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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
A PerilOus Voyage.

The British steamer Chicago, which re-
Gently arrived at New York from Liver
pool with six hundred passengers, had a
narrow escape from destruction. When
in mid ocean she encountered field of ice
which stove hole in her bow, and one
compartment was instantly filled with
water The engineers were of opinion that
the bulkhead separating the compartment
from the rest of the ship was too weak 10
stand the pressure upon it, and for some
time the situation was critical In the ex-
IRENE. Soon, however, the bulkhead was
shored up as strongly as the means availa.
bic would permit, tarred sail was lowered
so as to cover the opening in order to less
en- the force of the water, and other pre-
cautionary measures adopted, so that by
keeping the pumps going the other por-
tons of the shipremained reasonably free
from water An amusing story is told OF
steerage passenger, who, having heard
that the officers and crew intended to de-
sert the ship during the night and leave
the passengers to perish, continued on deck
all night, following the officers about and
offering them money if they would let him
60 into the boats with them. He was per-
fectly willing his wife should remain on
the ship. She was good Christian, he
said, and prepared to die; but he was not
quite ready to 60, and would rather
get to New York first, where he would
have time for repentance.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

ode on the sea, starting In with 1.-The long,
green swell of the Pacific" The country
editor sent back letter and stated couldn't
fool him, and he didn't want any base in
situations from me. He knew who
meant when wrote - the long green swell
of the Pacific.
There is one thing characteristic of the
tropics that stranger must have, whether
he likes it or not, and that is the bOo-hoO
fever. Its symptoms are nausea Of the
stomach, severe headache, backache and
bellyache, and general utter indifference
whether the school keeps or not. You
can't be full citizen of the Sandwich
Islands unless you have had the boo
hoo fever. You will never forget it.
| remember "a little boy who had it
once there. A New Yorker asked hin. if
he was afraid to die He said, mo; / am
not afraid to die of anything except the
boo hoo fever" The moral force used by
the missionaries, in the Sandwich Islands,
is not much. But they are the right kind
of men there; they have just the grit to
holden like grim death. Bishop Staley, of
the English Missionary Church, is not very
popular. The societies IN London have
ceased to support him, and his mission has
a dull, unhealthy look The King
belongs to the church, but he never goes
there, and he still adheres to the pagan
form of worship The King is gentle
man, but the American missionaries made
him so. The Bishops church is making
some PROCESS, and there is plenty of room
for it; but they will never succeed in GUST
ing the American missionaries. After an
other burst of eloquence about some per-
ennial flower, he applauds himself; would
repeat 1t again If requested to by the audi
ence; the audience requests him to pro-
coed, but the lecturer declines with such a
comical gesture that it sends the audience
into commissions.
Every Kanaka has a dozen mothers If
they like woman, they call her mother.
A Los Angeles man got there once, and
being boss over a party of Kanakas, one
day one of them came to him and asked
leave of absence togo and bury his mother
OF course, the leave was sranted. In
about month he came for ruother leave
leave of absence, Tor the same purpose :;
he got that also. For several times he OBJ
tanned leave of absence to go and bury a
mother. On the fifth demand the Los An
gelos man asked him how many mothers
he had. He answered Twelve" "Well,
go and bury them all, but don't let me see
you again"
l will end this chapter and the lecture by
stating that they do everything wrong end
foremost-dismount from horse by the
wrong side and mount on the wrong side
The same word stands for goodbye and
how do you do In the noble American
game of high low jack, or seven-up, they
deal the cards to the left instead of the
right. They battle in the middle of the
day, and are liable to kill themselves
When inviting person to approach, they
make a sign that with us is considered a
repulsive motion. The duck, a water bird.
lives 5000 feet above the level of the water
The dance at funerals, and spit on a spoon
when the want 10 clean it. They wash
their shirts with club, and iron them with
a brick-bat
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
IS Michigan Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL.

