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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 11369.
WE PYZET on the inside pages of this
morning's GAZETTE --, Second .page :
Ephemeris, Letter fro?» Grace Greentcood,
A. Mysterious Bevelatun Washington
Items. Third and Sixth pages: Commer
cial, Financial, Mercanti:e and River
News, Markets. Seventh page: Farm,
Gallen and Nousehad."
U. B. BONDS at, Frankfort. 87}.
FICTROIMUM at Antwerfi, 58ic.
GOLD closed In Islew York yesterday
st 133.
THE arm before the Ohio Legislature
to prohibit the erection of bridges of less
than four hundred feet span over the chan
nel of the Ohio, hat become a law. Un
der this litw, a penalty of $lO, OOO Is Im
posed, and the structure is liable to abate
ment as a nuisance, by the usual, pro
ceedings.
Tun Democratic Legislature of Ohio is
deliberating tipim fresh penalties against
voters of visibly admixed blood. They
regard the approaching adoption of the
XVth Article with the same sort of horror
which African savages exhibit at the ap•
profit% of (Molar eclipse,--and attempt to
avert the phenomenon by similar mean:3—
by makhig a tremendous noise to scare
the intruder away.
IiRATH OF HON. ARNOLD PLITMMER.
—A dispatch received by JOSEPH filial?
1 En, Esq., Wood street, last evening, an
nounces the death of Hon. Amcor.°
/iLDMBIER, aged 75, at his residence in
Franklin, on yesterday afiernoon. Kn.
IlLyinput represented the 'Penang° _Dis
trict in Congress two or three terms, some
twenty-five years ago. He had many
filends in this city, and was well known
and much esteemed throughout the State.
His death will be a public loss.
Cnrc.koo JoURNAL has ascertained,
from the takof everybody "in the streets,
on horse-cars, •in the raihroad trains, in
the club-rooms, around euchre-tables,"—
the Chicago headquarters for public opin
ion-Lthat the piesent Administration is
very weak; that there are no statesmen in
the Cabinet; that the President has ap
ppinted too many personal friends and
relatives to office; and that . these mistakes
explain the failure of the proposed repeal
Of the office-tenure law, "more than
half the votes against that repeal hav
ing been made by the indiscreet
act of appointing Mr. WASECBUBNE
to the State Department. " The
way public opinion, at Chicago, re
sponded to this attack upon Gen. GRANT
:was remarkable, considering that "every
bOdy's talk" was in this same direction;
neither of the Republican evening jouna
als of ,the city, of the same day,ade the
slightest allusion to it! This instance
may have been due to their amazement
and grief, or it because the "horse
d& and euchre-table" public at Chicago
have a natural explanation for the milk
In that kind of cocoit-nuts.
D1E.91081 DAY.
The suggestion, from the Post, that the
"children in blue," the orphans at the
,
Homes, should have a prominent place in
the ceremonies'of the 30th of May, meets
a cordial response tram , the city press.
We 'hope that it will be, heeded :and
adopted throughout the Commonwealth,
wherever the Homes are. situated, or
' wherever the day may be appropriately
observed, 'and any of these orphans are
to be found. Where are they not to be
found, in Pennsylvan? The proper
arrangements for this leading participa
tion hi the proceedings of Memorial Day,
are not to bi omitted.
Bays the Post:
Their presence may possibly give. a
tinge of Balinese to the occasion, not anti
cipated by young men and maidens
whose lives are not , as bright and lovely
as the flowers of fday, they meet to strew,
but to the more mature, the living pres
ence of several hundred orphans of
soldiers will awaken stronger emotions
than the green turf which covers the in
animate bodies of their fathers, even
though it be covered with immortelles.
The Dispatch remarks:
The ceremonies of "Decoration Day"
would be scarcely complete without their
presence. We are all mourners for our
soldier dead, but their orphan children
are the chief. mourners. Their hands
shoubo the first to garland the tombs
of their heroic fathers. We trust those
having the matter in charge will attend
to this suggestion,
'this change would, relieve the Presi.
dent; Reads of Departments,, benathrs
and Representatives of much Unpleasant
importunity whicli now falls to their lot,
and would leave them ampler opportunt.
ties, to attend to theft 'Proper duties.
