Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1870 — Page 1
COXGBESSMAK Diwfc lias anscolod fi the request of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee to make several addresses in the State daring the pending canvass." in,-
S? AT THE late convention in Boston, Mr. GARRISON took up Dr. BDSHNELL'S "Reform agaiast Nature." Quoting Dr. BCSHU
NELL'S "man has a look of thunder," he observed, smilingly: "Whereas John Doe looks like thunder, be has a right to vote and whereas his wife looks likea new blown rose, she hasn't." .......
GOVERNOR BULLOCK thinks the acts passed by the Georgia Legislature of '68 and 'CO, not of a political nature, are perfectly valid, as shown by the fact that Georgia bonds soil at higher rates than those of any other Southern State, and that the !onds of railroads, indorsed under the legislation of 1868, are gelling at -full value.
THE Journal is surprised to find that •the Republicau convention, on Saturday last expressed different view,upon an important public question, from those enunciated by the County Convention of 1868. The fact which is so alarming to the Journal is, to us, rim ply an indication of gratifying progress. The Party of Progress has not lain dormant for twentyfour months, but has been going ahead in earnest. Thus will it continue to do.
PUBLISHING
important facts in relation
to the great inlus::inl interests of Indiana is what the harmonious twin "organs," at Indianapolis, call "crippling the State."
It is unpleasant for us to be compelled to disagree with the "organs"—happily
united, as they are, on most of the leading questions of the day—but we have :t decided preference for facts,and believe
that their dissemination is more likely to benefit the public than the circulation of
absurd falsehoods. This may be a reprehensible obliquity of vision on our part, but we cannot sec the question in any
other light, and must ask the indulgence
of the "organ*."
THE
Indianapolis
Journal,
in an article
printed last week, but which has escaped
•our attention until now, speaks of the estimates of the cost of making iron, published in the EXPRESS, as "monstrously
ridiculous stories." We beg leave to sug
gest to the editor of the
Jour ml
that even
feeble effort to prove them ridiculous
stories" would be better than any amount of assertion. He docs not pretend to have
any practical knowledge of the iron business neither do we. We bring forward the testimony of tlie must experienced
iron-makers, the result of years of steady and intelligent observation. Against this evidence he pits his unsupported assertion. If he is willing to rest h's showing at any time,
ease there, we are ready to go to the jury.
"SHALL we build a new State House?" will ic one of the important questions before the next Legislature. How would it do for the State to hawk that institution to the highest bidder, as it did the Agricultural College, House of Kefnge, etc.? llaubstadt wants it, and Macksville would go a few thousand on it. We do mot seriously urge this contemptible plan of selling public institutions to competing localities, butconimend the Capitol to the friends of that policy as the most suitable masters." nil our State institutions for that mode
of disposal. Doubtless some city could be found that would give the State suitable
buildings and a handsome cash bonus for the honor of becoming the Capital City.
THE
Chicago Jijmbliran docs not ap
pear at all distressed at the discovery
that "the IToosier Democracy are in a pretty lix. At their State Convention, last month, they adopted a platform, the tenth plank of which denounces negro
suffrage and protests against the vote of the State being counted for the Fifteenth
Amendment. The amendment has since
been ratified by a suflicient number of States, and the Secretary of State will
speedily dcclarc it a part of the Constitution so that all the negroes in the S'ate ..will vote at the election in October!
'Here's richness!' This is a dilemma unvi,Hiked for. The Democrats can't retract
"their platform, and so the negroes will be unanimously against them, ibis is only
"one more of those vivid illustrations that the Democratic party is always furnishing, that the way of the transgressor is
hard."
Tin rccent decision of the L. S. Su.preme Court in the case of the
STATES VS. 1:1:1.KR,
UNITED
is an additional de
claration against the pretense that the
Government set up under the Rebellion was a 1?
facto
one.
KKHLF.H
was a Unit
ed States Postmaster before the war, and owed money to the Government at the
outbreak of the Rebellion. This amount he paid over under the order of the so
-called Confederate States to another perSOM, and now that he is sued for the bal
ance due from him to the Post Office Department, he endeavors to fct up as a de
fense that the act was done under the authority of the Confederated States. The Supreme Court declares that theso-
called authority was n» authority that it had not the character of a U-facto Government, and that Mr. KEELKK must
tl settle." These declarations arc import
ant. If a contrary view of the cace had been taken the Rebellion might have
l.een considered a speculation, which to many would have made treason profit a
ble. -v
DEMOCRATS! are making 110 predictions, b-it heretofore prominent radicals say we will carrv the county next October by sev eral hundred majority.
Journal.
Whenever an election is pending. Dem
ocratic papers arcahvays filled with such
stuff as the above. '1 lie less chance there is of 1 heir success,the louder they blow their horn. It is the old story of the hoy "whistling aloud to keep his courage up
while going through a graveyard. The Democratic party has been tramping through its own graveyard for lo! these
many
years, and has become an adapt at
whistling. In that graveyard lie buried vorv deep—the glory and honor of the
party—all that ever gave it a right to exist, all that ever niade it worthy of res
pect.
Hut who arc these
things
that
their
come out boldly on
side of the house, we
shall
cxecration.
respect
candor and fairness. Such enemies a~c not dangerous, for one knows just where to find them. Rut if any man is ba-e enough to profess to be a Republican, while doing all that he can to help the Democracy, he is dangerous and should IK spotted. A traitor in the camp is the wjrst and meanest of all enemies. In war, such a scoundrel is promptly executed in politics his punishment is universal
It is not impossible that
the etlitor of the Journal has his eye on :ch a Than. There
was
a JI DAS among
the Twelve Apostles, and he was not the last of his tribe. One of his more reccnt followers was
A. JOHNSON, and ANDY
has some disciples still living and doing the dirty work to whioh their
Jijweitfws prompts tjicui.
R!]frfnt
TERMS $3.00 A YEAR}
"Rebutting Damaging Statements." The Indianapolis dailies of the 17th morning fairly slop over with long leaders on the pig iron business. But little new matter is introduced, and nothing that requires immediate attention except this paragraph from the Journal: "We do not care to prove that iron can be made in Indiana for any particular specified sum: but we do care about rebutting the damaging statements given currency to by the Terre Haute <Express>, that the manufacture of iron in Indiana is an extra hazardous and losing experiment. Indiana makes better iron cheaper than Pennsylvania, as we shall take occasion to maintain hereafter. We are interested in the development of the State rather than the enriching of a half dozen Iron Masters." 1. If you "do not care to <prove> that iron can be made in Indiana for any particular specified sum," why do you assert that it can be made at a particular specified sum, viz. $22.50, thus using the influence of your journal upon Congress and the people to break down and destroy the business? For you certainly know that a tariff based on your figures would be instantly fatal to the business. 2. As to '"rebutting the damaging statements given currency to by the EXPRESS that the mannfacture of iron in Indiana is an extra hazardous and losing experiment," we have to say that your are "rebutting" a' phantom of your own creation. The EXPRESS has never "given currency to" any such "statements." They are your own invention and show a painful absence of common fairness, not to say honesty. We have said that the pig iron business, anywhere and everywhere, is attended with heavy risks. This is true, as universal experience proves. Furnaces, however carefully constructed, are liable to accidents that no forethought can guard against, and these accidents necessitate large expenditures of money. For this reason capitalists will insist upon a handsome margin for profits, or they will keep their money out of the business.
business.
