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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
Prof. Agassiz as a Prophet.

A most remarkable letter is that ad-
dressed by Prof. Agassis, on the eve of
of his departure on the Coast Survey
Expedition to Southern waters, to HE
friend and old co-worker, Prof. Pierce,
POW head of the Coast Survey. It is
a very notable example of sssthe scien-
tific use of the Imagination In proph-
esying, from recorded data, the proba-
BILE discoveries which the expedition
will make, if circumstances favor.
Agassiz is firm opponent Of Darwin
and as firm a supporter of
the " teleogicaIn argument, IS theolo-
gians call it, the argument from de-
sign, usually the first proof of the ex-
istence of God. His view Of creation,
as expressed in this letter, is Of an
original plan, III which the whole ami
NAL kingdom, with its internal regions,
was provided for from the beginning !;
and he believes that the execution Of
this plan of life has been the motive of
the vast physical changes which the
globe has undergone. This view leads
him to think that from the
deepest abysses of the sea
representatives Of these fossils
found in the oldest formations
may be secured, and he mentions il
detail just what these are. The latter
part of his relates to his glacial theory
and states that he expects to find il
Southern parts of the earth-like eyi
dences of the cosmio glacial moyemen
of which SO many data have been &C
cumulating at the north, though th'
motions will be also from the pole ant
thence in an opposite direction in th
Southern hemisphere. The return
from the expedition will be awaited
with the more interest because Of thi
letter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
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JAMES II. HAcKETT, the veteran actor, dice
at his residence in Jamaica, L. l., Wednesday
evening, aged 72 years.
The Central Savings Bank. Iii New York
city, has suspended, its officers say for few
davs only. The bank has been organized only
four months, and had $12, 900 deposited.
Wn. BROWN, one of the counterfeiters who
escaped from Ludlow street jail, New York,
some weeks ago, was re-arrested at Freepor,
Illinois
Tue engine and machine works of Hugh H.
Bole & Co., at Duquesne, near Pittsburg were
totally burned Thursday evening. Loss esti-
mated at $50, 900; insurance not ascertained.
The upper portion Of New York city was de-
prived of gas on Sunday by the explosion of
the purifying house Of the Metropolitan Gas
Company's Works on Forty-Second street.
The building was demolished. Fortunately no
one received serious injuries.
The examination of the Robinson murder
ers at Salt Lake City has resulted in the com
INITIAL Of three of the persons under arrest.
Hampton, Jolls and Blithe, and the discharge
of the rest.
The Philadelphia health officer reports 22e
death from smallpox last week, a slight in
' the previous week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
NO. g..
THE LOST HEIRESS.
Truth Stranger than Fiction-Her
Face Recognized in eur RoGue's CAL
lezy~-Chief Maloy and Captain Hale,s
Recollection.

iery--Chief Maloy and Captain Hale,s
Recollection.
From the Albany Knickerbocker.
Among the distinguished personages
who visited police Headquarters on
Monday was Mr.. Sofdatkof, a Russian.
who is one of Prince Alexis party
While viewing the objects of interest
about the rogue's gallery, the disting-
ulshed foreigner was struck by the face
of one of the females in the frame. If
his recollection served him right, he
knew the woman and of course insti-
gated some inquiries. Upon consult
ing the book containing the names of
the persons represented, it was found
that the face identified by the stranger
was sat down as Madame Gratowski,
which was an alias. She was arrested
on the charge of shop-lifting at the
stores of several merchants, and after
trial was sent to Sing Sing prison for
three years and six months, The stran-
ger SAID the woman was native of his
country, that her name was Radetsky,
and was the daughter ol one of the first
families OF the Empire; and what more,
since her departure, having by the way
eloped, her father died, leaving her an
immense fortune.
Chief Maloy and Capt. Hale both re-
collected the woman well, and her gen
eral description given by the stranger
eorresponded with their impression ex-
actly. These officials also assert that
the woman served out her time at Sing
Sing, but has been arrested within a
year at New York, and is now at Sing
Sing serving out another term. The
stranger made memorandum of all
the chief and Capt Hale said, and in
formed those officers that he would
make the fact known to the Prince who
was acquainted with the circumstances
connected with the case, and between
them an effort would be made to secure
the pardon of Madame Radetsky. !.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
The Murder Of the Inn0cents.

