Perched up on freproof buildings they are
like finder boxes, and carry the fire from
house to house with inconceivable rapidity
The falling sparks from distant fire are suf-
fcient to communicate the flames to these
slight structures, and the danger from confa-
grafton is increased hundred-fold. How
ever pleasing they may look to the eye the
risk is too great to be run for the sake of mere
prettiness Of effect AS this style of architecture
is being largely adopted in New York we think
that measures ought at once to be taken to en-
force the ordinance against wooden buildings,
lest we should be exposed to the same calamity
that has befallen Boston.
Year: 1872

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LoNDoN.-A cable
telegram from London brings news Of the
origin and progress of very destructive fire
in the British metropolis. Flames burst forth
from the building known as the City Flour
Mills, situated in Thames street, during the
night Of Saturday, and spread with such
alarming rapidity that the entire premises,
with the more immediate manufacturing sur
roundings, were laid in ruins at an early hour
in the morning yesterday. The entire force Of
the London City Fire Brigade, most efficient
and excellently disciplined body, was at work
at the scene Of disaster at the moment when
the HERALD despatch was forwarded-a fact
which, even standing alone, proves the serious
nature of the occasion. The actual losses
already incurred were of o very heavy amount,
and we have not yet received intelligence that
the flames had been completely extinguished
in the neighborhood of the point of first ap-
pearance
Year: 1872

Cities.


The impotency of the Boston Fire Depart
ment to check the flames that reduced the most
Aourishing portions of this Northern city to
ashes teaches us the necessity of adopting
some more effective means of combating the
ravages of fire than we at present possess. 1t
is clear, from the experience both of Chicago
and Boston, that the Fire Departments as at
present organized are unequal to contending
successfully with great conAagrations, however
efficient they may be on ordinary occa-
sions. This is due as much to the
want of proper discipline as to the
need Of larger supply Of powerful en-
gines. In most cases the progress of the fire
is due in the first instance to the absence of
vigor and decision on the part of those who
have to struggle against the devouring ele-
ment Under the present system we have no
man with sufficient authority who, by virtue
of his position, can adopt desperate remedies,
and SO fires are allowed to grow in extent
until they have acquired such proportions
that they can only be subdued by recourse to
the most desperate cxpedients after hundreds
Of millions of dollars worth of property has
been destroyed.


The cure for this evil might be found in the
appointment Of some man Of brains and vigor
to take charge of the Fire Department in each
city, who, in cases of emergency, would have
authority to take whatever measures he thought
necessary to check the progress of a confagra-
ton. Such man would be able to decide at
once whether it was necessary to blow up
Year: 1872

The Slave Trade in Constantinople.


On Wednesday last, according to one of our
latest dispatches from Europe, an English
steamer arrived at Constantinople from Malta.
having on board twenty slaves 1t is well
known that brisk slave trade is carried on
between Tripoli and Constantinople by way of
Malta. That such trade is possible in Europe
at this late age of the worlds history is sim
ply disgraceful. 1t is especially dishonoring
to England, which has for so many years
made such an outcry against slavery, that her
merchants and shipowners should still make
money out of the inhuman traffic We cannot
blame the British government for this par
ticular offence. But the British government
will not be regarded as guiltless by the general
public if this case is not fully inquired
into, and if the offenders are not promptly
punished Considering the excitement which
has been produced by the Stanley Livingstone
correspondence and the recent action taken by
Inc British government to effectually put down
the African slave trade, we are entitled to
expecta full exposure Of this case. And if the
importation Of slaves from Africa is necessary
to the social life of Turkey the sooner the
Turks pack up and recross the Bosphorus the
better for themselves. The patience of the
civilized nations is exhausted, and the foul
blot of slavery must be wiped out finally and
forever. 1t is as disgusting in Turkey and
Egypt q, it is in Cnh.
Year: 1872

Our Duty to the Fire Department..


In connection with the recent terrible dis.
aster at Boston thoughts are naturally sug-
gested with reference to the efficiency of our
own Fire Department and the means taken to
maintain its present degree Of excellence,
That department has done noble work, and Isl
perhaps one Of the best organized institutions
of the kind in the world. 1t has had it's trials
and its triumphs; its battles with the fire
fiend, and not little of senseless opposition
from those who, for reasons of their own, may
be inimical to the welfare of the Fire Depart
ment as it is now organized; but the mass Of
our citizens-the men who own property and
the women who clasp their little ones closer
at the sound Of the solemn alarm bell-look
strong right arm, and they will continue to
do so while they see them brave, prompt
and active in the discharge of their duty.
There is silent sympathy between the fire.
man and the great public; an almost mex
pressble admiration for his services, and al-
ways q ready tribute to his courage and de-
votion. Hence the least popular Of any policy
which could be pursued by the officials Of New
York would be that looking to the IMPAIR
ment of the existing system or interference
with the rights and privileges Of the men.


