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National Republican., 1877-10-09
A Statement Corrected.

WARRINGTON. Oct. g. 1877.
National Republican., 1877-10-09
TO LoAN-s,oo. 900, ,i.oo and 1850.

FOR sALE-THE FOLLOWING FIRST. .cLAss
LOANS; $1,000 AND e, NO. SEGUREp ON FIRST.
Class phoPERTY; 10Th DRAWING EIGHT
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

The sure way to miss success is to
miss the opportunity.
Philosophy if rightly defined, is
naught but the love of wisdom.
Hypocrites are beings of darkness dis
guised in the garment of light.
He that keeps his temper is better
than he that can keep carriage.
Though fancy may be the patients
complaint, necessity is often the doctor.
He who will not reason is a bigot,
he who cannot is fool, and he who
dares not is a slave.
If all the year were playing holidays,
to sport would be as tedious as to work !;
but when they seldom come, they are
wished for.
Vanity is our dearest weakness, in
more senses than one q man will sacri-
fee, and starve out all his inclinations to
keep alive that one.
There is nothing evil in life for him
who rightly comphrehends that death is
no evil to know how to die delivers us
from all subjection and constraint.
Like many virtues, hospitality is
practiced in it's perfection by the poor.
If the rich did their share, how would
the woes of this world be lightened
We die every day every moment de-
prives us of a portion of life and advan-
ces us a step toward the grave our
whole life is long and painful sickness.
Death opens the gate of fame, and
shuts the gate of envy after it it un-
looses the chain of the captive, and puts
the bondsman's S task into another mans
hand.
Many an honest Iaan practices upon
himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if
practiced upon another, and in little
different way, to send him to the State
prison.
By what strange law of mind is it
that an idea long overlooked and trod-
den under foot as q useless stone, sud-
denly sparkled out in new light, as a
discovered diamond?
Death alone of the gods loves not
gifts, nor do you need to offar incense
libations. He cares not for altar nor
hymn the goddess of persuasion alone
has no power over him.
Persons who practice deceit and arti-
fee always deceive themselves more
than they deceive others. They may
feel great complacency in view of the
success of their doings ; but they are in
reality casting mist before their own
eyes. Such persons not only make a
false estimate of their own character,
but they estimate falsely the opinions
and conduct of others. No person is
obliged to tell all he thinks but both
duty and self-interest forbid him ever to
make false pretences.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15

proper without a chaperon; but what
else can / do"
"There's the Rev. Mr.. Hymen on
board, the missionary from Upper India,
though he has hardly been out of his
berth, unused Mr.. Surrey.
eyes; Mr.. Bruce might intrust me to
his ghostly care; but he's so bilious
looking, it wouldn't be cheerful"
"I think, Miss Serena, since you ask
my advice, the best thing for you to do
would be to marry your humble servant,
Anson Surrey, before the Bruces leave
u.s."
"Here? Oh, Mr.. Surrey, you take
me by surprise Married and Tilted the
same day To be sure, the Rev. Mr..
Hymen could4ead the service, if he is
yellow and iaundiced. And you really
love me? Do you know, it was only
when you proposed to me ON board the
Fairy that 1 discovered 1 was going to
Calcutta to marry man 1 didn't love.
What aOiU Mrs. Bruce say? What will
every body say?"
"They will say, Its an i'll wind that
blows nobody good" answered her
lover. Bazar.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
Legend of the Jasmine.

We are told that a duke of Tuscany
was the first possessor of this pretty
shrub in Europe; and he was so iealously
fearful lest others should enjoy what he
alone wished to possess, that strict
injunctions were given to his gardener
not to give o slip, not so much as a single
flower, to any person. To this command
the gardener would have been faithful,
had not love wounded him by the
sparkling eye of fair but portionless
peasant, whose want of little dowry,
and his poverty, alone kept them from
the hymenial altar. On the birthday of
his mistress he presented her with a
nosegay, and to render the bouquet more
acceptable, ornamented it with branch
of jasmine. The poUer0 fglia, wishing
to preserve the bloom Of this new flower,
put it into fresh earth, and the branch
remained green all the year. In the
following spring it grew, and was
covered with flowers. It fourished and
multiplied so much under the fair
nymph's cultivation, that she was able
to amass little fortune from the sale
of the precious gift which love had made
her; when, with sprig of jasmine in
her breast, she bestowed her hand and
wealth on the happy gardener of her
heart And the Tuscan girls, to this
day, preserve the remembrance of this
adventure, by invariably wearing a nose
gay of jasmine on their wedding day;
and they have proverb which says a
young girl worthy of wearing this nose
gay is rich enough to make the fortune
of a good husband.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
The Evening Time.