A distinguished Paris physician says:
90 believe that during the twenty
years | have practiced my profession
20, 900 children have been carried to the
cemeteries, a sacrifice to the absurd
custom of exposing their arms. Put
the bulb of thermoueter in baby's
mouth, and the mercury rises to ninety
degrees. Now carry the same to its
little hand if the arm be bare and the
evening cool the mercury will sink
to ffty degrees. Of course all the
blood that flows through these arms
must fall from ten to forty degrees be-
low the temperature of the heart. Need
[ say, when these currents of blood
flow back to the chest the chlld's vital
ity must be more or less compromised
And need / add that we ought not tc
be surprised at it's frequent recurring
affections of the tongue, throat OF
stomach? [ have seen more than one
child, with habitual cough or hoarse'
ness, entirely relieved by simply keep
ing the hands and arms warm. "
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10

AT the last meeting of the American
Philosophical Society. a photograph
was exhibited of the diverse and re-
verse of copper piece, said to have
been found in a recent excavation in
Ohio. Rudely incised figures of an In
dian head, and other characters, re-
sembled some of the we'll known Indian
rock-sculptures. But a close examlna-
ton revealed the figures 1872, and thus
consigned the supposed aboriginal coin
to it's proper place among the old He
brew characters, and the tin and cad
MUM mines devoid of all trace of either
tin or cadmium, by which western in.
ventive genius has 80 often startled the
world --E .-.t.-. - ...-.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10

Is it the band of the Past,
stretched forth from its open tomb,
Or spell from thy glamoury cast,
o mellow and mystic Gloom
All, wherein / have part,
All that was less or gain
Slips from the clasping heart,
Breaks from the giasping brain.
Lo, what is left =? I am bare
AS newborn soul, I am naught
My deeds are as dust in air,
My words are as ghosts of thought.
I ride through the night alone,
Detached from the life that seemed,
And the best have felt or known
Is less than the least dreamed.
But the Night, like Agrippa's glass,
Now, as [ question it, clears;
Over its vacancy pass
The shapes of the crowded years;
Meanest and most august,
Hated or loved, see
The dead that have long been dust,
The living, SO dead TO me!
Place in the worlds applause?
Nay, there is nothing there!
Strength from unyielding laws?
A CLEAN, and the glass is bare.
The lines of life in song?
Faint runes on the rocks of time?
see but formless throng
Of shadows that fall or climb
What else? then despoiled
OF the garments I wove and wore?
Have l so refrained and toiled.
To find there is naught in store?
I have loved-I lovei Behold,
How the steady pictures rise!
And the shadows ara pierced with gold
From the stars of immortal eyes.
Nearest or most remote,
But dearest, hath none delayed;
And the spirits of kisses float
Ger the lips that never fade.
The Night each guest denies
OF the hand or naughty brain,
But the loves that were, arise,
AR the loves that are, remain
"A tldntic Monthly for JGnttaf
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10

A WILD goose was shot at Ceda
Lake, Lake county, in the body OF
which the head of an Indian arrow was
found just back and under the wings,
the ends projecting on either side.
The arrow head is of bone, six and a
half inches in length, with five slopine
notches cnt on one side, is quite sharp
at the point, while the other end has
nearly the shape of the PROV of an
Indian canoe. The wound caused by
the arrow head had entirely healed,
and it was firmly imbedded in tlae
goose.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
Discovery on the New Gold Fields,

The discovery of gold in consider
able quantities has been made in the
Transval Republic. The reports have
attracted many adventurers to that
quarter. Diamond seekers were aban-
doning the diamond districts for the
newly discovered gold country. Cape
town continued thronged with arriving
and returning fortune hunters. Busi-
ness in the colony was making great
strides.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
England and America i'm 1872.
BY ALFRED TENNYsrN

BY ALFRED TENNYsoE.
&. INF Tennyson writes to the editor of the Ledger
: ine poem which send herewith is supposed to be
w or spoken by liberal Englishman at the time
d our recognition of American independence. ~
Thou, that sendest out the man
To rule by land and sea,
Strong mother of a Iion-ine,
Be prold of those strong sons of thine
Who wrenchd their rights from thee
What wonder, if in noble heat
Those men thine arms withstood
Retaught the lesson thou hadst taught
And in thy spirit with thee fought
Who sprang from English blood!
But Thou rejoice with liberal joy,
Lift up thy rocky face,
And shatter, when the storms are black
In many a streaming torrent back,
The seas that shock thy base!
Whatever harmonies of law
The growing world assume,
Thy work is thine-Thy single note
From that deep chord which Hampden smotej
VIII vibrate to the doom.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10
VOL. XII.
The Guests of Night.

