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LANZ2ASI'Ett CITY,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1872
Editorial Not,
—The epizootic continues to steer
clear of St. Louis, and the future great
city doesn't know whether to rtjoice or
feel slighted.
—*Fronde, the Englishman, an
!mutters that his share of the procecds
of his whole course 1 , 1 lectures in Bs
ton will he givi.n to tho :intThrers by
the fire.
---Bret Ilarte is distinguishing him
self in New England by breaking
en
gago,ments. Hartford as well as Bos•
ton suffered last week of this Ilarte
complaint.
--Lust week the English flag disap
peared from the Island of San :Nan,
which, in ctimp!lance with the decision
of Emperor 'William, England aban
dons to the ITrited States.
--They do in,t allow any fooling on a
railway in England. Sir Louis Fleet
wood, of Sunbury, England, refused
to pay his fare on the cars, and was
sent to jail tbr twenty-one days.
—Of the sixty counties in New York
only seven gave majorities for Greeley.
MI of these seven, except t.ivhollarie,
are river counties, bordering on the
Hudson, and under the direct influence
of Tatninany.
—Professor Tyndall's proposal to
put the efficacy of prayer for merely
material blessing's, like recovery from
illness, to a practical test, is pro
nounced impious and atheistical by a
meeting of preachers in New York.
----Florida is still indoubt. The State
is believed to have elected 131axharn,
Conservative, Governor by a small ma
jority, and will, in any . event, give its
electoral vote for Grant, the contest
having been mainly on State issues.
—lt is seriously asserted by the
Hearth and hone that the prolonged
dispute over the San Juan boundary
between this country and Great Britain
originated in the killing of a hog be
longing to the Hudson Bay Company
by a countryman of ours.
—The Shreveport, 149., , 4 ,'Hiithwestern
says that several hundred Chinese ar
rive° on the lc.!th, and took the train
for Longview , Texas, from which point
they will walk out into the interior of
Texc4 and commence throwing dirt up
to he Mr. Tom Scott's railroad on.
—liuehanun county, Virginia, enjoys
the proud distinction of being the
only county in the United States from
which no returns whatever of the re
cent election have been received. By
its position it is isolated from the rest
of the world, and is quite a terra in
eag»ita.
—A horrible thought dirkturtA the
minds and stomachs of water-drinking
Cincinnatian: _ . , •• •
I : • rom e o iver,lnto w eb
fickle stream reckleSs Pittsburgers
cast the epizootic horses, which float
down toward the Qucen City, bearing
along the dreadful poison.
—The President s in response to Chi
cago office seekers on Tuesday, stated
that no officeholder would be removed
except for ineffiviency or malfeasance
in office, and that in all eases of vacan
ciesarising from any :use tiw position
would he filled by the next in rank, if
qualified and up to the tequirements
of the civil service regulations.
—The New York AS'io: thinks that zi
revival of the practice of duelling
would be an immeasurable improve
ment on the method of killing men.
In a duel, it says, a man has a chance
for his life, hut as the human butcher
ing business is now conducted. the:vic
tim ha 's no farther warning of his fate
than the flash of his murderers pistol.
—The record or crime in New York
for the past few days is sickening in
the extreme. The bullet, the knife
and slung shot are daily doing their
death work. Possibly the appalling
prevalence of crime may rouse public
opinion and feeling to such a point as
to cause a vigorous enforcement of
justice.
—The North Carolina Legislature is
at a dead-lock over the United States
Senatorial question. There is a Demo
cratic majority in both Houses, but
owing to the bitter struggle between
the friends of Vance and Merrimon,
the Republicans are tint without hopes
of re-electing Senator Pool, the present
incumbent of the office.
—The American Grocer urges
farmers to organize butter factories, in
which all the details of manufacture
and putting up can receive the best at
tention. It is obvious that a farm, or
family, making only a small quantity,
cannot go to the expense of an ice
house, cool milk room and other con
veniences which give so many advan
tages to a first-class factory.
—The Jewish population of New
York are making preparations to wel
come, assist and protect the Jewish
exiles from Roumania, who will soon
reach this country. There will only
be a few hundreds of them at this
time, but there is reason to believe
that there will be a very considerable
movement from 'Roumania in this di
rection next spring.
—We recently cited a number of in
stances in which the example set by
the . United States in diplomacy,
science and enterprise, had of late been
copied by other governments. To the
illustrations already given there is now
to be added the fact that our school
system has been adopted in Sweden,
Spain, South America and Japan. In
this manner the ideas of the young re
public of the West are gradually in
terpenetrating and interfusing the
world.
--Tilt- prevailing uhichtsti cliw aQO to
gcth ndly I , cliev(d t.. 1);o:e lice?) con
trmtott twill tile !)entocrMic. rot+,ter
:tine the ckyt;on.
