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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
Early California Society.

One of the principal features of early
times was the absolute freedom of social
intercourse between man and man, and
the absence of those distinctions in So
ciety which cause men to jostle each other
in ascending the rounds of its ladder of
crystallized forms, time-honored conven-
tionahties, aflluence and fashion. Pedi-
gree could not be proven, even if it were
princely-for, where all were strangers
to each other antecedents necessarily
began and ended with the assumption of
the claimant-and it was considered
worthless, unless the presence of man
hood sustained the claim to distinction.
Even in that event, pride forbade the
proffer of credential. Thus it became
necessary to admit all to the privileges of
the best of men until they proved them
selves undeserving; and then the re-
versed order of ascent was more quickly
taken than belongs to the custom of re-
fined society in old communities. What
ever the organization of society in its
present order and general makeup may
add in the way of stimulus to the progress
of mankind, it must be acknowledged
that it is the prolific mother of more than
half the wretchedness and disastrous fail
ures of its individual members. Nothing
but barbarism as an alternative would
justify society as now constituted, with
wealth and fashion as the main elements
of success in life. A constant agonizing
effort to be as miserable as you can seems
to be the warp of our social economy.
1t was different in the carly days. The
relief which men found here from the
rigid forms of society-the absence Of the
graduated scale of social intiuence.was
extremely favorable to the culture of the
philosophic mood which renders one con-
tented with himself and all the world.
Relieved from the spirit of social intoxi-
cation, one could soberly smile at the
petty annoyances which fret the ambi-
ton of the aspiring, from the cradle to
the grave. None of these disturbed the
Forty-ninor; and if his food was not at
war wi.A digestion, he rested at night
as peacefully as the newborn babe-al-
belt, if miner, his bed may have deem
upon a snow-bank thirty feet deep, OF
intrenched in mud-puddlc that threat
ened inundation, with an outrageous
oak or towering pine as shelter from the
storm overhead. All his hardships were
of physical nature; mentally, he was
placid and the situation was so novel
and interesting that he marveled that
so many of the ills Of life resulted from
the very organization specially created
to prevent them. refined society.
land Monthly for Nay.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
How TO Commence Business.

There are many young men who are
i'll the habit of excusing their idleness
and inefficiency with the plea that they
can do nothing without capital. The
lack of means is the ready reply they
make to every appeal to action. They
imagine that they possess in themselves
all the prerequisites to success except
capital. If they only had capital, in
addition to their other imagined 0irtues,
they would do great things in the world ;
they would astonish the natives with
the boldness and brilliancy of their en-
terprise. They would become i'm
mensely rich, and lay the world under
perpetual obligations to them by the
magnifcence of their benefactions This
is the way they think and talk, and
they roll the vain-glorious idea over in
their minds until they come to imagine
that the world is an immense loser by
their poverty.
These persons forget one important
fact-that all capital is the product of
labor. That nearly all rich men in this
country were once poor. That nearly
every personal fortune they can enumer-
ate is either the product of its owners
JOll iluu SKILL, VI lllc VI
his fathers toll and skill.
How did the makers of these fortunes
get along without capital? Had they
spent the vigor Of their youth in idle
and foolish lamentations over their pow
erty, they would have lived and died
poor and left nothing but an inheritance
of honesty behind them. Capital allied
to labor and skill can work wonders in
the war of material enterprises. But
money is not the only indispensable
thing to young men. There are other
kinds of capital besides accumulated
money; brains, muscle, industry, hon
esty, diligence, truth, fidelity, skill, tact,
education-dU these are capital, and all OF
them have q commercial value, which
the owner will be able, sooner or later
to command in the market. Provided
with these, any young man in the coun-
try may mako more than he needs tC
spend every year, and thus have some
thing at the end of each year to invest
as money capital. If he needs money
let him go to work and make it, and
thus give proof of his ability to use il
profitably and judiciously. If we 60 in
to any great city, or into any prosperous
agricultural district, we find the capt..
alists are those who have made their for.
tunes without any outside aid. They
did not waste their time in repining al
their poverty, and in silly dreams o.
what they could do if they had the mon
ey to do it with. They went boldly and
resolutely to work they toiled and
thought and planned, and kept toiline
and thinking and planning, patiently
until at last they grasped the fortunate
moment, and succeeded.-Erchdnge.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
Where Does the Gold Come From ?