3. We agree with you that "Indiana makes better iron and cheaper than Pennsylvania," not "as we shall take occasion to maintain <hereafter;> but as we <have maintained heretofore>, as we still beieve, and shall omit no opportunity of
showing at any time. The fact that Mr.
CRAWFORD, a Pennsylvania iron-maker, has made large investments in furnaces in this State, and still continues to put his money into the iron business here, is the strongest evidence of his faith in Indiana's facilities for the successful prosecution of that great branch of industry— a branch that, next to agriculture, is to be our dependence for future growth. 4. It is gratifying to know that our philanthropic contemporary is "interested in the development of the State, rather than the enriching of half a dozen iron
masters." That is a sentiment that
does honor alike to the head and heart of its author. It sounds well. It rounds off the paragraph and concludes the article in good style, with a neatly put appeal to labor as opposed to capital. But, if it will not be too much trouble to the editor of the <Journal>, will he condescend to enlighten his readers as to his plan for "the development of the State" without "enriching Iron Masters?" When he will give us the details of that plan, we shall, if we think it feasable, gladly unite with him in its prosecution to a successful issue. By all means let us sacrifice the "Iron Masters" if, by so doing, we can promote "the development of the State." ———<>———
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Water Works.
Among the public improvements most inperatively demanded by the rapidly increasing wants of this growing city is a system of water works and of all the varied plans suggested for supplying this want, the Holly system seems to us the cheapest, and, for many reasons the best.
Seventeen cities in the United States have these works in operation and, in every instance, they appear to have given entire satisfaction.
Indianapolis, after canvassing the subject most thoroughly, for years, lias chartered a company for the immediate erection of Holly Water Works.
Evansville is about to follow the example of the Capital City.
Peoria, Illinois, has these works in most successfulfltperation. A test of their capacity was made a few davs ago, during which eleven streams were thrown simultaneously, through inch and inch and a quarter nozzles, 145 feet vertically, the hose being attached to the hydrants at a distance of two to four miles from the pumps.
Dayton, Ohio, has these works nearly ready to go into operation will inaugurate them on or about the loth proximo, 011 which occasion our city government and many citizens will be invited to attend.
The entire cost of the works for this city would be not far from §130,000, and wc believe it would be one of the best possible investments of capital.
With this system established here, a conflagration would be simply impossible no more fire-cisterns need be built no more fire-engines need be bought, and all that we now have would be "for sale.' These, and many other advantages which wc shall take occasion to mention hereafter, would result from the outlay of a comparatively small sum.
ALLUDING to FITZ-JOHN PORTER'S demand for anew trial, the ^ew York Sun gives utterance to a very generally entertained opinion, when it says that the only fault to be found with the tribunal which tried him is, that when it found the accused guilty it did not order him to be shot. Commanding, as he did, the best corps in the army, fresh from the transports, the man who could persistently refuse to go to the relief of the hard-proved soldiers of General POPE, gallantly contending with overwhelming numbers, can urge nothing in his defense sufficient to satisfy the people that his course was not dictated by damnable treachery, for which he richly deserved to die the death of a traitor. His baseness on that occasion is only equaled by his impudence in Tiow demanding a reversal of the extremely lenient sentence which was pronounccd upon him.
"heretofore promi
nent Radicals," who
"say" such pleasant
for
the Democratic
ear? Can the
Journal name them? If there are any of that class who have gone over, bag and I airgage, body
and
breeches, to the Dem
ocratic camp, and
will
CONGRESS should understand that the people are in earnest in their demand for the abolition of the franking outrage. If the honorable gentlemen at Washington prefer to couple with that measure an insult to their constituents, let them do so; but at all events they must do away with the national nuisance. And the sooner they complete the job, the better. ———<>———
THE Republican Convention of Wayne county indorsed Hoij. Oeorge W. Julian and recommended his r« Roniipjjtiofl for Conprffg-
Personal nd Political Notes.
THE Journal continues to discover aston ishing evidences of Republican progress. Keep cool, neighbor, the end is not yet.
THIRTY States—two more than the requisite number—have ratified the Fifteenth Amendment. More progress to alarm the Journal! !-.4. v-
TIIE "constitution" of the Empress Eugenie is said to be seriously impaired. She should live in this country, where she could easily get it "amended."
STUTSMAN, the Winnipeg leader, when a member of the Dakota Legislature, about a year ago, introduced and carried through one branch a bill establishing woman suffrage.
TNE "Catholic" having stated that no Catholic woman was a supporter of "Woman's Eights," a lady writes from Detroit that she is a good Catholic, and yet defends the movement for woman's
SINCE Senator Revels became distinguished, he is said to be very much bothered by the vast numbers of alleged "relatives" 'who are appearing on every side, anxious to use him in aid of their officeseeking aspirations.
THE English Society for obtaining Woman's Suffrage are on thealert for the coming session of Parliament, and intend to try once more to shame the coarser sex into assent. They have certainly made a "hop, skip, and jump" in their success as to the municipal representation. Every rate-payer, woman or man, can now vote in the election for local officers.
SOME of the people of Northern Ohio snuff the coming battle from afar, and are "fooling their time away" in sending petitions to the tobacconalians of the Legislature for the suppression of the trade in the fragrant weed. The Cincinnati Times remarks that there is no harm in smoking out the Solons on the question, but we apprehend that all who chews will continue to use the weed.
QUEEN VICTORIA, in her late speech to Parliament, recommended that body to make arrangements for observation of the transit of Venus in 1874 meantime, according to reports, Her Majesty herself will look after the affairs of Hymen, with the valuable assistance, of a poor German prince, on whom she is "most graciously" to bestow her hand.
BOSTON has abolished the city detective police. Not that there was no occasion for such a force, but its connection with the thieves was so notorious that the Council was satisfied the city would be better off without it. We may add that the experience of most cities corresponds with that of Boston; but the powers that be are generally so mixed up with the rascally transactions of the detectives that the people are compelled to suffer in order that those in authority may wax fat.
