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Year: 1874

Ross Winans is indefatigable in his devo-
ton to the cause of Jones' Falls. His plan
certainly to our mind is the most sensible one
before the public. And what is more crafty
ing is that he will not take a contract for do
ing the work. man who won't take con-
tract from the City Ring is rare specimen
nowadays. To fill up the low lands along
the falls, keep the water within its walls and
cover the channel looks like practical COM
mon sense. Baltimoreans may not be able to
see it.


The Presbyterian Weekly was enlarged last
week by She addition of four columns, which
is significant Of its prosperity and for which
we congratulate its editors. We should be graf
fled to have credit for our locals that some-
times appear in its columns.


On Tuesday Of this week the pupils of the
colored Normal School of Baltimore city, un-
der the charge OF P. j. Doran, had their annual
examination. II was conducted by Professor
NJ. A. Newell of the State Normal School. The
scholars acquitted themselves creditably.


The Liberal Republicans are trying to hunt
up each other in New York State. As the
State is large and the men who answer to this
description lew. we think the job will be te
dious one.


Decoration day is two weeks fr'm 10 day
About Baltimore more preparations are being
made for the occasion than have been Cor sew
eral years previously.
Year: 1874

second meeting of persons in favor o. found
ing a Reformed Episcopal Church in Philadel-
phia has been held, and nine vestrymen were
chosen The new organization is TO be call.
ed the Second Reformed Church OF Philadelphia
The movement seems to be growing in favor, and
some OF our most prominent Episcopalians are
taking an interest in il
Year: 1874

PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILROAD Co.-The
stockholders and the public generally will
be gratifed to learn that the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad Company will pay semi
after the 3Oth instant For some time past the
company's solvency has been mooted ques-
tion in the minds of financial men. But this
will disabuse the public of that impression.
Year: 1874

The teiFCrLr2s saformed Us yes er-
day that the Governor of Louisiana
had te:egrarll, to the President of
the United St .tes urging that the


Committee eT;ointed by the Congress
of the United states to investigate the
condition of affairs in that State


should begin its work with the utmost


speed in order to "Strcngttcn tic Re
publican party"


We venture to say tLat IlcveI before
in the history of American Govern
ment was SO shameless g proposition
made by the Executive Of a State to
tue Executive Of tie Nation. And
Kellogg writes tie letter, and Grant
publishes it, both utterly unconscious
of its infamy. It seems never for a
moment TO have occurred to either of
these Radical wretches that govern
ments were not instituted Tor the pro-
motion of partizan success, Or that
they could not be used to "strengthen
the Republican party" or any otht r
party witt u perjury.


Thele is no dying that the etom-
ach of the J uer: can people is strong
one, else it would long ago have been
turned by the stencil of Radical ras-
C ,lity; but there is limit to the pow
ers Of even American endurance in this
regard. We greatly mistake the signs
of the times if that limit las not been
reached. The American people will
no longer submit to the humiliation
of seeing their Government conducted
for the ayowcd purpose of strength
ening' a political organization.
Year: 1874

Tor pure unadulterated "cheek,' to


use the expressive slang OF the day,
the proposition of Mr.. SMITH, of North
Carolina, to appropriate the illegally
collected cotton tax money to the pay


ment of the public debt of the South,
is unequalled. Mr.. SMITH admits that
the Federal Government has now IN
its treasury certain money 1I"Cai y
collected from certain individuals in


the South and proposes to do what
! with it ? Pay it back 10 these lndl-
viduals? Not at all, but to appropri-
ate it to the payment OF the public
debt. In word he proposes to make
certain individuals pay the who,e pub
lie debt of the South IF some mem
bcr Of Congress should introduce a
bill providing that whereas Mr..
SMITHS plantation had been illegally
seized by the Federal Government,


it should therefore be sold and
the proceeds appropriated to the pay


mert of the public debt we rather
think Mr.. SMITH would fail to see the
Justice of the measure and would con-
tend that instead of being appropri-


ateu to the payment Of the public debt


his plantation ought to be restored to


him.


