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Year: 1868

That man is great and he alone,
Who serves greatness not his own,


For neither pr aise nor pelf;
Content to know and he unknown;


Whole In himself.
Strong is that man, he only strong
To whose well-ordered viii belong,


For service and delight,
All powers that, in the face OF wrong,


Establish Right.
And free he is, and only he,
Who from his tyrant passions free,


By Fortune undismayed,
Hath power upon himself to be


By himself Obeyed.
If such a man there be, where'er
Beneath the sun and moon he fare,


He cannot fare amiss
Great Nature hath him in her carei


Her cause is his.
Who holds by everlasting law,
Which neither chance nor change can flaw;


Whose steadfast course Is one
With whatsoever forces draw


The ages on.
If such man there be, where'er
Beneath the sun and moon he fare,


He doth not fare alone
He goeth girt with cohorts, powers,
The monarch of his manf1l hours,


Whose minds his throne.
He owes no homage to the sun;
There's nothing he need seek or sAun


All things are his by right;
He Is his own pOsterity;
His future in himself doth lie;


His souls his light.
Lord of lofty life is he,
Loftily living though he be


Of lowly BIRTH though poor.
He lacks net wealth, nor high degree


In state obscure.
The merely great are, all in all,
No more than what the merely small


Esteem them. Mans opinion
Neither conferred, nor can recall.


This mans dominion.
Year: 1868

GENTLEMEN As it becomes my
duty as Superintendent, to report the
condition and progress of the schools
of this town, at this annual meeting,
| therefore submit the following:


District No. l. The teacher for
the summer term was Mrs. Geo. W.
Colby of this town, who commenced
this school with a well earned repu-
tation as a teacher, which an expert
eEce i'll teaching several terms in
this district, had established. The
school fourished well for while, but
irregularity of attendance, and con-
sequently lack of interest on the
part of scholars prevented that emf
nent success which otherwise might
have characterized it. Quietly the
summer term passed away; no fault
was found and no credit given for
great accomplishments, and beggarly
tax is all that reminds the people of
this district of this summer term.


The winter term was taught by
Mrs. Julius Gray of this town. The
attendance of scholars at the com
mencement of this term was unusual
ly large, the school ranking as to the
number of scholars among the very
first in town and seemed to be of
great interest and value but like the
summer term, few were present at the
examination exercises, consequently
| am unable to give fully such inform
alton in regard to it as might be
really desired; nor can | give reas
on why the two past terms in this
district have been so unsuccessful
whether the teachers bearing the ma
ternal title of Mrs. has precluded the
support of those whom the schools
of Sutton owe so much for their pros
perity, or others have imagined tha
domestic duties claimed too much of
their attention to entitle them to theil
confidence | am not prepared to say
1t is my opinion that the teachers la
bored hard to awaken an interes
among their scholars and if the par
ents had manifested that interest anC
sympathy which they should, the fna
results would have been much NOR,
gratifying. Teachers should be en-
titled to the utmost confidence of al
until that confidence has been actual
ly forfeited, and never should be con
demned unheard.


! District No. 3. There was but on
term taught in this district and tha
by Miss Lottie E. Weeks of Lyndor
who being in every way qualified 70
a first class teacher, seemed earnestl
Year: 1868




The New York Post does not appre-


hend disastrous results from a decision


in the case now pending before the


United States Supreme Court, adverse


to the ConstitutionAlity of the Legal
Tender Act. It says:


On this point there is no reason for
such alarm as some express. II the
court finds that Congress has no consti-
t0tional power to pass the act, then the
act is void from the beginning. Green


backs are not now and have not at any
time been in law legal tender for the
payment of debts, public and private.
Any man agreeing to pay dollars is


bound in law to pay coined gold.