RIFLED SHoT.-Henry Ward Beecher,
in sermon delivered in Plymouth Church
recently, produced the following picture !:
"Men seem ashamed of labor, and often
you will find men who have made them
selves respected by labor, have built up
business and amassed fortune, who turn
to their sons and say You shall never do
as did you shall lead different life
you shall be spared all this Oh, these
rich mems SONS! They aim to lead life of
elegant leisure and that is life of emas-
culated idleness and laziness Like the
polyp that floats useless and nasty upon the
sea, all jelly, all flabby, no muscle, no bone
it shuts and opens, and opens and shuts,
and sucks in and squirts out again, of no
earthly account, influence or use. Such are
these poor fools. Their parents toiled and
grew strong, built up their frames of iron
and bone; but denying all this to their
sons. they turn them upon the world bone
less, muscleless, simply gristle, and soft at
that -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
Foreign Intelligence.

Another crisis has occurred in the Ital.
ian Cabinet, and the ministry have re-
signed.
A dispatch dated the Sth says: 1T is ri.
mored that hostilities are imminent be-
tween France and Prussia"
HThe Sultan threatens to declare war
against Greece on account of the continu
ance of insurrectionary troubles on the
Turkish frontier.
The Spanish Government refuses to yield
to the demands made by England for in.
demnity and satisfaction in the case of the
steamer Tornado.
The British Government has sent sever.
al ships Of war to Cadiz to enforce its
| claims arising out of the seizure of the
steamer Tornado.
The estimated income of the British
government for the present year will ex'
coed e69,O00,000, and the estimated ex
penditures are e6s, 100000.
All hopes for the safety of DR.. Living.
| stone, the African explorer, are abandoned.
Later advices from the Cape of Good Hope
confirm the report of his death.
Maxlmilian's capture by the Liberals in
Mexico seems inevitable. They have him
surrounded. Our Government, at the re-
quest Of the Austrian Minister at Wash
ington, has sent a request to President
Juarez to treat him with all possible lenien-
cy, if captured.
A revolution has taken place in Hayti,
of the most bloody kind. The loss on the
part of the revolutionists was very heavy,
and the streets of Port au Prince were lit
orally covered with the dead Contradic-
tory reports of the same date March 29th)
are received as towhether the Geffard Gov
eminent or the insurgents held the victory.
The British Government is seriously con-
sidering the project of making the whole
project of making the whole telegraph sys-
tenn a branch of the Post dice. In Bel
giunn, where every Post Office has its wire,
| a message of twenty words is sent to any
part of the kingdom for ten cents. In
Switzerland, under the same system, both
messages and money orders can be sent at
very low rates, and people seld more mes
sagss than letters.
1t is now known that Napoleon, deeming
the possession of Luxembourg indispensa-
BILE for the military security of the French
frontier, not long since commenced nego-
tiations with the King of Holland for the
purchase of the Grand Duchy and its in
corporation with the French Empire; but
as the fortress of Luxembourg, which is
one of the strongest Notifications in Eu-
rope, is held by Prussian garrison, and
the Prussian Government, backed by the
whole of Germany, firmly object to the
transfer of the Duchy to France, the King
of Holland has withdrawn from any fur
ther negotiations on the subject. The
French Emperor insists that his negotia-
tons shall be carried out, and the treaty
completed The national pride of France
has been deeply wounded, and a wild anti
Prussian feeling has arisen in the country.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK
General News.

1ChCHhA ANC"Ss
Hon. Thad Stevens is very ill at Wash
ington, and his physicians do not antici-
pate his recovery.
General Rousseau has been confirmed
Brigadier General in the United States
Army, in place of General Rosecrans
The sons of temperance of Washington
have resolved to ask Congress next session
to pass a prohibitory liquor law for this
| District.
United States Senator salisbury has re-
turned home If he resigns he will proba-
bly, be succeeded by his brother, now Gov
erner.
Hon. Butler G. Noble, formerly Lieu
| tenant Governor of Wisconsin, has been
appointed and confirmed Harbor Master
for the port of New York.
The old Capitol building at Washington,
occupied as a prison during the war, has
been sold for about $50, 900 to gentleman
who will convert it into hotel.
The President has nominated J. p.
Stockton, OF New Jersey, as Minister to
Austria His nomination is predetermined,
as he has already been once rejected by the
Senate.
1t has not yet been determined when the
trial of Surratt shall take place. ST Marie,
the principal witness against him. is in
Washington, waiting the pleasure of the
authorities.
Governor salisbury has appointed Jas.
A. Bayard, of Wilmington, United States
Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Riddle He will take his
seat at once.
The Russian treaty, as ratified, was for
warded to the Emperor of Russia, by tele-
graph, at cost of about nine thousand
five hundred dollars, and it is understood
that his formal assent to the same has
already been received.
Mr.. Seward, at the request of the Aus
trian Minister, telegraphed, ON the 9th, to
Mr.. Campbell, Minister to Mexico, to dis
patch a message to Juarez, urging that all
possible leniency be show n Macmillan, in
case he fell into the hands of the Liberals
On the same day Mr.. Campbell returned
answer that he had forwarded the request
The Russian treaty, by which their pos
sessions are ceded to this Government, was
ratified by the Senate, in executive session,
on the 9th inst, by vote Of 81 to 2. 1t
appears that the territory wss encountered
by certain franchises, and our Government
would not accept it thus ham2ered, though
it was offered at S7,OO0,OOO. Russia then
agreed to assume the franchises at 100000
additional, which was agreed to. 1t still
remains for the House to agree to vote the
money to carry it out.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
PART Ill.
THE RESULT.

