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Girls! Pasg Along I PAR-lrHHASlD FROM BKRAIJGKr. BY JC-BN 8. SAXK. I..,.', ' , - Bl.;srnel what a yes. row ; : Of irirls at mo tseii g ante throw; " " As they gayly dStan and bo. The light coquettish throngl iCaa't tb darlings hear ine s:iy, n4avehadiy youtLfuld'iy: ivcw, I put suchHhingS awaj t" Oiils I pass, along I - to Ai.mj cmI Hy desist! Sonxh, 1 etare not to be s itsed ; At j Jronr tnotltr if I list To Cupid's jiren song? one- but that is mtrc mou K-ic-ws what Love and I csa do : U:r advice you'd beat rur.ueGirhrl pensions : ' in. Liura I you would hardly guess 11 aw your grandma, used to vross Lirof uiino well I cor.fs'S We didn't think it wrens ; hoot 1 she's oouiins 1 Tempt mo not ir Kay saloon or shady grot; A jt-alom eye the dame has sot; Uixlsl pass along 1 IT. Ton smiling too 1 you nauhiy Rose I I wonder now if you enpnose I'm not aware what sort of beaux Around your beauty throne ? I know the husbaud-buutinx rew. And all the protty trioks thny do : I'm old - but much too young for you I Girls 1 pass along !
Away away 1 you madcaps I Fly I Your roguish arts why wii you try Xo bind a ttravbeard soon as With Cupid'f slender thong T Yet, like a powder magmine.
r neart irom nying spurns i screen, ike (parks that shoot from wiuiton e'i
uiris i pass along !
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VI believe no Vewmdfttttoi; that to say, no
perfect obliteration of a) .'the wounds ana serTtomt the wat, Is ffeskibls until the Dessooratie prty ft najy diabai . Tt is thesomrcs of an oar woe, i tt'has BoeB'mtharto. It ia
an old Cbrwiian tjsditi n twat, rnn unn was bona, a toko is amid la kMMrtm along the
Isboresof tkw Moduerau-an soa: "The neat
wffiaaia dssaV' Hn d M ewaealior, when we
.hear, a, surely as w shall bear, tbat too
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Established A. D., 1835.
BLO OMINGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDA Y, SEPTEMBER 18, 1872.
old. I reached the Rhine, and obtained rmssase on a coal boat, in return for
Epitaphs. All rererenee nnto Epitaphs. Fr hish or lor tho lowly. Whenever th.,y on graves are writ Br truth, aud so made holy. Such make, in their Jeep earnestness, I ae living grander-hearted. And keep the souls, though freed fromTin-o, Still from oar souls uupurted. And many are tbe Epitaphs Ii prose or in verse cowing. A silent sacrd music there On board r marble glowing. Oh. heavenly tho influence, Angela umeea around us. While often white robes, like their own, Seem to have aollly wound us. &ima Epitaphs biic in their hoarts, Beauty divinely tender. And some throne the sublime in all Eternity's own splendor : But one there is that marries both Sublimity and Beauty: Within one little line it lives lie tried to do kit (lull-!
MEMOIRS
WAS
OF OXR WHO
HASGED. It lias sometimes happened that when a man has b -en hanged he has, either through the carelessness or unskilifulness of the hangman, or some other unforeseen cause, escaped death. Some people may imagine that in such a case there is not so much disgrace in being hanged. Let them not indulge in this belief any longer, for I, who speak from my own personal experience, have found the situation a very unpleasant one. Those whose fate has led them to the scaffold, and who have had the misfortune to be cut down too soon, have my sincere pity. There are many persons who, on such an occasion, would be very happy to be cut down before life was extinct, and they will think that I have very strange opinions. But I reason from experience. Etperto ertder Roberto. That is to say, I have been hanged, although my name is not Robert. You shall know why, and what was the result of it. As for those capricious minds who think it strange that 1 should write my history in my last will and testament, I wcuJd simply ask these where they expect me to write it. Do they imtgine that one who has been hanged ought to write a book about it. It is now twenty years since the event of which I write took place, but the tigma of having been hanged, which follows me in spite of myself, is none
the less a bad recommendation among scrupulous people. 1 was an honest grocer of Lausanne, my birthplace. I had a flourishing business, and every day added something to my fortune. It was my custom, in common with my brother grocers, to add mutton tallow to the salted butter, flour to the powdered sugar, sage leaves to the tea, cider to tbe cognac, water to the tobacco, sawdust to the ground pepper, and roasted beans to the coffee. These little auxiliaries were not noticed from the fact that their. composition was mere or less general. 1 hat,1, a clerk who was an excellent hand at that business, and be mixed tbe different articles so skillfully together that no one found any fault with lav merchandise. Proud of his success,
he wished to do better. He imagined that with jalap, flour, the juice of white prunes, and I do not know what other lrug besides, but something less innocent, peihaps, he could make the honey go further ; but bis composition produced an effect he certainly did not foresee. About a dozen of our customers who Used that honey were taken sick, and Borne of them died. I was the first to suspect the truth. I placed a jar of pure honey in tbe shop, and car- . ried the adulterated honey into my - wife's room, for I was married. I gave as a reason that I could not sell it, as ti had an unpleasant taste. My wife was very, economical, and not wishing to waste the honey, she determined to have it for her supper. Happily, she had no children, or she would have feasted them likewise. I'uring the night sbe was taken so ill that I was obliged to sand for a physicitn. He immediately recognized symptoms of
poison:ng. He asked her what she had eaten, and very naturally she answered that she had supped on some honey that I had taken out of the shop because my customers did not like it. The physician appeared struck by the circumstance, and, giving some prescriptions, he retired, saying that he would return in an hour, 1 awoke my clerk to send him to tbe apothecary with the turescripbions, and waen he learned what laad- passed he' Decame pale and trein bling. Ho went out immediately on my arrand, but did not return, and it wan 'the fpothecary himself who brought tbe medicine. This incident increased my trouble. At the end of an hour the physician returned, bringing a nurse with" him, and, telling me that the patient must bo kept quiet, he advitied me.. to go into th
shop. I there found two bailiffs to
arrest me tut a prisoner. What shall 1
tell you ? They accused me of having poisoned four persons in thecitv.beaidcs
my wife, among taeua being the sister
oi tne .mage, wno was a stern old
Lntherar.. Ihey searched mv shot..
and from the many adulterate d avLudM
there they drew bt.d inferences against
me. tuo uupp?s.ranoo pt my clerk.
who did not return, was taken as another proof of my guilt. n short, 1 was condemned to be hanged, unci, the sentence was quickly carried into execution. By a privilege which is not rare. I had a fault of conformation of which
r naa never coasted, and you may call : L fM,,mafrA a. f ....
ii, juiwubw vi uuiortunate, as you choose. My throat was oss.iied, and the rope did not entirelv ston reni,-j.
