Show UNIL VERSAL versan AMNESTY A A SpEE SPEECH Cr delivered in congress by honorable thomas fitch upon this thia subject will be found in another column the new york tribune thus discourses upon this same theme we object to a restricted amnesty that it tends to the creation of an aristocracy at the south an aristocracy founded not t on wisdom risdom m nor on merit but on prominence in the late rebellion those exempted from the general oblivion of past of menes fenes will plume themselves upon the fact as a tribute to their ability or their efficiency in the rebel service they will be adm admired i red deferred to and accorded social distinction and political influence the tho laet fact that they are not bot to office will enable them to indicate the men to be chosen they are in fact tact neither better belter nor worse than many others but their proscription when they shall have been so restricted in lamm num ber that each of them is known and marked will clothe them with a peculiar and unwholesome power it proceeds to cite the case of jefferson davis as an illustration of the correctness ness of its views had he been shot as upon the verdict of a cc court martial he lawfully might have been within three days of his capture he would would have been enshrined in la a million herts hearts forever and his name ani deeds would have been a potent spell for generations so long as he was kept in prison he was the uncrowned king of millions to whom his lightest wish was law his word the tho end of controversy A sentiment of honor held every confederate loyal to him so long as he ho remained in durens durw for an offense common to him and to them had hati he been kept for ten years a prisoner of state he would have been to the last the chief of a crushed but indomitable party whereof fidelity to their suffering head was the point of honor honors but his liberation was also theirs when whom walked her he out of lof that richmond court house bouse a free man he was a dethroned dethroner monarch and such he be has remained he goes to E europe drope and returns stops a few days clays la in new now york or baltimore looks vigilantly after the interests of his life insurance company or neglects them without exciting a ripple of curiosity io sity it cit pit argue f the ob I 1 vb to divest the ahe rebels of capacity we VS it ift would be secured by amnesty mif mil est eat not proscription f r p f LUMBER cured so as to preserve it from decay by the Iro process cess eess known as Foreman izing has been used in the erection of a railway depot at st louis louls 6 anu and nid hid lamentable consequences have ensued to the workmen four or five of whom have been fatally poisoned and ana several others permanently injured by inhaling the fumes arising from the doctored timber the composition used in 14 the process is made up oscor erosive sulli matei arsenic yand and common salt A post mortem examination of one of the victims eab showed w edthe the stomach fearfully ulce ulee ulcerated abed and lungs and liver ilver nearly destroyed by abscesses i s D disease nia fit tl itself inetter nal ulcerous sores and blisters which were followed by great difficulty in breathing chronic cila olla diarrhea and death eleven of the men nidd 1 injure jure dhave entered suits burs against the railway company laying damages at each A A TERRIBLY i sensational rumor comes from the land of the almond eyed that the chinese have commenced to poison polson 0 won hon ohp all the tea they export BO so that the e millions of western tea drinkers may surely fall vic victims timer to chinese treachery if they do not to chinese prowess this is a very improbable story for the chinese know full fall well however much they may hate the christians having recourse to a system of wholesale murder like this would not only cut off millions of treasure derived from the tea trade but also bring upon themselves swift and speedy retribution from those same outside barbarians i the chinese will no doubt carry their tea poi pol boning and adulterating abilities and proclivities to the farthest point possible tle gle short of destroying life in fact experiments prove that they are doing so the food 7 burnal burbal an english monthly says that the tea imported by the chinese is first used by the celes bials themselves who wao afterwards dry the leaves and fix them theme up with various poisonous coloring matters and then send them to the british market experiments made by a dr muter also show that if not used before being exported the tea or that which is substituted for it is extensively poisoned in curing some gunpowder tea a very favorite brand with lovers of the beverage which he tested scientifically he declares consisted of common caper faced with prussian blue a sam P tie tio I 1 e of Kal stow was nothing but rice husks asks and other matters doctored one sample is described as very common dust mixed with a quantity of small reddish unknown seeds and iron filings much burnt another sample proved to be chiefly made up of rice faced with plumbago and lampblack with some pieces of free plumbago scattered through the mixture in one lot examined were pieces of decayed wood and fragments of seeds and stones and another contained a considerable amoun amount t tot of exhausted leaves rendered stringent kent with catechu but strangest of all in one sample gample dr muter miter discovered feathers scattered among rice and pea husks and leaves of the chinese willow if the chinese can continue to derive an enormous revenue from the manu of abominable compounds as the above they not be ill lii likely ely to kill off those whom they so easily ea aily ally dupe and if the thel tea drinkers of this country and europe will continue to imbibe the beverage brewed from sueh such messes with the their r eyes ope opened by such revelators revelatory as dr muter they certainly deserve all the evils arising from such wilful folly the people of utah have geen been been preached to a great deal on the subject of tea drinking many of them still persist in its use by and by one would think they would see the propriety of the teachings imparted to them and will come to the conclusion to use themselves and their means better thap thab to spend the one in or contaminate the other with the beverage called tea cumulative voting is coming in III great favor in hi england with corporations societies and other private concerns who use the ballot billoc to decide the conduct of portions port ions ioas of their business steel earrings ear ean rings are now the fashion they are fastened to the ear by a spring and have the appearance of a small gold do dot dob t inserted into the flesh they are popular among young ladles inasmuch aa as it is not necessary to pierce the ears eara |