PART I'LL
THE RESULT
Another year crept on to the close,
AS years will do, whatever befall-
And Fanny sleeps by the churchyard wall,
Where the grass waves heavy, rank and TAIL.
Mrs. Jones is exceedingly well;
She may be a vampire-who can tell!
For the thinner and paler her husband grows,
The more she blooms like asummer rose.
She gives grand parties also goes Out
Her lord, devoted Is always with her;
Like lamb or a poodle he follows about
His magnificent mistress hither and thither.
But does he speak 10 beautiful woman,
Or waltz-he waltzcs so charmingly!-
Or do anything else that is proper or human,
He begins to twitch most alarmingiy-
A peculiar twitching, very strange thing,
As If he were jerked by a viewless string.
The world remarked on this twitching complaint
A nervous disease, so the doctors saldi
Dvspepia from living too wholesome restraint
For awhile would be wholesome-say, water and
bread
Whatever II was twas a troublesome thing
To be constantly jerked BY viewless string.
To beautiful girl did he bow and smile,
jerk he forgot what he wished to say;
Did he talk with friend for a little while,
Jerk-jerk in the most intOlerable way!
No wonder he grew so thin and pale,
Re echoed no more to the tread of Jones,
And his shadow from out the earth did fail.
Jones disappeared-not even his wife
Knew what become of him under the sun;
With dreadful terrors her thoughts were rife,
But she dared not breathe them to any one.
Many days went by till an empty room
Which long had slept in gorgeous gloom,
Was opened again to the garish light
By her restless hand. and she saw-a sight
AND golden f tape aa9 ~ fold upon fod M
Mirrors, gold .circled, rejecting gold
A room of splendor, superb to behold
The bridal chamber, two years before,
OF the happy man who was now no more.
No more for there, from the gided hook
Whence a chandelier had recently hung,
Cold of feature and fearful of look,
The lifeless body of Wykhoff swung
A skeleton form. a frame of bones,
The last OF the gay and wicked Jones.
He hung in the place of a chandelier.
Shut OFF for ever life's Pickering nanei
But his light may still shine far and clear,
A warning TO those who would do the same.
His wife fell down in fainting fit
When she saw his body, and also IT
For this was the terrible joke of the thing
He had hung himself with an apron string
Mrs. NJ y riet0r
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

DIR. John E. Tyler, Superintendent of
the Mclean Insane Asylum, Massachusetts,,
in his annual report, just issued, makes the
following statement: +" The excessive
drinking of wine and ardent spirits has
brought insanity upon many persons dur
ing the last year. This indulgence seems
to be increasing very greatly, and its con-
sequences are indeed alarming. Many per
sons, and chiefly young men, either posi-
lively insane or who have been seriously
damaged mentally and physically By this
cause, have come under our professional OBJ
servation or have applied here for ADVICE
and relief during the last year, than we can
remember before for the same length of
time"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
The West.

