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Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
SAINT AND SINNER.
ny NnLIE W. cARrENrER.

Amidst the -city's racking sound,
Along the crowded streets,
To yonder convent chapel bound,
She walked with happy feet;
Her shining hair shone, ali unrolled,
A very mist like fleece OF gold,
Entangled with the tilmy lace
That hid her far young aignoHRs face.
Her trailing dress was tumnery white;
A costly marvel, fine and thin
1t wrapped her form, erect and slight,
From feet to dlmpled chin;
So young, so fair, so whitely dressed.
With sprays OF sweet brier in her breast;
oh, priestess! pray for US who wait
Without the frownlng minister gate.
l mind the coral beads that shons
Upon her slender neck;
The sea such soft pink flowers has blown
Such loyeliness 10 deck.
And on her shapely bIue-veined wrist,
Whose snow my lips have sometimes
kissed,
Were costly gems that Pagan hands
snatched from the fire of torrid sands.
Some white doves futter round the floor,
The light Is dim inside;
Vdnite P'- Hush and hear the roar
The organs swelling pride.
Oh, tender saint! above your book
Bend down your high, enraptured look,
And with your soft blue sinless eyes,
Scan the white paths Of Paradise.
SO, musing, smiling SOFT, wait
Till all her prayers be said,
Aud she shall pass the minister gate
With fair, down. bending head.
A sudden silence thwarts the street;
hear the tread OF light young feet,
And turn to meet the smiling eyes
That light my way to Paradise.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
Mothers Power.

a moments work on clay tells
more than an hours labor on brick.
/ So work on hearts should be done
/ before they harden. During the
| first six or eight years of child-life
mothers have full sway, and this is
the time to make the deepest and
/ most enduring impressions on the
human mind.
The examples of maternal influence
are countless. Solomon himself re-
! cords the words Of wisdom that fell
| from a mothers lips and Timothy
was taught the Scriptures from a
child by his grandmother and his
mother.
John Randolph, of Roanoke, used
| to say, II should have been a French
atheist were it not for the recollec-
| ton of the time which my departed
mother used TO take my little hand
In hers, and make mo say, on nv
bended knees, "Our Father who art
in Heaven"
81 have found out what made yon
the man you are" said a gentleman
one morning, to President Adams;
81 have been reading your mothers
letters to her SON."
Washington's mother trained her
boy to truthtuiness and virtue, and
when his messenger called to tell
her her son was raised to the high
est station in the nations gift, She
could say: "George always ways a
good boy"
A mothers tears dropped on the
head of her little boy one vening as
she sat in the doorway and listened
while she spoke of Christ and saliva
ton.
sThose tears made me a missiona-
ry," said he, when he had given his
manhood's prime TO the service Of
the Lord.
Some one asked Napoleon what
was the grrat need of the French
nation:
''Mothersr' was the significant an
swer.
Women, has God given you the
privileges and responsibilities of
mothers? BE faithful, then, to the
little one. You hold the keys of
their hearts now. If you once lose
you would give the world 10 win
it back. Use your opportunities be
fore they pass.
And remember, little ones, you
never will have but one mother.
Listen to her words and God will
bless you day by dav.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
The BeautY OF winter.

