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Year: 1869

The Murder Of a Father by His Step-Son.


The Cincinnati Eoeninp Times Of February II
prints the following details OF the murder OF Mr.. J.
H. Rice, at Shamrocks Landing, on the Ohio river,
as alleged by his step-son, Frank Hardy


Mr.. Rice was farmer in easy circumstances and
on Tuesday morning last about nine O'CLOCK ne and
hts ste2-s0n, Frank Hardy, young man about
twentyone years OF age, went TO the barn together
and an hour two Afterwards the son returned anu
told his mother that his father mad gone up the river
some five or six miles and that she was 70 go Tor
him that evening with the buggy. She did so, but
not finding her husband came home In the evening.
and not finding her son at home-a bound boy,
about fourteen years old, being 50 'missing-she
reused the neighbors, who made search Tor him put
could not find him.


Next day the search was renewed. Then blood
was discovered on o sled in the barn, and they
tracked the blood IRON there along the road or
path to the river, where they found the earth mad
been removed and sod placed over the top. On re-
moving the earth tney found the body OF Mr.. Rice
about four feet below the surface, with terrible
cash dlagonally the face, as II maoe with an
axe. He supposed to nave had about his per-
son from 500 to $1,000, which was gone. HIS
watch and chain, which usually hung up IN the
house, were also missing. The mother says thas
after the young returned to the house from the
barn In the morning she saw him driving the morse
attached to the sled, with what appeared TO be
load OF fodder, toward the river. 1t Is supposed
they secretcd the body during the day and then
buried 1t during the night following. He Is known
70 have got aboard the steamer Bos:ona about SIX
miles below, and was seen on the streets OF tnis city
m Thuradav last.
Year: 1869

THE FLOYD ACoEpTANoEs DECLARED WORTH
LEss.-The well known claim of Russell and
Mayer on the government to be paid the
amount Of those acceptances of Floyd while
he was Secretary Of War, which we're impro-
perly used and about which SO much was said
at the time, have been declared by the Su-
preme Court Of the United States as worth
less. The ground of tho decision was that
the Secretary Of War cannot draw or accept a
bill of exchange unless in cases where au-
thority for that purpose is conferred upon him
by law, and that in the present case Secre-
tary Floyd had no such authority, and the ac-
ceptances do not therefore bind the govern
ment for payment Here is the end, then, Of
this claim for over six hundred and seventy
thousand dollars.
Year: 1869

Mack" thus alludes to a little on
pleasantness the great V. P. recently had
with a railroad official:


Burdened with the cares of State till
his back is describing the arc of a circle,
and his hairs are hesitating whether to
turn gray or come out, he can still and
time to write three pages of foolscap to
q railroad President, to demonstrate and
solemnly protest against the conduct of
subordinate" who sudaciously collected
fare from a passenger, and that pssseR-
ger Mrs. Honorable Schuyler. The
amount involved was eight dollars. l
have no right, of course, to say what or
to whom the Honorable Schuyler shall
write. But when hear of him writing
three whole pages for a contingent
fee of So, with the chances only one in
ten of his recovering the sum, | detect
base prostitution of the business of letter
writing, as well as an objectionable de-
terieration from the scale of prices. And
if the Honorable Schuyler intends to
enter the field as writer, and work at
the cheap rate of IS per three foolscsp
pages contingent pay at that, warn
him he will change the tune of all the
pulfers into hostility, for the noisiest
shoemaker among them would not write
50 much for SO little, to say nothing of
the fact that not one Of them would take
their pay in passes. To work so cheap,
aud then ride it out" is little too
much of a reduction below established
rates
Year: 1869

