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Year: 1869

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No sooner thought than done. Not
moment was to be lost in consideration.
Every man is his own nearest neighbOr,
and saves himself first, when he can.
Despair and necessity have no law. a
leap and I was out of the bushes into
the road, from the road into the car
riage; / seized the reins and turned the
horses round, away from my burning
home. The man sprang at the horses,
and just as let them feel the whip, he
tried to seize them by the bit. He stood
right before them. piled the whip
more vigorously. 1t was now or never
with me. Tho horses reared and sprung
forward. The owner fell and lay under
the horses feet. drove over him. He
cried for help. His voice pierced me
to the very soul. 1t was well-known
voice--a beloved voice. L could not
believe my ears. l stopped, and leaned
out of the carriage to look at the unfor-
tunate man.-I saw him !-But--l
shudder to relate it-I saw my brother,
who must unexpectedly have finished
his business at Prague. or for some 9TH
er reason was on his way home.


sat there as il struck by lightning
disabled, paralyzed. My poor brother
lay moaning under the wheel. Such n
thing had never dreamed of. l drag
ged myself slowly from the carriage.
sank down beside him. The heavy
wheel had gone over his breast. With
low, tremulous voice, called him by
name. He heard me no more: he re-
cognised me no more. 1t was all over
with him. was the accursed one who
had robbed him of q life as dear to me
as my own.-Horriblc two murders in
the same night both indeed involun-
tary-both committed in despair. But
they were still committed, and the con-
sequences of the first crime, which
might have avoided.


My eyes were wet, but not with tears
of grief over the beloved dead but tears
of frantic rage against my fate-against
heaven. Never in my life had l stain
ed myself with an atrociou5 crime.
had been alive to all that was beautiful
good, great, and true. had had no
sweeter joy than to make Others happy.
And now, cursed thoughtlessness-a
single unhappy moment Of self-forget-
fulness-and then this guilty play OF
accident or necessity had made the most
miserable wretch under heaven. Oh,
let no one boast of his virtue, his
strength, or his circumspection!-It
needs only minute for man to thrust
aside q little his ilrmest principles
only minute, and the pure angel Is
capable of the greatest crimes. We'll
for him is it, If fate, more favorable to
him than to me, throws no brother in
his way to be run over like mine


But let the moral go. For him who
has not found it out of himself, there il
no moral. l will hasten TO the end o
my unhappy story, than which no poe
ever invented anything more horrible


REMoRsE.


KISSED the pale brow of my broth
er. heard voices in the wood. Ter
rified, l sprang up. Should let my
Year: 1869

Mr.. Grant has presented the saddle he
rode on during the war to Minister Wash.
burne's father. He ought now to secure
Pope's, the one in which he kept his head
quarters during the second Bull Run cam
naign
Year: 1869

1t is officially stated that instructions
have been sent by the British government
to its Minister at Madrid, in reference to the
seizure Of the Mary Lowell Their charac-
ter is not made known.
Year: 1869

ground giving them beautiful effect
down past pillars and icicles several hun
dred feet q pale light can now aud then
be seen from our high perch and the dull
clink Of pick and drill II heard. The pit
il entered BY q crazy path not at all
adapted to patent leather boots.


The miner will treat ono in gentle.
manly way, and pleasantly answer all
manner of no doubt stupid questions.


The ore il blasted from its bed and con-
veyed from the many galleries, to the
hoisting car in hand barrowe.


A powerful engine working large cylin.
ders around which steel rope attached
to the Car winds and unwinds, propelling
and lowering it. From the several pita
eight hundred tons of ore are daily hoisted
in this manner. Until recently one hun.
dred and fifty teams lave hauled this ore
TO the lake. But the railroad, the com.
panies have 80 long been at work upon
and ut last completed, il in successful
operation, and the iron horse now goet
snorting up and down the hills with it
heavy load. In the.spring passenger
car is to be put upon the road and viii
doubtless find passengers enough to make
it paying thing, and will be very con
venient for those wishing to visit ths
mine-.


