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Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

QUIET PEoPLE.-It has been the experience of
my life that it is your quiet people who, above
all other children of men, are set in their ways
and intense in their opinions. Their very reserve
and silence are fortifcation behind which all
their peculiarates grow and thrive at their
leisure, without encountering those blows and
shocks which materially modify more outspoken
natures 1t is owing to the peculiar power of
quietness that one sometimes sees characters
fashioning themselves in manner the least to
be expected from the circumstances and assoc-
ates which surround them. As fair white lily
grows up out of the bed of meadow muck. and
without note or comment, rejects all in the soil
that is alien from its being, aud goes on fash
ioning her own silver cup side by side with
weeds that are drawing eoarser nutriment from
the soil, so we often see refined and gentle
nature by some singular internal force unfolding
itself by its own laws, and confirming itself in
its own beliefs, as wholly different from all that
surround it as is the lily from the ragweed.
There are persons, in fact who seem to grow al
most wholly from within, and on whom the
teachings, the doctrines, and the opinions of
those around them produce little or no impress
sion.-Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoue.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31
The Planets.

Some years ago, DR.. Whewell of Cambridge,
England, published little book, entitled @ The
Plurality of Worlds, )" in which, in opposition to
DR.. Chalmers and others, he maintained that
this earth alone, of all the planets in the solar
system, was habitabe and inhabited by human
beings. The work excited great attention at the
time, and considerable controversy, but the ten
dency of scientific opinion was then, and has
been steadily since, against DR.. Whewel's views.
Latterly, some fresh light has been thrown upon
the subject by the revelations of the spectro-
scope. A write in an English magazine says:
But we know more of the planets than DR..
Wheweli thought possible. He held it doubtful
whether they have an atmosphere like that of
the earth. The spectroscope seems to have
solved the doubt in the of some of them
AS they shine only by reflected light, it might
have been assumed that nothing could be learned
of them by this instrument, for, of course, it is
the suns light we analyze in this case as in the
other. But in observing Mars the spectrum was
found to be crossed Oy lines only appearing in
that of the sun when near setting, SO that his
light passed through denser strata of our at
mosphere. To find whether these lines arose
from anything in the earths atmosphere, the
spectroscope was at once applied to the moon,
and nothing of the kind was seen. Thus it was
shown that Mars has an atmosphere loaded with
the very vapors which are found in the earth s.
The same has been shown of Venus Jupiter and
Saturn. DR.. Whewell doubted whether even
Mars was so like the earth as had been supposed
Careful observation, however, has shown that it
has certain unvarying features, regarded as lands
and seas, and maps of these have been con-
structed like those of the EARTH and we have
names and boundaries for the Martial seas and
continents. White caps at the poles of the planet
are found to increase and decrease as snow must
in those regions with the progress of the seasons
of the planet Changing masses are observed in
the atmosphere exactly corresponding to clouds
So we have land, sea, snow, clouds and atmos-
phere like the earth in the case of this best
known OF the planets. Another of Dr. Whe-
walls objections has also been removed He
claimed that the interior planets would be unin-
habitable on account of extreme cold. Expert
ments made by Prof Tyndal show that the lem
perature of planet will depend very much on
its atmospheric envelope. A dense aqueous at
mosphere admits the heat readily, but will not
radate it again, while dry atmosphere will
radate it as readily as it is admitted Certain
gases have even greater effect than vapor.
Every one knows the effect of the ratification of
the earth's atmosphere in high regions, so that
the Himalayas shoot up from the troplc heat and
effect of distance from the sun may be modified
so as to make even the most unfavorably-placed
planets inhabitable."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

GENERAL GRANT is credited with the epigram-
matte remark that "Ofice-seeking is fast becom.
ing one of the industries of this country"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31
Weekly Grinity ynurnal,
The Outcast.