• - election precinct carried by
Wonor is in Hamp,hire county, West
Virginia. '['he vote stood (PConor
rtA , ltsy 1:6, linutt 1.
--During the month o f Novwilber
we lost forty-three minutes of day
light. We know a goi many in this
city who lose that notch of daylight
before break fa-4.
- Somebody starts a report that the
PreAdent is eApetb . 4l ;co on a
visit to that country. We thiuk voni
ing• events do not cast their sinidows
quite so far in advance.
—One etliwt of the horse disease in
Wheeling, is the abandonment of the
stables by the rats. As soon as a horse
commences to cough, the rodents
make for the open air.
--The .Vut lona! ,Ylttnflm.(l will be
united with the ,Votioir«l nuTeraiwe
Atli -of -ate Oh the first of Jantlary,
Its editor, Mr. A. 'AI. Powell, will
hereafter he associated with the All
rooette.
--The New York li"(01/, seeing no
further use for Messrs. Schurz, 'Prowl
hull, Sumner, Banks and other Liberal
Republicans, now calls them "floating
political drift-wood," and desire to get
rid of them.
—lion. John A. Bingham, of Ohio,
who has for many years represented
the Sixteenth Ohio District, is gazetted
for the appointment of Minister to St.
Petersburg,, vice Andrew ( /. Curtin, of
Pennsylvania, resigned.
—The chairman of the Virginia Re
publican State Committee wants the
Richmond post-othee but is afrail to
ask for it on account of the civil ser
vice reform mountain which Avrmiced
the hopes of the Pennsylvania poli
ticians.
--British speculators are sending for
large quantities of American oysters
to plant in English waters, and expect
that the bivalves will thrive, for the
reason that they have some moister
seasons there than can be found in any
other country.
—The New York World states that
justifiable homicide is now held to in
clude "the rase of every man who kills
any other• 1111111 on account of any
woman and of every woman who kilis
any man on any account whatever,"
That is about true.
—The forty-third Congress will con
tain one colored Senator and six col
ored Representatives, all of whom are
said to be intelligent and educated, and
capable of filling their several posi
tions with credit to themselves and
honor to their contsituency.
—Fifteen hundred children pass six
hours in a public school building in
New York, which is so unsafe that
their lives sr Inm and lasting
• . The fluthoritids - cantims .4-my
say, repair the building because of the
lack of funds in the plundered city
treasury.
—Elaborate experiments made dur
ing the past year by the Chief of the
Engineers of the Army have led him to
recommend the adoption of torpedoes
for roast defence. It will cost two
millions to fully equip our seaports
with these terrible engines of destruc
tion, and half a million to place them
in the chief harbors.
—Thu Commissioner of Internal
Revenue decides that persons selling
cigars and tobacco on railroad trains
must confine such sales to the smoking
ear. They cannot travel from car to
car offering for sale tobacco and cigars
without becoming peddlers under the
terms of the !statute, and peddlers are
forbidden to retail from broken pack
ages.
—The great and progressive North
west stilt leads the van in startling
novelties and astounding innovations.
At the last county agricultural fair,
held at Stillwater, Minn., a valuable
ring was actually placed on the most
comely hotly who should visit fair
gronnds. This premium was really
awarded, and the winning lady's name
is printed in large tpye in the Min
nesota journals.
--The Emperor of China has taken
upon himself the responsibilities of
matrimony. The telegram which pro
claims the fact is brief in the extreme.
We are merely told that "the emperor
of China was married at Pekin, on
the 16th of October. There was no
public ceremony outside the palace,
beyond the procession to bring the
bride thither, and the whole aflair
passed off very quietly."
—The strange spectacle is now pre
sented of dual governments in no less
than three States, Arkansas, Alabama
and Louisiana. In Arkansas they
have elected two Governors, or least
both candidates claim to be elected,
and both intend to act as Governor. In
Alabama there are two bodies in ses
sion, each claiming to be the lawfully
elected Legislature. In Louisiana
there are two boards of canvassers in
esslon, each intending to declare dif
ferent persons to have been elected
Governor, State officers and Legis
lature.
—The Superintendent of the Euro
pean and North America Railway has
sent to all the employees of the road
a form of pledge for them to sign,
whereby they agree to abstain. from
intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and
the use of profane or ungentlemanly
language. Accompanying the blank
pledge is a circular informing the em
ployees that this step is taken in con
sequence of frequent complaints at the
ofilre, and requesting those declining
to sign to give notice of their inten
tions, that their places may be filled
by others.
1101 Z 4;ItEELEI
Tlia et, :Oh Of Iforaao Greeley
east :',.shlnlow over the whole witl"n•
:Lotto{ the Sin Ceres! niournOr.; Ur('
thinql who have beets lately arrayed
against hho in the political field. in
deed, the friends of progress every
where must feel the loss of one of their
most powerful allies. A man of the
people, he rose by his own elLirts to a
position of as ;great, if lint greater, in
fluence than any other single man has
wielded ; and that influence has ever
been exerted in the interest of what
he hene,:tly believed to h the right.