Then if members of the two Rouses
could be relieved of the onerous Jmplled
obligation to serve clalni*ints and
arand•rannees for'all their constituents
who chance to haveterlf a the Vali
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lied. How ,
far Senators and Represents-
fives are taxed in these tierticulars is lot - 4
generally understood; but it has come
to -pass, '• In many cases, that these
functionaries sre considered valuable,
not because of their comprehension
of their constitutional duties, and
of their fidelity in performing them,
but ot their promptness and efficiency in
procuring contracts, obtaining favorable
adjustments of vendini elalMs, and do.'
ing various other things which they
ought ot to touch at all,, and which, in a
healt ' r atmosphere of public ` sentiment
they w uldbe severely censured for med
dling ith under ordinaiy circumstances.
Mr. lJenckes' Civil Service bill, in its
essential elements, Is lirecfsely what is
needed so , far as relates to Government
eniploy'is: Why will not the two Houses
of Congress pass it, or shriller bill, into
a law 1 1 _ • Their own comfort cries out
equally with the public interests for this
change. We trust that early in the next
session this measure, unaccountably de
layed, will be pushed to consummation.
..----.
81DE ISSUES.
Whoever supposes that the . Republica.ns
party is itisuch danger of going to "ever
lasting smash," that nothing will keep its
organization unbroken, tin t less a variety
of side issues'are resorted to, clearly fails
to appreciate the real foundations upon
which the party has , been built up. If
Republicanism has no solid.merits of its
own, which are independent of the vary
ing phases of the hour, and which spring
out of the immutable principles of mo
rality and public justice;--if it has been a
merelitemporary political shift, to bring
about a change orplaces between the outs
and the ins;—if tbefield of National politics
to-day presents only exhausted questions
Hind accomplished results, not one wrong
needing to be righted, not one mistake yet
to be corrected, with no longer any public
duty neglected or any private right de
nied;—if Liberty, Equality and Justice,
the • public faith, "the obligations of the
Union, and the supremacy of the law
be everywhere acknowledged and re
spected;—if the partizan opposition,
which has so long, so bitterly and so
powerfully withstood the final triumph
of Republicanism, be, at last, extinguished,
never to be revived;--if, in fine, all the
people of the States be cordially agreed
to accept and stand faithfully by the new
order of things for which Republicanism
has apparently won such decisive ivicto
ries—then, perhaps, there will bepo fur
ther use for it as a paiti,- and
we may wisely turn our attention ito the
attractive side-issues of foreign wars; and
annexations, or to' the more domestic
charms of the temperance question, or
that of the rights of women.
But the facts do not yet justify us in
congratulatinz each other upon the com
plete triumph of the Republican cause.
Let us complete Reconstructibo, reform
the civil service, purge the Treasury, and
make a fair start in the payment of the
vast war-debt, before we talk of the
Republican mission as complete.
Fortunately, these is no danger to be
apprehended in the direction of a foreign
policy of annexation or war. In that
quarter, are rocks which would shatter
the:Republican party in an instant and
hopeless wreck. But, whatever madaess
may possess individuals, the wiser court
ids of Republicanism will steer clear of
that palpable * ruin. The real perils to be
feared will •be found in the side issues
which are likely to afflict our politics for
the next two years, with an Egyptian per
tinacity. Here lies the hope of the oppo
sition, and, possibly, temporary disaster
to the great party .which feelsitself strong
enough 'to risk anything, and which
is
strong enough to overcome any opposi
tion outside of its own ranks. \
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Persons who are so situated as to be
Able to form the most reliable judgment
in the premises, estimate that one hundred
'millions of dollars are lost annually to
,the National Treasury through the inco m
:petency and dishonesty of• the fiducial
agents of the Government. This cornpu
' tatiori is, confirmed by such glimpses as
'all citizens get into the ; ; management. of
public affairs. Of conir, this coiielnsion
iligindes the disburseMent as, well as the
collection of the moneys. From one
fifth to one-fourtti of all the legitimate in
come of the, republic is either suffered to
run to waste or else plundered atter ithas
been gathered. No - more cogent proof
can be presented that the Citil Service Is
rotten,And" needs .ovetllauling from top
to bottom. ,
`Now,he confessed that In al
other countries, and Under the most
diverse forms - iof government; incapable
or corrupt men : manage to foist them
selves into, public positions of delicacy aid
responsibility. :If theY are inconipetent,
they fail to , gatherand husband the inter
ests over which- they Eire appointed to
preside; if dishonest, they connive, for
their •own advantage, at base practices
both in levying and collectilug revenue,
and in making contracts involving the
disbursement thereof. `ln many instan
ces collossal fortuned;e realized as re
wards for eminent vices, of which
complaint. annot,rewr i ably . be made,
but o ft ener thronghthe personal faveritism
of a sovereign. Neither or these fOrMs
of expenditure *, known in this coun:
try; thtifigh practice has grown up of
appropriating large sums of money ler
spetitle - p tMieSl -titidOr „419, Vivectation.
