Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 March 1871 — Page 1

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W. C. DEPAKW, A'ew Albany, the Jchest citizen ot Ir'-na, is said to be "the coming man" the#)einocratic gubernatorial nominal-

COLLECTOR STEVEN') of the ourth Indiana District, held the office for four years, and has netted him about $10,000 each ye

IT IS urged again^u^INEK that hist lananner is dictatorial^ domineering f'Very likely, Brains'iU dominate in political as well as otl matters.

tip "THE DOUGLAS IS" had been appointed to take the n^ensus of Indian1 is, that

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en made up in halflay.

[ERE is evidence progress. Ihe Senate has it how zed the Li3 to purgh-jse a

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the Chicag^'7"l'J'io "l'lf ticket For Presid1')

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for Vine resident, GEORGE TRAIN, iitform: Revenue

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[WE HAVE the earing information gat only thirty b= granting, .public |nds to aid in Ihe instruction of rail&ads, have been intdticed into the Senfate this session!

WE HAVE no please in contemplating the New Hampshireection return.-, L»t ^indulge the hope 11 some of our very

Injudicious friends Washington may profiled by their rusal.

THERE are so maicourls and.-o much ligation at Indian-1'''3)

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|tion of professionqiirymen is demandThis city can sire a squad without jfserious detriment tme public good.

THE Indianapol Journal's editorial 6iJrttiif9eposition oft'MNEU—which was printed in the EXIESS of the 15th from the Cincnali Commercial the il remark, ''he breechin' ha» ike^in Indiana."

'H? unfeigned manifested by the %mocrgcy, over tlicecent "unpleasantness" in the Repolican party, will do more than anythingtlse to effect a speedy reunion and pacifiction of the "jarring elements."

ARTICLES of inei potation of the New Albany Water ~\Yrks Company have been filed at the ode of the Secretary of illtate. The capital of the association is t?xed at $200,000 wi'li an actual subscription of §102,800.

THE Boston Jound has been looking ^ovcr its exchange ist, to see how the [©MNER affair, afl'ris them. The Journal's conclusion is Cat fully four-tifths of lie Republican Jotrnals disappiove the removal of Mr. SUSNKR.

THE Germans gf Indianapolis had a large and enlhusiasic meetingott Tuesday in honor of the inclusion of peace between France and (iermany, and to raise funds for the relief of the widows and orphans of German soldiers killed in the conflict.

TIIKRE is said to he a probability that the Holly Water Works Company will locate a branch" shop in Indianapolis, whlhli will employ some two hundred men or more, several of the principal stockholders being in favor of Iot-uting there.

^A i1iors cotemporarv bewail" the l-at-ent fact that, in maiiv popular churches, soul-saving is subordinated to pew-selling. The remedy for this evil—effectively applied in till the cluircbes of this eitv—is free sittings, with voluntary contributions to defray cx penses.

KI»«KWHI-:SK we print the programme for the next semi-annual meeting of the tale Editors' and Publishers' Associaon. It is a good one,and, if carried out, will he productive of good results. Thus far the meetings of the Association have Keen of little interest or value.

I'ENNSYI.VAXH has within her borders mile- of railway, all in operation, and all, cir very nearly all, paying handsomely. Counting the double track and siding there are 0,-131 miles in good working order within the bounds of that Commonwealth.

THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company's directors are to day the most highly praised men in the land. A Buffalo paperl speaking of the company, says of them: "There would seem to be no end to theambition of its managers, no bounds to their powers, and no limit to their success."

THE Washington Chrtmiclc of last Tuesday says "'the friends of lion. JOHN D. PFI-'UEES de-ire to add his name to the list of candidate* for Delegate in Congress from this District. Mr. Dx Ki^-'Ks would make a strong candidate and a useful member of Congress. He has not, however, yet decided to become a candidate^',

RHODE ISLAND will hold an election for State officers on the 5th of April, and jtl.e Republicans are already in the field with a stroug ticket. An exchange ini? that the great question at issue little State is the question of trapat the mouth of Narraganselt tich is depopulating the waters of inhabitants.

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Tuesday morning has

tinguishable amid the vollev.

TERMS $2.00 A YEAR}

NEW HAMPSHIRE has a "railroad King," one Gen. STARK, of Nashau, a descendant ot the immortal Jons STARK. Managing a corporation that started with «nly 26 mile? of track, he has absorbed its surroundings and extended its influence till its feeders are out for 1,500 miles.

WE ARE indebted to the Chicago Republican for the pleasing and us^T&l information that Mr. HORACE WHITE, having organized the House of Representatives on a Revenue Reform basis, by securing Mr. Speaker BLKTVE'S pledge for a free ^trade Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, has returned to make glad the

Tribune office, and brilliant the Tribune columns," with his genial pre.' nee and valuable services.

IN view of the fact that Kentucky has a stock of 2,352,405 gallons of whisky on hand, it has been wisely suggested that SAULSBURY and the other ex-members of the Congressional Temperance Society ought to move down to Louisville and assist in reducing the ac, halation. "Right smart" of the beverage was used at Frankfort to defeat the Southern Railroad bill, but the supply continues equal to the demand.

BOSTON PATER notes a coincidence worth mentioning. Mr. WEBSTEUS speech in the U. S. Senate of March_7th, 1850, caused the first rupture between him and the Whig party. Twenty-one years have passed, and on the anniversary of that day another Massachusetts Senator occupied a position which has divided.the councils of his party and created as great a sensation throughout the coun* try as did Mr. WicnsTEtt's famous speech

THOSE Democrats who now "slop over" with pretended "sympathy" for SUMNER, have hated and maligned him ever since his name was connected with the cause of human freedom.' They hate him none the less now, and their "sympathy" must disgust him, as iL certainly does his friends. Neither lienor those who honor him, want Democratic condolence. The Republican party is strong enough to settle its little difficulties inside the family, and is brave enough to go on with the great wo:k before it, undisturbed by "these light afllictions."

THE North Western Woman's Suffrage Convention, in session at I'ort Wayne, has resolved that "the sphere of woman's influence must be enlarged for the good of the government, the church and family tha: their position as women and wives is degrading and unjust that the right to enter all profitable callings of life is absolute and inalienable that their exclusion therefrom is sheer usurpation, and unworthy a gallant and free people that as a foundation principle, corrcctive in its influence of the wrongs women now suffer, as a class, we demand for them the right to vote, and all the other,rights and privileges of free citizens."

SOJIE of our readers may remember a comic weekly called The Illustrated Lhrw tian, that had a precarious existence for a while at our State Capital. WE think it was finally suppressed by a mob composed of clergymen, caricatures of whom had appeared, from time to time, in its columns. But wretched as was this failure, the enterprise had in it the germ of a good idea, that of making art tributary to religion, and this germ has fructified in New York, where, on last Saturday, the first number of The Illustrated Christian Weekly, made its appearance from the presses of the American Tract Society, under the editorship of LYM AN AUHOTT and S. E. WARNER.