This question has never been satisfac-
torily answered by geologists. They can
see as far into milestone as anybody,
but where the great depot or quarry
from whence the gold comes that has
been rasped off in particles and thrown
towards the surface to be rolled in the
sand by the action OF running water or
caught as prisoners i'll quartz rock while
that was either held in solution or in the
condition of pulverization, is the prob
lem.
Occasionally such enormous nuggets
are found, quite solitary, it seems to in
dicate they were broken off from large
mass somewhere and driven away in a
torrent of gravel whose onward upward
force was irresistible till it met with
counter currents.
That old theory which supposed the
precious metal was existing in combina-
ton with others in a gaseous form and
occasionally precipitated by electricity
into Jumps which worked their way like
moles from the interior through strata
of the earth's compact crust, is now
quite obsolete. An impression is gain,
ing advocates that gold does actually ex,
ist in great bodies, somewhere, not very
far down, from whence fragments anG
particles are gradually brought up by
aquatic agency. This gives more lea
sonable explanation of the confusion O
gold in small parcels all over the globe
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
Mysterious kidnapping Case.

The Pctaluma (Cal.) Crescent of March
20 contains the following singular ac-
count:
On the 10Th of this month Will Orr, at
that time editor of the Crescent, left this
city to proceed to Sacramento, where he
expected to remain a few days. Since
that time he had not been heard of until
Tuesday evening, when letters were re-
ceived from him having the post-mark
of Chicago, stating in brief the cause of
his prolonged absence. He says he has
been made the victim of one of the most
diabolical plots that ever entered the
head of man. His account is substantial
ly as follows: After remaining in Sac
ramento for few days, he took the east
ward bound train to go to a station few
miles beyond Sacramento to see friend
who resided there. Shortly after leaving
the city, he was accosted by two men,
who addressed him in the Spanish
tongue. He answered in like speech,
being familiar with that language. Af
ter conversing with them for a short time,
they invited him to join them in some
refreshments. After protesting for some
time, he at last consented.
tie remembers OF taxing one drink,
after which he recollects nothing more
until he awakened from deep sleep in
the Sherman House, in Chicago, with a
physician at his bedside, paid by some
unknown parties to wait upon him. A
weeks board was paid for in advance by
the same parties. Farther than that he
knows nothing. He found his travel,
ling-bag-and all his money, except $50
missing. His gold watch and gold-head.
ed cane were left him. He will return
to this city as soon as he receives money
to enable him to do so. Taken altogeth
er, this is one of the most mysteriou
affairs that has ever come under oul
notice. His disappearance and the cir
cumstances attending his departure hav'
caused him to rest under a cloud of sus
picion, even with his best friends. Tn,
assurance that his absence was unwilling
will be gladly received.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
A Female Reporter.

