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Year: 1869

HAVEN'T you often wondered what mys-
terious things were hidden in the far
down depths of the waves of the great
lakes? Wondered how the bottom looked ;
of the strange fishes; the sensations that
a living man would feel down there in the
moaning waters? When you have read
of some good ship, freighted with many
happy souls, plunging down into the dark
depths, haven't you wondered how she
rested, and seen, like a vision, the pale
faces, with staring eyes and floating locks,
being washed hither and thither, their
fingers clutcbing stifdy at one another as
the cold water swept them back and forth
We can See nature in the forest, in the air,
in all her workings but that of the waters.
And that is why we seek to penetrate the
hidden mysteries; why the diver who de-
soends into her closed cells is an object OF
awe and admiration. We who live upon
the shore see him in his armOr often, hear
of his successes and failures sometimes OF
his death, and yet but few of us know his
courage, his endurance, his perils, his feel
ings down there alone, knowing that he
descends with his life in his hands, and
that the waves above him would gladly
chant his death-song for his boldness.


Foremost among the bold divers of the
lakes is John Quinn resident of Detroit,
and, from long and varied experience
eminently qualified to tell the readers Of
the Free Press of the mysteries of which
we have spoken, and with little help to
polish up his words, he says:


cit is strange business, this diving
The danger fascinates some, but the peri
is never for q moment lost sight of. / put
on the helmet for the first time more than
ten years ago, and yet I never resume il
without feeling that it may be the last
time shall ever go down. 0fcourse, one
has more confidence after a while, bui
there is something in being shut up in m
armor, weighed down with 100 pounds
and knowing that little leak in your life
pipe is your death, that no diver can eveI
get rid Of And do not know that
l should care to banish the feeling
for the sight Of the clear, blue sky, tht
genial sun and the face Of fellow-man
after long hours among the fishes, makes
you feel like one who has suddenly
been drawn away from the grasp O
death. / have had some narrow escapes
while pursuing my strange profession


every diver has, or has been unusually
lucky to escape them. think the mos
dangerous place l ever got into was goini
down to examine the propeller Comet
Year: 1869

The tomb of Adami How touching it
was, here in a land of strangers, far away
from home, and friends, and all who cared
for me, thus to cover the grave OF blood
relation. True, distant one, but still
relation. The unerring instinct of nature
thrilled its recognition. The fountain Of
my filial affection was stirred to its pro-
foundest depths, and gave way to tumul-
tuous emotion. ] leaned upon pillar and
burst into tears. deem it no shame TO
have wept over the grave of my poor dead
relative. Let him who would sneer at my
emotion close this volume here, for ne will
find little to his taste in my journeyings
through Holy Land. Noble old mamie
did not live to see me-he did not live to
see his child And I-I-alas, did not
live to see him. Weighed down by sorrow
and Disappointment, he died before was
born-six thousand brief summers before
/ was born. But let US try to bear it with
fortitude. Let us trust that he is better
off where he is-Mnrk Ttcaia
Year: 1869

DON'T crowd; this world d broad enough
For you a. well - met
The doors of art are open wide


The realm Of thought ID free;
or all earth's places you are right


To choose the best You can,
Provided that you do not try
To crowd some other ma n.
What matter though you scarce can count
Your piles Of golden ore;
While he can hardly strive to keep
Gaunt famine from his doors
Oh willing hands and honest heart


Alone should man be proud;
Then give him all the room he needs,


And never try to crowd. t.ts
Don't crowd, proud Miss; your dainty SIX
VIII glisten none the less
Because ii comes in contact with


beggar'e tattered dress: =.
This lovely world was never made


For you and alone; $50
A pauper has right 20 tread


The pathway TO throne
Don't crowd the good from out your heart =
By fostering all that's bad tf
But give to every virtue room


The best that may be had;
Be each DAYS record such one,
That YOU NAV well be proud:
Give each his right-give eacn ms room


And never try 10 crowd
Year: 1869

The Christian Inder-a Baptist paper. issued
at Atlanta, GeOrgia-has long and able leader
on Political Assassination" which, while it is
mainly denial of the charges on which its
compatriots are arraigned at the North, man
ages to give the Conservatives some whole
some and timely counsel Coming ut last to
the main point, IL says


