Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 18, Brookville, Franklin County, 6 May 1870 — Page 1

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PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY BT C . n . B I N G H 4 M , Proprietor.

Office In the National Bank Building, Third Story) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.50 rER YEAR, is advakce. $3.00 " " IF KOT PA'D IW "ADVANCE. No postage on papers delivered within this County. "The Great Geological and Mining Excursion of Indiana." Under the above heading the St. Louis Journal of Commerce has a highly laudstory description of the recent excursion to Clay county. To show how great the effect is on the business men of other places, we copy a few paragraph. This is but one of the many proofs which go to show the inestimable value to result to the State from the excursion: "The State of Indiana has brought to herself great honor by the successful prosecution of the most extensive mineralogies! excursion ever undertaken in this country. Under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture, and the enlightened guidance of her distinguished State Geologist, Prof. 12. T. Cox, the excursion nlaoned by them to the Brazil Block Coal and Iron Field occurred on Tuesday and Yednesday, with all its appropriate concomitants of a large company of intelligent and beautiful women, complete and elesant railway cars, and, above all, the smiles of a benignant Providence by the gift of the most lovely weather. "The section of Indiana distinguished as the 'Block Coal Region,' including some 2,000 square miles of territory, has long been widely known as among the most fertile and attractive districts of the United States. Lying between the cities of Indianapolis and Terre Haute, and penetrated by leading lines of railways in various directions, the settlements and ag Ticultural developments of this favored region have been rapidly accelerated. But .it is only within a comparatively short .sp ice of time that the almost infinite mineral wealth; lying beneath the surface of this country, has been brought to public attention. One by one, shafts for mining the coal peculiar to the district have been opened, and immediately and surely the qualities peculiar to this carboniferous treasure have been commanded to thj appreciation of capitalists of Indiana, aiid the neighboring States. Blast furnaces for t lie smelting of iron ores have been erected in some half a dozen localities in the northern portion of this Block Coal j Field, a result which has naturally and J inevitably followed the discovery of a superior luol for the purpose, and the -irand ! and successful experiment undi at Carondclet of using the soft coals of the West 1 in the manufacture of iron. j "With the vaunting way that we A trier- j ieansare said to have, in speaking of the j products of our highly favored country, it j is well to say in this connection, that the j characteristics of the "Brazil Block Coal" I are ia many respects individual and pc- ! i-uliur. The stratifications and fracture o.1 thi? coal, the tibrous appearance of its j charred material, and other features, plainly indicate, even to the most superficial j geologist, that the vegetation carbonized to produce it, differed very materially from those species which for.ii the bulk J of he bituminous caals of this country. The pieces are mi tied either in Urge tl it : blocks, nearly rectangular, or iu such i hapes as show a once at cubical formation. ! The dryness of these coils is evident, and the chemical analvses demonstrate them! to be unusually free from pyrites ur other injurious earths. "Nor were the projectors of this excursion le?s fortunate in tho excellent char acter of the components of the expedition J than in the perfection of the weather, and j other minor matters. Many of the most j l-Hto.rushed iron and mineral workers,! and successful operators of the West, were j present. It was observed by all that the j element composing it, was of an unusual- j ly solid, practical and intelligent t-hurac-ter. The preponderance uf thoughtful j tuen men who eame to observe, learu aud ; comment, was forcibly apparent. i 'The occasion is one long to be remem- j bored, and will exert a very influential ef- j feci i n the material development of the j motive portion of our sister State of In-! diana." i Canadian Annexation Convention at Niagara Falls, July 4, 1870. T.i i! ,),; of the United States atulthc !.