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The Republican journal., 1869-05-06
The murderer had searched the person of

The murderer had searched the person OF
his victim for something.
Thus far all was plain, but hencelorward
all was mystery. Coroner Thomas Smith,
having been summoned from his residence
in Flushing, arrived yesterday morning, and
the work of the this solving mystery began IN
earnest. The persons best acquainted with
the shop declared they could see no change !;
gold watches hung upon the wall, SILVER
ware crowded the show eases, the diamond
pin still elistened il the dead mans cravat.
SO far as could be seen nothing had been
taken. The safe was locked, and pro-
tracted search for the key proving frultess,
Coroner smith gave orders to break into it,
The task being accomplished, its contents
were found undisturbed. Everything was
found exactly as thinner had seen the
victim put them away on the preceding
night. The money was there tied as de-
scribed, and proved to be slS3 in amount.
The gold watch and chain were there, and
so were the rings and the spoons. 1t was
plain the murderer had not tempered with
the safe 1t was plain that if plumber had
melted to murder, something had frightened
the assassin away the moment after he made
that hurried clutch into the dead mans
pocket that had left the tell-tale marks be-
hind.
A careful examination ofthe house prov
ed conclusively that the murder had been
done by some one who was In it with Rob
inson's knowledge and consent, by some
one who had come in to sleep with him,
and who had gone to bed with him. by
some one who had lain patiently waiting
until his victim was asleep, and had then
stealthily risen and dealt him the fatal blow.
The little shop had no nook or corner I'M
occupied for man to be secreted in. No
burglar could have sealed the wall and
weather. boarding from the bed of the creek,
and have thus gained an entrance by the
window, without leaving some mark behind
him. No struggle could have taken place
without disarranging the room and leaving
bloody marks of its having been. The lock
of the front door had not been broken nor
had the window been disturbed. There
were 10 bloody stains anywhere in the room
except on the wall, just above the dead
mans head, and those had come from the
blood squirting out the moment the blow was
given.
The murder is as yet an unsolved mys-
terry. Every community has its black sheep,
and here suspicion points to several but has
not fastened upon any. The inquiry now
is to find the man who, after 1915 o'clock
Monday night strayed into Robinson's
shop, and, asking to stay with him until
morning, received hearty welcome. When
that man is found the murderer will be in
custody to answer for his horrible crime.
Its object had been as plainly disappointed
Frightened from the scene of horror the
he had made it such, the murderer
had gone from the place, and left no tangible
sign. Into the gloom of the night and the
solitude of the deserted street, he took his
dreadful secret. No one saw him come or
90. His secret is yet his own, but he must
keep it against a whole community deter
mined to wrest it from him.
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Grant in Comparison.

