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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-10-19
TIE RED MEN IN COUNCIL

The Uncas Tribe No. lOl, |. O. r.
Men Of Wavnesboro', Pa, recently
celebrated the 10Th Moon in that vii
lage. A number OF distant Tribes
were present, among others the Mas
solet Tribe No. IL, Of Emmitsburg.-
The Council Fires burnt brightly in
the Wigwam. y prayer was offered
to the Great Spirit by the Rev, Thos.
J. Cross, of Ernmitsburg, who acted
as Prophet on the occasion. Mr.. Cross,
also, as the Medicine Man, made .
spicy address. The Wayueshoro' r.
ooyl says the Grand Sanhedrim was
then addressed by P.S. Joseph Byers,
Of Emmitsburg Chief Marshal of the
Massoiet Tribe, giving a synopsis Of
the rise and progress OF the Order,
which was quite interesting and in
structive to all. The Council Fire
continued to burn during the whole Of
the Sun to the satisfaction Of all pres
ent until the 9TH run, 3Oth Breath
setting of the sun; when our visiting
brethren started for their respective
Hunting Grounds, highly pleased with
their stay with us and wished us sue
cess in capturing many pale faces, and
adopting them INTO our tribe fer our
hire.
pay~ Those subscribers at a distance,
who are in arrearages for their sub
scrlptions and advertisements, are re-
queslel to make speedy payment to
the Printer.
GONE TO THE WEST INDIES. On
Tuesday last Mr. j. +. kamsaen, of
Miudletown, in this county, left here
to make a second trip to Porto Rico.
one of the West India Islands. He
is accompanied this time by our young
friend, Morris IL. Routzahn, also Of
this place, who goes thither to engage
in business. The good wishes Of many
warm friends accompany these gentle
men to that far ott land, where it is
hoped good health will attend them.
Valley Register.
STATIoNs.-The following are the
names of the stations on the Frederick
and Pennsy lvania Line Railroad -
Fred rick, Harmony Grove, Johnson :.
Station, Georgetown, Woodsboro' New
Midway, Ladiesburg, Loat's Junction
Tanevtown, Shus Station. klngsla.,
and Littlestown. The distance from
Frederick to Littlestown is 50 miles,
and the fare $l,2O. Loat's Station is
where the road lntersects the Western
Maryland, and is seventeen miles
from Frederick.
By The Democratic ticket was sue
cessful in the county of Adams, Pa,
this fall, the candidates ranging from
225 to $50 majority, with the excep
ton of Sheriff. For this Office James
Hersh, jjr. (Republican), is e'cctcI by
votes over Zachariah G. Myers.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-10-19

nsa. a kentucky Editor says that a
neighbor of his is 50 lazy that when
he works in the garden he moves about
so slowly that the shade Of his broad
brimmcl hat kills the plants.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-10-19

The children say it's scold weather
always when house-cleanlng is going
on.
Be- NJ. Thiers, the President of the
French Republic, ordinarily dress IS
in shirt of French broadcloth, frocl;
coat, and decidedly ancient trousers
He wears an old fashioned New Eng,
land high shirt collar, and invariably
carries an umbrella or cane, upol
which he leans while shufling along
the Boulevard.
A wedding trir-A breach Of pro
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-10-19

pga- A London Telegram announces
that Miss Nellie Grant, daughter 0f
the President, has sailed Tor home n
the Scotia, which left Liverpool yu-
New York, on the 18th instant.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-10-19

The PROVINCE OF WoMEN.-NeXt
to God, all true men reverence Wo-
man, as mother, wife, sister, We re-
vereuce ner SO entirely, and love her
50 perfectly for making life itself
worth living, that We would not have
the celestial ideas With which all the
cA;ralrv of our sex clothes her desc
Grated by contamlnatng associations,
and such intercourse as shall tend to
uuseX and rob her Of her sacred dow
er. The genuine dignity, tenderness,
virtue and real beauty OF woman :
life are the product OF the shade and
refined privacy untitled for contact
with the gro,scr world, the glare OF
the burning Sunshine or the cutting
winds and storms. Reverence is the
atmosphere in which she thrives; Sc
verify and coldness kill her, and yet
her dominion is greater than that Of
man.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
Our Debt and Our Capacity.