But contracts made since legal tender
notes became the money Of account by
the custom of trade, will be held by the
courts to be bound by that custom.
Contracts made since the publication Of
the pretended legal-tender act as law,
and in view of that act will be held to
refer to that act and to include it; so
that the legal-tender clause will control
Them, not as law, but as part of the
contract,


Such decision, therefore, if made,
Will not stop all business, disturb ali
accounts, and ruin all debtors, as some
people imagine. 1t viii not even unset
tie again contracts which, made in spe-
Cl5 BAAlA6S udk6 U5Gu sHUL1E4. Auu6E. Lub
legal-tender act. But old debts, con-
tracted before 1861, will no longer be
payable in anything but gold coin.
New contracts, made after the decision,
viii be payable in such money as may
be agreed upon by the parties. All re-
strictiOns now made by law on the use
of gold and silver will be removed; and
a more important step win be taken
towards the resumption of specie pay
ments on the part of the governments
and of the country than can be taken
by any legislation yet proposed.


The influence of such II decision on
the part of the banks would be great,
Those of them which are able to open
specie accounts, and to issue notes upon
a specie basis, could do so at once, and
and this would drive the others to adj
just their business and circulation to
the same standard as rapidly as possi-
BILE. Congress would be compelled to
fund the greenbacks as fast as a new
and more stable currency could be sup
piled and, doubtless, within a very
few years, the whole country would
wonder that any one, with eyes to see
our present disorders and dangers,
could have been afraid of a remedy so I
necessary and so effectual.
Year: 1868

Money is said to be scarce. New


York dispatches say it is close there.
Several millions In currency are ship
ped every week to the west. It Is also
scarce in Third street Currency
is constantly going to the country.
Soon this currency must begin to re-
turn to the cities. il would be returnu
ing now quite freely If people who re-
eeive it In exchange for produce were
prompt in paying their debts. Instead
Of using il In this way, however, there
is disposition to board-to keep the
greenbacks a while to look at them.
This is the cause of the present scar
city of money. The same cause ODer-
ates to large extent In the city. Here
there is a scare about the scarcity Of
money, and those who have engage
ments in the future are disposed to
hold on to the money that comes into
their hands. Thus creditors who have
small bills are put off from day to day.
This increases the scare. 1T is imu
possible to collect money" is the aen-
eral remark. Said a banker to US
yesterday, Urge the people 10 pay
their small bills. Five thousand dol
lars let loose would pay all the small
bills floating about the city, and would
make money comparatively easy If
one man will pay, that will enable an
other to pay, and so on to the end Of
the chapter.


There is plenty of money, if people
would use what they have got 10 pay
ing their debts. Pay your small bills,
and thus the means viii be furnished
for paying large ones. - Cincinnati
Gazette. f.f
Year: 1868

ANOTHER BABY.-In baby literature we
seldom ind a sweeter poem than this:
Another little private
Mustered in
The army OF temptation
And OF sin
Another soldier armiur
For the strife.
To fight the tOilsome battles
OF a life.
Another little sentIy
Who shall stand
On guard while evils proWl
on evey hand
Lord our little darling
Guide and save,
Mid the perils OF the march
To the grave.
Year: 1868

For few years [ had crows, but
their nests are an irresistible, bait for
boys and their settlement was broken
up. They grew so Wonted as to throw
off a great part of their shyness and to
tolerate my near approach. One very
hot day / stood for some time within
twenty feet of a mother and three
children, who sat on an elm bOugh
over my head, gasping in the sultry
air, and holding their wings half
spread for GOODNESS. All birds, during
the pairing season, become more or
less sentimental, and murmur soft
nothings in a tone very unlike the
grinding organ repetition and loudness
of their habitual song. The crow is
very comical as a lover, and to hear
him trying to soften their croak to the
proper st. Pruex standard has some
thing the effect of Mississippi boat
man quoting Tennyson. Yet there are
few things to my ear more melodious
than this cav of clear winter morn
ing as it drops to you filtered through
five hundred fathoms of crisp blue air.
The hostility of all smaller birds
makes the moral character of the
crow, for all his deacon like demeanor
and garb, somewhat questionable. He
could never sally forth without insult.
The golden robins especially would
chase him as far as Icould follow with
my eye, making him duck clumsily to
avoid their importunate bills. ] do
not believe, however, that he robbed
any nests hereabouts, for the refuse Of
the gas works, which in our free and
easy community is allowed to poison
the river. supplied him with dead ale
wives in abundance. | used to watch
him making his periodical visits TO
the salt marshes and coming back with
a fish in his beak to his young savages,
who, no doubt, like it in that condi-
ton which makes it savory to the Ka-
nakas aud other corvine races of men.
III r. Lawell, in the Atlantic AL
manae for 1869.
Year: 1868