WE HAVE the authority of the Cincina'.i C)!irniiTi,irs Washington correspondent for the statement that the primary cause of the little unpleasantness which exists between the Secretary of State and Senator SUMNI'H, and which ultimately resulted in the removal of the latter from the Committee on Foreign Relations, has its foundation in a dinner, at which Mr. SUMNER and Secretary Ftsu were present" When the two gentlemen were well re moved from each other at the table, a well served duck being immediately in front of Mr. SUMNER, the Secretary asked a question of Mr. SUMNER about the aforesaid feathered species, which Mr. SUMNER either inadvertently or designedly declined to answer to which refusal Mr. FISH took exception. Oat of this Jowl question has grown the great diplomatic and Congressional controversy which so disturbed the nation. This illustrates how great oaks from little acorns grow.

FORNEYS Press, in an article on the recent "unpleasantness" at Washington, says: "The first and last thing-to be saved is the Republican party' It was not made by one man, or for one mm, and it cannot be engineered or ruined by one man. It is to-day, as during the war, the repository of the hopes of till.- people. It is their pride in peace. They know and feel that the enetuy is at work to capture it. They feel that when it falls they fall. Ail that was won, even the rebellion, will, in that sad case, be won back by the rebellion. The enemy concedes nothing to successful Freedom. In that be is wise, for Freedom would not believe him if he did. He therefore holds on to Slavery, to Repudiation, to Caste, to Hatred of the North, and to a determination to restore all that is bad in the past and ignore all that is go'id in the present. God help our country when the

Republican party is lost, either through the weakness or the ambition of its leaders."

created quite a commotion. We under' stand now why the Journal waited until all the big guns had been discharged before it let offjts piece. It wanted to be distinctly heard, and^effected that object ways clearer ideas and sounder lessons by going it alone-• Had it fired with the than all the tawdryisms, with which bad others its report might not ftave been dis- judgment ,is apt to overload thejii, can "Slcwr do."

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Wliy Do Ton Grumble? In all its important features, the administration of President GRANT has been, thus far. a success. He has fulfilled, to the letter, his pledge of honesty and economy in the collection and disbursement of the public revenues. The burden of taxation has been greatly reduced, while the work of wiping out the national debt has been steadily carried forward, eliciting the admiring approval of the ablest financiers of Europe and America. Under a combination of circumstances peculiarly liable to involve us in a foreign war, peace has been preserved and the honor and dignity of the Republic have been maintaii^d. No two years of our history show such grand results as the first two years of GRANT'S administration. The change from JOHNSON to GRANT was from dark-ne-s to light, from disgrace to honor, from national shame to national pride, from persistence in bad to rapid progress in good, from all that we hate in political affairs to that which good .men most desire. _r ,-

We do not claim that GRANT is perfect, or that he has done nothing that he ought not to have done but we do claim that, for a man unfamiliar with the great affairs of State, as he was when called to his high office, he has accomplished all that any reasonable mind could have expected. We are free to admit that some of his smalffry relatives have been too prominent and troublesome. It violates our sense of propriety to see a President appoint his "Kith and Kin" to positions of boner or profit within his gift. But this is a trivial affair compared with the great essentials and who will grumble at against fastidious taste, of real moment, all that government, is secured

a mere offense when all that is is of value in to us?

Whether President GRANT or another shall bear our standard in 1872, it is yet too early to decide, but let us as Republicans do justice to the President of our choice, and leave fault-finding and complaint to those who hate him for what he ac

complished

SHERIFF JONES returned from Indianapolis this morning, with Mrs. Mariah Wolf, whom he brought from the Insane Asylum as incurable. Her husband,

Chris.

Wolf, who resides on Ealy street, will take charge of her to-day.—iVetr A'bany Ledger.

This is not reproduced as being, in itself. a particularly important item, but as pointing to the disgraceful fact that our great, prosperous Slate has no insane asylum, no provision for the care of this most to be pitied of all classes of unfortunates, except a hospital where mental disease is treated so long as there is a reasonable prospect of effecting a cure, and from which (he incurable are sent forth, often to be shut up in cages, like wild beasts, for the residue of their wretched lives. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these afflicted persons are doomed to an existence that no humane mind can contemplate without horror. There are instances, familiar to some of our readers, of lunatics being chained in pens for more than a quarter of a century. Naked, and filthy to the last degree, dangerous as an untamed tiger, they live through the weary

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seen citv.

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THE "Table Talk" editor of the Louisville Commercial deplores the fact that the tawdry style of writing is fast usurping the place of the more sensible commonplace in newspapers, lie complains that a reporter now-a-days rarely chronicles a "fire," or a "house-burning," without prefixing the stunning head-line of "The Fire Fiend." A railroad accident is always a "Holocaust," and its victims are enumerated under the "Death roll." A light among a party of blackguards becomes a "Carnival of Crime." A band of silly women-shrieker.s, become "Revolutionists." A conjuror is a Prestidigitator a fortune-teller, a "Vac'icinator," and a horse doctor a "Veterinary Surgeon" We agree with 'Table Talk" that "this is a silly abuse of language which has grown out of the prevalence of yellow-covered novels, and it is as unwholesome in literature, as it is false in taste. In the narration of current events, good, sound English conveys al-

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of years, subsisting on food

thrown to them through a grating or wicket. Just such a case as this may be to-day within twenty miles pf this

In many comity almshouses there arc cells where the incurably insane are kept, with no adequate provision for their proper care where they linger, with that strange tenacity of life peculiar to maniacs, until horrible exposure and cruel neglect bring them relief in death.

Almost every other State in the Union has made provision for the care of the incurably mad.' All that science can do to mitigate their sufferings. In alleviate their wretched condition, is done in the older Stales, and in some that are younger and poorer than our own. And it is a disgrace to this Commonwealth that we have so long deferred an imperative duty it is a cause of surprise to us that a christian people can quietly permit so cruel a wrong to go unrighted.

ALLUDING to the work before the Joint High Commission, now sitting at Washington, 1 he Golden Aye says, with a direct truthfulness that all will feel, the people of this country have had enough ot war to make them most reluctant to enter into another, excepting under the direst necessity. They will never forgive men who shall subject them to the awful horrors of a war at their doors for a punctilio. And it must not be kept out of sight that war is a verv possible contingency if we listen to our papers rather than our reason. Suppose the Commissioners

this rock of offence removed out of the wav of the onward march of civilization." And this example may open a more excellent way of settling^ national disputes than cutting each other's throats, and ruining each other's prosperity, and then leaving the qnarrel open at last. Who knows but an International High Commission may grow out of it?

