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Beavers.

A correspondent writing from Idaho
says that this Territory is certainty the
home of the beavers, aud have believe
iu all the world besides there are not SO
many beavers as there are in Idaho.
Every stream seems 10 swarm wi, h
them, aud they may be seen frequently
in the waters, The statement, often
made, that they never show themselves,
is all mistake. | believe that every
stream that empties into the Bear River
is checked in its course by beaver dams,
and those which are found near the
Portneuf River, tributary ofthe Snake
River, are very remarkable. These arc
in Portneuf Canon, and are in a petri.
fed state. They are from so to 60 feet
in length, with fall of water over two
Of them, at the centre, Of from three to
four feet, aud over the third of about
Que foot. They are uot fully and firmly
petrifed, as that would involve the total
change Of all the woody fibre, to be
replaced by earth substance, but are
incrusted with lime, which has perme-
ated the substance OF the wood, and
given to the whole a permanent and
durable form. Nature has thus encased
the works Of the beaver in covering
which is as singular as it is Interesting.
OF late years the numbers Of beaver
have increased wonderfully, owing to
the fact that they are not as eagerly
sought after as they were in former
times. The bark of the cottonwood
tree, particularly the young and tender
bark OF the new twigs, is one of their
iavorite articles Of food. In Summer,
they rarely ever gnaw down large trees,
but live upon the bark of the smaller
ones, willow and raspberry bushes, aud
upon different kinds of roots, such as
the pondlily, aud the roofs of the coarse
grasses which grow along tho margin
of the streams. Besides cottonwood,
they use the bark Of the aspen, yellow
birch, and pop'ar In the Winter,
when their supply is scarce, they eat
the wood alone. Some cottonwood trees
30inches ia diameter have been gaawed
down by them. and one authority,
remarking upon the tree cuttings on
the Yellowstone River, states that the
beavers committed great devastation
among the trees zone OF which, three
feet in diameter, had been gnawel
by them"
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CHANGE OF TINE.
WESTERN MD. RAILROAD.
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HNO take effect June l2, 1872. Calvert
1 Station, Corner franklin and Calvert
Streets, Trains leave $50 A. NJ, and 8. 80
P. NJ, for Owings' Mills, Reisterstown,
Finksburg, Westminster New Windsor,
Union Bridge, Middleburg, Double Pine
Greek, Meehanicstown, and Hagerstown.
LEAVE
Union Bridge at $40 and 7.2o A. NJ.
and 1852 =. NJ.
Westminster at sos aud sos A. NJ. and
1926 Z. NJ.
RETURNING,
Leave llagerstown at 5.25 A. NJ. and
LOS p. NJ.
train leaves Baltimore at $50 p. NJ.
Tor Union Bridge.
Stages connect at Glen Morris Station for
hampstead and Manchester on arrival OF
$50 a. Nj. tain from Baltimore; at Mid
Glebnrg Station for Ianeytown and at Dou
ole Pipe Creek Station for Emmiltsburp on
arrival same train.
u an Express Car leaves Calvert Station,
baltimore, daily, Except Sunday at $. 80
r. 81: Light freight and parcels can come
ny this ear ii delivered before 800 p. NJ.
PASSENGER STATION. The Depot Of n.
" X; W.. Freight Station Corner Centre
and North Streets.
N. B.-A Ticket Office hos been opened
at No. . North Calvert street. opnosite
Barnum's Hotel. Tickets can BE- procured
4. any time during the day at all points or
@ ahe OF Road; Baggage called for, checked
ana delivered upon application at this Office
JOHN 4. RlGNEY,
Juiy General Superintendent.
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The Water Famine

