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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-04-11

For the New York Observer
stood within the great cathedral door
And heard voice
That rose in song, but ceased almost before
One could rejoice.
listened all, the many singers caught
The melody,
And the grand anthem, as by angels taught,
SWelled full and free.
And so 1 thought of sweet lives that but lent
Their youth to earth
Their life-wOrk all in summer days was pent,
And all life's worth.
Twas only that seort strain we needed here
While up above
The seraph song is ever since more clear
And rich in love.
One Master guides the harmony of life
In earth and heaven
No pause unneeded falls, no note too brief
Is ever given.
Here, but The snatches of tina glorious song
Our ear can trace;
There. the full chorus, pure and deep and
strong
In endless praise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-04-11

PROGRESS IN POSTAL MATTERs--One
of the most important features Of the ad-
yaaclng civilization of the age is The pro-
!,ress made by the different nations in
s3ossal matters. Amongst numerous minor
advances, we note the recent extension OF
che money-order system between Great
Britain and the Netherlands. Our own
international msnsy order system seems
10 require good deal more advertising
than it has received. In Great Britain
rhe rates OF postage have recently been
greatly reduced, or at least the weights
.llowed have been increased. One ounce
can now be sent to any part of the king
iona for ono penny 1.-TWO ceats,) and great
or weights for even proportioaally less
Thus, letters exceeding . oz,, but NOT ex-
ceeding 4 or, cost twopencs; exceeding
8 oz, but not exceeding OF. thrcepsnca.
A letter weighing 10 OF. would cost eight
EMS pSstage in England; here it would
cost rs cents, or just nine times az much.
There is good DIAL of sense In lowering
he rates on heavy lettsrs--mcre han VIC
could expect from an Executive that had
act sense enough to rejsct that abomira-
ion, the postal card.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-04-11
DISCORD.
BY MARY CLEMMER AMEs i.

Swift through the fragrant air IL ieil,
A single word /;
The wound IT. made no word may tell
For no one heard, 49,.
Save one sweet heart whose very llic
Is love and truth.
This heart the word pierced ike q knlte
No pulse OF ruth
Thrilled him who aimed the cruel word,
He willed and spoke
A fair face qmyered ike bird,
fond heart broke
Alas the springtime air is full
Of wrathtuI words
They rise to heaven and would annul
The sweet voiced birds.
That everywhere ON gIanclng wing
Flv from the south,
New messages of love 10 bring
With open mouth.
Natures glad face the sons of men
Do put to shame.
SIZE says Poor children Of the earth,
Why strive and blame
You work and war-ths will of fate
Abides the samel
The purposes of God survive
Your feeble fray
You cannot change them though
you shrive
Your SINS Away.
The name you toll for may outliVe
Your little day;
But you must live when earth and name
Have fed away.
Drink thou my sunshine, breathe my air,
Ere yet too late
Take thou, with soul serene and fair,
Thine high estate ~.
Still the un.iring earth spins tow'rd
It's central sun;
Nor fire nor force can hold it ward
It's race unrun
The placid seasons DER its breast
Move to and iro;
Unscared its birds brood in their nest
It's wood flowers blow
In peace above its stormiest crest.
In Gods good plan
His lOViiest creatures all find rest
Not thou, D man!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-04-11
LIES HARMONY.
TFor the New York Observer. |

BY JULIA CARRIE THOMPSON.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-04-11
DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE,

BY EUGENE j. HALL.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

The reply OF the Ottawa Hlpujlican to our
article of last week, in WHICH we showed that
the entire republican party was committed to
the doctrine Of secession before the war, is a
virtual admission OF all We cOntended for, the
only escape the editor attempts being by q
bubble on the words secession and multi
fcaton." Strictly and literally, of course,
the two words have different definitions, but
as an assertion Of states right, the two are
based on the same principle and amount to
the same thing. The right of II state to multi
ly II law q! congress is based on its independ.
ent sovereignty and obligation of tealty to the
national government only so long AS the state
is, or imagincs itself to be- benefited by such
tcalty; and the night Of state to seced. is
based ON the same principle-no more, no
less. The Repujltcan admits that the person.
al liberty laws amounted to nulilication--thc
party was, therefore, estopped from denying
the right OF secession, and, in fact, never did
it deny until after the commencement of the
rebellion.
But the whole discussion is of 70 sort of
Conseq uence now, tor nobody imagines that
any southern or northern stare is medltating
secession, after the bloody experience of the
last twelve years; and 70 rake up AS crime
against Greeley to-day The assertion OF ideas
held by his whole patty fifteen years ago IND
since then exploded, is as absurd MS to call II
man fool Tor riding in wagon fifteen years
ago over II road he can now travel by rail.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31
a Surrender on the Other Side