"Rut we must saw a word or two in relation 10 the
alleged ippiiy OF the political demonstrations charged
against people OF course whatever shows the bke
alton Of fact helps this aspect OF the question of
the huge proportions with which our enemies would IN
The with any air OF probability about them
become too few 10 Justify the supposon that the escape
OF the offenders from punishment betrays general hos
ty on the part ~ our people toward loyal polit.
Too often alas, In all sections. the shedding OF
blood goes unwhipt OF Justice We remember 10
have seen recently I'm that excellent monthly The GALAXY
the statistics OF murder In the city OF NewIork for
series OF yeursfron which appeared that IN one fourth
of the Instances the perpetrators crime
even discovered In many other instances doubtless,
they shielded from punishment by flight by techni
things may be in NewYork notwithsandns the thorough
organization OF its police under King Kennedy. aud
Suspended largely parayzed the functions OF the civil
authorities at the south u matter OF surprise that they
should happen among the scattered population aud amid
the conyusons Of state IN the very few cases OF
assassination which may be presumptivey attributed
more or less directly To political causesf


Comments by The Tribune.


To bring the discussion to a point, we will





was n native Southerner and an active Repub-
lican--in the language of The Inder's tfriends
q scallawag" He was delegate to the Con-
vention which framed the present Constitution
Of Georgia Ostracized for his politics by the
Whites he was living with a colored family in
Columbus, when band of thirty or forty per-
sons broke into the house one night, rushed
into his bedroom. and shot him instantly dead.


Now, this was not q case where the perpe-
"trators of the crime were not even discovered"
They were the Young Chivalry of Columbus.
Gen. Meade instituted an investigation, by
which they were thoroughly exposed to the
public gaze. We venture to say that they are
better known to the people of Muscogee County
than the Aldermen of this City are to the men
whose votes elected them.


The State having been reconstructed, after
fashion, Gen. Meades power was held to
have lapsed so his proceedings were stopped
and his prisoners discharged. The Blacks being
expelled from the Legislature aud declared in
eligible to Office, the State reverted suhstan-
Year: 1869

towns of Eastern Massachusetts, and some Of
the neighboring States and who had personally
trained about one third of all the ten thousand
singers. This was great help, but it was not
ALL Children in Boston learn music with their
alphabet Singing by nOte-not the mere
screaming of tunes-is taught in the most thor
ough and systematic manner in all the public
schools. This is why Boston has such mag
nifcent choruses; and shall we not say that
the charming good order, good temper. and
enthusiasm which were so conspicuous in the
motley crowd that oyerhowed the Coliseum
were also attributable in no small degree to
the refining and elevating influence of an early
musical education7 Hero New York and all
the great cities of America may hnd their
lesson Of the Jubilee.
Year: 1869

Gathering up the sober opinions Of wise men
upon the great Boston feast, now that the noise
has died away, and hot blood has cooled, and
angry editors have ceased to beat the air. we
ask ourselves no longer whether Boston aud
Gilmore have really attained the glory for
which they looked but whether the prize was
worth the winning. For with all its comical
aspects-and there surely were enough of them
the Jubilee pretty serious affair,
magnificent gathering of enthusiasm, which Is
too valuable force to be wasted. There were
certain defects in the execution of the plan in
separable from its very vastness; but we are
all quick TO acknowledge that the result was far
more pleasing than most persons outside OF
BostOn-ourselyes included-supposed it could
be, and more pleasing than it would have been
in any other city of America. If we look mt
the festival merely as n monster concert then
It was not worth doing, for Boston has many
time surpassed it. But it was something
more than u concert, and we think upon the
whole it must do good. 1t will go far toward
famiarizing the people with the higher kinds
Of music, and weaving them from the unwhole-
some theatrical stimulants which have SO much
corrupted the public taste. Ii will he felt 10y
q class of persons whom tho ordinary concert
does not reach, because they never go to it.
1t may perhaps popularIe musical festivals in
this country such as are frequent in Germany
and other parts of Europe. 1t will certainly
promote the formation of permanent choral
societies, especially among the men and women
who sang in the great Jubilee chorus; and pos
sibly it may even result in the fusion of our
half dozen puny New-York singing societies
into one grand and powerful organization. We
may look upon it in fact as a sort of musical
revival,-not free from extravagances and fol-
lies, but Invaluable rs generator of the enthu-
sasm which is afterward to be expended in
sober and persistent effort.