If lad few great !nen can so inneh he
said; indeed, most of our .‘incrican
leaders have fallen far below that
standard. Of our later statesmen,
Linc:iln is perhaps the only exception
whose rrcord will stand the test
throughout. And the gloom which
overspread the nation at his tragic end
has found a counterpart, to some ex
tent, in that of the few days i:necceding
this more reCellt 111.11.0Venieni.
If the last days of the great journal
ist little is known except the general
fact that mind and tasty alike were
shattered by the constant carp of his
invalid wife and her recent death,
coming as it dill HI the same time with
the destruction of his political hopes.
/le died at the residence of Dr. Choate,
at. Mount Pleasant, on Friday evening
at 7 o'clock. ills daughter Ida was
the only one of the family present.
his funeral took place on Wednesday,
and was attended by the President
and eminent visitors from t all parts of
the country.
When the history of the great strug
gle with slavery is written, in the
calmer judgment of the future, the
name of I brace Greeley, and the value
of his services to humanity, will he
fully appreciated. Meanwhile his errors
will be buried in his grave, and a
gr tteful people will set before their
children the example of his useful
life.
Indian CI v ilizal
The resolution recently passed by
the Legislature of the Chickasaw In
dians, in favor of dividing in severalty
the hinds heretofore held in common
by the tribe, may justly he regarded
as the most advanced step toward civ
ilization ever taken by any of the In
dians; and it is thought by many that
should the government not insist on
any territorial organization other than
that now existing, many of the other
tribes would follow the example of the
Chickasaws. The best informed per
sons seem to think that the most prac
ticable way to secure their rights un
der existing treaties, and to enable
them to continue in their rapid pro
gress toward civilization, is to leave
all legislation in regard to their terri
torial government and landed proper
tzfto the dr ,l 43n of thii tlns
13eIve8r Itt?'whiren - hianner it Is Also
held, the United States government
can best fulfill its treaty obligations.
Constitutional Convention.
The Convention adjourned on Wed
nesday until the first Tuesday in Jan
uary, when it will reassemble at Phil
adelphia. The propesKi amendments
are legion. Among the more import
ant are striking out the word "white,"
woman suffrage, and eganges in the
jury system. On Tuesday next a con
vention meets in Pittsburg to urge
upon the Constitutional body the im
portance of submitting an amendment
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
drinks to a separate vote of thc people.
We trust this may be done, as it will
give an opportunity for a full and fair
canvassing and a decision by popular
vote untrammeled by partisan consid
erations, upon a question which ranks
second to none in importance.
—The Philadelphia Ledger thinks
enough is knowe of the administration
policy to render it certain that it will
favor bank if not currency expansion,
which is the most powerful stimulant
to activity in trade speculation. After
January opens, that paper believes, it
is reasonable to expect great activity
in business, both here and in Europe,
under the stimulus of the flood of
gold currency, especially in Europe,
and bank expansion in this country.
The Eledorg
Mot at the several State capitols on
Wednesday, and cast their votes for
President and Vice President. At the
hour of going to press, we have not
heard what action has been taken by
the Democratic States. There was
probably no concert of action, as the
death of Mr. Greeley occurred at so
late a day.
Congress
Met on Monday last for the short ses
sion, which expires by limitation on
the fourth of next March. There is
much work to do, but most of the
knowing ones predict a dull session
and few results. We will chronicle
their doings whenever there is any
thing of importance to note.
NM Joaquin Miller.
The San Francisco News Letter, in
commenting on a recently issued photo
graph of Mrs. Joaquin Miller, says :
"Mrs. M. has our sympathy in the
fact that the likeness is good. We con
gratulate her on her new hair, which
nearly, but not quite, conceals the tell
tale car. The drapery fails gracefully
over a copy of Harper's Weekly, and
successfully conceals the outlines of an
anatomy which goes far to explain the
restless flight of Joaquin. Mrs. M. has
also considerately tucked her hands out
of sight, and but for one defect the picture
would be altogether pleasing. We allude
to the attitude of the head, which is
erect, exposing the face. If Mrs. M., at
her next sitting, will but tuck her head
under her arm, we think that the gen
eral effect would leave nothing to be de
sired."
NEE S AND
11E11 ITE)is.
lost al);Alt lot)
Senat.ir Sturm"
the P. nton fire.
4731ish
Ot
v` reggrded Atm
Si,: editors 14
Illinois legislaturt
Woodcutters an
per month at
!lered ;:.; 4 6. -- , :cud board
Mountain, ('al.