Together we walked in the evening time,
Above us the sky spread golden and clear,
And he bent his head and looked in my eyes,
As if he held me Of all most dear,
Grayer the light grew and grayer still.
The rocks fitted home through the purple
shade
The nightingales sang where the thons stood
high,
AS walked with him in the woodland glade.
And our pathway went through fields of wheat;
Narrow that path and rough the way,
But he was near and the birds sang true,
And the stars came out in the twilight gray.
Softly he spoke of the days long past,
Softly of blessed days to be-
Close to his arm and closer prest-
The cornfeld path was Eden to me.
And the latest CLEANS of daylight died;
My hand in his enfolded lay;
We swept the dew from tie wheat as we passed,
For narrow and narrower wound the way.
He looked in the depths of my eyes and said:
"Sorrow and gladness will come for u.s. sweet ;
But together Wen walk through the fields of
life
Close as we walked through the fields of
wheat"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
Items of Interest.

A New York chemist says, he wants
nothing more than three pals, barrel
of old water and twenty cents worth of
drugs to make six gallons of just such
champagne as fools pay dollar pint
for.
Japan has perfected another evidence
of her adoption of Western civilization.
She has established twenty national
banks, with a capital of 500, 276, 100 yen.
The yen is nearly equal to an American
dollar.
The eighteen thousand bombs thrown
by the Russians into Kars cost them one
million, five hundred thousand rubles,
or about 81, ,096,000 Thus far they
have not collected the interest on that
large sum. .-i
Capt. Beaufort saw neat Smyrna, in
the East, cloud of locusts forty miles
long and three hundred yards deep,
containing at least 169, 900, 900, 900.
That beats all the Kansas grasshopper
stories.
In England it has been proven by
series of careful examinations that coun-
try boys of fourteen years, average, an
inch and a quarter more in height and
seven pounds more in weight than city
boys of the same age. .,..g
If you ask boy to break up piece of
lump coal so as to keep himself from
freezing, he regards his lot as one of ex-
ceptional hardship but let him find an
old torpedo lying aronnd loose, he Will
hammer at it with stone until the per-
spiration stands in great drops upon his
forehead, OF an explosion relieves him
from his self-appointed task.
The operations of the internal revenue
officers against illicit distillers in the
South during the last six months have
resulted as follows Illicit stills seized,
forty-one distillers arrested OF surrend-
cred, 1,O64 officers killed, including
Lieut.. McIntire, United States army,
four officers wounded, four; citizens
assisting officers killed, two wounded,
two distillers killed or wounded, four.
1t is predicted that within fifty years,
a district of 100 miles square, including
the counties of Athens, Perry, and
Hooking, in Ohio, will equal in product
iveness any coal region in the world.
This section has twenty-five feet of solid
coal in five seams, the greatest vein
being in some places twelve feet thick,
and nowhere less than six. Mingled
among the coal beds are inexhaus tible
ones of iron,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
A COunterfeiter's Offer.

Thomas Ballard is now confined i'll the
Albany On. Y penitentiary under sem
tence of thirty years Imprisonment, of
which he has yet over twenty-seven years
to serve. He was convicted of having
in his possession plate from which
counterfeit notes were printed. He now
offers to the government knowledge de.
rived in his business, the application of
which, he says, will render the counter
feiting of its notes impossible in the
future. He says the blue and red fibers
which now mark the paper used are too
easily woven in by hand, and he proposes
to construct machine which will manu-
factrlre paper that cannot be initiated by
any of the ordinary processes. He aims
to supplant the red and blue fibers and
the local strip of color which now marks
the paper used by the government, by
eagles, liberty heads, stars and other
devices which may be selected, to be
struck from some substance having a
metallic appearance and inserted in the
paper in such way as to be ineffaceable.
He processes that his only motive in
urging the adoption of his plan is to
render counterfeiting so difficult that
others will be saved from suffering such
penalties rs have been inflicted upon
him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
A Tennesseean's Bad Bargain.