In Baltimore is creating 10 that city
great alarm, aggravated by the uumer.
Gus fires, which in the general panic
are attributed to incendiaries. The
water supply of Baltimore is at present
obtained from the upper part of the
stream known as "Jones' Falls" In
lSGOadam was built at Relay House aud
Lake Roland was formed. Iu 1861
the aqueduct to llampdan Reservoir
was finished, and in 1862 the Mount
Royal Reservoir was completed. These
works cost the city Of Baltimore about
$4,000, 900, but the supply Of water was
not sufficient, aud the Druid Lake
Reservoir was commenced in 1864 and
completed in ! S7l at cost ofSl 600 900
Ihetotal storage capacity Of these works
was estimated at one thousand million
gallons, aud the daily supply was cal.
culatud Mt nlueteen million gallons, but
Immediately after the completion Of the
reservoirs, during season of drought,
the supply ran short, the storage water
became impure, aud serious water
famine was threatened. In consequence
Of this Increased demand for water,
particularly from the north western
section OF Baltimore, u high service
reservoir was ordered to be built iu
Druid Hill Park This depository has
not yet beeu completed, but it is stated
that ii flashed it would only add to the
present embarrassments by increasing
the drain upon the sources Of supply.
Baltimore is at present suffering from
a long continued drought, which has
lasted forever three months, aud Jones
Falls have almost totally failed, the
stream being reduced to a shallow
rivulet trickliug through bare rocks,
aud Lake liolaud being nearly dry, and
acres Of mJdly fats being exposed.
The necessity OF bringing some other
stream into the city has in this gloomy
time been iorsiby presented to the
people Of Baltimore.
The most popular plan is one pro
posed twenty years ago, but then rcjec-
ted in consequence Of the great expense
involved This plan consists il build
ing dam on the Lituc Gunpowder
river, ut Ravens Rock, at distance Of
eight and half miles from Baltimore
The water is then to be conducted
through a tunnel to Herring Run Val
ley, where reservoir with n storage
capacity Of two thousand million gallons
is to be constructed by building dam
three hundred feet long across a gorge
between two hills. From this point,
four miles from the ceutre Of Baltimore,
the water is to be conveyed to the city
by iron pipes, The cost Of these new
works, 1t is estimrted, will nmouut
to s3, 100000, distributed as follows !:
Tunnel, 81 800, 900 ;rescryoir, 5000 600;
pipe line, 100000; dam, $3.50 900;
lake $3.50, 900, aud 100000 for con.
singoncics
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Gen. Banks Letter.

Boston, July 81. Ny dear sir; have
the honor TO acknowledge by this note, in
addition to our conversation to-day, the
receipt Of your invitation to address the
citizens Of Lynn on Thursday evening, in
support of the reelection Of Grant and the
policy Of his administration. No invitation
could have greater weight with me from
any part Of the country, nor from any por-
ton OF my fellow citizens, and It gives me
great pleasure to assure you that nothing
could be added to your suggestions as the
representative of the citizens Of Lynn, to
induce me to acce6e TO the request. Their
kindness to me many years since is con-
tinual hie-remembrance, and nothing would
give me greater satisfaction than to renew
my associations with them; but l regret
TO say that | am not in accord with them
in regard TO the Presidential CANVAS
Against my wishes and my personal inter-
ests, am compelled to say that the per
petuation of the present policy Of the Gov
ernment is not for the advantage Of the
country, and that il will not tendto establish
its former good prosperity, nor to promote
the interests of any class Of citizens. No
personal feeling Of any form or character
enters into this Judgment. It is in view Of
general principles aud public interests alone
that | am led to this conclusion. The uni
ting Of the masses of the people of all par
ties, sections and races, in support Of the
grand results of the war, is Indispensable
TO the permanent establishment Of a geuer.
al recognition of those results. Ii can be
secured by no other means. We shall all
be forced to this conclusion sooner or later,
This united action upon this basis has been
the hope of my life. / fervently desired 1t
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SANDsPoUTs IN NEvADA.--For sew
cral hours yesterday afternoon there
were visible from this city, ou Twenty
two-mile Desert, Eve or six tall columns
of sand, sucked up by as many whirl
winds, At sea these would have been
waterspouts, but upon the desert they
were only what we might call sandspouts.
The columns appeared to be ten feet in
diameter aud one thousand feet in
height. Although they wallzed about
over the plain for two or three hours
they never came together or never lost
their distinctive cylindrical fo;m, and
when they did 50 down they went down
at oncc-all falling together. These
saudspouts are well known to all old
prospectors, aud seem to indicate
change Of weather. We have frequent.
ly seen in the Forty mile Desert, east Of
the lower Sink Of the Carson, not less
then ten or fifteen of these tall sand
columns moving about over the plains
at the same time. Ii is seldom that
they come together, but when they do
they dart forward like two flashes of
lightning, and an explosion like heavy
blast ends all, and the two columns Of
sand at once fall to the ground. Those
Who have not been upon our great
deserts, and have never witnessed these
grand sandspouts or the wonderful
mirages, have but little idea of the
romantic grandeur Of these apparently
uninterestlug wastes Of md Yirgi.
MIA (Nev) Enterprise, July 3.
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golitial gtfairs.
Attempts TO Bribe Senators.