Comparisons are odious, atfirms the
proverb. No men have more reason to as
sent to the truth Of this proposition than
those who tolsted Grant upon the country.
He is like balky animal al the head Of a
team, where the utmost Willingness and iu-
telligence are needed, and with big load
to haul. 1t will be remembered that Grant
set out in his Presidential career, like boy
on a holiday spree, with the declaration
that he had no fear Of the responsibilities
he was assumiDg-wherea all the illustri-
Gus men who have preceded him in the high
office have expressed their overpowering
sense Of the magnitude of the trusts COM
mitted to them. Since that time the coun-
try has seen, with ming led shame and
amazement, the extraordinary course that
the head Of the government is pursuing.
OF course the opinion Of the Democratic
presses has been frequently and emphatical-
ly given upon this subject, and Invariably
III Ole VII StllOu. I)ub llC SGulIlIlcuI VI tuc
republican press by no means unanimously
sustains Grant SO far from it, that many
Of the most prominent of those who advo-
Gated the election of the candidate, now
openly and unsparingly denounce the course
Of the President. The Chicago Tribune
last week had an article that to an official
Of any sensibility must cut like knife.
And now we have the New York Sun,
edited by Charles A. Dana, exposing the
weaknesses of the new President. Dana
is a former editor of the Tribune, was as
sistant Secretary Of War under Lincoln,
and labored earnestly for the election of
Grant. Below we copy entire the Suns
recent article on the characteristics of our
sixty day President.
From the n. Y. SUM-
On the fourth Of March, 1901, Thomas Jetfer-
son rode on horseback unattended to the Capt.
toll, hitched his sober geding at the gate as
cended the steps, took the oath of office from
the lips Of John Marshall, and delivered that
inaugural address which has since been the kew
AOeS
Adams, when his Presidential term expired,
mounted quiet nag, with a portmonteau be-
hind him, and wended his way leisurely from
Washington to Quincy, declining to receive any
public demonstrations from his admirers along
the route. At the close of Gen. Jackson's long
and remarkable administration, be departed
from the Federal capitol seated in the smoking
car Of alrailway, clad in simple garb, waving
graceful farewell to the friends who crowded
the depot, and drawing consolation from a
democratic clay pipe.
Each OF these eminent men on several oc-
casions, some Of them of historic celebrity,
refused to receive presents as testimonials of
regard for public services both previous to and
When filling the Presidential chair, excepting
that State Legislatures voted two or three
swords and medals to Gen. Jackson while he
was in private life, as tributes to his gallantry
in the battle of New Orleans. Neither of them
ever bestowed office upon u relative, while both
Jefferson and Jackson specially declined to do
so, the former in letter which rebuked the
practice with marked emphasis
We have fallen on other times. Are they
better times! On Wednesday, the third day
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with contorted limbs, wild, glazing eyes one
who seemed to be disemboweled by the frag-
ment of shell, and there half buried in the
plowed-up earth, was female form, which
seemed to have been violently thrust into the
earth by some terrible force. Further on the
Mortified spectator saw the empurpled face of
young man, who lay as if in an undisturbed
sleep, for apparently his soul passed away dur
ing this short but terrible commotion, as If he
had
Wrapped the drapcry Of his couch around him
And laid down to pleasant dreams.
Near this young man, IN the full hey day OF
youth, was tender babe on the threshold of
existence, with look of innocent establishment
on its pretty face, as its frail life must have
passed away in the first shock, as it was thrown
from its fathers arms and probably instantly
killed. Almost touching it lay the wounded
mother, frantic with fear, and covered with
blood that oozed from different parts of the
body Further on, with limbs distol ted and a
hideous cash on his forehead, was the body of
the brakeman. Close to the car was the al
most unacceptable corpse of man who had
been dragged some distance, around whose
neck and head were number of wounds any
one of which would have proved fatal. His
form was twisted into spiral shape, and the bro
ken bones and protruding entrails would even
have sent thrill Of horror through an army
surgeon. Every bone in his body was broken,
the back part Of the skull was wrenched off,
and the drt-bedraggled shreds of flesh were
amalgamated with the rags Of apparel satuated
with blood. Interspersed with these, the fated
victims, lay the wounded, alternately moaning
and groaning with heart-rending cries that
were most pitiful. Rushing distractedly here
and there were friends and relatives, who had
mssedeach other in the confusion, filed with
terrible apprehensions, whichonly allayed
when the object of search was found. Then
came warm congratulations on the lucky
escape. But as their eyes rested on the
remains OF their Inflated fellow passengers,
every effort was made to allay their Sutferin9s,
and the neighbors kindly came and proffered
assistance. The car doors were quickly put
in requisiton as stretchers. and those among
the wounded unable to assist themselves were
removed to the adjacent houses. The tracks
and sleeps were covered with blood, and pieces
of human flesh adhered to the fragments of
the wreck, upon one of which the writer saw
the hair of lady clothed with blood, and
clinging to the fragments OF the scul, while
part of the woodwork near was bespatted with
brains and blood.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
Among the thirty people who occupied this
car six were killed, about eleven seriously,
and seven Or eight dangerously wounded
When the people began to clear away the debris,
and the forms were uncovered, few Of them
were recognized. A train was despatched from
Jamaica, and six bodies were placed on board
and conveyed to RemsonS Hotel to await the
action Of Coroner Hendrickson, who was quite
agtated at this unusual increase of business;
and as Il jury could not be empanneled without
delay, the inquest WAS postponed until NJ onday,
at p NJ
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Her sorrow on the sentinel
Appeared to deeply strike
"Walk in" he said, among the dead,
And nick ont whom Won likn,n