THE Indianapolis Journalvery remarkable editorial on the SUMNER affair —reproduced in the Kxrusss of the loth —seems to be generally accepted as an attack, not only upon the_ President, but on Senator MORTON. We can hardly suppo-.e it was so intended. The able editor of that excellent journal would not fail to see the improprietv and impolicy of aiding the Democracy by attacking the acknowledtred leaders of our own party. And ,vere he convinced that his duty as a journalist required such action, lie would attack boldly, and not hide his intent in ambiguous phraseology.

GENERAL DAN MACAULEY, Mayor of Indianapolis, has been designated Historian of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Gulf, for Indiana, and will at once proceed to collect reliable data concerning the muster and term of service of regiments and detachments from this State that served in the Department of the Gulf, and of the several battles and campaigns in which they were engaged, together with all matter of historical interest relating to individual acts of gallantry and devotion performed by their officers and men.

A merchant should always haven partner if he wishes to conduct his business on a "firm" basis. "7*

Programme for the next Semi-annual Meeting.

The^following is the programme arranged by the Executive Committee of the State Editors'and Publisher' Association for the next semi annual meeting, which will be held in this city Thursday and Friday, the 18th and 19th days of May, 1S71. The attention of the editors of all the newspapers of the State is especially called to it, with the request that it be copied into their columns, and such editorial notice made of the meeting, from time to time, as will insure a full attendance of all those who should be active members of the Association:

THURSDAY, MAY 18TH.

10 A.M.—Reception address by the Mayor of Indianapolis. Response by President Caldwell. 10:30—Miscellaneous business, and organization of the meeting. 11-00—Address by Benjamin F. Taylor, Esq., the distinguished poet and author.

RECESS.

2 r. M.—Discussion—"The Personal1 ties of Journalism"—to be opened Hon. J. B. Stoll, of Ligonier. 3 P. M.—Discussion—"The Uses and Abuses of Advertising"—-to be opened by General Reuben C.

Kise,

this

in suppressing a Democratic

febellion. Let us not give aid and comfort to the enemy by -dissension in our own ranks

for

the hope of this country in

years to come, as has been the case in vcars

past,

is in the Republican parl,

There is no other safe custodian of the public weal.

of Vinceifnes.

4 r. M.—Discussion—"The True Relation of a Paper to its Party" to be opened by Col. M. C. Garber, of Madison., 5 r. M. —Miscellaneous Business.

FRIDAY", MAY 19.

9 A. M.—Miscellaneous business.

10:00—Address—"The

Mission of a

Newspaper"—by lion. W. P. I'ishback, of Indianapolis.

11:00—Discussion—"The

Apprentice

System"—to be opened by Ben. W. Davis, of Richmond. RECESS. 2 P. M.—Miscellaneous business alter which, until adjournment, a general discussion of any topic of interest pertinent to the objects of the Association.

The Evecutive Committee is confident that all editors and publishers will find in

programme something of sufficient

interest and value to warrant their attendance throughout the entire meeting. It is earnestly hoped that ihe next session of the Association may be one which shall demonstrate the practical value and utility of the organization, and be in all respects worthy of the profession in the State of Indiana. Others than members, and persons interested, whether engaged in the duties of publishing or not, will be welcome to any and all of the meetings.

E. W. HALFORD, T. C. PHILLIPS, F. *Nl. THAYER, C. G. POWELL, J. M. CUMBACK,

Ex. Com. State Editors' and Publishers Association.

(Jootl Advice.

The New York San, referring to the sanguine hopes just now entertained by the Democracy that the Republican parly has collapsed, declares that "those Democrats who imagine that this controversy between GRANT and SUMNER has dealt a death-blow to the Republican party, and that they are therefore to win an easy victory in 1S72, are deceived. "The Sun then gives this good advice:

We advise the Democracy, therefore, not to be too jubilant over the great light in the Senate, but to husband their re

sources,

consolidate their strength, draw-

as manv Northern Republicans into their ranks as possible, silence the Ku Klux Klan, conciliate the negro element in the South, prepare to bring out the strongest mar, and then they may stand a^ fair chance for success in the next Presidential campaign.

11 it t'1! Ladies Only. From the "Table Talk" of the Louisville Commercial, we clip this hint for our lady readers:

One by one thu chignons fall and, cvnic-like, we set and rejoice thereat with exceeding great joy. For a long time there has been seated at our table a young beauty, straight and tall like an Egyptian palm tree, her head set on her comely body, like a bright (lower

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our side

should insist on a formal acknowledgement of wrong-doing, as well as the pecuniary compensation offered, and the English Commission!-rs should flatly refuse and break up the sessions. We must either declare war in our pre.-ent unprepared condition, or lie in the ridiculous position of a professed duellist shrinking from the tight after the apology had been refused. But we will not anticipate any such folly and crime. The reasonable compromise will be reached bv mutual concessions,

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TEREE HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1871.

STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION. CONVICTION IN

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stem a wreath of chesnut hair shot with gold a Pliydian nose and Attic forehead fair 'cheeks" like the blush of the maiden rose, and lips ruby as a cleft pomgranite. From afar we have daily worshipped her beauty, and thought if we were an artist how we would yearn for her as a model. Still there was something which always marred the radiance of that beauty. Was the head disproportionately lar*e? No as her calm, earnest eyes met ours, respectfully raised, the ripples of her wavy hair were each a net to catch our adoiation. As her profile was turned to us, the solt outline of her cheek alone suggested perfection. Still something was

an indefinable lack or an undue

preponderance prevented the perfect harmony of her beauty. On a recent bright day,"which was sunny as her own glances, she came to the table with her beautiful hair gathered in a Grecian knot behind her pearly ears, and bound with a filet near her shapely head. Down near to the ends of the clievelure was a little plait tied -villi a colored ribbon with floating ends, while between the filet and the plait, the full mass_ of her locks swelled in their native pride. The.somcthing was gone, and the perfection ot harmony breathed over the wliote figure. Our artistic sense was fully gratified. The previous fault was explained'. Can anv wonder that we rejoice now when fa-hions cries ".1 b'w Icchiynen?" .. —CP A T.ilinudic Legend—The Creation of

Woman.

A prince once said to Rabbi Gamaliel: "Your God is a thief! He once surprised Adam in sleep and stole a rib from him."

The Rabbi's daughter overheard the speech and whispered a word or two in her father's ear, asking his permission to

answer

the singular opinion herself. He

gave bis consent. The girl stepped forward, feigning terror and dismay, threw her arm? aloft in supplication and cried out, "My liege, my liege! Justice! Revenge!' "What has happened?" asked the Prince. ., "A wicked theft has taken place, she replied. "A robber has crept secretly into our

house,

let, and left a gold one in its stead." "What an upright thief!'' exclaimed the Prince. "Would that such robberies

were

of more frequent occurrence!" "Beheld, then, the kind-of a thief our Creator was! He stole a rib l'rom Adam, and gave a beautiful wife instead." -, "Well said! avowed the Prince.