Other Senators were approached Just as
Mr.. Schurz says be was approached Some
of them were proof; they will probably feel
called upon 10 relate their experience. -
Others proved more compliant and alive
to their own Interests = we have as yet
to hear the FIRST complaint from them Of q
failure on the part of the President to re.
deem the promises made by his hypothetic- :
al agent. The abuse Of the patronage at
that time and for that purpose was shame
less and scandalous in the last degree. Mr..
Summer was directly offered the English
mission by Secretary Fish Mr.. Cameron s
eyes were oyened to the advantage Of the
projected annexation by the actual hestowal
OF a similar honor upon member Of his
family. That Mr.. Schnrz was approached
as he says he was, no one who knows any
thing about this high toned and truthful
gentleman will for moment doubt. That
he had ample reason, underal circumstanc
es, for believing the bid came from Gen.
Grant, is equally unquestionabe. And that
he would have been placed in poss es sion
of the promised patronage if he had given
the required consideration, is, at least, ssapt
and ofgood credit"
There is another denial, however. The
telegraph reports Senator Conkling as say
ing of Mr. Schurz's assertion ss1he man
who says that liesi and | am responsible
for the statement II is not clear whether
the remark was made publicly or in private
conversation. la either case, it was who'll
ly uncalled for and brutal II is not the
first time by good many that the New
York Senator has seen fit to indulge ia
POLARIZATION manners, and sink the gentle
man in the blackguard But he never made
worse mistake than in thus raising n ques
ton ofveraciy with Carl Schurz, upon a
subject about which he cannot, by any pos
sibility, be supposed qualified to speak. =
The only man who will be injured BY The
performances is Roscoe Coakling. Spring
Jield Republican.
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WESTAINsTER. MD SATURDAY. MORNING, AUGUST IO I872

orspendauy money to destroy Polygamy,
as the feeling Of the rising generation Of
Mormoas seems to bo almost bitter
against Polygamy, as is most able aud
truthfully made plain in Mrs. STEM.
houses book entitled Expose Of Polyg.
amy in Utah, and from personal obser.
vltion, do not hesitate to say that the
diabolical doctrine of Polygamy will 90
down with and forever rest in tie grave
Of Brigham Young.
Respectfully yours,
DAVID Il. FoUrZ
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stlctt 9oetry.
From Al tho Year Round.
MIDSUMMER EVE.