or agreement that ' extravagant profits
shall be mideWand the •itainalei divided
' betwee;t: Pilicollo and ,Contractors.
This is •Worse. „UN* 014;siutem or caprice
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PI'rtBBITRGB. GAZETTE: TECOItSDAY; APRIL 29, 1869
losses nrion the Treasury, and producing
a much wider and more fatal demoralize,
tion
It must be considered moreover, that .
private employers, who have nothing to
consult but the necessities of the various
frequeaky find it difficult to ob
tain the grade of help they desire. lien
who have even common aptitudes in any
— craft or pursuit, in combination with even
fair, degrees of administrative capacity,
are apt 'to put their powers into use! ex
elusively for themselves, instead of barely
renting them for wages. Inthiaeotintry,
more than in any other, is this tendency
observable, and for the plain reason that
no barriers of custom are interposed to
prevent each individual from doing the
best he can for himself.
The Civil Service •of the Government
not only encounters this difficulty, but is
subjected, not of necessity so much as
through habit. to another and more bale
ful discomfort. Appointments are largely
controlled by personal or
,political con
siderations. A. President uses his pre
rogatives to reward, by public preferment;
individuals who have , been kind or help
furto him, either in private life or official
career. Heads of Departments are actu
ated by the same influence. Senators and
Representatives, so far as they are poten
tial in controlling appointments, look
largely to compensating the men who
have been of service to them, or may be
of advantage to , them in time to come.
Under such conditions competency and
integrity gradually become of secondary
coniequence. This 641 is seriously ag
gravated by sweeping removals from
office upon the incoming of anew Admin
istration.
Experience counts for much in all pur
suits. Nay, experience is commonly su
perior to genius that has been untrained
in the special business to be managed.
This is abundantly verified in all profes
sions and emploYments. The men • who
are justly - rated as authorities in this or
,that department of thought or physical
activity, are not generally men of unpre
cedented natural gifts; but men of only ,
fair powers who have set themselves reso
lutely and doggedly to the task Of master
ing a particular thing, and gave suc
ceeded.
Experience counts for as much in gov.
ernmental concerns as in any other
branch of hunian affairs; and counts for
as much at the top of government as in
any, of the gradations from the top
down to the bottom. Any man may be
made the nominal head of a Department;
but his appointment will not enable him
to discharge the duties of the place. The
same rule applies inflexibly through all
grades of officials in a Department down
to the ldwest. What no prudent business
man would think of doing in the prose
cution of his affairs, in the way of em
ploYing subordinates, cannot be safely
done in governinentid concerns.
What is imperatively called for by the
exigencies of. the Civil Service, by the
interests, of the, tax-payers, and by the
dignity of those individuals who hold the
keys of power and place, is the adoption
of a totally different system from that
which now obtains. That system ought
to provide , that no one shall enter the
Civil Service by appointment except
after a MI and . strict - examination as to
his qualifications for the special employ
ment, and then that he shall be secure ,
against removal for ordinary political
cause. Such a system, rigidly followed,
would secure competency and integrity
in public business to the same degree that
those qualities are conspicuois in private
affairs. More could not reasonably be
expecte4 and; If expected, hOuld not be
had. 1,
TBE ANTI-PACKER WAR.
The Post of the'27th quoted an Easton
Taper, for its authority for : publishing the
rumor of Judge PACKER'S withdrawal
"from the Democratic canvass for nom-
,
ination." It added: • •
, i4tri Irresponsible telegram printed in
the Postoof yesterday, said to come from
Manch Chunk, denies the declination.