tion j and that evening, v. hen they bad
delivered ma to a young surgeon, who
had bought me, instead of a dead man
htf found on his Ij.ble otilv an insensible
man. Being alone, he gave me his best care, and on the following night he insisted me to escape, wishing me better luck. You see that I hurry over this recital. The recollections that it awakens arc not of such a nature that I enre to dwsll
long upon iheui. I was very grateful and full of joy at finding myseir alive and free. With only twelve florins, wbiob the doctor had gi ven me, 1 vat not rich ; but I was only thirty-six years
which I was to do some light work. 1 went to Holland, where every German is wll received, and presenting myself to a grocer in Amsterdam, 1 obtained employment in his shop, where by zea: and activity I soon won his good opinion. He also adulterated his merchandise, but he ws prudent, and did not trust so delicaWi t. business to a clerk, rs I had done. However, at the end of a year I had gained his confidence to such an extent th it he proposed to initiate me into its mysteries. But I had so many reasons for regarding such a custom with horror, that I honestly declined, at the same time showing deep repugnance to fraud of any kind. Wonderful to relate, probity, which is too often r eglected in this world, proved for me, as it always is, an element of success. And, by the way, let me assure you that this element is not yet worn out. My master, seeing that 1 was an honest man, said to me : " Herman (this was the name I had assumed), I now appreciate you fully ; we shall never part." He confided the cash-box to my care, ind at the end of the second year he made me marry his daughter. She was avryquiet girl, twenty-eight years of age, and endowed with all those qualities which distinguish tho women of Holland. Her name was Tnidje. I was happy when toward the end of the third year my patron, who was my f;ither-in-law, and of whom I had become the partner, gave a dinner to his son, Capt. Thomas Cromme, who had j ust ret timed from Batavia. I had never seen him. My wife could not contain her joy, for she deeply loved her brother. I was much surprised when, on being presented to Capt. Cromme, I recognized tbe face of an old acquaintance. I concealed my emotion, but the Bailor was more frank. " Hallo I is that you. Pochinet?" he cried; for he had twice transacted business with me at Lausanne, and had even sold me some very bad tea. I feigned astor" ihment. His father told him that my name was Herman, and that in me he beheld his brother-in-law. Thomas Cromme appeared to be convinced. But my voice troubled his mind, and my Swiss accent added to his perplexity, and it was with a very bad grace that he consented to admit that I was not Pochinet. This singular incident disturbed my tranquility. The cap tain remained a month at Amersterdam, and always regarded me with a suspicious air. He told his sister, who repeated it to me, that I reserrbled a grocer of Lauanne as nearly as one drop of water resembles another, and that he was surprised to find in Germany two persons so exactly formed after the same model. I had said that I was from Strasbourg, and that my parents were Swiss, which accounted for my Swiss accent. He tsked questions which put me to the torture. At last 1 was relieved to learn that he had gone,
But it appeared that his suspicions i had extended to hia family, for they told me that he had returned to the Indies, when in reality he had gone to Lausanne. The investigation, which, unknown to me, he had made at Strasbourg, had convinced him that I had told a falsehood, and he determined to know the exact truth. Arriving at Lausanne, he learned that Claude Pochinet had been hanged a few weeks previous to my first appearanue in Holland. So clear a fact would have been sufficient to any other man; but Capt. Cromme had the obstinacy of the true Hollander. He found that my first wife, whom they told rue had died while I was in prison, bad on the contrary recovered, and was yet living,
which ot couree made me guilty ot the crime of bigamy. He visited me, and, by dint of questioning, learned that my throat was ossified. This gave him a ray of light, and, pursuing hi investigation still further, he discovered the young surgeon who had saved me, and from him obtained a full confession. He returned to the widow Pochinet, as she was called, and abruptly offered
to restore her hushand to her. The
poor woman, who well knew that I had not intended to poison her, was nearly overcome. The Captain, 0n his patt, began to feel the difficulties into which he had thrown himself. He thought of hia sifter, his father, his family. He rememk ired, also, that he was rendering a V'.ry unwelcome service to my first wire, for it would be necessary to
inform her that I was married again. He could not bring himself to tell her this, so he contented himself by saying : " Madame Pochinet, I am just start
ing tor Amsterdam, it you witn to accompany me, I do not deceive you,
I will show you your husband.
His proposition was accepted, and
one day I, who suspected nothing of all this, beheld before me Capt. Cromme, who said to me :
" Come here a moment, there is
some one who wishes to speak to you."
i hese were his very words. " But,,: said I, in astonishment, " I
thought you were in Batavin."
lie did not answer, but conducted
me to tho Hotel des Armes dc Nanson, which was a few steps horn our house.
we entered a room, and there I saw a
woman, who threw herself on my neck.
1 was so surprised that I could not re
strain an exclamation.
" Why, Rose I are you alive?" I did not then observe tho move
ments of tho Captain, who hastened out. My wife and I had about a qusirter of an hour for explanations, dur
ing which I had not ventured to tell
her that, believing myself a widower,
I bad married again, when the Caotain
returned. He was followed by four uo-
liceaaen, to whom he pointed ma out,
saying :
" there he is i" lher, apostrophizing rae, he Baid : " You might have murdered, pillaged, robbed, you might have given Batavia up to fire and blood and 1 would have pardoned all ; but to have been hanged that is too much. To think that my poor .sister married a man who has been hanged : lo think that I have drank and eaten with him ; that my father has had him for his son-in-law ; that our house had been kept by him 1" He uttered thene words in so loud a tone, and those who heard him repeated with such an air of horror the words.
" a man that has been hanged I" that I could not utter a single word in defense of my innocence. " Take him away," said-the Ctptain. This four men soized rae. and. with
out any pity for Hose, who had fainted, .i. ... .i i .. '
nicy uiag((ii tue to prison. I was tried more quickly than at Lauiinne, and once more condemned to be hanged ; this time for tho crime of bigamy. I had no hope of escaping again, for Crornme knew what had saved me the first time. I sadly made my
adiei; to life in tny dungeon, when one night (it was the night preceding the day appointed for my execution) 1 heard my door open. A man presented himself before me ; it was my brother-in-law. " Come," said he, " I have arranged
evervthine. It will be reported that
you hnve died in prison. I dc not wish
to have it said that my father's partner
wa3 hanged. My sister has, died ol grief." " What I my wife dead ?" " Yesterday." "And the other?"
" Madame 1 ocuinet, the poor .Swiss
woman, I have rendered her a bad ser
vice, in going to intercede tor you with tho judge, she caught cold, and
she died this morning," "Alas I" cried I, " I have no wr"." " That will not prevent you from be
ing hanged to-morrow, as a bigamist."
Then, seeing that 1 wept, he went on.
" llsre are a thousand HoritiK ; go
where you will. It you succeed in busi
ness, very well ; but if you are unfortunate write and tell me, for I do not
wish to see my father's partner a beg-1 gar. Come, cheer up, and drink this i
glass of gin. LTnd er any other circumstances, we should drink together, for I
hnve caused you much grlet, but Uapt.
