airmail: Gazette.
Tuesday, January 18. 1870.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15th, 1870.
DEAR Gmm :—-In legislation, the week
has witnessed an ardent, even fierce .strug-
gle on the question of thegdmlssron of
Virginia to representation In Congress.
The House finally came to a vote yesterday
and carried admission on What is termed
Bingham’s Amendment“ In the Senate,
Sumner and Trumbull seemed to have lost
patience with each other, and scolded and
berated each other’s positions in herorc
style. The conflict finally became pretty
general all along the Republican limes,
and after a night session last evening, it
was agreed thatavote should bo taken on
Monday P. M. MT Ferry occupied the at-
tention of the Senate about fifteen minutes
in a cogent argument, sustaining the report
of the Judiciary as to admission. The
whole contest, boiled down, seems to come
to a question as to who shall get the offices,
congressional, judicial,'&c., and were there
no pesitions or places to contend for, - this
week’s labbr in Congress with much acri-
monious debate, might have been spared,
and the time and attention of the two
Houses devoted to the business interests of
the country. ' -
Thegay season of Washington life may
be said to have fairly‘set in. Gen. Grant
held his first public levee last Thursday eve-
ning, which was jammed by the elite, the
snobs, the shoddyites, and the high and low
of the nation. A true and genuine demo-
cratic admixture of the diversified elements
of our national society. Speaker Blaine
gave his public reception last evening, and
although the night was stormy~ and the
Senate was in session, his spacious mansion
was the scene of a very delightful assem-
blage.
Considerable speculation is indulgt=d as to _
whether Attorney General Hoar, will be
confirmed for a place on the Supreme Court
Bench. Senators would be gladto get him
out of the Cabinet and it is even hinted that
Grant’s partialityhad the same inspiration,
but it is conceded that on many accounts he
is not fit for a place on the Bench, and,
therefore, Senators will adhere to duty and
reject him should his nominatibn be called
up. We asked of an able Judge, and per-
sonal friend of his, too, with earnestness——
“What was the matter with him ?”—The
reply was characteristic: “ He is a very up-
right man, had amuch abler and an honest
father, but the fact is he has got no sense 1”—
There’s a vast army of just‘ such “able”
men in public life in this country.
Maj. Gen. Wm. T. Clark is here, and in?
dulging in the rapture of house hunting.
The latest advices from Texas indicate that
friend Clark, like the soul of J ohh Brown,
is “still marching on,” and that he now
stands a fair chance of being elected United
States Senator for Texas. Well, its a great
thing to have gone out from N orwalk.
Brandagee, Waller and Ex-Mayor Allen,
were here last week looking afier their Na-
vy Yard interests. Judge MeCurdy and
Prof. Twining are also in town. Mr Wesly
Lyon, of Westport, and Lady, with Miss
Hill of Norwalk, left for home on Friday.
The question of the cost of a Congression-
al funeral has at last attracted attention and
it is ascertained that the death of a member
or Senator costs the public' treasury about
$6,000 a sum entirely too much when we
consider the time consumed in elephantinc
panegyrics. .It may frequently occur that
the nation could..well afford the money, if
a member would die, but the loss of time
and wiud, in pronouncing eulogies, would
in ordinary cases seem to render it prefera-
ble that members should defer their mortal
exodustill the expiration of their terms, or
else make provision for being sepnlchred
at private expense. We "gust“;mnmembu.
of the Connecticut delegation will do other-
wise. '
A good story was told us the to-day of
the New England integrity of Senator Ham-
lin. Tho venerable exLViee President was
importuned by some friends to frank some
of their letters, in order that they might
reach their destination in Maine, free of
cost. The Senator took the letters, affixed
postage stamps upon them all and blandly
returned them to the party. This recalls
the virtuous fidelity of an old New York
& New Haven Railroad conductor, who- in
omitting to collect the fare from the wife of
a Director was rudely called back and forc-
ed to take the money. “I pocketed the
money and the rebuke,” said “Ed.” some
months afterward, “and the money I’ve got
there yet.”
A good story is told of 0111 Judge John-
son, of Ohio, who used to “swap jokes” :1
good deal with President Lincoln. Attorney
Gen. Hoar appealed to him as to which of
two men he should appoint District Judge
of a Western State, saying that in his opin-
ion neither were fit for it. One man was too
old and the young man was a fool, but that
the President had got the matter narrowed
down to the two gentlemen named. The
waggish Judge assured Mr. Hoar that as he
knew them both well, he thought that thev
had arrived at a just estimate ofeach, am}
that he should by all means appoint the old
man, as there was hopes of his dying, but
fools ‘when once in office never seem to die.
The senior claimant {got the place, Judge
Johnson’s argument being deemed conclu-
sive.
The House Committee to inquire into the
recent gold speculations in New York city
of which Gen. Garfield is Chairman, met
this morning and heard the testimony of‘
Messrs. Hodgskin & Bonner, bankers of
New York; Mr. Henry Benedict late Presi-
dent of the Gold Exchange Bank, and Mr.
Stout, late Cashier of the Tonth National
Bank, Flake, Jr., Jay Gould, and Corbin
have been summoned to appear before the
Committee on Monday.
A large and influential public meeting
was held last evening to ensure the holding
of a World’s Fair he're next year. The city
has pledged a half million and the citizens’,
subscription was run up to $800,000 last
night. This would seem to ensure the en-
terprise, as encouragement hasheenaxtend.
gd from many parts of the country. — “'
The Indian Commission continues its ses-'
sions at the Interior Department. The
member from Connecticut, Nathan Bishop,
L. L. D., reported for duty. Contradictory
reports of threatened outbreaks and the
peaceful condition of affairs in Montana
and Wyoming, have been received here.
Govenor Campbell, of Wyoming, has asked
for legislation opening up.the Indian lands
in the northeastern part of Wyoming to
gold prospectors, and that the Shoshone res-
ervation may be curtailed to allow a mining
company to retain possession of a portion
of this reservation, upon which they have
trespassed. _
. Mr. Colyer read his report of his tour in
the Indian territory of New Mexico, Arizo-
na, and Alaska, and recommended that
Congress be petitioned for a code of laws
defining misdemeanors in the Indian coun~
try; to organize a constabulury or border
police, . to be made up chiefly of married
men, who shall serve during good behavior
at fair; pay; and that the Indian agents shall
have magisterial powers to pass sentence. on
and issue orders for the arrest of the guilty.
The Commission have arranged for a meet-
ing with the Committees on Indian Affairs
of both Houses tomorrow morning. The
Secretary of the Interior and Commie sioner
Parker will attend.
. The Pall Mall Gazette having doubmd the
genuineness of the petition of the cob mists
of British Columbia for independence. the.
Mix-Calyer in a note addressed to the Wash:
"381011 18th of the Associated Press, de-
ll" that, M charged, American politicians
had anything to do with’it. '
_ The Commxttee on P5”??? u, he, by a
unanimous vote, agreed to rcport- adversely J
t. .
upon the application for Extension of the
Corlies Steam ,Engine‘Patent. This is a
matter of very great importance to our on-
gine builders. . .
The Postal Cenvention for the revision of
the Postal Laws, adjourned last evening af-
ter recommending sundry modifications of
our Postal laws.
Having disturbed the equanimity of some
of our home produce dealers last week, by
quoting a reduction of prices» at Bridgeport,
we cannot refrain from lacerating their sen-
sitive feelings a little more by giving a few
items from the Washington price current.
For instance, the beef qualities of table but-
ter retail here for 40 cents per lb. Best
.Sirloin and Porterhouse steak, 23@25 cents
per lb; Turkeys 25 cents; while Chickens
of last seasons full growth are plentiful at
$1 per pair; while the best Chesapeake
Oysters are served at your deers for 30 cts.
per quart, and Potomac fish, of several vari-
eties, 8 to 10 cents per pound. We have no
captions complaints to make against our 10-
cal grocerymen. They sell as chcz. as
they can afford to, no doubt. The fault is
not theirs, for the fact is that the New York
market has become the dearest in the known
world. Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington are far below them in the
average in prices for family supplies. The
cost of living in and about New York, has
risen within the last half dozen years be-g
yond that of any other section of the Ameri-
can Continent, not even excepting New 01‘
leans or San Francisco. Why is it t B.
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W The Hartford Courant says it has
“two very decided articles of belief: First,
that this is a republican government. Sec-
ond, that a' republican government cannot
exist Without free schools. We shall stand
by the one just as long as we shall stand by
the other. Our government is based .upon
a free, popular education, and, it is our im-
pression that an attack upon the public
school system strikes very deep into the vi-
tals of the government.” _
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ANNUAL MEETINGS
At the annual meeting of the Stockhold-
ers of the Fairfield County National Bank:
held on Tuesday last, the following gentle-
men were elected Directors for the ensuing
year :
F. St. John Lockwood,
Charles Isaacs,
William K. James,
William S. Lockwood.
Eli B. Bennett,
Asa E. Smith,
Joseph W. Hubbell,
William B. E. Lockwood.