We have before uis undeniable evidence
of Mr. Packer's reluctance to hive his
name used in any struggle for gilberne,
tonal honors, as we have of a few inter
ested and apparently anxious friends Co
keep Mm on the track for what it will
bring. Judge Packer talks about the
matter In a very sensible fashion. He is
now up in years, has aU the money he
wants, never had much politica/ ambition,
and will not under any arcumstances be a
party to any scramble for position. He
would not reject the nomination for Gov
enaor if it came unsolicited and with
unanimity, but would not have it upon
any other condition. In this we are not
mistaken." •
The italics axe•ouls; Ire employ them
to Indicate the animus of. the Post, to
ward the Judge/ On the 28th our neigh.
bor copies the “Irrespoitsible" telerism,
with this explanation: - '
"In his Chambersburg letter he merely
stated ne did not desire the nomination,
he
but if tendered would not feel at lib
erty to decline. As the Post did not orig
inate tho report of the withdrawal of
Mr. Packer, it does not hesitate in, pub
lishing the tibo've ends 'the 'moment it
was brought to our.notico., expres si o n of
was based upon the expression of a Dein.
ocratio journal, and. the nouncement
could have no po/itical m ouee way or
another, as it was susceptible of instant
contradiction."
Thisipology is very humble. The
,de
precatory remark 'Which we I italicize
shows• that our neighbor
. is quite well
aware that his political "roorbacks"don%
amount to much. Had, he also reprinted
the Chambersburg ytter t the,..reparatlort
would have been more complete. The
letter reads thus: - ...•:
MAUCII Canis, January 18,1869.
144 1 104 , tit' Elie' - 12th
Iowa; destring.to luso(' whelheiti I
oretcittliCust! ~ Skty : rsame .
riedlicnif Withthe ftsk 0* Garen •
in the next Democratic and Conservative
State Convention, has been received.
The same inquiry has been made by
numerous other friends from different
sections of the State, to which I have uni
formly replied that I did not desire the
nomination, and in view of all the cares
and responsibilities to be assumed by the
nominee Of the Convention in the event
of a successful canvass, my reply to you
would, if my own views and feelings
were consulted, be of the same tenor.
But there are due from every man, pub
lic as well as private, duties; and if the
Convention, after considering the subject
in all its bearings, should, in its wisdom,
decide to confer the nomination on me,
I will not consider myself at liberty to
decline.
With thanks for the very complimen
tary manner in which your partiality has
induced you to bring this subject to my
attention, I am, gentlemen,
Your friend and obedient servant,
ABA PACKER.
Of cou4e, Judge PACKER' Wants the
ir
nominatio . His guarded phrases of
qualiflcati n are the nsual•thing with all
candidates The Post knows this as well
as we do}} Why then attempt to sneer
down so di then.
attempt
a competitor for
our candidate—Ge.n. Casa?
For the I'lU6bl:wet Gazette.
FILAMINGRAILROaDBMOGIE-SEC
TIONS PROPELLED BY STEAM.
It is about ten years lige that the writer
of these lines, shortly r the Connells
ville railroad was compl ted to its present
eouth-eastern terminus, ii a conversation
with one of the leading coal merchants
and pit owners at McK. sport, suggested
the practicability of aff rding, by a short
railway along the foot o the hills on the'
left bank of the Yougliogheny river, to
the owners of coal mine! on that side, the
means of transporting their coal to market
at all seasons of the"year, without being
dependent on the slack water navigation
of said river. which then already was in a
state of utter dilapidation. 'The means by
which this certainly advantageous object
could be accomplished, was, in the wri-•
ter's mind, besides the construction of
said railway, which could have termina
ted at McKeesport, or at any other con
venient point further up stream, the build
ing of a kind of moveable sectional
bridge, propelled by steam, in the shape
of a ferry boat, with a platform erected on
the deck, high enough to be level with a
platform at the terminus of said railway,
and a platform-of a side track of the Con
nelleville railroad, constructed on the
right bank of the Youghiogheny.
Although the suggestion seemed not
altogether impracticable to the gentleman
who then was also one of the directors of
the Connellsville Railroad, and though he
granted that the project might prove an
important auxiliary or feeding branch to
the Connellsville road, yet considering
the then crippled state of the financial af
fairs of said road, and the great-improoa
billty that it would or could be under
taken by private enterprise, - he thought
there was no prospect for a realization of
the plan. and so we dropped the matter.