We have said that the Jubilee could have
been organized nowhere but in Boston. A
great orchestra can be collected by anybody
who has the money TO pay for it; but great
chorus, in the present condition of American
musical culture, is impossible except in the
capital of New-England. Boston has the
best chorus leader in tho United States,-
gentleman who does not coniine his labors to
that city. but sxers them oil through the
Year: 1869

A German astronomer, probably evolving
the fact from the depths of his inner coz
sciousness, has discovered that this respectable
old earth is soon to have another mocn.
What effect two moons will have upon human
brains as well as upon tide-waters, we cannot
undertake to predict; but it Is reasonable to
suppose with a pair of lovely Queens OF Night
A brace of bright Expresses of the Starry SKY
that the production of poetry, lyric, elegiac'
philosophical and amatory will he immensely
increased. To such a consummauon, deyouuy
to be deprecated, we look forward with ieeI-
ings of horror; and we hasten to announce
that after the appearance of the supplementary
moon. original poetry will have no sort o0
chance of publication in this journal So '1N
nobody need send it.
Year: 1869

We have before us fresh Illustration Of
what we said few days since respecting the
Crispin" Association of ShOemakers.
printer in Washington announces that ne left
his office upon the employment of young Mr..
Douglass, not because he is a negro-hater," }"
but because Douglass is not member of the
Typographical Union" Now we deny an toto
the right of any Society, Association Union or
Guild to prescribe any mechanic because he
does not chance to belong to it, Hc may
not please to join it, and he should
be protected in his pleasure. He may not be
able to get into it, because it is for the interest
of monopolsts already in to keep him out. At
any rate, we claim for him the right to employ
his own discretion in the premises.
Year: 1869

The Republicans in the COrtes have been
gravely menaced with repression, but by whom
the Cable does not say. This threat is sequel
to the notice given by Minister Sagasta that
republican cries uttered in the streets of Madrid
would be punished as sedtion. The present
rule Of Spain is, therefore, bent on preparing
it for the monarchy, and not disposed to accept
the republic even on sufferance. The late ut
terances, if rightly understood. give sinister
meaning to the quiet which Marshal SerranO
has preserved hitherto. The mOnarchical and
the republican causes are about to be brought to
the test of an open quarrel and, for the credit
of the latter, it appears that the monarchy has
been precipitate and aggressive.
Year: 1869

tally into the hands of the late Rebels. What
do you think they did with the muTderers Of
Ashburn7 Who does net know that they did
nothing. and trOuld do nothingi


Now if one single Conservative" Georgia
journal has heartily condemned the murder of
Ashburn and called for the conviction and pun
lshment of the perpetrators, we do not know
it. They have devoted themselves TO black.
enlng the name of the victim and screening
his assassins from public indignation. And
this is why we consider the death Of Ashbun
Conservative murder.
Year: 1869

The out givings from the Treasury Depart
ment concerning its balances for the fiscal year
closing on the last day of the present month
are Unexpectedly favorable. 1t is already quite
clear that the sanguine prophesies made some
months ago as to the condition of the Treasury
at the close of the year are sure to be more
than verified
Year: 1869

We are not entirely sure that the ,Consolida-
tion of the various movements for inviting
European and Asiatic emigration to the South
will result in unmixed good; but it starts
under favorable auspicies and is backed by
err noDnaa
Year: 1869

The latest returns from the vote on Lay
Delegation in the Methodist Episcopal Church
develop a more serious opposition to the
movement than has been heretofore exhibited.
The returns now show tWenty-seven thousand
for Lay Delegation to ten thousand against it.
Year: 1869