-i''.v'i Provinces: Nearly one hundred years ago, thirteen out of fourteen British colonies of North Ameru'j resolved to sever their connectiou with the mother country, aud to establish a nation for themselves. After a contest of seven years their object was accomplished, but one colony refusing to j'in in the effort for independence. This action of Canada must seem strange, considering that it had just been conquered from l iaiiee, and therefore could have no ym athy with England, and its deter-' nation could oulv be accounted for up- ! on the claim of precipitancy on the part cf the other colonies, by misdirectiou on the prt of its leading men, or upou mere oiJcnt which often shapes the destinies ' mankind and forms the nations of the enth. I lie wisdom of the thirteen colonies in Pn.ing from the mother country, and la establishing a uation for themselves, is now admitted by the civilized world. Irotu thirteen feeble colonies, they have grown to thirty-eight powerful States, and 5 purchase, annexation, and conquest, hae extended from the lakes to the gulf, nd from the Atlantic to the Pacific V-coans. Their advancement has been 'Dc.jualed among the natious of the earth. J-unng the same time, while Canada has regressed in common with the general dvaiicemeut among mankind, the United states, with a kindred people and similar Btur;il advantages has'surpassed all oihrs in the tapid increase of population, in general diffusion of knowledge, and iu Material aod political progress, thereby proving conclusively the manifest eupewnty of republican over monarchial in "'tutions. At all times, during the war of iudeFaience aud since, the people of the united States have been in favor of a "ion with Canada. The union of kinl ud contiguous nations has, in all es) been advantageous to the nations 60

VOL. 9, NO. 18. united, and recently this principle has been exclusively practiced in'Kurope, with the general approval and uniform advantage of the united nationalities. As a very large number, if not even a majority, of the people of both countries are known to be in favor of union, .which number is rapidlv increasing, therefore many of the friends of annexation, both in the United States and" the British 1 rovinces, have concluded to call an annexation convention at Niagara Falls on the 4th of July next, for the purpose of fraternal and political intercourse, with the hope that a speedy union may be effected, so necessary to the continued peace and political prosperity of the two kindred countries. One delegate from each Congressional District in the United States, and one delegate from each 1000,000 iohabitantas in all British Provinces, will coninose the convention

-- the purpose of the convention, the "Old j Ship Monarchy" dismantled, with bulwarns move in, aespouea ot its ornaments iuu uuuiug, idu mating a complete wrecK. ! nni I. A I. I'll . 1 , t 1 nut uc cti'i uvcr me rants. to be dashed to pieces, on the eternal rocks of Liberty be neath. Other new and striking Republican and political spectacles will be presented, intended to manifest and insure a fraternal feeling, and encourage the speedy union of the two kindred countries. By order of the. Canadian Annexation Society. Americus T. Wilson, President, Washington, D. U. Locis Montague, Viee President, Quebec, C. E. Charles S. Donaldson, Secretary, Tdrotito, C. W. From the Chicago Tribune. How to Bring Down Gold. The Indianapolis Journal is apparently unable to see any difference between exSecretary Chase's doctrine of four years ago, that the ' road to resumption was to resume" when gold was at a premium of 37 to 45, and our present demand, now the premium is only from 10 to 12, that the Secretary of the Treasury sell gold enough to bring the premium to par and then resume. The diffetence is that Mr. Chase proposed to resume while gold was at a premium so high as to render it probable that many millions of greenbacks would be presented for redemption we propose to bring gold to par by sales of gold and then resume. With gold at 37 to 1.), a run on the Treasury might be expected sufficient to drain it of its cold. But with no premium on gold, or even with a nominal premium of one or two per cent., who would run on the Treasury? If greenbacks were at par with gold, no reserve of any considerable amount would be required to maintain redemption, because nobody would have any interest in demanding redemption. Tbe New York Bulletin objects that, with a premium down to from one to three per cent. 'Speculators could on a margin of from one to three millions, buy up 8100,000,000 of gold, and. holding it off the market as long as they pleased, could put jt up to an incredible premium. Well! If this were true, have we not got to bring tbe premium down to one to three before it will disappear altogether? Whatever the inherent consequences of such a premium, we must reach it on the road to resumption, aod why not as well now as later? But the fear is a phantom. When the premium on gold in England ctuie down to from two to three the bank voluntarily rehumed payment. We shall do the same. When gold is daily passing at pir, who is going to buy it up at a premium on speculation? In the gold con-piracy, when several hundred millions of nominal sa'es of gold had been made, and when there were really only 817,000,000 actual gold in the market, the offer to sell 4, 