THE Commercial Advertiser thinks that the attention given by the State of Pennsylvania to the orphans of soldiers and sailors ought to put to shame the great State of New York. There are in the former State .eighteen schools devotecKto the above purpose, in which 2,893 children are maintained and are educated Besides these schools there are'twenty-three
hemes,
CONGRESS should not be in haste to abolish the Agricultural Bureau. There is a clamor against the bur.eau which is more factitious than real, and too many journals seem ready to join, without investigation, in the hue and cry. There is a good deal of turgid rhetoric in the annual report, and the charge that there are some impracticable theories in it may be true, for all we know to the contrary but it also contains a vast amount of valuable instruction, and the torrent of ridi cule and denunciation which threatens to sweep it away is fed mainly by those who have no faith in scicnce, and who don't believe that a farmer can ever learn any thing except at the tail of a plow. Let the bureau have a fair trial.
IT IS NOW generally conceded that Mr. Seward's speculation in icebergs in the vicinity of the North Pole, was a huge and expensive blunder, and that in selling us Alaska, Russia also sold the United States. The estimated cost of taking care of our interests in the hyperborean region for the next twenty-five years is over forty-three million dollars; while the revenue that we may hope to derive therefrom is put at the modest figure of $110,000 per annum. The coal which was said to abound there turns out to be slate and resinous matter, which ends in smoke: the rumored rich deposits of precious metals, if they exist at all, are buried under mountains of snow and ice; the seals, from which great things were expected, prove almost worthless even the fish refuse to bite, and arc of no account when caught. If Mr. Seward had succeeded in completing the purchase of the St. Thomas earthquakes, his reputation as a real estate speculator would have been firmly established. ———<>———
Ratification.
The following States have ratified the Fifteenth amendment: 1 Nevada. 16 No* Hampshire* 2 Louisiana, 17 Virginia, 3 West Virginia. 18 ermont. 19 Alabama, 20 Kansas, &&• 21 Missouri, 22 Indiana. 'f 2$ Minnesota, 24 Mississippi. 25 Khorte Island26 Iowa. 27 Uhio28 Georgia. "r 2!) Texas. "*™r 30 Nebraska.
irgmia.
4 North Carolina, 5 Illinois, 6 Michigan, 7 Wisconsin, S Maine. 9 South Carolina, 10 Pennsylvania, It Massachusetts, 12 Arkansas, 13 New York, 14 Connecticut, 15 Florida,
Don't put too much diffidence in lover's word, my dear girl. He may tell you that you have lips like strawberries and cream, cheeks like a carnation, and eves like a 1 asterisk. But such t—. oftener come from a tender head than fro a tender heart. I like to go to weddin though I like to hear young peopl promise lo love, humor and nourish eac other but it is a solemn thing when minister comes into the chancery wi his surplice on, and goes through the cmony of making them man and 1 It ought to be husband and wife, for ain't every husband that turns out to a man. I declare I shall never fo^t when Paul put the nuptial ring on finger and said: "With my goods I endow." He kept a dry goods store and I thought he was going to giv the whole there was in it. I was and simple, and didn't know till ward that it meant ofily One d'ess
Piviimtm.
41#*- 1&
TERRE-HAUTE,
asylums or places
of refuge for the benefit of the orphans many of which receive aid from the StaiC Treasury, and which care for about three thousand children. The amount contributed from the Treasury last year for the support of the orphans was $500,971 02. 7 7
EARLY REMINISCENCES.
Letter from Laeins H. Seitt, Esq.
EDITORS OF THE EXPRESS: In your paper of the 26th January, If 70,1 notice the following item: "Henry Bedford didn't erect the first tavern in Terre-Haute, so an old residenter informs the Journal."
To which yon pertinently ask, "Who did It may not be thought a matter of much real importance as to who did, or did not, erect the first tavern in Terre-Haute, but as Terre-Haute and its early history are so intimately associated with my own that I can never hear either alluded to without the liveliest interest—and then, as time rolls on, and the little village of some half dozen log cabins of fifty-three years since has developed into the proportions of a large commercial ind manufacturing city—nothing connected with its origin can, fail to interest its inhabitant, especially those few, like myself, who have known it-for half a century.
I know not who the "old residenter" may be who furnished the JournaFs information on the subject but he cannot speak from his own personal experience. With vour permission, I will state a few incidents connected with my own advent to Terre-Haute, having, as you will observe, some connection With the question. On the 6th day of June, 1817, in company with John W. Osborn, the father-in-law of Judge Gookins, I arrived at Vincennes, after a journey of nearly two months, from St. Lawrence county, New York. Osborn, being a printer, readily obtained employment in Elihti Stout's printingoffice in Vincennes but, after spending three weeks vainly seeking for something to do, I determined to seek my fortune higher up the Wabash Valley, and setout on foot for the newly laid out town of Terre-llaute.
In Vincennes I met and formed a slight acquaintance with John Britton, who had been at Terre Haute and was making his temporary home at the house of David Barnes—a small log cabin situated on section 16, on the edge of the prairie, not far from the present cemetery. Having to walk the whole distar.ee from Vincennes and carry my bundle, I made slow progress, and was nearly three days upon the journey. I found my new friend Britton as I expected, and was kindly and hospitably received by him and the family, but as the cabin was small and I found the family were not in a condition to receive an additional boarder, I determined to make m_. stay as brief as possible. I had introductory letters from Vincennes to Major Cliunn and his officers at Fort Harrison, and to Major Markle at Otter Creek, whlghj I determined to lose r0 time in d'clivering. The second day after my arrival I visited the Fort an^ found the officers in tlicir quarters. lyo thing could exceed
the
flowers.
I
stood and gazed untijfmy reason failed, and when about to itrace my steps,
my eye caught the g|mpse of a slight
column of smoke, windSig up among the trees in a distant corneijbf the prairie.
INDIAN.CWEDNESDAY
kindness and hospitality
with which they received me. The Major insisted upon my making My home at the Fort until I found some .kind of employment. Situated as I was, I most gratefi lly accepted his hospitality, and removed my scanty baggage toilie Fort.
In a day or two I set out in (lie early summer morning, to cross the prairie t® deliver my letters to Major tfarkie. I missed the track and went to Otter Creek bridge. I was conscious of mj error, but the beauty of the morning lead me on until I found myself standing/on an eminence in the midst of Otter Cipck Prairie.
corneijbf the prairie. I 1 it andffound a family in n, whitji they had as yet, ,rt a tiaie to have made
made my way to a small log cabin
occupied too short
But the iiufiry may fairly be made, what has all/his to do with the question
as to the "bfldcr of the first tavern in Terre llaut/" It has tliis to do with it.