RIGHT is God and from God

prejudice

GREELEY writes to Hon. Will Cumback, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, that rust in wheat is caused by the oxidi zation of the surface of the grains. If wiped perfectly dry and enclosed in buckskin sacks, well oiled, wheat will never

T. Globe.

What the Attacks on President Grant Really Mean, W

We hope every Republican wlio sees this paper will "read, mark and inwardly digest," this article from The New York Times:

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Plave Republicans who are devoting their time and energies to the work of discrediting the Republican parly, and supplying the Democrats with arguments against Republicin leaders, attentively considered the probable consequences of sheir policy? Every allowance must, of course, be made for individual differences of opinion. There are many Republicans of the most intellectual class who-are profoundly dissatisfied with their party because it" has done so little to clear the atmosphere of political life—because the Administration has not identified itself sufficiently with that most necessary reform of the civil service. But do they seriously expect the Democrats of the present "day to give them greater purity of administration? There are also many, especially among the younger men, who are estranged from the party on account of its opposition, as an organization, to free trade. There are many, again, who have been offended by the appointments made by Gen. Grant from time to time, and by the little encouragement which, as they believe, the thoughtful and enlightened members of the party sometimes receive from him. Everybody is_ aware that these causes of discoaient exist, and most people who keep fresh in their minds the "record" of the Democratic Party would very gladly root out these causes, in order that something like unanimity might be restored to Republican councils, and the vast calamity of Democratic ascendency be averted.

This anxiety is something very different from the inflexible attitude ot hostility which many Republicans are assuming toward their own party and the Administration. There can be no doubt, for instance, that papers like the Evimng Post of this City have committed themselves, for some reason or other, to a course which entitles us to regard them as active Democratic journals, and which is in complete opposition to the best interests of the country. They do the work of the Democratic leaders far more industriously.than the regular papers of that party. Tiicv catch up every idle story which is told against the Government, they exaggerate venial faults into great crimes, thtr even set to work inventing "news" for the purpose of bringing the Administration into disgrace. AH this is not calculated to accomplish any beneficial result, but simply to hand the country over to the hands of the Democrats." Now, what we want to know is, how much better off do these "irreconcilables" think they would be if they succeeded in bringing about this resulf? If General Grant is not quite the man they wish to see in the White House, would John T. Hoffman suit them any better? Is the system under which New York is governed, and with which the Font is so enamored, that which the 0-reat body of Republicans would like to see introduced into the National Government?

Probablv they would answer no and yet what other rc-nilts could be expected from the success of the Democrats in 1872? The Democratic "sinews of war" are all in the hands of Tammany, and a Democratic success at the Presidential-election simply means Hoffman in the AVhite House, with his well known backers in New York as his cbiel advisers. Local misrule would then be expanded^ into something like national spoliation. 1 weed and Sweeny would not be converted into honest men simply because you placed unlimited opportunities before them of embezzling the public money. Think of the state our finances would probably be in at this moment if the Tammany horde had been allowed to "manage" them during the last five or six years. We all know now that debt and taxation have alike be«n largely reduced, and that the credit of the country stands very high—and we say that these are some of the results which ought to be remembered in favor of President Grant and his advisers when their shortcomings are so eagerly reckoned up, and the weapons of den-action are so freely launched against them. Can there be any comparison whatever, in the mind of any rational man, between the mistakes committed by General Grant, and the wanton betrayal of public interests of which John T. Hoffman has repeatedly been guilty? Look at the way in which Hoffman has tampered with "the Judiciary of this City, lent himself to the conspiracies of the Tammany clique, signed bills for the wholesale misappropriation of the public money, and assisted 1-isle and Gould to steal a railroad. Is. this the man for whom vou are willing to displace Gen.

Grant?" What are you going'to gum hy substituting Hoffman for Grant? Are all your grievances worth u. moment's consideration compared with the duty of keeping a tool of Tweed, Sweeny, and Fisk from the chief place of power in the country?

The people are wiser than parly leaders, and they may be trusted to ^sweep away all the cobwebs spun by the "soreheads" when the proper moment arrives for their interference. There were Republican leaders who would have declined to carry on the war, if they could have had their own way—but the people scattered them. There were Republicans who were very anxious ty prevent the re-elec

tion

of M*r. Lincoln—but onee more the voice of the people made itselt heard. And so it will be again, or there wiH-be little hope for many of the political privileges which we now prize the mo.-t eail v. The blind malignity toward the President which actuates the J'ost and a few other journals is no! shared by the general public, who rccogni/.e in the President a man who was suddenly called to a most trying position, who has had very little fair play extended to hiui by a large section of the Press, who from the first has been exposed to systematic misrepresentation and slander," but who has in the main striven faithfully to do his duty toward the country. We mav fairly look for still better results from'his Administration as his time of service goes on—btit even now, contract him with the Democratic candidate, Gov. Hoffman, and see who is most entitled to the confidence and respect of the country. The Democrats would unsettle the entire domestic policy of the nation, and there is no proof whatever that they would not even revive the repudiation projects of 1SG8. And yet Republicans are running a race with each other to see which can help Democrats the most. Papers like the Post far surpass the Democratic World in pig-headed hostility to the President. We believe that the people look lipon these tactics with indigna

tion,

carried awav a silver gob

and that the lime is coming when

thev

will cause their opinions to be felt by the journals which are now conspiring for the overthrow of V.cpublican rule, and the elevation to the chief place of authority of the confederate of James Fisk, Jr., and the Tammany clique.

THE name of the precious stone topaz is derived from the Island Topr.zion, which was supposed to be situated in the Red Sea. There ai two kinds of topazes. The superior is a golden color, the other inclines to a greenish yellow. The sccond

In work- cptcies

to carry out a conviction or a principle. we mav be compelled to s'mggle against misconception, ridicule and contempt from the many, but the object, if important, is one of too great moment to allow of the waste of time and capital in the vain effort to proselyte those who differ in opinion, to convince the rtoubiful or arrest the unthinking. It is harder to remove

than to convince reason.

An earnest worker in a righteous cause

must press There will

as called chrysophrace, a name

which indicates the blending of gold and leek color. In allusion to latter color the stone is called, in the Chaldean dialect, jarken (green), which is the equivolent of praise.