The republicans boat that they intend to
beat the democrats al their own game in New
iosk, by nominating John \. Dix, a Breclien-
! ridge democrat, for governor. OfcouIse they
/ wonlt not have dreamed OF nominating Dix
| II there Was the remotest chance OF eleCting a
republican.
but DIX, II Is only fair to say, Is more u re-
publican than a democrat. He has not been a
democrat within the last twelve years at
least and never one that amounted to much
His political cognomen Tor the last twenty
i've years has been ''Old Proxy" He was one
OF the four military failures that collected
about Gen. Scott in 1861. whose admirable
strategy resulted in Bull Run No. /. issub-
seq"ent military career had for its scene the
stirring campaign in Accomac county, and is
lmmortallzed in the thrilling sketches of Or
pheus c. Kerr in which Gen. Dix figures as
Captain William Brown. Outside of the mill
tary, his position has been that OF Il n.akeshift
ready to step into auybody's empty shoes,
but never making anything but q temporary
stay anywhere. Always at the foot, ready to
go up-the ghost of empty pIaces-a verltable
political Micawber. When Buchanan's cabi.
net tumbled to pieces, Dix was ready to fill
an empty gap: then he was Major General,
pro tenn, under Scott then he went for few
months to France then he had something for
few months under Grant: and then he sat
down and waited for something else to turn
up. piecer out of ends of other peoples
terms; toady; always somebody ese's
proxy" with no history of his own. This Is
John 4. Dix. To class him as a democrat in
the sense in which Greeley was republican,
Is the hight of absurdity
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31
South Carolina.

On the principle that when 'rogues fall
out" &c, there is cause for congratuation
among honest men at the condition of radical
ism in South Carolina. The party has had u
state convention to nominate candidates for
Governor, Secretary of State, &C., and in the
course of its proceedings, which are described
as something worse than Bedlam let loose,
there was bolt Of one half and wide-open
splitin short, an instruction in the radical
camp Of that gently governed state Scott,
ChamberIin, &c, the men who, in the last five
years have robbed the state OF about So, O0O-
600, despalring of a denomination themselves,
put up as their gubernat0Tial successor no.
ted carpct-bagger thief named Moses. while
another wing of the convention, with J. L.
Orr at its head, and embracing what Is called
the "honcst' part Of the convention, urged the
Iom!lnson. The convention. after three DAYS
OF unprecedented wr.ngle. broke Wy in a row,
wnen the majority met separately and nomi-
mated Moses, while the boilers nominal ii
lOnlIiilSDU.
But here comes the mos. interesting part.
Each faction insists on the support OF Grant
or threatens to bolt him it it is withheld, and
then the question is, what is Grant to do I.
Orr swears that Grant promised tie boilers
his support IN advance, while the opposite
party say, it Grant countrnanCcs d bolt N
South Carolina, how can he dscountenance u
bolt anywhere else {. II is admitted, if Moses
is elected, South Carolina will become tne
Dahomey of America yet how can the Pre,i.
dent invoke the vengeance ot his party
against sorehcads and 5ol,crs who vote for
Greeley, and ask the party to stand by Grant
rs the regular nominee, when he himself re
fuses to stand by Moses. There is fun ahead
in South Carolina.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

DISASTROUS FInE.-About = 4. NJ. On Fri
day morning the barn OF Mr.. Christopher
Bailey, situated ten miles south OF Ottawa, On
the line between Farm Ridge and Grand Rap.
ids, was entirely consumed by fire with all its
valuable contents At the time of the cona.
grafton the barn contained Eve valuable horses,
three ct which lost their lives, and one which
escaped is not expected to survive. The thor.
oughbred Durham bull, Prince Royal, was also
destroyed, together with $50 bushels of tim.
othy seed, buggy, soms SIX sets Of harness,
hay, &c. The estimated loss - $4,000 which
Is entirely uninsured. No cause can be rs
signed for the fire.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31
The Grant-Duncan Game.