Thomas Cromme can not drink with a
man who has been hanged." I mechanically s-.valloive'i tho gin.
and followed him out. He conducted
me to a boat which was to start at daybreak far Anvers, and, having recom
mended me to the captain, bade me adieu. I wept during the whole voyage, and was unable to compose myself or fix my thoughts on anything. After
reaching Anvers, 1 began to recover my j spirits little by little. Wishing to be as far from Holland as possible, 1 went to Liege, where, with my thousand florins, I opened a little shop of groceriec. I was so honest and industrious ilia'; my business prospered. But, although I procured the most positive proof of the decease of "ay two wives, I never married again, lest I should r un tbe chance of being hanged a third lime. So, having neither wife, children, or near relative, I leave my wealth to be equally divided among the hospitals of Liege, Ltusanne, and Amsterdam, on condition that these three cities shall furnish a glass of old wine to any poor fellow who is about to be hanged. Scientific and Practical. In view of the perishable nature of iron, a scientific authority gravely proposes straw paper as a more titrable material for the manufac ture of car wheels. The internal use of carbonic acid is said to have been found unquestionably advantageous in a large class of cases of dyspepsia, known as the fermentative class. A Geriux medical journal states that cod-liver oil loses its disagreeable, taste, if maerated with burned coffee aud charred ivory, and acquires the perfume of coffee..
The pure and powerful illuminating
qualities of magnesium ars leading to an increased use of that metal in lighting houses and mines, as well is for
many processes ot scieutiho rest-arcn. A writer in our Dumb Animals says that hunting if. a cat's instinct, whether hungry or not, and it is a mistake to
suppose that a cat will not hunt if it has
meat, given it. The World assures us t'.at if the North Pole explorers should ever be so fortunate as to get to t hat locality, they could not by any po;sibilty return, since the attraction of gravitation would at the quiescent pole make a man so heavy that no effort of human muscles could raise his foot from the grou nd. In addition to its numerous uses in the arts of peace, paper is now found to be applicable to the arts of war. Cui
rasses which will turn ths stroke of a sword, thrust of a bayonet, or the im
pact of a rifle ball, are now made of
paper, and the inventor claims that this material will furnish a plating for war vessels of greater power of resi dance
than plating ot iron.
Tne purest known river water is that
of the River Loka, in Sweden, which
contains only 1.25 of a grain of solid
matter per gallon. Other rivers con
tain greater quantities, u the Croton
Current Itetsj, New Ori.eaxs produces ica r.rtiiicially at $8 per ton. During tho last two years 28,000 miles cf ocean cables have been laid. It cost the State of New York $100,' COO to impeach Judge Bimard. Indiana has more pluiii trees and grape vines than any other State. Tue greatest cold on Mt. Wasington last winter was 61) degrees below zero. The value of farms in Massachusetts has decreased $7 ,1)00,000 in two years. Texas is divided on the location of her capital t he question being between Waco and Houston. Tr you want anything to prow, whether it be fish, flesh, fowl or Don ers, put it
unaer vioiot-coioroa glass. Tue old elm tree under which Washington took command o' the armies of the United States is still standing at Cambridge, Mass. Seven thousand fellows loaf around 5,000 offices, a"d manipulate the keys in sending'off 11,1)00,000 roe.Mr.ges over 75,000 miles of telegraph wire, in the United States. A toung man hunting turkeys at. Kalamazo, Mich., thought he s iw one in the grass, but ft coroner's jury deetded that it was the head of the farmer who owned the premises, and was taking a nap. The risk attending the publication of books is aim 08 1 proverbial. Not one volume in a hundred reaches a second edition, and hence there is a large ag
gregate loss attending the publishing
business.
Vast deposits of thr best anthracite
coal have lately been discovered in
Alaska. It burns readily ami brilliantly, and is so pure and hard that a wet cloth may be rubbed vigorously over it without soiling.
Seven locomotive engines for Russia
were shipped irom rliilKhupliia last week. The announcement of this fact 6hows that the great progressive empire of the north of Europe still adheres to itspreferences for American mechanics
in its railway machinery, more than a
quarter of a century ago.
California has 14,000 square miles
less area than France, but it is asserted
that the average in Calnornia which
can be successtully devoted to grapes will excel that of France in the propor
tion of 4 to 1, which would be 1S,00(X00
acres lor Ualiiornia and 4,.UU,(.K0 tor
France.
The longest bridge in the world is
said to be on the Mobile and Montgomery railroad, over the Tensasund Mobile river.. It is fifteen mile. in length, and has ten draws, one for each navigable channel. The biidgc itself is of
wood, but tho supports are iron cylin
ders. The structure cost $1,500,000, and has been three years in course of
construction.
A coNTitmuTOR sends tbe lndianapolis
Journal the story of the oiigin of the name of thai city. In the old, old (lays, when the first colony of vrhite settlers arrived there, the Bates House was kept
uv an old Delaware Indian. J be old
settlers called him Apolloa, because he always watered his whisky, of which he
was very fond. the town was called after him, '' Indian Apollos," which was finally corrupted into Indianapolis.
THE ISSUES OF THE DAY
Eloquent Speech of George William Curtis, at Ashfield, Mass.
The
Republican Tarty and Its Great Services to the Country.
New Seter..VCm.rI.--NO. 21.
" lit II
A Young
Heir to
river, JNew iorK, 4.lod, and the. hcnuyl
kill, 4.201. The rivers or franco con
tain from 4 to 32 grains per gallon, aver
aging 16 ; those of England from 6 1-2
to 19 1-3, averaging 14 1-2. Wyoming Territory probably swarm
ed with turtles in the early pari; of what is known in geology ai the tertiary
period. This we know from the large number of fossils which are from time to time discovered there. There were both fresh-water turtles and land turtles, and it also appears that crocodiles were
quite numerous throughout the same
region
'The great Northern shrike or butcherbird, which preya upon the F.nglish sparrow in the parks of New York and
other cities, m so dainty that it eats only
the brams ot iu victirm. so we learn from ft letter published in the American Naturalist, which describes tho method in which a butcher-bird killed a sparrow by squeezing its head into a crotch made by the fork of two branches, each about half aa inch thick. A machine has lately been d!vised in Europe for testing the richness cf milk by means of its transparency. Two polished plates of glass are so arranged that their distance apait can be varied at will by means of a sciew. These are
placed in front ol a candle, and the milk is poured in between them. They are then screwed together until the light of the candle becomes visible
through the mass j and of course the poorer and more transparent the milk id, the sooner this will te the case. A new system of railroad signals has been experimented upon recently in SoiBsons, France, which, it in claimed, promises to l upersede all others now in
use. So many accidents have: occurred
in pi;e of the discs and coiored lan
terns now in use, that l ome t:ore rapid
aud surer method of warning approach ing trains has been found necessary The new method is elentricitv. and con
sists of a loud whistle -operated upon by
. current, and capah e of giving the necessary notice to moving tt tins at all
limes, ana no manor what the rate of
velocity. Melting Awar.