At the present time, for instance, contro-
versy is going on between the Comptroller and
the Fire Department, which appears to many
of our people to be based on q mere techni-
cality, to involve no principle whatever, and
yet which threatens to impair the efficiency Of
the department and to demoralize the force.
This is certainly foolish and narrow-minded
course of official action, for it can have bnt
one tendency-to-wit, the destruction
of that esprit du corps which has
always characterized these men who do
battle with the elements. We cannot afford
to be parsimonious in this respect, nor do our
taxpayers desire it for if there is one bur-
den more than another which they cheerfully
bear it is that which supports, strengthens and
gives tone to our Fire Department New York
is rich, and, on the principle that IAN ounce
of prevention is worth pound of cure" her
citizens would rather pay three times the pres-'
ent cost of our department than entertain even
the suspicion that unwise economy has been
the cause of plungng the metropolis into
such gloom and disaster as that which has SO
recently enshrouded our sister cities of Boston
and Chicago.
Year: 1872

HERALD ENTERPRISE IN THE Boston FIRE.
1t is hardly necessary for us to-day to call the
readers attention to the very full and COM
plete telegraphic report of the great fire in
Boston which we published in the late edition
of the HERALD yesterday morning Covering
as it did an entire page, it carried its own
commendation for ENTERPRISE with it SO that
Year: 1872

the supply of the paper could not nearly meet
the demand of its readers. Enterprise like
this, which, while it enoircles the North Pole,
seeking for the open Polar Sea or drives fear
lessly into the jungles of tropical Africa for
lost traveller or the source Of an important
river is, nevertheless, SO alive to events trans
piring near our own homes, is genuine and
certain, not spurious and spasmodic. We can
therefore afford to allow our contemporaries
to enjoy the passing glory Of their brief hour,
while we are conscious of glory that is
abiding in the high appreciation in which the
HERALD is held throughout the world.
Year: 1872

keep us out of harm and to neglect those
precautions which are in fact q duty, and
which we are none Of us strong enough to
disregard The Boston fire is not calamity
to that city alone It's effect will be felt in
every city of the Union, and it may be in
many cities Of Europe The heavy losses
have already crushed down some insurance
companies, and more may follow Not one
Of these institutions can suspend without
causing widespread misfortune, and the COM
mercial world generally will feel the Boston
visitation as q serious shock. When we take
into consideration the losses in trade, the
damaging agitation Of the stock market, the
condition of dependent persons thrown out
of employment, the general shock to credit,
all Of which must follow the absolute annihila


ton Of two hundred and fifty million dollars
worth Of property, we shall understand that
the range of the calamity will not be confined
to those who are directly losers by the fire.
In this view Of the case, any want
of efficiency or courage in the Boston
Fire Department, the neglect of any
act that might have checked the fearful spread
of the destruction, becomes crime, through
which the innocent are made to suffer. We
Year: 1872

Ok Wednesday evening last Rev.


VIM. B. Carter arrived in Bris-
tol and made few remarks to a sort
of impromtu audience at the Nickel S
House. He said that as Judge But
Ter, his competitor, was absent he
would not discuss the issues of the
campaign. but that he was in corres-
pondence with that gentleman and
hoped to have joint canvass of the
district with him. We hope Judge
Butler will face the music and thus
give us lively campaign. He now
has fOeman worthy of his steel for
VIM. B. Carter is probably one of the
ablest men in the State and willgive
his adversary the most interesting en-


ployment he has yet been afforded.
Year: 1872

No eYent Of The present century has
sent such THRILL Of horror through the
hearss OF tie people, as the announce
-aeut that the President Of the Unite'l
States and his chief Minister have sim
r.ltaneousIy met their deaths by assas-
sinat;on. Such an event at any time
and under any circumstances could not
but create a profound sensation but at
the present moment, when all patriots
were rejoicing in the restoration of peace
ar1a unity, that the men in whom, above
all others were centered the hopes Of the
nation, should be suddenly stricken
down by the hand of assassins, shrouds
the affair and its consequences in the
deepest gloom, regarded by all consid-
crate men as a national calamity, bear
ing more depressingly upon none than
those who have heretofore opposed the
poIiey Of Mr. Lincoln's Administration
1t is no time to speculate upon the cans
es or thc ultimate consequences of this
act we can only feel that the head Of
the nation by the suarages of millions,
is stricken oat of being without an in
stant's warning by the assassins hand
It matters not what were our personal
sentiments Or party relations to the il
lastrious dead, We remember but the
high position Of trust to which he was
callel by the deliberate choice of the
people, and bow with saddened heart to
the popular verdict to do cit homage to
Ais memory.
Year: 1872

Heaven Is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vauted skies,
And we mount TO Its summit round By round.
count this thing 10 be grandly true;
That a noble deed Is n step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common clod
To parer air and broader view.
We rise by the things that arc under feet
BY what we have mastered of good and


gain;