heT sympathies are yours and mine,
her heart is full of human love,
nsr tastes, in spite of tinsel shine,
DO nought against her nature prove;
MOI less her pity is than ours
nor are her joys an idle Jest;
-enaIp are the thorns beneath the flowers
Bile efssps unto hsr woman's breast
she came into her life Of blame,
Like us. in helplessness Of grace;
Cnconsciously received her name
Unconscionsly assumed her place;
Blessed with maternal care or cursed
With povertys neglect she rose
through years gradation, and rehearsed
Her future Of allotted woes.
1t was not if she could or would:
She took her fate, like u.s. on trust
Her follies are no natural mood,
Nor does she choose for jewels, dust:
For had she chosen, well we know,
Her ilfe had been our counterpart,
With more perhaps than we bestow
In sympathies Of mind and heart
The glances of her evil ewes
On us pass judgment none the less
Than we who walk in sanity guise,
Condemning what only guess
Where We discern a gulf between
She sees simple line of chance,
And holds that we like her had been,
But for the chain OF circumstance.
The stars that guard the lovers talk
Are not more chased with holy light
Than when they guide her wayward walk
Through the waste places of the night;
And she and we beneath their rays
Reason the same, reason not,
And msinterpret others ways
To make our own the happier lot
And which of US the saints shall say
She's wholly wrong nor partly right;
Or who, beneath that painted clay.
Pronounce there is no blameess whitei
Then cast not ut her stones of pride,
Low STOPPING from height above;
But, moving humbly at her side,
Lift up her life with saving love.
-Putnam's Magazine
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31


A correspondent of the New York Times writes
from Jerusalem:
The discoveries made hitherto may be sum-
med up briefly. The south wall OF the sacred
area, Haram Ell Shereef, within which stood the
temple, has been explored to the very founda-
tions. 1t has been found that in place the
wall was no less than $50 feet high. At the
lowest point of the wall, which is now deter
mined 40 be also the lowest point of the Tyro-
paon Valley, Lieutenant Warren discovered
small pisaage which he explored for SOME 80
feet, of very ancient construction, and evidently
intended to carry off superfluous water. Pre-
vious to this discovery, it had been supposed
that the lowest point the southwest angle
of the wall where was the great arch, known as
Robnson's arch. Visitors to Jerusalem will
remember the spring of the old arch at this
point They will be grati6ed to learn that all
the conjectures with reference TO what formerly
stood there, have been abundantly verified.
Not only was there splendid arch crossing the
Tyropan valley at this point-the span of which
is 40 feet across-and the voussoirs and ruins OF
which now lie in the debris, but beneath the old
arch covered over with pavement, built pre-
sumably to cover up these ruins, lie the stones
of an arch older still, perhaps the arch built by
Solomon himself. The complete investigation
of this arch has been long and costly undertak-
ing, but its importance is very great. On the
east side of the Haram wall lies the valley of the
Hebron. Lieutenant Warren, by series of
shafts and borings, has ascertained that the
present bed of the stream is no less than forty
feet higher than the old bed-the bed having
been raised by the enormous masses of debris
and ruins that have been buried over into the
valley. By the last letter from Jerusalem we re-
ceived plan of the system of chambers discov-
cred at =" Wilson's arch, !" higher up on the wes-
tern wall near the C Waiing place" of the Jews
Lieutenant Warren has discovered, at depth of
some fifty feet below the surface of the ground,
a vast system of chambers aud passages. These
chambers, whose use has not yet been decided,
are mostly about twelve feet square, vaulted and
filled up with rubbish water About eighteen
have been opened, Of which it is conjectured
three of Saracenic origin and the rest
of Jewish They branch off right and left
along a great passage. This has been fol-
lowed up for distance of 259 feet, its des-
tination being yet uncertain, and its use
problematical Perhaps, however, it was Sc
cret passage for troops. The discovery is in
tensely interesting, and may lead to singular and
most important results.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