The excessive heat which l as charac
terized the summer in this country has
mil oen ennnnea to ine United States
Miguind and h ranee icport hot terms
ol unaccustomed length, mul even
Switzerland complain biHerly of tli
i -u; glaciers, too, Dear
witness to the unusual cliarnnti r ,iC tl
season, and have not melted so rapidly
uciui iii mimy years.
Pfij'Hiciai! Falls
$100,000. The old saw "'tis betle." .o be born
lucky than born rich" finds a remark-
ble illustration in the case of a young
physician of this State, who, unless re
port belies him, has stumr.ied accident
ally into the possession of such a for
tune as but rarely tails to or e man in a generation. His name is T. L. Matchett, and he resides somewhere in the central part of Illinois. The story of his
good luck is, to say the least, a marvel
ous one. Uur lnlortnation is derived
from a gentleman who :s traveling through this section in the interest of a business house, and who was in the city yesterday. He is a friend of tho fortu
nate physician, who, it appears, is not
yet aware ol his unexpected elevation to wealth. We give the tale as it fell from the traveler's lips ;
In the month of September, 1865, Mr, Matchett, then a resident of Springfield, 111., was passing through Chicago,
and while waiting for the train at the Burlington and Quincy depot he saw a
lady with a child m her arms, also wait
ing for the train. The lady was appar
ently a stranger in tue land, and seem
ed to have no escort. While still in the
depot the child, a little fill, was se:xed
with sudden and violent, sickness, and
the mother wa,s seriously alarmed. Mr,
Matchett gallantly rushed to her assist
ance, took care ot the child, and hap
pening to be well informed in regard to infantile complaints, he succeeded in restoring it to health before the train
started. Ins timely act ot assistance
coupled with tho tender and friendly
manner in wh.ea it was rendered, com
pletely won the lady's heart, and she
was profuse in her expressions ot grati
tude. But at. this moment the train
came, and the young mi.:.r, oidding ner a hasty adieu, jumped into a car and
was o 11. lhe lady, beloie depai ting on
another train, made inquiries concern
iuc him. and fouhd out all about Mr,
Matchett and whero bo lived, and then
she jumped in to a car and was of.
Here endet! the hrst chapter ot the
romance, rassing over ine intervening
pages, which are a perfect blank, we
rush at once to the denouement
A few months ago the lady died in
the town of Aberdeen, Scotland, and in
her will she bequeathed t) her bene
factor the handsome fortune of 20,000,
It is said thdt the money is already de
posited in some Eastern bank awaiting
its claimant.
Such is, in. substancu, the strangi
story related by the commercial gentle
man. Should it prove te be founded on
fact, Dr. Matchett. wherever he is, has
reason to be grateful for encountering
that blessed baby. If he is married
and is the father of n promising boy, he
had better send the lad at once, to Hare
schal College, Aberdeen, to be educated
There a new romance nt'ght naturally
grow out of nn bid one. lhe little gi would now be about seven years old.Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Why :Grnn4 Should Ibe Re-elected The Central Issue: Can Democrats bo Trusted?
In, PRRsroENT and Fj.llow-Citizens: Amid, a! tlio limbic uul shouting, tho bittor mis-' rWpiou.taUoii, the fervid eloquence, the rhetoric, tho argument and the slander of the hour, we must not forgot that wo are engaged in onr most serious political duty. We are providing for our Government for tbe next fonr years; and tho precise sitnation which now presents ileelf this genoration has not seen. In 1820, at the second election of James Monroe to the Preaidoncy. the Federal party disbanded, disorganized, presented no caniidato and disappeared. Mr. 'Monroe received ovory Electoral voto but one. The pausago in the next yoar of tho Missouri Compromise opened tbe sltvory debate, which gradually absorbed ovory other iesuo, and became the dominant intenist of otir policies, until, forty years afterward, in I860, too queation waa this only: SUsIl Blivery alisolntolv control the Oovernment o:! the United States? There were two parttjs; tho Democratic party cried 'yes:" the Republican party said "no." Abraham Lincoln was elected, and slavery in the now world was stayed forever. In 1864 the isHite was again simple. It was whether the Union should be saved to liberty, or whether tho Government should surrender to
slavery m arms. The Republican party prononuef'd for onion and liberty; the Democratic party criid for surrender. Tho result was Abraham Lincold was re-elected, and amid the heavenly music of 4,000 000 of breaking chains Geri. Leo surrendered the broken eword of slave:? to Gen. Grant. In 1868 the issue was again simple. It was whether the Union, saved by the war, Buonld bo reconstructed upon tho principles of liberty and jnstiee tint hid prevailed in the war. The Democratic party, led by the rebel element within its rankn, "said again, "no;" the Republican party said "yes." The result was that Geo. Orai: t entered tho White House, saying, "Let us have peace." In 1872 the spectacle is extraordinary. The Kepublieaa pnrty, reaffirming its principles, declaring for that profrress and reform which are imp lie 1 in i. hoso principles, which logically belong to the ooustitntiou of that party, re-
om.nates tne rresment, as it before rs-nom-
atcd Lincoln. Tho Domoeratic Dartv sud
denly turr its back upon its record, declaring
mat what in liw it avowed to be uuconstitu-
onal and revolutionary will 1)0 now accented.
Tho Democratic party, not disbanded, not dis
organized lino tne f ederal party in 1820, bat full of enthusiasm, full of hope, in convention adopts a Republican platform, takes a con
spicuous liepnbhcsn for lis bannerbearer,
and appeals for your votes on the ground that it will bo mora Kopiiblican iu the admmistra-
iou of the Oovernment than lieunblicans
lemselves.
I5nt, fellow-eitizons. this is precisely tho
mcmcnt in whic'i, each party malting tho same professions for there is no difference
between the Platforms this ia tho moment
which every honest citizen will auk himself
the question, which of the two parties is more likely to koop its word? I think, therefore, the uiity which all of us owe ourselves aud tho
country is lirnt to ascertain what iu the paramount nocRgs ty of the country at this mo
ment, and the.i deoido which of the two par
ties is
BEET EM'rm.El TO OCtt STJFFBiOES.