And now, after the lapse of ten years,
1 a very similar project has been practically
and successfully carried out on a much
larger scale on the Lake of Constance, the
details of which I take from a German
\ paper, devoted exclusively to news from
Germany and Switzerland.
1 While the most expert civil and mill
i tary engineers of France and England
tax their ingenuity to discover a, means
by which to transport entire railroad
trains, without the irksome, laborious
and time-consuming trouble of unloading
and reloading the cars, either across or
under the British Channel or Straits of
Calais and Dover, from the French to the
English coast, and vice versa, a con
trivance for a similar purpose has bee
constructed on the comparatively s mall,
but-by.five-sovereignties-bordered L e
Of Constance, which has already provqn
not, only perfectly practicable, but also
'entirely reliable. This novel contrivance
is by the republic of Switzerland and
the kingdom of Wirtemburg, jointly
built the so-styled Trajeet•boat, the mission
of which is to connect the termini of the
Wiitembinglan railroad at Friedericks
hafen (Fredericksport) and of the Swiss
northeast line at Romanshorn, in the,
most
expeditions way, so that the transhipping
of passengers' and freight is altogether
avoided.
This Traject-Boat was designed by the
English engineer, Russell Scott, Esq., the
renowned builder of the "Great East
ern." There is not the least doubt, as
Mr. cott remarked In toast at the ini
tiation festivity, that this first Tralect-
Boat will eirnish to the French and Eng
lish a model to traverse the "Pas de
Calais" in a far more simple and ' de.
cidediy cheaper• manner than by a gigan
tic bridge, ever, or , a stupendous tunnel
under. a strait of two p oceans at a cost of al
most uncountable millions. It really
reams now moat singular, to those who
have ;witnessed, the complete success
of the Traject-Boat, that this problem,
apparently so simple, should not have
been solved long ago in this ,plain
manner.
The Traject-Boat has 'a length of two
hundred and forty-five feet, and the aide
wheel boxes; or cases, included, a breadth
of sixty-four feet, ands draught ot but six
feet; on the , deck is erected a platform
thirty, feet high. From this platform,
eighty-five by sixty-four feet, the captain
issues • his orders by means of threespeak
lug tubes to the crew in the engine rooms,
on deck and the steerage quarters. The
boat is supplied with two rudders, one at
either end; which are guided from 'the
platform, to avoid turning; which, how
ever, can be done with ease, as it readily
obeys its rudders. Tnc diameter of the
side wheels measures twenty.five feet and
the breadth ,eiglit feet;- each wheel has
twenty-four paddle boards. The wheels
aro independent of each other and are
each propelled by one hundred horse
power engines, strictly constructed after
the models in the Great Eastern. The
oscillating cylinders have a diameter of
131 feet and a piston stroke of 6 feet.
'lwo double boilers for each engine gen
erate the required steam, and consume
about three tensor coal during each trip.
To regulate the height of the platform
correspondingly with the stage of the
water and the level of the shore plat
forms, there are chambers in the hull of
the boat into which water is pumped to
sink or raise it at one end or the other.
The pumping is done by a eeparate en.
gine, which also works the capstan.
The projecting shore platforms are con
structed. of iron and movable, so that
they,pan likewise be raised or lowered to
secure the , neeesetityleyeleit the track.
,lii,ini*,iteiri;coiteen pi* Ater being
Pilithed. ol o l 4 . Aliffkitklif VC boat by
the' lecianottre on one: **: sidiefter .
Alslobosnolliveihd Wag ire eligtobed,
will be conveyed across the lake a dis
tance of about fourteen English miles, in
a much shorter time than any other
steamer can Make and does make, to the
opposite shore, where a locomotive is in
waiting to take off the train and start
directly ahead on its tour.
What an enormous advantage
ac
tually simple and comparativel this y
cheap
means of traversing a sheet of water with
an entire railroad train,in such an easy,
as well trouble as time-saving, manner
affords, canionly be duly appreciated by
men conversant with the nature of trans
portation. I) . >
Of course; In comparison to similar Tra
ject Boats, which undoubtedly will pass
ere long to and fro on the English Chan
nel between France and Great Britain,
the presentone, plying now on the Lake
of Constance, will appear at last only a
miniature model; but as it is, it seemed
on its first trip on said lake, to the people
along its shores, of a Leviathan size.