A sunset glory lines the West
With streAks Of crimson. In the pine,
The ringdoye murmurs on her nest;
Aud myriad golden starleis shine.
Upon the fair, calm hour Of night,
As she her sable veil lets fall,
The swallows from the dizzy height
or fiyied steeple twitieriug call.
As twilight fades, and darkness grows
Upon the landscape, and the leaves
OF dew-hllCd flowers, slowly close,
Aud martins gather meath the caves.
And on the breast of silver stream,
The lilies quiTer, while the sigh
OF rustliug night-breeze, like a dream,
Slirs their white blooms, and passes by
The sleeping swans, with ruilled wings
Aud head reposing, slow drift on;
The nightingale mUl0dious sings
Tue blO,som-laden bough upon.
The plashing Of the mil-wheel falls
Like music on the farm boys ear;
As homeward trudging, blithe he calls,
And whistles when bis cot is near.
The lights 20 out in cottage homes,
The labors Of the daytime cease;
Abroad the king Of slumbcr roams,
And in his train arc--Rest and Peace.
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The Nation, speaking ofDr. Lanahan
gives the case oithe Methodist Book Con.
cern frauds in nutshell. 1t says =
''rhe Church went into business in the
Book Concern and achieved prodigious
success, but Satan got hold Of the books
aud falsiiicd the entries, stole goods aud
sold them on his own account, pocketed
commissioes towhich he was notentitled,
and in fact, reproduced on a small scale
the very operations he was carrying on
in the New York City Hall. Whcn Or.
Lanatan got in he found him cut and
collared him, aud was trying to drag
him to the police station, but the old
culprit was actually abe to get the clergy
aud laityabont him, persuade them not to
examine his books or the conlents Of
his bag, aud to give his accussr into
custody on charge Of brawling aud
lisordcrly conduct
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AIR.-"Ths Fine Oh English Gentleman.
Wen sing you modern song
You've seldom heard It's mate
OF an yer-gifsod President,
Who wins much real estate
llo Is lining all bis pockets
At most outrageous rate,
For liberal giyer never lacks
A welcome at the cato
or this model modern President,
One Of the taking kind.
He goes for scrip, blood-stock, and pups,
No gifts his hand foregoes,
And should be tell of Bribery
But the half Of what he knows,
You'd smell Corfuption's stencil so strong
You'd have TO hold your nose,
And as to all his kiih and kin
They're hungrier than crows.
o, this many -brothercd President,
One Of the costly kind.
At every season Of the year
He opens bis house to all
Who bring rich presents in their fists
At each ax-grinding CALI
Nor is the humblest donor
Turned from the White House hall
For, though he loves the large gifts best,
OF this present-taking President,
One OF the meanest klud.
But time at last makes all things right,
The months glide quickly BY,
And In November be must stand
The hazard Of the die.
Wen double-six him the first throw,
Blow all his hopes sky-high,
And put the noses out Of joint
OF all the family
or this brreches-pooket President,
One Of the smallest kind.
Wen have a patriot in his place,
With scamps who will not deal,
But place above the Treasury door
The scroll, "Thou shalt not steal,
And on all public plunderers
Bring down his honest heel,
Taking no thought Of anything
But Of the peoples veal,
Like just, unselhsh President,
One Of the olden kind.
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Adversely exasperales fools, defects
cowards, draws out the ficultios OF the
wise aud industrious, puts the modest
TO the necessity of trying their skin,
awes the opuleHt, aud makes the idlo
Industrious.
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Among the coming recruits TO the Greeley
party viii be Eve Massachusetts Congress
men. That is the latest item of nows from
Boston, Even Batter is shiveriag in the
wind. But for goodness sake Let Batler
stay where he is.
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When once the prairie was tracklcss,
save for the Indian trail, it now bears
tracks Of I rail; which shows what a
difference little dash may make
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Colonel S. ID. Freeman, Of M'Kean
county, Pennsylsania the Grant elector Of
the Fifteenth Congressional District, has
seat ia his resignalion, and has declared
for Greeley and BuckRlev
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TnE ORGAN.

/ have been curious in my travels to
see the beautiful and exquisite, but |
must admit that the size, tone and work.
manship Of this instrument surpass, by
far, anything ofthe kind, lhayc everseen
The cost OF this magnificent instrument
was one hundred thousand dollars. This
alone will convince your readers that it
Is superior It may appear singular,
bus no stranger tlilu rue, that every
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Isaboutsixty five years old, (io appear
ance about forty-dve,) stout and robust
but neither portly or handsome, sandy
comp.cxion. Tho first glance would
convince phrenologist that he has well
balanced faculties, with combativeness,
aequisitivcness, sccrctiveness, Grmness
and amativoncss, little large, this
makes up the man. He loves money
as wellas wives; his wealth is enormous
La addition to the costly buildings |
have spoken of, Quilt by his own funds)
he built one hundred aud fifty miles OF
the Union Pacific Railroad, also the
Utah Central forty miles in lenght, and
the Utah Southern Railroad about one
hundred miles in langht, and now says
he would not exchange his gold and
silver with the llothchilds; he is dicta.
tor aud god Of the Mormous. IF il is
possible for ambition to fnd resting
place, | should think it quite at case
in the bosom of Brigham Young.
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II is very difficult to asccr tain the
number Of his wives, there are many Of
them, and they live in many different
houses known as the white house, the
bee hive house, the zion house, &c The
last named is long narrow bailding,
in which seventeen Of his wives and
families reside; the basement is used for
a kitchen, dining room, pantry aud
general receptacle for the odds aud ends
of a large family, Tho FIRST floor has a
passage up tho centre where number
Of his wives with small families occupy
the rooms on the right; on the left is the
parlor, and dolhcrrooms occupied By moth
ors with large families, TNcupper foor
is divided ntotwonty square bed rooms
The roof OF this building Is joined by
hinges at the peak and hung On posts
in the centre, resting loosely at the cave
on either side, SO that the whole roof
from eud to end can Dap up aud down
wieu Brigham and his wives suore.
doat ihing the government nced worry
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Campaign 2uetrg.
The Present-yaking President.