Five years will show q great change II
this place. The almost exhausties'
amount of ore with ipe company work
ing it out and an active agent to keeI
things in order, will in few years make
this an important place. Every day
some new improvement is being made oy
the company to facilitate the working o
the mines
Year: 1869

Frederick Douglass, in q recent public
address, referred to his son Louis and his
attempts to get employment at Rochester
in the following terms :


There is no Disgusting the fact-his
crime was his color. 1t WAS his color in
Denver, it was his color in Rochester, and
it is his color III Washington to day. In
connection with this bject, | have now
word to say of the gOodly city in which
I have lived for the last twenty years, and


where still reside, city than which not
one in tho country is more civilized, refined
and cultivated. It abounds in both educa-
tional and religious institutions, and its
people are generally as liberal and friend
ly to the colored race as any other in this
State, and far moro so than most cities
outside of the State. Here the common
schools have been open to all classe5 alike
for dozen years, and colOred and white
children havc sat on the samo benches, and
played in the same schoolgirls, and at the
same sports and games, and they have
done SO in peace. l can say many good
things of Rochester. Tho Fugitive Slave
Bill never took slavo ont OF Its limits,
though several attempts were made to do
So When colored people We're mobbed
and hunted like wild beasts in other cities,
and public fury was famed against them
by malignant pro slavery press, the col
Ored man was always safe and we'll protect
cd in Rochester, and yet have somewhat
against it. One of the saddest spectaclcs
that ever assailed my eyes or panied my heart
was presented in that city, and you will
pardon me for making mention of it,
though it is clearly personal. The same
young man who is now at work at the
Government Printing Office in Washing
ton, and .sgainst whose employment so
much feeling has been shown, was the sub
iect He had just returned from the war ;
had stood on the walls of Fort Wagner
with Col. Shaw had borne himself like a
man on the perilous edge of battle, and
now that the war was nearly over, he had
returned to Rochester. somewhat broken
in health bnt still able and willing to
work at his trade. ..g....tt ....t -.
But, alas he begged in vain Of his fell
low worms to give him leave to toll. Day
after day, week after week, and month af-
ter month he sought work, found none,
came home sad and detected. had felt
the iron of negro hate before, but the case
OF this young man gave it deeper entrance
into my soul then ever before. For sixteen
years had printed public journal in
Rochester had employed white men
and white apprentices during all this time;
had paid out, in various ways, to white
men in that city little less than 800, 900,
and yet hero was my son, who had learned
his trade in my office, young man OF
good character and yet unable to lind
work at his trade because of his color and
race. Walking among my fellow citizens
in the street, Ihsve never failed to receive
due courtesy and kindness" Some men
there have ever shown an interest an saw
ing my soul; but of what avail are snch
manifestations whero ono. aees himself
oa,racised, degraded and denied the means
of obtaining his daily bread. IA q -'''-.
Year: 1869

A New York tobacco manufacturers has
sent box with tin sides and wooden
heads, for eight pound packages of tobacco
to the deputy commissioner of internal
revenue and desires to know if it would
answer the letter of the law for packing
tobacco. The deputy replies that "the
law requires all caVendish, plug and twist
tobacco to be put up in wooden packages,
and that the bureau cannot authorize any
other kind of package than that which tho
law has prescribed"
Year: 1869

A correspondent of PhiiadfIPhla paper
thus writes of prolonged g totality =


''Fow people trouble themselves to
think what the effect would he If the
eclipse of Saturday were to last any length
of time and thes were blotted from the
heavens. Philosophy declares that not
only would a terror of darkness cover the
earth, but the moisture of the air Wonid be
prccipitated in vast showers to tho earth,
and the temperature fall TO fearful point
of cold, nothingiless than 230 degree, be-
low zero, Fahrenheit. Tho earth wonld
be the seat of darkness and more than
Arctic desolation, Nothing could snrviYe
such freezing cold moment more than
one could breathe in -scalding water. In
three days after the cooling proceas began,
nothing ereated swould be alive but the
monsters that wallow in deep ocean. and
the eyeless reptiles that make their haunta
in caves which penetratefar underground.
Year: 1869

Orders have been given to the tellers IN
the Treasury Department ut Washington
to pay out no more ten dollar grcenbacks
The whole issue will be Withdrawn and de
stgoyed and nonew greenbacks of the de
nomination will be substituted
Year: 1869

millions on political friends. but win not give
dollar to help to cheaper the food Of the poor.