II there he any obligation upon


those of US who paid thisillegal cotton


tax to pay the public debt of the
South, more than upon other citizens,


Mr.. SMITH has thus far been the only


man with optics keen enough to dis


cover it. But the proposition is too


absurdly unjust for serious comment.
Year: 1874

of three columns in length, which the victim knew mnst be printed or one subscriber would be lost. ..t r=g

 the large majority, and, thanks to the progress of the age. will soon be past to all. You who endure such martyr dom have come into your kingdom and revel in Taylor presses and patent fold CTS, and subscribers who pay in ad- vance, while you who began the busi- ness in the better time smile compla- gently as you are told of the former trials of your brethren. The sleek men whom now see before me are not the famished-looking class who would have assembled here twenty-five years ago, some of whom had taken up Journalism because there was dearth of school teaching or an overstock of dry goods clerks in the community.

 But you have assumed the business as profession, honorable. respectable and remunerative. The demand for your productions is continually grow ing, and probably the next twenty-five years will witness almost as great change as the last. ..'.5 |.

 There is not a newspaper man in the country who is not interested in ex- tending the influence and adding to the responsibility and good name of the press. As every hypocritical divine is a reproach to the ministry, and every shyster reflection on the legal fra ternity, so every newspaper that pur- sues a course calculated to detract from the reliability of journalism, and de- stroy the confidence of the people in the integrity of the press, affixes stigma on the entire profession and contrib utes to bring the calling into con- tempt. ..#... .a..s,.

 A newspaper fairly and conscientious ly conducted on broad principles of equity and justice is an ally of liberty and progress. When, however, it be- comes the organ of corrupt and vicious personality, the spokesman of one who gratiies his revenge and all his meaner passions through this medium, it be- comes a scandalous tool of oppression, the pest of the community in which it is published, and the enemy of every man who has any pride in the honor of the "fourth estate" -.
Year: 1874

"They say," she thought, with shy delight,

 "There's charm in the four-leaf clover If that be so, will find that charm,

 If search the whole field over, For, oh who knows, if they tell me true, What four-leaf clover for me will do!' Sc down to the meadow she sped away

 To search for the charm there growing, Nor needed the sun that kissed her cheek,

 Nor the wind her golden hair blowing, But over the fragrant grass bent low, To see if the prize hid there or no. But was it the bird in the old elm-tree

 Who flew with the secret laden, And carried to Somebody near at hand

 The news of our little maiden? Or was it that Somebody wanted too To see where 8 four-leaf clover grewe For soon it happened that too heads bent

 In search of the wondrous clover, The while that pair of dimpled cheeks

 Were mantled with blushes over. But what if their search proved all for naught Since, with or without, the spell was wrought
Year: 1874

The damage done by lightning during the terrific storms this season appears to be much greater than at first was supposed. Throughout the country houses and barns almost innumerable were struck, and many of them de- stroyed, while fearful havoc was done among the trees of the forests. For years past belief has obtained that violent thunder-storms were becoming obsolete, somebody who was supposed to know having predicted that the iron network of railroads and. telegraphs which stretches over the land would have the effect to preserve the electri- cal equilibrium of the earth by distri- outing an equal amount of the fluid to every part But each summer brings it's great thunder-storms the same as ever, and the total amount in dollars of damage done annually by the lightning can only be counted by the million. This being the fact, the question as to how to avert such consequences in the future might we'll become serious one. There is no doubt that much greater safety might be insured by a more liberal application of Dr. Frank lin's invention-the lightning-rod. TT

 The destruction of 8 great oil depot in New Jersey, upsets another one of the little theories which scientific men had upheld in relation to the action of electricity. It has generally been, sup. posed that places where large masses of iron were stored were out of danger, as although they would be more likely to be visited by electric currents, the great size of the conductor would cause the current to be diffused and carried off without producing the usual shocK and accompanying heat. Iron steamships and vessels laden with iron rails or even iron ore were supposed by many to be exempt under the same rule. But the oil depot at Weehawken was little else than one great iron mass, and yet the ] lightning selected it for its victim.
Year: 1874