At the First National Bank of South Nor-
walk the following Directors were elected
on Tuesday last:
Dudley P. Ely,
W. S. ~Hanford,
W. H. Ferris,
E. K'. Lockwood,
P. L. Cunningham,
E. A. Woodward,
John H. Knapp,
Stephen Ferris.
At the Bank of Norwalk meeting, held
on Thursday last, Directors were elected
for the year as follows :
Ebenezer Hill,
Stiles Curtis,
‘Fredcrick Beldcn,
. Samuel Lynes,
John A. Weed,
Jonathan Camp,
Samuel Lynes, M. D.
At a subsequent meeting of the Directors,
Eben. Hill Esq, was unanimously re-elected
President. -
~ Other meetings are to be held as follows:
N orwa’lk Steam Freighting Co., J an. 2011).
Nnrwalk Mills, Jan. 24th.
N orwalk Iron Works, Jan. 25111.
Norwalk Lock Co., Jun. 26th.
Danbury &' Norwalk _ Railroad Co., at
Danbury, Jan. 27th.
PHOENIX Hosr: Co.—At the annual meet-
4ns.o£_. thiaComDanLheld._mLJV£dPeSdux .
evening last the following officers were‘élect-
ed for the year ensuing ;—Foreman, Robert
N. Perry; Assistant Foreman, Charles F.
Marvin; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. A.
Kellogg; Executive Committee, George F.
Smith, Allen G. Betts, Hem‘y Persons; Trus-
tees, George F. Smith, Allen G. Betts, Rob-
ert N. Perry.
FIRE—The residence of Mrs. A. F. Tin-
dall, near the head of Main street, was to-
tally dcstroyed‘by fire, on Thursday after-
noon last. The house had been unoccupied
for srveral months, the family being in New
York.‘ That day, however, several ltdies
were in the house removing some articles,
preparatory to offering the house to rent,
but upon'leav ing, at 4 p. m., took as they
supposed, good care of the fires. Soon after
the flames were discovered. The alarm was
not. sounded at the Bridge till too late for
the Fire Department to do' any good. The
Hook dz Ladder Co., however, succeeded in
reaching the ground, but withoutbeing able
to‘ accomplish much towards saving the
property. Phoenix Engine and Hose Co’s
also came out, but owing to the depth of
the mud, weight of the apparatus and scarci-
ty of men, were unable to proceed far. In-
surance $3,000.
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W On Wednesday last we were favored
with a visit from the venerable Mr. and
Mrs. Shahhashabasher, of Darien. They
were elegantly attired in the costumes fash-
ionable in their youthful days, and attracted
much attenjion in, our streets. Long may
they live to show examples to our youth bf
the vanities of fashion.
33‘ Poor Richardson is forgotten and
New York has another sensation scandal.
Last week Rev. Horace Cooke, pastor of a
city Methodist Church, left his wife, his
church, and his earthly prospects and hopes.
of heaven, and absconded with a young
school girl. He was not altogether a villain,
however, for after getting safely away with
his apparently willing victim, he repented
and seems to have had a severe struggle
within himself, for several days, which strug-
gle finally ended in his gaining the mastery
of his passions and pride to a certain degree,
and returning the girl to her parents in New
York unpolluted. They traveled as brother
and sister. The case has created much ex-
' eltemenr IIITIIC"CIty‘aD(l"“WllCTEVEI' tile 'CIIY
papers circulate.
WOur ever good natured friend E. F.
Rile, of “ preserving” fame, will please ac-
cept our thanks for several bottles of his
fine tomato Catsup. We will catchup to
him sometime, if he continues sending us
specimens of the good things he is constant-
ly putting up at his ’Rowayton works.
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WIThe tenth and last of the series of
sermons to Young Men,~will be delivered,
D. V. at Trinity Church, South Norwalk, by
the Rector, on Sunday evening next, Jan.
23d. Subject—“ GROWTH—THE mun LAW
on LIFE.” Service at7 o’clock. Seats free.
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W The Brooklyn Umbra has recently
changed hands, and it is now announced
that Gen. Stewart L. Woodf‘ord will take ed-
itorial charge. Hehas rare abilities for the
position, and if he takes hold with his wont-
ed enthusiasm cannot fail to make the Un-
ion one of the most interesting and influen-
tial papers in the country.
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W The Rev. Z. K. Hawlcy, a Missiona-
Iy of the Connecticut Home Missionary So-
ciety, died at Memphis, Tenn., on the 28th
of December last, aged 63years. He grad-
uated at Yale College, in the class of 1833,
studied theohgy in Yale Theological Semi-
nary, and was settled a few years at South
N orwalk, but spent most of his ministerial
life at the west. ~
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ATTENTION PH(Ele.—.-A special meeting
of importance to all, is called for Tuesday
evening. A full and prompt attendance is
requested. . 17- .. ‘
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Dr. J. P. Thompson’s Lecture.
The Lecture tobe given before the Young
Men’s Christian Association by_ Dr. Thomp-
son of New York, will be one 101‘ those rare
treats combining information with entertain-
ment of a high-order. We advise all who
can attend to secure their seats early, as a
crowd may be expected. The Lecturc'is to
commence a half hour earlier than hereto-
fore, anothcr decided improvement we think.
The lecture must commence at that time so
that the lecturer can return that night in or-
der to be in time for an “interesting event”
to take place the next day'iu which he is
much interested. , ,
The Russians we're such faithful allies o
ours~ during the rebellion and that wonder-
ful nationality so shrouded in historic in-
forests, the lecture cannot fail to be both
exceedingly interesting and profitable.
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The Bank Sale.
The auction of the property owned and
National Bank was held on Saturday last.
The attendance was fair, but the bidding
was not as spirited as we anticipated. The
terms were read substantially as follows :-
No bids u er $12,000 to be entertained;
one third to e paid in cash, one third in
six months, one third in one year; posses-
sion _to be given April 1st. Andrew Sel-
leek," Esq, bid $12,000, and after about half
an hour, the place was knrcked down to
William K. James, Esq, for $12,005. The
lot is 66 feet front by 301 in depth; the
house is in fair condition but will require
considerable outlay to alter over from a
Banking House to a residence or place of
business, still we think Mr. James has pur-
chased it at a decided bargain.
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the Over River School District on Friday
evening, it was voted to build an addition
to the School House capable of accommo-
dating at least two hundred more pupils.
A building committee was appointed with
instructions to report a plan on Friday beve-
ning next. 0
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W The Pioneer boys are exerting them-
selves to make a fine affair of their annual
Ball to be given on the 28th. As this is the
only Ball announced for this season it will
probably be largely attended, especially as
this Company have already given one com-
plimentary entertainment to their friends,
who are boupd in return to purchase tickets.
The Co. is in need of money to fit'up their
room, and as firemen they have. special
claims upon the community. If you can-
not go, at least encourage them by buying a
ticket.
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PERsONAL.’—Mr. Benedict Price has gone
on a business tour to North Carolina.‘I
Mr. Geo. R. Cholwell has gone to Charles-
ton, S. C., to settle the estate of a deceased
relative. He may be absent several months.
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W‘There is a Land Immortal,” is the
title of a new Sacred Song, composed by Mr.
R. S. Frary of Danbury, and published by
J. L. Peters N. Y. Price 30 cents.
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WH. H. Wellman, Main street, sends us
a bottle of “Carter’s Writing and Copying
Ink,” It flows freely, the color is good, and
we consider it equal to any fluid we have
ever used. , '
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FAIR—T110 Fancy Fair at the new Stone
Church on West avenue, will continue open'
during the present week. Now is the time
for persons desiring to witness the interior
of this elegant edifice to view it at their
leisure. A warm welcome willbe extend-
ed to all: -
W Selleck has received Putnam’s Maga-
zine for February. The contents have an
interestinglook.
it??? A meeting of those interested in the
new Trust Comwany' is to be held at the
Insurance Office on Wednesday evening.
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W Dr. Fitch’s School, at Hillside, is to
resume on Monday next.
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mg” Mr. 0. Marvin, at South Norwalk,
has a stock of Flour on hand which he of-
fers to dispose of at vefi low rates. Sec adv.
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@‘c The Steam Freighting Company, or-
ganised last year, has declared a dividend
‘of two,dollars per share.
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WHenry Ward Beecher has written an
article in favor of eating good candy. He
means probably, just such as is made by
Frank Mead & Co. '
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About Pufl'e.
No greater mistake is make by the people
who advertise than the value they set up-
on editorial puffs in the newspapers. What
we mean to say by that is the style of arti-
cles found in‘ the editorial column and
“leaded” as editorial matter, and generally
descriptive of somebod ’s cigars, candy,
cock-tails or cabbages. any people sup-
pose those to be the most valuable adver-
tisements, when in fact they are the very
poorest. The public generally understand
that these para raphs are paid for either in
favors or in cas , and estimate them accord-
ingly. Some people ask the editor for a
puff and “encourage” him properly too,
more for the purpose of reading his extrava-
gant language and witnessing his ingenuity
in the use of expletives than for the profit
they expect to derive. Some are to indo-
lent to write their own advertisements, and
still others resort to a puff in order to et a
dead-head notice. This is all Wrong. ufi‘s
are the most worthless of advertisements.