In my judgment, the great overwhelming and absolute i.oed ot the country at this time, in
cluding in the details of administration all
possible ref or n and progress, is that the Government of the new Union which sprang from
me war uut&u low umu iuravm uo auuiiiiu&beruu
n the full, li'dng faith of the principles that
rerailed in the- war, ana that amended the
lorjstitntion. The people of this country
l.&vo declared that overy citizen of the United
tares, white or black, born where he may bo.
being what lie may be, aa a citizen of the
united ist ites snan nave equal protection un
der tho law. We demand that, wherevor the sun shines upou our dominion, citizens shall
be absolutely secure, in tne everglades or
Florida as well as among tho hills of Massa
chusetts. W3 demand further that this shall be placed beyond all doubt. If any man, or
any combination of men, lay tbe slightest fin
ger of inpiry upon tan poorest ana nambiest of our citizoas, he shall instantly, either in State or National law. Dud the majeaty of the people sayinc; to him: "As ye do to the least of these mylittle ones, ye do unto mo." This
is the issue of the campaign tho equality and
protection o. oitizens. it takes preceaenco over all other issues, because, without it,
there is no reconciliation; because, without it, there is no r iform; because, without it, there
is no nroirrets. wo are ending the first ceu-
turv of our national independence m vain, it
we havo not learned that, without this certain
tv of absolute equality of cltizenEhin, there
can be no neice nor reconciliation.
Twelve years ago, nrteen years ago, now
nroud wo wcrel No nation in the world could
dare to rank with lis. How splendid our
it was asked, m this
Be nocrat. He it, a Republican of the Bpub-f Herns. Are we doing wrong in 'supporting hii-i?" Thoymay gayi "We mean. Rrdjf reform." But as was said in England long ago, " t ie heads of parties, like tbe header of serpents, are moved, and governed by the taiW" Th a head of the Democratic party may bare
be n fashioned in Cincinnati, but if yon wottld.-rj
kn w bow tho whole party must move, look at tin: tail that was fashioned ia Baltimore. The spi der has walked into the parlor of the fly, bu', if that littlo liberal Republican fly shou'id venture to buzz his small desires, there would be a sharp, decided answer : " Shoo fly, don't borher me." That alliance will be an ill-fa tod rjn for the fly. !'ow which of theso two partios. in your Ju Igmont, is the more likely to keep its word? Y( ii see, my fellow-citizens, I am going to vo1 e wisely in 187'J without remembering how an 1 why I cast my voto in 1868, in 1864, and in 1800. When I epetk of the Democratic pa -ty. von will understand I am not apeaking of individuals. Every Democrat has Republic in friends whom he honors and respects ; as 1 every Repnllioan has Democratic friends in whom he trus:- When I say the French pcziplo are s volatile people, I do not say Gi uzot is a harloquin. When I spoak of the Democratic party I speak ot historical facts, net impeaching the motives or actions of indivii'.uals. The Democratic party for the last ge aeration had been the MKBK SLAVE OF BIiAVEBY. To serve slavery tbe Democratic party robbed th) mails, trampled on the right of free sp jot li. and upon tho right of petition ; and when the Democratic par-.y in the South began to hint at uiK-ession and matter rebellion, th great body of the Democratic party espoused tbe diictrine of State sovereignty. W 'latevor was done in the South by the real leaders of the party had the full and hearty st pport of the party throughout the country. A: id so it was when Lincoln was elected anil tho rebellion was begun. We find the last Deniocratio President wringing hi i hands in impotent despair, while tl 3 tears ran from his eyes, and wbimdc riuir. " The Union had no rieht to dis
solve, but, O dear ! it had no right to help it'elf." This last Democratic Secretary of n ar sent material to any but loyal men. The la it Democratic Secretary of tho Navy left oi j coast without protection, and the last
Democratic Decretory of the Treasury knocked
the bottom out . before he fled. During the
four torribU, cruel years of the war which was onlr a natural conaeciuenea and a natural
growth of the teachings of the Democratic
party aunriK tne ronr years oi ine war, by every means known to men. .hat party resisted the prosecution of the war. I am raking in the ashes ; I do not forget it. It resisted every measure that was broaght forward to save the Government, liberty and civilization npon this continent. It had no part in the glory of emancipation. Theu came the struggle of recon--.Iruction. Straggle why? Because of the position of the Democracy. Every measure ttiat was proposed in the interest of reconstruction, that was essential to carry out the principles of liberty and justice, was sturdily insisted by that party ; and while that question was pending, the party hurried to its convention and declared that everything that Lad been done was unconstitutional, and fought to overturn all the war bad aceomi hsliod. I am still raking in the ashes of the j ist. But tho people of the United States, the 1 lyal majority, organized as tbe Republican party, have not only succeeded in potting into t ae reconstruction acts the principles which conquered in the war, but have so administ ared tho Government that the name of the United States was never bo respected and 1 onored, the world overt as it is now. This 1 oing so, the Democratic party Bees it is so, :md harries to its convention at Baltimore nth I he most suspicious haste, folds its arms, i mooths its brow, muffles its tongue, and
whispers as blandly as it can, " Well, we see hat you've .ot the" bettor of us j we cannot . xactly licit) ourselves ; hurrah for the darkey; iow give us the Government i" It becomes
: vory man in the United Btatei to BAKB TH TOE ASHES :o see if he can And any spark of a live coal bat mav bo blown un asain into a new oon-
ilsgration. I ask you if you can truBt the narty. All these things are the history of iwelve years. All these things have been ac-
iomDlmhed within the lifetime or every ooy
that heare me. The leaders of tho party tolay are the same men who did all these ihings. I have shown you what the party has done ; do you believe it 'vholly repentant? Are these men to vhom tbe fruardianship of equal rights and lhe government of the new Union can be intrusted ? Is this man who yesterday held
that the black man was of an lurenor race, imd lux Dla.es that of a slave, tho one to in
trust with the care of the black nian'B liberty ? Ca the man who yesterday declared that the -rational fail h should bo violated, tne man to
make to-day the guardian of the nation's aonor? Is the man who declared yesterday
:hat all thl war had done was unconstitutional, tho man to intrust to-day with the en
forcement of the Constitution ? Would you have trusted a Tory of the Revolution with
the government which followed ?
But when 1 ask you these qaostions some of yon may reply by saying, " Xes, but we think Horace Greeley will make an excellent
President." Well. now. if, wnen tne uret Aa-
ministration of the Union had been put into operation, Hen. Washington had been waited upon by tbe Tories of the Revolution, still fully organised and jast on the eve of the
lirst election, tney nau saw. to naisiungtuu.
" We have deoidod we were in tne wrong.