BY the pride dcposed and the passion slain
And the vanquished Ills that we hourly meet
We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust,
When the morning calls US TO life and light
But our heartB grow weary, aud, ere the


night,


Our lives are trailing the sordid dust.
We hope, we resolve, we aspire. we pray,
And we think that we mount the air on


wings


Beyond the recall Of sensual things,
While our feet still cling to the heavy clay
Wings for the angels, but feet for menl
We may borrow the wings TO find the way
We may hope, and resolve, and aspire, anC
But our feet must rise or we fall again.
Only In dreams is ladder thrown


From the weary earth to the sapphire walls
But the dreams depart, and the vision falls
And the sleeper wakes ON his pillow OF stone
Heaven Is not reached at n single bound;
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies
And we mount to its summit round and round
Year: 1872

It WIS no credit to the Engineer OF the s.eam-
er Dean Richmond and the State Inspectors, it
seems, that the happy tourists who crowded that
steamer On the occasion of its recent mishap On
the Hudson we're not blown into fragments or
scalded to death in the thorough fashion with
which people have been fa1niliarized by
such accidents as that OF the West
field Although the boiler WAS known
to be worn and fragile, it had been tested only
once within s year. No comfort need be taken
by travellers in the assurance that hereafter
such boilers shall be inspected more fre-
quently. Such things are always said after
these deplorab1e murders, and never attended to
before they happen Indeed. it is idle to e1-
pecs safety from official routine inspec-
ton, when engineers, who know that their lives
are certain to be the forfeit Of negligence
whether passengers escape or not, sit calmly be-
fora bnlging boilers or drive their locomotives
over ncketty and rotten trestle-work- No inspec-
ton can be more searching than the instinct Of
self preservation, and, if that fails, We mnst
submit to our periodic slaughters and await the
gradual growth Of safeguards that science Hill
give US.
Year: 1872

ploaed because there Was not enough water in


it, Or that certain steamer took fire because


the Captain WAS too negligent or too ignorant to


e1tnguish it, and here the investigation ends,


which ia just as consistent as it would be to
close murder investigation with the finding OF
the Coroner's jury. The public care nothing
for the cause Of the calamity. That does not
compensate for the loss Of life, or give
any guarantee for future safety. The
Government Investigation may OF
may not prevent disasters That is an open
question; hut, at least, in establishing q cause
it should locate and define the circumstances
which operated TO produce that cause, and should
punish the parties who are guilty. In every
ono OF the three investigations above named the
only object which appears is defence of the
Steamboat Inspectors. As long as Government
Investigations are conducted with this end in
view, they are Of no practical use- They should
be instituted for some definite purpose, or they
might as well be discontinued entirely.
Year: 1872

What could be more natural and touching
than Prince Napoleon's wish to spend his clos
ing days in his native France7 But Theirs,
who was never very susceptible. ia not to be
caught By any such sentimental char. He
knows full we'll that, if the Prince stays in the
French Capital, be will betake himself to
intrigqa sssth all the abandon of Napo-
leon. and with q steady eye upon the supreme
seat- The Bonapartes have E well-tried pro-
gramme which has never yet failed Beginning
with an unostentatious seat in the National As
semb1y, they glide mp: through the various grades
Of power; until they reach the highest elective
position, which they then elect to make perma-
nent- 1t Vas thus Napoleon passed from Deputy
to President, and from President to Emperor
neither Of which places Prince Napoleon is like
II to be called to I'LL
Year: 1872

Nnen so many men are running for Office: it ia
a pleasing spectacle to zee an Office in pursuit
OF man; but to see two Offices of dignity and
influence in rival pursuit Of one man is : reas-
.zur7ng sight that would be weleome
oftener. Mr. Abra1n r Lawrence, OF
New York, is one Of the rare men who
sra in such demand. He Vas named. the other
adv, as one Of the most eligible candidates for a
Supreme Court Judgeship, and is now wanted
for the a1ayoralty- Under his administration in
The City Hall the citizens Of New York would be
secure from such scandals IS that afforded yee~
tzrday. by the attempt Of an Attorney General
TO obtain an Indictment against Mayor ssho sat
11uaisturbe1 the while.
Year: 1872

fear feel confident that The camp Of exercise
viii do good by showing how easily an over
whelming force can be assembled at= short notice.
There has been a very restless state Of feeling
this year amOsg the Mohammedans. gouerslly.
and far more wahabeO intrigue than people
imagine, hence consider this show Of strength
on our part very oppOrtune."
Year: 1872

Fannie Elmore Wa. quite q young girl
when she began to help her mother in
the kitchen. ISr papa was very poor
when Fannie was q little girl, and her
mother had to work SO hard that Fannie
could not bear to see her ut the close of
the day when she was so very, very tired.
So Fannie would busy herself early iu
the morning, aud when she got home
from school at noon and at night. She
felt much happier when sbo was at work
When her father prospered her mother
had hired girl, and had SO much spare
time she devoted good deal of care on
Fannie and gave her lots Of nice pres
ents. Among other pretty things Fannie
had cunning little bird, which would
perch on her head and eat out of her
hand. Her playmates often said tha,
the two were like Mary and the little
lamb, for "wherever Fannie went tho
bird was sure to Co."