Miss Middle Morgan, of the Times,
has been widely photographed. The
following sketch for Cincinnati paper
gives fair idea of this phenomenon
1t was now some two years since the
office of the Tribune was assailed, one
fine morning, by what appeared very
much like wild Irish girl. She ap-
piled to the meek faced Horace for po-
sition on the staff of the moral Tribune.
She talked horses to Horace. She
amazed him by the scope of her equine
knowledge, but twas no go. Horace
didn't want horsc-editress. She then
entered into discussion with the farm
editor on the subject of carrots and cab
bages. Horace admitted that she had a
wonderful knowledge of agricultural
subjects, but preferred to be his own
editor in that department. Failing to
gain the position she sought on the Iri-
6une, the lady's next visit was to the
Sun; but Dana proved as obdurate as
Greeley, and she had to beat retreat
there. Finally she was caught up by
the Times, and made agricultural editor
of that paper, and here she has remained
ever since. Her department includes
the reporting of all the races and cattle
shows throughout the country, and she
is always to be met at these places, 1t
is curious sight to see, moving about
among the sporting men and reporters,
the strapping from of Middle Morgan.
But she is not out of place, if knowledge
of subject can capacitate one for aplace.
She knows more about horses and their
diseases than nine-tenths of the profes-
sional horsemen in the country. Mid
die, although giantcss in form, has a
most amiable and pleasing face, and is
every inch the real lady. She has the
one fault that seems to permeate the en-
tire feminine genius. She will talk, and
her conversation is oftentimes volumin-
Gus, but then she is always so thoroughly
good-natured that one never gets tired
of her tattle. She is known and hearth
ly welcomed at every race-course in the
country, and her reports of the contests
on the turf in nowise fall behind those
of her sterner co-laborers in the editor.
ial field.
Middle" is understood to be the ole
Irish @iminutive for Mary.-NY World
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16

ABOUT DoGs.-A ranchman in Color
ado has a sagacious dog which the own
er firmly believes can count. He has
seven yoke, or fourteen working oxen,
and when not in use these are turned
loose with large herd of cattle. When
ever they are required he speaks to his
dog the same as he would to boy, and
tells him to go and drive in his oxen.
The dog Immediately starts off and does
the job as well as anybody. On one oc-
cason during the last season when the
dog had the cattle nearly in, he was no
ticed to suddenly leave them and run
back to the herd as fast as he could go,
which was three-quarters of a mile away.
This excited some surprise, but it was
soon discovered he had driven in but
thirteen, and had gone back to correct
his carelessness by bringing i'll the four
teenth.
An instance of rare honesty, and
showing how dog may desire to pay
his board bill, recently occurred in
Fitchburg, Mass, A lady saw a dog
frequently about her house picking up
odd bits which had been thrown out
and one day she called him in and fed
him. The next day he came back, and
as she opened the door he walked in anc
laid an egg on the floor, when he wa,
again fed. The following day he brought
his egg to pay for his dinner, and on tlr,
fourth day, he brought the old hen her
self, who it seems had failed to furnish
the required egg
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
Important Article of Commerce.

We learn from the Springfield (Mo.)
Patriot that Messrs. Mcpherson & Ever
EFT, of that city, recently shipped twelve
thousand pounds of sumac on the At
lantic and Pacific railroad. The Patriot
says: "The shipment goes to st. Louis,
thence by rail to New York, where it is
forwarded by ship along the Atlantic
coast to st. Johns, New Brunswick, the
whole distance from this city being two
thousand miles. This is the first in
stance of Missouri sumac being sold out
of the State, and we trust that it will
tend to further the business. 1t is to be
used for tanning purposes, and was sold
at fair figures. This firm is the pioneer
in this business in the West, and VIC
trust they may be able to continue an
extensive trade in this new and impor,
tant article of commerce to southwest
Missouri. The sumac grown in this
section is pronounced superior for tan,
ming and coloring purposes to the Vir
ginia sumac, in which so large trade
is done, and it is certain that there is al
inexhaustible supply"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
RIDGWAY, PA. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1872

Sunday, and you had better not wash
till Monday"
Mrs. Flint said the minister, al
think you are fully competent to man
age your own affairs, without any of my
wife's interference" And so, laughing
merrily, they started.
Samuel" said his bonnie wife, as she
reached the door, "don't you think I've
introduced you pretty well Z Will you
ever call me Martha-Pendleton-Flin
again when 1 am hanging up your shirt
in the front yard I"
Somebody was chased out in the kitch-
en- Just then, and laughed so loud it
wakened the baby.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
VOL. II.
POETR Y.
THE DEW.