Sidney Smith, one of the keenest OF modern
have been the pink of propriety-yet we all re-
member the story of his horrifying an old lady,
on q very warm day. by expressing the wish
that he could get out of his flesh and sit in his
bones. Smith is credited with saying, at the
table Of Rogers, the banker and poet probably
the sharpest thing of the kind ever uttered
The conversation turned upon the recent mar
riage of a man, who was a founding, with the
daughter of woman celebrated for the num-
Der of her lovers. cit appears" says he 'sthat
nobody son has married eyerybody's daugh-
terri Yet the point of this observation is what
our Portland contemporary calls smut.
Byron joins to the most beautiful and sub :
lime poetical conceptions, brilliancy Of wi t
that dazzles and amazes. lie is likewise gross
beyond any modern poet-most reprehensibly
so, for he strives to make vice attractive. For
that he deserves no pallation or apology. Yet
he will never cease to be read, admired and
quoted The same is true Of Tom Moore.
And Burns, Scotia's darling, poor Bobby
Burns, who laid his heart on Natures bosom
and so faithfully Interpreted her throbbing
heart, was but human, and mingled with the
sweetest lines that ever fell from human lips,
something of-snsm. But who would expur-
gate Burns, and say that this or that line should
be stricken from Tam O'Shanter or Holy Will
lie S Prayer?
Junius, the great anonymous master Of in
vective wit, pointed his attacks with compari-
sons and jests that would fall under the ban
of our contemporary. Sterne, Swift, Smollet,
as we'll as most Of the English dramatists, are
sprinkled with the marks of smut
And when we consider SHAKESPEARE, the fore
most author of all the world, the shades of the
transcripts smut, if they be shades, almost
predominant over everything else. 1t is vain
to say that the times were gross-Shakspere
not as afectation would make her. While he
revealed the less angelic side ofman, he never
forgot that they were "haf dust, half deity"
Poor old Falstaff, wine bibber, smutty lester
and sensualist as he was, on his death bed
went back to childhood, 'ssmiled on his finger 5
ends, and babbled of green fields" OF Shaks-
pere's creations perhaps the wittiest is Mcrcu-
tio-so witty, it is said, that the great poet
could not long sustain the character as he had
begun it, and killed him of in the third act
dying with q jest upon his lips. Mercutio Is
gross, smutty-but yet made capable of utter
ing that most delicate and beautiful concep.
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ton, the description of Queen Nab, that will

ton, the description of Queen Nab, that will
live as long as the language endures.
Probably,-to come back to modern times
probably the most notable attempt to be Sc
verely proper in publication, was made in the
New York World, at the outset Of It's career.
The purpose was to make it sheet s'with less
of earth in it than heaven" 1t was in charge
of some very moral and religious people,
clergyman we think, who were determined to
make paper fit to be read by very moral peo
pie. All illusions to theatres, exhibitions, po
lice affairs, murders, or crimes of any kind,
were to be ignored in its columns. Only the
good, the beautiful, the true, the pure, were to
find place there 1t started out with flying
colors, and ran the course appointed for it
and ran into the ground. 1t sank money fear
fully. quarter of million went out of sight
to pay its bills, and it gained no patronage.
The experiment failed. The reason Is obvious.
People who take papers want to know what is
gong on in the world-the bad as well as the
good side OF human nature. If Sitting be
necessary, they can do it for themselves. They
don't want anybody to say what Of public tran
sactons, is proper for them to read, and what
is not. They want to know, each day or week,
what has happened-with such comments as
the editor chooses to make. Some practical
men, of the worlds people, who understood
this bought the World, and it became pros
porous paper when it became newspaper,
and as Cowper has 1t
"a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns"
If we are to be over particular, not only
must the best literature of the language be re-
jected, but the Bible itself We do not advo-
cate grossness-but deprecate squeamishness
Swift remarks 'syour nice man is man of nasty
IDEAS" And those who cry out that a joke is
indecent, would have said the same had 1t oc-
Cured to them. Pope says
True wit is nature to advantage dressed,
That oft acas thought, but neer so well expressed
The fact is, that our literature, like our bread,
may be refined until it loses its healthfulness.
To be wholesome there must be something of
coarseness.
Our brother of the Transcript will not think
we are dwelling PaiXhan at his two line para
graph. He is too kindly hearted to seek to
wound. But the charge has been sometimes
made locally, and we commend the reading Of
the foregoing to the critics. The comment is
longer than it would be but for a rainy eve
ming, and the necessity Of finding some employ
ment for pen that has got habit Of gallop-
! ing, and won't keep still
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One of the Saints in Trouble.
We find the following in tie Court

