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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21

IT IS possibly not worth while to dis
cuss the future action of the Liberals"
who took a haad in the coalition 'to
beat Grant" They were few in number
in the first place, and their insiguiflcance
in the light that the r.cert contest has
thrown over them is so apparent that he
who runs may read. They staked all and
have lost all, and there is noe so poor as
to do them reverence. The ten or twenty
prominent Republicans in this state who
uRited with their old enemies will very
likely adhere to their new-found allies,
and seek privacy as a panAcea for the
sores that Greeley victory might have
healed. They can return to the Republi-
can party if they will because it is not
for any man or newspaper or convention
to keep them out, but if they come in it
must be to take back seat. Confidence
is of slow growth, and while our s arty
has been notorious for tits prompt pay"
tc wards thoroughly converted and reni
tent Democrats, there is no fatted calf to
be slaughtered for the returning prodigals
that went out as Republicans to tend
swine aud have COED time with the
Democratic harlots. Ii they come back
at all they must take hand in with the
elder brothers who have worked hard and
never got so much as kid to make merry
with their friends.
There is ore thing that must be set
down to the Gedit Of the Liberals. They
kept their faith with the Democracy If
they could have had their way Mr. Gree
ley would have been elected. 1t was the
Democracy that went back on Honest old
Horace, and brought dsTeat and disaster
upon the banner OF the Coalitionists. Had
they stood firm by the Baltimore nomina
ton, while it could not avert General
Graat's denomination, it would have pre-
vented the great stampede into the Re-
publican lines after the October election
and kept the organization in good work
ing ordor.-KSLwaukee Sentinel.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21
WIT AND HUMoR IN THE BIBLE.

The Rev. G. B. Wilcox, writing in the
INDEPENDENT. begins dissertation on the
"Wit and Humor of the Bible" thus:
Shocking y many a good old saint viii
sag, at the very though of it. 1.-THE 81.
bic jest book What Goddess folly
shall we have up next!" No, the Bible
is not jest book; but h re is wit in i,
of the first quality, and good reason why
it should be there. Take few specimens
job, IN bis thirtieth chaprer, is telling
how he scorned the low lived fellows who
pretend tolnok down on him IN his all
sersltlesl They are fools; they belong t"
the long cared fraternity Anybody W tn
less wit might come out biuntly and call
them asses But Job puts it, mnre dettlv
Xxx, 7,( Among the bushes they br1ysd;
under the nettles they we're gathered to,
get1er," Il that is not wit, there is no
such thing as wit. And yet the common
tators don't see it, or won't see it. They
are perfectly wooien wren they come TO
any, such clean Of huinor. 80 s.5r.satr
i Take another nstlace--Eliiah's rid
Guile Of he prophets cf Baal. They are
clanoring 20 their god to help them out
OF very awkward predicament And
while they are at 1t the prophet shows
them up in a way that must have made
the people roar with laughter. The stiff,
Anticipated style Of our English Bible
tamcs Gown bis sallies. Take them in
mo7erh phrase. These quick prophets
have worked themselves INFO q perfect
desperation and are capering about on the
altar as If they had the st. Wins dance.
The sceneG. Kings, xviii, 90, 27) wakes
up all Eljah's sense of the ridiculous.
"Shout loader he is a god, you knew.
Make him hear! Perhaps he is cha tering
with somebody, or he is off on hunt, or
gone travelling Or maybe he is taking
nap. Shout away! Wake him uI u
Imagine the priests going through their
antics on the al ar, while Elijah BAN bards
them In this style, at his leisure. If Mr.
Beecher ever So d anything that convulsed
his audience more thoroughly than the
prophet must have done the Jews around
him, should like to hear it.
Paul shows dry huln0r more than once,
as in II. Cor xiii, 10: "Wby haven't yeu
Jared as we'll as other churches? All
:here is one grievance, that you haven't
had ms TO support. Pray do not lay it up
against ratl" .e oa43
These instances might be multiplied
from the Old and New Testament both.
What do they show: That the Bible is,
on the whole, a humorous book? Far
from it. That religion is humorous sub
jrct-that we are to throw all the wit we
can into the treatment of it? No. But
they show that the sense of the ludicrous
is put into q man by his Maker; that 1t
has its uses, and that we are not to be
ashamed of it, or roll up our eyes IN a
holy horror of it. ~ ------
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21
STRENGTH AND HEALTH.