Tammany Hat
with the .Ipollo
:York city.
relties to (..wrisoWl;ity
41 I)enit., racy t•t' N. vs-
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very ill,
MEM
Horace Matri f irl, of Tenucssue, a
candidate for t.b :peakership of 111,;
Congress.
Oregon, this yoar, poured tour million
bushels of wheat into thfi grain lii
the World.
Queen Vieto*, Zia sent ; - 2.,0,0:10 to
Italy for the be 'ilt of lb, ,ufrerns by
the 'flood.
The olbee o ssistaut A ttonney
oral of the Unit States will pro dyd . ), be
abolished.
The Alaska 4:1 company c: ( 1 a
g avcruniuut tax:4 :..f.;2•)-:1 un!:.., eatuh.
the pa:4 season.
A thinoeero4 belonging 'co 's
menagerie died of tis: cpi:rNotio iu:-•;.
Louis on Thuriutty,
One hundred avid thirty-two cargoes d;
wheat have been sent to England since
.1 my from Cailiforn
Beavers a, lanimin„; the mill streams
in Kans.!, ' ltepeoplearescrvlugthe
*ail, • `, •
The 1 tr, 3, private, secretary,
General nom Port , r, has licea elected
vice president of the I 'u' tnuu Palace Car
Company.
A terrible aceideld. 1, :ppi ned at Ma
nilla on the 12th inst. The Spa brig
Genovera was,sunk in a typho.o. „old all
on board lost except one seaman.
Some eight hundred track layers on the
Winona and St. Peter railroad are now
snowed up, and fears are entertained that
they are perishing vith cold an4l hunger.
Mr. "do. Rack uttd pardnero struck o
$3,200 nugget on Yellow Creek, Rio de
la Plumes, Cal divided it with ax,
and started immediately for a trip to
Illinois has an wrotiaut who expects to
make a trip to Calitbrnia in the spring
through the air. Should this; prove suc
cessful, he wilijiMprtxke it voyage across
the ocean.
It is pro posed to get pure milk by hav
ing - t iss a law that milk
men shall put a 'saddle on the cow and
ride up to the doors of their customers
and there milk the cows.
WaHack's Theatre, New York, had a
narrow escape from tire on Friday eve
ning. A tire broke out, iu the same build
ing while the performance was in pro
gress. It was fortunately extinguished
in time.
The Gettysburg Association met at
Gettysburg on 'Friday, and it was resolved
to erect a monument to Gt.norai itdeade's
memory on the site of the batty-I:c'-1,
One hundred thousand dollars are to bo
raised.
The Gert i n minktee authorizes au
unqualified • :114-1 -of the report that his
Government $ notified him to the (Arta
that rates of : e would be increased
in order to :vent iuigration to this
countr .
• • • o $ away the ruins
0 • : rltet progretsses,
Mune , -le •ua ies of wool are due; out,
and piled 1' ely in the streets to an
enormous heitht. The recovered wool
has a most uiltia,vory odor, but it can be
cleaned and utilized.
A conduetk on one of the eastern
railroads, who has been employed for
twenty years, has rode over t Sto,ooi)
miles, has never received any injury
himself, and has never known of the
slightest injure received by passengers
or employees of his train during that
time.
A pair of horses ran away in lowa the
other day, dragging the lines on the road.
After going a short distance th. y met a
cow, and were stopped by the lines be
coming entangled in the cow's horns.
The cow sat down and waited until the
driver came up and recovered his pro
perty.
A new danger threatens society. An
eminent French chemist announces that
many of4hb.elogromioning silks are cover
ed with pieryte'of lead, and arc theretOre
liable to a tremendous explosion at any
moment. It would be a terrible thing.,
while waltzing with a lady, to have her
suddenly blow up.
At the recent generel election held in
Presque Isle county, Michigan, the en•
tire Republican National, State and
county ticket were elected. Not a vote
in the whole county was cast for the
Cireeley and Brown electors. Probably
18 0 other county in the United States
can boast Of 80 proud a record.
The oldest printer in the country is
said to be Andrew C. Huston, now living
at Northumberland, Penna., in his Stith
year. He learned his trade with Zacha
riah Poulson, and conducted the Argus
in Northumberland as back as the
year 1805, which was the only paper
printed in that part of Penneylvnnia.
A minister once told Wendell Phillips
that if his business in life was to save the
negroes, be--flsgbt to go South where
they were and do it. "That is worth
thinking of," replied Phillips ; "and
what is your business in life?" "To save
men from hell," replied the, minister.
"Then go there and attend to your busi
ness," replied Mr. Phillips.
The Chinese shoemakers at North
Adams have so fully mastered the busi
ness that they nbw produce a larger re
sult every week than the same number of
white hands were accustomed to do two
years ago. They work steadily, ask for
no holidays, and save their earnings to a
miserly degree. --No objection has been
brought against them as being licentious
or intemperate..