It is stated that the final disposition of the
stakes in the late fst-hght between Allen and
McCoole is to be left to the decision Of the
Courts. We do not see how the Courts can
take cognizance of the matter at all, except to
Year: 1869

such was the excitement that the Gold Room wa
occupied until after six O'Clock. Cash gold continued
In good supply. Loans were made at and per
cent and 1-32 before Clearing House, and at T. and
7per cent afterwards for carrying. One transaction
was recorded at nat. The report OF the Gold Ex-
change Bank shows the heavy business yesterday.
he foil uinn he fnnre
Year: 1869

The New York money market was very easy
yesterday at to per cent on call, until Just
before the close of bank hours. when the de-
mand suddenly became more active and there
was quite a little furry, resulting in an ad
vance to per cent. This unexpected change
In the aspect OF the money market was partly
aIinclal, and was started by some parties on
the bear side, although the great ease of th,.
morning undoubtedly induced many borrow.
ers to delay maxi their loans ar until a Ia,sr
hour than usual. Prime business paper is
quoted at to 8 per cent.
Year: 1869

A PROMINENT politician and General. after a
protracted interview with General Grant, yes
terday afternoon, stated % friend that, while
he could not give any Information as to who
would form General Grants Cabinet, yet OF
three things he felt satisnsd, and they were that
neither Ohio, the Pacific co ast, nor any Of the
Southern States would be represented
Year: 1869

IT would have pleased the Republican
politicians had the Democratic members in
the House voted against the repeal of the
tenure of Office act. They look upon their
vote for its repeal as the initial move to
wean General Grant from the Republican
party. Consistently, they could not have
voted otherwise than they did.
Year: 1869

Biliousness, Indigestion, General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from q want of
proper action in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels, are eradicated by a course of this great
Year: 1869

of the efficacy of this matchless vegetable stom-
achc are to be found in every city and town in the
United States-healthy men and women, rescued
ea 5OTtuTs ss it's By its and to b
any other Btters in existence in this special par
tieular-it is not alcoholic.


For such constitutions snd systems as require for
their invigoration diffusive stimulant.
Year: 1869

Witnout any specIaI Complaint. except gradual
declination of bodily strength and nervous energy
vitality and vigor, as refreshing and exil-
Grating pool in the desert to the sand d-scorched
and fainting travellers.
Year: 1869

The confirmed dyspeptic may almost say with st.
Peter 81 die daily" The object of this article is
him hin how be tobansh them forever. The u means SaEs
Of immediate and permanent relief are profered
him in
Year: 1869

The nomination of Rosecrans ex
empliiies the highest wisdom to which
the Democracy have attained. They
have arrayed themselves under the
shadow OF 4 name. They have so
far overcome the party aversion to
the war as to choose one of its her Ces
for standard bearer. In its way
nothing could he better.


But name is worthless except as
the sign of thing. Rosecraus
sounds well as candidate in OHIO.
To make the name ellicaciOus in Il
canvass, rs a proof of change i'll the
Democratic heart, it must De associa-
ted with evidence OF change in the
Democratic policy. And for this We
look in vain i'll the Ohio platform,
which, like the platform of the Cali
fOrnia Democrats, is an expression
of unabated hostility 10 the results
of the war. There will be no perma-
nence in reconstruction il the men
who nominated Rosecrans can pre-
vent it. The national creditor will
fare as badly as though Pend1eton
were President, if their purposs:s be
upheld.


We have the spectacle. then, Of a
gallant Union soldier cOnsenting to
be the instrument of a party whose
principles and objects are incospat-
ible with the peace of the Union SIS
restored on the Congressional plan,
and with the national honor rs affect
ed by the debt. How ROsecrans
feels in his new-found company, or
how he will manage to stand on the
platform constructed for him, it were
not easy to guess. Perhaps the SER
vice he tried to render Andrew
Johnson at the Vir ginia Springs may
have prepared him for his present
position, anomalous and untenable
as to others it seems to be.