The total funded and floating debt of the city on the 16th of December was $94, 533, 867 22.a increase of $31, ,4O1 ,283 during the year 1869 and 197O MT. Da- vid A. Wells, in his report to the Govern or, assumes the debt at the figures we have named, and then proceeds to dis course upon it's relations to the property valuation of New York. He shows that the value of the real estate here is not less than $2,OO0, 900, 900, on which debt of $lO0, 100000 would be but five per cent. charge. The personal property, besides, is not less than $1, ,5OO, 900, ,OO0 Much of this property, to be sure, can not be reached by any process of taxa tion, but it's existence increases the ability of people to pay, and so operate to de- crease the burden of taxation on other property. The property actually owned by the Municipality, in markets, build lngs, squares, wharves, &c., is valued at $126, ,OOO,e00. On the whole, then, the ex- h1bltion IS not @ bad one, and New York is very far from being bankrupt, or from not having the power to procure the means of paying its debt. Population is increasing, and each year the valuation of the city is advanced. This valuation is lower here than in other cities where the burden of taxation is less onerous, the assessment was rated in New York as it is in Boston or Philadelphia, the pro- portion of aggregate taxation to valua- tion, which was here in 1870 as 1 to 27, would become 1 to 65, an exhibit much more favorable than in the other cities named.-N y. Paper.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
Street PrOcesSi0ns.

Gov. Hoffman, of New York, in his message says of street processions
 "The subject of the regulation and control of processions in public streets has been made one of special interest by unhappy occurrences in the city of New York in July last. The occupation of the public streets by bodies of men for the purpose of civic as well as military processions has been permitted under a custom so long established that it has come to be looked upon as 8 common right. The local police must have, of course, great discretionary power in the matter of regulating such processions. This right of procession has been consid- cred to be established by custom as firm ly as the right of free discussion and as is the right of the people peaeeably to assemble " by the Constitution of the United States, and may be regarded, in some sense, as practical exercise of their rights.
 After noting the results of July 18th. the Governor says 'tIt is clear that what ever may be the cost, the rights and priv leges of all classes of men must be alike protected, or none are safe and that the prohibition of procession representing one class of sentiment to-day, upon the demand of it's opponents, or otherwise, would be taken as a precedent for inter- ference, on another occasion, with one representing the opposite views, to the constantly recurring disturbance of the public peace, and to the abridgement of the privileges of all." Whatever laws may be found on the subject, the. Cover nor says should secure equal privileges to all men, of whatever religion, of what ever politics, of whatever race, color, or creed.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
A Remedy Worse than the Disease.

The Vallejo Recorder has the following :
 " About 1 o'clock yesterday morning, as we were vending our way homeward, we were suddenly startled by the report of 8
 gun. We rushed into the house from
 which the sound proceeded, and found matters thus A certain husband living in that neighborhood has @ habit of walk ing in his sleep, and his wife got so tired of having him frisk around the house during the silent watches of the night that at last she determined to tie him fast after he got to sleep. She affixed string to his ankle and tied the other end fast to what happened to be the most handy, which was her husbands double -barrelled gun, behindsthe door in the corner of the room. About 1 o'clock the sonambulist arose for the purpose of taking ramble around the rooms. When he had taken about six steps, the artillery came out of it's seclusion in the corner with jerk, and both barrels went off, the loads crashing through the panels of the door. It soon brought both parties to consciousness. Yesterday he was busy putting a new panel in the door, which is far better than digging load of buckshot out of the baby"
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
Horace Greeley on LabOr.

At the meeting of an organization in New York, Horace Greeley said he thought the worst thing about working men was that too many of them felt lm- pelled to spend what they might save because no special reason was brought home to them for saving. He believed 1t was easier for ? single man to save money now than when he (Greeley) came to the city forty years ago. If all the young workingmen would save two dollars week from the time they are twenty-one until they are twenty five years old, which is about the age most ot them get married at, they would soon find themselves in comfortable circum- stances. It Was not by strikes nor by high wages that the workingman's con dltlon could be improved. What is the good Of one body of men organizing for strike, when, for each man who de- handed higher pay and declined to work if it was refused him, there was @ dozen ready and willing to work for any price the employer might name And as to high wages, the very fact that wages were increasing was an indication thut the expenses of living would be also increased. Every man should own a piece of ground that was the first start Except where they found final resting place, too few working men owned any now; yet there were 500 places about New York where land might be bought at such moderate price as it would bring for raising potatoes alone. In these places the workingmen might buy and plant their shade and fruit trees, and in time rise up villages. He would gladly see fifty organizations of work ingmen banded together for such pur- pose, for they would have an object in saving their none, instead of carrying it to the till of the liquor dealer or spending it for worse purposes.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