An.-4Ths Fiae Oh Eagli.A csatlenaa. ="
New-York tribune., 1872-02-12
TEIEGRAPHIC NOTES.

- Giuseppe Caldbno, SpaniaTd, was stained
and oyster saloon Burgundyst Ne" Orleans " hsh
The Methodist Church of Kingston tPennl was
burned ground Saturday The he originated ID 'ne
The gorge in the Mississippi River below caro-
and Coumbn yesterday morning and na'gs"h
10 all points South
....P. G. Townsend, the policeman who was shot
In Ne, Wednesday night BY Alexander Ne"'oA hoOVas
despersdo died on Sunday
Martin Callan, an empOye in the oil factory OF
Page spasu crushed between elevator l' he cell
ing SATURDAY afternoon, and instantly killed
THE Central Christian Church CINCINNATI,
-, YESTERDAY erected cost heuuis
site on l4O O and edbe ID ths oleo
states, comfortably seating over ? VN persons
Col James +. Bramlette, son OF ex-Gov. bfam-
l,,te died Al his LoGys ky SATURDAY. hee
Colonel ofhe 18th Kentucky Civs durg De e" paw
toe war and q member Of the Legislature IN 1901
1.-The deaths in Philadelphia from smallpox,
during last Increase that o the pr.tous
Tn, whole uurber Of deaths all dsea last veet show
an increase Of 70 that OF The pTeEioas ~.ef
The Rockford, Rock Island and ST Louis kail,
d Compsn offered reward Of sc for the appthnsoh OF
Fsd Bate and HApn conductor and engineer o e e
trp Which with be passengefh Alton, oh eune''
lat
gas-well was being bored for the County In
,msr, AZ Fre Pa when OF gn .t
,r ,beb toof Ere burning Wm hell seriously and pefhas sA
m, dre burned ard the hsmt
been eIunguished
Tfe Rev. John Leyes, ID. d., died at his resi-.
a. ,sr. s,dent the United States AT Liberia aud
ais. ui,,ensr, West Africa lie made ten ,ojAgs t.i--n L,
COUNTRY and Aes previous tp tBs IsB bone B 1870 hsNh"
viii iAbe place oRofTor
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three per be expended under the direction OF
the States themselves and the remaining TWO ceht
by the General Government The states GOT tne lhee
per cent in due time. With the remaining two per cent
the Government undertook TO build tne nauonl Ioau
he ginning in 1906 The enterprise was then c9nsiuIcu
s gigantic as the Pacific Railroad was at later cav
The nlan was extend the road to Missouri Dut tc
nearly 30 wears Of intermittent work. the Great NalOha
U0hway as 10 was called. was abandoned ana gwen 10
fhe STATES through which 1t after II had hceh Du
short distance west OF Columbus Ohio. so PennsyNa-
MIA MARYLAND and Virginia got Tor nothing tc sIcaIc
mart of the road which the money Of ONO, Idla anu
Illinois was taken to construct The TWO last States
never received any benefit, for not mile OF Ioa %
ever made within their limits with their snare oI to t
money spent. The argument III IaVOT Vi theh 'i"' W
the two per cent appears conclusive
II will be remembered that the prosecutions OF tne %
Klux I'm South Carolina suddenly suspended Ie"
weeks ago. because OF the disagreement OF the circuit
Judge and the District Judge sitting together lor 'o
trial of these causes The were therefore, cer
fed ND TO the Supreme Court Of the United states me
points upOn which the Court will be required 10 uecuo
are as follows: First as TO whether, under inc
enforcement law OF May 81, i0'o' Pea Pao
sons can be punished for committing a crime
defined nnder the laws OF the state and second as TO
whether the right TO bear is right guaranteed py
the Constitution and to be protected under tne El5
mpnt act This will substantially test the Vadlt o 'hc
act in olretion and decide whether criminals sha oe
punished for violating this law, as those thaJ afo
ishpd under the State law. This important question WI"
he brought up in a short time in the supreme 0OuII'
General Williams and Gen. BrlstoW Will dP
near for the Government, and Reyerdy JOnnsoh anu
Henry staubeTy for the KuKluX.