Winter scenery has charms of its
own, that yield TO no other season.
On a clear winter day, the landscape
often has a depth OF coloring such
as no other time of. the year affords.
An indescribably soft and tender
atmosphere rests upon the earth,
through which glows the deep pur-
pie and blue of the distant hills.
The whiteness Of the snow gives to
the scene a celestial purity, a sug-
gestion OF heavenly things.
There is abundant beauty, too, of
the minuter kind. What is more
delicate and exquisite than the ira
against'the sky z And every snow
storm works a myriad miracles of
dainty architecture. IL clothes the
black spruces with hundred feath-
cry plumes. Ii hides every insight
iy object with soft white mantle.
Under its touch in single hour the
whole earth is transformed, and
masquerades in every variety OF
beautiful aud grotesque apparel.
Then, as by the quick changes of a
magician, comes a sudden shower
or thaw and again frost, and the
sun rises upon a world clothed in
diamonds.
But the deepest charm which ma
ture has in winter is that which
night brings forth. The earth is
not more unlike in summer and in
winter than are the heavens, Com
pare the mellow glory with which
the harvest moon foods the earth,
with the cold, bright light of the far
of moon Of winter. And the win
ter stars-what sight that is given
10 man so stirs his sense Of awe and
mystery, so moves him TO rejoice
and reverence and adore:
1t seems to us that in the severity
and sternness of winter, the moods
which nature suggests are higher
and more heroic than the milder
seasons inspire. When the earth
abounds with every fruitful thing,
when the warm air wraps US, and
the wind breathes gently, the sense
of these things bring great delight.
But when the blood vuickens to re-
sist the cold, and bound in frost and
snow, the earth seems under the
power of some mightier lnfuen {
than those which minister TO the
physical man. then we seem to come
closer into the presence of the Inf
mite One. Let one stand in the
forest at night when the ground is
white about his feet. and look up
through the network of the great
branches to the stars blazing from
their infinite distance, and listen TO
the mysterious voices OF the wind,
and he may well feel himself within
the courts OF God. - Christian
Union
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

THE POLITICAL CURRENT.-The
passive policy is making such head
way that il now exerts-paradoxi-
cal as it may sound "a controlling
influence in shaping political events.
Our special dispatch this morning
from jefferson City states that the
Liberal Republicans are likely to
nominate Presidential candidates
before the meeting of the Philadel-
phia Convention, while our Wash
ington dispatches make the an
nouncement that the National Dem
ocratic Executive Committee will
not meet till after that convention
This is carrying out the passive pol
icy to perfection, and looks to the
shaping of events so as TO bring
about the desired political coalition
which is expected to sweep the coHn.
try. That the Administration i
frightened at the drift of the politi-
cal current may be seen from the
Washington dispatch TO the New
York Herald, which we print else.
where. The Herald, by the by, ha:
been for weeks predicting Grants
reelection, but, ike 4 safe political
seer, it is now learning to pipe an.
other tune.-BdRRer.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
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Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

BITERs BITTEN.-An elderly gem
tleman was recently "confidenced"
on a train running into keokuk by
sharpers, who induced him to buy a
draft (worthless) on Buffalo for
$l57.40, he paying them two 500
bills, they paying him $4,000 change.
The conductor on the train took the
first opportunity to quietly suggest
to the innocent old gentleman, that
he was a fraid the draft was a fraud.
We'll" was the bland response OF
the imperturable greeny, 'If it is
any bigger fraud than my two 500
nOies were, then i AN not $42 ahead
which L think am. am not in
the habit Of dealing in counterfeit
currency, but 1 always keep little
of that sort of stuff about me for
the benefit of that sort Of custom
ers."
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
THE DAY-KISG,

Blest power Of sunshine. geuiaI day.
What balm, what lifs is IN thy rsy
To feef thee is such real bliss.
TbatAad the world no Joy but this,
To sitfn sunshine calm and sweet.
II WeTe a world too exquis ite
For maa 10 leave it for the gloom.
Tlae asfp, cold shasow Of the tomb.
Moore.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
The Lawyers Substitute.

In 1868 a fat man rushed into the
Office of well known New Hamp-
shire lawyer, and told him he was
drafted.
"The deuce you are" said the
lawyer. alt must be a strong man
that could draft a man of your size" ("
Well, l am drafted, and want
you to get me off. will pay you
well for it."
Very well ;" and they proceeded
to the Office of the provost marshal.
Here" said the lawyer, "pve
got you a substitute"
He won't do" said the marshal.
" He's too fat and wheczy; he can't
march"
Can't you take him just for me?''
said the lawyer.
"NO," said the marshal, its no
use l don't want him."
This was just what the lawyer
wanted.
"He won't do, eh p
"No. he won't" said the marshal.
Well, then, scratch his name of
the list; for he is drafted and came
here with me to be exempted"
The marshal saw they had proved
too much for him, and without an
other word ordered the mans ex-
emptiOn papers.-ET.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