We find the following in tie Court Re-
port of the Portland Argus of recent
date
U. S. CIRCUIT COURT. Before Judges elf
ford and Fox. On Friday last an agreed state
me mt was determined upon by Counsel in the
case of Bradish johnson VS. Neal Dow, and the
law will be argued at future day.
This is an action of debt upon judgment
for some $l500.00, given in a Louisiana Court
against Neal Dow, for the value of certain
goods and chattels taken from Johnson'S plan
tation mansion by Dow and appropriated to his
own use.
Among the items upon which judgment was
rendered are silver spoons, silver knives, sill
yer pitcher, etc.
Mr.. Johnson, we are informed was staunch
Union man during the war.
Bradbury Bradbury, for Plaintlf'-Davis &
Drummond for Defendant.
This is not the piano affair in Florida,
about which so much has been said-but a
thing that occurred during the stay of the
great moral reformer in Louisiana.
What nice little man this Neal Dow is
We all remember his connection with Ell
der Peck, and the assistance he rendered
that radical worthy in taking care Of the
money in the State Treasury, and his ten
der care of the safe, as related by the Ell
der himself The State Treasury is still
lean from the effects of that financial
thoughtfulness.
Ia these proceedings we have the same
little man, exercising the same great moral
principles in new field. He appeared in
Louisiana as the representative Of the pow
err and majesty and dignity Of the govern
ment of the United States, bearing the agis
of the country to shield its true sons, the
few " faithful among the faithless found"
What protection Bradish johnson got from
Dow What reason he had to love this
government and its representative How
this starred and epauletted father of the
Maine law did make treason odious down
there, to be sure
In our minds eye, we can see the defend
ant coming into court to answer this charge
The spacious department is crowded with
the elite of the bar of Cumberland. The
spectators throng the room. The learned
Clifford and the dignifed Fox, in their
robes, represent the majesty of the law.
Marshal Clark commands silence Sud
denly the spacious doors are thrown open,
and Dow appears, mounted on piano.
The flag OF the country, with its stars, Grapes
his graceful figure. His coat pockets are
flied with Mr.. Johnson's silver knives his
trowsers pockets with his silver spoons on
his thoughtful brow is perched Mr.. John
sons silver pitcher, worn helmet-wise in
one hand is Mr.. Johnson's sugar-tongs. and
IN the other his silver teapot Addressing
the Court, he cries. Your Honors-be
hold a loyal man prosecuted by copperheads
and rebels Shall this piano again make
music for disloyal ears? Shall these knives
cut reasonable viands? Shall these spoons
stir rebellious tea? Must this pitcher again
hold sedtious cream? Shall johnson again
possess his tumultuous teapot? I pause
for reply"
Can the Court, if she knows herself re-
slst such an appeal as that?
The Republican journal., 1869-05-06