The most satisfactory election bet we
have heard of was that made by a
Bridgeport lady and gentleman on the
eve of election. If Grant should be
elected the young man should win the
lady, and if Greeley should be elected the
lady should have the young man. The
result glows t the young man won
the bet, an - a
it ri stated, on authority at
the young lady herself, that she is per
fectly willing he should have the prize.
A bill has been introduced into the In
diana Legislature which provides that in
cases of homicide where the plea of in
sanity is set up, and the defendant is ac
quitted, the jury shall specify in their
verdict whether the return of "not
guilty" was upon that ground, If so,
the maniac, wbo in an instant of uncon
trollable irresponsibility slew a fellow
creature, is forthwith to be committed to
a lunatic as um, not until pronounctd
sane by anoThor jury, but for life or a
term of years, wording to the nature of
the crime charged.
ct.di,ir and lot of the steam front three
Lverh( d !yrs which t brea toned every
instant tot xplotio. It was so hot that
his companions kept two streams of
water play ing on him while he was per
t', this fait.
A !Ireton peasant on his way to Paris,
stopped at a bath( is shop in Ramhottil
let. \V hile the barber was strapping his
rozor the pt.:IR:In!, notices: a doff, sitting
viear his chair, awl Warin' at him lio,rce
ly. "What is the matter with that
do;.:,?" The !tarty,. answered with an un
concerned air, "That dog is always there.
sen when I cut tilt' an tar
Ito 101 ti, lLi
t.. tll.' r. Tkit'cit Of this goy
eminent, for inro!anat ion rroin tOrciptt na
tions rt spi•cting the rogulations of their
!. , tcomboat, scrviet., nearly all Lh Ica lin k
notions of Europe hose forwarthst to the
of the Trcastiry, through the
State )op Irt meta the desired documents.
'lliesc will be carefully examined and
: - any points which can be practically in
corporated in our steamboat I:ill will he
recorunwniled in the proposed aniond
meat.
Mr. 11. E. Cole, observer of the Inited
States signal service at Boston, has made
an official report relative to the auemo
metrical and other observations taken by
himself during the great lire in that city,
which clearly shows that the phenomena
were distinctly cyclonic, and which will
be Canal both interesting and instructive.
lie says the wind during the progress of
the tire varied from north northwest to
north with a velocity of from live to nine
wiles psr hour, the weather being clear,
cool and pleasant. On approaching the
fire on the north or windward side as close
as the heat would allow, the indraught of
air through the burning streets assumed
the character of a brisk wind, pi obably 16
or 18 miles per hour, while the heat was
so iutemse as to cause the smoke, steam,
etc., to be carried up in spirals to a great
elevation. On the south or lee side, the
Wilma currents of air were very strong,
probably 30 or 35 miles pir hour, carry
ing the tire bodily to the windward. This
state of affairs seems to he the reverse of
the Chicago tire, where the strength of
the wind was sufficient to overcome the
induced currents, and the fire burned to
the leeward. It seems as if the high wind
permitted the draught to rise at a consid •
erable angle after reaching the tire, leav
ing a large spaee of highly ratified air on
its front, inducing stronger currents to
flow in, which meeting the indraught
gave a spiral or whirlwind form to the
ascending current. During the lire a
flock of ducks passed at a great height
overhead, and the light reflected from
their plumage made them appear as fire
balls passing rapidly through the air.
Many who saw them called them mete
ors, and likened them to balls of tire said
to have been seen in the Northwest, dur
ing the great tire in that region. As an
example of the great heat diffitsed, he
states that during the night lie exposed a
thermometer in the observatory to the
full glare of the fire, when it rose nearly
five degrees, although placed upward of
2,000 feet from the burning district, and
dead to the windward of it. No other
phenomena occurreil,the barometer rising
slightly, and the weather remaining un
changed.
iyp.my in:zuttwes nF (ilk
11,1! nu 11:LVS ill! "i ' in contr. linn
NV;tlt i',Onton Life, 111 , .; f.4dowing is not
brave fellow crowded into
"Well ?" "Well, he vats it."
There is much iipeculation conci•rnin::,
the cour.iii of the eley;ors of the States
that went for (it( tiley, will pursue, on
NVednesday, when they meet to east
their votes. They will of necessity vido
for siime Other p;irson, but so little time
is left fin consultation between the dini,r
cut StAte electors, that it seems very
doubtful whether the wishes expressed
Ily the I).•niocrals thal all should vote for
some prominent man the party, can
lm c:lrrii a wit.
The pneumatic tube, for which Con
gress at its last session appropriated
$15,000, will soon be put in practical
operation between the national capitol
and the government printing office. and
be put to i practical test. Mr. Albert
Brisbane, the inventor, claims that he
can transmit packages from New York
to San Francisco by this method. Th e
inside diameter of the tube laid at Wash
ington is thirty-one inches, and that of
the sphere, which is to be propelled
through it hi atmosphere pressure, is
thirty inches.