Emperor William of Germany has
entered his seventy-fifth year, and
still his hair aud beard alone betray
his age; for he not only towers,
strong and erect, above his suite,
but the freshness of his complexion,
the case of his movements, and the
power of endurance which this
white haired monarch displays,
whether in the field or Cabinet,
whether attending festivities or
giving himselfup TO social converse,
encourage the belief that he is des-
tined 10 remain the hope Of Ger
many for many years to come. Tie
owes his physical p0wers 10 his
simple, soldier-like mode of living -
rising at seven in the morning, read
ing his letters and kilograms while
at coffee, and forthwith debating his
replies or noting them on the mar
gins.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

y BosToN workman, who says he
has little sympathy with the foolish
twaddle sometimes said and written
about working mems rights, sends
the following TO the TraUeller of that
city:
Capital without labor is like faith
without wOrk-dead.
Labor without capital is like work
without faith-valueless.
In the nature of things, there is
perfec; harmony between them, and
selfishuess alone suggests any an
tagonism.
Let capital beware, lest it ALLEVIATE
labor.
Let labor beware, lest it cripple
capital.
Let capital say to labor lend me
thy hands, and let labor reply, Il
viii: but let me hold one of the
strings to thy purse"
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
Pearls in ChrIst's Crown.

Some writer thus consoles Chris
tian sufTerers:-O, the wisdom,
goodness and mercy OF Godi He
can take the pains and agonies Of
the sick one, and WORK them all in
to Jewels, which will sparkle in the
crown OF Christ forever! All our
sorroWs and suffering, and our very
tears, will thus become part of
His own glorious crown. We won
der often that the good, the meek,
are made to suffer so long and SO
fearfully; but when we look upon
the Jewels which He thus makes up,
we shall cease TO wonder. Not one
pang or sorrow could be spared,
and have the jewels in His crown
what they are. o, sufferer on the
bed Of paini our Lord makes pearls
for the crown of earthly monarchs;
and, in the same way, lie is fitting
thee to be a crown of glory in His
own diadem. Patiently, patiently
suffer HE will and thou wilt hereaf-
ter see that it was all 10 make thee
more glorious in the eternal king
DOM
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

Washington dispatches inform US
that one Of the most important and
interesting reports ever made by a
committee of Congress will be that
of Representative Stevenson, of O.
hio, on the financial operations, past
and present, of the insurrectionary
States. The report win show the
financial condition of each of the
Southern States at the time of Sc
cession, and also at the surrender.
at reconstruction, and now; show
ing in addition the losses bv the war.
the increase of the debts up to the
time of reconstruction from that
time to the present time; also, the
cost of conducting the State Govern
ments at different periods, and as
near as possible the amount of taxes
levied; how the debts were increas-
ed; what frauds have been perpetra-
ted, as well as the general resources
and assets of each State. If the
fraud feature of this exhibit is thor
oughly exposed, it will make ter
rible showing Tor what is known as
the carpet-bas governments.-B Ban.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

There are in the United States 80
cities and towns which, as appears
from the recent census, have over
5000 inhabitants. OF these cities
New York State heads the list with
2I-the largest number; PennsylFa-
mia comes next ii order with IS;
Massachusetts, 10; Ohio, II; and so
on. Florida, Nevada and Oregon are
without q single city of 10000 inha-
bitants.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

"OUR Jeems" says he doesn't know
what to make of the women:
"The other night" says he " /
thought had a favorable moment
to enfold certain young lady in a
loving embrace, when she -eoolly
asked me what l was about.
Making ScdiSt places glad, ac-
cording to Scripture" says l.
SO You are mistaken In the per-
son. says she; I never allow any
thing to go to waist !"
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

New York, Jan. pa Washing
ton dispatch TO the Herald states
Senator Wilson's friends are enrag-
ed against Colfax and Blaine, the
first for insincerity, the second for
playing into ColfaX's hands. The
President, Cabinet and leading po-
liticians agree that the Vice Presi-
dency should fall to some one cast
of the Alleghenys, and a New York
railroad man is mentioned.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

