Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 August 1872 — Page 3

True Uiito Heath. BY MM- M- A. SIDUBB.

1 Lent my head t eatch the tound 1 if XTmbWMH partins breath.

4. .1 I ft of tbeuffrer Call biioSetb.' 'The name of the man who has crushed your dyed her " That havo been frue t$ him I" Then I thought of the wives of the present day, And the wives of long ago. Who hive suffered more than tongue could tell. Hv the cruel word and blow. ..... r, ; the " hmucleni live of their wedd-1 lords. ad for the world to know. Then I wondered if all these Injured ones. He they many or be they few, r.iuld have bared such white and spotless souls To their maker's seatching view. As thi fair young wife. who. through grief and To tne' false had been so true. Oh utricKsn wives, in your oheerless hemes, Hope on. smile on. I pray: K. r help shall o-me in God's good time, ye. the recompensing day. Though the (Sates of Pearl may open first, fo let in the morning ray. Though your hear'hs be desolate and cold. Lot your altar fires burn bright. 'r do a sin to revenge a sin; . " Two wrongs ne er made one right ; Let your false one see his sin or wrong tfy the aid of your vestal light ! t'p the Red River. Col. J. W. Forney writes home to the Philadelphia Press interesting sketches of the Southern country and its people. From a letter dated Shrevcport, La., we extract as follows : ' Wonderful, most wonderful is the foliage along the banks of Hcd riverwild, luxuriant and dense! A farmhouse or log-cabin is rarely seen. The tortuous current, the crumbling banks, I soil fertile, and without a single boulder or rock for a thousand miles, are objects of interest to geologists. Now the river spreads out its red waters as broad as the Delaware at its widest, and now again it iscondensed into such narrow limits that a boat can hardly j.ush its way through, (ireat tall cottonwood, o.k ami willow trees shoot up on either side, and the finest cattle are seen grazing in the shade. The banks are ragged and the course of the stream changes almost every year. It is not an uncommon thing to see great groups of trees which have sunk into the water, and the low, marshy grounds seem to extend back a long distance. The gunpowder willow grows most luxuriantly, and the American trumpet flower, with its scarlet blossoms and graceful foliage, twines around the thick undergrowth. Very seldom are the magnolia and palm seen in this locality, although the crape myrtle appears in nearly every little garden attached to the humblest negro iiut. " What impresses me, among other things in this novel region, are the kindly relations between whites and blacks. 1 have not heard a syllable of seccessionism. All the people are glad to see Northern men; all tire anxious for immigration and capital, and really they present tempting inducements. Some of the finest sugar, cotton and corn plantations are ottered as low as Ave dollars an acre; and when we consider that this is a region literally without winter, and that the soil is the most productive on the earth, and the general health as good as elsewhere, we should be surprised that so many hundreds of thousands of acres have lain dormant for centuries, if we do remember the prejudices of .-lavery and the habits still existing which have grown out of that institution. Every intell gent man I converse with admits that these prejudices will require at least a generation to cure, but they point with pride to the improvement of the negro since the emancipation and the ballot, and quietly extract from this fact the ultimate population of their now de serted plantations and their own certain future redemption. So much for the negro." Hooks for Children.. We find in our European exchanges a very sensible letter from Oeorge Sand on the subject of books for children. She rightly objects to those which deal too much and too lightly with the most awful problems which oppress mankind with poverty, crime and suffering in their most terrible and depressing aspects. She would not have a child glibly taught the horrors of life, the wickedness of being, the secrets of the charnel house, the bloodshed, the mortal hatreds that disfigure the fair earth. It is, of course, impossible to shield him from the Bight of surrounding evil ; so much the more reason for making him love what is good and beautiful, and "for cultivating in him the holy Hower of hope." The child must not " be turned to stone, either by the fear which produced egotism or by the indifference which consecrates it. 1 have been often told," she adds, " I keep children's souls too much in cotton wool. Does not nature itself teach this by imparting t mothers the instincts of preserving the most fragile creatures by the minutest precautions? Is not the young bird brought up in the softest down till its wings have grown ! The wings of the toul will show themselves when the time comes, and you have many other precautions to take while directing its lirst soarings.' JA York Evening Post. A S mot herd Volcano in Virginia. A letter from Lebanon, Russell county, in the Abingdon Virginian, says : " Nelson H. Frailey, of Castle's Woods in this county, went to the spring to wash, near the house, when his attention was attracted by an unusual noise, but seeing nothing which gave rise to it he started toward the house, and after walking some twenty paces he heard a report in the direction of the spring louder than he had previously heard, and not unlike the firing of a gun. He returned to the spring, and to nis aston