She loved him to the last, with a love
which it was not in his own power to
destroy. She gloried in bis name, and
she would not interfere between him and
the public who adored him any more
than she would admit the public to
Judge between him and her. AS we have
said, her love endured to the last. 1t
was her fortune which gave him the
means of pursuing his mode Of life
abroad. He spent the utmost shilling OF
her property that law gave him while be
lived; and he left away from her every
shilling that be could deprive of by his
will; aud what the course of life was,
which be thus supported, he himself has
left on record. Yet, after ell this, the
interview which she had with his servant
after his death shows what depth OF
passion lay concealed under the calm
surface of her reserve. II will be re-
membered, when Byron knew himself to
be dying, be called to his maH Fletcher,
and desired him to "go TO Lady Byron
-" Here his utterance became un-
ineligible, till he said: You will tell
her this" and Fletcher was obliged to
reply: II have not heard one syllable
that you have been saying" Good
God |" exclaimed the dying man; but it
was too late for more. Fletcher did 90
to Lady Byron; but during the whole
interview she walked up and down the
room, trying to stiAe her sobs and obtain
power to ask the questions which we're
surging in her heart. She could not
speak, and be was obliged to leave her.
Harriet Martinedu.
Year: 1869

The order adopted by General Scho-
field for the consolidation Of the regi-
ments now in the service, in accordance
with the provisions Of the new law for
the reduction Of the army, has been
printed. Cavalry and artillery regime ents
unchanged The forty-9ve regiments Of
infantry are to be consolidated into
twenty five. This will throw twenty
colonels, twenty lieutenant colonies,
twenty majors, two hundred captains,
and about four hundred FIRST and second
lieutenants into the list of those await
ing orders. Wherever officers are on
detached duty or are absent with leave
or otherwise their places will be filed
from the next in rank, and they left on
the list of those in retirement The
twenty-five regiments will constantly
have full complement of officers. The
four colored regiments will be formed
into two, to be known as the twenty
fourth and twenty-ffth. The four vete-
ran reserves will be consolidated with
the active regiments, aud men unfit for
duty at once mustered out, if they so
desire. The staff corps are not consoli-
datad
Year: 1869




The press of the country has spoken
on the recent appointment The New
York Sunday Neps, however, says some
of the toughest things about him: IL ls
possible, however, that the Office has
beea given to General Lees favorite
Lieutenant from less worthy motives,
and that desire TO seduce enough Con-
federates into the Radical ranks to build
up a respectable Radical party in the
Southern States is the motive which has
actuated the President in this matter /;
for, if il shall once become known that
the Administration will confer its Offices
on ex-Confederates, it they will become
Radical politicians, there are many thou
sands in every Southern State that will
quickly be converted TO the dominant
faith. Such is human nature in the
South as we'll as in the North, and East
and West But whatever may be the
opinion as to Grants conduct in tender
ing Office to Longstreet, there are very
few persons who will not say that it does
not become General Lees Lieutenant
General 10 accept office under the soldier
President against whom they fought, and
5y whom they we're conquered. 1t is all
we'll enough to praise Grants magnar-
unity, and to say that Longstrees might
we'll accept the progsred hand Of the vic
iorious chief; but il is not we'll that be
should do so when that hand is filled with
pieces Of money" Longstreets course
has been q source Of pain and morti6ca-
ton to all Of bis old friends. The general
opinion among those Southern men who
know him best is that he is no longer the
man of old; that bis mind is touched.
He is thoaght honest andconscieutious
ia his course, but misguided.
Year: 1869

What would you do, my dear one said
What would you do If were dead ?
II Death should humble. as he list.
These red lips which now you kistl
What would my love do were wed
To that CHASTITY groom instead;
If fo'er me, in the chancel. Death
Should cast his amaranthine wreath
Before my eyes, with fingers pale,
Draw down the mouldy bridal veil
All no! no il cannot be
Death would spare their light, and flee,
And leave my love to Life and me