An exchange says people who eat
light suppers or sit long after eating
need not trouble themselves about
their posture in sleeping, otherwise
than TO choose the most comfortable
one. But those who are inclined to
rotundity, or given to la'e dinners,
viii find it advantageous to sleep
upon the right side. This position
allows free action of the heart, and
favors the movement of the contents
of the stomach, in the process of di-
gestion through the pyloric orifice,
which in that position J. lowest.
Such persons will consult their own
comfort by lying upon the left side
or the back until they are thorough
~ drowsy, and then turning upon
the right side for their regular
snOOZc.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

OSE evening in company, during
convers alton. a gentleman quoted
the expression that MAN proposes
and God disposes." Yes" said a
maiden present, "a man proposed
70 me once. said no, and have
never seen that man since; so 1
thought somebody had disposed of
him.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
Artemus ward.

The thankful receiver bears q
plentiful harvest.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03
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Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21
From the y. Y. Tribune.
Put Ames on the Stand.

All of the Grant journals which have mustered
up courage enough to say a word about the
Credit Mobilier bribery vehemently declare
that the ise is closed. Not so, gentlemen; the
case cannot be closed until Mr.. Oakes Amrs
goes on the witness stand and gives lis sworn
evidence TO rebut (if possibley sworn evidence.
Col McComb swears that the Endorsements on
the back Of Ames' letter Of Jan. %, 1868, snow
ing to whom the stock was assigned, were fur
ni,hed by Ames to him. Does any intelligent
man suppose that Mr.. Ames simple denial, in
general way, Of bribing Blaine, Patterson,
Wilson & Co. covers and closes the case? Then,
again, even in his disingenuous card 10 his con-
stituents, Mr.. Ames admits that he wrote tina,
letter Of Jan. Is, 1865 to Col. McComb he calls
it "my letter." and in that epislle he explicitly
said that he had distributed ('giveu' is the
word certain shares of his Credit Mobiller
stock to certain States which he names; and the
States thus specific are The States represented by
Blaine, Wilson, Schotield and other. And yet
Mr. Ames has the llardhood after this conies-
sion, TO intimate in his card Of exclpation that
he did not brlbe Congressman with Credit
Mobille' stock in 1865! Why was this stock
"giveIl." az he says it was, in 1858, except 10
bribe Congressman And to whom was il given?
Put him on the stand
1t has already been shown that the pratext of
Mr.. Ames that he was not asking for friendly
legislation IN 1868 is tlmsy ,uncandid prelex,.
He does not dare deny that he gave away valu.
able stock; but he pleads that then he could
have had no special ak to grind in Congress,
just as though We did not know that he was
trying to PREVENT unfavorable legislation in
1865 when it was sought to compel The Union
Pacific people 10 pay interest on their Govern
ment. The records Of Congress show that Mr..
Ames and his associates were interested in the
legislation of every session from 1868 to 1871;
and every Washington "habiue" knows that the
corporation exercised an unceasing lobby vigi-
lance. And yet Mr.. Ames thinks to blow away
all these damning facts and conclusions by a
Whit of whine addressed to his constituents.
This won't do, Mr.. Ames. You cannot sweep
away sworn evidence bv mere verbal disclaim
er or deni al. We want TO see Col. McComb' =
afhdavits disproved Mr.. Ames says that legal
answers exist to them; let US have them at once
Mr.. Ames evidently knows all about the dis
posal Of the Credit Mobiier stock in 1868. He
knows whether Blaine. Wilson, and others goi
it. Let us have no more filings about "wicked
SANDERS" but put Mr.. Ames on the stand.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21

FRoM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA "A teegraph'c
message OF twenty words can now be sent from
London to Queensland. in Australia. for nifty dol
lors in gold and it will be forwarded to Port Oar.
win BY CABLE and thence to its destination by horse
express and telegraph. The whole distance which
such message will travel will be some $4,000 miles
and it will reach its destination i'll about thirty
hours. Going from London to the Lands End OH
land wires, it will enter the and reappear at
Alexandria, pass over Egypt, re-enter the sea ai
Sucz and again appear at Fort Darwin.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21