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ishment, found I ltige rock ci.ickin, and detonating, as l-.-iore deM-ribcd, vl intervals, the aperture in the rock still gradually lui constantly iiicteasiiig in size. These definitions continued for nK)ut twenty-four hours, and on his return to the spring next morning, he saw rocks which had been thrown up of various sizas, some of them weighing from four to five hundred pounds, presenting the appearance of a volcanic eruption." An Event of the Age. One of the most remarkable works of the age is now being constructed in Peiu. It is the Lima and Oroya railroau, which is to nurmount the great Andean mountain chain. Its cost is to be 27.000.000 of teils, and the con tractor is the celebrated Henry L. Meiggs, formerly of California. The road commences at Callao, on the Pacific coast, and is destined to cross the mountains at an altitude of over 16,000 feet. It will terminate at Oroya, a little Indian town, at an altitude of 1 2,200 leet. The Inca Indians, known in that country as "Cholos," are employed as laborers. They only can work in the rare mountain atmosphere. The tunnel ol the work will be 3,000 feet in lengtn, and elevated above the sea higher than the summit of Mont Blanc. Many ex pedients have been adopted to surmount the great engineering difficulties, and to so lengthen the road to the best advantsge tor the purpose of continually gaining altitude. The supplies for the eastern end of the work are obtained only by means ol a mule train, which has to pass over a 'duster of peaks 10,500 feet high and which are covered with perpetual snow. It is expected that this road will develop the mineral wealth of the Cordilleras, which consists of silver ore. Coal has been discovered in the vicinity of Oioya and Yauii. Some Jubilee Figures. In Europe Americans are held to be the most lavish people in the world, and when the foreign artists who came over to the Jubilee return home and tell the story of their compensation, our national fume in this regard will not be lessened. Strauss went back to Europe, after his three weeks' visit, with about ?25,IKX) in his pocket. Madame Peschka Leutner received for her season of thirteen concerts $16,000. Franz Abt, who conducted one of his own compositions at four concerts, received $1.200 S300 for each. Arabella Goddard received $5,000, literally for doinc nothing. Franz Hendel, $2,000, and Wehli,$ 1,250 fbf two appearances. The sums paid to the bands and orchestra were also enormous. The great orchestra drew $72.000 out of the treasury for the first week's salary. The musicians from other cities than Boston drew $10 a day per man ami transportation, and the Boston players $S per day. The home brass bands received on an average $25 per man for the week. The foreign bands cost about $5 per man a day, exclusive of expenses and transportation, board alone averaging about $3 per day. The Irish band cost, relatively, more than the rest although they were the poorest of all inasmuch as they did not appear until the last week of the festival, although they were under pay for the whole time. The total expense of the four foreign bands was about $100,000. Paper Shoes. A trial is now in progress at Lille, in France, against the furnishers of shoes with paper soles to the Army of the North during the late war, and the most flagrant rascalities are being brought to light in the investigation. One unfor tunate sufferer testified that tome days before the battle of St. Quentin, shoes were distributed among the mn of his company, and two pairs came to his share. One pair he put on in the morning of the day preceding the battle, and by mid-day they were completelyplayed out, literally falling from his feet. At mid-day he put on the other pair, but by 4 o'clock thy too had almost fallen to pieces, and when he attempted the next day to march in them, they fairly dissolved from his feet in the mud, leaving him to march barefooted in the intense cold, by which his feet were so badly frostbitten that he afterward had to submit to amputation. This poor fellow, it is said, manages to move along by the aid of two crutches, and is completely incpaciated for work. The furnishers of these shoes are immensely wealthy, and no one has manifested any disposition, until very recently, to relieve them of a portion of their scandalously earned fortunes. Thoughtful. A man in Massachusetts had an unreasonable grudge against his minister that lasted twenty-five years. But at last the hand of death knocked at the door of the parishioner, and he sent for his pastor. The good man hastily obeyed the summons with a solemn delight, as his being thus called showed a mellowing of the heart of the dying man which promised reconciliation both with heaven and himself. "You sent forme?'' he said, as he approached the bedside. " Yes,'' answered the dying man, whose breath was short and difficult, " I have but a few a few hours to live, and I sent sent for you to say that that this is your last your last chance to apologize !" Some Pumpkins. Judge Freelon, of Santa Barbara, Cal has a pumpkin vine covering an area of forty by ninety feet, which contains one hundred and sixty blossoms. If everv blossom turns out a pumpkin,