WHAT we call mediocrily not always what we conceive it to be, namely: a-$ort of intellectual imbecility but, in whatever form of words we.may define ft, the

.... fact itself is that the class of human be:

on fearlessly and steadily. *j„gs who are set down as mediocre would always be straggler? who be'verv much more limited, if all the come in at the eleventh hour, and it will efforts" of education and society brought be found that they were the indolently contented, intrusted with the prejudices and traditions of the past.

to bear upon them were not calculated to put them and keep them just where they are.

The Montclair Railroad crosses the lands of S. N. Pike, in the Jersey Fiats, and takes thirty-two ont of three thousand acres. Mr. Pike claim-" the modest nm of ?350.000 for the thirtv-two acres, having paid from thirty to fifty dollars per acre when purchased.

BANKRLTCY

Tire First Penitentiary Sentence'in

the Ujiit«dStates.

Our readers will remeii.! er that a few days ago there appeared in this paper, in the Court reports, an item to the effect that Devi Overholser had been sent to the Penitentiary for two years, by Judge Gresham, for a yiolation ol the bankrupcy act. As this is supposed to he the first case in which an offender of this class has been punished in this manner, a history of the "rock upon which he split" may not be uninteresting to those of our readers who are contemplating or have taken advantage of the bankrupt law.

In the fall of 1S67, the defendant was a merchant in Vincennes, doing business in that citv, with a branch establishment at Sullivan. In the month of October he began buying goods of H. B. Claflin & Co., and other houses in New York, until his aggregate purchases on credit during that fall and winter reached nearly ?30,000. In January, 1S6S, he very expeditiously sold both ol his stores—the one at Vincennes to one Clark and the other to his brother, Jacob Overholser. In the sale be obtained some S16,000 or $18,000 cash, applying the residue of the sum obtained by the sale of his goods to the payment of a debt assumed to be due his brother Jacob. \t this juncture his creditor.- commenced proceedings in the State Courts to set aside these sales, and subject the goods to the payment of his debls. In this they were unsuccessful. Suit was then instituted in the United Slates District Court to have him adjudged a bankrupt. After some delay, on the 15th of April, 1S68, he was, by the late Judge McDonald, declared a bankrupt.

Up to that day Overholser claimed to have had $16,200 of the money received from the sale of the stores in his possession. He filed his schedule, in which he omitted this sum of money, alleging as a reason for so doing, that it had bsen stolen from him in the manner hereinafter stated. For omitting to schedule this property, and setting up this fictitious loss, he was indicted in the United States District Court.

In his defense, on the trial, it was asserted that on Ihe night of the loth of April, (it being the night of the day upon which he was adjudged a bankrupt,) when he retired to bed he secreted apart of the money under his-pillow, and the residue under the carpet in various places in the room in which he .slept—that during the night some one entered his room and stole the money so secreted. He gave out the fact of the larceny on the following morning, and it appeared in evidence that his kitchen door had been opened, and the lock between his room and the one occupied by a servant girl, had been unscrewed and taken off. Also, that the chief was so adroit iu the matter that he succeeded in entering without awakening him or any member of the family, and that he found all the money. It was in evidence, also, that in a few days after the sales of his stock of goods, he and a brother-in-law bought valuable real estate in Illinois, paving cash therefor in a few days afterward that the title was taken in the name of tl brother-in-law, but that Overholser soon occupied and exercised acts of ownership over the property, and continued to live on it until the time of the trial.

The trial lasted five days, and there were a great many other circumstances connected with the affair not stated above, •which is but a brief outline of the case. At his conviction, his counsel made a motion in ayest of judgment, which was taken under advisement nntil the 14th instant, when the same was overruled, and sentence passed—two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, of this city, and Hon. James M. Hanna, of Sullivan, conducted the defense General Thomas M. Brown, United States Attorney, the prosecution, assisted by J. W. Gordon and O. M. Wilson, Assistant United States Attorney.— Lid. Journal.

Dethroning an Idol.

From the Chicago Republican.] No man is a hero to his valet and even Bret Harte, the idol of the present hour, to the general American public, is the reverse of a hero to those who enjoy the favor of lii.s intimate acquaintance. Yesterday's telegrams told of his purloining manuscripts intrusted to hiui as editor of ihe-Overland Monthly, which the same he retailed to the Lakeside, of this citv. Iiow much foundation there is for this charge, we do not know. But we do know that while in Chicago, recently, he was guilty of a very ungentlemanly act, supplemented by a very dishonorable one. Knowing that the illustrated edition of his "Heathen Chinee" had been published by the Western News Company, and hearing that its sale had been very large, he visited that establishment—and, the reader will naturally suppose, introduced himself to Mr. Walsh, the manager, for a business talk. Not so did Bret. lie sneaked around the counters, made inquiries of the cash loys, and took notes ot what he saw. No responsible person connected with the News Company was informed of his visit, which was entirely in the role of

Paul Fry. A few days afterward he turned up in Boston, at the establishment of Fields, Osgood Co. There he told a story of the sales made and profits realized from the "Heathen Chinee also the number of copies on hand in the News Company's establishment as to each and every particular of which he multiplied the truth by ten. His object was to get the Boston house to interdict the further sale of the "Heathen Chinee," by virtue of a copyright on his collected poems. He did not succeed, however, though we understand the mat

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is still the subject of correspondence between the two establishments. Now, in so far as the "HeathenChinee" has been popularized, nine-tenths of the credit, is due to the artist who designed the illustrations. We understand that, in some quarters, Mr. Ilarte claims the lion or of artist as well as poet. We know just enough about it to say that he bad no more to do with the illustration of that poem than William Shakspeare had with the writing of it. The first published illustration of it was in the columns of the Republican, from designs sketched for us, by "our special artist."

Soon after, the Western News Company brought it out in its present very handsome shape, and nobody was more astonished than Bret Ilarte himself, when he received a number of copies sent him by the Western News Company. In so far as he claims any royalty upon it, he claims what he has neither moral nor legal right to. We are only astonished that so great a poet should be so mean a man.

OCR external lives are not made up of great occasions, and our greatness is not in superhuman and exhaustive effort, but in gradual growth, and this is nourished bv little daily acts and sacrifices and efforts which call into exercise every faculty of soul and sense and liie lives which most deserve to be called sutlime are those of which the world and history and poetry take little account. The lives of men and women around us are, for the most part, commonplace, and we could not afford

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them were leaching after occasions of rendering themselves sublime, how would the world's work be done? he world's work is tireiome, perplexing, uncongenial, and sometime-, and for some people, of necessity it is very disagreeable and menial services yet in the spirit in which tiiis work mav be conceived and carried forward to the end, there is a sublime purpose and consecration, be the ends ever so humble.