that they cautioned the men against it. Capt. Lauer furthermore states that when the firing begun he stopped it as soon as possible, threw up three muskets with his sword, and took another away from one of his command.
 Some of the persons wounded during the riots at Rochester are in critical condition, but hopes of their recovery are entertained. No further outbreak has occurred, and now that evidence has been furnished that the soldiers were first attacked by the mob, the irritation against the military is subsiding. How ard, the negro, who has confessed his crime, was secretly tried, found guilty, sentenced to twenty years Imprisonment, and secretly removed from the city.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

WANTED To HELP.-Whole sacks full of letters were poured into Sandrigham House while the Prince of Wales was sick, making suggestions of fine old family prescriptions or proved expedi- ents for allaying fever or bronchial affections. Not few even visited San dringham personally with drugs and re- ceipts which they pressed on the phy- sicians. And in the course of the treat ment the old woman's remedy for sleep lessness, pillow stuffed with hons. was tried, apparently with success-at least the Prince slept, whether from that cause or any ether, and his sleep saved him.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

EUROPEAN STATISTICS. A Berlin paper, with weakness for figures, publishes some curious comparisons of the condi- tion of Europe at the present time with it's condition hundred years ago. Eu- rope now has 300, ,O0s, ,OO0 of inhabitants ; then it had about 6O,OOO,OOO. The six principal Powers of Europe now engross four-ffths of it's population, as follows Russia, 71,600,000 Germany, 4o,OOO,- 900; France, 35, 800, ,O0O Austro-H -Hunga- ry. 36, 100000; Great Britain, 3l .OOO,- 900 Italy, 26, 5O0,ooO. Ahundred years ago the five great Powers had but half the total population. This was was be- fore the partition of Poland.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

MORE MURDERs.-A man named Ross, at Elk Prairie, attempted to murder his wife, who had left him and gone to live with her parents. He fired at her with a shotgun when her child and his was in her arms, and she was surrounded by the members of her own family. The bulk of the charge went in the body of the child, and the wife was only wounded Tn the arm. Her brother then seized Ross, but the latter stabbed him with 8 large butck er-knife and afterwards beat him senseless with the stock of the gun. His mother-in-law fleeing to neighbor's Ross shot at without effect, then made his escape. Fifty men are securing the country in search of him. His wife says that another of their children died six weeks ago from the effects of blow with stick dealt by the father.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
STEAM BOILERS. Rs.-The U. s. Treasury

STEAM BOILERS. s.-The U. s. Treasury Department has issued circular ad- dressed to customs officers and officers of the steamboat inspection service, allow ing towing boats and steamboats used exclusively in transporting freight upon the Mississippi and it's tributaries to car ry standard pressure upon the boilers of 150 pounds to the square inch, instead of no pounds, the limit heretofore al- lowed. The supervising inspectors of the several districts have been directed to grant permits to such boats whenever no good reasons exist for objecting :: without such permits the boats are not to be allowed to navigate.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

Bur LITTLE LEFT.-Lieutenan Morri- son, of the Tenth United States Cavalry, writes to the Army tnad Ndoy Jou,.al that Private Benj. Franklin, Troop H. Second Minnesota Cavalry, while @, route from Fort Wadsworth, Dakota, to Fort Ridgely, Minnesota, in the winter of lS64-'5, was so badly frozen that the amputation of both arms and legs above the elbows and knees was successfully performed; he also lost both ears and nose, and in the summer of 1866 was travelling for his health, and for aught he knows, is still living. The mystery is how a man with nearly all his extremi- ties gone, could live-and travel.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE WITH DEATH.

