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ny REV. FATHER RYAN.

| Respectfully inscribed to his friends in
Nashville.
Unroll Erlns Flag! fling its folds to the
Let 1t float DER the land, let 1t flash DER the
seas,
, When Its chiefs, with their clans, stood
around II and swore
That never! no! never, that banner would
AS long as the heart Of Celt was It's shield;
While the hand of u Celt had weapon u
And his last drop of blood was unshed on
the field,
Lift u}p' wave it high tits as bright as of
Not a,ia stain on its Green, not a blot on its
Though the woes and the wrongs OF three
hundred long years
Have drenched Erin's sunburst with blood
and with tears;
Though the cloud of oppression enshroud 1t
In gloom,
Look aioft look aloft 10 the clouds Drift
There's siieeam through the gloom, theresa
light in the sky:
rris the Sunburst resplendent-fa flashing
on high
Erln's dark night is waning, her day-dawn
is nigh!
The blood Of its sons has but frightened Its
sheen;
What, Though the tyrant has trampled 1T
Are its folds not emblazoned with deeds of
renown?
What Though for ages it droops in the
Shall it droop thus forever9 No, no! God is
just;
Take it up take it up! from the tyrants
foul tread,
Let him tear not the Flag-we will snatch its
And beneath it Wen bleed as our forefathers
bled,
Aud we'll vow by the dust in the graves eff
onr dead,
And Wen swear by the blood the tyrant has
shed,
And ,we'll vow by the wrecks which thro
Erin he spread,
And Wen swear by the thousands who, fam
iShed, unfed,
Died down in the ditches-wild bowling for
bread;
And we'll vow by our heroes, whose spirits
have fed,
And we'll swear by the bones in each coffin
That well battle the tyrant through danger
and dread,
Tha; wc'll cling to the cause which we glory
to wed,
Till the gleam of our steel and the shock of
Shall prove to our foes that we meant what
That Wen lift up the Green, and we'd tear
down the Red.
Lift up the Green Flag oh! it wants to go
home,
Full long has its lot been to wander and
roam;
1t has os' followed the fate of its sons DER the
But its folds, like their hopes, are not faded
nor furled,
Like a weary winged bird, TO the East and
1t has fitted and fled-but shall never rest,
Till pluming its pinions, 1t sweeps DER the
MAN,
And speeds to the shores of its old home
again,
Where its ietterless folds, DER each mountain
Shall wave with a glory that never shall
wane
Take it up! take it up! bear it back from
afar-
That Banner must blaze mid the lightnings
of war;
Lay your hands on its folds, lit your gaze to
the sky,
And swear that you'll bear it triumphant or
die,
And shout to the clans, scattered far DER the
earth,
And join in the march to the land of their
birth,
And wherever the Exies. meath heavens
broad dome,
Have beea fated to suffer, to sorrow and roam,
They'll bound on the sea, and away ocr the
foam,
They'll march to the music of "Home, Sweet
Home"
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IFrom the Christian Observer ]
A PICTURE.

Grandfather, bent with his four-scorc years,
Holding the baby in trembling embrace ;
Baby just ushered in this vale of tears
Looking up wondcringly into his face
Eyes that are blue and as deep as the sea,
Peering in eyes that are dim with decay;
Golden hued ringlets as soft MS can be,
Close beside locks that are scattered and
gray.
Plump little cheeks, on which the rose lin
gers,
Pressed against cheeks so wrnkled and
sere;
Soft little fingers clutching Mt fingers
Hardened with tolls OF many year.
Tiniest, tcndercst bud of flower,
Nesting against the n-shattercd tree ;
Fairy form of the newly born hour,
Nursed in the lap of the century.
Only n lifetime, a tale that is told,
Only a season of sorrow and pain;
Very soon baby himself will be old;
Grandfather soon will be youthful again.
G. II. b.
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The New Valuation.