1t is quite common idea that health
keeps pace with strength. know intel
ligent persons who really think that you
may dete rhine the comparative health of
a company of men by measuring their
arms that he whose arm measures twelve
inches is twice as healthy as he who meas,
ures but six This strange and thought
less misapprehensio has given rise TO
nearly ell the mistakes thus far made in
the physical culture movement. have a
friend who can lift nine hundred pounds,
and yet is an habitual sufferer from torpid
liver, rheumatism, and low spirits. There
are many similar cases. The cartmen of
our cities, who are our strongest men, are
far from the healthiest class,as physicians
will te-tify. On the contrary, | have
many friends who would stagger under
three hundred pounds that are in capital
trim. But | need not elaborate matter
SO familiar to physicians and other observ
| ing people No test of health would
prove more faulty than tapeine or o
lift at the scale beam. Suppose two
brothers bank-clerks--in bad health.
| They arc measured around The arm.
Each marks exactly ten inches. They try
the scaIe-beam The bar rises at exactly
three hundred pounds with each. Both
seek health. John goes to the gymnasi
um, lifts heavy dumb-bells and kegs of
nails until he can put up one hundred
and twenty five pounds and lift nine hun
dred, and his arm reaches fifteen inches.
Thomas goes to the mountains, fishes,
hunts, srends delightful hours with the
measuring his arm we find it scarcely
larger than when he left town, while he
can't put up sixty pounds nor lift five
hundred. But who doubts Thomas will
return to the bank-counter the better man
Of the two? John should be the better
man, it strength Is the principal or most
essential condition of health. A circus
usually contains among it's performers a
man who can lift cannon weighing near
ly or quite half dozen riders and vault
ers, who have comparatively little
strength. If anybody snpposes that the
strong man has better health than the
flexible, elastic ones, he has but to make
inquiries of circus managers, as | have
done,and he will learn that the balance is
found almost uniformly with the the lat
ter. Agility and fexibiiity are far more
important than Strength, and that fine
silken quality of the muscular fiber, whic h
comes only from an infinite repetition of
light and ever-varying fea' 3, far more i'm
portant than size.--DS, LesOSs, 6n $50
Day."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21

The population of Boston is $4,000. 1t
is the richest city in the Union, compared
with its population, and second only to
New York in its aggregate valuation
The latest statistics are those Of 1869. lt'
valuation Of real estate was thsns3S9,O5l, )
900, and ofipsrsonal estate $Sl7 ,45O.7O0
total $54o,5l1,6 900. The valuation Of New
York the same year was: Real estate
$684,1S3,318, and of personal estate $2S1,.
I42,e0s total 1906, S9o,814. The ralua.
ton of Philadelphia the sane year was
Real estate e47e,S51 800; personal estate
$s,lSS, 873; fetal 4470,O4o,6TS. ~ 'a@'i Y
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21
BIZ MARIAN DOUGLASS.

s'Yesi am off tomorrow morn!
Next week sail for lady
And you'll be glad when s@ gone
Say, shan't you be, Lueindy ?"
A summer flower, herself the maid
S:eod mid the sweet Syringss,
a June pink in her hairs smooth braid,
A rose bud in her fingers.
Piucked from the tall bush in the yard,
Whose white howers waved above@her.
And parting never seemed so hard
AS Just then, to her lover,
Her lip began to grieve; the red
Upon her cheek grew paler,
sit seems q strange choice, Tom" she said.
For you to be sailor; ... l.....
s'And when the wild, black clouds I see,
And when tho nights are windy,
T." 'Bless your soul | you'll pray for me
know you will, LucindyV
The rosebud from her hand he took.
''This flower, 'he said, "rll save 1t,
Ana keep 1t pressed Within book,
Remembering who gave 1t.
So never cared, as women do,
For gardeR beds and posies,
But somehow-vhy, never know
always loved white roses.
s'They seem Just made for weddin's; when
come again from Indy
My bride, you'll wear white roses then.
Come, won't you ?--say Lucindy !!
a sudden fame upon her cheek,
Her eyes the quick tears filling,
The answer gave she would not speak,
Lest she might seem too willing.
For, "Tom," she asked, SHOW can IL be?
Here, all my life, you've known me;
No word OF love you've said to me,
Ne sign you've ever shown me-"
And he said, ''True, but though hain't,
NV love, I've wished you knew IL,
And tried to speak, and felt too faint
At heart to dare to do it; I
''But when my mind was fixed to go
A sailor out to Indy,
I said, T'll have Yes or No.
Osay it's Yes, LucindyP'
''Yes, Tom It's yesp' she whispered ;"whe
learned that you were going,
fonnd you had my heart till then
twas yours without my knowingp'
Soft on her check fell, wet with dew, b
A rOse-lsaf from above her; 49,.
A warmer touch her red lip knew
The fret kiss Of her lover! .t
Though stilled the song and hushed II
laugh, .ao.a p i. 1870
And hot the tears are starting, ..
What Joy, that life can give, is half
SO sweet as loves hrst parting? Is.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21

