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Year: 1874

From the Liverpool Poscl


1t is well known that the Pope is of the kind
liest men, and that where he can do a favor he il
always ready to oblige even hereto. We are
bound to assume that he knows something OF what
is going on all over the globe but we shall prob
ably not be tar wrong II venture to suggest
that his desire for universal Information does not
show itself TO the extent of taking In the New
York papers and making himself master
OF their contents. 1t IL equally true, no
doubt, that His Holiness considers that he
is under no obligation to consult the English
press, and IL In q matter about which the Ameri-
cans appear to feel strongly we reproduce their
grievance In our columns t Is merely in the hope
that the appeal Tor redress may meet the eye OF
one other OF the Holy Fathers influential coun-
sellOrs in this country who might be considerate
enough TO make representation 0u the subject
TO the Vatican Tue sore point with our kinsmen
is that they have not and never have had q cardl-
nal. Their political and social creed rather frowns
upon titles and dignlties but this is one OF those
numerous cases with which His Holiness must be
familiar, In which men are mucn better and less
disagreeabe than their principles. He need
be under no apprehension that prince OF the
Church would be deemed a standing afront to the
doctrine Of republican equality. Equality is
technical nction-used by Americans who have
got up few rungs OF the social ladder in the sane
sense as that In which the Pope subscrihes himself
serpLs SerCO,tlyyh In fact, the Americans nave
rather passion for the ornamental side OF society.
Their constitution prohibits an order Of nobes but
see how they grasp at the distinction OF Hon"
and what run there s upon the titles which are
to be earned by nominal connection with the
militia. 1t would. therefore, be doing them
a real Kindness If the Pope were to give
them cardinal. 1t is In no angry but almost In q
fearful mood that the NEW YORK HERALD protests
against the policy Of maintaining Tor the Sacred
College the character OF 'an Italian ring" "We
cannot cease" says our contemporary, ITO regret
that country that gives the Papal onlce a
liberty IL possesses In no other lands should De
overlooked in distributing the highest offices OF
the Church." America, the HERALD contends, Is
certainly entitled" to cardinals hat. There
are good many hats now vacant and as tho or
nament has lost much OF its Old value In Europe.
HIS Holiness could not do better than send at least
one q the United States
Year: 1874

der 10 convert to his remuneration OF his temporal
mower the ultramontanes, "more Papists than the
Pope himself,n would have only to quote In his bull
TO that effect those very words OF his illustnous
predecessor to the American pilgrims lew weeks
ago.


"rhe United States is the only country where
am really Pope in the eyes OF the government. 1
am always AFRAID lest European governments sha'
oppose or control my acts, whereas | can freely
send pontncal documents to the United States
without fear OF opposition on the part OF the gov
ernmeut."


Gould more striking Justification be needed oy
the future Pope for the Spontaneous abdication OF
power which had certainly It's reason or being
for centuries, but cannot any more be detained IN
face of the inexorab logic OF modern times. quite
hostile 10 the abnormal coupling OF Church ana
State matters


The Pope might thus either con tinue TO reside at
Rome or move the headquarters Of the Church to
any other place In Europe or in America, as he
might Judge convenient; besides, steam and cleo
tricity In suppressiDg distances, would enable the
Head OF the Catholic Church TO govern his world
widely spread nock from jerusalem Malta, or any
city in the United States. with the same speedy
effect If he chose to remain in the capital OF the
new Italian Kingdom.


In that manner oneoi the most imminent causes
of general European confagration would be
avoided, without any OF the grave religious or po-
Iitical interests involved in the Roman question
being damaged.


For the sake OF the peace or the world all Chris.
tan governments should unite In urging the ven-
erable members of the future Conclave TO give
their votes to one of the American Eminences
whom His Holiness will very likely create In the
next Consistory.
Year: 1874

Notion was made before Judge Pratt, In su-
preme Court, Chambers, yesterday. on behalf Of
John Dcnnerline for order compelling the Po-
lice Board to recognize him as police officer OF
Morrisania and pay him as such. The answer sent
to the alternative writ was that the trustees OF
the township just before the annexation passed
an ordinance by which eighteen additional men
were appon ted with view OF saddling them on
the city. These being matters OF fact to the ap-
pontment OF the relator being in due FORM Judge
Pratt denied the notion deciding that the Police
Board were entitled to Jury trial.
Year: 1874

want them to be BIASED In any way hut TO report
things as they saw and heard them. lie acknowl-
edged thai camp meeting people had not hereto
fcre treated the representatives OF the press in
the proper spirit, and ntil he went Round Lake
ne had no idea that there were so many Christian
men connected with the secular nress. He ten
dered ali those presents cordial welcome to future
gatherings In Sea Gin.