Some men are willing enough to pa for
printing ink, but they imagine that pa able
straight-out advertiseing is not exactly the
thing. They want‘ to get it done in the
third person, or to have the endorsement of
the editorial “we.” That business man
who soonest educates himself out of this
delusion will have the most greenbecks.
A business man’s advertisement in his own
language, over his signature, and for which
he is plainly responsible, is in the nature of
an oflicial document, and receives more
considerate attention than a puff in the 10-
cal column, and is both more valuable and
- respectable. There is an air about the re-
sponsible advertisement which says, “I want-
to trade, and will give you a good bargain.”
sibility in the matter.
To obtain the full value of rinter’s ink,
advertise. Do it in your own anguage, or
Acyowcannot do that to suit you, get some
one better versed in the matter to help ou.
or come to the office with your ideas written
down, and we will help you to put them in
shape. But by all meansadvertise'. Change
often,~and when your business admits of it,
make different features of it prominent in
their turn ; to day one thing, to-morrow or
next week another, and then something else.
Let your advertisements have'something of
a dash in them, without great exaggeration.
Hundreds of fortunes have been made by
advertising, and yet as an art it is but im-
perfectly understood—New Haven Journal.
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According to the World, at the annual
meeting ,of Plymouth Church, last week,
it was resolved, by a vote of 80' to 25, that
candidates for membership should not here-
'after he requirydIto assent to the Confession
of Faith. Mr. Beecher himself advocated
the resolution with his customary earnest
ness, and said that the former rule, which
excluded Universalist and otherunorthodox
Christains from the church, was unjust, and
shovld be repealed. On Thursday evening
Mr. Beecher’s church voted to raise his
salary to the sum of twenty thousand dol-
lars per annum, while one of his parishion-
ers, Mr. Claflin, proposed to give him twen-
ty—five thousand. .
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LIGHTNING Tamed-The Hartford Post
says that the new and fast express trains to
run between New York and Boston via
Hartford, which have been considerably
talked about for the last year or t'wu, are
said to be a sure thin for next summer,
and will be put on the fincabout the first of
May. Two fine trains, each consisting of' a
baggage and smoking car, two elegant
drawing room cars and two first-class pass-
enger coaches, are now being constructed,
and will be ready for use at the time above
named. They will leave the two great
cities at about thesame hour, ten or eleven
o’clock in the forcnoon, passing each other
near Springfield, and arriving at their des-
tinations in time for the night trains on~ the
roads beyond: The through fare will be
sewn dollars, and the time in making the
trip. seven hours.
recently occupied by the Fairficld County a
OVER RIVER Sermon—At the meeting of .
The puff insinuates that thereis no responL
awncno'rns or am. LINCOLN.
The night that news came - of the explo-
sion of the gButler Powder ship at Fort
Fisher, which was expected to blowthat
fortress of sand out of the water and, all the
rebels in it, into perdition, we went up to
see the President with the view of getting
whatever facts we could for publipation in
the next morning’s <Trilnme.- On: entering
the executive office, Mr. Lincoln swung his
long legs around and over the arm of his
chair, as was his wont, and in response to
the question of “ what of the big powder
explosion?” he quickly responded, “ well,
that experiment has gone up! It is a big
fizzle. It has turned out. like Paddy’s tree-
toad—nothing at all, at all, but a blasted big
noise!"
In answer 19 the query as to whether the
experiment was one of General Butler’s
own ideas, he said, “ no, not 'at all. You
musn’t go to pitching into Butler about
that. Stanton didn’t think much about it at
first, but I thought, it was worth the trial, as
I had read about ten tons of powder explo-
ding in England and knocking a man down
seven miles off, and you know I believe _all I
read in the papers, and so I favored the ex-
periment, and I’m just as much to blame as
Butler for wasting so much powder."
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wont stay put. He'is first pronounced in-
sane, thcn only drunk ; he is declared inno-
cent of defalcation, then guilty, than doubt-
ful. Last week on the authority of the N
Y. Sun and the New Haven papers we got
him out of jail and found another man who
owned up to the crime. This week we are
positively informed by a gentleman who
saw him in jail on Wednesday that he is
still in quad, and that the Sun story was
without any foundation “at all _at all.”
What next ? '
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savings Banks In Massachusetts.
In the month of October, 1867, the amount
of deposits -in the savings institutions of
this State, with the surplus of earnings on
hand, made an aggregate of $83,603, 460, of
which ambunt five-eighth had accumulated
withinthe previous ten years. The next
year the deposits and surplus reached $97,-
408,360, and in October last the whole
amount on deposit was $112,119,016, with a
reserve in addition of $2,682,591. The law
now allows that a.bankinay takp as high
as $1000 from one individual. Governor
Claflin recommends the increase of the
amount of deposits to $5000, andhe also
favors granting these banks the privilege of
discounting mercantile paper. .
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. Senator Fcrry’s idea of discussing treat-
ies in the open Senate is admirable. The'
people should be made aware of the argu-
ments for and against annexation, so as to
be able to form their own judgement and to
exercise their sovereign authority in respect
to such momentous transactions. Under
our free institutions we should not: follow
the secret and tortuous ways of despotisms.
There may be good reasons for secret ses-
sions of the Senate in regard to the confir-
mation of appointments, but certainly none
in respect to the ratification of treaties.—
Sun.
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The New York Tribune, in reference to
the Income tax, gives a few pertinent in-
stances of the manner in which it operates
with peculiar partiality and injustice. It
says :—
“This tax would be unfair if it were cor—
rectly assessed. A farmer in Vermont ,or
Iowa, whose income, honestly computed,.is
two thousand dollars, is in better circum-
stances than the merchant in this‘city, Bos-
ton, New Orleans or San Francisco,‘whose
income is five thousand dollars; yet, after
deducting the one thousand dollars exempted
by law, the farmer is called on for fifty dol-
lars and the merchant for two hundred dol-
lars. The widow and orphans who have
but onc'thousand dollars a year in all, must
hand over fifty dollars of it as as income
tax if their property happens to be invested
in railroad stocks or bonds—no one thou-
sand dollars exemption for them i He who
lives at case on his rent-roll, secure against
reverses, and he who earns an equal sum by
hard work, and whoac death to-morrow
would leave his famity destitute, are required
‘ *“P‘v . . ' . .
comes in satisfaction of this tax—when their
is no parity in their cases. This tax puts a
premium on absenteeism, many investing
their property so that it cannot be reached
by the tax-gather, and living idly .in Eu-
rope on the amount which had they re-
mained at home, they must have contributed
to the support of Government as income
tax.”
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curious Facts about Congress.
From data found in Major Ben Perley
Poore’s valuable Congressional Directory,
recently issued, the following facts are com-
piled. They are of special interest at this
time: .
The average age of senators is not far
from 55; that of representatives not far
from 45.
In the Senate there are five gentlemen be-
low the age of 40. In the House there are
five members under 30. -
The youngest senator is General Spencer,
of Alabama, born November 1, 1838, and
consequently 33 years old. The youngest
representative is the Hon. Clinton L. Cobb,
of North Carolina, born August 25, 1842,
and consequently but little over 27.
The oldest senator isthe Hon. Simon
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, born March 8th,
1799. He is also the oldest in. congressional
seniority, having taken his seat in the Son-
ate in 1845. He has, however, had two long
interruptions in his senatorial career, so
that his whole service amounts to eleven
years. He is the only member of either
House who was born before the commence-
ment of the present century.
The oldest member of the present House
of Representatives in congressional seniori-
ty, is the Hon, Fernando Wood, who took
his seat in .1841, in the Twenty—Seventh
Congress. His age is but 57.
' Mr. Garrett Davis, senator from Kentucky
was earlier inthe House than any present
member of that body, having in 1839 taken
his seat in the Twenty-Sixth Congress; He
is the only member of either house who sat
in Congress more than thirty years since.
Mr. Davis, however, belongs to the present
century, having been born in 1801, two
ryland. In point of long‘continued service
Mr. Sumner is the “ Father of. the Senate,”
‘having served for almost nineteen years
without interruption. He has fiVc years
more to serve on his present term.
The Hon. Robert C. ,Schenck, of Ohio, is
the “ Father of the House.” He entered it
in 1843, having been out from 1851 to 1853,
is now serving his eighth term. ‘
The Hon. Henry L. Dawes, of Massachu-
setts, is serving his seventh continuous
term.
General Banks and the Hon. Horace May-
nard are in their sixth term, not continuous.
The Hons. James Brooks and S. S. Cox,
of New York, and the Hon Nathan F. Dix-
'on, of Rhode Island, are each in their fifth
term. '
Mr. Brooks was the old pioneer Washing-
ton correspondont-and also the first Euro-
pean correspondent for American ' papers.