and every pumpkin attains the size of an average California pumpkin, tne gross weight will amount to about 4,000 pounds.

A CLINCHER.

Sehurc Corroborated, uud Grunt Convicted of Downright l.yiug. lh Chars that the President Offered Schur Patronage for his Influence Sustained. Hon. Carl Schurz, says the Chicago Times, of July 2ft, has corroborated his statement that he was offered the entire patronage of the Administration in Mi--souri if he would support the San Domingo job, in such a manner as to leave no hook to hung a doubt up n, notwithstanding its denial by the President. It transpires that the agent of Mr. Grant, in conducting the proposed trade was General Alfred Pleasonton, then Commissioner of Internal Revenue. In a letter to Mr. Schurz, dated on the 25th of July, Gen. Pleasonton says in substance that he was authorized by the President to mske the offer referred to. This explicit statement by Gen. Fle-wonton of a matter to which he was personally knowing, cannot fail to secure credence, notwithstanding all the denials that Mr. Grant has made or may make; for among the many points of difference between the first President and the last, there is none more thoroughly established than this: that while George Washington could not tell a lie, Mr. Ulysses (irant can and will upon every slight occasion. Witness his controversy with President Johnson, in which he was contradicted by testimony that would have secured his conviction for perjury if the matter had assumed that form. Associated Press Telegram..' Mew Youk, July 2G. Carl Schur, in a letter to the Tribune, says the letter quoted iu his St. Lui.i: speech, concerning patronage iu connection with the Kan Domingo business, was addressed to him by (Jen. Alfred Pleasonton. late Commissioner of Internal Kevenue. "It was written," says Schurs, " in reply to a note from me. of the contents of which I have a memorandum, which reads as follows : Ask PI whether he remembers the conversation he had with me concerning Santo Domingo in which he said that if I would support Pres. I could have all the patronage I wanted, etc.. and ask him whether he was authorized by Pres. to do so. Oen. Pleasonton's letter in reply is quoted in my speech. I have since received from Oen. Pleasonton the following note : ' ' New Yoke, July 25, 1872. " ' Dkab Gkxkbal : Of course I have ro objection to your uiviag my name to the public In explanation of the facts, I would say that being a friend of the President, as well as of yourself, I desired you should be on good terms, and yon should understand that there was no personal feeling in the way of relations matually satisfactory. Your statement is correct that the President wanted your support for his San Domingo scheme, and that yon could have had the patronage of the Goverument for giving it. That was the distinct impression the President's conversation made upon my mind, and I communicated it to you at the time. If the President positively denies having had any such conversation. I regret it. I may oousole myself with the reflection that this is the first time that any statement of mine has been questioned, while the President has had occasion before this to distrust the accuracy of his recollections. ' ' Yours truly, A. l'LKAeosTOJt.'" VIEWS OF REVERDY JOHNSON. A Review of Great's AdsnlelalrnlloB Its Fallerea-aerlerltr of Jreelej-IIU levet Ion te Courtm, and laaaeeected Integrity. In response to a request of Congressman James Brooks, of New York, for an expression of his political views, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson ha written a long letter, exhaustively discussing the present issues, in which he says : The question wi h the peeple now is, which of the two will they have for their next President, U. 8. Grant or Horace Greeley? The former, during the pr.st three years, in the judgment of all impartial men, hat proved bis utter unfitness for the office; the latter, during a period of more than 30 years, as the editor of a leading journal, his proved himself, in the judgment of all impartial and competent men, to be a man ot extraordinary abMity, perfect patriotism, and incorruptible integrity. Has not Gen. Grant demonstrated his unfitness for the Presidency ? His whole career as President hat been lull of blunders, to use no milder term. A few instances will establish this statement I GRANT'S BLC5DBR. 1. His selection of his first Cabinet was made without consultation with any honest and experienced friend, and without regard to merit. He nominated as the head of the Treasury a highly respectable merchant of New York, in ignorance of the fact that by the 8th section of the act of the 2d of September, 1782, such an appointment is expressly prohibited, and this upen grounds of the clearest policy the provision being that no person concerned in trade, directly or indirectly, is eligible to any office created by that set: and after finding his error, he foolishly requested Congress to modify the provision so as to enable him to make the appointment. 2. His selection of his relatives for high snd important trusts, at home and abrosd. obviously without ascertaining whether they were fit, and his refusal to rem vs many of them, after their unfitness I ad been rainfully exhibited. t, His negotiations for the annexation of the Dominican Republic through no Minister selected with the approvsl of the Senate, and his undignified lobbying with 8enatori to procure its ratification ; and his impertinent snd insulting message to Congress, after the treaty wss rejected, in which he designated the rejection as an set of" folly."