000,000 of real gold scattered the crowd of gold gamblers in a panic. Mr. Uould testified that it required no capi'al to buy nominal gold, because, as soon as bought, it is loaned to those who have sold and want to "cover.' But comparatively to buy a million or so of actual gold is a great deal of trouble, and requires a vast amount of capital. We firmly believe, therefore, that a sale of $15,000,000 of actual gold would at any time bring the premium from llti down to lOSor lower. A sale of 810,000, -000 more would be likely to bring it from 2 to 1. And with the premium at from 2 to 4 gold would come into usa extensively as change, in those branches of trade whose profits enable them to be most liberal, and practical resumption would begin. No reserve of gold is of any use for a debt we don't pay. After our cur rency has come to par, our gold reserve can be of little use, as very little gold will be called for. Its only important use is to help bring us to par. And if it is ever to give us any help in that way, it must begin before greenbacks have come to par ef themselves, or it will be too late. Ft'Nsr Mistake. Not many days ago a gentleman entered a certain " insurance orhee located ou Main street near the dock, aud tossing a paper on the counter, eaid: "That's run out, and I want to get it renewed." A broad grin suffused the face of the wicked clerk, as he unfolded the document. "You are sure this has run out,ateyou! ' said he. "Well," was tbe reply, "I suppose it has. My wife gave it to me, saying it had run out, and I must get it renewed right off." Then the clerk held up what was to all appearance a marriage certificate. The applicant for iusurance seized it and departed hastily. It has been asked, "When rain falls, does it ever give up?"1 Of course it does in dew time. Tho bachelor has to look out for number one the married man for number two.

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THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.

From the Indianapolis Journal. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. His Emancipation Proclamation His Religion Anecdotes by Carpenter. Mr. Chase told me that at the Cabfnet meetinc immediately after the battle of j Antietam, and just prior to the issue of I the September Proclamation, the President j entered upon the business before them by savins ''that the time for the annunciation of the emancipation policy could be no longer delayed. Public sentiment," he thought, "would sustain it many of his warmest friends and supporters demanded it and he had promised his God that he would do it." '1 he last part of this was uttered in a low tone, and appeared to be heard by no one but Secretary Chase, who was sitting near him. lie asked the President if he correctly understood him. "i made a solemn row bpore God that if General Lee was driven back from Pennsutaani, 1 icould crown the result bu the declaration of freedom to t he slaves." When informed that certain ministers in Springfield would not vote for him, he drew forth a pocket New Testament and said: "These men will know that I am for freedom in the Territories, freedom everywhere as free as theConstitution ahd laws will permit, and that my opponents are forslavery. They know this, and yet, with this book in their hands, in the light of which human bondage cannot live a moment, they are going to vote against me, 1 do not understand it at all." Here Mr. Lincoln paused paused for long minutes bis features surcharged with emotion. Then he rose and walked up and down the reception room in the effort to retain or regain his self-possession. Stopping at last, he eaid, with a trembling voice, and his cheek wet with tears: '-1 know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is iu it. If lie has a place and work for me and I think He has I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but Truth is everything. I know that! am right, becausa I know that Liberty is right; for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that a house divided against itself can not stand; and Christ and Reason say the same, and they will find it so." "Douglass don't care whether slavery is voted up or down, but God cares, and humanity cares, and I care, and with God's help I shall not fail. I may not see the end, but it will come, and I shall be vindicated, and these men will find that they have not usedjtheir Bibles right. "Much of this was uttered as if he was speaking to himself, and with a sad, earnest solemnity of manner impossible to be. desciibed. After a pause, he resumed: Does it not appear strange that man can ignore the moral aspeet of this contest? A revelation could not make it plainer to me than that slavery or the Government must be destroyed. Tbe future would be something awful, as I look at it, but for this roek on which I stand, (alluding to the New Testament which he still held in his hand) especially with a knowledge