How RAIN is PRoDUCED.-W here does the rain
come from? You answer, " From the clouds"
But where do the clouds come from? You may
think the wind blows them over you. But if it
blows clouds over you from somewhere else, it
also blows them from over you to other places
The fact is, the water of the clouds is just as
much over you clear day as cloudy or
rainy day. On fair day when no clouds
seen, the water is divided up into such small
particles that it does not obstruct the suns
light, and so you clouds or water. \
change of temperature in the atmosphere, as
when a warmer colder current of air meet,
causes the small particles OF water to unite in
pairs, and the pairs unite and these quadruple
drops unite, and so until hundreds or thou
sands of the small invisible particles unite in
one, and even then that one may be many humid
red times smaller than pins head. mass of
these combined drops which are still small
enough to float in the air, reflects, refracts, or
bends out of their course so many of the suns
rays that they stop and often darken its light.
1t is thus that clouds gather in clear sky
When sufficient number of drops unite to form
one too heavy to float in the air, it begins TO iai'.
1t meets and unites with many others IN fai.in3'
and often so many unite that great ram drops
are formed by the time they get to the ground
Each large drop is made up OF thonsanu'; PER,
haps millions, of the small drops that noa' III 'uo
unseen air in a clear sky.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

Az Illinois paper says there is man in Olney
:. d;r,v that the assessors put him down as real
estate.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

HULL-ED RIcE.-P. D. Hull, of the Democrdt'c
News, of Jacksonville, Oregon, was recently
consolidated " with Miss Rice. Hull gets Oh
the following squib on the happy event;
This naoer since its commencement has been
ANYTHING but friendly to the Chinese; no."i'n, na
standing this fact, however, the proprietor Ina mas
been Wholly unable to conceal decided f0nn. nn.
ness and partialty for Rice: FoliomDgg ,S;a g;rec.
the natural bent of bis incinations IN 'n,s Mr WI
ton, be drove out last Sunday to rev. vi Mr ,he hest
lams, and secured patent rigb. Tbs 20 Excellence Of
h'ce IN .ne ns;s,s in the fact that it has been
ear.fn1Iv Tue selected and judiciously Hull-ed
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

MET her by the seller door the look she p;ve
me was cold and sturn her eyes looked mitch.
forks into mine and mine looked pison into
hern. For we had loved in days gone by: her
daddy said that might take her; but, alas for
my dreme of welded bliss, she got up and got
with Dutch shoemaker. No more girls for me
II knows it; no more frauds my luv to dim
IN the words of the poet, "Not for Joseph :" and
ne might have added, % Not for Jim ?,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

ANOTHER OCEAN MYSTERY. = 1ne s'e"ns"P sP
United Kingdom sailed from the port OF ne"
York for Glasgow on the 10th OF April lasl. Sne
had fair cargo on board and so9dIy nun numGes ass
of Messengers. On the goth, the DAY a'ter she
sailed. she was spoken some one huodred ana
fifty miles from Sandy Hook; u 1t wa was SUPP, supposed
hv come that she was seen on May Atm about hve
byynJred miles from New York. This is all that
we know Of the United Kingdom since she last
,af, New York barbor. 1t is now long time
s;nce Anril 10Th, but the fate of the United King
dor is still unknown. That she has perished
With all on board it is now reasonable to con-
clnde but from what cause, or in what crcum-
stances, are left to conjecture. On the 10Th of
April, six days after the United Kingdom sailed,
the City of Parts arrived at New York, and re-
ported icebergs and heavy gales in the neghbor-
hood of Cape Race. 1t is possible that the
United Kingdom perished amid these gales, and
probably from collision with an iceberg. Like
the Hi5ernid, of painful memory, the United
Kingdom has, no doubt, gone down but, unlike
the Hibernia, has, in all probability carried
with her her entire living freight. 1t s in fact,
another terrible sea tragedy-ali the more ter
rible in truth that no one has survived to tell
the tale.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-07-31

JOSH BILLINGS divides the human race into
lnree classes Those who think it is so, those
who think it isn't so, and those who don't care
whether it is 50 or not"
, 1869-03-01