A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE WITH DEATH John Harring was overtaken by train on the Northern Road of New Jersey, in narrow pass between two mountains just before reaching Nyack. There is onl y single track at this point, and the train passes so near to the rocks on each side that there was no room for Harripe to take refuge on the side, nor could the engineer stop the train. As it ap- proached Harring leaped upon the cow catcher, and seized hold of flag staff planted upon it to steady himself, and would have been saved, but unfortunate ly the staff broke, throwing him under the wheels, by which he was so severely crushed that death ensued almost in stantly.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
d II. c. WARMorH,
 GOvpr.,or. f,f T,ouiciono

OUR FIsHERMEN.-One has to consid- CT the statistics, to comprehend how precarious and dangerous our coast fish cry is. The Gloucester Advertiser in forms us that 20 vessels belonging to that port, with 40 lives, have been lost during the present season, against 13 vessels and 95 lives last year. The value of the craft lost in 1871 is stated at $92, 900 with about SIS, 900 insurance. In the Georges fishery, 10 vessels and 95 lives have been lost; IF vessels and 2S lives in the Bank fishery 1 vessel and 12 lives in the Greenland halibut fishery, 2 vessels and life in the shore Winter fishery; 1 vessel in the herring fishery, and 1 vessel in the coasting trade. Of the 40 men lost AS were known to be married, leaving AS widows and 9S fatherless children. These sad details, involving great moral and mate rial suffering, if they had come to us al- together as @ single calamity, would have excited great public atten- tion bat they are none the less terrible because the report of them reached us at intervals.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

OLD FRIENDS PARTED.-Neal Brown died in Raleigh, N. C., the other day, and local paper thus sums his history "When Andy Johnson left this city, a poor tailor-boy at old MT. Litchford's s shop, Neal Brown went out for him two or three miles, and carried on his back, wrapped up in an old piece of car pet, all the worldly goods the poor tailor boy then possessed. They shook hands under an ola tree three miles from here, and separated. Andy became Governor, Senator and President. Neil lived quietly and worked hard. Andy Johnson never went back on his little natter friend, even when he was Presi. dent"
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

SUMMING UP FOR 1871.-Mr. Lyman read paper before the Farmers Club, ln which he summed up the general sit uation agrieulturally. The work of the Club had been to induce young men who made no progress in the cities to make homes for themselves in the coun- try :; and while he could not advise man to invest money in 8 farm, and expect @ hired man to make seven per cent inter est on 1t for him, yet the judicious pur- chase ot farm, by man who was will ing to Work, was undoubtedly aproft ble operation. At the worst, there was something to eat and something to wear and home, while the thrifty farmer would enjoy many comforts besides. A man who works for days wages would, by working as hard on a homestead of 80 acres, which would cost him but S14, make it worth, in five years $2, ,000 which was better for him than working for wages. East of the Alleghanies, the time had come when grass was to be the staple, and small farms would be the most desirable. West of the mountains, 320 acres would not be too large, while near the large cities the raising of vege- tables on high-priced land opened up 8 business for men of skill and of capital sufficient to purchase land at from $2OO, to $1 ,O00 per acre. In conclusion, the possession of homestead was sure re- source in case of the loss of the family protector, and the time will come when no man will be in safer or more desir- able position than he who has 80 acres of his own soil under his feet.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

RETIRING SENATORS. following are the names of the United States Sem ators whose terms expire March 4, 1873. They number twenty four Spencer, of Alabama Rice, of Arkansas Cole, of California :; Ferry, of Connecticut j; Osborn, of Florida, Hill, of Georgia ]; Irumbull, of Illinois Morton, of Ind. i; Harlan, of Iowa; Pomeroy, of Kansas j; Davis, of Kentucky; Kellogg, of La. ]; Vickers, of Maryland; Blair, of Missouri; Nye, of Nevada; Patterson, of New Hampshire Conkling, of N CIV York i; Pool, of North Carolina Sherman of O.. i; Corbett, of Oregon Cameron, of Penn. :; Sawyer, of South Carolina Morrill,, of Vermont Howe, of Wisconsin,
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
PreSAntinlAnIS.