Weep for me, gentle flowers; let your tears
Plead for me with the light"
SO, tremblingly, before she disappears,
Whispers the Night.
Amid creation, see, I am alone,
Following the feeting Day;
The gray mysterious spell around me thrown
Repcls tho gay.
"What pleasure is it that to me belong
The sweetest flower and bird,
Ii by my ear the sad, b1sccching song
Alone be heardY
He flies forever from my yearning arms,
That glorious, smiling sun;
bathed in tears amid my starry charms,
Must follow on" =
SO, with 4 breath Of sad and hopeless signs,
Night bids the earth adieu;
And the pure tear-drops in the flowers eyes
We call the dew. -HGTper'S Monthly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16

The usual effect of large conscription
upon the public health is now being
shown in France in an amazing numb er
of cases of defective vision among the
conscripts. During the days of drafts
in our own civil war the same phenom-
enon was noted, and very many persons
whose eyes had never before troubled
them were Obliged to use glasses for
weeks together.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16

DR.. Holmes talks, in his pleasant way.
of lawyers, ministers and doctors, whose
several virtues are summed up in the
single sentence, "The lawyers are the
cleverest men, the ministers are the most
learned, and the doctors are the most
sensible"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16

Experience acquired by faults is q
costly master.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09

The "BLooDY CHAsM." Dniap
the campaign, this expression was
frequent, and The Secretary OF tht
Liheral Republican National Con-
mittee," gave its composiii n
and his opinion as follows, prior to
the election:
"Our party was made up of o
'shake hands across the cbasn
OF all the soleheads and disaffect~
cd eIe nents OF the Uni ell Stat g.
Itsmay be that it would have tax ,
superior generalship to have hello
the secessionists, and Union Lea
guers, AID pro-slavery men, and
abolitiOnists, and new natioualists.
and State Fighters. and peace Dem
ocrats and war Democrats, and
prote:tionists and free traders,
and manufacturers, end labor re-
formers. and woman's Fighters, and
spi:itualists and In,ernationals,
and Catholics and the United Sons
Of America into one party; and ]
think it could have been done, as
well as to have caught part OF the
negro vote. But it's too late now
Tie woman's Fighters, and Spirit
ualists, and "refOrmers" OF all
grades and ideas are against US +;
and even the Democrats won't vote
the ticket"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09
NOT A SELF-SEEKER.

Toledo (Ohio) Commercial says that
one thing in regard to General Grants
speaking should not be forgotten-that
he has never been known to speak in his
own behalf, not even in self-de:ense. The
numerical continues ale never asked
for place, power, or emolument for him
self. From the time, in April, 1861,
when Governor Yates called him 10
Springfield to act as Adjutant General in
organizing the Illinois volunteers, to this
18th day of September, 1872, his voice
has never been heard in application for
any favor personal to himself. And so in
the civil administration. With his mo-
tives and his acts assaulted and misrepre-
sented by political enemies and professed
political friends, he has quietly pursued
the even tenor Of his way, without stop
ping to refute or even to notice the as
saults of his foes. But amid all this
great wrong-so unju and 50 aggrava-
ting-who has heard Ulysses s. Grant
complain? The most that is known te
have fallen from his lips was his Response
to the long, bitter, and malicious assau;,
Of Charles Sumner, to-wit al am willing
to put my acts against Mr.. Sumner,
words" That was all. No recriminatiun
no personal bitterness, not even m at
tempt to show wherein his acts refutet
his enemy's words"
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09
A CARD.