In accordance with the act of Con-
gress approved March 8, 1873, the
Secretary of the Treasury will on
January |, issue circular exhibiting
the values, in United States money, Of
the various coinages of the world.
Among the important changes are she
following:-'The value of the English
pound sterling is increased frsm $4 "a
to 81 So and one half mill. French
francs are increased from eighteen cents
six mills to nineteen cents three mills.
All goods taken out of bond on and
after January will be subject to valu-
alton at the increased rates. The
Treasury officials anticipate an increase
of about four per cent in custom reve-
uues from the changes in value which
have been made.
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are of small import when we
all agree in principles and action.
Every man in the land is interested
in the transpiring issues, whether
white, red or black, If of the Ameri-
can nation, he has an interest in their
solution. Slavery no longer exists in
this country. The former slaves are
enfranchised citizens. There are in the
United States about 80, 100000 of white
people, q small number of civilized
Indians, and about 1000, 900 of negroes
that is to say, there are nearly nine
white men to one negro man In the
United States.
The utmost that can be done is to Sc
cure to the African, in his isolation, u
free field and fair fight for developing
his powers and manifesting his capaci-
ty us husband, father and citizen. To
secure him these rights, free of OBJ
struction, the Democratic people OF
Texas stand pledged before all the
world. We will protect him-furnish
good schools to his childrcn-uphold
his hands in all honorable struggles
shield him against persecution-and
encourage him by kindness to be hon.
est, faithful and provident.
Beyond this we cannot go. Under
convictions sincere we hold that the
negro race is different, distinct and
inferior species of the race. Amalga-
nation with him cannot be thought of,
for reasons too well known to need re-
cital. 1t is not for his good or that OF
the white race, but positive injury to
both. Besides, for two hundred and
fifty years the Anglo-SaXon people Of
the United States have come down
from parent to child with inherited
feelings and opinions on this question
of race, as strong as human ma
ture itself. White craftsmanship de-
mands no such reckless step as W )uld
be forced disregard of those instincts,
opinions and unalterable laws of our
being.
To sum up all, the duty of the day is
to restore simple, republican institu-
tions in the United States; to rein
spire confidence among the people; to
render corruption in officials odious; to
exalt virtue and dethrone vice, in SO
far as human instrumentalities can ac-
complish such objects, and thus re-
unite the great mass of the people,
North, South, East and West, in a
grand republic of free States.
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Colonel Scott and the Texas Pacific.
Especial to the Galveston News.l

WASHINGTON, January 3.-Thomas
Scott was addressed recently on the
subject of the affairs of theTeXas Pacific
railroad by the citizens of San Diego
through their agent in this city. The
San Diego people are alarmed lest an ex-
tension of time should be asked for the
completion of the route now in prog
ress at the Pacific terminus. They
were also anxious to learn the prospects
for legislation by Congress in the inter-
est of the company. Colonel Scott
authorized the sending, in his name,
of the following dispatch: prospect
for legislation good. No extension
will be asked for"
1t is understood that no definite plan
for action has yet been agreed upon.
but number of bills are in process Of
preparation, to be submitted to him
for approval; the main object being to
promote the means to obtain govern
ment aid in disposing of railroad bonds,
and to secure the government for all
disbursements.
1t is authoritative that the Northern
Pacific has agreed to leave the field to
the Southern Pacific, at least for the
present session.
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From Scribner's st. Nicholas.
THE LAST FLOWER OF THE YEAR.
BY LUCY LARCoM.

The gentan was the years last child,
Born when the winds were hoarse and Will
With wailing over buried flowers,
The playmates of their SUMMER hours.
The gentian hid thoughtful eye
Beneath deep fringes, blue and shy;
Only by warinest noOnb beams won,
10 meet the welcome of the sun.
The gentian, her long lashes through
Looked up into the Sky so blue,
And felt lt home the color, there,
The good God gave herself to wear.
The gentian searched the fields around;
No hOwer-companlon there she found.
Upward, from all the woodland ways,
FIOated the aster's silvcry ways.
The gentian shut her eyelids tight
On falling leaf and frosty night;
And close her azure mantle drew,
While dreamy winds around her blew.
The gentian said, THE world is cold;
Yet one clear GLIMPSE of heaven hold.
The suns last thought is mine to keep;
Enough-now let me go to sleep"
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THE CLOSING YEAR.
DY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.