Last Thursday morning rattle was
made up by some of the citizens of Paris
for box of five hundred cigars. There
were twenty-five chances at one dollar a
chance. The plan was that known as
the shotgun plan, in which each man
taking chance puts his mark on the
blank paper surrounding a target. The
target is placed on pivot and whirled,
and while thus whirling is fired at with
gun loaded with small shot. The man
whose mark comes nearest being hit
takes the prize. In this case George
Lefis took chance, but would not put
down his mark until all the other marks
had been placed around the target. He
then went to each of the raffiers and
said A: "You and I have each got a
chance in this cigar rattle let us go in
'cahoot If you get them divide with
me, and if l get them I'll divide with
YOU" This arrangement he made with
eighteen of the chance holders, telling
each to keep their partnership secret.
To prevent any possibility, as he
thought, of winning the cigars himself.
he made his mark as far from the target
as the paper would allow. He then felt
sure of half the cigars, and already, in
imagination, was putting the fragrant
weed, and laughing i'll his sleeve over
the sharp trick and excellent joke he had
played the "other boys" But, alas {!
the joke was soon turned, and visions of
cob pipe foated before his astonished
eyes. The gun was fired, and stray
shot knocked the center out of Georges
mark. Eighteen men stepped up and
said &c I'll take my half now." Lefiis
thus found himself booked for $500
worth of cigars. He compromised, how
ever, after some wrangling, by dividing
the cigars equally among his partners. -
Paris (Tenn.) IntelIigenoer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
Capt. CrapO's Voyage.

The New Bedford (Mass.) Mercury
publishes letter from Capt. Crapo and
some extracts from d little volume which
has been published in England, in which
the captain "spins his yarn" giving de-
tails of his experience in crossing the
Atlantic in twenty-foot boat. He says
he has crossed the "big drink " twenty
one times, that he is not a captain ex-
cept of the New Bedford, never having
risen above first mate. He undertook
this last venture from desire to outdo
everything previously recorded in the
way Of crossing the ocean in small
boat. His wife accompanied him because
she could not consent to his going alone.
The passage was good deal rougher
than he had anticipated; it was like a
bad winter passage, and had they not
succeeded in getting from passing vessels
fresh meat, bread and water, their fate
would have been sealed before they
reached England, though they had taken
supply of corned meats, fish and fruit
calculated to last through, even if more
than ordinarily delayed. The only ex-
citement experienced was when, on two
or three occasions, they found them
selves in school of whales, whose
spouting and clustering frightened Mrs.
Grape. In rough weather, sometimes
for two or three days at time, they
would lie to, attached to drag or buoy,
and ON these occasions the captain got
most rest, for when favorable winds pre-
vailed he dared not leave the helm for a
moment In fine weather he never took
more than four hours rest day. Once
he kept at his post seventy hours con-
secutively without rest. His wife had
scarcely good nights rest during the
whole voyage, which occupied forty-nine
days. They spoke dozen vessels and
steam ships, and were kindly treated by
all. Once the rudder of the boat was
twisted of, but an extra one was at hand.
His wife has now crossed the ocean foul
times, but will never do the journey
again in so small craft, nor would the
captain, for he declares the task a great
deal rougher than he looked for. The
boat is schooner-rigg with two mastf
carrying g-of-mutton sails. She draws
only three feet Of water; her keel il
thirteen feet; her total length is barely
twenty feet; her tonnage is 1.62, and she
is thirty-four inches deep.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
Horrors Of the Eastern War.

The London Times war correspondent
IN Armenia writes l have received
fresh details concerning the lamentable
occurrences at Bajazid, and as they
come from an official source, am iusti-
fed in claiming some attention for
them. After deliberately numbering a
detachment of 900 Cossacks, the Kurds
under their fanatical leaders, entered
Baiazid. The scene that ensued was one
of unparalleled horror. The town con-
tanned one hundred and sixty-five
Christian families, and all of the men,
women and children were ruthlessly
put to the sword. A Turkish officer
who visited the town few days subse-
quently states that there -Vvas not q
single inhabitant left all had fed, and,
including Russian prisoners, upward Of
2, 400 people had been killed. In every
house he entered small groups of dead
were lying shockingly mutilated and in
the most revolving positions.
Captain M'Calmont, who visited the
place shortly after the Russian relief,
states that it is entirely deserted and a
mere heap of ruins also, that soldiers
were employed for six days in burying
the dead, the number of whom it was
impossible to estimate. On hearing of
this massacre Mukhtar Pasha at once
sent down orders to have the Kurds dis
banded and disarmed, and their ring
leaders shot, They, however, antici-
pated the first of these Instructions by
throwing down their arms and deserting
en- naasse on the approach of Tergu-
kassoffs column. Safe in their noun
tain Businesses, these miscreants will
defy the commander-in-chief's orders,
and unless Europe sternly demands
their execution, and deputies officials to
see the sentences carried into effect
they will escape.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15
To Be Dead.
BY MRS. S. NJ. B. PrATr.