The youngestsenators are Messrs. Sprague
and Kellogg, 39 years; McDonald, 87 years,
Osborn and Spencer, 33. All “ carpet bag-
gers ” except Governor Sprngue. .
The youngest representatives are Hon.
Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, 31; General J.
S. Witcher, of West Virginia, 80; Hon.
lharles M. Hamilton, of Florida, 29; Hon.
Logm H. Roots, of Arkansas, 28, and Hon.
C. . Cobb, of North Carolina, 27. Messrs.
Hamilton and Roots were members of the
last Congress. ' .
The average length of the congressional
bio raphies is ten lines. The longest is that
of on. Wm. F. Prosser, of Tennessee,
which occupies tw'cnty—six-~ lines, but they
are so crammed with incidents that they
could not be abbreviated. , ,
The hardestworked senator in committee
service is Hon. James W. Patterson, of New
Hampshire,‘ who is chairman of the joint
committee on retrenchment, and is a mem-
ber of three others.
The blondes of the Senate have it all their
own way in the committee on the judiciary.
In the House the most fortunate men on
committees are Hon. John Lynch,- of Maine,
who is chairman of two committees, and
stands second on that of banking and cur-
rency, Hon. Thomas A. Jcnekes, of Rhode
Island, who is chairman of the committee
on patents and runs those of retrenchment
and civrl service. . ‘
~ME‘That Morris Hill is a queer fellow, he .
fivw pos- vous. of-o'smmainmfi‘zo in:
8
months earlier than Senator Viekers, of Ma-'
.- Editorial Correspondence.
IN AND ABOUT CALIFORNIA—SAN FRANCISCO,
‘ TO THE onvsnus.
For three days we were under the batte-
ries at Gettysburg, watched the ebb and
flow of battle at the Wilderness, Chancelors-
ville, and Cold Harbor, but even these hog-
rors inspired no such intensity of nervous
excitement. Whether healthful, wise or
otherwise, it is fearfully fascinating. . A sin-
gular fact, we might mention in the interest
of curative science. One of our company,
a lady three years an invalid from a ner—
vous malady, whom we had expected every
moment for the first five minutes, to see
leap from the stage, experienced greater and
more lasting benefit from that ride, than
from all the medical treatment she had ever
been able to command. Its beneficial effects
were asnnarkcd as is electricity on torpid
muscular action. ,
The question will naturally arise, how is
such a feat of‘ driving as we have described
and not exaggerated pessible, and not' sub-
ject to the charge of suicidal madness. We
will state z—Foss has his coaches made to_
order with running gear extraordinarily
strong. He has a‘brcak so adjusted that he
can allow one hind wheel to turn and the
other to drag, or can stop both upon the in-
stant. This break he operates with his
right foot. His 1101'st are trained as per-
fectly as trick ponies in a circus. He guides
their course entirely by the whip and voice.
At one point, where about three feet of the
outer edge of the road had caved off, we
saw him jump his wheels over the slough.
Had we been going as prudence would seem
to have dictated, we should certainly have
landed five hundred feet below! . Then Foss
is master ofthe situation just as much, and
even more, than is a pilot at his wheel in
passing the rapids of the St. Lawrence.
Foss has a new coach every Spring, selling
his old.one to the farmers in‘ the Fall, and
he never starts out without thoroughly in-
specting evcrv bit of wagon gear and bar-
ness, and he hives as he does simply be-
cause it isn't scpt'e to drive slow! The princi-
ple is akin to that of the expert skater, who
rapidly glides over thin ice because a slow-
ness would render breakage certain. Foss
is a character in his way, and his fame is
now as world-wide as that of Daniel Boone
or Kit Carson. He has never met with an
accident, norhas a passenger ever been in?
jured outhese mountains who stuck to his
coach. He delights to relate his experiences,
and especially with the Congressional Com-
mittee of “Retrenchment” who did the Pa-
cific coast last summer, and whom he drove
down to the Ge years. Among them was
'our friend James Brooks of the Express,
who, it seems, «canted to, yet out‘and walla, as
he wasn’t in any such hurry! Any symp-
toms of timidity are sure to get doubly tor-
tured by Foss, and Congressional Brooks,
went dashing and foaming down in Foss’
stage, with a velocity only surpassed by the
tumbling cataracts about him. Concluding
. his merriment over Brooks’ trepidation and
seemingly forgetting for the moment our
journalistic character, he in a most confiden-
tial tone, remarked in the rather unreveren-
tial dialect of the region “ I do love to start
the hair on these newspaper cusses l” He
had just proved to us the entire sincerity of
his remark, and we accepted it as true with-
out controversy. '
Arriving at the Geyser Hotel, (which is a
very comfortable “ lodge in a vast wilder-
ne'ss,”) we were eagerly. eyed by ,its guests
and the more bold asking for papers and
the news from the outer world. We had
were startled by hearing _our own name
called, (as it had generally ‘been in about
every nook and corner of the globe we had
ever penetrated,) and looked up to greet an
old friend of thirty years agone, J udgo Wil-
kiu of Orange Co. N. Y. He had been so-
journing here for a week, but quietly asstfred
us we could see all there was worth: seeing
. .in two hours and return again the same night
if we wished. This wa's‘a'delight to the la-
dies of our party who were eager to get
back to cottage “ Woodward” at Calistoga
for their night’s rest. Calling Foss to an
immediate consul of two, we notified him of
our intentions. “Leave it all to me then, if
_you are determined upon returning to—day,”
said be. We did so, sending the ladies to
disrobc all surperfluous appendages, sum-
moning the guide, selecting our stavcs, and
started ofi‘ on our foot march fortified only
with a luncheon of sandwiches, crackers,
and the everywhere abundant and luscious
California fruit. Foss was to remain be-
hind, engineer our dinner, havehis team in
readiness and fire a gun when he wished
our return. Those of our readers who have
scaled the Alps, can enter into the spirit of
our departure, although the Geysers are not
the Alps. Indeed they are just the opposite,
for while in the Alps you cannot have on
too much clothing, in the Geyser-s you can-
not have too little. We curiously wind our
wa down a circuitous path about a bun-
dred feet in descent,'whcn we’are safe at the
bottom, where a little rustic bridge crosses
a steaming. sulphur stream perhaps ten feet
broad. Then a winding, boulder-strewn
path‘leads us to a stream of smoking black
water, (the same that we had used at the
Hotel for ink when we registered our party,)
issuing steaming'hot from an orifice in the
mountain’s base in the Geyser Canyon.
But look out, for now you are in a gorge
200 feet in depth, with scalding steam sissing
and spurting out of ten thousand fissures
and crevices like so many fiery serpents,
and if you do not have a care and look
down around you as well as up, your smart-
ing 'shins, may.- like ours, teach you less
eagerness for sight-seeing, and more care as
to where you step. The path beneath you,
the walled sides of rock, scarred and half.
decomposed lava, ere glittering with crys-
taline soda, epsom salts, sulphur, vitriol, and
all sorts of villainous alkalics and com-
pounds. These glistcn with a blinding
beauty to the eye, but are terrible to the
nose, and destruction to the shoes which
0 cover your feet, but passing on around half
molten rocks, stirringup the ashes and Java
of the extinct volcanoes. and ere you know
it you intentthc; ‘
Dnvrn’s KITCHEN—-
. and certlinly a more fitting term could not
be conjecture . On your left, under a shelv-
ing chasm, I} ‘ rs and boils a rocky cauldron,
seven feet at, iss, filled with a black liquid,
composed ( . all sorts of abominable
compounds, if we may judge by the
smell, which, in 1861, almost disappeared,
and nothing but steam was seen; but when
a small stream of cold water was let into it
a tremendous commotion took place, the
ground about it was shaken as by an earth-'
quake, and the water was driven out by the
steam for nearly a hundred feet. This con-
tinued till the cold water was shut ofi‘,.when
the black broth gradually came back, and
the place has maintained its name of Withes’
Cauldron ever since. Hundreds of pufi‘s of.
steam, as if from covered saucepans, rise
but of the ground around you,some boiling
over with alum, sulphur, or Epsom salts,
others-with all three in combination, and
Heaven knows what else—and the whole
sending 'up such 'a quantity of steam as
to almost blind you and take away your
breath withthe suffocating and predomin-
ating odors of a barnyard full of decayed
but freshly broken eggs! Next the guide
halts us‘at the ,
urn warm: srnnsc.
This is a small fountain boiling up white
and clear, with a taste like salcratus water.
Many persons with weak and sore eyes are
said to have received benefit by using this
waier.’ We should think they might, or
rather ought to. -
A nor ALUM-sPnINo, _
lies opposite the Eye Water, and the guide
sinuses you by pouring some cold water jut-
ting out close by its side, into it! The cold
water sets the little boiling rock pat'iuto the
most spiteful convulsions. Forty masculine
cats in a New York back yard, couldn’t spit
like the brooks of these wild mountain sides, '
o
moved about for some minutes, when we
and salsa and sputter as does this angry little
pool. But you must move along, as the
ground is too hot to stand upon :hercabouts.