RATS AND REVENUE. Some hungry rats
IN Dubuque, Iowa, fancying the paste
wherewith revenue stamps were pasted on
lot of whiskey barrels, gnawed off about
5000 worth. The revenue people won't let
the fluid be sold without stamps, the distl-
Ter won't buy any more, and the rats won't
appear to stand trial. What's to be done !?
Can any Of the old rats at Washington de-
eide?
The Republican journal., 1869-05-06
LIE RAILROAD TO W ARREN

The RAILROAD TO WARREN. $. r.
Gushee writes to the Maine Farmer, from
Appleton, q communication in relation TO
the proposed railroad from Warren to Bel
fast. He sets forth the resources of the
towns on the route, in water power, lime
stone, agricultural products, &C., and says
the people of the region are waking up to
the Importance of railroad communication
as means Of developing their resources.
Belfast wishes them all success
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The town of Montvlle is getting famous.
About all of our exchanges have had some
thing to say of its action in relation to bond
taxation, and in several papers it has sery-
ed as the text for long articles. The Man
chester, n. II. Union, remarks
We are afraid our friends have not mended
the matter. They will still have the interest
to pay, and if they don't vote better than they
have lately it will be long before they secure
the taxation of government bonds.
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Grants friends say he is getting irritable,
sullen, disobliging, and not at all the man he
was, when he used to ride after Bonner's horse
and talk of Marshal Browns pups Poor fel-
low, he had no conception Of his future lot.
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Advices from Hayti state that the 'colored
pussons" government is in great straits for
money. The commander of one OF their war
steamers Capt j. Fred. Nickels OF Sears
port) had threatened to carry Off the vessel II
his salary of $4,000 was not paid Fred had
better not bring her to this country The col
ored sympathizers here would try him for high
treason to the race.
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The Bangor Wing is lamenting over the mu-
ncipal affairs of New York city as very expen-
sive. Unless the Wing is tax payer there,
we don't see what 1t can possibly have to do
with the matter. The people of New York are
permitted to govern and tax themselves as yet.
The Republican journal., 1869-05-06

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The snow fall Of Sunday reached as far South
as Philadelphia
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Doing the Thing slick.

We take the following extract from
the United States Mail, by request of our
worthy Postmaster. Read it:
A gentleman sent lad with letter
to the post Office, and money to pay the
postage. Having returned with the mo-
ney, he said ''Guess I've done the thing
slick. l seen good many folks putin
letters in the postofice through hole,
and so watched my chance, and got
mine in for nothing"
How true this is we will not take it
upon ourselves to say, but we do know
that it is not an uncommon occurrence
for mail matter to be posted, as though
the persons who do it think they are 'do-
ing the thing slick" A few days since
we were called upon by young French
man, for information how he should OBJ
tain redress for an overcharge of thirty
six cents on letter from France, bearing
a postage stamp sufficient to prepay one
rate. We told him there was no mistake,
as the letter weighed over a quarter of
an ounce He insisted it did not. On
trial, however, it was found to be slight
ly over that weight. Now, whether the
writer thought he was "doing the thing
slick" and that the French Post De-
partment would not discover the over
weight, or whether he was ignorant of
the true weight, we cannot tell but most
probably it was the former. The letter
reached New Y ork, marked "insufficient-
ly prepaid" and was charged with thirty
six cents postage. The receiver tore off
the part of the envelope bearing the
mark of insufficient prepayment, and
when we asked to be shown it, said he
had thrown it away. He, too, evidently
thought he was "doing the thing slick, !"
but made mistake, as we informed him
that under the circumstances, there was
no redress, as the charge was proper. We
give this instance as one Of many. Wri-
ting on newspapers, or circulars, enclos-
ing circulars or hand bills as supplements
in regular newspapers, depositing letters
on which there is any doubt of suficien-
cy Of postage, ETC., are all examples OF
'.doing the thing slick" which may not
produce inconvenience and delay and
disappointment, but which, it is far more
probable, will. Postal rates are fixed,
postal laws are imperative, and postmas-
tiers have no discretion in obeying them.