This paper is printed on Tuesday and Fri
day Of each Week. It is the same size as
the Daily and Weekly, containing thirty
the reading matter prepared for the Daily
and Weekly viii be printed in this Edition.
Persons who desire paper Oftener
daily, viii find this the cheapest and best
paper published anywhere
Year: 1868

Why so many bald headed men and
so few bald headed women? Why is
it that the skulls of young men in their
twenties shine like billiard balls?-
Why this spectacle of bald headed
BARRIERS rubbing the dry tops of bald
headed men, recommending inVigora-.
tors warranted to produce bushy locks
in less than fortnight, while bald
holded spectators and middle aged
mon with wigs look oU with derisive
smiles, though all the while their
wives and daughters throng our streets
covered with crowns of beauty, and
charming actresses toss their blonde
tresses in luxurious profusion on he
stages of our theatres2 Our MA le
population will no doubt take a serene
satisfaction in saying that it is because
men have more to worry them than
women, and have the trouble of cen
triving not only how to support them
selves, but also how to support their
wives and daughters. Probably, how
ever that is not the reason. Women,
of course, have finer and longer hair
than men, but men destroy their hair
by making ovens of their heads under
their hats, and thus heat the tops of
their craniums until their hair dies
out for the want of air. Men should
either take off their hats offtener or
ventilate them better.
Year: 1868

The poor man who wants to write to
his son in the Far West must pay pos
tage on his letter but any scamp who
who can make fac-simile of a con-
gressman.s stamp can mail car load
of useless rubbish every day in the
week without payinga cent Some
thing might be gained by abolshing
the use of frank stamps, but the on
ly true way is to abolish fraDkiDg.
Year: 1868

F. The FAMILY NEWSPAPER. = DIR.
Franklin remarks that man as often
gets two dollars for the one he spends
in informing his mind, as he does for
d dollar he lays out in any other way.
A man eats pound of sugar and it is
gone, and the pleasure he has enjoyed
is ended, but the information he gets
from newspaper is treasured up to
be enjoyed anew, and to be used when
ever occasion OF. inclination call for it.
A newspaper is not the wisdom of one
man or two men; it is the wisdom OF
the age, and of past ages too. A fam
lily withouta a newspaper is always a
year behind the times in general in
formation; besides they can never
think much, nor find much to talk
Eabout. And then there are the little
ones growing UP ,withoutany taste fol
reading, Who, then, would be with


out newspaper--and who would
read one regularly without paying fol
| it2
Year: 1868

It was an old error among the phys
iologists, that there was more blood
passing through the BRAIN or at least
as much, during sleep as in wakefuf-
ness but this was disproved by Blu
menbaeh, and still more e"convincingly
by Donders, who made a cruel though
striking experiment on the subject.
He cut away part of the skull of an
animal and -cemented in its place a
piece of glass; through which he could


observe the brain in its different states.
In the waking state the brain is larger
than it is during sleep, while in the
latter condition it becomes pale and
bloodless. If the animal be disturbed
by dreams, "a flush suffuses part of the
brain; and after complete wakeful-
ness the cerebral substance, becomes
turgid with blood, the surface being
now a bright red while vessels, in
visible. during sleep, are filled with
blood coursing rapidly through them.
The observations made show that
there is less seterial blood coursing
through the brain during sleep, and


that consequently the conditions OF


waste are absent, while there is still
sufficient left to repair the matter
which has been wasted. .-e..- 7a r.
Year: 1868