YINNIE REAM is about to make a statue of Wm. M. Tweed, the "bo-*" of Tammany and the chief proprietor of the New York available Democracy. In view of bis desert, a statue certainly looks like rather more adulation than the prince of plunderers could expect, but there is a titness in it for all that. Why shouldn't "he be chiselled when he has "ehisclleU" every thing and everybody else in New York?—Tnd. -tVeins. ••».

IIOW TO PROVE AN ALIBI.

A Detective's Story,

One Sunday, about ten years ago, I found myself at Carlisle. I was considerably acquainted there, and had been there pretty often on business but my being there at this time was the result of an accident merely. I had been three hundred miles west of this, trying in vain to find a clue to the whereabouts of an absconding defaulter and coming back to take a fresh start, I found that a flood had submerged the track for several miles east of Carlisle, and that there would be no getting away till Monday, at the least. Sol made a virtue of necessity, and telegraphing my detention and its cause to my family, I went up town.

After dinner at the hotel, I dropped in at the office of the District-Attorney, with whom I was well acquainted.I found him arranging the details of a number of criminal cases which were to be tried at the court which began on the following day. "Anything of importance?" 1 asked rather carelessly. "One at least," he replied. "Joe Slifer, a notorious scoundrel, is to be tried for highway robbery. The victim was dragged out of his buggy on a lonely road, beaten insensible, and robbed of a »bousand dollars. He identifies Slifer positively as one of the ruffians." "What's the defense?" "I can't imagine. I don't think there is "any in reality." "Maybe he'll piove an alibi," I jocosely suggested. He shook his head.

They'll hardly try that," he said. "The facts are too clear." After some more unimporlant-conversa-tion with him, I returned to the hotel, where I spent the remainder of the day.

The next day was Sunday. I awoke quite early, and found the promise of a beautiful summer day so good that I dressed myself andsallied out for a walk. Nobody was stirring yet about the hotel, and the streets were perfectly still. I walked around several squares, and returned to the hotel, meeting only one person on the way.

The person was standing in the doorway of a basement saloon as I passed. I looked around casually, saw him standing there in his shirt sleeves. His hair was tumbled, and l.e was gaping, as if he had just awakened. I did not discover he was doing anything in particular there I thought afterward that it wasquite likely that he had been left in a drunken tit on the floor or on the bench in the bar the night before, and that waking up at this early hour he had taken the wrong door in seeking for his lodgings, and had gone out of doors instead of going to bed. My look at him was merely aside glance, but that was enough to photograph him in my mind. It was a thin, billions face, perfectly smooth, with a long nose, much twisted to one side, and a red scar over the left eye. I marked it instantly as the face of a rascal.

How I could do that I can't explain our business learns us to read faces as most other men read books, and the glance I had at that face told me that the man was a lawless fellow. His actions confirmed the opinion. Sleepy as he looked and acted, no sooner bad he saw me passing than he drtJvc back through the door and slammed it to. 1 instantly understood him. "A scamp, on some lay or other, and don't want to be seen," was my thought. And I walked on with his photograph in my mind, but ceased to think anything of him or the circumstances before I reached the hotel.

The day passed, and bright and early Monday morning I took my satchel and went down to the depot. But it was to no purpose the office was closed, and a placard on the wall informed the public that the road would not be opened before Tuesday.

I went back to the hotel, too much out of sorts to enjoy my breakfast. I did not understand, till the day was some hours older, that I was needed more here at Carlisle than anywhere else, just then.

I went from the breakfast table into the reading-room, and after I had read an hour I heard one man say to another: "Let's go over to the court-house they're trying Joe Slifer." They went out and remembering my little talk with the District-Attorney, my curiosity was excited, and I followed them.

When I entered the court room, the victim of the robbery was

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He was a plain, simple old man, and gave his evidence with apparent truthfulness, lie testified that he was stopped about sunset, some months before, while passing from Carlisle to his home with one thousand dollars that he had drawn that afternoon from the bank. It was a lonelyspot, and there was not a house within half a mile of it. He was jogging leisurely along, when a light wagon drawn by two horses, dashed up beside his buggy, and three of the four men in it jumped out, while the fourth held the rein?. They were all masked. One of them seized his horse by the bit and stopped him, the second snatched the lines from his hands, and the third climbing half way into the buggy, and talcing him by the arms, demanded his money. He said that he instantly shouted as loud as he could when the ruffin dealt him a savage blow with a slung-shot which knocked him senseless and when he came to himself again both robbers and money was gone.

He recognized only one of the four— the man that struck him. As be drew back to give the blow, his mask dropped, and revealed the face of Joe Nlifer, the prisoner at the bar. He knew it, he wa* positive of it, and the ingenuity of the close examination could not weaken or shake his evidence on this important point.

No other witness was called for Ihe prosecution none seemed necessary. The prisoner's lawyer got up and made a plausible statement to the jury that the complainant was mistaken about recognizing Joe Slifer on the occasion referred to that Slifer was not there at all, but that he was at Norcott, fifty miles north of Carlisle, at the very hour of that robbery, and thai he should prove it by at least two witnesses. He sat down and called out. "Caleb Wye," and everybody leaned forward expectantly.

The witness caine forward with a slow, limping gate, leaning

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apparently a man of middle age, and dressed in a suit of sober black, with a white choker about bis ne".k. His hair was silver gray, and as he mounted the stand, and leaning on his cane, turned placidly to the prisoner's counsel, he presented an appearance which would attract attention-and respect anywhere.

I saw him, and thought I did not betray any surprise. 1 know that my heart gave a tremendous thump For I aw the bilious, thin face, crooked nose, and the scarred forehead of the dodger whom I had seen twenty-four hours before in the doorway of the saloon. With this difference, however, the hair of that man was almost white, while this man's was silver gray. edged my chair quietly up beside that of the District Attorney, and while the man was te-tifying I nl.mtiged to whisper in the others ear without attracting the attention of the witness.

The latter testified that he was a dealer in ready-made clothing at Norcott, and one of the firm of Wye & Pleasants. That on the day testified to ai the robbery, both he and his partner were at their store at Norcott, and there was an unusual call for goods. Joe Slifer was then in town they knew him well, and had often employed him to help in the store. On this particular day they sent for him, he came immediately and he remained at the store, waiting on cu-ito mers, froiu two o'clock till eight, without once leaving it. Mr. Pleasants was in court, and he could tcstisy to Ihe same facts.

The first question of the District Attor ney made the fellow start and shivet: ''Are you in disguise, sir?"

!'Wh—what?"

stammered the man.

"Have yo a silver gray wig over your dark hair?" The man looked amazed and then frightened, but said nothing and before de could recover his self possession the District Aitorney had stepped forward and removed the wig, revealing a smooth brushed hfcid of dart Jbrown hair!