Had there
cn
a tavern in Terre Haute
on my ar^ral there in June,
hould
vet/
1S1/, I
naturally have availed my
self of itfi my first arrival, rather than jjpeept—ifder the circumstances the
hospitali# of my friend Britton, and the
familv oJDavid Barnes.
The tfth is—and there is no incident connccSP with my first visit to Terre
Haute-fmoredistinctly
remembered, than
that mv arrival, the latter part of June,|"17,jjgt.here was neither tavern or honfe there. Henry Bedford had just efcted the building, partly of hewed logsJnd partly frame, on the corner of Wafsh and either Front or Water street, fame not distinctly remembered the afterwards kept by Mr. Robert Harand still later, by our old friend, ain Janus? Wasson, under the some-
It singular cognomon of "Eagle ami 1" which was illustrated upon hlby a patriotic picture representing
American Ragle perched upon the of the British Lion, evidentl lacing in jeopardy the Royal animal's
But I will venture the assertion lat however grotesque the sign, or how iver difficult at that early period to obin supplies, that there has been no pubhouse in Terre Haute trom that to the present day, where a weary traveller could be placed more at his ease, where he could obtain a better dinner orsnpper, a better bed or breakfast, or where he would receive mere gentle and refined kihdness from the landlady, or more generous, warm-hearted hospitality from the landlord, than at the "Eagle and Lion," under the administration of Captain James and Mrs. Wasson.
This was the first tavern ever erected in Torre Haute—anil crce-ted by Henty Rtdfopd- The walls were up, the roof
OBj tiOffSi Mj
H*.
th*
unfinished am the vindots not and there we celebrated the 4th July, 1817. Major John J. Chnnn of the army then commanded -the Military Port -at Fort Harrison. His officers were Lieutenants Sturges and Flojd, and Surgeons Clark and MeCulloagh. Some respectable noncommissioned officers including "Billy Nogan" with his violin, and the Military Band of the Fort all contributed to the enjoyment of the occasion. The attempted celebration under the circumstances was mainly attributable to the officers of the Fort, and they felt bound to carry it througli. The "medicine chest" of the garrison was made to contribute a quantum suffieit of good old old wine and all else necessary were furnished with the greatest profusion. Speeches, toasts and patriotic songs were the order of the day until a late hour, when couriers were dispatched in all directions, on horseback, to bring in the ladies. Some few families had settled on the east side of the Prairie and some on. Honey Creek, and when brought together, formed a respectable company, and in the language of the old song we "danced all night, till broad day light, and went home with the girls in the morning." Lucius H. SCOTT.
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PIG IRON. ———
Letter from A. L. Crawford. NEWCASTLE, PA., Feb. 12, 1870. EDITOR TERRE-HAUTE EXPRESS: With your permission, I would like to say a few words in explanation of the remarks made by the Indianapolis papers—<Journal> and <Sentinel>—in regard to estimates of mine copied from the Brazil <Miner> of October, 1867, before the date of blowing the first furnace in Clay county. Both of those papers used my name without my knowledge or consent, which, to say the least, was hardly the proper thing to do; and especially was it improper for them to publish those figures as if they had just been obtained from me. They would, doubtless, like to apply my then partial estimate of the cost as the present true cost, to help sustain them in their freetrade notions.
The <Journal> reminds me of the witness once put upon the stand to testify to the height of a certain horse, and which he said was sixteen feet high. The attorney asked him if he did not mean sixteen hands high. Said he, "Did I say feet?" 'Yes," said the attorney. "Then, if I said feet first, I say so to the last," replied the witness. So with the <Journal's> estimate placing the cost of making pig iron in Clay county, Indiana, at $22 50 per
ton! If the editor sticks to it much longer, he will begin to believe it himself. The estimate made for the <Miner> was based on iron ore delivered on the cars at East St. Louis at $5 50 per ton, gross. Increased demand has brought the price up to $6 50 per ton. Freight was then $2 35 per ton to Brazil now it is $3 50, making the slight difference in the cost of ore alone for a ton of pig iron of not less—rather more —than $3 50.
The item of limestone was based on my experience here with the Pennsylvania stone, which goes more than twice as far in fluxing. The estimate for coal was based on gross tons delivered at the mine, with no cost for its transportation to the furnace.
The Clay county coal does not produce gas enough to heat the hot-blast and raise steam. Some slack is required, the. cost of which must be added.
On casting my eve ovei the broad expanse, not a tree, or a hoiwe, or a fence, or ploughed field, or othc.yindication of home or civilization, prffen'.ed them Jiomu or ci selves to view, but all wasfme boundless, coal, and the cost of a ton of pig iron magnificent bed of be.ri'iMlly variagated will be about £30,00.
There was no item for taxes, repairs and interest on capital. Take all these additional items into account and add, also, the advance in the rates of ore and coal, and the cost of a ton of pig iron will be about $30,00.
I trust that the Journal and Sentinel will publish this statement, in order that their readers may arrive at the true cost of making pig iron, and not be kept any longer from the truth. I hope, also, that the editors of those papers will acknowledge their error in publishing the misstatements which have appeared in their columns. If they refuse to do this, the people will judge them in the light of such refusal.
I
any improvements aroind them. I then obtained directions fhich enabled me, without further diff|"lty, to find the Otter Creek mills. /The Major was at home, and received ^e with that frank, graceful, cordial hosfttality, for which lie was so widely celerated. Your older citizens—a few of thin—may have known him—Mr. Rose anrfMr. Gilbert certainly did, and to thenyl need not describe him—but as I sawiiim at that first interview, I thought ljm the most msgnificent jpecimen of marpood 1 had ever seen. Like Saul, antoig the children of Israel, he stood "a hid and shoulders above them all." I, course, dined with him, and that brief/isit was the commencement of a wars friendship that continued during the reipmder of his life.
Yours, respectfully, A. L. CRAWFORD. ———<>———
What the Party has
Republican wone.
To young men just coming upon the stage of political action, and to those hoping great reforms from new parties, the following, from a recent speech in Congress by Hon. J. II. ELA, of New Hampshire, gives some thoughtful suggestions:
The sooner we come to realize that the great object of life is not to see how much wealth can be ground out of it for capital but by improvement and cultivation to elevate mankind and fit them for the great unknown future, and act upon it, the better it will bejor us all If the Republican party has had any distinctive idea standing out prominent' beyond all others, it is that it was the friend and protector of American labor.