Harvard's Losws.
One most toa•xpected result of the
great Boston tire is the effect it has in
cutting oft the resources of Harvard Uni
versity. This time-honort d seat of learn
ing has no less than eSG-2,000 of its en
dowment fund in the 'burned district. thf
the buildings, which it will take $300,000
to put up again, there was insurance to
the amount, of of which only
about iiloo,ooo u ill be realized, :ng
net loss of $2.1 , 0,000, which will have to
be raised in order to rebuild. But this
is not the most of the cm: :trrassnient.
These propertios yielded from their rental
$35,000 of the annual income of the col
lege. This is tow cut ()ll', at a time when,
even with all that income, the Faculty
had been 0b4e.1 to practice the closest.
economy ; and besides this, the Univer
sity will have to discharge $12,000 of ex
traordinary expenses in insurance and
taxes brought on by the tire. These cir
cumstances appeal with great force to
the graduates and friends of the Univer
sity throughout the country, of whom
there arc great numbers possessing the
ability to respond in a generous manner.
Ancient Ugh thouse.
'lt, is sllirfirat the ' cdive •of E pt
intends to turn the pyramid of thi
zeh into a lighthouse. lie is an enter
prising :Ind somewhat unimaginative sov
ereign, prone to works of utility, and it is
quite poskilde that he may cause that an
cient suaumit to be CrOWned with a FreS
nel is - intent and occupied by a discon
tented stipendiary with a coil of Man
chester wi,•king and a Coptic pitcher of
clarified i`tqlZitlP. Notwithstanding the
ad vaut:n.re to the twilzhboring commerce
of the N ik! of such a lofty and far-twain
ing flan( s, all reverent travelers vi ho
have seen it from across dim levels of
desert, a* nillar of cloud by day, will re
rl4, to spa it turned into a pillar of tire
by Tim Arabs had a tradition
that thew structures were built by the
inhabitalits of the older world, and alone
of human works bore the burden of the
flood. Whether or not this be true,
they arc at least old enough to be re
lea s.+ from obligations of 'utility. The
tmuumied :sovereign in the basement,
whoever he was in life, must experience
an emotion of posthumous resentment at
the mere mention of finch an employment
of his towering and venerable monument.
If it, were Cleopatra who slumbered there
she would break from her sere-cloths iu
rage at such presumption and audacity,
and disperse avenging asps throughout
the twenty-five palaces of the present
ruler of the lands of Egypt.
Anentomelrleal.
Inlitoils of Epizool).
Ti iikt.....hlprr :Lniung ho!,,
ita,cltti the attention of mankind tr i m
the oarlit axes. wrote : "Bohol,'
the hand of the L r l is upon the cattle
which art, in the riL Id, and upon the
horses," etc. Authors, long preceding
the rl.ristian era, also allude to the great
mortality autoug the beasts of the field,
victims of epiz..dics of various kinds.
The Roman territory was ravaged hy
fearful mortality among animals about
the year 19J, and descending still lower
in the interval, between the years Slit
and 1:1111. history characterizes
. liot less
than some Iv, my iliti.Tent. distempers
among in olkind awl animal", of which
six attaci:ed cattle, t v,•,, horses, and
twenty ifs in ~e neral. In the six.-
teenth century the sal j-et 11-gati to re
el ivc 1 hi , ;Mention of physicians, and
%hiring thy , year 1) (11, after a very hot
:11111 dry remote", a kind of epizootic
spread among horses and cattle, and
upon openin.4 the hemi,worms vJere found
in the substance of the brain and in the
intestines, which were tl.llll V./M.:1111.1'1_11 the
8111 t. 4.111 ,,, Or 0.10 distemper. In the
year. 170 -, to 171 a terrible epi 7 . o oty wa s
dissf milrited Ihronehont Europe, ea
hv the impoitaiion or a simile ox from
and not li s than 1 :,110,0911atii
mats )•i i-da , d f r om the plague. The
neral iiiptows wI re shivering and
d •11;t, respiration, frequent
cough ; atel the animals attacked o ften
h II down as it' struck with apoplexy. At
first tie - attack was :V11101.111(!ell by a re
jection of food and drink, and a general
prostration of strength. Such epizootics,
11./wever, were contagions, and generally
and vastly more destructive that
the present distemper among horses re
cently renewed in the United States. To
abate its virulence, and, as tar as psi
-1/I,', prevent the malady, three principal
objects were to be kept in view, viz : to
pr,•serve the fluids from corruption, to
preserve the strength of the animal, and
cli anse the intestines immediately on
the appearance of the disease. Holland,
Great Britain, France, the Went
and Asia, from time to time, have suf
fered ftarfnily trout. the various distem
pers and plagues which swept those
countries of horses, cattle, sheep, and
even the leathered tribes. As a preven
tive, inoculation was tried by the various
gilvernments, but it did not prove au el
feetti
Fronde and Burke.