We hare decided we are just as good ae tbe Whigs, and we wish you to be our
candidate" I have read history In vain if Sen. Washington would not have
uentiemen, it tnaae
shoeld .l&pirit7, honesty and reform. Tiy twfU be w Uylsli in their promwea as the, liple irpf reJ SUayes in October, What are tbtf prdll4wStthat they will be ke?t? They wish to partis, (sponge over what they have' done, nc'; oaar, ijjtfeh us to listen to what they
rViilHNitSie first great point which any eov-
etnment is bound to observe, has tbe Republican party gntuded the equal rights of the citizens ? It is the very glory of the Administration that it has done so. It found 4,000,0(H) alavee. It has made them men. and women ; it has united them in holy marriage ; and they Bit wiih us in our Legit Jit ve halls. Doolittle and others talk of negro supremacy upheld by the bt.yonet f Tbe negro has his vote : that ia tl) hie supremacy. How is it upheld by the bayonet ? When it was found there wat an organized terrorism at the South to trample tho black man under foot, he Government s mply kept its word. Frederick Touglass, who has known what eh. very was a id what it ha boon to hia race, heard those words of- Doc Olds. odiaa with rtuapat tongue to his fellows: "To the regro , he republican party is the dock ; alt else is the s ia. Stand loyal to Grant. Amen, amen cried North Cirotina, in the first rruiioua onset of the cakpaiok,
Hijitintics? What man.
oonntrv has ever folt tbe weight of taxation I ;,i ta tlia men
of tho'Govo.Timent? Our orators were never I &r8 your opinions, why are you thus armed ? nf lA),rh..mp fchfl crloriftH n? onr eiinntrv. ' t. .......... , -n t ml,., .-a vn oHH moin.
Who shall molost us
Nilsso.v's marriage w?.s the result of
a promise inadei ten yens ago. len years ago, A tiguste Kouztud asked the
luture queen ol song to marry linn, and
sh( replied : " Later, when 1 am rich mid celebrated." She has now kept
her word, ati'l has married tin mini of her own heart's choice, achieving one of the sweetest romances ever heard of.
tired of oefeurating the
Thov delied the future,
or make us afraid? In an instant we ware plunged iutc tho fiery abyss of civO war, and after four years we came to the shore, burdened w.tli debt as if wo had been a nation of ten oanturies. The equality of rights, gained
at such a tremendous price, is not to be se
cured bj any formal acquiescence. It is not
made sure ty tne letter or tne law. j.ne new provisions of the Constitntion will not of themselves help liberty at the South, until the South can reaped Uberty, as it does not respeot it to-day.
Wa all remember the teachings of history.
This is a campaign in which we are told to for
get history, to rememuer notoing; or, in the slang of tbe day, the Amorican citizen is told to shut his eyes and " go it blind." I am
hero to apeiut for the dead in tneir graves, wuo cannot Bpcak for themselves. If by their death something hag been gained, something
must be secured . now, wnicn or tne two parties, both of which promise tho amendments of the Comitituuon shall bo enforced whioli is the one untitled to our confidei ce ? A party
is not a fungus. It is not tne growtn cr a night. It Is an association of men holding certain principles, functions and philosophies in common. It is an association which ha certain tendoncios, opinions, and a certair
spirit. Winch or theso two parties, juugea uj tendencies, opinions and spirit, is tho more: likely to keep its -word? I do not preach olavi.fh su roaeryieiicy to party. Ono man with
(10(1 is a majority. 1 snow as wen as any Qrooley man or Democrat oan tell me, that party success may be bought.
MUCH TOO DKARLY.
I know yhon an honest man's party desort n
its priucij Ik, the honest man deserts tn ' party. But I know, too, when there are twn
irreat ni-m.nigtml narties. one or Me other mill-
1 . " . . r . . ...
oarry tne aloction. it is impost, .u,a ,ui a ,o gentlemen, on the ove of a Preiddentiul election, tr, fi rm n. TtftW third uartr. They nil
take a parlor at the Oleuhitn Hotel, and if tin Democratic party eonios to that room it taken possession of the room, and for its own pu.inosen: not for anv other. Wuju the spider
ami the fly project an alliance, .t makes little
uincreuco wlietnor ine iiy uu mi" ma parlor of the snider or the spider walks into Un At. It iii an alliance of coi -
sumotior. There can bo but 3ne parly, and
that ia 1 lin rtv of the snider. Thoo mi
that wont to Cincinnati wont as Republicans.
Then fol owed the Demooratic party m convention, called according to its wages, lolloping tho firms of that party, anci they took the (hiM-innati platform and candidates, but th:iy l i.-moci its. not as Republicai s.
not its members of a third party, but they to. k
Ihem is Democrats. A uoorgn, paper wtnel: 1 read last uight was headml, "National Demi, ciatic ticket : For President, Horace Oreelej ' That is the nartv with nhieh wo havo to deid
All Mm nincl.itini v ami all the force with some
exceptions that" will bo brought lo bear (tr
tho election of Mr. Groeloy vill be of tlMt
nnrtv Mr un adniitilstra'ion is necessarily
of the spirit ot the party whi.vi brings it iir,o wwer. Ountlrnioii may nay H al, they arc n jt J)oniici'(.ts never were Democrats Tiny may say : " You do not call Horace Greoloj a
If you are repentant, why are you still organ
ized I It von agree mat tne nnigs are rigui, why do you not join the Whigs ?" Tlmi. I behave, would have been Gen. Washington's
response. But if I am wrong ; if. instead, he
had accented the nomination of these men.
George Washington though be was, the sons
of libertv would hive defeated mm, as tne
1 descendants of the sous of liberty will defeat
Horace fri aelev ii November.
You will ask me another question: Are
parties eternal? Are we to always go on
nguting r now aro we to mase auv pouuesi nrnirress if we refuse to take the hand of
those we have sometimes opposed? Saint
p.ni mrmntnrl. ind whv not the Democratic
oartyr it me wuoie uewisu ubupie uauauu-
fimilv declared that they also haa received
gnat light, and had all avowed their eonver-
lOU, ailu Set, UP to Oe UIO original wiumwi.
i.i.,,i .n, ,hmir ii. n wa nvnn in tunc uit.
we would nave waited for somo signs of con
version before giving them
i nen
that that nartv nrjt or if defeated, bet difi-
brgniised, disbinded as 1 oBseeflttng, then the glad heart of America -- Hi" thaw God that at ast, at last, peifeot ree aeiliatien has become possible, becauH the oar. Union born of tba war ia unchangeably et abjetL (Great applause and three cheers for Jhe.ee-ker.-
Lament f a Tliree-IeaWOW Mower bought baby, 'ItOdibM&afBc: , . . fiink X asofteoo' 1 put him Frou raj nbt er n AtA d awfsl lxf An't aeawfal kinkt " 3 nt -SUB 4o' n from heaveo," Tat'ihSb. 1 .nk. ' Doctor toldcBO nar -. Great : awful lie: ' Nose an t opt at jeint nn. Tatnatwhjr lery. Varaoi atari o bad room Quea ae mek her sick ; . Frnw hiin in so irntter. If 1 1 an, rfc : aniek. Caddie him and Itave htm I Call iiim bhwed ring t" Doh'teire if mv kite ain't . Get a luajof strin! Send Bi Va with Biddy
tuooatwy. vnariie:
'8i
Baa t war an.
" Sink I oturbt to lore!" No. I wont: t o-sera-1 - Baasy irryioc bn by. ' GotStf'mrnfce irbaM. iGotiir ptao in bed: Ilean to tuke it drum -stick, Anderaok hi: l on tbe head!