One cannot help to hope that this novel
and invaluable mode of transportation of
entire railroad trains across lakes and
rivers will soon be introduced also in our
country, and that it will.supersede in the
end the necessity of building precarious
and obnoxious bridges at enormous costs
to railroad companies over navigable
streams, Whereby not only free naviga
'tion is obstructed, but much bitterscon
tendon caused between interested parties,
as it is now "the case between the B. 0.
B. B. Co. and our shippers.
To secure deep enough channels for
such Trajectboats, or floating , railroad
bridge sections, propelled by steam—as I
have styled them at the head of, this arti
cle by way of circumscription—across
rivers from abutment to abutment, can
certainly not be considered — an insur
mountable obstacle, since we have bagger
machines and many other serviceable
mechanical appliances for the purpose.
And as to the construction of suck 'fru
jectboats and the shore platforms, the
models are now ready at hand, and
American ingenuity will certainly- not
be at a loss successfully to imitate and
even improve them.
Let us all devoutly hope that onr rail
road companies will, in their own inter
est, readily take up the preceding sugges
tions, and thus obviate the obstruction of
free commercial highways. J. F. Z.
Took Poison by Mistake.
MI Telegraph to the rim burgh Gazette.]
CA3IBGIDGE CITY, IND. I April
Judge M. H. Johnson, of
came, to this city this morning on a visit
to his father, who is an old and promi
nent physician. His mother, who is
sick, had in her room a bottle containing
aconite and one'containingl , tincture of
gentian, and, through mistake, the Judge
took a swallow of the aconite for gentian,
which produced death in less than thirty
minutes, in spiie of every effort that.
coakel be used to counteract the poison.
This is a sad Calamity, and has thrown a
deep,gloom over our city. The Judge r is
well known in Indiana; was Judge] of
'the Criminal Court, and was highly re
spected, as an attorney and as a man.
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Kentucky State Fair.
(By Telerrsuh to the Pittsburgh Gazette. j
LOUISVILLE, April 28th.—The Direc
tors of the Kentucky State Agricultural
Society met this morning .and decided
to hold the next annual State Fair on
the grounds of the Jefferson County
Association in this city. commencing
September 13th, and continuing throtigh
the week. There will be offered for con
test a large and fine list of preminins.
The Directors are determined to make it
the most attractive Fair ever held in
KentuCky.
BRIEF' TELEGRAMS.
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—The grand jury at Quebec, Canada,
has fotind a true bill against the boy
Chalmer, for shooting Ensign Whittaker.
—Rufus C. Nash and Chas. H. Squires
two of the most expert counterfeiters in
the country, have escaped from jail at
AlbanY, N. Y.
' —Gilbert Robertson, a jeweler, was
foundi, murdered in his store at • Rye,
N. Y. His skull was crtudied in by a
gun barrel, and he was robbed of , seven
hundred dollars. • -
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—Walbridge C. Field, for three years
bast Assistant United States District At
torneY at Boston, has been appointed to
a corresponding position at Washington
by Attorney General Hoar.
—The dramatic company of the Olym
pic Theatre, of St. Louis, have chartered
a steamer for five months, and will sail
along the Ohio river, exhibiting at differ
ent towns, leaving here May 10th.
-In New York City, on Tuesday, at
No. 55 Amity street, Edward J. Martin,
sonof. the proprietor of the Southern
Hotel, shot and probably mortally
wounded Mettle Brienslow, a married
woman, bearding at the house. '
—The jury in the casepf Henry Bar
lew, in the U. S. District Court at Cov
ington, flailing to agree, were discharged
on - MOndav by Judge Ballard. Burlew
was; charged with making false state
ments as to the amount of tobacco on
hand. •
—About half the town: . of. Helena Mon
tana, was burned Tuesday night. Nine
ty-eght business houses and about forty
residences were destroyed, Losa POO,-
000.1 The homeless Deoßie are encamped
on the hill overlooking the town, and
are in a pitiable state.