It was organized to prevent extension of slavery over free territory, which would curse it with barrenness and deg nidation so that free labor could not enter it. It will be known in history as the party which struck the manacles from the laborer in the South, where for ages the working people had been sold like cattle in the shamble*. It has put the ballot in the hands of every workman it could reach, with which to guard and protect him from oppression, It has amended the Constitution so as to throw the strong arm of its protection around every citizen, whether native or foreign born, and make suffrage the equal right
A party which has done all this will not stop here unless its mission has ended. All its memories in the past and all its hopes in the future commit it to progress and reform. It will again reduce the taxes—taking off those which bear oppressively upon labor and prevent manufactures for export which would increase employment without reducing its relative pay. It will reduce interest by funding the debt in
MORNING, FEBRUARY 23,1870.
BYJOHX C. VHITTIRTT.
Uehsd bowed down to drunkenness An abject worshiper The pulse of manhood pyide had gone,
Too faint and cold to stir: "r .. And he had given his spirit np Unto the humblest thrall: And, bowing to the poisoned cup, tie gloried in his fall.
There
ADU li£lai i«u
VU
uto
UIMU
And, like the passing of a dream That cometh not a^ain. The shadow of his spirit fled
He saw the gulf before^ He shuddered at the waste behind. And was a man once more.
He shook the serpent's folds away. That gathered round his heart. As shakes the sturdy forest oak
Its poison vine apart: He stood erect—returning pride Grew terribly within. And conscience gat it judgment on
His most familiar gin.
The light of intellect again Along his pathway shone, And reason, like a monarch, stood
Upon it's golden throne The honored and the wise once more Within his presence came^And lingered oft on lovely liis_.
Ilis once forbidden name.
There may be itlory in the might That treadeth nations down— Wreaths for the crimson warrior, »,
Pride for the kingly crown: But glorious is that triumph hour The disenthralled shall find. When evil passion bowcth down
Unto the God-like mind,
DISMALISMS.
Better pound than compound felony. The poorest of disguises—One in liquor
Better have a hump in the back than in the character. A poor way to get aching Waiting for it to turn up.
Is a pork merchant a doctor because lie cures his own hams? No farmer can plow a field by _turning it over in his own mind.
Of all convictions,
110
doubt "sober"
ones are the best. Apt to be t.ho most steady. The striking umbrolla girls of New York are to form a "protective union. For life?
Nasby tell of a "burglar whose burglary was complicated with shootingtthe individual whose house was burglared.
Briggs has a faculty of getting things cheap. The other day he had a beautiful set of teeth inserted for nothing, He kicked a dog.
What the old mountaineer says of the grizzlv: "It is a tine thing to hunt the grizzly but when lie gets to hunting you it's different." "Where are you going?" asked a little boy of another who had slipped and fallen on an icy pavement. "Going to get up, was the "blunt reply.
Said the conductor of a street car, yesterday, to a rural young lady, "Miss, vour fare." "Well, if I am, I don't want any of your impudence," Said she, with upturned nose.
The jealous man is always hunting for something he doesn't expect to find, and after he has found it, he is mad because he has. He is always happy just in proportion as he is miserable.
When an ill-natured fellow was trying to pick a quarrel with a peaceable man, the latter said: 'I never had a fuss with but one man he was buried at four o'clock it is now half:past three."
A peddler calling on ail old lady to dispose of some goods, inquired of her if she could tell him of any road on which no peddler had traveled, as he would like to speculate a little with some old spectacles? "Ye'." she replied, "the road to Heaven."
A clergyman asked some children, 'Whv do we say. in the Lord's prayer, 'Who art in Heaven,' since God is everywhere?" He saw a little drummer boy who looked as if he could give an answer, and turned to him for it. "Well,little soldier, what say you?" "Because it's headquarters..' "Now," said-a Yankee at dinner,"guess I'll show you sometun.'.that no critter in this room ever seed afore, and not a fritter livin' ever will see again. D'ye be!?" The bet was made, and the Yankee took a nut off the desert plate,
and
raorc QI
of all. It has spread out to every laborer ^notj,er the broad domain of the public lands, upon which he may enter without money and without price under the Homestead acr, so that when competition presses hard upon him, he may there build up a home for himself and family. It has boldly entered upon the experiment of reducing the hours of toil by making eight hours a legal day's work for the Government. It fed the starring, landless laborer of the South when gaunt famine stalked through the land they were not allowed to cultivate, and carried education to those from whom it had been sealed np by legislation It. has brought up the revenues and brought down the expenses while reducing the taxes until nearly eighty million dollars of debt have been extinguished in the first eleven month of General Grant's administration. It ha* laid its tariffs to protect.labor from adverse competition, that it might have the comforts of a home and the means of education and relaxation from long hours of toil.
some
of the modes
proposed. It will goon triumphant in he future, because it has been faithful
the
past,
cracking it,
held up the kernel between his lingers and thumb. "Now, 1 calculate none of you ever seed that kernel afore, and (swallowing it) I guess you'll never sec, it it again. Please fork out."
Last Sunday, in one of the Sabbath schools of our city, says the Burlington Hawkeyc, a juvenile class was questioned by its teacher in regard to the parable of the shepherd and his flock:
"Who is our shepherd?" "Jesus." "Who are Christ's lambs!" "We are." To test the reasoning capacity of the little urchins: "If the children are the lambs what are the growu-up folks!"
Said a bright-eyed little shaver: "They are the rolicking rams." ,4,,
Transfusion of Blood Successfully Performed on a Young Lady. From the Chicago Post.]
The readers of this paper will remember the report of an interesting experiment of transfusion of blood into the veins of a dog, performed at Rush Medical College last Wednesday by Drs. Freer and Hunt. The carotid artery of the animal was severed, and the blood allowed to run out until the animal was apparently lifeless. An incision was then made in the jugular vein, and the blood was injected back into the animal's system, with the effect of restoring him to life.
The account of this interesting experiment given to the <Post> was noticed by the friends of a young lady in Iowa, who had been for some time wasting away with disease, supposed to be consumption, and they sent to Dr. Freer to come and make the experiment of transfusing blood into her system. Dr. Hunt, of the Faculty of Rush College, responded to the call, and found the patient in a very low condition. He proceeded to take some sixteen ounces of blood from the arm of a young brother of the girl, and injectcd into her veins. The patient went into a comatose condition, and it was found that still more of the vital fluid was necessary.— Another supply was drawn from a sister of the invalid and injected, and finally a third supply from another brother, about ten years of age—thirty-six ounces of warm, living blood being thus conveyed into the system of the young woman within a few hours. The event is not yet determined, though the prospects of recovery are very hopeful, if the lungs are not too nearly destroyed. If the disease is only incipient, it is thought that life and health will be restored. This experiment is the only one of the kind ever attempted in the West, and is very rare elsewhere, though it has been tried with success. The result in this case will be anxiously looked for, not only by the friends of the patient, but by the scientific world generally. ———<>———
Death of an Aged Lady in Portland. From the Portland (Maine) Press. Feb.