The year
r1..seone, and with IL, many a glorious throng
al happy dreams. Its mark is on each brow,
rs shadows in each heart. In Its swift course
~ waved its scepter o'er the beautiful,
a nd they are not. 1t laid its pailid hand
fir,op the strong man; and the naughty form
n fallen, and the flashing eye is dun.
IL frod the hall of revelry, where throngcd
TI,e bright aud joyous and the fearful wall
ofsfricken ones is heard, where erst the song
A od reckless shout resounded. IL passed DER
y he battle plain, where sword, and spear, and
shield
finished in tho light Of midday; and the
strength
az serried hosts Is shivered, and the grass,
Green from the soil Of carnage, waves above
me crushed and mouldering skeleton. Ii
came,
And faded like a wreath OF mist at eve;
y IT ere II melted in the viewless air,
Itl.eraldcd its millions to their home
: n the dim land Of dreams.
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SOME persons are laboring under the
impression that the next city election
in Dallas is to take place early in
March, This is incorrect twill come
s,f on the first Tuesday in April, when
the whole city will vote for Mayor,
Marshal, an Assessor and Collector,
.i.y Treasurer, and City Attorney,
While each ward win elect its own Al
Iefmen. The City Clerk is elected BY
DIE Board Of Aldermen.
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Norssrs. Richard II. Griffin, Advertisin,a
Agc At, No. 4 South street, Baltirnore' M, MMu
$, NJ. Pettengill d Co., W park how' ~ INV ~"
6l7 ihestnut street, Philadelphia, are duly
Euly authorized to contract for advertSe-
ments for Insertion in the DALLAS HEN
Eg, !Messrs. Dashieil & Waters, Bankers,
Knt man, are authorized agents Tor THE
HERALD in Kaufman county.
EV-T. NJ. Smith, ESQ, at LewisxMl M xliie, oInYi, nh9
LAS HERALD, and money paid TO him on
ournccount will be duly acknowledged by us.
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CONGRESS took a recess from De-
cember 18th to January 5th, without
having passed a single measure Of gen
eral interest. 1t appears to common
people that 1t would have been wiser
in them to have spent those eighteen
days in maturing measures to relieve
the country of its present embarrass-
ments in monetary affairs.
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THE County Board of School Direc-
tors for Dallas county met on the Sd
instant. All the members present, viz:
Means, Cabell, Swindells, Sharp, Nash
and Sweet. The Board was duly or
ganized by electing General Cabell,
President. He, therefore, becomes ex-
ofiicio County Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction and examiner of teach
ers. Thomas ]. Nash was elected Sec
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banished as evil spirits. Let every
man and every woman read and can
didly reflect ON these points and then
say, are not these things so? III so,
strive for the good-combQt the wrong.
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I GOVERNOR THRoCKMoRToN spent
Sunday in Dallas, returning from a
visit of observation on the completion
of the railway connection from Mar
shall and Jefferson to Texarkana, on
the mail line of the Trans-C Continental.
The cars are now running that far, and
in few weeks the connection with
Little Rock, Memphis and St Louis
will be complete.
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AT THIRTY-FIvE.

| chanced to find these girlish rhymes.
Written SO long ago;
I've read them through with scornful
smile,
standing as do now,
a nd looking backward DER the years
Through eyes grown dim with scalding
tears.
Those kisses! they were passing sweet!
rhey made my heart leap then.
Alas! one only meant theVows
That broken now remain!
The child's gay laugh, the maiden's
dream,
The wife's proud joy, but phantoms seem
A one / sit and weep tonight,
Beside my wreck of life,
ii burning In fruitless anguish now
That day you called me "Wife,"
Take back, 1 pray, your kisses three,
aud my lost hope restore to me!
a as! that human hearts mdNknow
s,uch agony as this!
A 5as that sorrow should be born
from such ecstatic bliss!
A nd yet the dream was fair as heaven!
Can its rude waking be forgiven?
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DALLAS DALLAS SATURDAY, JANUARY 1o1S74

dor, till the land shall be purged Of
official robbers, official swindlers and
official williams of every grade. Hon
est men, be of good cheer, the roeues
are retreating.
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HoN. A. T. WATTS, of Polk county,
has settled in WeatherfDrd. The Times
says Weatherfordis rapidly improving.
Glad to hear it. That is a good town,
and we commended it to Judge Watts,
last summer.
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Above all gifts Loves lavish hand
Has ever brought to me-
Counting them over one by one
IpIize your kisses three
Which marked three eras In my lie
A child, a maiden and II wife.
With glowing cheeks and wind-tossed
curls,
Alaughing race I ran
ne victor's promised prize, q KISS;
"Now catch me If you can"
Tie mocking challenge flung back
tswe sped down the tiowery track.
Int your swift tread was close behind;
My floating scarf you caught;
Wlen, prisoned in your clasping arms,
My childish heart you taught.
low sweet the nectar that one sips
When Loves warm kisses press on lips!
Tile memory haunted all the years
That passed 'ere yet again
My hand you clasped in greeting kind,
And asked the maiden then
II she another race would try,
size, blushiDg, answered, by and By"
This time our hearts must try their speed
Nine beat so fast and light
.,'liat was sure the race to win.
You said, "Perhaps ! might"
But your pulse throbbed so true and
strong,
Tnis time twas you the gauntlet flung.
And then once more you held me close,
Once more felt your kiss
All! how the rapture thrilled us both
How exquisite the bliss.
When your heart throbbed so close tt
mine,
Telling its ecstacy divine!
That kiss it made you mine. you said
10 sealed me yours, knew.
a. compact sacred-one where both
Meant VOWS so pure and true
That angel hands the record made,
, nd heavel's own hymns around us
played.
The third kiss, darling-sweeter far
Than child or maiden ever tried
Vas when with husbands royal right
You held and kissed your willing bride.
! knew the sweetest hour of life
When first you woed and called me
"Wifer'
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Mr. L. ]. RITcHIE, formerly of Dali
ls-, has recently established paper,
the Courier, At Bolivar, Polk county
Missouri,
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GENERAL LOUIS 7. wIGFALL lately
on the floor of the United