TBS BANS 0 KSIXOWBHIP.
Will any man tell me what are the signs of
conversion in tne iiemocrauo party r xne last
nnoortumtv that was olleroa was in wanning
ton, at the last session of Congress. The Sup
plementary civil iliguts mil was introoucea, and iu the debate npon that subject, the party spoke as one man. They took tho same old Democratic ground, the sime old spirit of hatred to the colored man. All tho same old slavery virus came
frothing: oat in the speeches or the bestimen in that jiarty. Seventeen timos.
Monday after Monday, they staved off and voted against the bill, which was simply the
completion of eqnal rights. They votes
against it two or tnree times alter tne iuicunati Convention, and with their lips stiL. red with Baying " No," hurried off to Balti
more aud cried " equal rights to an men. Ifr. Curtis here quoted from the spoeches of a number of Democrats And from several Southern newspapers to show the spirit of ths Democrs.uc party was tho same that it ever kid been. He then continued: X can conceivo of no reason why a mac having the true interests of his oountry i t heart should voto for that party except this--thai, bail as tbe Demooratic party may be, the Republican party is worse. Is that true? the Republican party, which has done more n maintain free government than auy o-har party in the world, so bad as that ? You will agree with me that those who attack tie Administration have always the advantage of position. It ia easy to sketch a luodol Administration without a blunder ot a weakness. Tried by such a standard, any merely human Administration will fail. ut
every honest man will try to be just. In the clotaila of our Government, administered by 'i 0,000 or 80,000 officers, scattered over a territory from tho Lakes to tbe Gulf, there will be
constantly tacts occurring wnicn aro niter pretocl to the disadvantage of tbe Government : and not a f -lilt or error can be amnut tod by a postmaster or collector, but w
ihall iustaiitly bo told that the en ire Admiuiittratiou is a huge fraud. On Iho ot'inr hand, they witt toll us what
they wiil do. Had they boon injpowor, thW or that would not have taken place, and instead
standing steadfastly Republican. After referring to the financial rscord, Mr. 1 Curtis, in reply to the remark often made toat Gen. Grant did not pay the debt, e:iid that hi the same sense he did not pat dovin the retellion. It wi s the Union arm v ttuv. put down tho rebellion, but Gen, Grant war its head. The prosperity of the country is owing to tbe confidence and trust of the pom le in the
f-ohdity of lhe Government, llr. Curtis
eon untied
It is not a er sat many vaars turo since a
Lieutenant in the United States amy was stationed on the extreme frontier of Oiegon. He had an observing mind ; he bad at thoughtful mind, and tha he observed: Among "King George's men" the Indian was treated in a different way from the treatmecr, he received from tho "lioaton men." If one of King
George's mou went away for a day among the Indians, he went unarmed and sa'ely returned.
u one ox tne " jDoeton men' went among tne ndiurjff, he never returned, or if be did, it waa with "no hair on the place where the tuur onght to grew." The difference was, King George's mail treated the Indian lonesHy; tbe Boston man cheated him. The iienientaut
is now the President of the United States, and his Indian pclicy is the result of Lib personal observations upon the frontier. Treat the
Indian as a man, is the policy the United
States, Nearly .'100,000 Indians aie cared for
by the Government. The India l expenses have increaiied to (7,000,000. Clen. Walker tolls why. Because the Indians have been driven more and more from tb'lir hunting grounds. Therefore they raise their hand against the vhite race. Bat steadily the policy
of tbe Uovonment is having ire effect. Another t ry is directed at want they call
the abases in the civil service of nhe country.
ant is it the jJomocr&tic party to which we are to look lor improvement in this particular ? I am I'ree to confess, after a great deal of study and investigation, of all persons hi this countr" who are known as bitterly opposed to reform in the civil serrise, none are more hopelosBly so than the levling gentlemen who nominated Horace Greeley at Cincinnati. The present system came in with Gen. Jacks, in, who regarded all the offices as
tne plunder or the dominant njirry. When
lion, want waa elected ne desirod to effect a
reform in t jib service: but when yon reflect
upon its enormous extent and tin number of offices to bo filled, you will see tit once a personal acquaintance amounts to nothing, and the President moat depend upon the repre
sentations of Senators and Representatives.
A great mi.ny or the omcea are of no importance. Or t of 32,000 Postofficca, 22,000 pay loss than (d00 a year. Bat they have become
a eon or currency by which meicbera or Concrete pay their political debts. In all these
appointments the Senate is responsible, as it confirms them; and it has also usurped the
proper fa actions of the President by deter-
ndning that no nomination shall be confirmed, except it is favored by the Adrmnistrstion
Senator from the State in which it is made. I have begged of a Senator to support a certain nomination, and he has replied that he should 1 Uke to gratify me, but it wor.ld depend on what the Senator from that Stat 4 should say. The office of a Judge was vacant, and the Senator from that State want ad a man appointed vhom the President kne a- and believed to be uniit for the place. He nominated man after man, each being rejected unquestiOD-
auiy te cause uiey were not aoctptame to tne Senator from that State ; and the office re
mained vacant for more than a year, I have
come to ibe conclusion that no thorough reform is iiossible without the co-operation of Congress , or until public opinion asks of every man nominated for Congress. " Are you in
favor of a thorough reform t" and rtets from
him a categories! answer. Tlie President is
guided ntrictly according to tho rules he has
adoptee, but no man Knows tn i dimcuitiBs m the war. The principle is. hn-rever. adhered
lo that all positions shall be filed by ascertained fitness and not merely in conseqaen-s of politic tl influence ; and it is to my knowht Ige that fie President has not removed any per. eon from office solely on account of political considerations.
Ono word further. We are told that this
is a
OAHPAlQJt OF BXOOKOJXUTIOS;
that we want peace, and there ore we wjnt a change in party. " Let us cUsp hands over
the bloody chasm, says ar. Greeley, very well, answer me. Who in this country has
refused to clasp hands ? le it these men in the
two tnarn states who oppose tne new order or things I Is it those in the Northern States wbi morally suppoited them, or man who have said equality for all shall be maintained tA all hazards? Let us olacp bands! Yes, Mr. Greeiey, wo have sought to clasp hands from tho moment of Lee's box render. " I am
(.gainst the policy of hate," says Senator Sumner. Fellow-citizens, the name of your groat Senator, the name of Cnarles isuruner, shall nover be mentioned by me except with aSeo tion. gratitude and respect. I do not forgot though for the first time I have come to that moment which I believed nevr would come
to me in this life when I, a Bepabhoan, naould stand before yon, Repablitans, and nbovs all, Massachusetts Ilopubhoans, and have to speak to you of what Senator Sumner las said, in infinita sorrow. Bat I do not forget, nothing can blot front my mjnd the ( , Teat past of your great Senator. I do remember his illustrious servients. I remember how for twenty years, daring th ,ery tempest of our polities culminating in civil war, in leadly peril of his life he stood erect, spotless id character, unswerving in nia principles- I remember how like the granite cliff Charles Sumner opposed himself to the oceans of hate,
to tne oceans ol slander, to tne oceans oi rioioule that cams rolling in upon him and were swept by him into th impotent froth and foam. I remember those gro.it services and no departure of ois from wt nt seems to me
the true faith makes me forget it yet when Charles Sumner says I am against the policy of the Republican party, I if momber if any
man has shaped tne policy oz tne nepuwioan party it is Senator Sumner. If that policy be as he "implies in those words, the policy ot hate, he denounces his' own work. He condemus himself. He it was down to the lart days of Congress who nrgod the passage of the Civil Rights bill. He it waa who in the moat convincing and elaborate speech of the scission asserted how much remained to he doaa. He it ia, who in his letter to the colored men declares that tha p.iaee of the colored man is still in great danger, and he it is that declares
tnat ne wui now trust an tno great purposes and objects of his life in the tuunds of his most
implacable enemies.