But how can ROsecrans help p the
Democratic party? His name would
be worth something to a legitimate
connection, and in circumstances
reconcilable with his opinions and
actions during the war. Allied to
the Democracy, it loses whatever
charm it possessed. He will be
Judged by the company he is in now,
and his war declarations will be
neutralized by the policy which at
present receives his approval. ~
Y. Times.
Year: 1869

The law of advertising had n
proper elucidation, a few days ago,
in New York. The publishers of q
daily paper sued the Standard Life
Insurance Company, in the Supreme
Court, before Judge Fithian, for a
bill OF SI13 on account of advertis
ing. The Company resisted pay
ment on the ground That they had
authorized but one insertion. There
was no proof however of this. There
was no order to that effect upon the
bill, and the Company did not at
tempt TO deny that they saw the ad-


vertisement continued in the paper
and failed to countermand it.-An


advertisement received in a publica-
ton office, without the number of
insertions marked upon it, or the
cost of the insertions paid for at the
time, the publisher can know moth
ing Of the wish of the advertiser
respecting the number of insertions
desired, and can do nothing until
advised by him whose business it is.
Year: 1869

FREEDOM OF THE RIvER.--One Of the North
river ferryboats ran into al ocean steamer
anchored in the stream, and the owners of the
ferryboat were sued for damages. Their
defence was that the steamer was anchored
directly in their course in crossing the river.
1t was decided that they had no exclusive
right to any course, and that if such defence
were admitted, then in the multitude of our
ferries q large portion of the river would be
practically closed to shipping, to the great
embarrassment of commerce. So the ferry
men find that ships have rights.
Year: 1869

BUBBLE.-There was an age in which the
''bubble" was the grand means for men to
secure fortunes They made 80 many bubbles
that the real difficulty was what to name them
and what idea could be seized upon for organ
izing a company and issuing stock. There
was company organized in London once for
''making deal boards from sawdust" The
bubble age is not quite over. Not long since
men organized in this city joint stock com
tyranny, and issued their stock under the name
of ''Fenian bonds" The bonds sold we'll, and
now the managers of the affair are quarreling
in the courts over the custody of the money
Who shall have 1t?
Year: 1869

TELEGRAMs IN COURT.-Once more private
kilograms have been paraded in court as part
of q legal investigation. This occurred in the
Susquehanna Railroad case. The theory is
that kilograms are not entitled TO privileged
secrecy, and that public morality is against
according them such privilege, that the tele-
graph may not assist in the commission of
crime. Practically how does this operate !?
If men want to use the telegraph for criminal
purpose they adopt the plan of using words in
some arbitrary sense known only to them
selves and so they keep their secret and the
rule of law is no help to justice, but only an
annoyance to innocent persons.
Year: 1869

Shall we ever, with all our science, succeed
in transporting ourselves at pleasure through
the air, making that our pathway just as we
do the grosser fluid, water, which we traverse
so easily in every direction? This is ques-
ton which we suppose every one of our read
ers has asked himself more than once, for the
idea of aerial navigation Is so natural that we
find every age of the world has more or less
discussed it. Just now in San Francisco this
subject is attracting great attention, from the
fact that the model of an aerial ship exhibited
there, and some experiments made upon it,
gave complete satisfaction to the engineers
present An Aerial Navigation Company has
been formed for the laudable purpose of rails
ing funds to enable the protector to construct
full sized air ship. This will be completed,
it is expected, in about q couple Of months,
when the aeronauts, If successful, intend pay
ing us flying visit all the way from the shores
of the Pacific.


The Avitor, as the new invention is named,
is to be propelled by steam, carrying for this
purpose five horse power steam engine, and
is to be elevated and supported in the air
partly by gas and partly by planes extending
on each side to the distance of about twenty
feet at the centre. These planes will be 30 con-
structed in sections that they may be depressed
or elevated by the rudder at pleasure. The
well known and fatal objection to balloons,
that they are the mere sport of the winds, hav-
ing no propelling power within themselves, is
thus got rid of. Balloons have been chiefly
found useful for scientific purposes, observing
the oscillations of the magnetic needle and its
dip, and experimenting on the density, tempera-
ture, humidity and electricity Of the air at its
different elevations; but if this aerial ship,
the Avitor, prove as great success as many
in California anticipate, we are on the eve of a
complete revolution in our mode of travelling.
But before speculating any further as to the
results we must wait patiently and see how far
our friends in California are going to carry out
their programme.