BY MRS. s. NJ. B. PIATT.
II should have void darkness in my eyes
While there were violets in the sun to see
II 1 should fail to hear my child's sweet cries,
Or any birds voice in our threshold-tree.
II 1 should cease to answer love or wit
Blind, deaf, or dumb, how bitter each must
be! -.-
Blind, deaf, or dumb-I will not think Of it.
Yet the night comes when l shall be all
three ..t s| '.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15

Thomas Jeffersons birthplace, Shad-
well, in Albemarle county, Va, is ad.
ver6sed for sale. Martha Washington
house, in the same State, where she
lived before she married George, has
just been sold for 81, 225.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-15

Two million acres of cultivated land
hardly suffice to produce the grain con-
sumed in NewYo breweries yearly.
, 1877-08-14

1ss .o,Bs: s,.s se Gn CT, ~. shf asss.
t!t"l Staeeh u 8 nc Agent Of this district
under t;cn. 10 Dohnld, was decided to-tlly
By Judge krekel. Of the United States Distrtct
Court. The particular qurstion involved in tho
case ~as that of cumulative punishment, or
JuuGnenl On more thar, one count nf an ,ndict-
ment. The decision T. long and elaborate. aud
expresses somc doubt as to ham far Court,
IT nndci habca: sorpus proceedings, can review
IT, former judgments. but, ln thf. case, Tho
JulRe :ays, fn closing: ~ feel relieved. .,--
cause the judgment about to lte entcrcfI Gun 10
reviewed, nnt! the various questions lnvnlyc.l
authorttativcty settled on appeal" The CON
clus'ons arrived at arc. that The indictment nt-
DER consideration In Its various r1unts Charge
put one oHcnsr: that when tho Court entered
rs Judgment IN the conspiracy the Court cx-
hausted It's powers, and TINT the result uf tho
Judgment is void. that .}oyte, having served a
full tern, Of TWO years In the reEitcntiarr after
allowing due credit for GOOD behavior, Is en-
titled to a discharge, which Is granted him,
on condition tlat he nnI lii
surety enter INTO recoenlzancc Of Loco to aE,-
pcar and answer any order OF Court whicl, may
be made In this or The Appellate Court.
Astistnnt-Frnsccnting-A attorney Williams u1-
mtdtately h1td papers On appeal u, the United
Mites ClreIttt Court, nGhl Cor. Fletcher nntl
william Mct'arthy offered and wcrc acccntcd a.
k*'ntlancn. 1t Ia Just twctty-onc mouths to-day
slfitr Col. joyce cntesc.! The prieon under se1.
tchec of two years anil fI,p0 fine os, the fourth
count, and ctclltccn months and 81 900 fine On
the flrEt and third cUunts. II Is said Jofce'e
fine Is st1nflof. as lr has m psupe1ty.
, 1877-08-14
IlCAGO. TUESDAY. AUGUST II, 1877.

sixty of The AnssNl.nan houses wcsc destroyed.
nnl 120 men AMI 2oa awomcn ptrlahcsl. Dnc per-
son only escaped. At Tundta, mixed village.
100 houses destroyed. and I'D men ami 4W}
women persisted. There were three survivors.
Ft)1aecs abandoned unou the approach Of the
Ruassaus were given to tue flames, and ncayIj
5000 houscs destroyed.
rttE LEGATION CONCLUDE,
from Information received, that tic Russians
have adopted Uniform tyhtcm to irv In setze
tlefcnscc.s villages, and, after destroying them
with cannon-shot, Ia massacre the unar,ned IN.
laoltants and tarrY of women for the purpose
OF nutFazlng thcsF persons, When they arc not
killed At first. Tho Russians threaten Christian
villages with tho same fate II they DO not sur
render. or II thcsr Inhabitants refuse to be en-
rolled.
, 1877-08-14
JOYCE.
Tho Cnlnrkt~at uf tho Gang at Last lt~leaael
Professionally by Judge Krokol. 1t tJensssoa