States Senate, and attracted much at
tentiou. He was warmly greeted by
old acqusintancps Of bnth parties.
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TWO RHYMES.
WRIT ut Tw ,nty and at Thirty-fvt
BY ANNA s. DIMocK.
AT TWENTY.

AT TWENTY.
Above all gifts Loves lavish hand
Has ever brought to me
counting them over one by one
prize your kisses three
Which marked three eras in my life
A child, a maiden and wife.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-25
Beatep to Death.

Shp' KING TRAGEDY AT ABERDEEN-A MANS HEAD
CRUSHED INToA JELLY.
on Saturday night, the 18th inst, an affray
occurred at Aberdeen Station, ON the Phila-
dephia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, in
which Stephen Wallace, a colored man, was
beaten to death in most shocking manner by
~ vH9 y, ooIored men named George Dorsey and
nlNam Williams. The particulars OF the trage-
q! a7 developed at the coroner's inquest, are
'l'!s state by the Bel Air .Egis
dorsey having made some jesting remark
ap,ul Wallace'a wife, of whom he had been a
suNot ,la before her marriage to Wallace, a feud
9leIenlon began between them. On laet Satur-
aaY . nlsht about eight or nine o'clock, Wallace
Sv ,1V' DORSEY IN company with his friend William
WI "nnNalhs vi Aberdeen. Dorsey Immediately
''.' ,aneu about whipping Wallace, who said "If
'On Wal't satisfaction, here am-take it u
hsey then advanced and struck Wallace
N HmA billy, or something else he had in his
d da,u shocking him down. While Wallace was
GgoMil goDi dorsey showered deadly blows upon his
i'."t iI NiVN the same weapon, and Williams also
!o.vu ,oa ~, nm IN brutally beating the unfortunate
ival, W, The effect of their blows was to fracture
e %alace skull upon the right side his left jaw
,,o ngne was broken, and the back of his head be-
a,', "ge'i tle ears, was beaten into Jelly. Not.
waiialanalhg the terrible beating he received,
t,na "u,,ace arose and walked to his home, a dis
s ,S"yo o. az least two miles where he died about
"' "'ur after the occurrence.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-25
Eternal DesOIatiOn.