This morning the press men were captured by
the photographer on the grounds and their pic
lures will appear in frames on Monday.
Year: 1874




The General then discussed the fnan-
cial problem, and while he was holding
all men to paying their honest debts, a
spOan was lowered by means of a string
through the scuttle of the roof and
hung like a sceptre in midair. A gig
gle was heard from the audience, and
It soon assumed the proportions of a
roar. The General tried TO continue,
but was several times interrupted He
failed at first to observe the objection
able article of table use. Gen. Butler
finally placed his eye upon it, and
gazed from right to left without a
word. He again attempted to proceed,
but only again to be interrupted. FL
nally he shook his handkerchief and
Strengthened himself and said: "Well,
l should think that is about as good
an argument as can be opposed to. p"
The spoon wiggled in the air, and the
General continued: There must be
somepppositlonin in this town" Laugh
ter and applause.
Year: 1874

Washington Correspondence Of the Chicago


Tribune.


A ooterie of Washington politicians,
who have been for some time quietly
discussing the propriety of bring
ing out Gen. Sherman as a candidate
for the Presidency, by an Independent
or Democratic Convention, on a plat
form of amnesty and reconciliation,
are now calling public attention to his
claims. A column article appears to-
day reviewing his record sincetbe close
of the war, and declaring that it has
been more liberal and judicious, on the
question of reconstruction and good
government throughout the country,
than that of any other man prominent
IN the Republican party. 1t is not
thought that Gen. Sherman Is privy to
any movement Of this nature, as he
has repeatedly declared, during the
last few months, that he preferred to
remain General of the Army rather
than serve four years IN the White
House.
Year: 1874

All our readers will turn with eager
ness TO the opening speech of our Cub
ernatorial nominee, the substance of
which, but not the oratoric fire, Is re-
produced elsewhere: Beginning calmly,
it grows more earnest, until the full
picture of Radical wrong and May
nard's tergiversation is drawn, when
the blows fall thick and hot and
fast. The NarTagansett chief will
find it difficult to dodge the
well directed aim of his adversary.
Porter evidently goes into the fight
armed capG-pie.


Equally gratifying and noteworthy
is the fact that our standard-bearer
keeps in prominent view the platform
adopted by the Tennessee Democracy.
From It's first plank to it's last, from
the rights of labor to the wrongs of at
tempted socialism, he bears aloft its
every principle. Nor is he disposed to
slight that less agreeable part
of it, the need for retrenchment where
ever possible and the necessity of
sustaining our credit as a people. 1t
has become the fashion with Republi-
cans to use platforms as Talleyrand
used language, only to deceive. Some
speak of them as promises made but to
be broken. Such has never been the
custom of the Democracy, with its ira
ditions of strict construction. In this
respect, as In others, Porter presents
a suggestive contrast with his COM
petitor, who could not stand still on
the Chattanooga platform fe minutes
without getting his feet blistered too
badly for further travel toward the
Vice Presidency.
Year: 1874

pending before Congress, as prejudicial to
the interest of education or social order,
tending to stimulate and perpetuate race
antagonisms, and involving the infringe
ment of the personal rights guaranteed by
the Constitution to all citizens.
Year: 1874

The following is the platform of the
Farmers and Peoples Anti-Monopoly
Party OF Livingston county, Illinois.
Every farmer and workingmsn in the
country can stand upon it and make q
successful fight against all opposing
classes and interests. We end dorse every
word aud sentiment of this platform


DECLARATION.


This organization is opposed to railroad
steals, tariff steals, salary grab
steals, bank steals, and every other
form of stealing by which the farmer and
laboring classes are robbed of the legiti-
mate fruits of their labor.


PLATFORM


l. We are in favor OF controlling by
law the railroad corporations of our State.


2. We submit to taxation and duties
to meet the necessity of the Government,
but denoupce as unjust and oppressive ali
taxation for tie benefit of special classes.


3. We sre in favor of the present bank
ing system being SO made that all men,
by giving the proper security, should
have equal privileges, so thatsupply and
demand shall regulate our money market.


4. We are opposed to all future grants
of land to railroad or other corporations,
and believe tnat the public domain should
be held sacred to the actual settlers.
5. We are in favor Of a true system OF
civil service reform, making honesty and
capacity the only valid claim for public
employment and believe that the office
should seek the man, and not the man the
office.
Year: 1874

The PLEASURES OF FARuSG.-A
Danbury young man, who was once
clerk, lately went on to farm to
work. The first night in his new
position he was detailed to remove a
calf from the apartment of its parents
to another shed. and while engaged,
as thousands have been before him,
in showing the contrary beast along,
tue mother reached under the tails Of
his coat with her horns, and suddenly
lifted him up against the roof of the
building with force that threatened
to shatter every bone in lis body.
The first thing ne did Oh returning
to earth was to rub himself, the next
thing he did was to throw up his
place. He said lie didn't doubt that the
agricultural was a noble pursuit, and
that the fsrmer needed an assistant in
the discharge of his multifarious
duties, but lie didn't believe he was
designed for making skylights in
cowsheds. .-f
Year: 1874