A little incident related in the " Lite
of Audubon" the celebrated naturalist,
forcibly illustrates the patient, persist
ent, painstaking manner In which men
of science, as we'll as men OF letters,
prosecute their Investigations. 1t was
while Audubon was hunting IN the for
estg of Louisiana that he discovered a
tinv little wood bird hitherto unknown
to the ornithologist. It was not so big
as wren. and was clad in a coat OF
snch plain, sober gray, that none but
nraeticed ewes would detect it fitting
in and out among the similar eolQred
branches of the peculiar species OF trees
II inhabited. But, however humble
the bird might be, to Audubon it was
one of the charming and curious race
of beings that interested HIM above al
other living things, and to ascertain Its
history and habits was matter OF as
much importance as though 1t we're
chief of the tribe. He, therefore, bent
every energy of his intense and eager
nature to the study of it. One night
he came home with the exciting news
that he had found a pair which were
eyiden Iv preparing to build nest.


Next morning he was up and oil to
the woods by daybreak, taking along
with him o telescope microscope.
Erecting this suaar che tree tnas sEies-
4.arnd tisc.s


lures BE


naaCEe nifdse


then laid quietly down on siie
with his eye to the Instrument, and re-
nained throughout the ive-long hours
until nightfall, watching the move
ments of the secret and unsuspeetlng
This course he repeated
day after day, for three weeks, without
respite or intermission, and then he was
able to tell, with minute and accurate
details. lust what material these builders
in the heart of the wild wood choose
for their dwellings, just how they put
it together, and the number OF days re-
ouired to complete the process OF lncu-
baton. In short, by this noiseiess,
solitary. tireless vigilance, he had gath
cred up ali the various chapters IN the
history of this nameless forest-lnhabl-
tant, and bound them together IN
and unique volume. 1t was
thus that Audubon made himself ac-
ouainted with the peculiar and oharac-
teristic traits of the birds OF America
and came to know them as he knew the
faces of his wife and children, and
could draw each one of them in the
most natural and life-like attitude, with
every spot of color and adjustment OF
feather exactly as it should be, and
always with the accompaniment of some
spray of plant or branch of tree, that,
growing near its favorite haunts, was
especially identified with it.
Year: 1874

"A gentleman OF Lake George, after
waving his handkerchief for half an
hour or more at an unknown lady,
whom he discovered at a distant point
on the shore, was encouraged by q
warm response to his signals to ap-
proach his charmer. Imagine his feel
ings, when on drawing nearer be saw
that 1t vas his own dear wife whom he
had left at the hotel but a short time
before. 6 Why. how remarkable we
should have recognized each other at
such a 1istance?" exclaimed both in the
same breath and then they changed
the subject.
Year: 1874

the door of her humble home and bade
her goodnight, promising to call upon
her in the morning.


".SdUed, as By frer' said she to her
self, as, clasping her sleeping baby
brother in her arms, she crept shivering
into her bed and listened to the deep
tones of the town clock as it solemnly
tolled the hour of two.


TO be continued.l
Year: 1874

The little island of Niceros IN the
Grecian archipelago Is suffering under
a 4" constant supply" of boiling water.
Some months ago, says the Pail Mall
Gazette. the inhabitants were seriously
annoyed by a series Of earthquakes,
which did much damage, and culmin-
ated In the bursting open of the sum
NIT IN the highest peak in the island,
and flood of steam and boiling water,
which at one time led to the aPprehea-
sion that not only would the whole IS
land be destroyed, but every living
thing contained IN it. The mountain,
however. suddenly ceased to boil over,
and it was hoped that for some years at
Year: 1874

The pencil zarks you sss around this
paragraph CthuH) mean that your sub
seriptior is Out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone win pay expenses, and
We are forced 70 adhere to q strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
aud appreciate the necessity Of such n
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor


- We enter no new names on ou<
ooohE without the money ia advSrce-
Year: 1874

Two COURTS AT THE SANE TIME.-The Po-
lice Court criminal aud the Police Court
civil-the latter presided over by Justice
Crew and the former by Justice White
were in session at the same time yesterday,
one justice sitting in the Palicc Courtroom
and the other in the Police Justices office.
This has never happened in Richmond be.
Year: 1874