AN INTERESTING DECISION In the Massa'
chusetts Supreme Court recently, an appeal was
heard in a suit, brought by lady agans, a
horse car company, to recover ',amages for an
injury received while riding in the defendants
cars. The company pleaded tl,a, the plaintiff
was travelling on Sunday, which is illegal
according to the State law, and they were there
fore, not liable 10 damage. The court held
however. that the plaintiff. who was returning
from Spirtualist meeting, was engaged in
legitimate purpose and decided in her favor.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21
The Baltimore Gasette says:

Mr.. Charles OConor should have his por-
trait taken in the act of declining. Posterity
otherwise will he deprived of the opportunity
of admin ing the chief Of the straight
outs in the most characteristic attitude. Sir
PertinaX MacSycophant himself never had
the chance of bOwing out smiling and
tlowery delegations that Mr.O'Conor has had.
How many Of these have waited upon him to
urge him to lead the torlOrn hope OF the
Louisville Convention we do not know; but
they were many. Now we are informed that
a number of scattered political organizations
of New York talk of uniting, and nominal
ing the coy O'Conor for mayor of that city
1t is understood that Mr. C'Conor will
decline
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21
Tho Credit Mobilier Scandal.

The Republican papers have dared to pronounce
the charges Of bribery and corruption which have
been made against certain Radical Congressman
whose LANES have been several times published III
this paper, false and malicious. Wilson and Blaine
have both printed denlals which are alleged to be
evasve and not TO be credited At first the whole
story was regard led as an eectioneerlng dodge and
many gentlemen turned from it with careessness
and others with disgust.
But the mater has grown in interest. and there
seems now to be scarcely doubt that there is
truth in the scandal.
Since these publications have been made in
which the evidence produced at the trial and the
etters from Oakes Ames to Col H. S. McComt
have appeared, which are very conclusive, Col.
McComb has been interview ed by one of the most
accomplished reporters and what transpired at the
interview printei in the Chicago Tribune. and
New York San. and no doubt other papers.
Col McComb's replies TO the reporter are such
as candid and truthful gentleman would make
to another, and bear unmistakable marks Of busi
ness accuracy and rare intelligence. Believing
that many of our people feel an interest i'll this
matter, because of their personal acquaintance
with the Colonel, and are in sympathy with him
in his efforts to secure the money out OF which a
pack Of scheming political cormorants are endeav-
oring to cheat him, We publish a small part of this
interview, which is prefaced with lavishly dis.
played heading and four full columns OF the
New York sun, of the Goth. Ii the matter is 8
fiction, Col McComb who is at present at his home
can put his denial upon it at once.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21

ANoTHER STEP To THE FRoNT.-On Wed.
nesday last, by order of the Town Council, jos.
Brown, white crippled soldier and one Of the
night policemen of West Chester, was renewed
from his position, and Benz. Whipper, CoLoRED,
prev viously appointed by the above body, was
further than to say, 'the colored troops fight
brayely. y.".-JEFFERsoNIAN.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21

The Commercial publishes a list OF the Jurors
summoned ior the L. 5. Court, and denies that
they are ali partizans The Commercial IS mis-
taken in its reference 10 the GaSette. We could
no, have referred to the uIies 1t published yester-
day, because d,d not know who composed
them. But that the e. S, unes have been COM
posed Of gent!emen OF one party almost exclusive
ly is TACT that is well known,
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21

Hon. I. r. BAYARD arrived home on Friday
afternoon from his tour in Europe. His friends
Will be glad to learn that his health has been much
improved during has absence.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21

The city has now become SO large that, like New
York, it is in need of more rapid transit, not only
to and from New York, but also within its own
limits
Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-21

The growth of Brooklyn during the last thirty
years exhibits the vast population that must crowd
into New York. Brooklyn is an outgrowth of the
latter city, is composed of inhabitants that have
been. as It were, squeezed out Of it. and is vast
irtumescehce that growing faster than ts fceGer
We talk about the increase Of Wilmington: h"t
here is city that nearly doubles its population
in ten years Its census for the last forty years