MILE AFTER MILE OF SILENCE AND DEATH.
In the northwest corner of San Bernardin o
county, lying partly also in Inyo county, and,
by the newly surveyed line, partly also in the
State of Nevada, is region parallel by few 9TH
er spots on the face of the earth We say the
world is instinct with life Here, if tho phraseol-
ogy may be pardoned is place instinct with
death. huge basin, whose rim is the ancient
hill, stricken with the barrenness of eternal
desolaton, whose bosom, the blasted waste of
the desert-treeless and waterlrss, save few
bitter pools like the lye of potash water; sur
rounded by mountains that tower thousands of
feet above the level, itself lying three hundred
feet below the sea. 1t is very " Gehenna - -
a place of death and bones. Birds do not fly
over it. Animals do not enter it. Vegetation
cannot exist in it. The broad sands absorb
the heat, the bare mountains reflect it, the un-
clouded sun daily adds to it. Ninety degrees in
the shade (artitcial shade, there ID no other)
means winter. One hundred and thirty and one
hundred and forty degrees, that is summer
The hot air grows hotter, wayers, trembles with
heat until nature, goaded to madness, can en-
dure no more and then the burning blast
rouses itself-rouses in its might: rouses as an
angry beast, with hoarse, ominous roar; sweeps
mile after mile on ever on, over the broad reach
OF the desert, bearing in its black, whirling bos
om-black as the midnight-dust, sand, alkali
and death. Sometimes murky cloud gathers
upon the mountains above then there is rush
"a warning sigh on the winds-a low rumbling
in the air the hills quiver, the earth trembles,
and a torrent half water, half mud, bounds from
the hills, leaps into the desert, ploughing
chasms like river beds in the loose sand. The
clouds scatter, the sun comes again, the eternal
thirst of the desert is not quenched. The rag
ing river was only dream.
In the year 1919 party of emigrants entered
the basin. Day after day they toiled on, thirst
ing, dying. The pitiless mountains walled them
I'M no escape. One by one they dropped and
died A few abandoned everything, scaled the
mountains and escaped. The others lie they
fell dried TO mummes mo birds even to devour
their flesh no beasts to prey upon them-wag-
on tires unrusted gun-barrels bright, unfair
nished. Such is the place Mile after mile 81
lence reigns silence and death.
Walled by the mountains, domed with brazen sky,
League after league the never-ending sand
Spreads like the oc an to the lifting eye,
An aged, weary, long forgotten land;
As cursed in wrath and snit with Gods fierce hand
No cooling mist quenches the endless thirst
That rules supreme the boundless stretches g and
Over its broad expanse no storm clouds burst
With hurrying feet 1t is and accursed"
j p. Ridaey IN Overland sonthIy for Ju ly
Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-25

CONTINUED PROGRESS OF THE CAMP MEETING
MUSICAL soIBEs AT THE SURF HoUsE-THE RE
LIdIoUs ExERcIsEs, &c.
Especial Correspondence OF the Commercially
REHoBoTH BEACH, July 23.
Events are still pursuing the even tenor of
their way. Old ocean still continues to beat
with ceaseless roar upon the sandy beach; the
grand old trees of the magnificent forest still
wave their leafy branches; the chorus of praise,
the voice of prayer, the tongue of earnest ex-
hortation, still continue to be heard in this place
where beauteous nature evidences 30 strongly
the power of Ged. As yet
GOD HAS SPOKEN TO BUT FEW soULs
that "peace which passeth all understanding {"
However, there is a warmth of christian feeling
prevailing the meetings which indicates that the
"Lord of Lords" ever meets with and blesses
His people, if not in the conversion of many
souls, at least in the promotion of personal
christian experience.
Upon the evening Of the 22nd, the boarders at
the Surf House were entertained with
MUSICAL soIREE
which proved very pleasant feature of amuse-
ment. The singing was very admirably render
cd, as may be surmised when l state that among
the singers the face of Prof. Robinson, of Balti,
more, was discernible.
The morning service of the 23rd was conduct
ed under the charge of the Rev. G. d. Watson,
who preached very effectively indeed from the
text, "The day of Pentecost was fully come"
The Rev. Mr.. Watson is well known to Whining
tonians, and am pleased to state that he gives
promise of great usefulness in his vocation.
Immediately after the morning service the peo-
pie, zen maase," repaired to the beach and your
correspondent with them. For an hour subse-
quent
THE SCENE WAS LIVELY ONE.
Fair maids and manly youths, anxious mammas,
and papas resting from the cares of business,
plunged and ioated and bathed to their hearts
content, while two or three dozen carriages, and
probably three or four hundred people, lined the
beach.
The afternoon services were conducted by the
Rev. Thos. Guard, of Baltimore, he preaching
from the text Rev. vii, 9-10 "After this l be-
held, and 10, great multitude, of all nations,
and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the lamb, clothed
with white robes, and palms in their hands and
cried with loud voice, saying, Salvation to our
God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
Lamb" For an hour and half the orator held
the audience spell-bo
TRUTH FOLLOWED TRUTH
in quick succession; aye, truth pontedly, bril-
lianty, effectively spoken. 1t would be impos-
sible to give an adequate account of the sermon,
30 l shall attempt none. 1t is simply necessary
to state that God has indeed endowed this man
with wonderful power, and justly may he be
styled "prince of pulpit orators"
We are pleased to note among the new arrivals
at the Surf House Mr. II. Emmett Robinson and
family. Daily, people leave and fresh arrivals
are announced. Altogether the time passes very
pleasantly. There are people here who are even
engaging accommodations for next year.
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