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Year: 1874

Tnere lies Ine south, bleeding, DanKrupt, dis
honored-crime assuming the name of legis-
lation and anarchy dissolving society We
see the Presidency and the Senate clothed
with exceptional and undemocratic power,
while the popular house is not, as it should
be, the real source of government. The inde-
pendence of States and municipal bodies has
been fused into one vast central,
practically irresponsible and governing
central power. ''C@sarism," which year
ago was esteemed by some as HERALD sensa-
ton, is now seen to have been HERALD
prophecy, and is so important that State con-
ventions deal with it as solemn and
menacing issue. In the West the railway
controversy has assumed a shape that no
Legislature and no court can control Ques-
tons of emigration and civil service, OF civil
rights and the right of States to contract
debts which cannot be paid, and to repudiate
other debts that should be paid, ore all new,
threatening immediate Upon their solution
depends not merely the prosperity of the South,
but, as we are profoundly convinced, the
future happiness and fame Of the Union.


Thus believing, we say that there is no
better way to meet and determine these ques-
tions than by assembling all the States IN
national convention of peace and recon-
struction. We are coming upon our centen-
NAL anniversary and how better can we cele-
brate the hundred years of our national life
than to meet in solemn convention and con-
slider the state of the Union, adjusting every
issue that now threatens our peace and enter
ing upon our second century more confirmed
in our republicanism and more thoroughly
devoted to liberty and union2
Year: 1874

OwINa TO BREAK IN THE CABLES con-
Meeting at ST. Pierre communication
with Europe has been interrupted for
the last twenty-four hours. The value
OF telegraphic communication was felt
very strongly by the mercantile body,
who were left in ignorance of the fuc-
tuations of values in Europe. Owing to the
absence of stirring events in Europe the gen.
eral public did not feel the interruption very
much. The accident however, teaches the
lesson that we should not be content to depend
on one or two cables terminating at the same
point, and therefore exposed to the danger of
being rendered useless by the same accident
or local cause that disables one. Prompt COM
munication with Europe is as much a neces-
sity now as the morning newspaper, and we
cannot be content to remain exposed to the
danger of being cut off from hourly informa-
tion of what is passing in the Old World. We
uust have more ocean cables-
Year: 1874




The grand gathering of the clans of science
at Belfast, which has just adjourned, will
mark momentous era in the history of the
age. No student of the progress of modern
philosophy can fail to be impressed with the
altered tone and emboldened claim there put
forth by its great votaries, who within the
memory Of men still living were wont to wear
the mien of modesty and disavow every specu-
lative pretension. Taken as the spokesmen
of the great brotherhood Of science, the hon.
ored leaders who spoke out at Belfast have
made manifesto which will ring forth in no
ambiguous sound over the whole world.
Their words are an undisguised declaration Of
war upon systems which their forefathers in
confessedly shaped the morals, the religion
and the law of all Christendom.


1t is the part of skilful strategist to shift
the scene of active military operations from
the field where he mannuvres to disadvantage
to one where he can strike fatal blow, and
yet, in case of reverse, find an easy retreat.
Such has been the strategy of those who met
at Belfast to plan the campaign and fight the
battle Of science against the religious system
which seeks to chasten its pride of reason and
confne it within the legitimate limits OF scien-
tifc thought. AS, more than once, we nave
predicted, the aim has been disclosed to make
the theory of evolution the dark and myste-
rious ground of the future conflict which
scientists wage for supremacy. No longer is it
proposed to bring evarv thought and every
Year: 1874

In THE SK1Es.-The balloon question should
be settled soon, so that we may know some
thing of the air tides and the currents in the
heavens. Our Philadelphia correspondent de-
scribes balloon trip from that city to Allen
town, which was pleasant adventure. If these
air excursions are scientifically managed, they
should yield us curious information about the
upper regions, and perhaps lead to discov-
cries of value in reference to the navigation of
fhe air
Year: 1874

The YELLOW FEVER SToRY.-The story that
came to us yesterday to the effect that yellow
fever had made its appearance on the Gulf
and the Atlantic coast seems to have been
coarse and cruel cotton -jobbing canard,
started at this time to affect the price of cot
ton. There is no sign of the epidemic what
ever, and there is no fear of its appearance
at this season of the year.
Year: 1874