With u. 70 iced them In wntsr 70 soHsd s.tss s,sE
=. "a 1tla1 10 he expended through IL htAJ
eh4rrals OF the Indian BulcAu.
Gcla1l Locan demanded ~ e1plaasao9 Q. = ~ :
sppTppfl2uons fof ptlvste claims c. 1tAhto w As
sera,c amendments. lie regarded n: poi!s5 q
1ndlau treaties ~ preparations ACC flaieoloas,
I. ~ss mere ehild's PLAY. snt, 40 n'u 1T wIA1 " y
wno hid made thote new t.ei1es. be wonla sas
they nade uoat Ftdttuloua treauet, ma MesG III M
worthy Of iatesmen Tbs DISC ssnon, eoesa ,cis.
between aenesal Logan And Nj. WINDOW. "aseA
excited rnush laughter.
rknuruorny. Feb. 41.-The statement !lAs
Gs1cfI Graas hsd throHa hia t1nuere. Axaicst
TIA measure e dssnIe aeofS'. 1ee her Ear t.
ttatc Of v4ss.1agt. was rt1ta 70 daT. ~ W.
/, he Cspitol this moHinF, and rent ~ ~ ~
IN liz 1pscsscd TO ID his vewa On the snejsSt
lhe result Is TIA. when Mr. Boutwell, appeao, 49, -
tie Reenna'suctiou Ccuulttee. he xatonoe:o IL
vi vii t bc hesfa d 70 more, The eircan.,.nssess e.
witch led 10 this important coaeaasva c,s
sse as tollosa: General Ieans. q; aos.1sl aee.l
vas I1e4st1e she fc.olution. and ut y rste
reported 70 ine Hoafc. snc rcek 60 a 1os5 :, an.
n tn, To5a dlsn 1aoes Ia a thG eioaa sn
rethe1 with the ac,iou OF The GeoEg1 Go1.s II
ae .ppeslsd 70 he .nsF to "a fa,ed as as aer-
as the h.s g,.ssa = St sias 70
promptly Adjudic1te In ea4e Nntcn H., liorr7.
u nor rs bpi,eea hes ' ,e'oed ,6e iii. % pss1sat
snY Adjn.tuent 20 that ConSIess 3 m3I,u LIZ Hni.
iot Ps,ats ao:s,es s5a
otherw3te eonsnn@ate ~ 1ns sa.i.s 1-none:
asneR a.eas & ,Ss ss;
Gtsrtrsid - IN opposed to Congress touchln {
ns sts q re peoDs ,ss oasas
occtlIor. The Leg!elatu.o acted esdl]
= esPellag sas eol9Eed dssa %saes's; ~ ,at n1
tlop to he courts, meeta my views, ard th
VETO hy the Governor su,ps'sts a, ,ne DO 20
t,en nv. viii Il be p postpoecd." GstessI Gl.nl tai
iher !ntimated that he would act 1t once: An
with what dect IL stated aeoye.
Incidentally, turirg the interview. the Gsner'
re4erred 70 HI. Bout~el9 ~ ono Of the albert,
veil ~ one CT the most upright. men IN ths eau:
f1y, and be also repeated the re1azk whlsh b!
hitherto betn attributed to him. thAt he woul
not be P.estdcnt Il uc,c polite Il party. but
The whole county.
, 1869-03-01
TIE BATTLE OF TIE RAIL
WAYS.