81 BAlaflD LAlLO1E+
I ride in gloomy land,
I travel ghostly shore
Shadows Oh either hand,
Darkness behind and before
Wells of the summer night,
Dusking the woods, [ know;
A whisper haunts fhe height.
And the livulet croons below.
A watt from the roadside bank,
-loere the wild rose mods
heavy and dank
Of the golden rods
Death,
Day,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10

ScHoo1BoYs hear with pleasure of the
decline in the whaling business. ...
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10

The schoolhouses in Vienna are
among the best in Europe. a. III.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-10

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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-27
sQULBS.

uoh- nv dear, there is most lovely set
min asrrincs and sleeve-buttons Do 20 buy
thamlD eyes, my dear, mean to go by them
as soon as possible"
AFTER her noble generosity to her compan.
ion i'm afaiction, Chicago feels authorized to In
dulee in little harmless mirth at Boston's ex
pense. The Chicago Tribune propoupds this
conundrum: If Chicago. being wicked city;
was punished. why was Boston, being good
city, punished in the same manner2
The Missouri Democrat thus unkindly ex.
poses Colonel Mosby's incentives to loyalty;
''General Mosby Of Virginia owns stone quar-
ry, and is reported to be fishing for contract
to furnish headstones for the National cemeter.
les. Having materially assisted in furnishing
the corpses, Mosby now wants to see the graves
handsomely decorated"
The Milwaukee Sentinel soberly publishes
a card beginning in this way: lowing to the
prevalences of the horse disease the chief en-.
gineer, IN behalf of the city, In company with
the chairman Of committee on fire depart
ment, hare left the city to purchase oxen with
which to operate the engines Of the depart
ment in case of fire." The spectacle OF yoke
of oxen lesurely walking before steam engine
to fire would be enough to make even SICK
horse laugh.
The Chicago Times thus Indignantly
squelches Cincinnati journal for daring 10
insinuate that Boston bad gone ahead OF
Chicago in the matter Of o confagra:ion
'There is something inconceiyably childish in
the idea of the Cincinnati person chucklng
over the thought that some other city has had
a bigger fire than Chicago. The petty jealousy
and malignant but impotent hate that are con :
densed in the above article become al e the
more ridiculous when it is considered that
the Boston copfagration was not one-half 30
great an affair, measured in any way, as the the
Chicago confagration. The latter must stu
be the standard of comparison for calamities
of this character, just as the energy OF the clty
in recovering from the disaster must remain
beyond all comparison"
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-27


TgR GREAT BELL OF ST. PAUL'S.-Every
American going TO London visits ST. Paul's
Cathedral a1 q matter. OF course, and though
each knows In advance something Of Its
grandeur, nearly all are astonished to find
fheir preconceiVed notions totally at fault.
the dome and the bells especially exceed In
size all that one has Imagined in advance.
The dome alone weighs over six million
pounds, and the bell-tower5 are OF corre-
spending size. There are four bells IN all
three In the southern and one 10 the north
ern tower. Even the smallest of these bells
is altogether too large to be turned IN ring
iog: and were sufficient power for this pur-
nose to be used, the great towers, strong as
thev are, would hardly stand the sIaln Ine
two smaller bells In the clock-:ower strike
the quarters, and above them hang the great
bell which strikes the hours. 1t has diam
eter of nine feet, and weighs II, ,4K pounds.
Aside from It's great size and unequalled
tone is is subject Of interest from the tact
that It is a bell having q history OF its own.
In the old days before the Reformation great
bell. named Edward, in honor of Edward the
Confessor, used to toll The hours from lhe
clock-tower opposite Westminster Hall gate.
Dnring the reign of William and Mary 1t be-
came necessary to remove the bell, and, In
nassine under Temple Bar, 1t fell from the car.
riaqe on which It was being transported and
was broken. It was placed under sned ln
the Cathedral yard, where 1t remained until
l7l6. when 1t was recast, With some addltional
metal. and hung in the clock-toWer OF 81.
PanTs. where the tourist visits 1t to-day. IL is
never used except to strike the hours ana 70
tell on the occasion Of the death OF members
of the foyal family, the bishop of London, tne
dean of st. PauPs, or the lerd mayor OF Lon'
don.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-27
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF
DESTROYING LIFE.