His usurpation of the war power iu threatening. Hayti, having the invent at hand of making good bis threat, if they SOaÜBlIted their hostilities sgainst Doiuinieu, and doing, this not only while the treaty was

undrr consideration by the Ben nie, but after they had rejected It. 4. Hit open and shameless tue of hit power of patronage to support hit personal administration, and to secure a re-election. 6. li it compelling Secretary Cox, a geutlenian of ability, who faithfully served hit country during the war at a general officer, und ho was adminittering the Interior Department to the aatit faction of tne country, to ret'gn, because he had refuted te tolerate the astestment upon the talariet of his clerks for party purposes, thereby countenancing the legality and propriety of tuch SMtMSMSSita, Nu greater violation ?( duty could be perpetrated. 0. Ilia not only permitting, but virtually ordering, the members of the Cabinet and the Bureau officers to canvass the States where elections have been or may be depcudmg, in hit behalf thuttcrioutly interfering with the public but'iess which they alone were appoint d to attend to, and for which alone they are paid. 7. In not only not disapproving of the ants of Congrett known at the Enforcement acta of 1870 and 1871, but in recklettly carrying them out by meant of the military. t. By his utter ditregard of the rights of the States and ot the people. By holding the Ittter still at enemies, and under this prctente continuing the military occupation of aome ef the States, and not interfering in any degree with the unconstitutional reckless, and corrupt governments which from the first to the present time have plundered thoae States, involving them in almost Hopeless bankruptcy. 9. Hit management of our foreign relations. His management of the Alabama Claims under the Washington Treaty. It is unfortunately but too true that his conduct in this respect from the moment that the difficulty presented itself to the period wheB it was removed in the way jutt stated, hat but terved to impair our character abroad and mortify us at home in making the world, at one time, believe that we were a nation of sharpers, and at another, a nation of blockheads. 10. His conduct, and the conduct of the party in Congrett and out of it, by whom he it supported, in extending the powers of thr General Governmont beyond those delegated, in direot antagonism to rigbts and powers not only inherent in the Stales and the people of the States, but expressly reserved to them by the Constitution itself. In this enumerstion of the objections te the election of President Grant, I do not design to impugn hit motives. I am willing to concede that they are good, and that he believet them patriotic; but my conviction it, and, if I am capable of judging, the facts which I have stated demonstrate itt soundness, that, conceding his motives to be good, he doet not know what the Constitution it, and it entirely ignorant of the principle! which should govern s republic like oura. MR. grf.blby's qualifications. I proceed now to submit to you tome observations in relation to Mr. Greeley. In the first place, hit love of country cannot be doubted. His ability displayed m thearduous position of an editor of a leading journal for very many yean, the thoutands and hundreds of thousands who have been hit constant readers will readily admit. Thut he has, at times, inculcated doctrines which many good and able men have th ught unsound, it, ao doubt, true. But wbat statesman hat not. Hit opinion ob the doctrine of protection it now contested by many men ot ability and patriotism. Whether