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—A girl, named Reilley, aged thirteen
years, residing in Orange, four miles
from New Haven, Conn., while passing
along a road between the two places on
Tuesday evening, was assaulted by a
negro, dragged into • the woods and vio
lated. The villain made his escape.
-;-In the United States District Court,
tat Savannah, Ga., yesterday, in the case
of Win. Honn vs. the James River Insu
rance Company, the defehdants' counsel
demanded the jury should subscribe to
the iron clad oath of the act of June 17th,
102, which was read to the jury, when
efery juror left the box and the trial
fell through• for want of a jury.
-The trial of Joseph Telyea, James
Drury, John liebee, Oliver Decello and
Michael Gallagher, the five policemen
indicted bythe grand jury, some time
mince, on a charge of manslaughter, in
connection with the death " of the late
Jiidge Tyler, commenced in Chicago yes
terday, in the Cecorder's Court. Several
witnesses were examined, but as yet no
important testimony has been given.
—Martha Sprague, white, and
Cornell colored, have been arrested` at
Peekskill, N. Y., charged with murder
ing an infant belonging to the former.'
The woman states Dorman took the child
alive, sewed it up in a bag and carried It
away from her house. The"',body was
fennd in Foundry Pond Monday ein3l:l;.
ing, partly encased in a bag or. sheet.
. —et Watetiown ' N.Y., L.. 13. Pra tty's
cotton mill took fire Tuesday ' nig t, and
was burned do The remnant ,which
the flood left'o wn. f Nltnbalre barley . mills
ace oleo barOod.. H: U. Savo .a pnrhp
mandatory toOk - ; /ItSlanisind Itain, but
MOxtlago*od:wititoutir. 0;
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cardinal Cullen on the Freemasons.
A Dublin letter to the Pall Mall Gazette
says:
"The Roman Catholics are violently agi,
tated by the Cardinal's last unmistakable
condemnation .of Freemasonry. His
mixing up all secret societies together was
believed to have been an error, but the
postscript to the clergy removes all doubt.
A Freemason is ipso facto ' excommuni
cated. Several respectable gentlemen
who have for years been sinning without ,
knowing it, have publicly recanted their
errors 'for the present, or in other
words, have withdrawn their names from.
the lodges to which they belonged; but
the.female portion of Dublin society is
by no'means so'willing to submit to his
Eminence's tyranny, since he expressly
forbids them to attend the forthcoming
Freemasons' ball, when the craft, headed
by. the Dicke of Leinster, who is-grand
master, entertain,/ Prince Arthur at the
Exhibition _building. Women are de
voted to their spiritual advisers and ready
1 to yield implicit obedience in all ordinary
matters, but they do not hesitate now to
express their belief that Dr. Cullen, in
, proscribing -the ball, has exceeded the
1 limits of his spiritual jurisdiction,
and the
• propriety of refusing to obey has been
openly discussed: Nevertheless, it is.
certain that very few, if any, Roman
I I
Catholics will attend, and Protestants
must make up their minds to dance alone
with Protestants."
The Chassepot.
A correspondent of the Nord gives the '
following details of the Chassepot musket:
"Experiments with 'this arm have shown
that the present military manceuvres must
necessarily be changed. The execution
made with it is such that entire battalions
would be swept down as if by a cannon
tide: The men must present the smallest
surface possible. They must be taught
to spread , themselves out as sharpshoot
ers, and to form groops behind trees and •
on advantageous positions. A prolfosal
was made that, when the troops are form
ed in line of battle, they should dig a
trench and throw up the earth befo
them to form a rampart; but for that t
be done the solders must .be armed •
as sappers, and some time wont
be necessary to execute such e'
trenclunents. As a substitute, the men'
knapsacks will be piled before th
first line. In any case the formation ,
squares will be entirely abandoned,
they do not resist the enemy, and
troops on the flanks cannot fire. At, pr •
sent, to resist the heaviest shock of ea
airy, all. that will be necessary is t
lines, the second of which will load
arms of the first. The part to be olay •
by mounted soldiers in battle appears
be so much reduced that three fourths
them might be suppressed, the het
cavalry especially. The only use of
horse will now be to make reeonn .
sauces or pursue fugitives. In the n
campaign a matter of importance will '
for the army to understand the power
the musket and not fall into contusi
before- the .Prussian needle-,gun.
war should necessarily be' a work o
tack and not of defence, as what is want
ed is not so much troops who stand film
as soldiers .who advance. The Zouaves
and native regiments of Algeria *uuld
be of great utility "
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SHOULDER 'BRACES.