Our fisheries are being rapidly depleted;
especially is this observable with the shad
fisheries Our market dealers complain that
their customers demand large shad, which they
can no longer supply. The price has doubled
In few years past, but still at the augmented
price the requirements Of purchasers cannot be
met. Serious apprehensions are felt that in
few years the finer of these delicacies-
for the small fish are absolutely scarcely fit to
eat-will entirely disappear. The rich and the
poor suffer from this alike, and the extrava-
giant cost of fish falls with peculiar severity on
that portion of the poorer classes Of our COM
munity who make fish diet at certain periods
religious duty. The commissioners merely
ask an appropriation Of ten thousand dollars,
with which they propose to carry on the duties
Of their Offices without personal emolument, to
stock our vast extent of inland lakes and
ponds with desirable species and to put in the
Hudson river at least three hundred millions
Of young shad. These promises may be ex-
travagant and the immediate result may not
justify all their hopes, but the gain must in
any event vastly exceed the outlay, and some
thing must be done promptly to save our fish
cries and the vast capital invested in them
from ruin.
Year: 1869

Failure to Nominate n Candidate for the


ThrOne-MOntpensier or a Republic.


MADRID, April q, 1869.
Another informal meeting Of the members Of the
majority in the Cortes was held to-day to nominate
q candidate for the throne SO great was the
diversity Of opinion that the meeting broke up with
out result leaving the members more widely divided
than before on the subject.


Prime Minister Serrano declared that the choice OF
Montpensier for King the declaration OF republic
were the only possible alternatives.


General Prim who was also present, remained
silent throughout the proceedings. His conduct has
given rise to widespread belief that he would not
be unwilling to accept the Presidency Of Spanish
republic.
Year: 1869

BUFFALO, April Il.
The Grand Trunk Railway track Ia entirely under
water between here and Brantford. The express
train which left this city at six O'Clock this morning
was obliged to return. So far the freshet has not
impeded travel on the Great western Railway.
No trains Will leave Buffalo tonight for New York,
via the Central Railway, on account OF the high
water at Rome.
Year: 1869

We are sorry TO see the Mariett,
Times so enthusiastic for MIR. Car,


and his speeches. The Tines know,
, very well that q circus, or a camI
meeting, or an execution would draw


greater crowds, and produce better


results. There is further view oil


MIR. Cary which the Times should


remember. He can talk as well OF


better on the other side. Now, OF


what value is such a moun;ebank


About as much to people in their


senses as the saw-dust performer who


does the best his muscles can do for


the mob or his majesty. The crowd


is all he cares for, and he cares for


them because of their "sixpences, :"
and he can beat Mr. Gary ten-to- one
at collecting and amusing the crowd,


besides giving them more for their


money. We have something further


TO say in this matter, which we can
set before the reader by recent oc
currence not far from Mr.. Cary's
theatre of operations. AT GAINESVILLE
MIR. Connell, the candidate for AT
tOrney General, held forth after the
manner of his Columbus utterance,
where he said that the Lord was on
his side, and the Republican party
was full OF thieves and scOundrels.-
He was doing up his stereotype
speech in campaign style before
few score OF hearers, among them
several Republicans, one of whom
is an employer of over hundred
men. He had become convinced
that the country required change,
and that it was his duty to vote the
Democratic State ticket. The Re
publican agreed that he had been
wrong with respect to the conduct of
public affairs for several years. But
here stood war Democrat vociferat-
ing against Republicans and their
principles, who had been just as vio-
lent in his speeches during the war
against the Democratic party
What effect can man produce up
On my mind,'' said the listener allud-
ed to, "who, know, can speak with
lhe same zeal on both sides, and who
IS prone to the abuse of all who hold
different opinions except when he
wants their votes2' The sooner the
Samson's foxes with torches lighted
1T their tails, and consuming our
hopes of a harvest, can be called
home and shut up, the better for the
party and the country.-Cincinnat5
COnamOner.
Year: 1869