hit policy ittound or not it a point upon which even able men differ. But thit is certain, that when Mr. Grcelty adopted it he had the support of tome of the ablest of our statesmen, having at their head Henry Clay, a name never mentioned in the hearing of Americans without admiration and gratitude. If Mr. Greeley has erred, it theuld be held to be tome extenuation that he erred in such company. That hit opinion it honestly entertained and has been maintained with great ability must oe conceded. But doet Gen. Grant hold the opposite opinion ? Or has he any opinion on thit nice problem of political economy? If he hate one) I've no idea be hat, his studies never having run on that line), he certainly never hat expressed it, and irom hit enforced reticence, if he was to do so, would net be able to give hit reatons. But why should Mr. G celey'e opinion on this point be any objection to his election? He hat accepted the nomination he received at Cincinnati, and with an engagement to set upon the principles there aanounced. One oi them is, I quote it, that " recognizing that there are in our midst honest but irreconciiaole differences of opinion with regard to the the respective syotemt of Protection and Free Trade, we remit thediscustion of the tubject to the people in their Congress Districts, snd to the decision of Congress thereon , wholly free of Executive interference or dictation." Thit givet to the friends of Free Trade an opportunity of satisfying the people that their doctrine it the correct one, and that if Congress shall to decide their decision will not be disspproved of by Mr. Greeley. Wnether Free Trsde or Protection is to receive the sanction of Congress will not depend upon the opinion of the President, even if he has one, and is disposed to act unit. He can effect nothing except ss he may be able to influence Congress by his patronage, and thit no man fit for the office would attempt, because to do to would be a palpable effort to corrupt that Department. That Mr. Greeley would not take such a step is certain, becsute he it honest, and because the platform upon which he agrees to stand prohibits it. PATRIOTIC TREATMENT OF THR SOUTH. Before the war, and occasionally during its continuance, his treatment of the South was believed by many to have been unnecessarily harsh. But in this no one seriously questioned hit motives. They were in no respect pertonal or other than patriotic. The wtr over, what htt been hit course? From the first moment to the present hour he has earnettly detired, and has done all in his power to effect it, to restore peace nd prosperity to the South. A constant and aruent friend of general amuesty and of universal suffrage, he cannot but have commended himself to the good opinion of the white and colored citixent of that region. The latter, perhaps, are more indebted to him and the Hon. Coarles Sumner for the rights n w secured to them than to any other two men in the country. His generotlty and kind regard for Southern men wat strongly illuttrsted by hit becoming one of the bail of Mr. Jefferson Davit, which terminated his cruelly pretrtoted imprisonment. For this step he was denounced by the radicals of his party, snd particularly by tuch of them at belong te the Union League of New York. They proposed his expulsion ; and who can forget, who has ever resd it, the proud letter of defiance which he addressed to the Leugue on the 23d of May, 18A7? In that letter, he quoted extracts from the Tribune to show how decided hit oplniou wet thst those who had been engaged in the insurrection should be enfranchited, snd their estates