. A correspondence that took place in
1871 between Secretary Seward and the
Rev. DR.. Joseph P. Thompson, thea pas
tor of the Tabernacle Church in New
York, has just been published, the injunc-
tion of privacy having been removed by
the death of Mr.. Seward. It proves that
the seeming indifference of Seward i'm
mediate y before the outbreak efthe war,
was assumed by him, in order to gain time
for preparation, and for the purpose OF
letting the South take the first Hostile
step. The great qualities of Er. Sew
ards Craftsmanship will be learned and
appreciated by the American people only
after the lapse Of considerable time and
the secret history of the Rebellion shall
have been written. 15 4 @a3
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21
"MY WIFE AND CHILD.n

These beautiful and tender lines on the
subjee4 were republshed in the Montgomery
Advertiser and credited to thepen of Gene raj
StonewaH jackson. The real author Is GeR'
erAl r Jackson, of Savannah, Gs. They
were written while he was in command OF
the First Georgia Regiment, then In camp on
the Rio Grande, below MatSmoras. and a
part OF General Taylor's army OF Mexican In
vasion The General wrote them la pencil.
on his Knee, IN his tent, aud read them to
the writer hereof at the moment. Our recol-
lection isthst we immediately sent them
home, and their first appearance was in the
Columbus (Ga1 Times of that year. They
will bear many repetitions, Ter they are OF
the poetry Of nature,-ths outgcings of y sol
dIer's heart in foreign land to the loved
ones lett benin Mobile Register.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21

The famous M@lstrom, which has been
the scene Of so many thrilling stories, is
in reality very tame affair, aud would
never recognize itself in the turbulent
picture drawn by the romancers pen.
An English tourist, writing Of it fron
Norway, says Every year hundreds
Of our countrymen row over it, doubtless
even battle in it for except at certain
periods, and under certain conditions OF
wind and tide, it is comparatively harm
less"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21

A Saco liquor seller recently fooled eherin III
manner that was audacious. The smeer had
in it seized lug and ran of. The ofdser gave
chase and after long run captHred the urchin,
and foand the jug contained nothing suJ viMe"
gar In tho meantime the shop-ke@PcI haa de-
stroyed all the liquor on hand.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21

The tatteo beats, the lights are gone,
The camp around in sluBber lies:
Tie night in solemn pace moves on,
The shadows thicken DER the skies:
But sleep my weary eyes hath flown,
And sad, uneasy thoughts arise.
think OF thee, my dearest one,
Whose love my early life hath blessed
OF thee and him-eur baby son--...g
Whe sum ers on thy gentle breast.
God of the tender, rail. aud lone, f'
Oh, guard the tender sleepers rest;
And hover gently, hover near, y
To her, whose watchtul eye Is wet
To mother, wife--the dOublV dear,
aWhose yeuLg heart have freshly met
Two streams of love SD deep aud clear
And cheer her dropping spirit yet.
Now, while abe kneels before Thy thrsne,
Oh, teach her, Ruler OF thH skies,
That, while &c Thy behesl alone,
Earth's mlghtiest powers tall and rise,
Ne tear is wept, to Thee unknown,
No hair 10 lost, ns sparrow dies;
That Thou capst stay the ruthless hands
or dark disease, and soothe its pain;
That only by Thy stern commands
The battles lOst, the soldiers slain;
That from the distant sea or land
Thou bring'st the wanderer home again
And when upon the pillow lone
Her tear-wet cheek Is sadly pressed,
May happier visions beam upon
The Frightening current of her breast;
No frowning look or angry tone r~tE
Disturb the Sabbath OF her rest.
Whatever fate these forms may show
Loved with a passion almost wild
By day, by night, in joy or woe
BY fears oppressed, or Aopss osgufled,
From every danger, every foe, a,,g ge-,'>.. f.
o God, prote ct my wife and child!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21

From the October Atlantic. .....
THE FIRST PARTING.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
The County Railroad Fund.