With nose, and eyes and faces full of Epsom
salts powder, and soda and alkalies of all
sorts, you are glad to halt in front of the
mom's TEA KETTLE.
This is another small basin, perhaps three
feet to its convex bottom, from the centre of
which there is a steam jet an inch in size,
which blows into your face, spatter.s the
scalding water all over you if you thrust
your stick into it, and will lift a stone weigh-
ing two pounds, as many feet into the air, if
thrown in. From this point, and full twenty
feet up a perpendicular steep is the
Dnvrn’s sruanrnoa'r.
the noise from which has nearly deafened
you ever since you entered the cavern and
new in climbing up to see which, you are
in trepidation for fear its thin sides of oozy
rock,which emits steam-like an immense sat-
urated sponge, should give way and engulph
you in the very horror of hell itself. The
close to this horrible place, lest you should
fatally inhale the steam or the thin crust
break like rotten ice beneath your "feet.
There were two distinct sounds or jets of
escaping steam discernahle, the day wewere
present, and its report fully as loud and
much resembling In. high pressure Mississippi
stdamboat ‘ letting off steam. The vapor
rises three hundred feet into the air and the
size of the largest steam jet at its base must
be three feet across. A body of water of
full fifteen feet diameter, boils and bubbles
up and down two or three feet within its
crater-like basin but does not overflow its
sides. It is claimed no earthquakes are ever
felt here. We should think nature had
abundant escape valves here. The view
here though truly awful, is still mingled with
the comical, for the spectator has to keep
constantly dancing and skicing about to
keep his own logs from being scolded off
him. The deafening roar of the “ steam.
boat” and that indescribable sense of the
“. dreadful” inspired by these manifestations
of hidden forces and warring elements, pre-
vent one from indulging in much unseemly
hilarity, however, until after he gets (array.
There is more force and aptness than im-
piety in the Dutchman’s impressions, who,
as the guide tells the story, was hopping
about like a French dancing master, slap:
ping first one leg and then the other, burnt
by the scalding steam, while his senses be-
wildered by the hissing roaring and spurt-
ing on every side, shouted out—“Mine Got!
Mine Got! 11— {sh not one rod from dis
plashco.” ,
A hundred yards beyond, we mount the
ashcd crust, over what must once, and not
very remotely have been the lesser
voncano’s cnarnn.
It is now bedded over with ashes and bits of
lava, and as you instinctively tread lightly
over it, your footsteps give back a hollow
sound, convincing you of the bottomless
abyss underneath you. On one side of the
crateris the “ Scalding Steam Iron Bath,”
over which thc'Indians have erected a rough
frame-work of saplings, which they cover
with boughs of trees, and, sitting inside, got
sufficiently scalded to clean even their skins.
A short distance above these are red, blue
and mineral paints, and a small mountain
of putty, all ready for the glazier.
Just as we emerge to the mountain’s peak,
Foss’ gun is fired announcing dinner, and
if ever dinner meant anything, it did after
this experience in a region that renders stu-
pid and tame the ideals of Dante’s Inferno.
But let us cast about us now on the top of
this'once crested wave of mountain rock.
Far behind us and on each side lie moun-
tains of scoria, ashes and volcanic rocks,
scarred with fire, stained with iron, or in-
crusted with various salts, with here and
there a field ef sulphur, superheated in the
earth, and appearing in little thimblclshaped
forms of the loveliest bright yellow crystals.
On both sides of Pluiy canon lie smaller
ones, lik huge gushes in the hills, sending
up jets of steam, or streams of hot and cold
water down to Pluto creek, which runs at
right angles to like Geyser or Pluto canon,
and receives various other contributions
along its banks, from springs, hot and cold,
of alum, sulphur, soda, iron, etc. On the op-
posite side of the creek stands the hotel,
nestled at the foot of a precipitous hill, the
front shaded by fine oaks, a lofty redwood
standing sentinel over all. Overhead, the
deep blue skies of Italy; around, oaks and
pines tower aloft, while alders, willows and
laurcls wave and droop in every posture of
wild gracefulness. The rush of the creek
comes softened to the ear, the roar of the
steamboat is not now so terrifying, but be-
tween us and our dinner is that infernal sul-
phur brook, its smell of spoiled eggs, and
there is steam sulphur bath, the steam pour-
ing up through the loose boards of the fluor
in suffocating abundance. A mile away, is
is the
INDIAN SPRING
which, like the others we have been describ-
ing, only “more so.” Believing that “dis-
tance lends cnchantment to the view,” we
preferred our noses should not particip'ate
further in these s'ulphurics pleasure; so we
give that spring altogether on hearsay, add-
ing that after “ doing” the Geysers and the
Geysersdoing us, we are prepared ,to credit
any contradiction however absurd. A boil-
ing stream of iron and sulphur-water issues
, from the mountain, clear as crystal, but im-
mediately turns almost black on. coming to
the open air, and falls into a large artificial
pool, roughly enclosed, where the bothers
enter, and afterwards wash in a large tub of
clear water, apparently coming from the
same source. Altogether this is a place of
utter contradictions, and as for understand-
ing it, nobody has ever pretended to that !
Holding our olfactories with a firm grip,
we make the best time possible back to the
true to us! He has killed and helped the
cooks dress the quails and chickens, while
the hotel hunter has brought in a deer, and
a savory roast saddle steams on the table for
our select dinner party. Over all, and more
tempting than all, the grapes, melons, pears,
and other delicious fruit; (which makes all
California. the Paradise of fruit lovers,) chal-
lenge us to combat. Was there ever such a
dinner? Were there ever such appetites?
Was there ever such a test of capacities!
Dinner over, our stage awaited us, and
back over the mountains we sped, reaching
Calistoga, while yet the sapphire and gold
and amber streaked the orient, and full
orde Venus shone out like a full moon, on
the eastern horizon. A supper of broiled
quails and ever present and ever welcome
fruits, a hasty runoovcr of the day’s Frisco
papers and we retired again to our cottage
couch to dream of Dante, Milton, Don
Quixote and John Bunyan, and when morn-
ing came, we scarce could tell which seemed
most the vagaries of a tired brain, what we
had dreamed, or what we had seen B.
A TRUE Parkman—A correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun says that under date of
January 9, the Commissioner of Pensions
received a letter from Daniel K. Wild, liv-
ing at Abbott village, Maine, who was
formerly a private in Company K, 84th-
Pcnnsylvania volunteers. The letter states
that the writer had regained his health, and
can get aloug without his pension. He
therefore requests that his name be stricken
from the pension rolls. Such asingular re-
quest attracted a good deal of attention in
the bureau, and to-day Commissioner Van
Acrnam addressed Wild a letter, informing
him his request had been granted, and con-
tinues: “ Living in an age when the honest
impulses ot the great mass of the people are
blunted by an overweeniug desire for gain,
this request, with your services as a soldier
in the field, shows that you are alike honor—
able and patriotic, and your name should
go down to history as a worthy example for
the coming generation. Permit me to thank
you for your noble letter.”
The Chinese bishop is the only one in the
(Ecumenical Council who has a quc to
what is to be done. ~
guide will not permit you to venture too'
Hotel. Here again, we find Foss has been-
BBAL ESTATE RECORD.
S. Meeker to Michael Rosco, of Wilton,
and Slyvester S. Brown, of Lewiston. N. Y.,
three acres of Land. Price $1,000.
The same to M. Rusco and wife, of Wil-
ton, one lot—09 feet front. Price $300.
The same to S. S. Brown and wife, of
Lewiston, N. Y., one lot—09 feet front.
Price $700. ' ,
G. W. Knapp, of :Bridgeport, to Wm.
Reed, two acres of land at Toilsome. Price
$40.
J. 11. Smith to S. Waters, one lot—~80x175
at South Norwalk. Price $800.
“V‘asflm
L33.“ Maj. Gen. Joseph A. Mower died in
New Orleans on the 61h inst, of congestion
of the lungs. The General was a native of
Connecticut, and served throughout the late
war with distinction, and was often called
by his comrades “ Fighting Joe.” Gen.
Sherman in officially announcing his death
says:
_“ When he was called personally to the.
aid of .the General at Atlanta, he accompa-
nied him, rising throguh all the grades un-
til the end of the war, when he command-
ed thc Twentieth Corps. A better soldier
or a braver man never lived than Joseph A.
Mower, and the General can recall many in-
stances when he displayed abilities of the
highest order, entitling him to the full name
and fame of a General. Since the war he
has exhibited his ‘soldierly qualities by
standing at his post through pestilence and
sickness, never asking apersonal favor and
always sharing the exposures of his men,
The General, in thus speaking of one to
whom he was so strongly attached, feels
certain that this, and more too, is due to one
who never spoke of himself, and seemed ob-
livious of all things except to serve his
couugry with his whole heart and his whole
sou .’