Professionally by Judxs Kreke,. 1t Jefferson
City.
Spfcta. n.pascA 70 ~ T,.asss.
st. LOUIS, Aug. lA-Col. John a. Joyce, tho
only victin, Of tho Whisky Ring who was not
l'arsloued out OF the pcuttcntArv by President
Grant, was released to-day by uuitc1 stascs
Judge Krckel 1t jefferson City. Thu csss csn,u
up On writ of habcas corpus, tie plea of Joycc
being that hls senteurc of three years aud
half was cumulative; that he Guild not hare
been legally sentenced 10 more than two years.
imprisonment, aud that, haylng served that
per,od, ne waA entttle1 To discharge. Tha argu-
nlent WIS heasA by Judge KEekel, three wceks
uEa. an.t stfce that time the prisoner has been
ullowesi ths Freedom Of Jefferson CITY. uu.ler
tue tsplonage VI ihu Marshal. Tie lultuw1ux
u the material part Of the Courts opinion:
line Of whisxy fraud tried hare and 10 uibsT
courts. Well do ,sHcnlbes my deep anxiety ~
er'py offenders to !uss!es % the one hanl aud nut
to q un!ust II defendants upon whom outraged
pnblic Justice wa4 Shut IL descend. The justice
u Tho eate - ny" comparatively rasy 10 deter.
Tug s s:' graz
srealug can 1cstcw ~ fosaler tudYsuents, Tor il
amounts To- nuthlnx 'ess than :h.. Upon
upoa liz various counts oi The Indictment. haze
ths !ndttset support II !asties Sei.oa. quused !n
he t 81
i'S. iss sapssss ceat! ot tas iuitsS ststs.: ~
aboys sIt. fsel relieved because t6e judgment
about u b. entered can b. reviewed.. md various
IT. f. 's.sa sa 'tSG II. "a .ss
The indictment unIcr consideration III it,
various count. sh4sss. eat one uaxa.s:
the conspiracy. the Court exhausted III powers.
aud THAI tno result of thc Judgment |. void: that
tas PsuitrusasJ utter aliox.ss dus credit fof good
behavior. Ia entitled % 4oseharge; which - Ersnt-
, 1877-08-14
SCANDAL.

cpfea1 t1paktA IL 1N Tribune.
DAAvlLLE, ILL.,, Aug. la-Couet conycucl
hero to-,ay, Judge Olayts presiding. Among
the es1sea ol Importance Is one VI Mrs. Melissa
fauk ". Georgu Fuus, Ut Bloomington, ILL.,,
being lall for separate maiutcuaase. 1t Is
alleged that. soulc years AGO, Gcorgo Funk it,
auced the complainant to cutter 4 private tuuE~
Eage contsact, anl llYed wtl,.hcr asllcr husband
for soMc ting. WiuIp o member Vi tho Lrglsl4
turo ot this State, It Is alleged. he sook her
viii htsn 10 Springfield. i child was t,ss svsult
oi this marriage. Aftesxasds Funk abandoned
bon-ton laascs oi Bloomington. Funk Is IN cx-
member Of tho Legislature, = protutucnt poll
ttetau. md ono of N.Leaa Coauty's wealthlest
citizens, SAID to be worth 4 half million. The
fair :nMp}alnaut ha4 for her COUNSEL the Hon.
Dan VOORHEES,. Ut TerEe Haute. and Maun 81
Calhoun, VI this place. q. +. MeSulta. II
Bloomington u heru hl belsalf of the detrlllt.
aut. Tue sasc l. likely 70 make big luss Wien
1t gets fairly under WY.
, 1877-08-14
SENATOR MORTON.

The Present DspIorabio Physical Condition
uf This kmlnrnt StAtssmau.
Spfcf1i hEDafcA to 7As 1rt1aa&
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. l3.-senator q. T.
Morton passed through the city thIs evening On
his Why tu Richmond, In this State. lie was IT,
euu,pa.icd by his family aud blu physician, Dr..
W. C. Thompson, OF this rity. who met hin at
reorta, In response to q telegram, aud will ze.
na,a with tilul uutll there Is al improvement Ia
his heaitf Tho sepatos's slrknes. Ii
quite serious, und ID thought to bs
this result Of oyer-txeEtlon. There wert
graye apprehenalons At one time during
the journey that he woul.t not get home aliyc.
Ills run4ltiun to-day was, however, much bet.
tcr than Il WA yesterday. The left arm Is par
Alyxed, but tue physicians think only te1upofati-
IT, There Il lo symptom Of paralysis ~ his fser.
anI hts atnt has not bcuu Il all impaired.
Should hla asi4 conslnue para1yEed, hc will bo
rendered helpless, ~ he has only been able ro
walk BY support Of cxucs. Dr. Thompson
t!,iuks that. III time, ha will recover the use Of
tilo arn, but, for the present. ha will Be permit.
ted to zee 10 one except us faulty.