»P
keeps pace with the rapid atrideA
of the present, and reaches forward to ant *111 fiejrMitft napirn.HoRK of ?h« ftisurfc
DEEP-SEA DREDGING.
Tke Wonders of the Deep—What Sei ence Develops—Aaiaial Life Fourteen Thonsaai Feet Below the Snr face—Tempcratwe of the Water.
From the Providence (R. I.) Journal.l The enterprise of scientific minds is one of the distinguishing characteristics of
came a change—the cloud rolled oT, the present age. We listen with breathAnd light fell on his brain— less attention to the wonderful discoveries which Lockyer, Yannsen, Secchi and a host of other astronomers have made in spectrum analvsis we are lost in a labyrinth of doubt over the ingenious theories by which Darwin builds up his development of vegetable and animal life we are startled at the bold speculations of the geologists, by which thev account for the condition of the earth by giving to it an existence of millions of ages and now Dr. Carpenter and Prof. Thompson, with their dredging machine, have drawn from the depths of the sea specimens of animal and vegetable life which laugh to scorn all the most plausible theories of philosophers, and initiate the necessity of an entire change in the Tlews of geologists.
Deep sea dredging has reached the dignity of a science, and interesting details
of what it has accomplished have recently been communicated at the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society in Condon.
Messrs. Thompson and Carpenter, on board her majesty's ship, the Porcupine have been diligently at work between the months of May and September^ last, in sounding the depths of the Atlantic ocean, and have brought up from the deep caverns of the sea, specimens of the myriads of living creatures with which the ocean bottom is covered. They have found seas so deep that many of the loftiest summits of the Alps might be buried neath them. Dredges weighing with their deposits nearly half a ton, have been hauled up from the depth of 14,000 feet, or two and two-thirds miles below the surface. There are only three or four mountain peaks in Europe which rise to a higher point above the sea level than the sea level is above the depth whose inhabitants have been raised to the light of the sun. Very curious are the facts brought to light by this revelation of the wonders of the deep, and very suggestive are the materials for thought which they give.
By a variety of ingenious contrivances, men of science have been enabled to measure the temperature of the sea at depths, where the pressure is so enormous as to be equal to a weight of four hundred and thirty tons on everv square foot of surface. No sunlight can benetrate these depths, no air forces itself through such an interposing medium. Nothing is there but intense cold darkness unillumined by a ray of light and a downward pressure of two'or three tons to the square inch. But recent sea dregdings have proved that unconceivable quantities of beings exist under a load of water above them nearly three miles in height, and that they have eyes which the ablest naturalists say are perfectly developed. Light of some kind must enter the abysses to bring the visional organs into action. Sir Charles Lyell suggests that these sea homes, "deep in the wave," must be lighted by phosphorescence but the science of sea-dredg-ing is yet in its infancy, and we can only ipeculatc and wonder.
Moreover, geologists have considered themselves safe in asserting that the various strata of the earth was formed at different times, and that each formation represented a period separated from another by long intervals of time. But the creatures found in the limestone mud of to-day are in all important respects like those found by the geologists in the limestone beds of Europe, and considered as belonging to a condition of the earth which occurred millions of years ago.—, Removing the dredges a few miles, the explorers find the sea depositing sandstone debris, and in it are other creatures corresponding to the sandstone fossils
which geologists have always referred to another epoch remote from us, and diided by unmeasured eras from the former. And now we find that at points of the sea-bottom only eight or ten miles apart, there is in progress a cretaceous deposit and a sandstone region, each with its own proper fauna. We must leave the geologists to account for this strange anomaly which strikes at the root of their assumptions about geological time.
The varying temperature of the deep sea regions is a still more interesting subject. The method of oceanic circulation has long been a matter of controversy. Now it is ascertained that the depths of the equatorial,and tropical seas are colder than those of the .North Atlantic. In the tropics the temperature is always below the freezing point, but in the deepest tarts of the Bay of Biscay it is found to je several degrees above it. This gives weight to the theory that the water of equatorial and tropical seas mast come from the Antarctic regions, although narrow currents may carry the Arctic waters to the tropic. The water under the equatorial regions must have traveled from the polar regions. A cold of 30 degrees could be explained in no other way. We shall not enter into a discussion of the influence of the trade winds, or the force of the gulf-stream, but the facts which we have recorded certainly favor the theory recently advanced that lhe continual progress of evaporation going on in the equatorial regions leads to an indraught of cold water in bottom currents from the polar seas.
These are all facie of great interest, materials for thought, as we have already said. Wc must wait patiently while the men who have consecrated their lives to the interests of scicnce bring order out of the chaos, and light out of the darkness. We are sure that they will give themselves no rest till they solve the problem whose outlines are" here indicated. They bring cool heads and willing hands to the work, and we can only wish them godspeed.— The strange charm which is always attached to the unknown and inaccessible, makes us follow their steps with equal interest, whether they are measuring rosy protuherances on the sun searching for insignificant asteroids following the erratic path of comets watching the track of blazing meteors increasing with microscopic power the size of the infinitely
small
12.J
The link which has connected three of the most remarkable persons in our city for almost a century was broken yesterday by the death of the youngest, Miss Betsy Thomas, who passed away calmly at noon, at the good old age of 96. For some months past she has been declining, but she retained all her faculties to the very last, sinking away as easily as a child drops into slumber, presenting the rare scene of a really natural death after the fires of a long life have been expended. She leaves behind her a brother, our welUknown fellow-citizen, Elias Thomas, Em.( whq is in his 98th year, and an older sister, Happy, who, if she should live until April, be 100 years old. Such instances of jppgpvjt/ iji Qng^milv are
tracing animal development or
throwing down dredges into the depths of the sea, and bringing up with the clinging mud and ooze of the ocean more stubborn facts for speculative theory than were ever dreamed of In our philosophy
Terrible Tragedy in California. A correspondent of the San Diego Union, writing from Fort Yuma, January 19, gives an accout of one of the most desperate affrays that has ever occurred in California:
On the night of the 18 of January a miscellaneous crowd, comprising steamboat captains, miners, clerks, gamblers and roughs, were on a "tear," and were roaming the streets all night, indulging in the noisy and riotous demonstrations usual on srich occasions. Toward daylight they visited a Mexican house, where a free fight ensued, in which four men were killed outright and seven wounded. The scene in the morning is described as sickening in the extreme. The bodies of the dead lay as they fell, while lying near were the wounded men, some horribly gashed with bowieknife wounds, some shot through the body, and others beaten no as to be unrecognizable. But few of the crowd escaped unhurt.