Editor Of the -4drertiso--Though
late in the day, please insert in the
columns Of your esteemed paper, the
following notice from Sugar Creek !:
On the last night Of the old familiar
ear, on file with the records Of the
past. the people assembled in Zion
Church and pro6tahly ,spen, the 6nal
four hours III watch-night service in
the old Methodistical manner, with
the exception that an address (in-
stead Of q sermon) was presented on
the sui ject, Redeem the Timely he
Rev. John II. Hayward. and SO inter
esting, spiritual and well occupied
was the time by the people that the
precious hours apparently sped on
with more than usual rapidity. Five
minutes before midnight the minister
requested all to approach the altar
and then and there c,nsecrate them
selves to God Tor the demands and
labor of another year, TO which the
people responded heartily. and from
the evidence given we have faith to
beiIeve Tod accepted the c0nsecrs-
ton; silent PRAYER was then offered
for the space of two or three minutes
which was broken by the uplifted
voice Of the Pastor in earnest prayer
all of which was very impressive
After prayer, "A Happy New Year"
was proclaimed through the church,
and the whole congregation with uni
ted heart and voice joined in singing
in confirmation Of renewed fidelity
and Zeal:


"Come let us anew our journey pursue"


From the singing Of the hymn The
holy influence Of the occasion we are
compelled to believe that all presen,
are determined to pursue anew the
heavenly journey until God shall say,
"Well and faithfully done! enter in
to My JOY, and sit down on My
throne"


PILGRIM ON LIES HIGHWAY.


Jan. 4th, 1874.
Year: 1874

I come to ask something of woman.
I don't ask that she may vote, but de-
mapd that she shall vote. [ say, let
us summon to the grand struggle OF
the ace all the moral forces We can.
Wherever in history we see one sex at
tempt ANYTHING, you fnd it is not done
we'll and the sex is injured. 1t seems
to be the plan of Providence that all
great interests shall be undertaken by
both sexes. Take literature. You
can't read Chaucer and Shakespeare to
your families without expurgating, but
YOU can Dickens and Tennyson, Chau-
Ger wrote for men; Dickens for the
race So with art f; the statuary OF
Of the Greeks was for men--for male
civilization. In society We find the
arena where men and women meet to-
gether on equal ground. Society, in
It's keen respect for women, is ahead OF
law or politics. Society would send a
woman TO coventry for the very thing
that makes man 4 No. / in the eau
Gus Now, [ want to lift that caucus
to the level Of society. God seemed
to mean that together We should work
out these problems, Let women help
US make the great experiment of the
peoples power certainly successful.
Year: 1874

Never burn kindly-written letters A.;
it is so pleasant to read them over
when the ink is brown, the paper is
yellow with age, and the hands that
traced the friendly words are folded
over the hearts that prompted them,
under the green sod. Above all,
never burn love letters To read them
in after years is like a resurrection to
ones youth. The elderly spinster
finds, in the impassioned offer she fool
ishly rejected twenty years ago, a
fountain of juvenescence. Glancing
over it, she realizes that she was once
belle and beauty, and behoIds her
former self in a mirror much more con-
genial to her tastes than one that con-
fronts her in her dressing room. The
widow indeed" derives a sweet and
solemn consolation from the letters Of
the beloved one who has journeyed be-
fore her to the far-off land, from which
there comes no message, and where
she hopes one day to join him. No
photographs can so wildly recall to
The memory Of the mother the tender
ness and devotion of the children who
have left at the call Of Heaven. as the
epistolary outpouring OF their love.
The letter Of true son or daughter to
a true mother is something better than
a image of the features--it is a refux
of the writer's soul. Keep all loving
letter burn only the harsh ones, and
in burning them forgive and forget
them.
Year: 1874

-"Life is book Of which we can
have but one edition. Let each day
actions, as they add their pages to the
indistructiblp volume, be such as we
shall be willing to have an assembled
world read"
Year: 1874

-"If we were only half as lenient
to the living as we arc to the dead, how
much happiness might we render them,
and how much remorse might we be
spared when the grave closes ever
them"
Year: 1874

VfaduaI repentance Is Ike fifsts
who wants to be taken out of burning
building, but who says to those about
him, Now don't take me ont sudden
ly; take me down first to a room where
1t IS not so hot. and to another where
there is still less heat. and take me out
gradually Why, the man would be
a cinder before you got him out. \
mln who wants to reform should do SO
perpen licularly."
Year: 1874

The realm of perfection is above
all law.