The value of these appliances to human health,
and to promote and extend human life, can
scarcely be over estimated. When we contem
plate the vet number of individuals whet have
acquired the habit of'stooping, and look at the
many crooked and Pl.shaped persons, the useful
ness of these appliances are forcibly * u agested to
our minds. And it is not merely to those who
suffer la the deprivation of heal' h . that we speak;
thousands of others who are apparently secure
faits enloyment would be compensated a thou
sand times by the constant wearing one of these •
useful, we might say necessary, artic es of hu
man apparel. The narrow and contracted chest
is as much a subject for proper physiological
training as is the maintaining and keepine the
stomach and other vital organs Ina healthful and ,
proper condition, to duly perform their appro..'
Dilate functions. Every one understands, with- .
out &newspaper admonition, that if a leg or arm •
be broken, an artery severed, or a rupture any
where shows itself, that these are objects worthy
of our deepest care and solicitude. Then why lot,
when you observe the human body becoming
Ineurvated, - the chest contracting Into an '
"lass shape, and the other vital powers striking
to llecay-why not seek out a remedy that
correct these growing evils, which not only con
cern your present ease and comfort. but llkewlie
the future prospect of yourself and those of
your immediate kindred who will one day occupy'
your places In life? The cost In money is a mere ,
trifle. The .remaneration to the health and .
strength can hardly be weighed in the saran bal.
ance. It ought to he remembered that the spinal
column is not only of primary importance to the
physical, but likewise to the meal well being-
The health of the human body is as much rasrpon-
Bible to the position of the organs, and their be
lug in place, as it is to physic and due regulation '
of diet and reginun. We have known persons,
hundreds of them, with narrow and hollow
chests, who scarcely took in air , enough to vital
ize half the blood, speedily restored to health
without an ounce of medicine, so called, DV the
lase of one of the thoulder Braces. -We have'
known others who have enlarged the capacity of
the chest as much as six or seven Inches in eir
ntainference by the same means, and who can
doubt their utility in all caseawhere the tenden-'
cy to consumption or any othet of the diseases of%
the respiratory organs are at Imminent. •
These Braces are-sold and plied at, also all .
nther mechanical applianc stall'. KEYSER'S
NEW MEDICINE ST , NO. 161 LIBERTY
STREET, TWO DOORS nom ST. CLAIR, 1
AND AT HIS CONSULTATION ROOMS,
No: IBOT'ENN STREET, from 10 A. M. until
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AN ASI,OLUTE SAFEGUARD.
Invalids, broken down in health mid spirits by
°brook , Dyspepsta, or suffering from the tent ;
ble exhaustion which follows the attacks of acute 1,1
disease. the testimony of thousandis who have
been raised as by , a mlriele from a similar state
of prostrstion by ROnTETTERIS STOMACH
BITTERS. is Quire guarantee that by the SIMS r;
means you too maybe streigttiened and restxTed.
But to those who stand In peep. of poidemles, to
all who, by reason of exposure, privations and
- uncongenial climate Or unhealthy Pursuits, may
at any moment be etrlesen down, this paragraph
is most Particularty and emphaticaily. address
ed. Ton,.:lxho ere thni situated; ere proffered
an aosolehi safeguard agaimit the danger that
menaces You. Tone and regulate the systemwlth
this harmless medlcinal Stimulant and Alterative
' and you will he forearmed against the maladies
whosaseeds float around you In the air 'unseen.
HOSTETTER% STOMACH BITTE.RB* are not
only a Staudard TonM and Alterative thrbughont
the United States, but lbey are accredited by tbe
certificates of the most distinguished citizens of
the Union, tot the . people of . all other lands. In
Canada, Australia and the*est Indies, they are
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gradwil/y Wan" the piece of otlyir gamut',
lea, whether native 'vibrato, and as surely u
trnillis - .pregreiedre ,and eltationstretioh. thiows
doubt, tbeirldllereetualli illpeuedei every other
Intdpralit and Beilltimstlre • herry employed, in
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