-————o—<Q
Tun ASSAULT ON THE PUBLIC Sermons.—
But what do these assailants of our Institu-
tions propose to put in place of the present
system of public schools ? One of their or-
gans, and one of the most explicit and out-
spoken, the Tablcz‘, says:
“ It (the government) must leave the whole
question of education, as it does religion, to
the voluntary principle, or it; must divide
the schools, as is done in most European na-
tions, into two classes, the one for Catholics
and the other for Protestants, with the edu-
cation in each under the supervision and
conlt’rri of its respective religious author-
ity. _
The absurdity of the latter of these alter-
native; we may take occasion to point out
hereafter. But suppose thit either of these
plans were adopted, what would be the con-
sequence? Wc should have established at
once among us a division of society into
classes, trained to look upon each other with
mutual dislike, perhaps with hatred. The
Catholic schoo!s, if conducted in strict obe-
dience to the Syllabus of the Pope, would
be schools of the most intense bigotry. The
Catholic boy would be brought up to regard
the boy who wasnot a Catholic with the
same holy horror with which a Protestant
was a few years since regarded in Spain, as
having no pretensions to the name of Christ-
ian, according to the eighteenth article of
the Pope’s Syllabus ; as born out of wedlock,
according to the. seventy-third article; he
would be taught to believe that Church and
State ought to be united, according to the
fifty-fifth article; that tolerations of other
religious persuasions is a sin, according to
the seventy-ninth article; that the Church
has the right; to apply force, in other words,-
to persecute even to the death, according to
the twenty-fourth article; that the ecclesias-
tical law, or the Church ‘ canons, should
override the civil law of the country, und
other doctrines scarcely less abhorrent to
minds imbued with the love of civil and re-
ligious liberty. What must be the result of
such a system, which aims to train up a Re-
man Catholic caste in the country, influenc-
ing all their political action by the priesthood
which has" formed their opinions, and ready
at any moment, when they can obtain the
majority, to destroy not only religious but
civil liberty, which must sink together into
the same grave—N. Y. Post. .
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NEWS ITEMS.
_ Plymouth Church will hereafter pay Mr.
Beecher $20,000 a year.
—The New York Herald says the clergy
cost the United States $12,000,000 per an-
num; the criminals $40,000,000; the law-
yers $70,000,000, and rum $600,000,000.
—When peace returns to Cuba the plant-
ers will begin to raise cane.
— A Rhode Island preacher proclaims
than any man who uses tobacco cannot be
saved. -
—In the single county including Chicago,
no less than 723 divorce suits were brought
during the year 1869, and such was the
speed of “ justice,” which, when divorces
are at stake, loses its title of slow-footed,
that no less than 500 decrees (or two out of
every three cases) were secured.
—Miss Ida Babb, of Lawrence, Mass,
cleaned a pair of kid gloves by means of
washing them in benzine—puttmg them on
and dipping her hands in the treacherous
liquid, as many people wash their hands—
and exposing them to a stove, the benzine
took fire and the gloves were burnt, and not
only the gloves, but the hands of the girl
were almostruincd before the gloves could
be torn off.
—Penr festivals are fashionable in Bos-
ton. They call them weddings here.
The Stanton fund in the various cities,
has reached an aggregate of $100,000.
A Schenectady Justice of the peace deci-
ded thata '.‘ verbal contract was not good
without a stamp.”
—Thc'y accuse an over-ofiicious assessor
of internal revenue out West, of spending
three days in hunting up a bear that he
heard was bruin in the woods.
——The ommittee on Ways and Means
have ref 'd, by two against six, to make
bituminous coal free. They rejected the
motion for 50. cents per ton, by a vote of
three against five. The proposition for one
dollar per ton, was lost by a tie vote. Coal,
therefore remains as now.
—The Inquirer (f: Mirror, of Naniuckct‘
in noticing the recent decease of Capt. Geo.
Pollard, recalls the fact that he was the com-
mander of the ill-fated ship Essex, which
nearly a half a century ago, was destroyed
by a sperm whale in the‘Pacific ocean. The
crew escaped in op boats, and. Capt. Pol.
lard .’th one other of the crew In his boat,
was picked up 95 days afterward by a Nan-
t cketship. For 40 years Capt. P. has re-
srded constantly at Nantucket, and leaves a
record of a well spent life. ~ ‘
_Thcro are four cluu'chcs in Litchfieltl,
and neither has a resident minister. ‘
—-'I‘hc “ Cook County Medical Society”
has just made this significant announce-
ment; “ Hereafter none of us shall be atlib-
erty to take cases in the care of another
physician, until hrs rcceiptcd bz‘llz's produced,
or his consent is given to the arrangement.”
Grace Greenwood deserves to be a Yan-
kcc. She says: “ Among its other admira-
ble manufactures, New England produces
the best educated girls, the truest wives, the
noblest mothers, and the most glorious old
maids in the world."
The vital statistics of Brookfield for 1860
foot up 21 births, 11. marriages, and 21
deaths. The deaths were mostly of old peo-
ple, there being four between the ages of 80
and 90 years, six between 70 and 80, two
between 50 and 60.
The whale killed off Amagansette, Long
Island, Friday, will make about twenty-five
barrels of oil. He was fastened to by Capt.
G. Edwards, and killed by Capt. Joshua Ed-
wards, and landed at Napcague Beach, near
Montauk. They have at several points on
the Long Island coast regular whaling
crews,and a watch is kept for'the appear-
ance of whales. This is the first whale
caught this season.
The propeller Parthcnia, Capt. J. W. Try-
on, blew out one of her fines oil‘ Madison
harbor, while bound from New York to Say-
brook, on Thursday, and the engineers,_
John Dibble and Allen Tryon, were so bad-
ly scalded that they died a few hours after.
Seven persons were on the vessel at the
time of the accident, but only those named
were hurt. The sloop, New World, of Mad-
ison, being near tho disabled steamer, took
off the captain and ciew and also the injur-
ed men. Tryou, when the explosion took
place, was asleep.
——Harriett Beecher Stowe and family left
Hartford, On Tuesday, for Florida.
——The Knights Tcmplars of the State talk
of holding a grand festival in Meridcn.
—-There were sixty-one failures in Con-
necticut last year, with liabilities of $1,048,-
000.
-—The Connecticut Temperance. Union
will hold its annual meeting in Hartford on
Wednesday. _
—Capt Wm. P. Williams, the originator
of the Neptune line of steamers, died at
Stamford, on Thursday, at the age of 40.
—A Frenchman, it is said, has invented 3
Sort of paper annihilator, which is gradual
in its operation. A man disposed to be dis-
honest may givo a promissory note, _havrng
previously dipped it in this preparation, and
in one month’s time the holder of the note
will have nothing to show but a little been
of dust. The general introduction of such
an article would go far to do away With the
long credit system.
ROWAYTON. '
The people of Rowayton owe a debt of
gratitude,'as .well as a pecuniary reward to
Mr. Walter Hanbury for his extraordinary
efforts and good management in rescuing a
very interesting and intelligent little boy
about seven years of age, named George
Fink, from drowning. Georgie was crossing
the pond, knovflt as the Walmsley Pond,
when the ice broke near the center. His
cries were heard by Mrs. Stephen Walmslcy,
who, with great presence of mind,ran for
the nearest neighbor, Mr. Walter Hanbury.
who, without hesitation waded to his neck
in the water and broken ice, and with along
pole, tried to extricate the child, but could
not. The ice continued to give away as the
little fellow clung to it for life. Mr. Han-
bury returned from the pond and broke
down a board fence, and used the boards,
and by perseverance succeeded in the rescue.
The boy was more dead than alive when
taken out; his clothing had to be cut from
his body, be having been nearly a half hour
in his struggle for life in the ice. Mr. Han;
bury, though a powerful man, had great dif-
ficulty in extricating himself, as the bottom
of the pond is deep mire. Georgie has man-
ifested his gratitude to Mr. Hanbury, and
his parents have offered him presents, but
he says he only did his duty, and refused
them. His bravery will be appreciated.
Coax.
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WP. Mead d: Co., Gazette Building,con-
tiuuc to supply the public with good
Oysters, Coffee, Tea, Pastry, Confectionery,
etc., at their Saloon. It is just the place to
take a lady friend for a lunch.
.e
WHenry Ward Beecher declines the ad-
vance made by his church in his salary,
from $12,500 to $20,000.
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GONE AND DONE IT.
BALDWIN, the w orld-renowned Clothier,
He has started a newspaper of his own to
advertise his inimitable clothing, and his
marvelous low prices.‘ We are glad of it,
for he will appreciate now more than ever,
what the press of the land has done for him,
as well as for them. Editors dare to“ no-
tice ” a right down good fellow and one who
does all he promises in his advertisements.
We presume Baldwin sells more ready made
clothing to N orwalk people alone, than any
single store does in town. His prices are
marvelouslly low, We can’t understand or
explain why or how it is so, but so it is.