WHAT ALLIED THE TELEGRAPH p
During the fortnight which ended


last Saturday night, the telegraph
line between mere and Chicago was
mysteriously interfered with-so that
no message could be sent, and all
dispatches were sent by way OF
Racine and Savannah. At first the
trouble was laid to the high water
somewhere, but after the various
streams subsidized, the trouble contin-
ued the same as before. In the day
time, however, the line worked as
well as could be desired. After a
week of nightly search for the cause
of the break, it was discovered last
Friday evening, in the shape of a
long iron rod, which miner at La
Sale placed against the wires upon
quitting his work. The rod was
knocked down, and the line worked
well enough. The miner was warned
that repetition of such a disposal
of his working tools would result in
trouble to himself SIS well as to the
telegraph company. He was utterly


amazed at the power of his rod over
the wires, and thought the telegraph
was "mighty square thing to be
sthopped by the likes O. that rod
Davenport { I0lcd) Gazette.
Year: 1869

Kossuth has been getting out a
proclamation calling upon the Hun
garlans to be ready for the general
insurrection now near at hand. A
package of ten thousand of these
documents intended for secret distri-
button was recently discovered at
Fiume.
Year: 1869

The World puts On airs in refer
ence to our plain dealing with those
who would repudiate the National
Debt and delraud the public credit
ors by means OF what we regard as
the Greenback swindle. 1t says:
Year: 1869

Having made large additions TO our establish
ment in the shape of material OF the latest
style and having employed experienced and
srders for every variety of PLAIN AND FANCY
IoR PRINTING with neatness and Dispatch
The addition of Steam Power To our establish
maut affords US great advantages over most
country offices in the way of low prices and
FAST work Call with Us, and be convinced.
Year: 1869

The German Democratic Committee
OF Kings county met last evening and resolved TO
support unanimously the regular democratic
nominees ~ the coming election The meeting was
he ID III No. 3Gl Fulton street.
Year: 1869

COMMISSIONER DELANo holds that Assessors
have full power to investigate returns, and to
judge whether gentlemen who live at the rate of
ten thousand year and pay taxes only on one,
make honest statements of their incomes. This
will be disagreeable sort of thing for some peo-
pie to submit to ; but the Commissioner is right.
If we have the law at all, we ought to enforce it,
Without some such inquisiton the burden falls
on the honest men, and the rogues get of
lightly.
Year: 1869

A YOUNG lady at Memphis, Tennessee, lately
made a practical illustration of the theory which
has been quite warmly advocated in the columns
of the Revolution, that ladies should have the
same privileges as men in making love and pro-
posals of marriage. The young woman in ques-
ton hearing that certain young man wanted
to get married, dressed up in her tidiest and
called on him. Though they had never met be-
fore, she Immediately made know her errand.
Being assured that he was indeed desrous of a
companion, she, without further preliminares,
offered her heart and hand. The next day they
were married, aud are now living very happily
together.
Year: 1869

THE Eastern shipment of fruit promise to give
quite new impulse to the general fruit busi-
preliminary experiments of this season are most
promising for the future of that industry, and
will result in rapid increase in the number of
our fruit trees and the extent of our orchards,
particularly along the line of the overland rail-
road.
Year: 1869

AT Williamsport, Indiana, during the eclipse
little boy was looking at the sun, when all at
once he complained of severe pain in his head
was suddenly taken sick, and died the same eve
ming.
Year: 1869

r HAVE ON HAND 800 GALLONS OF PURE
i Cider Vinegar, which | will sell at IS cents
per gallon by retail and, in large quantities, at
a much lower rate than it can be brought from
San Francisco. The public is ASSURED that this
is pure, unadnlterated article, and any one
trying this vinegar and not liking it, will re-
fund the money.