Inc little encouragement radicalism re-
ceived from the apparent countenance Charles
OConor had given the Banton Duncan side
show has petered out. O'Conor has! written
Duncan a letter, positively declining to be-
come the chief figure head in the farce, and,
in fact, has contemptuOusly turned his back
upon it, by offering to accept the Greeley
nomination for Governor of New York, If
rendered him. This virtually ends the Louis.
vile show, for without O'Coner, it is the
play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out
Who is running the Blanton Duncan show:
A dozen o. democrats in Ottawa, among them
ourselves, have received Blsnton Dunc4ns
circular and other documents printed at the
government printing office in Washington
and mailed to Us from that city, and yet Dun
can publishes letter in the Chicago T-ijpne
denying that he has any document, in Wash
ington, or mailed any circular. from tha.
point. This shows cooclus,yely tina, these
Blanton Duncan circulars from Washington
are the exclusive getting up II the Grant
commit,ee, and circulated by there alone.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31
Wilson Is Sorry He Said II

In his attack upon Judah P. Benjamin. in
the L. S. Senate, February 81, 1861, Henry
Wilson, the candidate for Vice President ON
the Grant ticket, uttered the following:
His bearing, the tone OF his voice, his words
all give evidence that the spark of patriotism
i 1t ever existed, was extinct IN his bosom !:
that his heart was in this foul and wicked plot
to dismember the Union, to overthrow the
government OF his adopted country, which
gives equality of rights even to that race that
stoned the prophets, and crucitied the Re.
deemer of the world.
In one of his electioneerlng speeches in In.
diana, two weeks ago, Wilson said, "as Coo is
his Judge" he did not mean to hurt the feel
ings Of his Israelitish fellew-citizens, or lose
single lsraelitish vote when he threw the above
piece of dirt at the Louisiana senator.
Wilson, in the same series of speeches, how
er, never once said he was sorry that he
had joined the Know-Nothings, but as his
friends have been at some pains to deny his
connection with the order, Capt. Albert Pike,
OF Arkansas, who was fellow member with
Henry Wilson IN the Know. Nothing Council
In Philadelphia, in the summer of 1855, seeks
to enlishten the public mind regarding that
genteman's record in connection with the
great national proscriptive movement in exis-
tence at the time above mentioned. He says
Mr.. Wilson, in order to gain admission to that
body, whose sessions he attended throughout,
had to have the sign, word, and grip and had
necessarily taken the oath not to assist in any
way in elevating to any Office of trust or profit
any person of foreign birth, or any Roman
Cathoilc. MIR. Pike says the oath is Just as
binding on him now as it was then.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

Except Il single sorehead 1T Seneca, We
know of no freshman in this part Of the coun-
try who proposes to vote against Horace
Greeley. To use the language of Major Nc
Williams, of Baltimore, formerly Of Phila-
delphia,) who has y worldwide reputation as
an Irish orator Any Irshman who votes
against Horace Greeley votes against she best
friend the Irish ever had in America, as pro-
ven by his constant defense and advocacy OF
their claims to the sympathy and considera'
ton of the great American people through
all his public career
The New York Metropolitan Record Qrish
organ) Is enthusiastically for Greeley, and
even zoe, SO far rs to propose short cate
ch,sm. from which we make the following cx-
tracts
Who was the unninching friend OF Irish in.
dencndence in the dark days of ASP Horace
Greeley.
Who gave his time and money to- help
them HorCce Greeley.
Who raised his voice in behalf of Irish
patriots IN British prisons! Horace Greeley.
Who came to the rescue of lrelnnd when
famine was sore IN the andg Horace Greeley.
who has ever been the avowed enemy of
biyotry and intolerance Horace Greeley.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

VERMONT AID MAINE.-Nern.ont holds her
state election NEXT Tuesday, and Maine on the
Monday following Should the Grant party
carry these states, as it probably wis ,loubl-
less they will raise a great howl OF victory,
but it is evident :hc victory can cpun, in their
favor only on condition that they carry the
states by something Ike their former MAORI.
ties. The 'ull vote Of Vermont and Maine has
not been out since lS6S. 1t is probable that
there Mil Ne u very large vote in both states
in the coming September elections and there.
tore comparisons should be made with the
vote ot lSGo to ascertain what has been gained
or lost by the radicals. 1t Is obviously unfair
to make this years full vote compare with
last years light vote, when $4,000 people did
not go to the polls in Name, and 1900 stay.
ed away in Vermont The vote for governor
IN Maine in September 1868, was rs follows
Republican,, 1884; democratic 5J,43l re-
publican majority, 20, 4O3. The Vermont vote
the same month was: Republican, 42,Gl5
democratic, l5,2s9; republican majority, ~.
326. Therefore any falling off OF 10000 radi.
cal majority in Maine and $4,000 radical ma
jority in Vermont this year must be considered
so much liberal gain. BY the light vote last
year the radicals carried Maine by 1861 ma.
jorty, and Vermont by about 10000 maj orlty.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31
Organize :!