A story is told Of All 6ngin>
eer Oh the Union Pacific rail,
road who ran a race with death
at the rate of forty miles an
hour, and won by five seconds.
He was driving the passenger
tpain west; and was taken sud.
denly and seriously i'll. He
seemed to be aware that death
was near, yet the train must
reach Cheyenne before ho could
be relieved. That was the end
Of his route. He increased the
speed of the engine and ran
for life. Forty miles an hour
saved his distance. He reach>
ed Cheyenne ahead Of time,
and when the engineer who
was to relieve him stepped
aboard the engine lie family
gasped: Take the engine !;
I'm ready to die now.'' lii FIVE
seconds he was a corpse. If
Death had stepped aboard be-
fore the other engineer, what
wonld have been the conse-
quence to the passengers7 But
they did not see the grim
spectre rnnning the engine,
like q phantom train. It was
a very close shave, and is .
frightful instance Of a man re-
naming at the post of duty
just long enough.
Year: 1874

United States $1,000 an hour $500 pays
the bill of intemperance for just fifteen
minutes. If the alcoholic muddle could
be unmuddled, and the truth placed on
a scientific and universally accepted basis
by means of $5,000,000 essay, the pre-
MUM would be cheaper than water at a
dollar an oceanful The liquor interest
of the country would raise $5;0OO,00O in a
week if it were necessary to prevent their
business from being prayed or legislated
out of existence Pity it is that only
paltry $500 can be offered on the other
side


But we may hope that this sum will
answer the purpose. Truth and victory
are not always on the side of majorities
and dollars. A higher motive power
than any sum of money can represent
may enlist the brains and pens that will
exercise the demon forever There is
truth somewhere. There is some way of
finding it. May there be 500 competitors
for the $500 prize, and all of the best
thoughts of the best writers treasured in
a book that shall be light to the world
for all the ages to come.
Year: 1874

A notable protector became notable by
one project only, which was certain
specific for the killing of feas and it
was in form of powder, and sold in
papers. with plain directions for use as
followeth; The flea was to be held, con-
veniently, between the fore-fnger and
thumb of the left hand; and to the end
OF the trunk, or proboscis, which pro-
trudeth in the flea somewhat as the ele-
phants doth, a very small quantity of
the powder was to be put from between
the thumb and finger of the right hand
And the inventor undertook, that if any
flea to whom his powder was so admins
tered should prove to have afterwards
bitten purchaser who used it, then that
such purchaser should have another
paper OF. the said powder gratis And it
ehanced that the first paper thereof was
bought, idly as it were, by an old woman;
and she, without meaning to injure the
inventor or his remedy, but of her mere
harmlessness, did, innocently as it were,
ask him whether, when she had caught
the flea, and after she had got it as be-
fore described, if she should crack it up
on her nail, it would not be as well.
Whereupon the ingenious protector was
SO dumbfounded by the question, that
not knowing what to answer on the sud-
den, he said, with truth, to this effect,
that, without doubt, her way would do,
too
Year: 1874

The probability is that the ascendency acquired
by the Democratic party, at this election in New
Castle county, will be 30 used that their lease Of
power will be short. This has been the uniform
experience of the past.
Year: 1874

Enormous Increase OF the Burdens Of


the Property Owner.


NEW ORLEANS, Oct. %, 1874
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


The people OF this city ana State are greatly
blamed in republican quarters for their efforts to
get rid OF the vampires who are consuming their
vitals and to throw their case into confusion and
to blind the minds OF the good people OF the
North, so that they cannot perceive whose cause
Is just great parade Is made the day before
election OF "Ku Klux" and "White Lacquer out
RACES, most or which have no foundation in fact
and all greatly exaggerated. The writer. one OF
the "plain people" and no politician, submits for
the inspection Of your readers lew figures, which
are said not to lie.