We are authorized to announce that a
meeting of the Democrats of this city
will be held at"their headquarters, the
Club Room, corner of Market and Mon
roe, tomorrow Saturday evening at u
o'clock. Some of our best speakers will
address the meeting, and general
attendance is invited.
Year: 1868

The TUBE WELL BoRER.-Messrs. Cusheon
Co., patent agents, have laid before us
model of this celebrated patent, which was
practically used in the Abyssinian war, and
by which water was procured at depth of
100 feet. This well borer is so constructed
that it can penetrate through the hardest
substance and cannot get choked or impeded
in any way. 1t is claimed that it is partieu-
larly adapted for California, or any dry or
sandy portion of the country; that il Is suit
table for any kind Of pump, and can be made
available in almost any locality. The tube,
perhaps 21Sinches in diameter, terminates
in a sharp steel point, which is intended to
90 through any substance less hard than
granite rock Next to this steel point is a
section Of tube composed of perforated iron,
covered with braided copper or brass wire
net work, and the remainder of the tube Is
of wrought iron, like large-sized gas-pipe.
The tube being driven with the sharp point
downward into the earth, joint after joint Of
the pipe is Joined on and follows it down un-
til water is reached. The water precolates
through the wire netting into the tube, and
a suction pump applied TO the upper end
raises it to the surface readily. This process
obviates the digging of large and expensive
wells, and when the army moves on the tube
can be pulled mt and carried of, TO be used
at the next i'.ng place.-AAa-
Year: 1868

IHE POWER OF WORD A mother, on
the green hills of Vermont, was holding by
the right hand a son, sixteen years old, mad
with love Of the sea. And as she stood by the
garden gate one morning, she said: Edward,
the great temptation of a seaman's life is
drink" Promise me, before you quit your
mothers hand, that you will never drink"
"And, said he, Cor he told me the story,)
" l gave her the promise, and went the broad
globe over, Calcutta and the Mediterranean,
San Francisco, the Cape of Good Hope, the
North and South Poles. l saw them all in
forty years, and / never saw glass filled
with sparkling liquor that my mothers form
by the gate did not rise before me; and to-
day am innocent of the taste of liquor"
Was not that sweet evidence of the power of
a single word? Yet that was not balf
"For," said he, yesterday there came into
my counting-room a man of forty years and
asked me, "Do you know me ~ "No."
"Well," said he, 81 was once brought into
your presence on ship-board drunk; you
were a passenger, the captain kicked me
aside, you took me to your berth and kept
me there till had slept off the intoxication: :
you then asked me if had a mother. l said
/ had never known a word from her lips.
You told me of yours at the garden gate, and
to-day am master of one of the finest pack
cts in New York; and came to ask you to
come and see me-" How far that little can
die throws its beams That mothers word
on the green hills of Vermont Oh, God be
thanked for the mighty power of u single
word
Year: 1868

whether Congress win grant the appropriation
OF three hundred and seventy-eight thousand
dollars asked for, for the purpose of opening
Hell Gate, or, failing to do SO, is there public
spirit enough among our merchants and ship
owners to do it themselves? The general
opinion is that it is the duty of the general
government 10 open this water highway, under
their authority to regulate highways and post
roads. 1t may be that the project has been
retarded by the considerations attending the
several plans referred to in General Newton's
report. There are evidently conflicting inte-
rests at work upon the influence of Congress.
1t is pity the report does not present some
project other than merely "as basis of calcu-
lation, the cheapest being over two millions.
which would be cheap enough if the work was
effectively done.
Year: 1868