A foundry and machine shop was
burned on the night of tho 7th, at New
Philadelphia, Ohio. Loss, $4,000. Insur-
ance, 81, 900.
Snow, seven inches deep, fell on the
Platte river, near Julesburg, on the 26th,
and during the storm there was the most
terrific thunder and lightning.
Captain John Rowell, of New York, is
building vessel, % feet long, to be pro-
PEELED by four sails, arranged lik the sails
of windmill, in which he inten DIS 10 cross
the Atlantic.
The divorce suit of Emile J. Stewart rs
Hart L. Stewart was finally enc led in the
Superior Court of that city on the 9th
The divorce was granted, and the late Mrs
Stewart is now Miss Emile j. Sm.i it'll.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
The Elections.

p T. Barnum ran behind his ticket in
nearly every town.
The recent charter election at Albany,
n. Y, resulted in the election of a Demo
cratic city ticket by 1900 to /, 200 majority.
The Democrats elect SIX out of ten Alder
men, and seven out of ten Supervisors.
Sacramento, Cal, held e city election
March 18th, for the first time under reg
istry law. There were 2,119 names regis
tered, and 1,71s votes polled, as follows
For Trustee, David Kendall, Republican,
1,043; William L. Herndon, "anti- Chi
nese," 657.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
Pay Of Army Officers.

In answer to resolution of inquiry from
the House of Representatives, Paymaster
General Price has sent in the following
table, showing the annual pay and commu-
tations of army officers under the law Civ
ing them an increase of pay; this is exclu.
sive of fuel and quarters:
General commanding the army, $15,67S
Lieutenant General, commanding Divi-
sion, SAILS.
Major General, commanding Depart
ment, So, 443
Major General commanding Depart
ment, $500.
Brigadier General, commanding Depart
ment, $3.50
Brigadier General, commanding Depart
ment, 81, 1886
Colonel, $3,176.
Lieutenant Colonel, s., S26.
Major, S2,477.
Major, Surgeon, ten years service,
$2,915.
Captain, Assistant Surgeon, ten years SER
vice, $2,375.
Captain, nominated and commanding
company $2,057.
Captain, nominated general staff and
regimental, $1.937.
Regimental Adjutant, Quartermaster, and
Commissary, 81 $50
First Lieutenant of engineers, light artil-
lery, and cavalry, and Second Lieutenant
of engine ers, light artillery, and cavalry,
$3.50.
Captain of heavy artillery and infantry,
commanding company, 81 ,S97
Captain of heavy artillery and infantry,
not commanding company, S1,777.
First Lieutenant Of heavy artillery and
infantry, not commanding company,
$l,6l7.
Second Lieutenant of heavy artillery
and infantry, not commanding company,
1851.
Chaplain. s1,s19.
Rations are counted at thirty cents One
additional ration per day is allowed by law
TO every commissioned officer of the army
for each five years service, called service
or longevity rations. Rations of Surgeons
and Assistant Surgeons are doubled after
ten years continuous service in the same
grade This is in addition to longevity
rations, to which these officers may other
wise be entitled
The law gives ten dollars additional pay
per month to each company officer in ac-
tual command.
Field and regimental staff officers of in
fantry have by law the sane pay and allow
ances of cavalry
All officers of general staff have pay and
emoluments of cavalry officers of like
grades.
Aids of Major Generals have twenty-four
dollarsper month in addition to their grade
pay.
Aids Of Brigadier Generals and Acting
Assistant Commissaries of Subsistence have
$50 per month additional, less one ration
per day.
In addition thereto, for fuel per annum,
General, Lieutenant General, and Major
Generals shall receive 40 cords; Brigadier
Generals and Colonel, 80 cords; Lieuten-
ant Colonies and Majors 80 cords; Cap
tains, % cords; Lieutenants, II cords-to
be committed monthly at its market value
when not drawn in kind for quarters Num-
Der of rooms; General, Lieutenant General,
and Major Generals, each six; Brigadier
Generals and Colonies, each five; Lieuten-
ant Colonies and Majors each four; Cap
tains, three; Lieutenants, two
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

Geo. w. Randolph, formerly Confederate
Secretary of War, died at Richmond on
the Sd.
Two unsuccessful attempts were made
on the 7th to burn the Commercial Hotel
at Memphis. Several rooms were burned
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