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"What does this mean?" he asked stern

"Only a fancy," was the surly answer "Iv'e worn that wig for years." "Haveyou, indeed? Did you wear it all day yesterday?" "Yes, sir,'' was the confident reply. "Where?" "At Norcott, to be sure." "All day?" "Certainly, I was there the whole day." "When did vou arrive here at Carlisle?" "At 7:20 this morning."

The District Attorney gave uie'a triumphant look and when he stated to the Court that he desired this witness to be detained till the close of the trial, the Sheriff was directed to take charge of him. Mr. Caleb Wye came down from the stand with his wig in his hand and took a seat by the Sheriff, looking decidedly more biliousthan 1 had yet seen him appear.

Mr. Pleasants was now loudly called for by the defense, but no one came forward. The unexpected reception which the last witness had met probably chilled the ardor of his confederate, and he wisely chose to keep himself in the background. This, then, was all of the defense, and my evidence at once blew it to the winds. I looked directly at Mr. Wye (so called), while I was telling the jurywhen, where, and under what circumstances I had seen him the previous day, and I saw him tremble like an aspen leaf.

The jury convicted the prisoner with" out leaving their seats, and the witness was locked up for further consideration. 1 left Carlisle the next morning, and heard nothing more of the affair for several weeks. Then a letter from the District Attorney, thanking me for the assistance I had rendered him, conveyed more details."The witness Wye," he wrote, "whose real name is Nicholas Bray, was, indicted for perjury. A very slight investigation showed me that he could prove that he had no right to the name of Wye that neither he nor any man by the name of Pleasants ever kept store in Norcott, and that neither of them were known there at all. This, with your evidence, would have been sufficient to convict him and understanding it as well as anybody, he concluded to save trouble and plead guilty. So he and Slifer are both in the penitentiary, and will stay tiicrc for a term of years."

Siittlshurj's Exit.

AVashiugton Cor. Ciru-inniiti Commorinal.J Among the characteristic incidents that marked the close of the late Forty-first Congress was the couduct of the Hon. Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware. That gentleman, like our Bingham, is very much given to getting his constitutional law out of a jug. And both of them have poured into their Congressional bodies fo much of this stimulating article that it is with some difficulty they they can navigate. In the Senate this is the hust exhibition of the popular Democracy I mean that sort which is represented by the hickory pole, whole hog and hip hurrah style. 1 believe (now that Saulsbury has retired) not another representative remains in the Senate, and but one upon the floor of the House. That sort of thing has shifted to our side, as 1 have said, and we have the honor of putting forth a man who can be more Democratic in this way than the best of them.

When the new* session of Congress came in, it did so without the inebriated Saulsbury. His term of office expired with the late session. Too drunk to know this, he sat with solemn gravity in his seat, and, after Senator Sherman had closed in a little speech, the late Senator Saulsbury rose to reply. He had not proceeded far when Senator Edmunds, I believe it was, rose to a question of order, and mildly suggested that the gentlemen now upon the floor was not a member of the Fogbank. Saulsbury started at him like a featherless owl. The idea seemed to hit him at last, however, between the eyes, and graduallv spread over his heavy countenance. Seizing his hat, he ended his oratorical harangue by saying: "I'll be d—d if I didn't forget that but I would have given John Sherman h—11 if the Senate had extended my term of office fifteen minutes."

And so he reeled out greatly to the relief of his brother Senators, and the propriety of the world at large.

A circumstance of this sort occurred when Andy Johnson retired from the White House to give place to our excellent President, who, being in accord with his people, and yet holding untouched the vast patronage of his office, never gets drunk—not in the least—nor acts brutally toward visitors and the people having business with him but,

contrary, is a sober, decent, gentlemanly man, and would be a statesman, his friends say, if he only knew a little more, and had some experience. But to return to Mary's little lamb—by which I mean my mutton. After Andy had vacated the Whit£ House, and Grant had been duly installed, one of Johnson's family—a son-in-law, if I recollect rightly—at the butt end of a terrific spree, pulled at the hell and kicked at the door, about midnight, until he aroused the inmates, when he wanted to to know what Andy meant by locking him out in that way. He could not be made to understand that there had been a change of Administrations.

This force of habit came out strong in that other little lamb of Mary's—one Gideon Welles—who had^been so accustomed for years to go moaning around the Navy Department, that his friends had to get him out of town to keep him from making himself ridiculous by his regular attendance at the, office he no longer occupic 1.

The Dinni tin* While Table at House.

Nothing is offered in the way of refreshments at the White House. ne of our veteran correspondents »-ays that the last nutritious-, offering there was cheese. General Jackson received on Kew Year's day, and having previously received from warm-hearted Democratic constituents in New York a mountain of chee-e, he shared it with his callers and each went away with a treuienduiH chunk. At the State dinners, of course, the repasts are bountiful, and guests are not {infrequently present at the family dinners. The Grants are given lo hospitality. Wishing a glass of water, I was invited by a verv polite attendant, a few days eiiicc into the family dining room, and there given ce-water (the water itself,

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Thirteen crimii5 the New York Tombs since its erection in 1852.'

from Scotland. He :Visconnt ia West Aberdeensire. The marriage of Miss Netfl« Ch*"9» to Mr. Hoyt is announced iit Washington fo'r the 23d instant.

The New York Star says' 'thiit^ JFstares^ Gordon Bennett, -SR "is in Mcelltnt 1 health, and worth ten million?."

John Morrissey has given $500 to a chambermaid at Albany tfhtHook care of $26,000 which he left under hia pillow. 1

Leander P. Richardson, aoil of the late Albert D. Richardson is preparing

The stud of a late English Lord, con- ,.r sisting of forty-nine hunters and six hacks, was lately sold in London, and realized over £10,000.

Pearl and ivory, elegantly carved, are favorites for fans. Besides being v'etv pretty, they are easily broken, which'-'fs very good for the trade.

Henry J. Raymond's son, who is stndying law and employed at the Timer newspaper, is in ill health and contemplates a two year sea voyage.

Charles Reade, in his new story, tellsabout a spavin on the fore leg of a horse, and is snapped lip by those who have less learning, but more horse sense than Charles Reade.

The widow of President Lincoln, who has been living in London for tho past few months, left for the Continent the middle of February. Dining the winter her son Tad has been at an English school in one of the small towns near London..

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Mr. Benedict, of the Cleveland Herald,

The bellows in a blacksmith shop at Fulton, N. Y., became filled with gas .» from the forge, and suddenly exploded, with such violence as to throw a piece of iron, weighing twenty-five pounds through the roof.

As a companion to the soug, "Ob, give me back but yesterday,'' a melody will soon lie issued, entitled "Ob, could you spare to-morrow?" which will be followed by "You haven't got such a thing as next. week about you, have you?"

The latest fashionable novelty is that of bavin" photographs printed on invitalion and hall tickets. At a recent fash- .• 5 ionable full dress conceit in New York plenties of the pretty debutante wert pre.-eutcd as a memento Jo each one present.