The names of two of the men killed were George Carr and "Gassy" Green. The other two were Mexicans, whose names were not ascertained. Green has long lived in Ariiona. and had been a rtldier ami t&llorr
{PAYABLE INADVANCE
THE HHIIMiK or HfiBR.
One more Unfurtnnatc
Weary of breath JUshly importunate. Gone to her death!
Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care: Fashion\i so slenderly. Young, and so fair!
Look at her garments. Clinging like ceremen ts Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing Take hor up instantly. Loving, not loathing.—
Touch her not scornfully Think other mournfully, Gently and humanly Not of the stains of her,. All that remains of her Now, is puro womanly.
Make no deep scrutiny Into her mutiny Rash and undutiful Past all dishonor. Death has left on her Only the beautiful.
Still, for all slip? of hers, One of Eve's family— Wipe those poor lips of hers, Oozing'so clammily Loop up her tresses Escaped from the comb, Uer fair auburn tresses Whilst wonderment guesses Where was her home?
Who was her father? Who was her mother Had sho a sister? Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other?
Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! cuts.. Oh 1 it waB pitiful! Nearawholo city full. ltomo sho had none.
Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly, Feelings had changed Love, by harsh evidence, s. Thrown from it* omincnco: .v.'.--Even God's providcnce Seeming estranged.
*'?*"'SSs- Where tho lamps quiver •i'MS So far in tho river, •Z/tpjQU'sf With many alight
From window and easement,
JLao 0,0aK
At one point, Mr. George Jeffers, who had scientific charge of the vessel,, dredged to the depth of fourteen thousand feet, and brought up a hundred weight and a half of mud from the bottom of the ocean. In these abysses, he says, there is an extraordinary abundance of animal life. Animals of much complexity of organization, and with eyes as perfect in every respect as those of the fishes and reptiles best known to us. have been brought to the surface. A great number of entirely new specimens have been found. One Take her up tenderly, haul brought up a small family of 20,000 members of a single form of ochinus.
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From garret to basement She stood, with amaiemcnt, yassi: 'is Houseless by night.
The bleak wind of March H.-J
wina 01 .vinrcn ,,4
t, Made her tremble and shiver Wf,
sw But not tho dark arch, Or tho black flowing river: Mad from life's history,
lad to death's mystery" Swift to be hurl'd— ,'v Wi Anywhere, anywhero
Of tho world!
In she plunged boldly, ,!» No matter how coldly
-te-m The rough river ran,— /.K Ovor tho brink of it, Picture it,-^think of it, '—•a Dissolute man
Lave in it, drink of it •gil Then, if you can!
xaKonerup lenaeriy,
wjvsji Lift her with care: bmt Fashion'd so slenderly, *tn' Young, and so fair!
Ere her limbs frigidly i*S Stiffen too rigidly, Decently.—kindly,—
j, Smooth and compose them And her eyes, close them,
.t JiS Staring so blindly!
Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring
.'i Last look of despairing
Perishing gloomily, J: Spurred by contumely. -.i.'-tr-"-* V- Cold inhumanity,
Burning insanity, I to re
i'i Cross her hands humbly, -j As if praying dumbly, Over nor breast!
Owning her weakness, I® llcr evil behavior, g§:f And leaving, with meekness, ri llcr sins to her Saviour!
WHICH THE TRUE CHUKCHI
A ROMAN CATHOLIC SAVANT KKXOUNCES ROME,
An Interesting Letter to the Pope—A Professor inn Catholic Academy of Baltimore Adhering to the Church of Wrcecc—Wha*.."Sowedthe Baleful
Seeds of 'Nr.iot—One of the First Frnjki of tlic Council.
Most Holy Father: With a full conviction of the grave responsibility I assume, I beg leave to place, mast respectfully, at the feet of your Holiness the following profession of faith:
I have been, up to the present moment, a fervent and faithful adherent of the Church of Rome, which I believed in all sincerity to be the only Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Obeying the dictates of my religious persuasions, I have made every sentiment of my heart and every faculty of my intellect subservient to the welfare and
glorification of that Church. Scorning all mundane interests, although only a layman, I enrolled under the militant banner of the Church.
As a theologian and a historian, I have sedulously labored for the wide-spread diffusion of her doctrines in the depart-
I confidently believed that to Papacy was intrusted the divine mission of solving all the great religious and social Problems.
It was yourself, Most Holy Father, who gave those convictions the first staggering blow.' The publication of the Syllabus sowed in my mind the baleful seeds of doubt. "It is impossible," reasoned I "that there should be so flagrant a contradiction between the vital exigencies of human society and those of the Church of God. It is imposssible that the duty of being a good Christian involves the necessity to cease being a citizen, to abstain from ail progress, to shut out all, _.ght, and to go back, groping in the dark to the middle ages, with all their concomitant evils and pernicious abuses."
My intellect rose in rebellion against the lamentable theories which the Holy See proclaimed, urbiet orbe, but my heart still clung to its cherished convictions.
Thisjinternal struggle resulted in the following compromise between my reason and my feelings: "The Pope," I argued to myself, "being mortal, is liable to err. Unwise counsels may have led him astray. Animated with the best intentions, Pius IX. has uneonseiously committed an error which he or his successors will redress. Notwithstanding this, the Church of Rome Is no less holy, pure, and truthful. Let me then continue in her service, imploring the Almighty to enlighten those who are placed at her helm.'
Such, Holy Father, was my first halt-ing-place on the road to Damascus. It was you again who urged me forward on that road, until light triumphed over darkness.
The assembling of the Oecumenical Council in Rome, convoked for the avowed purpose of enacting into dogmas the doctrines contained in the Syllabus, as well as the doctrine of Papal infallibility, put an end to my hesitations, and confronted me face to face with truth.
As a Christian, as a citizen, and as a •utdent, I obey tt triple pandate in rala-
ln* lay
t7
God and maiij the following solemn declaj ration: Holy Father, in my name and an that! of many thousand of laymen, who are® laboring under the ?ame impressions as myself, I protest against the doctrines which you seem dermined to promulgate and which openly conflict with all divine and human laws. I protest against the fatal contest which you have originated between Church and society. I protest agai nsUhe sacrilegious science you have pronounced against all progress, and against every department of sentence. I protest against the principle of Papal ir fallibilitv, which you aim to establish a dogma, in palpable contradiction with the text of the Gospel and with ecclesiastical traditions.
Future generations will not fail to point out the fatal consequences of these acts, against which I protest with all the force of my convictions.
Thc^need of religious authority and unity is so imperative that it is more than probable that protests similar to those which I have the courage to enunciate may occur but rarely. "The great Catholic majority may not perhaps sever all connections with the Holy See as openly as I do, but indiflerentism will prey upon the vital organs of Catholicism, and the absolute incompatibility of Roman doctrine with the social and political exigencies of liumanity will undermine the verv foundations of that Church so effectually as to determine her decay and ruin.