The increase Of the troops and the improve
ment Of the deadly machinery they use Keep
mace with the erection Of fresh defences. BY
the new order Of the Emperor, the field artll-
lery is raised to q war status OF 2O56 guns.
This is four pieces more than the war .orce
known. is more than doubling his cannon. As
q useful innovation, the bag in which the cart
ridge is placed will be henceforth made OF silk,
which cleanses the barrel Of slime and dirt,
and snpersedes the necessity of wIplng out.
Excepting the Bavarians, who retain the Wer-
der rifle, the whole of the German forces have
been armed with the improved needle-gun.
Ls has bsen before stated, the improvement
chiefly consists in smaller bullet, giving a
range OF twelve hundred metres. The new
pun adopts the caoutchouc lcck OF the
brooch which the Chassepot has. Taking aim
is said 10 be greatly simplifed by the new rifle.
But, with all its yaunted advantages, tins
second edition OF old Dfeyse has only rev
wears toliye. An altogether new model has
been recently adopted, which, as soon as a
couple Of millions are made, will supersedde
syerytbips;4 else. What this latest novelty
really is nobody knows. All we have been per.
mitted to learn is that the murderous mple-
mer,t was originally devised by Wurtemburg
gunsmith, named Msuser, that it was altered
and improved BY PSYCHIC chymico artllerlst
committee at Berlin, and that It gives the
happy owner the power Of killing twenty.sl Six
men Der minute, provided he hits them. That
ANYTHING like this number can be attained on
the battlefield is thing impossible; but as an
ordinary soldier, even in the excitement OF the
fieht, is said to be capable OF firing rom
twelve to fifteen rounds, the gun really seems
to mark new stride in the terrible art. Ii
rumor tells, true, it is one-barrelled gun,
with metal cartridge, central ignition, and
range exceeding Chassepot and Werder. The
manufacture has already commenced in pub
lie and private establishments.
The emitrailleuse has been defnitively reject
ed Tor field purposes. being replaced by the
reintroduction Of the shrapnel shot: Nseems,
however, that the specimens OF the mitrail-
leuse captured from the French will be distrl.
buted ever the various fortresses to aid IN the
defence of breach. Speaking of warlike pre-
parations, mightss well add that the new
railway bridge over the Rhine at Wesel is about
to be taken in hand. It will be the largest
structure of the kind inlC Germany, having, with
it visducts on the right and left banks, total
length Of six Thousand two hundred feet.
This Is about one milo aud half, and consid-
erabiy more than twice the length Of the rail-
way bridge over the Vistula al Dirschau, az
counted one Of the finest in Europe.-Berlin
Letter TO the London Times.
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fertilizers.
fertilizers.
DACIFIC GUANO COMPANY'S
CAPITAL sl,coo,ooo)
SOLUBLE PACIFIC QUA NO.

This GUANOi la now 20 well known In all the
Southern States for Its remarkable effects ns an
agency for increasing the products OF labor, as
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Its use for seven years past has eBta0llsneu Is
character for reliable excellence. The large hxed
capital Invested 6y the Company 10 this trade
affords the surest guarantee Of the continued e3-
cellence OF this Guano. r.;
as heretofore, prepared nnder the personal super.
intendence OF DR.. ST Jalau Ravenel, Chemist OF
the Company, at Charleston >. C hence planters
may rest assured that its quality and composition
is precisely the same as that heretofore sold.
in ROBSON,
Selling Agent, charleston s. U.
JNO =. RI ESE & CO.,
General Ac ents, Baltimore.
TKRMs-s4S cash; s53 lime. without Interest.
To accommodate planters they can 9Ioer now
and have until the lsC or april to decide as to
whe,herthe will take at time or cash price.
When delivered from the Factory by the carload
no drayage will be charged.
%Pspers that inserted my advertisement last
year will please copy. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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WALLETS NANCE OINTMENT,

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Pastor Reformed Church.
IrvIngton. N. J., May 22, 1871.
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Hope.

In the quiet garden OF my lie
There groweth red-rose tree;
little bird sits on the topmost oougn,
And merrily singeth he.
T6fsun may shine In the happy sky
Through the long and golden lays,
And the sweet spring blossoms VII the trees
In fragrant pearly haze;
Or the peltipg rains OF autumn come.
And the weary wintry weather, ,,,,
And we've naught to watch but the leaden
clouds
My rose and together.
Come rain, come shine, 40 that bonny 0lrd
But warble his cheery tune:
For while he sings to my rose and me,
To us 1t is always June.
And Death and Sorrow ehall vainly BIZ
The portals OF life beside,
For We noat upborne on that soaring song
Through the gates OF heaven hung Wloe
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VALENTINES PREPARATION OF
" MEAT JUICE.

Inst received, a largeslpply of the above. Esci
hottie contains four pounds OF the best Beef, ex
c,nsiVe of TAT; can be used with cold or warn
Wster: also can be taken with Codliyer Oh, aht
DESTROYS the taste OF the OH. - 3.
Tne only food for delic,ste children
This lB much superior to the "EXtract OF Beef, u
heretofore offered to the public, as will be FOUND
upon trial. For sale BY DR.. d. BAER,
jun7 NO. lal Aeetln2 strees
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