In a notice of a concert one night last week, the Boston Advertiser?ays: "It is a sort of artistic murder to ta,ke beaiiti- i^ ful operatic melodies and then complete-

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from Ihe celebrated War Department pring. whose purity is renowned !, clear as crystal and far more refreshing. The .•--» ,fl

famifv dinner table was set for eight, colonng matter he wa, dehgh.ul to find

whereas the family numbe:s but five

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the waiter says it is customary as there is company to dinner nearly every day. In the center stood a silver orna-j inent tilled with flowers, at each corner of the table was a moderate ..sized bouquet beautifully arranged. The large while dpmask napkin beneath the central ornament was fluted to form a circle, and ,in each flute wan placed, a particle of scarlet honeysuckle. Scarlet fruit napkins gracefully arranged, were placed at in, tervals. At every plate, besides a gobletof water, were three glasses for wine. AH the glaw was of the finest, as also

Last Friday the 105th birthday of! Capt. Lahbrush was celebrated ac ihe residence of Gen. Watts de IVvsion, in New Yo k. Capt. Lahbrush was born in 1700. At forty years of age he witnessed the destruction of the military power Q/ Prussia by the Great Bonaparte at Jena. He wilnes-ed the meeting of Napoleon and the Emperor Alexander on a raft at Tilsit, at which peace was made between France and Russia. He wx* one of the guard to watch the exiled conqueror of Europe at St. Helena. He has witnessed the rise of kingdoms and republics.

Probably the experience of no man in all time'has been more extensive and inter-e-ting than that of this centenarian. He hits been left for dead on the battle iield, cast up as dead hv the ocean, stricken down for dead by the pestilence, and encountered all the shafts of more than one hundred, years, and yet hiti health and cheerfulness seem to have improved with, time*—t'in. Times-

Somewhat iu Year.-?. ''put the steam into that boy's head" wnP gave us the great giant of modern ihditstry. *T' "A kite and a key iu Fi'imklin'«jlpi4«.0jpKf. were the grand parents of our telegraphs^, and all the blessings of modern inven-'" tiiins applying electricity. k,

a serial for one of tfie New York weeklies. A New York Judge has decided that an agreement made on a Sunday is not void if no act is to be performed on that day. j£r'

Defiance, O., has a family containing live doctors, a father and his four sons^* each of the five being over six feet ia -s height. "The prisoner has a very smooth coun«tenance." "Yes, he was ironed just be-' fore lie was brought in. That accounts,*?

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The Theater of War is closed for" the •. present. A peace is in preparation which we hope will have an unprecedented run.T —Punch. r.

A German engineer has invented & CU-K rious machine by which the exact velocity of a railroad train can be ascertained at any moment.

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has given Soft to the "Doc. Sitamons fund," now in progress for the family of the brave engineer who lost his life with voting Benedict at New Hamburg.

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ly submerge and drown them, as does. Mr. W., in a tempestuous sea of musical molasses.'' "Usa-'f nl 1. Cfc

It is said that a young lawyer dt Danbury, Mass., has commenced an actiou of slander against a young lady temporarily visiting there, laying his damages at $10,000. The lady was arrested, but was promptly bailed in 10/100 by a young naval ofiicer.

I11 his lecture in New York, la.it week, Wendell Phillips referred to the g'.vainmen! of that citv, which is, he said, controlled by comparatively few men, "every one of whom ought to be bung."- The audience received the sentiment with "loud and continued'applause." tal

At the funeral of an old colored nurse of General E. B. Nichol's family, at Augusta, mj,. Ga the other day, the deceased servant was buried in a costly metalic casket, and ft' two of the General's sons acted as pall hearers, nothing being left undone to proid a it in to the faithful "mainmee."

I r,afr 'Swill

"I Have A'o Olinuee." (:.-! «Hfj say that, young man. You jyT

vou have thir y-six, at least, in your "head. Every faculty you have will vote ou into office, if you only enfranchise it, and form a- confederation between the freemen in your brain and the freemen at f' the ends of voar arms.

Chalices, "plenty of them, fall under our eves, if we have only eves to see I hem r* and hvtnds to pick them up.

The Jailing of an apple was the opportunity for Newton to solve the secret of the skies

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A floating seaweed, drifting by^ the. vessel when the crew uttering mutinous tin eats, was the chance seized by_Coliun-3 a bus to pacify an incipient rebellion, and to inspire his men with the promise[ of a new continent and a new world of

A chance remark from a peasant girl, in an obscure country district falling!5*,* upon the ear of the young observing^**' thinker, Dr. Jenner, gave vaccination^ to the world, and saves hundreds of lives annually.

A pewter plate founded the Peel fam-^4* iiy. Robert, in the poor country about Blackburn, seeing a large family K'-ow-^, ing up about him, felt that some source of income must be added to the meagre*"* products of his little farm. He quietly* conducted experiments in calico printing in his own home. One day, thoughtfully' handling a pewter plate, from which onefiT ofthe children had just dined, he„^f sketched upon its smooth serface the outlines of a parsley leaf, and filling this with-

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enterprise. ..(:j The picking up of a pin in a street of'" Paris by a poor boy, as he was going*™ from a great bank saddened at the denial tm of his application for a place, was the founding of the success and the proi-peri-^ tv of one of the irreat bankers of the queen city of the world. That simple act, il-w lustrative of the economical spirit, was,Iftttobserved from the window the lad was recalled at tho same moment. Industry, patience and honesty did the» "1 rest. 1,.^'

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that the impression could be accurately:^ conveyed to the surfaces of cotton cloih.jj

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calico printing from metal rollers. The'-'' "par-ley leaf' on the pewter plate opened"-^ up a world of industry to Lancashire, andiwil Sir Robert Peel to thia day is called, in the nejghborhood of Blackburn. "Pars-j ley Peel."

Richard Arkwright, ihe thirteentlfft cliihl in a hovel, with no knowledge ofe letters—an underground baiber, with vixen for a wife, who mashed up his models and threw them out—gave his success-'^' fill spinning model to the world, and pn**

the linen. Finger lowles and desert Per- a*ceptrc in England's right hand Midi «*.] ,i ,„i,i„ the Queen never wielded. vice weie on the side table. j,lmjing

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Don't say you havp.Tio chance, -young 3^ man I You have the same chancer and better, than thB world's greatest Jw4 men have enjoyed. "Meatfl&fpmly

we suppose, and .the latter fa* uSor% "The longer 1 live," sayspne 0( earths noble sons, "the more I am-certain that the great difference between the feeble Jand: the "powerful, the great rftid Rt iiwgnitioant, is rgy —in vine ibte deter HUMS

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