Lawyers make our laws, and in
framing them it is not strange that
they should so arrange them as to
make the most capital for themselves
As now constituted, the majority Of
our legislative enactments are such a
mass of yerbiage that none but an
adept, educated to TIE art, can un.
ravel the tangled skein. Indeed, so
intricate are they that even the law
yers themselves, nay, even our best
Judges, are not able to pronounce
upon their meaning with precision.


Many of the Grangers have incor-
porated into their constitutions a
clause binding the members, when
differences arise between them, to
submit their cases to arbitration.
Here is benefcent expodient that, if
rigidly adhered to, will saye to the
members not only enough to pay the
working expenses of the Grange, but
also, in the course of few years, to
stock each organization so olecting
with library amply sufficient to
meet all their ordinary wants.


In some instances this method OF
settling disputes has entirely done
away with the petty suits that are
constantly stirring up neighborhood
strife, and filling the pockets ofpetti-
Jogging lawyers, growing rich, in
many cases, from the results of their
own Vaccinations. If this class, who
are held in contempt by the honorable
portion Of their profession, persist in
stirring up strife, let the quarrels by
all means be settled by the Oranges
without their further Intervention.
A. Patron who refuses to abide by the
pledge he takes in this respect when
he signs the constitution should
Justly be considered to have greater
love for the law than justice, and
probably ought to be subject TO
Grange discipline, even to expulsion. "
Year: 1874

mental ideas of the Order of Pat
rons of Husbandry, and this word,
cooperation. must be used in its
most general and broadest sense,


Cooperation with a view to make
farmers social, which they are not
by reason OF their peculiar vocation;
corporation with a view to Improve
the farmers intellectually, for which


there is great room by reason of
their isolation; cooperation with a
view to develop the inmate prompt,
irgs of charity, which amongst far


mers is always latent in consequence
of their segregation; cooperation


with q view to edify the farmer as q
producer and consumer, and thus
bring these two great classes of peo'


pls face to face with each other, that
the cormorants of society, who have
heretofore toiled not nor spun, may


in degree revel in the privilege OF
earning their bread by the sweat OF
their face; cooperation with a view


to inform the farmer of the quality
and quantity of the products of bis
co>laborers, and thus give him stats
tical informetion that will enable hin
to cope with the army Of speculator'
that annually amass or destroy for
tunes at the farmers expense. w,
Year: 1874

DON'T loaf about the streets and de-
pend on the Lord for your daily
Bread He isn't. running bakery.


Think all you can of the coed quail
tiles of others; forget and keep silent
concerning their bad qualities.


What a wonderful oil upon the ma
chinery of human affairs tact isl To
know Just what to say, and when to
say it, and to whom to say ito know
when TO be silent, and when deterrent
tally to listen is a great gift.


Go strait on, and don't mind enc
mics. If they get in your way. calm
ly walk around them, regardless of
their spite. -


Every Parent is like a looking glass
for children to dress themselves by.
Therefore, parents should take care TO
keep the glass bright and clear, and
not dull and spOtted-as their good
example is a rich Inheritance for the
rising generation.


Deserve friends, and You will have
them. The world is teeming with
kind-hearted people, and YOU have
only TO carry kind sympathetic heart
in your own bosom 10 call ont good
ness and iriendliness from others.


There are some persons who possess
an ineXpressible charm in their man.
ners, n something which attracts our
love instantaneously; without wealth,
position or talents, still dignity how
ers round them, and cnnobles every
action.


The world is a loOking-glass, and
gives back every man the reflection of
his own face. FrOwn at IL. and ii viii
in turn look sourly upon you. Laugh
at it, and with it, and it is jolly, kind
companion.


To gain name of worth. a man
must have an aim, a purpose for which
he lives-not merely a bubble upon
the stream, tossed 10 and fro by each
succeeding wave; not merely the play
thing of fate, but n being of determi-
nation, who looks to some harbor
where he wills his boat shall anchor,
and in willing cOnquers circumstances,
and is not their slave.