Happiness hes in the highway of
right doing,


-Idleness is many gathered miseries
In one name. -Richter.


From the lowest depth, there is a
path to the loftiest height.-Carlyie


Take away your ambition and van
ity, and where will be your heroes and
patriots ?-Seneca.


"Time is q specific administered to
Us for all spiritual shocks; but change
Of habit is better "


1.-THE desert Of Life might blossom
like the rose, if We would SOW the seeds
we hold in our hands.


IA man TOO busy to take care OF
his health, Is like a mechanic too busy
to take care Of his tools"


Govern the children by gentleness !;
even the camel moves not swifter before
the whip than behind the flute.


An old farmer said of his clergy
man, "Ah, yes, he's good man, but he
will rake with the teeth upward .


--''Often do we think when we
ought to act, and act when it behooves
us to reflect ; hence caution is fre-
quently as fatal as rashness,


Life is short day; but it is a
Year: 1874

The coming transit of the planet
Venus, December s, 1874, is an event of
great importance to the scientific world,
and extensive preparations are being
made for the observation of that planet
across the suns disk The last transit
visible from the earth occurred in 1863,
and there will not be another till 2004
By the knowledge we now possess, as
basis for calculation, it is impossible to
ascertain the earth's distance from the
sun within 100000 miles. When the
total distance is about 81 1890 miles,
as slight a matter as the distance above
mentioned would seem to be Of no prac-
tical importance; but variation of 40
times the earth's diameter renders com
mutation too uncertain to suit astronom-
ers. 1t is expected that the observation
which will be taken will leave a margin
of only so, 900 miles open to doubt. As
the transit will occur in the winter. the
base of observation must be located
south of the equator. Great Britain
will have stations in the Sandwich Is
lands and in several other localities.
The United States will have eight par
ties in the field. France will occupy
three stations, Russia four or five, and
Germany five. The problem is simply
the geometrioal process of constructing
two sides of triangle in order to deter


nina the third
Year: 1874

the morning, yelling their unheroic out


lines. But a woman Of seventy can
cherish no fond delusion about her mid
dle-aged sons and daughters, who are, to
all intents and purposes as old as she
is. What dismal sense CT failure must
come into such woman's heart while
she looks at theml Perhaps this is the
reasoo why grandtathers and mothers
throw themselves SO eagerly into the
new generation, by means Of which
human nature can always go on deceiv-
ing itself. Heavens what difference
between the ordinary man or woman of
fifty and that creature which he, or she,
appeared to the mothers eyes at fifteen.
The old people gaze and gaze to see our
old natures in us, and who can express
the blank of our disappointment, the
cruel modification of those old hopes,
which never find expression in any
words?'
Year: 1874

OOuh idbb III viz NNPANAfI


Our readers will bear us out in the as
sertion that for nearly four years we have
taught that so long as the Republican
party, the fiscal agent of the people, was
successful, and gave us flush times and
apparent prosperity, while we were in.
Aating on promises as currency and on
bonded Indebtedness, and making money
like magiciaus and spending it like
princes, the American people would be
content. Grant might violate law, and
commission thieves and incapables to
his own sweet will, and he would yet be
the soldier President who had saved his
country. But let the fiscal agent fail, as
the fiscal agent would most undoubtedly
fail sooner or later, when the inevitable
called pay day came, and popular wrath
would take the place of popular content,
and the Republican party, said fiscal
agent be driven out in disgrace.
Year: 1874

Not two leaves in the forest are


exactly the same form and texture


No two grains of sand taken from the


seashore or the great African desert


are identical in bulk and outline


Even the two drops of water the most


alike IN the universe will exhibit


some marks Of distinction when sub


mitted to powerful microscope.