A young musical prodigy mot 9
thousand miles from Clevelandl, whose fathers
greatest fault lie the peculiar fault Oh iasneas; Was
self at the piano and compose and play an air TN
prompfu. for the edifcation of the company For
time the youthful prodigy got On pretty rtu well
he Exclaimed, Father, have forgotten the
resti'
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

And she looks at person in sucha way
Don't. Wykhoff, don't tumble my curtains SO;
And le, the end of that tassel go,
know I'm ugly, know I'm old
You knew it, too, before you consented
To barter your youth and beatty for gold;
And it's hardly proper, because you've rcpented,
To throw my false teeth into my face.
Don't tear the rufile off that lacel
it's vastly pretty to see you rave,
Your eyes bright, and your sweet lips
sting
But the truth is, Jones, il you don't behave,
Iii draw still tighter the apron string!
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12


The Cleveland Pain Dealer once knew
a man to struggle for years to color a par
ticularly obstinate meerschaum pipe. He
tried all the different kinds of tobacco, put
button in it, boiled it in tobacco juice,
but to no avail 1t wouldn't color. He
grew morose end sour, shut himself up by
himself and smoked, uttering savagely
from beneath his clenched teeth. SPil
color yer He gave up all his business
and devoted himself wholly to smoking,
determined, as he said, to color that pipe
or die in the attempt One day he failed
to make his appearance at the breakfast
table. His room was opened, and there he
sat in his chair, dead. The fatal meerschaum
was as white as when it first emerged.
Venus-like, from the sea, but the man was
turned to rich, dark brown. The meer-
schaum had colored him.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
ut, and the hotel was badly damaged by

out, and the hotel was badly damaged by
water
The annexation of West Florida to Ala
bama is extensively mooted The papers
of the two States are full of the project,
and the general opinion seems to be that it
will advance the interests of all concerned.
Governor Orr has written letter saying
that it will require the importation of a
hundred thousand bushels of corn to sub
slst the people of South Carolina till the
next harvest, of which one-fourth must he
distributed gratuitously.
A New York Herald dispatch says that a
Union State Convention was held at Little
Rock, on the 4th inst, and that "a plat
form, with resolutions, was adopted, of an
ultra radical character, approving the
Congressional plan of reconstruction and
re-admission into the Union"
The numerous breaks in the levees assure
the devastation Of the richest portion OF
Southwestern Louisiana The giving way
of the grand levee Morganza Overflows
seven parishes. This was one of the
largest works of the kind in the world, and
was but recently completed.
The crevasses in the river at Baton
Rouge are beyond control, and all attempts
to close them have been abandoned. The
richest sugar regions in the State are ruined
for the season. Marelgo crevasse COM
pletely inundated the Black river country,
the most productive cotton region in the
South. The freedmen's settlement known
as De Soto has been ovcrhown by it, and
eighty freedmen are known to have per-
ished in the water, despite all attempts to
save them from their hapless fate.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

"A colored lady, Boosting the other day
of the progress made by her son in arith-
metic, exultingly said, che was in NORTH
cation table"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

-Webster's spelling book sold last year
at the rate of 5,131 copies for each working
day. The whole number printed has
reached forty millions.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

What is better than a promising
young man? Apaytng one.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12

Why are good husbands like dough?
Because women need them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
aalarshall Ga. Republican.
From Beadle,s Monthly for April.

POOR WYKHOFF JONES.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1867-03-15
-HdnaTacturing in Termont.

We have many times called the atten-
ton oi' our readers TO the importance OF
stimulating manufactures in orr state.
The Rutland Herald, in speaking of a new
branch of industry started AT Sheldon, by
: B. X W. H. Green, well SAYS:
I'VE wish the MeSSrs. Green success.
and believe thai ii more of our capitalists
would invest portion OF their means i'm
manufactures, such an investment would
prove not onl Y a pecGnlary success iu
themselves. but blessing 10 the commu-
nity in which the manufactures were con-
ducted- Until the spirit of manufacture
ing, sufficient at least 10 work our own
raw material. pervades orr commonwealth.
we cannot hope for the population and
wealth which has crowned the efforts of
our younger and less naturally favored
sisters. Let our business men even but
partially Improve our natural resources for
manufacturing, and, our word for If, the
wealth of the Green Mountain State will
more than double within the time of most
OF those who read this article"