The battle Of the railroads, like many an
other battle, has been confused and varying.
and even yet, though It seems TO have died
away, the scales Of victory seem almost evenly
poised between the contestants. The East
efn public hiss vsgue idea that. n sub
Railway connections. In fact, 1t h1s been
for the trade Of the whole West, as censripg,
from whatever quarter, at Its three great
towns. Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago.
At Cincinnati. the riyel trunk lines con-
tended for the passenger and freight traffic
tions to be established With the Southern
railway system at kLoxville) from the whole
southern region between the Allegheny and
the Mississippi, and north OF the line to
which New Orleans WAS able to reach. Two
lines, the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Penn
6utlneas between them. The Baltimore <s
Ohio had made It's connections With Ctncin-
natt eecurc By the control Of the Marietta
Road. The Pennsylvania Central was equally
SECURE by Its control Of the Pan Handle,
which carried Its business from Pittsburgh
with the Lttle Miami, which carried 1t from
Columbus to CINCINNATI. Into this little
family party catne the Erie By the sudden
lease Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton s Dayton
Road. The Erie proper, aud the Atlantic &
Great Western, " hich It controlled, carried
distance OF the gosl. The lease Of the Gin
ctnuatt, Hamilton 4 Dayton Road furnished
the mi.elcg Ink, and uncercm oniously plaut-
ed the unbidden E1ie In Cincinnati, beside
Its too .secure rivals.
This done, the struggle for St. Louis was
easy. The Erie Eas sure Of natural aily in
the brosd.gauge Ohio & Mississippi, which
courects Cincinnati with st. Louis. When
1t reached Cincinnati, the extension Of its
close connection to st. Lonia vas therefore
rather the work Of natussl cause than Of
any special adroftncss. Bat the result was
found ut last their great road stretching an
untrokcu broad. gauge line from the Atlantic
ocean 10 the Mississippi River, from New FORK
to Cincinnati aad St. Louis Not sat Listed with
this, It even stroyc 10 cut od the PcnnsJlva-
cla Central ffom St: Loui;, b leasing the
"Bcn Smith Roads," For little this Kignn.
tic scheme seemed about to succeed, but At
the last moment the Pennsylvania carried
the day aud leased these roads. As the re-
suit, therefore, three trusk lines b. l. o.,
Pennsglyanla Central, and Erie} competed or
two fPcnns3tvAnia Central and E7e) At St
Louis
Then remained the struggle for Chicago
Here the New York Central, connecting west
| from Cleveland ever lines With which its al
lance Was belIered TO be sutc, has hitherto
| tyfvanIA Central WAS equally secure, through
lis connection with The Pittsburgh, Fori
| Wayne 4 Chicago Road. The krie Vas con-
plctc1y shut ont. It's struggles, Of course
hinged on the Fort Wayne Road. It alu1os1
| gained the control Of the stock, was the1
beaten by sudden hank movement In th'
Pennsylvania Legislature IN the interest Q
their own road, ard has fnslly, II fcsterdsy'
rumors may be credited, secured anie.hl.
wha. Its contest had failed to win. Tbts
therefore, plants the three roads on eqas
terms ut ChicaEo.-Nt1o FORK 1Fituz<.
, 1869-03-01

rnourrfr~ the death OF her Auspau0 tAFee
y an, married Ar. slmton D9n1o1, OF ESt
h1shand Of pnother man's wife, thus furnish |
ins smother Enoch Arden case to the many
aI5e4dv recorded. Mrs. Gull-Duntor-fs the
mother Of eight children, only one o. Euom
belon, Ia Ar. Gull, who dnds nai ootn6sec
affairs y in yery u1tortonase sandt .rs dt.posad
10 make the best Of II, and 1t y unoeistso1
that matters Will be az sattlac:ofaq y
ranged ~ can possibly he done unoe1 LUG en
OF course, Mr.. Gull, who was the son q
one Of our oldest, wealthisst and most fc,
spectacle citizens, received many callers, ana
has strange etcounters to relate, soma ~
Hh'ch would be almost Impossible 10 believe
were 1t not that he has remarkable vouchers
| for his statements: II teems tha1 Hnen sht
With the feroclty Of lion, but Vas finally
| oye1.oue and made captive. he WAS then
carried away, suffering for weeks AZ that In-
dian psteorszs can be made to snnef. lne
mountains In he So sthwestern part Of Colo
rado, beg ond the RAG. al civilization. To
his utter astoniahmenl he there found
the ruins Of large city, ,evia.ntly OF Indian
the Aztec. before the discovery Of A-ner!c., as
thc5 more nearly resemble the ruins fooad IN
Mexico than any other. Here. too, he saw
| many relics Of medetu civilization, such q
| lie knew could never nave been 0ptalne1
from travellers over the plains. He aiter'
wards learned that these came (. N hug
cares two or three hundred miles away. IN
the sides Of the mountains. Ar- Gull ffe
quented these caves some Eve years ago
ssh :8s he t ssa T. 0saK VIA III 3D. nut
guns, pistols. skeletons, whole pots .
gold and silver coin, specimens
which be has, and which can BE- seen 4
, Baker & Bayley's drug store. He now wear
, large antique looking ring which he foun
thare, on which Is rudely CARED the NAM
OF Captain K5dd. Bat, perhaps. the mos
Interesting Of his relics arc the manuscripts
which he preserved, aud which throw doos
! of light upon the career OF tho mystc11ou
CAPTAIN Kydd. These consist Of ore
= twenty pages Of nne, but distinct writing
- carefully preserved between oiled sill
Upon discovering this, AE. Gull contriTed
| fas,cn 1t 10 his person in such manner tha
; It has ncycy been noticed bY the Indians, an
t 10 that 1t has been little subject to wear.
+ the contents Of these manuscripts we hay
!. no room to speak. Tney will no dout
= be printed In full In the large city paper!
= Nj. Gull called upon Us last Wednesday. Il
!. says there arc untold riches Jet In the cave
:. referred to, and We learn that several Of on
n citizens are anxious to form company 40
. 60 for them. We have only 70 add that ~
I Gull years ago adopted the hAblta Of tt
a indians, has hunted and fought With thcu
but not until the late attack By Custar upo
DlAek Kettle has he met \ whlte mAn. a
though In The hnb!t Of an Indian warrior, t
was recognized n = Hhlto man, narrowl
escaped being shot by calling out In E1gl!a
:. to soldier who had bis piece raised aluo
| rnndp tn fire.
, 1869-03-01