Fnllow-citizens, never wait a great victor ta
a great war marching in robes
TwrStfcs. flouBTBiNc to hoc t An impertinent don. A pictukb of cor. teat A portrait of Patience. . Bakbeks make man friends, bat scrape more tcquaki .ancea, Txwsbakcb moi to Fight for the tight, and never get tight.
A " xuta" that it popular with tho
ladies The drew' circle.
Ncyek undertake to fasten the door with a lock f: on yo .ur own head. Doir'T take too itn rah ' interest in the Affairs of your neigh bors. Six per coot wilidc. A JLaksas tiilliitrd table is described as having old boo s for pocketa and broken hoe handles for cues. " Mother, I'm afr u'd a fever would go hard with me." ''Why, my BonT" " 'Cause you see, mother, I'm so small that there wotikin't bo room for it to turn," i( f , . Ix," said Mrs. Parting, " How do astronome rs measure tho dijtauoe of thesun?" Why,- replied jpungopefal, they guesses a quarter of the distance, and then multiplies-by .'bar." u What haye yon been doing with yoar bow and arrow, my child?" "jVlaving William Tell with John." " Did yo h -t the itpple t" " Yee, ma, I hit the apple of John's eye. right in the center I" Aw old lawyer tays that. the three most troublesome clients ho ever had were a yoazg woman who was ed to be znrxried. a married woman who wanted to be unmari'iad, ai d an old staid who didn't know what the wanted. At a St. L'mk theater ratal swain,
sitting with jis girl, departed suddenly in the moat tragic part of the performance, and soon retc rned with t o glasses of lemonade, sura oun ted by enticing straws. The dying hero- waa disgusted at the way ihe audience laoj;hed 07er his wake.
A miseiablX boy on Rose Hill found a Komau candle in the house, Monday,
and chalking it perfectly white, succeeded n palmin ; it off on his aged grandmother as . genuine tallow article. When that e xcellent lady oarce to light it the deception w.ts soon app irent, but
by retaining her presence ot mma fine fell over two hairs rithoutserioualy hurting herself. The r uthor of the mischief now sits dor- n with a crutch, Danbtry In Mobile there are two twins who cannot be punished for any offense, because neither can, be identified. Recently one cf these young iaoies put to flight, ttrjp dog catchers and nxclix3xuunJn tsoort she proved to be her sister. A policeman accompanied, her home to arrest the oihtx, bat on arriving could not tell which he had brought"nd which was elready there, and went away Borrowing without either.
Sallw ay Speed. Fifty and sixty miles an hour for railway travel is oftencr talked about than realifc'd. A speed of sixty miles au hour for a. regular passenger train has never been Attempted, except in one instanceand that on a wide seven foot gauge in England. This rapid speed pleased travelers very much, and many willingly paid the 2arge extra charge for being shot along over the ground at a rate so gneai as to render the way station of the sccoai modation trains almost invisible. But the railway company soon foticd they had passed the practical limit of the endurance of wood and iron. They found that the "wear and tear" induced upon both road and rolling stock by such excessive speed was beyond the endurance of finance, and that high rate of peed was ennseqaently abanaooed. There are but few trains, now run ning on the best wide-gauge, straight reads in England, which average a speed of fifty miles an hour. Thejexpren traffic is usually done at the rate "of 'tliirtj'-five to forty muta, wlSle the ordinary trovet is but twenty-twex -.
Ksiiroad travel m thjsi ..country is much slowor, and necsjurify so in consequence of the lack of sohdity in oar
roads and Tolling Btock. Our "lightning traims" scarcely reach, and very seldom exceed, thirty-five miles an hour in fact, our fast trains dp .not average over thirty miles, while oqir general passenger traffic does' not 'exceed an average of twenty. Freight trains -usually m about sixteen, to eighteen miles an hour. ,
BO ABSOLUTS! STATUS!
of mjnstioe aa the robes of the American neonle. oreanixed into the lUnubUcan wets.
When the war ended the state of things at the South was very sad. Greeley has described
the Southern mortification and rage. I thought he used strong kiaguage, bat we know from what onr feelings would have bean if we had been conquered. I believe that Dac ncation br the Republican Dirty would
have proceeded quietly, and would have effected its end but for one fact, and that fact is the Demooratic party. It resisted every measure of reconstroctien. and called them unconstitutional. Bat just hi fast aa anything was done the Democratic party declared it oinht to ne undone. What would we have done, if we had been in their position at tbe South, had we discovorod oar old voli'ical
allies still working with at !' The people of
tue Boutn cannot near to civs no. The? ne-
tieve their old noUtioal friends will unite in
their I ehalf, and all that w.l! have to be done
is to carry their own States
They uipport Horaoo Greeley to-day because they think he will bring a IlonwcraUe rernora-
"' Woorall. ' It has commonly been imagined thai the action ofxarare, when applied to a wound, it to ause death without any visible stitigglo, and without paia. Dr. Claude Bernard has, however, shown this notion to be utterly erroneous. He states that the paralysis creeps gradually on from limb to lloabj depriving the subject of motion, and yet without in the slightest degree affecting the Intel-, lectual faculties of power or volition, which remains unimpaired to the last moment. This he conaidei one of the
greatest tortures to whienan intelligent being c. be rabjected. Death Is caused by the paralysis of the napira-
tory orgaxa, which cease to provide me blood witt. the qoantityof twygea it reouires. '
Gou HoLusrss. late ref Otto.
emigrated to California weral yoass ago. has bow 700 acres of attoond' grove and 60,090 trees in bearing twdiyOrWG
orange, lemon and oave troe. ne-owna 100,000 acres of land, and hs$$jjjQp cuttle and sheen. He Ms sKewMiiM' 'tmlt,
Vui.hnl Af im mm! far ilssBisvA!
year, and is going to gvo M telf
ztsmrraiy.
fly!
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