We copy the following from the St. Mary's
Beacon of the / 1th instant:
The County Commissioners on Tuesday last
took final action upon the petition filed before
them, at former meeting, by the President
Directors and Stockholders Of the Washing
ton City and Point Lookout Railroad Com
pany, and passed thereon the following order
Ordered, upon the aforegoing petition, that
the application of the petitioners be and the
same is hereby granted, upon the following
conditions, to wit: Provided that the work Of
construction of said railroad shall be proceed
ed with continuously, energetically and with
due regard to economy; and provided thai
said railroad shall be built in the most direct
practicable route, from its terminus in ST.
Mary's county, Md, to the line of the District
of Columbia; and provided, further, that nc
part of said fund, nor any money raised by
said company, by bonds or otherwise, shall be
used for any other purpose than the legiti.
mate prosecution of the construction of sad
railroad.
Our readers will observe that the order an.
nexes several conditions to the terms of the
petition, with a view, we presume, to guard
as jealousy as possible, the interests of bott
county and State in the premises. There
was full attendance of the members of the
Board, and the order was passed, we learn
by vote of four to one.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
Death of Prominent NIarylander.

Mr.. Charles H. Garter, prominent citizen
of Prince Georges county, died on Monday
last, at the residence of his son, Mr.. Bernard
Carter, of Baltimore city. Mr.. Carter was a
son of the late Bernard Moore and Lucy Lee
Garter, of Shirley, on the James River, and
brother to the present proprietor of that famous
estate. He married Miss Calvert, a descendant
of Lord Baltimore, and moved to Pr. Georges
county in early life, where he has since resided
until within the last few months, when failing
health induced him to move to Baltimore. The
deceased was well and favorably known in
Maryland and Virginia and other portions of
the United States on account of his social quail
tiles and broad hospitality in CONSEQUENCE with
the race from which he sprang. He was first
cousin of General Robert E. Lee, and that il
lustrious chieftain spent some weaks at his re-
sidence in Prince Gerge's Immediately after the
war. Mr.. Garter was stricken with paralysis
several years ago, from which he never entirely
recovered, and finally his system yielded to the
ravages of thai disease. He was sixty-eight
years of age at the time of his death. He leaves
number of daughters, the oldest of whom is
the wife of Ex-Governor Bowie.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19

On Wednesday last, about o'clock, P. NJ,
the fine dwelling at Oakland" the farm Of
Mr.. F. P. Hamilton, was discovered to be on
fire, which it was found impracticable to sub
due. The FIRE is supposed to have originated
under the roof of the kitchen, which is con-
nected with the main building by a long en-
try. A number of men at work on the farm
and the place adjoining were on the spot to
give assistance, but no efforts could save the
building. In the attempt to cut away the en-
try, the timbers of which it was built were found
so hard and heavy that the axe proved of no
avail. This dwelling was erected by the late
Charles A. Pye, and is said to have cost about
$4,000. It was undoubtedly one of the most
complete and valuable dwelling houses in the
county. The furniture, window sash and some
ether parts of the house easily removed, we un-
derstand, were saved. The building is insured
In the State of Maryland Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Baltimore to the amount of SIS, 900
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
How a President is Elected.

Each of the United States is entitled to as
many electors as it has Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress. In each State the
electors are chosen by plurality vote. That
u.s. if there are three sets of electors voted for,
the set having the highest number of votes is
chosen. But candidate for President, in or
der to be successful, must have a total MAORI
ty of electors. The electoral college, as now
constituted, consists of 317 Therefore, 159
are necessary for choice. If there be three
candidates for President and neither of them
receives majority of the electoral college, then
there is no choice, and the election goes to the
House of Representatives.
The House must confne their choice to the
three highest candidates voted for by the cleo
tors. The Representatives vote by States.
and each State has but one vote: so that the
power of Delaware is as great as that of New
York. Each State has one vote. The MAORI
ty of the State delegation casts its vote. A
candidate, to be successful, must receive a
majority of all the States, or nineteen States.
If the delegation is divided, the vote of the
State cannot be counted, and is therefore lost.
AS the present House is constituted-and it
is upon this House the eIestion will devolve
in the event there is no election by the people
-nominally the Republicans hold twenty
States; but its majority in ten Of these it holds
by one single vote. Should there be third
candidate there would be no choice found in
two of these ten States.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
Stokes Case.