threat, and hs gems to have Tried both thest
processes upou the Pre- tdentelect-
etatitg ii bold direct terms that he wished
to k2ow 7 General Grant Honld i've Cover;
AcCIure was told that Grant had not enter-
'1ss Seiosei ~ &caore RssRo0n Now, General since
sou ha5c, eattsaed me upon the
personsi subject Of my visit, I have
ve.atlan with some Pennsylvania gentlemen
yesterday. What wish 10 ssy Is this, that
II {ou do not select Governor Curtlu you
tesG not select some one Of the active Repub-
Hcan politic,Aaa Of our State, and not = man
Gom private r. n'ss GSh s,Sh as George H: Stuart,
General Grant. al C. not see how any
loyal man can object to 10, Il. stuart,
whose services to the country N>.e 80 yslaa'
bic, and who is so widely known. do not
tncau to say, however, that Nj. stua<ta the
man."
Mcclure. swell, General Grant, hare
travelled mp and down Pennsylvania fol
twelve years, ard an as well acquainted =:
anybody, and when you pat Nj. Stuart II
-Four Cabinet shall have to ask you to In
troduce me. He Is not known to I've thou
sand out Of the sixty thousand Republican
such man exists that Is ALL"
Grant mskes no reply.
Mcclure. "1n our state We shall have s.
close political fight next fall that We shai
need the cheerful support OF every acttv
| politician. The party that elected you, Gen
| eral, will need the most thorough support o
/ your administration 10 retain control Of th
State Of PeDnsylranls and elect either Ges1
| OF Tllliams," ..-........
General Grant. III an not the represents
tive Of any political party, though eiecse
| By political party"
Mcclure (risiDg.) ''Wcll, General, then
must ray that al The conversations | haF
held with ron N the three interviews ha!
had, has been based upon mistaken est
mate of your standpoint"
This list mykhrious sentence Of Coiont
Mcclure was meant to Intimate that be b.
supposed Grant meant to rrwArd only b
partisan supporters- The effect Of this col
vereatIon w1s to dispif1t immediately !!
scores Of lingering politicians about Il
| Capitol and Headquarters,
The argument Of active political kuppo
| durfEg tho last campaign. as cFcdcnt1al II
ot]Iec. unsupported BY character. was seen
once 10 be OF no avail with The President
tho era Of =" economy, Eptrcnchmcnt, an no
eat collection Of the public revenue, and t!
payment Of the pntloual debt" And 80, at
bold word, the hopes Of ten thousand prote
tiona officc-holdcss expired. Their uupfoh
able and selfish interest In tho adn!nlstraut
Of Grant ceased 1t the uttcssuce thAt
meant 10 get the best men to oil Office. Th
this Is bravo and popular beginning, vi
| eau gaiulhYf GATH.