In the face of such a serious and irretrievable wrong, what consolation remains then
the souls of the faithful and
believing? Must they, in abandoning thatChurchof Rome to which their convictions urge them no longer to belong,embark with rationalism as their only compass on the troubled waters of Protestantism, at the risk of perishing among the breakers of pantheism?
Such are the intricate questions I have propounded to myself in deep anguish and tribulation of niind, and which, through the grace of prayer,^ study, and meditation, I have succeeded in unravel-
'"f'he shelter, the haven, which I have striven to reach in this storm was a Church which has preserved inviolate and intact the evangelical and apostolical doctrines. It is a Church which has never been in contradiction with the vital and paramount exigencies of society, with progress and science it is a Church which does not mingle the spiritual with the temporal, which has no Pontiff King, and which remembers that Christ has said, "My kingdom is not of this earth it is a Church which does not impose celibacy on her priesthood, which docs.not sell indulgences for the erection of temples it is a Church whose existence does not depend on the support of foreign bayonets, and which does not consecrate so monstrous an anomaly as that of a Po/itiff signing a death-warrant immediately after having performed the sublime mystery of the Eucharist. It is, in a word, a Church which has alone remained faithful to the regimen established by Christ and hts Apostles, to the synodal, or, that is to say, the parliamentary regimen.
God has blessed my endeavors. He has vouchsafed to conduct me to that safe haven whose shelter my restless and perplexed soul implored from his clem encv. I have found the true Catholic and Apostolic Church. It is the Orthodox Church of the East, from which that of the West had only parted company, because the Bishops of Rome were dettr mined to reign and domineer.
That Church has maintained, uncontaminated, the holy ark of the evangelical doctrines.
She has no Pontiff King, for it is not true, as is complacently asserted, that the Emperors of Russia are orthodox Popes. Those potentates are divested of all sacerdotal dignities, and are but the first Christians in their empires.
In Russia, as well as in Turkey and elsewhere, the Orthodox Church is placed on the footing of the synodal regimen, as it was instituted by the Apostles. That Church does not
violate
human nature by
imposing celibacy on her priesthood, but to the wearied and prostrate souls she opens wide the portals of monastic life. Far from running counter to the exigencies of humanity, the Orthodox Church is their most powerful advocate and protector. She has contributed to the unity and power of Russia. For more than four centuries she has protected in the East the different nationalities, enthralled by the Turks, against the moral and physical degradation of Mahometanism. It "is she who, in spite of the political intrigues and rivalries constantly occurring in the East, has become the watchword of those nationalities. Such are the perfections of the Orthodox Church of the East, which an elaborate study of the past and an impartial analysis of the present have revealed to me.
In the full possession of these convictions hesitation is no longer possible. I would be recreant to niv first^ duty as a Christian if, from motives of interest or fromfearof the purity of my intentions being questioned, I should persist in tho ways of error.
The Orthodox Church will deign, I trust, to extend to me her maternal arm. From this moment I consider myself absolved from all my obligations toward the Church of Rome, but to that Church, as well a« to humanity and to yourself, most Holy Father, I deem jt a sacred duty to have exposed the motives of my conversion.
Vouchsafe not to regard that profession of faith as a want of respect for your august person. I know and appreciate your virtues my memory has trca-
v""
diffusion of licr doctrines ,n the depart- unconsciously but ment of science as a publicist, and in the wh.chpmlormnate^ .1 I. 1 siderations. St. Paul, the great con\ert domain of the press as a missionary
I
have repaired to the remotest part of the
ed my time and efforts to the propagation of the fai'h. Lately I have filled to
Paul
'"T_" Ynn hon
evolence and of kindness which beamed in your countenance when I beheld it in Rome several years ago. I know you are kind I know vou are pious I know you are intent on good, and that you do evil
siderati'ons. St. Paul, the of Damascus, said in his
lie utmost of
my abilities a professor's chair at the Catholic Academy of Baltimore, in the United States of America.
If I presume to enumerate these facts, which concern myself alone as an humble individual, it is only with a view of recording the sincerity of my professions and the devotednessof my services on behalf of the Church of Rome. This deotedness has remained firm and unshaken, notwithstanding the sad spectacle which the intrigues of Vestries and the temporal encroachments and scheming projects of the Roman clcrgy have constantly afforded me. Whilst deploring these abuses, I endeavored toshcild them under the cloak of charity, and I attributed the responsibility to individual error. In the ardor of my convictions I disconnected the Church "of Rome from all joint liability in the acts which were perpetrated in her name.
jreat convert ipistle to the
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."
I do not go so far as is permitted by St. Paul. I do not anathematize you, Holy Father, but I pray God to bring back your truly angelical soul to the truths of the gospel. I implore Him to remove the burden of that temporal royalty which weighs so heavily upon you, and to make you once again what you never should have ceased to be—that is to say, a Christian shepherd in the true, beautiful, and holy acceptation of the word.
I am, with the most profound respect,. Holy Father, your most humble and most obedient servant,
N. L. BJKRRIXG.
BALTIMORE, Md., 24th January 1870.
•X.PAl7LUEJtAIU.
His Marriage.
Gerard,
yotii W°re
the French gentleman
who recently tnarrid Miss Wormley, publishes the following card in the Washington New Era:
DEAESIR: When a short time ago I joined myself in alliance with your people, by my marrying Miss Marie B. A'ormley, I acted without any afterthought. As a Frenchman, I never indulge in prejudices, which appears to me not only to be nonsense but a wrong as a Chiristian, I do not permit any kind of proscription against my brothers by nature and as a man, do not recognize any imaginary line as dividing men, except the one seperating an honest one from a knave I am extremely interested in every step of the struggle in which you are engaged, especially for securing social privileges. The negro has now his share of political and social rights, which shall not be taken from-him, and lie has lent his endeavors for the advancement of the noble and generous aspirations of all nations, which will be accomplished by-and-by— "equity, liberty, fraternity." A wellknown gentleman in Washington says about my marriage that "it belonged to the twentieth century." Although in his mind it was a condemnation of my course yet I accept this word as a compliment, for I think the twentieth century will be as intelligent certainly as the nineteenth now is and the logic of events, incessant in its steps toward humanity and progress will not be stopped by unreasonable prejudices.
A young lady recently applied for and obtained a clerkship in a dry goods store in Concord, X. II., and availed herself quite freely of the privilege of buying at cost price any goods she wapted for her own use. At the end of two months shp resigned, and very soon after she was married, as was also her sister. It lias since transpired that she accepted the position merelv that she might buy cheapthe liberal supply of dry goods so mys iouitly f)«tjtissnrv on such