34-tf CHI. PETERSEN
Year: 1869

THE pluck shown by the Harvard crew in the
boat race is the theme of general admiration on
the part of the English press. 1t is the opinion
that another race must take place in American
waterg
Year: 1869

I'VE have met the enemy and we are theirs.
1t must be admitted that we have sustained
a regular Waterloo defeat,' the more crush
ing because unexpected. The causes which
have tended mainly to bring about this result
are of a personal and local character, and the
vote cast last Wednesday does not fairly indi-
cate the political sentiments of the people OF
this county. The fight has been lost mainly for
the want of an organized cooperative canvass
for the whole ticket, and that upon principle.
Had the Republican nominees gone over the
county as in the previous campaign, the ballot
boxes would have told a different tale. We are
not among those who are disposed to feel dis
couraged. There is good working Republi-
can majority in this county which but little ef-
fort is required to retain, and, although the
statement may seem somewhat paradoxical, the
late election shows it. The Democracy have
fairly and squarely taken away from us the re-
sponsible and influential part of the county
ticket. 1t is too late to be helped, and it would
be folly to indulge in regrets. We should not be
disheartened in the future. When we remember
that for six years in this county, that to be a
nominee on the Democratic ticket was to be
badly beaten, we see that one election ID not de-
cisise. They have hammered away at US until
they have made it win. In local contests Of this
character much depends upon the sort of can
vass which is made. Two years ago the Repub-
licau nominees canvassed the county in a body
in behalf of the whole ticket, while hardly any
effort was made on the Democratic side, except
for Sheriff. The result was the election of the
whole Republican ticket by an overwh helming ma
iority, This year we laid back on our supposed
majority and got nicely beaten. Let US profit
by the past, and we might as well take into con-
sideration now the fact, that hereafter we must
work to elect anybody. Let US be resolved, that
in the future, we will go for the ticket, the
whole ticket and nothing else.
Year: 1869

please was thought TO be catering to mans lower
nature, and so pleasure m the estimation or Chris.
t'ans at discount An observation OF the
moral character OF those who lived 10 confer pleasure
dld not seem to mend the matter any. Tnose whose
business 1t was TO cater TO the pleasure OF men mad
always been men OF low moral temperament and
were so yet. Pleasure mongers were low In the
social scale, and stll lower In The moral seae.
IL seemed to damage q mans moral nature
10 take up the business OF furnishing pleasure.
Pleasure mongers the world over, were OF the earth
earthy; OF the nesh and not of the spirit They
wont TO minister TO mems lower natures exclusively.
Men already had strength enough In their appe-tes.
Gluttony and drunkenness needed no hep IRON
crutches though they would bring man 10 crutches
very speedily. Pleasure mongers pleased low down.
Iney struck the passions and appeutes; they
neglected wholly the spiritual nece5Sl'les. They
made that rampant which was already too unruy.
Ihat was one reason why pleasure making vas so
pau ana pleasure makers were SO pad, that It had
been making pleasure out OF the lower materials OF a
mans life. The true principle was that every man
should pease his neighbor for his good and edlica-
tion A man IS TO please, but IN way that shall
benefit his fellow, not weaken him. A man had no
right 10 lower the moral tone of his neighbOr; no
right to destroy his deicacy; no right TO drag him
down IN any way. He was to please him and to do
II for his good Pleasure should always be SO gwen
that Its recipient would be better man for it. TINS
was the true ministerial work. Every man was to
be minister to those with whom he associated.
He must maze his presence bring gladness but not
gladness that works downward, Dut upward, so
that 1t would cleanse and purify The speaker then
alluded to the manifold sources OF pleasure and said
that there was no pleasure greater than that expe
renced by the birth OF an idea. The proof
or this was seen In the tendency OF men to ride
hobbies. IL was blessed hour when young men
learned the pleasure OF thinking. II IT. was duty to
employ pleasure so that 1t would convey instruction
there was correatiye duty to employ instruction
that 1t would please men. As rule instruction
should be made pleasurab But some crosses and
some yokes could not be avoided. For these no one
should turn out. students of moral truths should
not be so made as to Offend A belligerent spirit
provoked by the utterance OF truth was by no
means The exponent OF the conviction produced 1t
was not required so TO preach the doctrine of de-
pravity or any other doctrine that 1t would make
men depraved. 1t was not necessary so to present
moral truths that all but tough and veteran church
goes would be driven from the Church. Preaching
10 please simply was abomlnalle; preaching to in
sruct forgetful OF pleasing fell short OF Its purpose
for the lack OF hearers. the true plan was TO please
rnat instruction might be given.