We once bought a summer broadcloth dust-
er for ten dollars that we couldn‘t get dupli-
cated at home for less than $23—this we
know, for we'tried it. Now we have a word
to say to all in quest of clothing. Never
patronize a man who is too illiberal to ad-
vertise, and if you will go to New York,
don’t fail to go to Baldwin’s. -
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Consumption.
The Three Remedies, " SCHENCK’S PULMONIC
SYRUP,” for the cure of Coughs,‘Colds, Bronchitis
and every form of Consumption. The peculiar ac-
tion of this medicine ripen: the ulcers in the lungs,
promotes the discharge of the corrupt matter by ex-
pectoration, purifies the blood, and thus cures Con-
sumption, w en every other remedy fails.
“SCHENCK’S SEA-WEED TONIC.” for the cure
ony epsia or Indigestion, and all diseases arising
from ility. This tonic invigorates the digestive
organs, supplies the place of the gastric juice when
that is deficient, and then enables the patient to digest
the most nutritious food. It. is a styereign remedy
for all cases of indigestion.
“ SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS." one of the
most valuable medicines ever discovered, being a ve-
getable substitute for calome and having all the
useful properties‘ascrlbcd to‘ that mineral, without
producing any of Its injurious effects.
To these three remedies Dr. J. H. Schenck ofPhila-
del hia‘, owes his unrivalled success in the treatment
of monie Consumption. The Pulmonic Syrup
ripens the morbid matter, discharges it, and purifies
the blood. The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver,
remove all obstructions therefrom, give the organ a
healthy tone, and cure Liver Complaint, which is one
of the mostprominent causes of Consum tion. The
Seaweed Tonic invigorates the powers oft e stomach,
andbyestrenvtnnin the digestion and brinolng It to
a normal andhealt y condition improves the quality
of the blood. by which means the formation of ulcers
or tubercles in the‘ lungs becomes impossible. ’.lhe
combined action of these medicines, as thus explain-
ed, will cure every case of Consumption, If the reme-
dies arc used in time, and the use of them Is perse-
vered in sufficiently to bring the case to a favorable
lamination. - .
Dr. Schcnck’s Almanac, containing a full treatise
on the various forms of disease, his mode of treat-
ment, and general directions how to use his medl-
cines, can be had gratis or sent by mail by addressing
his Principal Office, No. 15 North Sixth street, Phila-
delphia, Pa. ‘ _ _
Price ofthe Pulmonic Syrup and Sea-W ecd Tonic,
each, $1.50 per bottle, or $7.50 the half dozen; Man-
drake Pills, 25 cents per box. For sale by all drug—
gists and dealers. .-
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Best Thing for Contiveness.
DR. HARRISON’S PERISTALTIC LOZENGES
are warranted in all cases of Piles and falling of
the Rectum, Dyspepsia, such as oppression after eat-
ing, Sour Stomach, Spitting of Food, also Headache,
Dizziness, Pain in‘the Back and Lotus, Sick Headach
Coated Tongue and Biliousness. For sale at No. 1
Tremont Temple, Boston, by E. A. HARRISON &
00., proprietors, II. M. & C. S. PROWITT, and by
all Drnggists. Mailed for on cents. . -
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Dr. S S. Fitch’s Family Physician,
New Edition. Much enlarged, 90 pages, with 11105
valuable additions, sent free to any address. Write
to Dr. S. S. FITCH,-25 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Dr. S. S. FITCH will be at. the Tontine Hotel, New
Haven, Saturday, Jan. 23d, 1869, and every 2d Satur-
day after, from S a. m. tol p. m. Consultation free.
Dr. S. S. FITCH successfully treats all chronic dis-
ease 01‘ all or any part of the human system.
CONSUMPTION AND CANCER CURED. .
\VALTIIAJI’, Mass... Nov. 12, 1868.
My grandmother and several aunts and cousins
died of consumption. My mother had a cancer; I was
taken with a bad cough which had afi‘ected me 18
months; 12 months after my cough commenced, can-
cers began in both breasts, which rcw rapidly for
six months, hard cancerous lumps both breasts.
In this state I called on you with but little hope, as
breast. Consumption and cancer seemed to struggle
which would destroy me first” I had suffered much
from dyspepsia. Your remedies, with the concentra-
ted cancer mineral spring water have wholly cured
me. - I have been perfectly well for two months; no
cough or expectoration; no swelling in my breasts;
no dyspepsia; no pain or suffering. . Everywhere I
am strong and able to perform all my duties. I took
medicines four months. '
Thankfully yours.
(Si~ ed) SApAnJ. Ennnson.
All (1 senses successfully treated bylctter.
' Os—o———.
ACough, Cold, or Sore Throat,
HEW/V" Requires immediate attention, as
Q’ mid
0
RON .3.
neglectoftcn results in an incurable
Lung Disease.
.
.24. “a, Brown’sBronchIalTroches
‘00, _ . . . . . .
wrll most Invariably give Instant re-
lief. For Bnoxcm-rrs, Asa-nus, CATAEBII, Consump-
E'IV: and Tunes-r DISEASES, they have a soothing ef-
cc '
SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS use them to
clear and strengthenithe voice.
Owiugmtne good reputation and popularity of the
Troches, many worthless and cheap imitations are of-
fitftela-eél which are good for nothing, Be sure to obtain
e rue .
BROWN’S BRoNcnIAL Tnocnns.
- SOLD Evnnvwnnxn. 0m46
-—.—¢ 0 >—.————-'-
TRADE MARK. '
Jaisiwin
LA RUE’S ALABASTER CREAM.
Its success is complete, and it justly bears the name of
The M nificcnt Cosmetic 2
One trial is so clent to show that while it is a .
Great Beautlfier of the Complemon.
It can ho used It op. the face with perfect confidence.
It wall not figure the Most Delicate Skin !
It. does not lose its luster by perspiration; it can
be removed gnly by washing; its presence on the
face cannot b detected. It: has often been tested in
comparison wish other cosmetics, and IN EVERY
CASE, WITHOUT A SINGLE EXCEPTION, THE
LADIES PRONOUN CE IT “THE BEST.”
THE I—IOUSICHOLD PET !
Is put II In the most beautiful bottles in the world.
No fumi y should be without it. A new candidate for
public favor. The only coloress and scentless liquid
ever Invented that WI 1 remove Paint. Grease, Tar,
Pitch, &c., from all kinds ofcloth without injuring
the fabric, or starting the color of the most delicate
goods, Prepared only by A. S. Flint. Ask your
rlfimist or grocers to show you a bottle. For sale
by IfiIDrnggists and Grocers. J. S. POMEROY, Gen-
eral Agent. Hartford, Conn. H. M. Jr C. S. PROW-
ITT, Wholesale Agent for Norwalk. 1y37
Mimi—FERRET).
In Brooklyn, E. 1)., Jan. 12, at the residflicc of the
bride’s father, by the Rev. J. Clement French, Virgil
P. Phelps, of Albion, N. Y., to Nellie E., eldest
daughter of Charles Waterman, Esq., formerly of
Norwalk.
In Stamford, Jan. 18th by Rev. Dr. Lsthrop, Mr.
Daniel Gardner, of New York, to Miss Mary Miller,
of Stamford.
In this place, J an. 10, Mrs. Elizabeth Rages, aged
2‘2. years. Jan. 11, Thomas I’eudar, aged 2 years and
2 months. .
In Ridgetlcld, Jan. 14, Annie m., wife of Bradley
'1‘. Weed, and daughter of Rufus and Eliza Kceler.
In Stamford, Jan. 11th, Charles H. Gaylor, aged 26
. are 11 months.
veln Bridgeport, J an. 10, Levi Wordln aged 69 years.
Jan. 12, Miss Jennie A. Wood, eldest daughter of Le-
yi s,i‘ood, :1 ed 24 years.
In Grecnw ch, Jan. 13, Mrs. Thomas Moriaty, in
the 61th year of his age. -
In Danbnry. J an. 11th. Violette, wife of Charles
Chapman, aged 44 years. '
In Merrimack, Wis.. Dec. 28, Thomas Sealey, for-
merly of Easton, aged 78 years. .
In Brooklyn, N. Y.. Jan. 12, Frederick Lacey, aged
52 years. Formerly of Stratford.
3
Religious Meetings. '
AT Ely’s Hall, South Norwalk, every Sunday,
' at 10,95 o’clock a. m., and fix and 7o’cloek
. m. Preaching by Elder John 1!. Dennis. Seats
rec. tf'52
IOOL will be resumed at HILLSIDE, on
CI
S MONDAY, JAN. 24m. - ,
2:3 . Inflammation!-
“ has been and gone and got and done it.” A
both mylungs were afl'ected, and a cancer in each.
- lished in a newspaper printed
Nor-walk Steam Freightlng Co.,
Sou-m Nonwsnx, Jan. 14, 1870.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders of this
Company will be held at the office of Thomas
1. Re end, on Thursday, the son: do of January,
1870, tween the hours of 7 and 8 o’e ock, p. m., to
elect Directors for the ensni
n ear. 0
CHARLES B. HIRE, Sec’y, pro tem.
Notice.