of how these ministers are going to vote. It seems as if God had borne with this thing (slavery) until the very teachers of religion had come to defend it from the Bible, and to claim for it a divine character and sanction, and now the cup of iniquity is full and the vials of wrath will be poured out. C. The Lost Steamer. The calculations which have been made by competent maritime authorities leave little room for doubt that the City of Boston never got futtheron her way to Liverpool than Sable Island. The probability is that she was the steamer seen by a small vessel to be sending up rockets, aud 'turn -ing to all points of tho compass.' She was unmanageable, and must have foundered iu the gale all her boats having probably been swept away before the peril was seen to be imminent. The sympathies of the public must necessarily be with the friends of all who were on board, as well as with the owners of the vessel, to whom no blame whatever can be attached, and who have done everything in their power to find any trace of as fine a steamer as ever put out to sea. N. Y. Times. A Hint to Chair Makers. Chairs as they are generally made are a disgrace to our civilisation. Common sense, if not a knowledge of anatomy, should have long since suggested wiser .,..-. C f nmr.rt o.,rl Llth. Vot while in almost evervthins ! ....... ., - - - - j n else we have innumerable forms furnished and piessed upon our attention, in chairs it seems impossible to escape the traditional elements of badness which re-appear un der every variety of material, carvings and adornments. The chair you are now sitting in has a back possibly straight, more likely convex at the height of the snoulders and concave at the small of the back. Sitting up as stiff as a poker, you may escape its inconveniences, but more likely you have settled down to your fate in it, tiil your shoulders are pressed forward, and j you are doubled over into a position neither anatomically elegant nor healthj lul. These curves should be exactly rei vatsed. The email of the back needs supi port, as you will find by filling the conj cavity of the chair back with a cushiou, I aud the shoulders do not need pressing forward as chair-builders seem to suppose. I This matter is of considerable consequence j to those who have to sit a great deal, and such a man will find it as much for his interest to take pains to have a good chair, as a good pen, or a good watch. a While a lecturer was describing the nature of gas, a lady inquired of a gentleman near her what was tho difference between oxygin and hydrogin? "Very little, madame,' eaid he. "By oxygin, we mean pare gin, and by hydrogin, gin and water."

BROOK VILLE, IND., FRIDAY,

A Grand Effort. The Washington Correspondence of the Cincinnati Chronicle pays the following compliment to Senator Morton regarding his late speech on the Georgia ques tion: I am writing to-day in the Senate gal lery, where I am waiting to hear Senator Morton's speech on the Georgia question. I will give you an idea of it as he proceeds. He is sitting to-day, too weak to stand, but his voice rings out clear and loud for national protection to the Union men of the South. The fearful tales of horror and outrage which are coming up from the state ot Alabama, are making the blood j run coid aa tbe terrorism which reign in the btate is something more terrible than I can relate. To day one of the Representatives from Alabama is in receipt of letters advising him that in his district within the last two weeks there hare been no less than twentyfour murders committed, and this very member is warned not to return to his home. Under these influences the speech of to-day is being made. Morton is tearing away the flimsy pretexts with which the question has been surrounded by the special pleaders of tbe Senate. He rightly declares the question to be: Shall tbe loyal people of Georgia be protected, or shall they be left to the mercy of the Ku Klux Klans of the South. Senator Morton is to-day making a ringing appeal to Congress in behalf of these men. He is giving to the country tbe most complete and succinct history of the Ku Klux Klan that has ever been presented. His evidence is drawn from the records. His facts are indisputable, and as the eloquent Senator rehearses'the tale of horrors they have committed, the galleries are listening with breathless at tention. I saw strong meu weep like children as the horrible record was enunciated. This speech will ring through the country, calling upon the Republican party to witness that the Democracy of the North is responsible for whatever delay there has been in the work of reconstruction. He reads from the platforms of the Democratic Conventions of seventeen States to show that there is the true source of the encouragement which the "overpowered" but "unvanquished" rebels of the South have to-day to persevere in their bloody work. Hisspeeeh gives strong confirmation