The Liberal party OF Ottawa, on Saturday
and Tuesday evening, took stcpiu the night
direction, by organizing a cub tor the cam
lgIgn, and their example should be followed
Immediately by every town in the county;
and when each town or considerable locality
has thus It's active club, representatives from
al OF them can form county club, and i'm
part uniformity oI action to the whole.
The preliminary work is now completed
the state ana local tickets arc all nominated;
the standard bearers hove been selected the
time has come for WORK We have nation
alt!cket that is acceptable; we havca state and
congressional ticket which we CAT cnthusias-
tically endorse; We have good county ticket,
ana we have within reach II popular majority
to elect a.! o! them. Our duty is 90 bilng out
this Ma. ority in November A great army may
formed IN line of battle N time ot need. Votes
are OF no value unless they are pol cd. An
UnCast ballot Is ns useless at an election ms an
uadlscharged bullet in battle. We boast that
we have round libero! majority of 700 IN La
Sale county; Tut what l. the majority worth
l. We ial! 20 bring it to tie pollsy
There is but one great means for cilccting
this organization. Our majo,i,.es should be
organized and enrolled in minute subdivisions
throughout the county, so that we may know
that the enemy Is beaten beforehand. We
~, al Ia,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

\ cry has boeA raised by the Grant papers
that tic New York 7ribuao's subscription lis
falling or rapidly since it goes IN for Greeley
and an honest administration Of the govern.
mens. The 7riJuao publishes Il statement
showing that for the months of June and July
last year 1t received S,467 mail subscribers.
During the same time this year 1t has receiv-
cd 2O,233, an increase OF 1,7GG over last year.
This ID pretty good showing, and indicates
how the people, who do the voting, feel over
the political outlook.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

The Chicago JournaI says: "As Is well
known, Gen. Grant has never made the slight.
est pretension to oratorical gifts" TO which
u contemporary replies: But when it comes
TO a gilt of a seaside cottage, or library, or
anything down to II bull pup, you get him
on the hip."
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

MIssouM.-The democrats and liberal re-
pubcans of Missouri held Joint convention
at Jefferson city last week, and after har
monious session Of two days, nominated the
son; Lieut.. Governor, VIM +. Gilmore {;
Treasurer, II. ". Salmon; Auditor, Geo. 3.
Clark; Attorney General, II. Clay Ewing
movement, which resulted IN the nomina.
ton %; Greeley had its origin in Mis-.
souri, and the state promises to back 1t up in
November by the largcs majority, IN proper
ton to population. OF any state in the Union.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

Blanton Duncanlsm is fourishng in Ne
braska The state convention, called to meet
at Omaha on the 22d inst. to appoint dele.
gates to the Louisville convention, was atten.
dcd by one Bourbon democrat and two Grant
republicans. The convention" spent no time
IN useless preliminaries, but ut once unani.
mously appointed the solitary Bourbon u
delegate and adjourned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31
The Boys in Blue.

Senator Morgan, Of Indiana, says the con.
test this fall is between the ''bOys in blue and
the boys in gray" Among the ''boys in blue
who are supporting Mr.. Greeley we notice
Conspicuously the following:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

lien ~ Wilson shuts his eyes when tho
President sits down on n rotten apple. Any.
thing to beat Gi clcy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

l. IS expected ;hat tAe proper committees
in the localities ind!catcd will make the neccs-
s2ry arrangements for holding the meetings in
rrnsfipU
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-31