Noawxnx Mule, Wimunx, Jan. 10, 1870.
HE annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Norwalk Mills forthe election of Directors and
the transaction of other business, will be held In
their office in Winnipauk, on Monday. Jan. 24, 1810,
at 2 o’clock, p. In. E. C. BISSELL,
Secretary.
NOBWAI: . NEON WORKS.
Son-m No . x, Conn., Jan. 6th, 1870..
TimAnnual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
- Company, for the election of Directors for the
ensuing year and for such other business as may be
brought before It, willbe held at the ofllce of the
Com any on Tuesday the 25th of January, 1870, at
2 o’c oek P. M.
at! . E. J. HILL, Secretary.
NORWALK LOCK COMPANY.
Scum Nonwamr, J anusry 4th, 1870.
HE Annual Stockholders’ Meeting of the Nor-
walk Lock Company, for the election of Direct-
ors for the year ensuing, will he held at their office,
on Wednesday, January 26th at. 2 o’clock P. If.
m n. 131mm, Secretary.
Notice.
of the Stockholders of THE
HE annual meetin
5RWALK RAILROAD COM-
DANBURY & N
Danbury, on Thursday, the 27th inst, at 11 o’clock
a. III. II. WILLIAMS, Sec.
Denbnry, Jan. 17, 1870. ' 2t3
mvsn’mvn.
NORWALK STEAM FREIGHTING 00.,}
Soon Noawaur. Jan. 14, 1870.
T a meeting of the Board of Directors, held this
day, a dividend of. two dollars was declared on
each share, payable in etoek on and after Feb. 10,
1870. ~ CHARLES D. DAKE, Sec. pro tem.
NORWALK TRUST COMPANY.
Incorporated for Bunklugrurposoe.
SUBSCRIBERS.and all persons desiring to become
such, are respectfully Invited to meet at the office
of the Norwalk neuranee Company, on Wednesday
Evening. Jan. 19, at 7% o’clock.
By order of the Commissioners.
Scorn Nonwasx, Coma, Jan. 11. 1870.
'1‘ the annual election for Directors of this Ban
held this day, at the Banking
lowing gentlemen were duly electe
ensuing lyear vIz.:
Dudley . Ely
First National Bank or no. Nam-1k?
1
House, the fol-
Directors for the
P. L. Cunningham,
W. S. Haufor , E. A. Woodward,
Wm. B. Ferris, - John II. Knapp,
E. K. Lockwood, Stephen Ferris,
J. J. Millard.
At a meeting of the Directors held the same day,
Dudley P. Ely was unanimously re-elected President,
and Winfield S. Hanford unanimously re-electod Vice
President. J. J. MlLLARD, Cashier.
wishing to secure valuable Paintin s can do so
by calling at the rest es of WM. 8. ALL, oppo-
site Prentiss’ Ilat Form gFactory,So. Norwalk.;xt'z
Fore SALE.
QUANTITY of stone on Mrs. M. G. RIDER'S
A
A ly at her residence.
orwalk, Jan. 1'1, 1870. at!
Notice.
ALL persons having in their possession any old
_ records, books, papers, or documents belonz-
Ing to the Borough of Norwalk, will confer a favor
upon the subscriber by h din them to him.
THEODORE S ARI. S, Borough Clerk.
Kcrwslk, J en.“ 11, 1870. 112
v. M. C.A.—SECOND COURSE.
‘ The noted Divine and lecturer
DR. J. P. THOMPSON,
will lecture
AT LOCKWOOD’S HALL,
Wednesday Evening, Jan. 1911!,
At 7}; o’clock.
Subject: “A VISIT T0 Moscow.”
With Sketches of Russian Life.
Admission 50 Cents. Course Tickets, three lectures
only One Dollar. Holders of Course Tickets can ob-
tain Reserved Seats,wlthont extra char e. at Selleck’s
Bookstore, on Monday mornin J an. 1 . Sections of
Seats for South Norwalk be found at Pnrdy’s
store on Monday'morning. Holders of single tickets:
can obtain Reserved Seats on day of Lecture only.
The Ball of the Season.
Pioneer Hook {filter Co. No. I,
WILL HOLD THEIR NINTH
Anniversary Ball,
AT LOCKWOODS HALL,
FRIDAY EVENING, Jill. 28th, "Ill.
TICKETS, $2.00, ADMITTING GENT
AND LADIES,
To be had of any member of the Company.
AUCTION SALE,
Wednesday, lei I9th, I810.
LINDEN LODGE, third house south of Noroton Sta-
tion, Conn.
Household Furniture, Bedding,
Farming Utensils,
Live Stock,
Frame Dwelling House.
Sale of Furniture wiil begin at 10 o’clock a. m At
11 o’clock, precisely, the sale of blooded and fine
grade stock will begin, and will Include the celebrat-
ed-prize Ayrshire Bull
“ LAWRENCE DREW.”
. Price before sale, $1,009. _
PURE AYRSHIRE BULL,
“ LOCHIN VAR.”
Price before sale, $300. ‘ Pedigrees warranted.
Trains going west stop‘ at Noroton at 9.86 a. m.,
and 3.56 p. In. Trains going east stop at Noroton st
10. 47 a. m., 1.20 and 6.01 p. In. Catalogues can be
obtained by mail, or otherwise, three days before sale
of M. E. MEAD, Darien Depot, Ct., or of the Auc-
tioneer, JAMES FINNEY, Norwalk, Ct. 312
' FOR SALE.
DDUBLE EXTRA FAMILY Flflllli.
Made in Indiana. from last winter’s wheat, at
$7 50 per bbl-s
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
C. MARVIN, South Norwalk,
Four doors cast of the Bank. 1t'3
EDWARD r. wnnn,
' Druggist,
Wall Street, opp. Norwalk Hall.
A large and well selected stock of
PERFUMERY, PATENT MEDICINES, all
kinds, MINERAL WATERS, TOILET and
MEDICATED SOAPS, FLAVORING and
IIANDKERCHIEF EXTRACTS, HAIR
BRUSHES, COMES, SPONGES, CHAMOIS
SKINS STATIONERY, CIGARS, &C., the.
Is constant y adding to his stock all the new and pop-
ular medicines of the day.
TOLLEB (b ELY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
lumber, Timber, Shingles, lath...
LIME, CEMENT, 'BRICK,
PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, NAILS, BUILDERS‘
HARDWA E, c.
Foot of _Washington Street. South Not-walk, Conn.
onnsm Ir. TOLLES, 13'3 nsxnx 0. rear.
Walker’svmcgar Bitters.
Not an Alcoholic Beverage. Try them and be con-
vinced of its beneficial efi'ects. For sale by
_ . E. P. WEED. ,
For Sale. ~
Kitty Ecru.
NULL BRED AYRSIIIRE COW, five years old. If
called for soon will be sold cheap. Apply to
3t'3 W. N. BRADY, Daricn Depot.
Allen-ton Iron Works Mfg. Co.
Son-m Nonwnnx, Cons" Dec. 28, 1869.
NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN C. STEVENS
Is not in the employ of this Company.
ELBRIDGE BROWN, Sectrary, pro tem,
“TIE O S E,”
OR UNFERMENTED CATAWBA WINE, retain-
ing the true flavor of the Grape. Suitable. for
Itedicinal or Sacramental purposes. For sale in
. E..P. WEED.
313
House and Lot at South Nor-walk
F03 SALE. ‘
HE homestead nowoeenpied by George R. Bai-
ley, conteinin one acre or more of land. beec-
tifully located, he ng an extensive view of the bar-
hor and village; abundance of water. fruit, dc. ; will
be sold at a b sin ifapplied for soon. Terms cas .
Enquire of DA ID if. GENRES. E. OLMSTEA
or GEORGE O. KEELEK. .
Norwelk, Jan. 17, 1570. '
Also, one other none]; and Lot, on Ely Neck 1‘
well located, will be sold at a bargain. New?
completed.= i
'BININGER’S
LD LONDON DOCK GIN, .
LD COGNAC BRANDY, '
LD CALIFORNIA BRANDY,
Forsaleby . ', ERWEID.‘
Di's‘iti“ qf Namath, ea, Probate Court, Jan. 13, 4.1}.
STATE of CHARLOTTE W.
E of Wilton in said District, emf“. me
Onnxnnn—That the Administrator, exhibit his ad-
ministration account to this court for adjustment. at
the Probate office in Norwalk on the 12th day of Feb-
ruary, 1870, at 9 o'clock, forcnoon ; andthat all per-
sons interested-in ssfd estate may be notified thereof
the said Administrator will cause this order to be pub-
post a co y thereof on the st in Fail?“ CillmW’i' and
- s n so Iton
nearest t e place where thegdleggased last dwelt, a;
. 113st ten (toys before saidnth dav of Februsr .
clones a. nauseous, :n’m.
PANY, for the choice of Directors. will be held at’
"4 PAINTINGS FOB SLLE.—Persons '
place. formerly occupied by Henry Bennett.
Drugs and Medicines,
rev
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