of what I have all along been telling you in my letters that Congress has been too hasty in the reconstruction, and that we shall have amplereason, in the leisure of the future, to repent the haste of the past. Nay, our reason of repentance has already begun. We have another campaign to make in tbe .North on the unsettled questions of tbe war, and if you could have been as I was this morning, in the midst of a group of men on the floor of the House, and saw them shudder as the tale of the terrors in Alabama was read to them, as received by this morning's mail, you would have joined in the prayer which was then uttered, that this Government might soon find ways and means to protect its defenceless children iu the South. One man writes: "For God's sake givo us protection or help us to get away from here." Another give the account of a cold-blooded murder of Mr. Boyd, a District Attorney in Alabama, whose room at a hotel was burst open a few nights since, and he was shot with innumerable balls, and so beaten with the butts of pistols thathis features were almost indistinguishable. Tho men who committed this crime were permitted to leave the hotel in peace, and as they went out unwittingly raised their masks. A party of negroes saw them, and casually remaaked, "Those are such and Buch men." The very night that party of negroes were all taken out and hung. Tbe men who write these things to their Representatives dare not sign tbeir names to their letters, for discovery would insure a like fate to them. Evidences are accumulating every day of a deep-laid plot, extending through all the Southern States, to take possession of tbe entire governments thereof. At the rate things are going on now, it will take more than twice the number of men now in our armies to afford protection; and even where the regular army is stationed there are numbers of its soldiers in sympathy with rebels, because they have been recruited from the men who .were in the Confederate armies during the war. 1 don't like to think evil of the officers of the regular armv, but I am told that to-day. in some of the principal cities of the South, tbe officers in command, to put a mud phase upon it, display greater sym VJ tor, and affiliate unreservedly with, the old rebel element than they do with the Union people. I can give instances where I know this is the case. At present writing it is doubtful whether there will be a vote taken on Georgia this week. Be that as it may, the country should mark those men who so vote that their acts will defeat the loyal men of tbe South. American Beauty. American maidens, not American matrons, have established our national reputation for beauty. Their blooming reign is brief. A librarian in one of our most popular public libraries, who has long enjoyed the opportunity of observing, from year to year, great numbers of the same faces among the lady-readers, estimates the average duration of this fragile loveliness at less than three years. He assures me that the young woman who appears in the perfect bloom of physical beauty to-day will, especially if she should marry within that period, generally lose, before its close, nearly all that had made her face especially attractive at its beginning, and thn appear, not three, but six. eisht -"sari. older. The Euroto: k pean worn her social expects t charm. England.' tontrary, increases 1 by marriage, and 2 of her personal rmany, France, or lea. that wt look tot

MAY 6, 1870. tbeqneens of society among women of advanced age, for those highly vitalized and magnetic feminine natures that retain their power to please in apparent defiance of the course of years thjjt grace society nd eommand tbe sincerest homage at the age of seventy. The Ager.' A Wail op ths Shadowless M!. Onee upon an evening bleary, While I sat me, dreaming, dreary, In the innshine, thinking o'er Things that passed in days of yore: While I nodded, neariy sleeping, Gently eame in something creeping, Up my back like water creeping, Creeping upward fiom the floor. " 'Tig a cooling breeze," I mattered, 'From the regions 'neath the HootOnly this and nothing more." Ahl distinctly I remember It was in that wet September, When the earth and every member Of creation that it bore, Had for weeks and weeks been soaking In the meanest, most provoking Foggy rain that, without joking, We had ever seen before. Bo I knesr it must be very Cold and damp beneath the floorVery cold beneath the floor. So I sat me, nearly napping, In the sunshine, stretshing, gaping, And a feeling quite delighted With the breeze from 'neath the floor. Till I felt mo glowing colder, And the stretching waxing bolder, And myself now feeliug older Older than I felt before, Feeling that my joints were stiffer Than thoy were in days of yore Stiffer than they'd been before. All along my back the creeping Soon gave place to rushing, leaping, As if countless frozen demon. Had concluded to explore All the cavities the varmints 'Twixtmeand my nether garments, Through my biots into the floor; Then I found myself a sinking Gently shaking more and more Every moment more and more. 