9 @
ottawa, ElI.. >a,GTcar. August 81, 1872.
r7E.'a.Ess1'za..a..E.z....z.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HORACE GREELEY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
3. GRAFT BROWN.
REFORM STATE TICKET.
FOR GovEIHoR,
GUSTAVUS KHRNEk,
Ofst. Clair County,
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
GEN. JOHN c. BLACK,
O.ChampalSn Couaty.
FUl: SECRETARY OF STATE,
EDWARD RUMMELI,
o.PeoHaCounty.
FOR AUDITOR,
DANIEL O'HAl:A.
% Cook County
FOR TREASURER,
CHARLES II LANPt'IER,
CtSargamon County.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
JOHN Y. -EUSTACE,
OfLee County.
CLERK SUPREME COURT, NORTHERN DIVISION,
f. SMITH,
OfCook County.
FOR CONGRESS,
c. d. 4. PARKS,
of VIII County,
FOR SAFE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION,
J. D. ROGERS,
OF La Sale Co.
CC-N- Z TICKET.
FOR SENATOR.
!. C. HEGELER.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,,
G. w. ARMSTRONG,
VIM. COGSWELL.
FOR SHERIFF,
DANIEL BLAKE.
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK,
j. IVOR MONTGOMERY.
FOR RECORDER.
&. IL. II. THOMAS.
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY,
J. W. DUNCAN.
FOR CoROOER,
Dir. j. Il. FINLEY.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-17

and Alleys be ordered 10 open the street
extending from Bolton street into Fourth,
slh Ward, as soon as the water pipe has
been laid across the Long property and
the trench filled up. Referred.
RcsOI1cd, That the Street Commissioner
be and is hereby authorized to put n
double stone crossing over John street,
from tue northwest corner OF John and
Filth streets, TO the southwest corner of
said streets. Referred.
ReOircd. That the Street Commissioner
be instructed 10 place stone crossing
over Zane street, west side of Sixth, at the
itlI ward school house. Adopted.
R,~irsd, That the Street Commissioner
be and Is hereby instructed to grade the
alley running north and south from Zane
street to Cedar alley, between Sixth and
Seventh streets. Referred.
RcAolrod, That his Honor the Mayor be
and is hereby requested Ia make appliCa.
licn 10 the Postmaster General for the
free delivery OF letters and other mail
matter within the limits Of our city.
Adopted.
ReSOtued, That the committee having in
charge the matter OfnumbCring the houses
in the city be required to report at next
meeting OF Council. Adopted
Rs0lNai, That the bill Of the Wheeling
" Belmont Bridge Company which was
reported correct by the Committee on
Accounts in its last report, be paid
amount $lG2 Is. Adopted.
RGSolro,i, That the Mayor be oIlcrcd to
contract with ]. Hamilton II Co. for the
pipe, stop cock boxes, and branches ne.
cessary To complete the laying of pipe in
the Slh ward, on John street and on the
Island, At the rate Of $Gl per ton for such
OF the above articles ms may he needed
during the current year Referred.
Adjourned.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-17

TIE LECTURE To.NIGHT.-Thc sales
OF reserved seats to the lecture of Olive
Logan tonight, were quite satisfactory,
yesterday. Quite large number Of very
eligible chairs are still unsold, and as the
price is but fifty cents each, We hope they
will be rapidly taken up to-day The
lecture is highly spoken Of, and for the
credit of our city we trust will command
a fine audience. "Let there be grand
rally" as the politicians say, when they
want 10 get the masses out. Do not let
this opportunity tohcar one OF the finest
lecturers in the country go unimproycd
Be at the hall in force, this evening.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-17

CITY CoUNcII~-Therc was no quorum
in the First Branch OF the City Council,
last evening. The members present ad.
journed 10 meet this evening, and instruct.
ed the City Sergeant 10 enforce the rule
timing ahSentecs two dollars each on all mol
in attendance,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-17

MARROW EsCArE.--A little boy about
seven years old, son oil Thos. j. Blair,
Eqr., came near being crushed to death
by street car, yesterday morning The
child attempted to cross the street just in
front Of the car, and when he reached the
middle of the track, he WAS struck by one
Of the horses and knocked down. For.
tunately he fell between the rails The
team and one truck passed over him bc.
fore the car was stopped. lie was res.
cued from his perilous position, and taken
10 his Mortified mother, who had witness.
ed the whole affair from 4 window.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-17

An ExCTTEMEST-Thc southern por.
ton Of the city was thrown into state
OF terrible excitement, yesterday morn.
ing, at the reported suicide OF noted
saloon keeper in that section. 1t proved
TO be untrue, however, some way hay.
Ing started the story, giving as the basis
Of It's truthfulncss the fact that the water
had reached the Eighth Ward, thus ut
terly destroying the saloon proprietor's
occupation. Togivc still additional prob.
ability to the report, the vcndcr Of beer
was seen leaving the city with span
Of horses and wagon, declaring TINT he
was en- rUnte for BcnwOOd, wlGre no such
cOntriyanCes as walcr.wOrks existed.