t. G. bTEDxAH.
Year: 1869

ACLNowLEDGdENT.-M Isaac Butts. editor
of the Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser,
sends us yellow covered pamphlet entitled
Brief Reasons Zone hundred pages of 'em y
for liquidation; Applicable to the War Debts
of all Countries" For which we are not at all
obliged to Mr.. Isaac Butts, but for which, on
the contrary, we execrate and abhor Mr.. Butts,
and commend him to the special attention of
the foul fiend who inspired his pen. Let him
load the mails with packages of small pox
clothing, let him scatter through the country
the most fatal and deadly poison he can find,
eunningly devised to cause exquisite physical
anguish in whoever looks upon it,-and he
may find mercy somewhere. Or if he would
write pamphlets in advocacy of larceny, rum
selling or sodomy and distribute them, he
might be forgiven. But the unregenerate
scoundrel who deliberately sits down to the
task of converting whole nation to the doc
trines of his most wicked school of highway
man ethics a man who would have the flag of
ms country everywhere regarded as undistin-
guishable from the black flag of the pirate
who would make a nation of outcasts and
criminals to be abhorred and spit upon by
Christian people everywhere-what shall we
say of him? The phiosophic mind will spec
ulate about Butts. Where was he born-in
Mississippi? Was he pupil of jeff. Davis
and the repudiators of that State? Or did
New York city give him birth and was he not
in his earlier years an alderman of that burgh?
That he is the editor of Democratic paper
we know-probably he served his apprentice
ship in the Office of the La Crosse Democrat
But what is his religion? Has he set up in
Rochester branch establishment, consisting
of Butts, of the society of Devil worshipers in
Syria? Lest Mr.. Butts should require that
his arguments be refuted in lieu of personal
attack upon himself he should consider the
application of this parallel case. Let Mr..
Butts "a good name for him, to be sure. for he
is successful incarnation of all the adversa.
tive conjunctions in the universe) seriously ar
que to respectable gentleman in favor of the
dishonor of his wife and daughter and REQUIRE
an answer. If the fexors and extensors of
the Sentleman's arms were sufficiently deyel-
Oped Mr.. Butts would receive reply forci-
BILE enough to knock him off from the planet
into space.
Year: 1869

THE ST. LOUIS FAMILY FLOUR co.
AT 20 Commercial ST., may be found the best
Family Flour. We have tried this flour and
find it of most excellent quality. This Com
pany are determined to keep the different
grades and to sell at retail for wholesale prices
thereby giving the purchaser an advantage
which is not easily obtained at other establish
ments. We can assure our readers that this
-four is exactly what it is represented to be-
A penny saved is worth quite as much as I
penney earned, and here is a chance to full.
realize the truth of that ancient maxim.


III sNtf
Year: 1869

SILVER ORE.-We had exhibited to us last
evening specimen of silver ore from the Nor
rison mine, Colorado, which was brought from
thence by Mrs. Robinson of this city. 1t was a
large and splendid specimen, the silver being
plentifully intermixed with quartz and shining
as bright as mirror. The mine from which
this piece was taken is said to yield about
$1,000 per week
Year: 1869

SERIOUS AccIDENr-On Thursday last, as a
party of laborers were raising an immense
boiler OF some fifteen tons weight into position
by means of an iron jack at the Eagle Sugar
Refinery, some of the blocking slipped, leo
ting the boiler fall very little and at the
same time canting it to one side. One of the
laborers named Thomas Howe who happened
to be On the falling side got his leg caught,
fracturing the bone below the knee and bruis-
man was carried to his home, and we are glad
to hear that he will not lose his leg as was
feared. If the blocking had entirely given
away it would have smashed him as fiat as a
nanoaka ef
Year: 1869

THE NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
The National Life Insurance Company, char.
tered at the last session, and starting in bust
ness with paid-up cash capital of one million
OF dollars, will do much to change the whole
system of Life Insurance in America. Hith-
erto, with few exceptions, our companies have
been organized on the mutual plan, by which
the insured is obliged to pay premium much
greater than the cost of insurance, in the ex-
pectation oe receiving an uncertain dividend at
some future time. High premiums make it
difficult for the poor man to obtain the benefits
of life insurance, which he, of all others, should
have in easy reach. 1t should be in the power
OF every man to protect his family by the paw
ment of low annual premium, with the
knowledge that he has made perfectly secure
Investment


This result the establishment of the National
Life Insurance Company will obtain. In the
first place, is the security of its vast cash capi
tai, and in the second that of the character of
its managers, many of whom are men who
stand foremost in American finances. 1t is a
stock company, paying its dividends in advance
by charging rates far below those of the mutual
companies 1t gives every insured person the
largest possible amount of insurance tor the
smallest possible premium; and every policy
holder knows precisely what he is to pay, what
he is to receive, and no margin whatever is left
for doubt or misunderstanding. Doing bust
ness, in this way, the National Life Insurance
Company must become popular throughout The
country, and it is only necessary that it should
be understood, to command the confidence of
people.