'Twas the Ager, and it shock me Into heavy clothes, and took me Shaking to the kitchen every 4 Place where there was wir.nth in store. Shaking till the "China" rattled, Shaking till my molars rattled , Shaking and with all my warming, Feeling colder than before; Shaking till it had exhausted All its powers to shake me moreTill it could not shake me more. Then it rested till the morrow, When it came with all the horror That it had the fce to borrow, - Shaking, shaking as before, And from that day in September Pay which I shall long remember It has made diurnal visits, Shaking, shaking, oh! so sore! Shaking oflmy boots, and shaking Me to bed if nothing more, Fully this and nothing more. And to-dny the swallows flitting Round my cottage see me sitting Moodily within the sunshine Just insido my silent door, Waiting for the Ager, seeming Like a man forever dreaming, And the sunlight on me streaming Sheds no shadows on tbe floor, For I am too this and 8 allow TO M IKK SHADOWS 05 THE FLOOR, Nary shadow any morel Remarkable Changes Influence of Improvements in the Western Country. Allusion has frequently been made of late to probable meteorological and physical changes which from slight indicationsafforded, would probably be wrought by the introduction and spread of railroads and telegraph wire throughout the West. More recent data have beeu given in a paper published at White Pine, Nevada, which states that many travelers have noticed that the great plains are losing their arid character. There U abundant testimony that the streams are carrying more water than in former years, and that in many places where there was not a drop of water twenty years ago there, are now running streams that do not dry up in the summer months. The first emigrants who crossed the plains were subjected to great inconvenience from a scarcity of water, and often perished from thirst in places where to-day there ia water for all purposes throughout the year. . The Arkansas was dry in the year 18G2, from the Pawnee Fork to the Cimaron Crossing, and previous to that time the Pecos was dried up, so that at many places the inhabitants were obliged to dig for water. And the Moro valley and plains were at that time almost destitute of vegetation. Now, the vegetation is luxuriant, and it is one of the very best wheat growing sections. Tho town of Denver, Colorado, was built on the banks of an extinct creek, which it was supposed would remain dry; but after the settlement, to tbe astonishment, of the people, it became quite a stream, and is now crossed by bridges. The writer gives the names of several rivers that were dry during the summer months ten year ago, and are now constantly running in fair streams, and predicts that the" man who travels over the Union Pacific Road twenty-five years from this time will find that tbe sage brush has given way to crops of all kiods growing in the greatest luxuriance. The old settlers in Nevada do not hesitate to say that in many places the streams have increased one-fourth in size during the past five years, and in aome places where there was no water, there are now small but constintly running streams. Salt Lake is Beveo feet higher than it was ten years ago. j. 1 11 " Faber, the pencil mak 1 be art fat that he can't walk 4 his pencils, he has to be led. i I '.V. " Conscience In most men m citation of the opinions of.

WHOLE NO. 42(3.

MARRIAGES. BT JOSH BILLINGS. Marriage is a fair transaction on the face ov it. But there iz quite too often put-up jobs in it. It is an old institution, older than the pyramids, and pbull of ov hyrogliphics that nobody can parso. History holds its toogue who the pair waz who first put on tbe silken harness, and promised to work kind in it thru thick aud thin, up hill and down, an on the level, rain or shine, survive or perish, sink or swim, drown or flote. But whoever they wa, they must have made a good thing of it, or so menny ov tbeir prosterity would not have harnessed up since and drove out. There is a greate moral grip to marriage; it iz the mortal that holds the sooshul bricks together. But their ain't but darned few pholks who put tbeir money in matrimony who could sit down and give a good wiittea opinion whi on arth they cum to do it. ibis is a proof that it iz one ov them natral kind ov acksidents that must happen, just as birds fly outov tbe nest, when they hev feathers cauff, tell whi. without being able to Sum marry for buty, and never diskover their mistake: this is lucky. Sum marry for money, and don't see it. Sum marry for pedigree, and feel big for six months, and then very sensible cum tew the conclusion that pedigree ain't no better than skimmilk. Sum marry bekase they have bio highs ted sum whore else; this iz a