Thonyli treating the political history
of Ireland front entirely different stand
points, Mr. Fronde and Father Bunke
arrive at, the sum? conclusion on one very
important particular. Mr. Fronde, in
his lirst lecture said he would not discuss
the propriety of separation between the
two countries fur it was forbidden by
geography. Father Burke, in the last
lecture of his series in reply to Mr.
Fronde, sa3s he does not believe in in
surrecthma ry movements. Ireland, ac
cording to Pallier Burke, can only hope
to becorlte an Unit pendent and separate
country when England has ceased to
exist as a nation. In this Mr. Fronde
would most cordially agree with his op
ponent. Father Burke, however, con
soles his hear( vs by the assurance that
the day of Ireland's separation from
England will not long be delayed, since
the British empire is in his opinion on
the verge of dissolution. NVhen its dis
solution arrives, then, he thinks, Ireland
will become a stale in the American
Union and enjoy peace and prosperity.
This is a view of the subject to which we
are sure Mr. Fronde will not object,
though it is probably the historian does
not think his country is so near its end.
But when the end comes, whether next
year or several centuries hence, we have
little doubt Mr. Fronde and the rest of
his countrymen will make no objection
Lo such a settlement of the Irish question
as Father Burke anticipates. It is much
that both gentlemen are in accord as to
the futility of attempts at insurrection.
11141(11i 116111 jollnistlisin.
In view of Mr. reeley'6 recent decla
ration of Independent journalism, some
body has been looking over the back tiles
of tile Tribioic and hos discovered the
followinr from the pen of H. a. in the
issue of that paper tOr January :t, 1871.
Mr. Whitelaw held , the professor of
"independent journalism," was manager
of the Tribune at that, time :
"That what styles itself an 'independ
ent, journal is inevitably a fraud, we
have long felt and known. The essence
of its protilssic,n is an assumption of in
difference to the ascendency of this or
the opposite party, which does not exist.
In a free state, whereof the people are
intelligent, no journalist is or can be in
different ; and an atlixiion of impar
tiality necessarily cloaks some selfish
sinister design.
Marital Devotion.
The epozootic has developed in Cleve
land, among other things, a vast deal of
marital devotion. The with of one gen
tleman desired to attend the Patti con
cert but was in feeble health and unable
to walk. The husband put her in a stout
baby carriage, and proceeded straightway
to the hall where Patti was to sing, and,
at the close of the entertainment, trun
dled his spouse home in the same style.
Another wife desired to attend the wed
ding of a friend, some distance away
from her residence, but the horses were
all sick, and a carriage could not be had
for love or money. Carefully wrapping
her up be deposited her iu a light buggy,
the husband took his place between the
thills, and for the nonce "played horse"
most eueeesssully.
The scientists are now speculating
upon "the great November atmospheric
wave," whose existence and annual re
currence, long suspected, is said to have
been established by the meteoric obser
vations of the signal service. Some ac
count of this November atmospheric
wave was given so long ago as 170:3, when,
according to Defoe, the air was seen "full
of meteors and vaporous fires." The
"vaporous fires," at least, seem to have
given place, this year at least, to an at
mosphere of icicles.
Intelligence from the scene of the
trouble between the United States troops
and the ISledoe Indians, in Oregon, shows
that it is more serious than at first re
ported. The Indians attacked the Tule
Lake settlement and killed three men,
the women escaping to a neighboring
settlement. State aid has been asked for,
as the settlers are short of arms and am
munition. The settlements are being
warned of the dancer.
The National Democratic Committee
have issued a letter declining to advise
the electors of the several states that
voted for the Baltimore nominees as to
the course which they shall l ursue in
consequence of the death of Horace
Greeley. They believe that futura con
ventions will provide for such a contin
gency, and do not deem it prudent to set
a precedent.
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isTEr. :
Ilevvy hut widtler anu,lll au nett
in t brain kill) slit( tka, tin wrinti
se innolil ultra niinrl tit * tnauht of
e l / 1 1:1S (1(.1111 .r( 14 14' :11V 11( t .1)0 fadt
is, se is elAniilils dais
Sl` )11Shi acs kMIII, tit der r hate ich vte.2;
thr I • rcetla in der fiinii:y is a lialtat is se
ultra weg hawa
Ehra notion is das ich midi gor Mtn
my ob gevva soil fun weaga polities. Se
behawpt de 1( it deltia yustit fun mocha
ivvcr my breelit im I odder _Abraham,
un dass de leading poifyti:-beners lurch
yusbt usa for ehra eagny benefit, un doss
Bei dog un des dung se tiler any
how kea office g( vva. Der llorace Gree
ley sauga se w:er doh tiir a paar dog
[(mold draw gone a OUR shl.erwa, un doss
er fort g'maelit I ut on seller I issmss bis
er dolit war. I'll sell hut. de llevvy of de
notion gi !maid, (lass ich des poliths
welisa of get - va Fet odd( rner om
end aw 110111
Awt r, mit 1111 1'1• is es gor net we's alit
ern Greeley war. Es is wnhr, ich Lin aw
an literery l t cr,uv, yuslit, we der Greeley,
aver my of nn st ins is
of ..E.ll4lisli wo iner in il
shoola ;:,•: it. My (kits!' awcr met
uat in tip:- , 11(4) - ::1, , AN , Ch will mils es
of India fur sicli r, exactly we ielt
's gedu hob. I 'll sell proirft(larm icli (le•
cidedly ahead bin fum Horace ( ieele.y.