The establishment of such a system as we
have indicated, upon such broad and secure
basis as that of the National Life Insurance
Company, must be the means of doing incal-
culable good. Lille Insurance is the privilege
OF the rich; it is the duty of the poor, and these
new and great principles introduced into the
American system, deserve the thoughtful con-
slderation of every one.of our readers.
Year: 1869

THE PLAY OF HAMLET.-Erie stock is no
longer recognized at the New York Stock Ex-
change, but has been struck from the list and
driven to the street. Fisk Jr. has thus far been
unsuccessful in his efforts to establish an Erie
Board. Some one very pertinently compares
the Stock Exchange without Erie to the play
OF Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
Year: 1869

The York COUNTY INDEPENDENT, VIM
.. Noyes q Co., have nearly perfected ar
rangements for publishing the new paper at
Saco, and will commence as soon as they OBJ
tain sufficient number of subscribers. We
understand that they have already secured a
large list, and there is but little doubt that
the required number will be obtained as soon
as the canvass of the County is finished. Suc-
cess to the undertaking. 4y0us
Year: 1869

A COMMISSION de lunatico iaquirendo has
been appointed to "st" ON Tenney of the
Brunswick Telegraph. His head is so far
from possessing that normal balance and equi-
ibrum which is described in the general term
"level" that he can neither remember nor ex-
plain one week what he said the week before
Year: 1869

TIE S. P's.-Next Monday evening City Hall
Will be the gay place of the city, for every one
seems to be anticipating an extra good time
The elegant pantomime of Cinderella will
please old and young, while the promenade
concert later in the evening will delight the
young men and maidens; and we have no
doubt many of the middle aged, who do not
care to dance, will take seats in the gallery as
lockers on. We learn that Chandler is to do
his best, and that is saying much, and the la
dies of the s. P. Society always furnish choice
refreshments, with Lucy's Ice creams, and have
them nicely served l-fS
Year: 1869

The Gospel Banner has an editorial of great
interest this week in which it shows by stats
tics that though only two men have ever suf-
fered the extreme penalty of the law since
Maine became State, yet crime has beea less
frequent here than in any one of the neighbor-
ing States where death is still the penalty Of
murder.
Year: 1869

y At recent meeting at the University of
Michigan, it was resolved to adopta univer-


sity cap. The faculty concur in it, and will


undoubtedly wear them. Acting President


Frleze said it might be good plan to go
further, and adopt uniform style of dress.


as it would do away with the necessity of


changing with the fashions, lsl f.
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and efiectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hdlr as soon restored
to ats original color
acih the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

ened, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for a
Year: 1869

Are two of the most common and virulent dis
orders prevalent on this continent. to these the
Ointment is especially antagonisic its modus op-
er0ndi is first to eradicate the venom and then
complete the cure.
Year: 1869

Whether in the young or old, married or single
at the dawn Of womlnhood. or the tnTn of life
these tonic medicines display so decided m infu
ence that a marked Improvement is soon perccpt-
bic in the health of the patient. Being purely
vegetable preparation, they a"e safe and relia-
BILE remedy or all classes of Females in ever.
condition OF health and station of life
Year: 1869

A dog story comes from Paris. For
the last eight or nine months an old
man regularly made is appearance on
the Seine, with a lar log. The dogs
hair showed that he s11ered with skin
disease. The old man had consulted a
veterinary surgeon, who had prescribed
an ointment, to be followed Immediately
by a bath. The old man, the dogs
master, had followed the prescription for
two-thirds of year, and the dog, SO far
from getting better, seemed to grow
worse. Panied by the dogs suferings,
the master resolved to end them. He
could not see the death of the faithful
companion of ten years, so he gave
orders to the man be had daily hired to
anoint and bathe the dog to drown him.
The servant took large stone, secured
it to a rope, and began playing with the
dog in order to slip the moose around his
neck. In these gambols the man slip
ped, the rope became wrapped around
him. and he fell into the river. He was
no swimmer, and he was so embarrassed
by the heavy stone that he must neees-
sarily have. gone to the bottom. The
dog plunged in, seized the drowning
man by his clothes. and swan with him
to the shore, landing, not where the
man had fallen in, but at the place some
distance up the the river where the man
| had daily anciuted and bathed him.
Year: 1869

fuenees, which must hasten the march


of improvement aad quicken the steps


of progress upon every foot of fruitful


coast washed by the Mississippi. The


rates of marine insurance will be re-


dueed. The economy of travel will be


promoted. The comfort of the traveller
will be marvellously enlarged. And


the safety of human life and of freight
will reach the maximum. VIII not these
results once more crowd the mighty