cross match, a bay and sirrel: pride may make it en durable. Sum marry for love without a cent in their pocket, nor a friend in the world, nor a drop ov pedigree. This looks desperate, but is the strength of the game. If marrying for love aiu't a success then matrimony is a ded beet. Some marry because they think wimmin will be scarce' next year, and live to wonder how the crop holds out. Sum marry to get rid of themselves, and discover that the game was one that two could play at, and neither win. Sum marry, they can't tell why, and live they can't tell how. Sum marry the second time to get even, and find it a gambling game the more they put down the less they win. Sum marry tew be happy, and not finding it, wonder where all the happiness goes to when it dies. Almost everybody gets roanied, and it is a good juke. Sum marry in baste, and then sit down and think it carefully over. Sum think it over careful fust, and then set down aod marry. Both ways are rijiht, if they hitthe mark. Sum marry rakes to convent them. This is risky, and takes a smart missionary to do it. Sum marry coquetts. This is like buying a poor farm heavily mortgaged, and working the balance ot your days to clear oph the mortgages. Married life has its Chances, and this iz just what gives it flavor. Every body luvs tew phool wilii the chances bekauze every body expects to win. But I Vm authorized to state that every boddy don't win. But, after all, married life iz full az certain as the dry goods biznesi. No man can swear exackly where he will fetch up when be touches calico. Kno man kan tell , just what calico haz made up its mind to do next. Calico don't know even herself. Dry goods ov all kinds is the child ov circumstances. ouui never iiiuiiy, uui mis jusi ci . , , . ". ... J i risky; the disease iz tno same, with another J I u v. .. i i. ns nie to it. 1 1 e mull n i v Maiius vu 111c uiurb suit- . . , . . A . t . 1 ermsr, and dassant, iz more apt tew ketch , , , .. ,' . , . , , . co d than him who ptches luz head lust . 1 into the river. ! Ihere iz but few who never marry be- ! ru i . i . . - .. v: kuse thev Mon't they all hanker and : most ov them starve with bread before them (spread on both sides), jist for tbe lack ov grit. Marry ycso! iz mi motto. I hev tried it, and I know what I am talking about. If any boddy asks yu whi you got married (if it needs be), tell him you don't RRCOLUEKr. Marriage iz a safe way to gamb'e if you win, yu win a pile, and il'ou loze. 311 don't loze enny thing, only the priveleue of living dismally alone, ind soaking your own feet. 1 repeat it in italics, MARRY YOCXo! There is but one good excuse for a marriage late iu life, and that iz a second Conundrums. Why do thieves lead a comfortable life? Ans. Because they take things easy. When is iron like a band of robbers? Ans. When it is united to steal. Why is the Prince of Wales like a chignon? Ans. Uecause he's tbe heir apparent to tho crown. Why are dogs like good humorists? A ns. Because' they always have a waggish tale. Why is the bald head of a man like Greenland? Ans. Because iti tbe great wbite bare place. My first is what lies at the door; my second ia a kind of corn; my third ia what nobody can do without, and my whole is one of the Uoited Stales. Mat.ri-mony. . Diversity in Unity J-;y !ere life is full of df Kvervwl unity. Tbe air we brsathe isl composed of too much life, and; three-fourths of positive deat which quenches fire, ia madl ti-w. mable of gase' wi ch best pj ere n , natur j strangest div lia iim.-t tinlaii I i

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TRANSIENT. One wjoare, (10 lines,) one insertion $1 t9 One square, two insertion. , I W One touare, three insertion 2 9 AH sabsequeat insertions, per square . .... ..... YEARLY. " " One column, efaaagaable quarterly... ..$74 Tarc-qarter ft eolana . ...... 6 0) One-half of a column ., 3 aa Ona-quarter of a column 34 One-eighth f eoluma 1J 0 Transient advertisements sheuld ia all easel V paid for in advance. Unless a particular time is specified when handed in, advertisements wjll be published cntil ordered out and charged accordingly. . Dangerons Women. ano mai ui juciarianu lias developed a class of women that few believed to exist in this city, if indeed, anywhere in the world. We spoke last week of tbe letter from Richardson to Mrs. McFarland, written to her while she was yet the lawful wife of the man by whom the fellow was afterwards shot. But bad" as that was, it waa no worse than the letters since brousjht to light lrom women, educated, married women, in this city, written to Mrs. McFarland, for the purpose of iuduciug her to desert her husband. Uuc of these letters contains this counsel: My dear, what arc you going to do ? Whatever you decide upon of course your friends your true friends will accept. But 1 do hope you will act with firmness aod decision. It seems to me that that oue great effort is only a