As the agent for certain store situated in the
business part of the city, belonging TO resident
OF Philadelphia. he has paid city and State taxes
for the past twelve years as fOllOMs;-
Year: 1874




The court martial, convened some time since
at Fort Sanders, for the trial OF Colonel land
Brevet GeneraD nnis N. Palmer, commanding
that post, found him not guilty on each OF the
nine charges and specifications presented by Gen.
eral Ord, with the trnlng exception of one, IN
which there was found an irregularity In his fail
ure to notice sanderous reports about himself
the Court however, distinctly declared itself
satisfied that Colonel Palmer felt that he was
and especially OF the troops under his commando
Year: 1874

from the premises; for certainly no
Democratic and Conservative
parties Of the tenth senatorial dis
tfict are endowed with the royal
pferogative Of pledging The people
of the district to obey the behests
of few individuals of CalcasieU,
styling themselves parish con
vention. The fourth resolution
possesses no force, as shown by
the fifth. The fifth resolution
gives a fiat denial to the second (;
for if, according to the second
resolution, the choice Of candi-
date was il the hands Of the con-
vention, why submit the choice to
the Democratic Executive Com
nnittees of the sister parishes, sub
ject to their approval, or to call
for q District Convention? This
resolution is a masterpiece in its
way, and somewhat dictatorial;
for the executive committee must
either approve the choice Of the
convention, or call district con-
vention. They must not reject
the choiceof tile Calcasieu sachems;
they must not dare to make a
choice Of their own Suppose the
executive committee should ap-
prove of the choice Of the conven-
ten, what then? Will the people
be bound? Clearly not, for exeeu-
tive committees have no such
power, and the people are not the
slaves Of their committees. The
preacher has said there IS nothing
new under the sum- but be was
decidedly mistaken, for this CaIca-
sieu convention is something SO
new that its like has never been
heard of before. There is only
one thing it reminds us Of, and
that is the frog in the fable, who
tried to swell out to the size of
the OK, and who went "Where
the woodbine tWineth."


SIGMA.
Year: 1874

Doctor means that money was
paid to secure the passage Of the
bill, / can not answer his question
directly I will, therefore, treat it
alphabetically. JIG money was not
paid, the question Is superfinous,
and does not require an answer.
If money was paid to secure its
passage, and those who voted for
il received any part thereof, know
ing it to be ia payment for their
votes or support, it is proof first,
that they were corrupt legislators,
and for q similar indueement
would vote for any bill, however
iniquitous and damaging it might
be TO the interests and liberties
Of the people.


Second-If the passage of the
bill was paid for, and those voting
for it received the money, directly
or indirectly, their should be none
SO low as to do them reverence,
and none 50 abandoned and void
of honor as to refuse to point the
finger Of scorn and contempt at
them.


Third IF its passage was paid
for, the company, for whose benefit
the bin was passed, will reimburse
the amount from the pockets Of
the people of New Orleans, and
mainly from the poor, as they sub
sist on their daily earnings, and
are compelled to procure their
fresh meats from the market men.


Fourth If the passage Of the
bill was no injustice to the people
of New Orleans, there will be none
to the people Of Calcasieu by the
passage Of a similar bill for the ben
eft Of one or more men in Lake
Charles, or the parish; but if it
would be an imposition on the
people of Calcasieu, it is equally
SO on New Orleans.


Fltth-It money was paid for
its passage, those paying, with
those receiving it, are enemies Of
their race, in that they counte-
nanced dishonesty in their high
and responsible positions, thereby
exerting a demoralizing influence
on the morals Of the people, par
ticularly of the young men, by
familiarizing them with corrup-
tionin high official positions, which
corruption, if continued, will even
tuatein bankruptcy Of the State and
people, and the overthrow Of civil
and political liberty.


DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1874

We acknowledge the receipt Of
2 complimentary ticket from the
managers Of the Intercollegiate
Saratoga Rowing Association, to
attend the rowing match which
was to have taken place thore on
the 18th and 10th inatants.
Year: 1874

This week we give up most Of
our editorial space to our corres-
pondents, Democrat !" and Sig
ma whose contributions will Be
read with much interest. we hope
to hear from them frequently dur
ING the senatorial campaign.