Mississippi with every index of prosper
ity-every accumulation of floating
wealth-every auxiliary of civilization !?
1t is upon the banks of this Western


Nile that the religion of Christ is des-
tined to rear its most solemn and impos-
ing temples. 1t is hither that the star


of empire is to take its course. 1t Is
upon its curves and courses that the
mightiest struggles Of the century are


to be made and the most splendid
achievements to be won. No man ever
gazed across Its resistless current, who
was not moved by its magnifcence.
none ever l6lB us lDduhS WltuOub q Nlon
to return and share in its promises. Its
panorama inspires its beholders to com
prehensive plans and to munifeent under
takings. No intellect is dwarfed be-
meath its sway. No generous or daring
deed is arrested by its proximity. 1t
owes but to command. And it COM
mands to the creation of works and monu-
ments which shall approximate to its
own incompatible grandeur, and which
shall rise as superior to the shrivelled
performances of other and anterior com
munities as itself is isolated in its
greatness. When these per
formances shall become realities, then
in truth will free navigation become
blessing which shall repay all the tolls
and struggles it has cost. Then indeed
every wave shall dance and every spray
shall sparkle with the glad burden of its
cargoes, which shall rival the ancient
glories of the Adriatie and the modern
of the English channel in the
splendor of their equipment and the
substantial value of their commerce.
Year: 1869

The Radical correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes from
Washington of LOngstreet His mem
ories of the late war are exceedingly in
teresting. He possessed more brain
than any General on the Confederate
side, and it was, with all its cultivation,
a military brain. l believe that if he
had been made Csmmander-in-ehief of
the Confederate forces, instead Of that
dull respectability, Gen. Lee, he would
now be dealing out official patronage, in
stead of being its recipient. 1 urged
him to get up book on the war, and he
promised to do so, saying at the time,
that Gen. Lee was at work, and had been
at work on one since the surrender 1
gather from what know, and from what
General Longstreet said, the two books
will very materially differ, not SO much
as to facts as opinions.
Year: 1869

"There are greater actors off the
stage than ever were on It, says dis
tinguished writer, and the same rule viii
apply to singers. The advantage the
public vocalist has over her sister in
private life is merely one of audience.
There are three voices we know Of in
private life which, in point Of vefome,
sweetness and hexibility, are equal to
Miss KelIogg's, superior to Minnie
Hanek's, and as charming in some re-
speets as Lagrange's. One is in the fair
throat of a married lady Of this city.
Mobile has one which is an organ of
singular beauty united to other charms
of one of her young matrons, and New
Orleans the third the last is the most
sympathetic Of all and once delighted
the congregations of Christ and Trinity
Churches where the young lady sang.
Year: 1869


When the rich gold and purple Of Lies sunset
Lies in lis beauty on the silent sea;
Wnen on the shore see the white-robed angel
And hear his whisper, God has called for


thee"
Eyes lit with love will watch me on the sea-


shore,


Warm human hands viii fondly press my


own,
But can bear them with me on my journey
Out through the dimness OF the world IN


known
And this great beauty of the earth and heavens,
The holy night whose glory MIS- my SOUL
The softened amethyst fading twilight,
The cleaning stars on nights emblazoned


scroll
The rosy light of morning on the mountains,
The tender purple Of the distant sea,
Things 1 love now, from henceforth all forgot


ten,


What Of their beauty can bear with me?
" Alone, alone" sighed gentle-hearted Pascal,
And yet think that not alone we die;
Though all this earth is dimly fading from US,
Are we alone If Ose kind Friend is nigh@
One who hath said, " 10, am with you always -
The way-worn Man who sat by C4alilee,
Speaking good words and healing all the
Who lived and died for the love of me.
Oh, not alone. for this our Friend and Brother,
Though heavens great angels bow before His


throne,
Shall stand with US upon the silent sesIsh ore,
His hand shall guide US to the world IN


known.