nx pted from confiscation. He justified having become security for Mr. iJavit, and in hit letter, tmong other things, said : " Your iilUtmpt lo base a great, enduring parly on the hate and wrath necessarily engendered hv a bloodyCivll War, it as though you should plant a colony on id iceberc which had somehow drifted into a tropical ocean. I tell you here that, out of a life earneatly devoted to the good of human kind, your children will select my poing to Richmond and tigning that bail bond as the witett act, and will feel that it did more for freedom and humanity than all of you were con.petent to do, tLough you had lived to the age ot Methusaleh." Dr.NariciAL RstDLTs of srkblbt'i adminisTRATIOM. You will have tbut teen what I think of the present political condition of the country. Unlust I am greatly mistaken, it must give to every unprejudiced, intelligent, and Sttriotic man much anxiety and alarm, ow it this anxiety and alarm to be removed ? By removing the caute of it. By refuting a re-election to Gen. Grant, to whom in a great measure, if not exclusively, it is owing, and by placing In the Presidential office Mr. Greeley, whom entire life has exhibited bis generous qualities, hia great ability, hit brave patriotism, and hia unsuspected integrity. To be rich, he will tecept no present!, but would teornfully reject them if offered. He has not scores of relatives to provide for out of the public funds, by placing them in office t for which they are grossly incomnetent, and if he had, he would not so plsce them. He will not exert his patronage to influence State elections, or to secure s re-election for himself. He will not permit the pubCc funds, by meant of a tax upon the salaries of his officials, to be used fbff party purposes. He will not ruffer his Secretaries or their subordinate! to abandon their post s of duly and their attention to the public business, to traverse Stats after State on electioneering visits, so as to bring the influence of office in conflict with freedom ef elections. He will see that our foreign relations are so managed as to give honor and not disgrace to the nation. He will not tolerate the use of the military for the control of the elective franchise. He will not trample upon the rights of the Statet or the people by declaring StaUt to be in rebellion when they are not. And my hope it to live to see the day when thete vital c ianges w 11 be made ; when all solicitude about the fate of our country will be quieted; when peace and protperity will be tecured to the entire nation ; when the guaranteed rights of the citizen will be protected, the legitimate powers of the States maintained, and the authority of the General Government exerted only under the restrictions of the Constitution. In a word, when the Constitution bequeathed to ut ly our fathers shsll in all things be observed, and when we will have a President intelligent and patriotic enough to keep his official otth to "preserve, protect, and defend it." When all theso thingt shall occur, and not until then, will our prosperity and power be renewed, and our country become, as it wts in former dayt, the wonder and admiration of the world. Rsvcanr Johnson. Baltimore, July 15,1872. A Hundred and Sixty Square Yard sof Lungs. That seems a good deal of lungs for one man, but it is not more than most men have. Uoploy's " Lectures on the Education of Man" places the number of air cells in the human lungs at no less than 61)0,000,000. Dr. Hales says the diameter of each of these Jiay be reckoned at the one-hundredth of an inch, while the. more recent researches of Prof.Webbeo to show that the diameters vary between the seventeenth and the two-hundredth of an inch. If we estimate that the internal surface of a single cell to be about equal to that of a hollow globular diameter, we find, by adopting the measarement of Hales, that 000,000,000 such cells would possess, collectively, a surface of no less than 145 square yards ; or, by basing the calculation on the opinions of Weber, which are received by the scientific as facts, the extent of the respiratory surface in the human lungs is upwards of 160 square yards, or a superficial area equal to the walls of a modern sized house. When it is borne in mind that

every single point of this surface is in constant, uninterrupted contact with the atmosphere breathed, and is effected beneficially or injuriously according as the air inspired is pure or impure, it ceases to be a matter of surprise that a change in the condition ot the atmosphere rapidly affects the physical and mental condition, inspiring with vigor or producing lassitud or depression. The injurious effects of the air breathed in badly ventilated halls and close conveyances are easily explained by these facts, nor does it long remain a matter of wonder that persons laboring in close, badly ventilated rooms, where the air is loaded with poison, are generally short lived. In our present artificial modes of life, this sensitive surface of 160 yards is rendered susceptible to injurious influences, and is more exposed to them than in a state of nature. The necessity of extreme watchfulness against danger is therefore apparent, and so should be the propriety of being prepared for the contingencies of disease and death, so liable to occur. Every Eerson having others dependent upon im carries about 160 yards of admonition to insure his life. Science of Health. A Profitable Trip. The Prussian military band has made $60,000 in America. Of this sum five per cent, was given to the business manager, leaving a little over $57,000. This amount has been deposited with Consul General Roesing, to be paid to the individual musicians of the band upon their arrival at home. The money will be divided in fifty-three equal parts ; of t! ese the leader, Mr. Saro, receives four, about $4,300 or $4,400 ; Mr. Weivhase, the business man of the band, two parts, about $2,200 ; two other musicians, who as a business committee assisted Weivhase, receive one and onehalf part, or about $1,650. Every other member of the band one part, or nearly $1,100 apiece. From Overlook Mountain, Ulster county, N. Y., 50,000 farms can be seen