The progress of laying this pavement has
thus far established its usefulness not only as
producing better road for horse travel, but
as an agent in relieving many of our crowded
highways and increasing the value of real
estate in those localities where il is now in
use in the city. Take Mercer street, for ex-
ample-hitherto very insignificant street, as
far as the value of real estate was concerned
and since the Ncolson pavement was adopted
very large percentage has been added to the
value of property there. We have examples
of this pavement in Nassau and William streets,
and they are entirely in its favor. In some Of
Year: 1868

ALLEGED FELo1Iors AssAULr.-James Thompson
was arrested last evening by an ocer Of the Twenty
seventh precinct, on complaint OF Ann Hayne, who
charges said Thompson as above in having pointed


pistol at her and threatening to discharge the same.
Compainant's husband IL the owner of a canal boat
lying alongside the bukhead at pier No. North
river, and complainant states that Thompson came
on board such boat, where complainant then was,
yesterday evening and made inquiry in an excited
and uncivil manner for his boat, whereupon he was
informed II was not there and reproved by complain.
ant for his bearing, upon which he drew the pistol
and pointed the same at her, as stated. Upon ms
arrest subsequently pistol was found In his posses
sion. He will be arraigned at the Tombs tina
morning.
Year: 1868

our debt is larger than ever and the cost of
government is nearly as great as during the
war. There is no prospect of bettering the
condition of the country so long as the same
men who have ruled since the suppression of
the rebellion continue in power for they have
shown their incapacity either to restore the
rebel States or to properly govern the loyal
States. Their laws have spread military
despotism and negro supremacy over one third
of the country. They have given bonus of
one hundred million dollars to the wealthy
manufacturers and transferred the burden to
the agricultural commercial and laboring
classes. The unconstitutional and abominable
income tax is enforced more vindictively than
ever, and the only means by which general
crash and ruin can be postponed is by food
ing the country with another hundred millions
of paper money.


These are the facts that will present them
selves to the people in the next election and
that will turn their votes against the radical
republican nominee, whoever he may be. The
verdict at the polls will be rendered against
corruption, violence and misrule, and the mill
tary reputation of Grant or of any other Gen
eral will be powerless to change the result. It
is for the conservative republicans to decide
whether they will at once take their position
against men whose policy they detest and
whose honesty they mistrust, and by acquitting
johnson and nominating Chase for the Presi-
dency secure to themselves the future admin
istration of the government, or whether they will
lie down under the heels of the radicals and
share in their defeat in the next election. Let
them decide at once; for whatever may be the
result of impeachment its consequences will be
fatal to radical republicanism, whose over
throw will only be the more complete if its
three years Of misrule should culminate in the
deposition of the constitutional President, after
mock trial, and the revolutionary transfer of
the government to the hands of blasphemons
and ignorant backwoods politician.
Year: 1868

The News Of the .World-NIodern Jnl-


provements.


The news of the world as laid before our
readers every morning in the HERALD, COM
pared with the age just preceding the intro
duction of the electric telegraph, affords a
striking illustration of the progress of ''modern
improvements. Take, for example, the
HERALD of yesterday. In addition to its
usual budget of local intelligence on all sorts
of subjects, its news from Washington and
from all sections of the United States and from
her Britannia Majesty's North American
provinces, and from the West India Islands
and South America, and in addition to page
of interesting European correspondence and a
page on the very remarkable state of things
existing in Mexico, we gave two columns Of a
graphic description of the tremendous volcanic
eruption of that king of the earths volcanoes,
Mauna Loa, Of the Sandwich Islands, in.
the Pacific Ocean, and column of the opera
the uttermost bounds of ancient Egypt. Thus
it will be seen that New York and San Fran
cisco are becoming the focal points of the news
of the wide world, as they are becoming the
central points of the commercial exchanges of
both hemispheres. Nor is the day far distant
when New York will overtop even the imperial
cosmopolitan city of London in the traffic of
the Atlantic and San Francisco, in the trade of
the vast Pacific, to China, japan, Australia
and the surrounding islands, will be the popu-
lous magnificent and still expanding empire
city Of the West