The law that excludes duplicates
from the visible kingdom of nature.
is also Il law of the moral world.
From Adam to the last man. no two
races will be found exactly the same;
and variety in trait and lineament of
human character is as inexhaustible
as is man s outward appearance.
The power which in one mans moral
is ardent, demonstrative,
to another lies dormant
or dead. The craving which in one
breast concentrates upon itself the
whole mind and will before its voice
ran he silcnced or its will appeased,
is never felt, scarcely understood bya
being OF different organization.
The weakness OF weak man is
laughed at in scorn by the strength
Of the strong; moral power and weak
pulp travel side by side. and souls of
fine porcelain tremble in the near
presence OF iron and granite.
Year: 1874

IA strange clock as said to haze
once belonged to a Hindoo prince.


in front OF the clocks disk was a


gong swung upon poles, and near it


was a pile of artificial human limbs.


The pile was made up of the full


number of parts necessary to cOnsti-
tute twelve perfect bodies; but all
lay heaped together in apparent CON
fusion.


When the hands of the clock indi-
Gated the hour of one, out from the
pile crawled just the number of parts
needed to form the frame of one man,
part coming to part with quick click;
and, when completed, the figure
spang up, seized n mallet, and walk
ing up to the gong. struck one blow.
This done, he returned to the pile
and fell to pieces again. When two
o clock came, two men arose and did
likewise; and at the hour of noon
and midnight the entire heap sprang
up, and marching to the gong, struck,
one after the other, his blow, making
twelve in all; then returning. fell to
pieces as before.
Year: 1874

Show rs the young man who can
quit the society of the Young and
take pleasure in listening to the kind
" voice of age; show us the man
who is ever ready to pity and help
the deformed; show us man who
covers the faults of others with a
mantle Of charity; show us a man
who bows as politely and gives the
street ms freely to the poor sewing
girl as to the millionaire; who values
virtue. not clothes; who shuns the
company of such as gather at public
places to gaze ut the fair sex, or make
nnkind remarks of the passing girl;
show us a man who abhOrs a iber
tine; who scorns the ridicule of his
mothers sex. and the exposure of
wOmanly reputation; show us a man
who never foroets for an instant the
delicacy due woman, as woman, III
anv condition or class-and you show
us true gentleman.
Year: 1874

The other day Newark, New Jer-
ser man who went to his well to
draw pail of water, found that 1t
had a strong mineral flavor. A
chemist analysed it and found it to
contain excellent medical properties.
The neighbOrs came in, drank some,
and smacked their lips with gusto.
1t was big thing, and no mistake,
said the proprietor. Alas! day or
two later it was discovered that one
of the vats in neighbOring patent
leather factory was leaking, and the
fellows who had been taking dozen
glasses every morning for their health
are now talking of bringing suits for
damages against the well-man-
Year: 1874

A FAcT.-A vast majority of eivi-
lized mankind and womankind think
themselves poets between fourteen
and nineteen years of age. From
nineteen to twenty-five they think
themselves philosophers. Attwenty-
five they begin To perceive how little
they know, and from this time until
the end they constantly make new
discoveries in the vast expanse Of
their ignorance, always finding out
that the more they know the more
they don't know.
Year: 1874

see her again; but the more l tried
the more I couldn't. After all, l had
to get up without it, though 1 didn't
want any breakfast at all, and only
ate two buckwheat cakes, though al
ways eat six you know, Uncle Teddy.
Can you keep secret?''


eyes, dear, SO you couldn't get it
out of me if you were to shake me up
side down like savings bank"


"Oh, amt you mean! That was
when was small I did that. I'll tell
you the secret, though-that girl and
l are going to get married. I mean tc
ask her the first chance l get. Oh
isn't she a smasher p


"My dear Billy, sha'n't you wait a
little while to see if you always like
her as we'll as you do now? Then
too, you'll be older.'


I'm old enough, Uncle Teddy, and
| love her dearly! I'm as old as the
Kings Of France used to be when they
got married. read it in Abbott s
Histories. But there's the clock
striking nine! I must run or I shall
get tardy mark, and, perhaps, she'll
want to see my certificate sometime. y


So saying he kissed me on the
cheek and set off for school as fast as
his legs could carry him. O Love.
omnivorous Love, that sparest neither
the dotard leaning on his staff nor the
boy with pantaloons buttoning on his
jacket-omnipotent Love, that, after
parents and teachers have failed, in
one instant can make Billy try to be
come good boy!


CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1874

NEGROES AT THE School ELECTION.
The negroes took very prominent part
at the school election in this city on Sat-
urday afternoon. and ia every case voted
for men known to be Radical in their SEN
timents. Now, negroes pay no school tax,
and are not voters in a strictly legal sense
Their votes are forced upon our people
contrary to our State laws. Notwithstand-
ing this, some of the more brazen faced
clustered about the polls of the Fourth
Ward to such an extent that many orderly
and quiet white men Of beth parties left
the polls in disgust. So long as these ne
groes vote the Radical ticket our neigh
bors of that press pretend that it is all
right; but if they voted against the Rad
icals, the notes Of the Radical press would
very soon be heard against their voting
without paying tax as white men do This
discrimination in favor of the negro is one
of the main features Of Radical legislation
the next great feature is how best to rob
the public and depletc the treasury.
Year: 1874

a meeting Of capitalists and merchants in New
York Wednesday night adopted resolutions
against imitation and requesting tho President
to veto the Senate bill. The opinion prevails
generally among Intelligent mon that this is the
opportunity of Con. Graut's lifo. He is only
askotl by his former friends to prick tho imitation
bubble, and lot Richardson go as @ scapegoat into
the wilderness. bearing with him tho sins Of tho
present Administration; but this much Presi-
don't Grant will not do.
Year: 1874

soon after starting, and Egeris proceeded
over the course alone.


The base ball playing at Princess this
afternoon was the scratch game, two
members Of the Princess club playing
with the Athletics and two with the Red
Stockings. The former won BY n score
Of Is TO g.
Year: 1874

Acknowledgement Williams decides,
first, that the operation of the conditions
subsequent in the Congressional grants
of public lands does not depend upon the
rules of common law applicable to such
conditions, but upon the intention Of
Congress as gathered from the language
employed in the grant itself. Second,
that the grant of lands made by Congress
to the State of Wisconsin by the act of
June, 1856, to aid in the construction OF
certain railroads in which it was pro
vided, that if said roads are not cOmplet-
in eighteen years no further sales shall
be made, and the lands unSold shall re-
vert to the United States, is determined
as to the lands unsOld at the time by the
failure to complete the roads as specified
in the act, and that no congressional ac-
tion or judicial proceedings are necessary,
but that such unsold lands be returned
to the public domain by the publication
of an order by the Secretary of the In
terror, restoring them to sentiment and
to the market.
Year: 1874

To F. D. Monlton, Esq.


DEAB SIR-When YOU appeared before
the committee on Wednesday last you
stated that you might possibly be pre-
pared to proceed with your statement
this Friday evening and that if so you
would let US know in the morning. The
committee much desired to have YOU do
so. so as to accommodate several Of their
number who wished to go out Of town for
the Sabbath. Not having heard from
you, however, as promised you cannot be
ready for this evening, and | therefore
beg to suggest that. if convenient, your
examination b. fixed for Monday
afternoon at three O'clock This will en-
able all who desire to take rest out of
the city during the Sabbath. Will you
be kind enough to inform me by the
bearer whether this will be agreeable 10
YOU. Very truly yours,


II. W. SAGE,
Year: 1874

Ex-,Judgc Morris says that the cvi
dence of which he was in possession
and which he was engaged in collecting
preparatory to tn" trial, WAS the most
convincing and conclusive which hr had
ever known in any case of law, and IN
particular that Mrs. Tiltons statement
concerning her husbands cruelty, md hi
locking her in her room like prisoner
his freezing and starving her, will be
shown to be such fiction that if there i,
any insanity in the family ut all, tn,
charge will be at the door, not Of Mr.
TiltOn. but of his wife
Year: 1874

He has not received any summon,
from them to testify, and the report that
he has drawn up written statement
which he read to the committee, is de-
clared to be premature. Members of the
committee say it i impossible TO tell when
the labors of the investigation will be-
over. Ii j.