question of time. aod the sooner it is made the better for. you and your children. Do not for one moment longer entertain that morbid idea that ycu are responsible for the life of one who is sure to break you down completely and ruin, perhaps, your children, if they continue to live with him. It will kill you to live this way, and yDu must not do it." And this is written by one married woman to another, adjuring her to break her marriage vows! But the other letters from a woman who savs that she is a writer for the Independent and the Tribune, and occupies pew SO in Mr. Frothiugham'a church, is far ahead of this. She plies the wife with the most fulsome, nauseous flattery to get her upon the stage as an actress, speaks of the aeti r Booth as "a divine man," and addresses the wife she would lead astray in such words as these: 'It is profanation for you to stay with that man you shall not. No woman ought to put her womanhood to open shame, as you have been forced to do for veais. It is most cruel, most devilish. You cannot work, you cannot advance, you can make certain of no future for yourself and the children while you stay. There is nojus'iee, no reason, no hope in your doing it." The letters have no bearing on the question of McFarland's guilt or innocence, but they are before the public as illustrations of a class of women, and of men, too, whose writings and teachings and example arc doing much to corrupt society and poison all the sweets of domestic life. This is the literature of the Free Love school. It is tbo sentiment of the sentimental reformers! of the present da -popular, too, with powerful newspapC 44 "1 riT!tiou8. to.ptinder to f . . of V - ' mir 1 r rig1 1 but they are M,.r,(r Lovers, men and women, a p p ro v'c.''5 Tro there are no women more dangerous and mischieviou8 than thay who thus busy themselves in perverting others from tbe path of virtue and honor. N. Y. Obaerver. Magnetic Travelling Stones. They have walking stones in Australia, and, as we are informed, they have travelling stones in Nevada. Here is a description: They wore almost perfectly round, the majority of them as large as a walnut, and of un irony nature. When distributed about upon the floor, table or any other level surface, within two or three feet of each other, they immediately begin travelling toward a common centre, and there huddle up in. a bunch, like a lot of eggs in a nest. A sin,l; stone removed to a distaucc of three and a half feet, upon being released, at ooce started off with wonderful and somewhat . . i:... : i n . comical celerity to join its fellows; r S , , . i n wn v I mi r or h ltef 1 1 rpinni nfirl m taken motion less. They are found in a regiou that, si , , , , , , . though comparatively level, is nothing but , " 1 c .. 1 .1 1 barren rock, fceattered over this barren . i;,,i 1.. : r .. , , region are little basins, from a lew leet to a rod in diameter, and it is in the bottom ,. ,, ... , ' .m . n. ... .1 : c 1 r.ey are iruui 111c tize ui a j'ca iv ui ur six me lies in uiatueter. i ne cause 01these siou'cs rolling together is doubtlesa to bo found in the material of which they are composed, which appears to be loadstone or mjgnctic iron ire. fSeasida Grade. A Good Yarn. Once upon a time there lived among the hills of an adjoining country an old gentleman, whose entire personal and reap estate consisted of a wife, a well-ventila ted log cabin, half an acre of not very productive land, and a violent fondness for what is sometimes called "tangle-leg" whisky. One spring morning the owner of all this property was struck with the conviction that his land must be plowed. Butbe hud no horse, and found it impossible to borrow ooe. Nevertheless, the ground must ' be broke up," horse or no horse, and it was finally determined that the "old woman" thould hitch up the old man, and hold the handles and drive, while be drew the plow. This was accordingly done, and the plow weut bravely on, until the plow.-hare ran under a root, and the team was brought to a dead halt. But the "critter'" bad b.come warmed u, by thi time, and the old lady gave him rap with the reins and cried "git up theri!" he threw his weight upon the harness with a heavy jerk, which snapped tbe tracoa short off, uii1 he shot forward against tho fence, his head striking the end of a rail with the force of a maul. "Tbunderatioii, old woman!" he exclaimed, as he wiped . . . 1 ri. 1 ;iiie UH'ou ai.u uiifc nui" ma cJv'i didn't vou say w A o " , ! - the blood ard dirt from his eyes, "why Rev. Ir. Breckinridge was cxammingiince a dull stiulent who bad su inveternie abit of aiinweritig one question by asking soother. Wheie." iiiqoinil -.ther'doe-jtor, was Soli 11 te j-iv's". "lii-ni d ) refer t -its . It tjtivti, mi?"t " Iw,?; growled the.dociwr in bis .iteepesi ' I refer to its, location,; or n nii)U i"g el about it !" ilmliiin Ic i u iu tr Word

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