You call me sweet and tender names And softly smooth my tresses, And all the while my happy heart
 Beats time to your caresses, You love me in your master way,
 answer-as you let me; But ah there comes another day
 The day you will forget me. know that every leeting hour
 Is marked by thoughts bring you: know there dwells subtle power
 In the old songs I sing you; do not fear the darkest way
 With those dear arms abont me. Ahl no-I only dread the day
 When you can live without me. And still you call me tender names And softly smooth my tresses And still my happy answering heart
 Beats time to your caresses. Hush !-let me put that touch away And clasp your hands above me, So-while ask to die that day,
 The day you will not love me. You need not check the thoughts that With darkness wrapped about them, For, gazing in your earnest eyes,
 My heart can almost doubt them: Yet hush my whispers as you may, Such chidings do not fret me Ah, no IT only dread the day
 The day you will forget me.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19
The Louisiana Troubles.

The following letter was sent by Gov Yarmouth, of Louisiana, to the Presi- dent, explaining the state of affairs in that State:
 Hts EcceHency, U S. Gro1et, President ::
 Six Senators of this State, employed in the New Orleans Custom house, have formed conspiracy with the Democrat 1c Senators to prevent 8 quorum of the State Senate, and have succeeded during the entire week. In this plot they have the support of the Collector of Customs. the United States Marshal, and several of your appo1ntees here, and the revenue cutterWllderness has been and is still 'em- ployed to take these conspirators beyond the reach and jurisdiction of the sergeant at-arms, empowered to arrest them in or der that quorum, may be secured and public business transacted at the moment of the assembling of the House of Repre- sentatives
 A number of United States Marshals, armed with warrants from a United States Commissioner, based on frivolous afi davit of members of the conspiracy, sud- denly arrested eighteen Representatives, four Senators, the Governor, and Lieu The effect of this was to break the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. During the confusion consequent upon this ,utrage- ous proceeding, the cohspirators, claim ing to be the House, but not numbering quorum of that body, illegally elected six Republican members, and seated in their places Democratic contestants. Threats of violence, backed by United States troops to carry out the plot, are freely made.
 I respectfully ask to be informed if, as IS claimed, you sustain the Collector, the Marshal, and other Federal officials in this revolutionary attempt to Overturn the State government-an attempt which, if not discontinued by your appointees and their Democratic allies, must result in an- archy and bloodshed.
 Signed] II. c. WARMorH,
 Governor of Louisiana.
 The President replies as follows
 Gov. Warmoth's despatch is received. His report of the proceedings of the Uni ted States Marshal is of such an extraor- 3inary character that I will have the matter investigated at once. Please show this despatch to the Attorney General.
 Signed U. s. GRANT.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

A DOUBLE MURDER. Newfound- land mail brings further particulars of the recent double murder at Harbor Grace. The girl Johanna Hamilton has confessed that on Monday, November 20, Patrick Gehan and his brother-in-law Garrett Sears, quarrelled at breakfast. after which he left for his work; but when coming in to his dinner he was shot dead by Gehan, who afterwards beat him to death with a mattock. Mrs. Gehan tainted. Gehan stunned her, and then smothered her with feather bed. Af- ter this Gehan and the girl Hamilton disposed of the bodies by putting Mrs. Gehan on the roadside aad Sears in a dung heap. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of wilful murder against Gehan as principal, and the girl Hamilton as accessory.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

In Rondout, A. P. Van Buren's horse fell dead in the street. A post nsorte,n examination showed that the air cells of the lungs were filled with clotted blood otherwise the animal was in perfect health. The horse was clipped short time ago, and thus chilled to death,
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

THE CHICAGO F1RE.-The estimates of the number who persisted in the great fire have varied from 200 to 500. But when 1t is remembered that the hot breath of the conaagration withered to ashes great cubes of building-stone, and then blew the ashes out into the lake, it is sad ly probable that many human bodies sui fered precisely the same fate. Over 100 bodies, or portions of bodies, have been recovered. Nearly all of these have been Identified, and the work of clearing away the rubbish is yet long way from com pletion.
Connecticut western news., 1872-01-19

WHILE party of forty kidnapped Solomon Islanders were being conveyed on schooner from Sevuka to planta tion, they attacked four men, named Wardurton, Whitaker, Keystone and Robinson, and Filian planter who had them in charge, and chopped sN to pieces with hatehets, and escaped.