Awer, ich 11111S3 confess etas weil oily
leit sttherwa ndssa, kaun 's aw bappena
dash es aw on my turn kummt antebl
elms fun derma dog, y talit tncr webs evva
net «Allll.
Awer, MI du with sheer fergessa.
muss der now aw shreiva wnss es is dass
llovvy hawa will day ich du set. I)u
kennsht 's net esea of a Itoned. mold .
Awer ich will der's sauga. Se hut ano
Lion dos khan gonsy variety fun g'shefta
awfonga set. Itn arslita platz mehut se.
ich set an jewelry rhtore Manila weil so.
()Frick feel leit awfongs nei gehua for de
brass watcha kett a en aw oniwr patent
gold wo se kawfa beim punt odder lei
der halb bushel, lie's ferkawfa tsu der
feels norm de noeh.om lehwa
se mehnt ich kenut aw goot du wann ich
aw nei geh debt fa- de:aft iu bleeh•g'sharr
so we pint blechcr, coffee konna, butter
kessle, brod ponna un liebter shtick. Un
se is aw of her opinion dass Hi mar aw
an photograph machine hawfa set un nei
sea for kit obnemma on a bolwer dahlt r
's shtick. Un 'loch an branch fun der
bissucss wo de Bovvy ha Wit will das ieh
shtarta soil is deale in retail milliner
goods. Sell denkieh awe r wier ordlich
risky, for s^ sauga de Constitutional
Convention het int sine an provision
macha for hp. de Constitution nei shteeka
so dass es unconstitutional merit for de
fashions for weibsleit bonnets efter das eh
mold ally mohnat tsu ferennera. Alle
weil is de milliner bissness first rate, for
nine °us oily tsea shanleit missa all ehra
ferdeensht betzahla on de minima s so
dass ehra weiver aw in der fashion sin so
Ivohl dass de niche leit. Un noch an
bissuess branch dass de lfevvy hawa will
dass ich shtarta set is an shneider shop,
for custom nu oily onnery sort :erwet.
Es is aw noch an gooty bissness dass de
Bevvy awer gor net Onentioned hut, tin
sell is kee melka um de helft, provided de
kee gevva plenty millich.
A wer, Mister - Printer, de Bevvy is a
wenuich queer. Ich glawb anyhow ich
Weil) noch a while doh in Schliffeltown
un shreib der aw oily woch an fthher,
neier tweet; so diner dass aw govt un
nich ally leit. Excuse bad shpelliug.
Yours trooly,
PIT SCHWEFFLEISREN N R
The small-pox lately took oil a very
old and eccentric man of St. Louis known
as Dr. Hotchkiss. He claimed to be 140,
having been a Mason over 100 years. and
expressed a determination to live until
the second coming of Christ, It is said
that for twenty years he bad not washed
himself or permitted a broom on the
place. He claimed, also, a supernatural
agency in healing the sick.
General Crook is visiting Indian dep
redations with summary punishment.
This accords fully with the adopted poli
cy of the government, which has been
much misrepresented in this respect. It
is to try the methods of peace, failing
which, to use decisive measures.
focal Jews.
NEW OFFICERS: The changes in the different
county offices at the Court House took place on
Mepday. The following is a list of the new
officers, with their clerks :
Sheriff—Amos Groff, with Samuel:Hess, B. F.
Rowe and John M. Hess as subordinates.
Register—Jeremiah Rohrer, with F. S. Al
bright and B. Bauman as s ubordinates.
Prothonotary—Wm. M. Slaymaker, with W.
D. Stauffer and W. E. Kreider as subordinates.
Clerk of Orphants' Court—Capt. Abram Set
tley, with S. L. Kauffman as subordinate.
Clerk of Quarter Sessions—John W. Urban,
who retains Mr. Barton as clerk.
RESIGNATION : On Friday last David Bair, jr.'
tendered his resignation as Jury Commissioner,
for the county of Lancaster, w hich was accepted
by Judge Livingston, and Luther Riche' ds esq..
app o intedls stead.:
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