The undersigned resumes the
editorship Of the Tribune. which
he relinquishcd On embarking in
another liue of business six months
ago. Henceforth it shall be his
endeavor to make this thoroughly
independent journal, treating all
parties and political movements
with judicial fairness and candor.
but counting the favor and derreca-
ting the worth Of no one. II he
can hereafter say anything that
will tend heartily to unite the
whole American people on the
broad platform of universal amnes-
ty and impartial suffrage, he will
gladly do so. For the present,
however, he can best comm end
that contamination by sill nee and
forbearaEce. The victors in our
late struggle can hardly fsil TO take
the whole subject OF Southern
rights and wrongs into early and
earnest consideration, and to them
for the present, he RENTS it. since
he will never again be candidate
for any office, is not in full accord
with either of the great parties
| which have hitherto divided the
country. He will be able and viii
endeavor to give wider and steadiel
regard to the progress of science
industry and the useful arts than /:
partisan journal can do. He vii
not be provoked to indulgence il
those bitter personalities which arr
the recognized bane Of journalism
Sustained by generous public, b,
will do his best to make the Tri
bune power in the broader fielt
it now contemplates, as when human
freedom was in peril it was in tn
arena OF political partisanship.
[Signed.I
HoRAcE GREELEY.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09
Pink Fishbs ~ o. eta E.vn

Pink fishbs ~ On t:sa 1sIawa
A short time only before the
late election Pink Fishback, late
Of this city, CHANGED to be at
Danvil!e, 10 this State, and being
on the stand at a Republican
meeting was called out. Pink
: is reported as having madc the
following utterances.
He knew Gratz Brown we'll
and spoke oflocal seltgcvernment
as it existed today in the State
of which Brown was Governor.
Today more then 800 murderers
walk abroad in daylight in
defiance Of the laws Of after
appeal is made to the proper
authorities. Before this cam
paign commenced Brown came
to him and asked him to write
an editorial confessing that he
had been "sober at intervals
but that be had taken the
pledge and was determined "a
keep it. He (Fishback) said be
would write and publish such
in the Democrat if he (Brown)
would consent that the editorial
should defend Gen Grant. Brown
consented and the article was
given to the world. But since
then Brown has been to New
Haven and all knew how be
behaved there. "P' said Mr..
Fishback, shave seen Gratz
Brown intoxicated frequently,
since this pledge was taken, and
his friends in 81. Louis know
it. "---indi n polls People.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09


If l had been rendered the COM
pliment Of q nomination / should
have been proud of it, said Julian.
February 10Th, 1875.
They lie, who say / would not
have accepted if nominated.--Ju-
liam same date.
"The common enemy."--Julian
in June last.
The Grant administration is so
black that the administration of
old Jimmy Buchanan is as white
as an angels wing, in comparison
with it Observation-Disclosures at New
Castle.--Courier.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09

r "For several days past the SEN
tinel has been informing the coun-
try that 1.-The Granting was broken
up in this State;' that "the Grant
tie corruption fund was exhausted:'
that ''the 5000 imported voters
who came here to vote for Browne
in October had returned to their
homes;" that "the Grant gang were
dispirited'' and the .sMorton crew
utterly discouraged" All we have
to say 20 its gentle insinuaticns is.
il you can stand it, we can. "Lay
on, Macduff, and thing um bobbed
be he who first cries, hold, enough"
Ind. Journal.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09

The editor OF the Chicago
Times is tae seventh son of ~ sew
enth son. In Tuesday mornings
issue he remarks: "There is
certainly no rational ground for .
doubt that the political fanatic OF
Chappaqna will come out Of this
days contest the worst BEATEN off
tice-beggcr that was ever named
for the Presidency by a convention
pretending to represent the opin-
IONS and desires of Democrats
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09

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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-09
FATE OF TWO PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES.

Two candidates for the Presidency have
been retired, during the past week, to-wit:
Horace Greeley and Victoria Woodruff. The
latter, with her sister Miss Clsfin, (for pub
fishing and circulating obscene literature and
slandsring prominent clergymen Of New
York, among whom we notice the name Of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,) were arrested
last Monday and locked up in Ludlow Street
Jail, and they both stand fair chance Of be.
ing sent to the Peniteatiary for at least one
year. while the former was dealt with, as he
% richly deserved, by an indignant and out.
RACED people, and was sent
Back to the "tripod" whence be sprung
Whipped, nnhonorsd and unstrungi