Seven jurors thought that Stokes ought to
be hanged, and were so conscientious in that
belief that they refused to find him guilty of
any lesser crime than murder in the first de-
gree. Five jurors were not satisfied that the
shooting was premeditated, but were willing
to bring in verdict of mauslaughter in the
third degree. After being out forty-fve hours
they came into Court and asked to be discharg-
ed, and Judge Ingraham very reluctantly
passed an order to that effect. Stokes was
greatly elated at the result, and his counsel
INDUCED in the usual congratulatory hand
shaking, but the Court put damper to their
exultation by refusing to admit the prisoner
to bail, and he was sent back to his cell in
the Tombs.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
mr.. Watson tha new Charoe d,Affaires 70

Mr.. Watson, the new Charge d'Affaires fol-
England at Yokohama. is trying to inaugur-
ate new system of receiving dgnitaries in
the latter place. He refuse to meet the Mikadc
unless he stands in his presence, instead OF
squatting. This the Japanese Minister re-
fuses to accede to, and in consequence Mr.
Watson is awaiting instructions from his
Government, while on the other hand the
Japanese Minister will not be received in Lon.
don until the squatting question is settled
Meanwhile the fate of nations hangs upon the
decision of this momentous issue.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
opposition to Horace Greeley.

The Convention" which recently assembl-
ed at New York in opposition to the nomina-
ton of Horace Greeley by the National Dem
ocratic Convention, and which Convention
adjourned to- meet at Baltimore on the 9Th
inst, assembled at the Maryland Institute
The reporters of the daily papers stated that
at no time were there more than.sixty persons
in the hall. Several sessions were held, a
platform adopted, a recommendation that
State organizations be formed, and sugges-
ton that Convention be held at Louisville
Kentucky, on Tuesday, Sd Of September, 1872
to take such steps as may be deemed prudent
and essential. The whole affair was miser-
able fzzle, as far as any effect might be in
tended as to the nomination of Horace Gree
ley and B. Gratz Brown. 1t looks as though
it was a Grant dodge.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19
A colored Politicians Challenge.

W. U. Saunders, the Baltimore colored man
who withdrew from the Grant electoral ticket
in Maryland and declared for Greeley and
Brown, wants to discuss the political situation
in New York, after the North Carolina canvass
is settled. He has published the following
challenge, showing that he is getting himself
well up to his work:
~ see some of the Administration journals
are paying their respects to my letter of decli-
nation and seem to question the wisdom of my
course. In this busy moment have neither
the time nor inclination to notice these attacks
But if it is necessary to the happiness of the
Grant people that should give further express
sion to my sentiments upon their party and
PLATFORM and our friends in New York approve
the course, you can announce that l will meet
any one or more of the eminent colored men OF
the country now sustaining General Grant, in
public discussion, in the New York city or else
where, after we shall have achieved glorious
victory for the Liberal cause in North Carroll
ma. Say any time otter August.
Very respectfully,
W. U. SAUNDERS.
Washington, July IL, 1872.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-07-19

BGA disgraceful ARRAY occurred in Alex
andria, Egypt, on Thursday of last week be-
tween G.. II. Butler, United States Consul
General, and Mr. Wadleigh, his secretary, on
one part, and Generals Loring and Reynolds,
and Major Champbell, exConfederate officers
in the Khedive's service on the other part
Shots were exchanged and Major Champbell
was wounded. The affair creates great ex-
citement, and there are various accounts OF
the origin. Mr.. Buffers plea, in justification
of the imbroglio, is that the Khedive's officers
made premeditated attempt to assassinate
him. This the others deny, and assert that
Butler was the aggressor.
It has been decided by Military Commits
sion that the entire blame rests solely with
Consul Butler, and that the shooting was pre-
medtated by him and friends for the sole
purpose of killing Major Campbell. Butler
has left Alexandra.