Mrs. Henry Wood, who has writ
ten some of the best novels of the day,
puts in the mouth of the hero of one
of her stories the following admirable
sentiments sentiments which it would
be well for all to act out in their daily
lives: 'Td rather do n man a good
turn than a bad one, be he friend or
enemy. That is the only way to get
OF pleasantly in this life. 1t all comes
home TO US. If we sow flowers we
arc repaid by the perfume; if we plant
nettfes they viii spring up and sting
us. don't believe a man ever did
the smallest kindness but it was in
some way returned TO him | feel
sure that for every injury a manor
woman inaicts on others a worse evil
is returned."
Year: 1874

''Dear old Aunt Mary" said a
school girl. "don't see very well,
and last Sunday she was buZZing
around getting ready for church,
looking for umbrella, specs, oyer
shoes and last, but not least, her
prayer-boOk. The latter h c
thought she had secured by grab
bing something Of her bureau at
the last moment, but when she got
to church it proved to be my musi-
cal box, and the old lady, in trying
to find her place in this uncommon
book of prayer, touched the spring
and it went off in fine style to the
tune of 80 Jim Along, Jim Along
Joscy.'"
Year: 1874

We do not remember that Christ


ever said, ''Take heed how you


preach" or even gave his apostles


any very explicit instructions in


homiletics; but he did say to the


people, ''Take heed how We hear, r"


and he preached a sermon to them


with that for his text. In that SER


mon, the parable of the sower, he


indicated that why so much seed is


apparently wasted is less to the care


lessness of the farmer than the


poverty of the soil. or, to drop the
figure, less the deficiency of the


preacher than the deficiency of the
hearers. There is in every congre-


CATION a large proportion of careless,
Indifferent, inattentiyc hearers. 1t
is easy to give instruction to those


that want il; il requires rare skill
to import it TO those who do not.
II i easy to furnish food for
the hungry; but it is hard TO furnish
appetites. The minister congratu-
lates himself on his large Sabbath
congregation. He would modify his
INSTRUMENTATION if he had the
ewes TO discern how many have sent
only their bodies, and kept their
souls at home. The mother Is in
the Kitchen with her cook, pre-
( pairing her Sunday dinner; the mai
/ den is with her lover, rowing on
the river or walking in the moon
/ light; the merchant is in his count
ing room, studying his ledger. Their
/ bodies are in the church, but they
are not. When Saul sent messen-
gers to slay David, Michael dressed
up an image to represent him while


ne fled. When the messengers OF
! the great King came, not to slay,
/ but 10 save, the people play the
same trick on them. The image OF
/ David Is present to the eye; the


real David is far away.-The Chris.
/ tian Union.
Year: 1874

The wonted dead calm, character
istic of Mobile, was almost broken
q few days since by a composite
misunderstanding between two
white women, one colored woman,
two billy-gOats, and three dogs
But happily the threatened distur-
bance was averted, the ours simply
fought till each was dead dog, and
one of the goats had his back bro
ken, the three females were picked
up and carried of in a police ambu-
lance. and the whole affair created
no pcrceptible excitement.
Year: 1874

He was an Irshman, aud when
first seen he was coming down
Montague street, Brooklyn, on his
way to the Wall-street ferry. Over
his port shoulder hung a bag con-
tanning about a bushel of potatoes,
and in his starboard hand he carried
stout stick. Being under full sail,
the momentum acquired in coming
down the steep grade carried him
nearly through the gateway, when,
seeing a boat about ten feet from
the dock, he shook out another reef,
made an astonishing burst of speed
and jumped. Just as he reached
the deck the potato bag shifted
heavily to port and laid out Il
Broad-street clerk who was smoking
a Henry Clay thro' a meershaum
holder, while the stick hit a rOtund
South street merchant in the waist =
band, shutting him up Ikea jack
knife, and Pat himself assumed an
involuntary devotional attitude
He was the first to recover his per-
pendicularity, and as he replaced
the bag in its normal position he
complacently remarked: "Be jabers,
but | got the boat anyhow" "Got
the boat?" screamed he Of Broad
street, splitting the pieces of amber
out his mouth. why, you double
blank idiot, this boat is coming in, ,
And so she was.
Year: 1874

A panic-smitten Boston paper
says: The fact that Day broke yes
terday is no evidence that Times
is bankrupt How does it account
for the widely spread rumor, 'We
take no note Of Timer Isn't the old
fellows paper good? The comment
is by the Courier ournal.
Year: 1874

THE NEW PLAN OF NAvAL-CoNsTRUcToR HANS


COMB PROVES sUCCEssFUL-THE ToRPEDo-BoA


INTREPID TEsTED-DEPARTURE OF TIE NAVAL


COMMITTEE FOR BOSTON.


NEWPORT Aug 18.-The last of the official
experiments for the benefit Of the Congressional Com
nittee we're made to-day and proved successful TO the
qualification Of the Commandan and his assistants In
charge OF the station The experiments OF to-day con


sisted o. two explosions, the torpedoes being fired by
the new torpedoboat Intrepid. This vessel which was
recently completed at Boston, and which, since her ar
rival here, has been object OF interest In
this vicinity took in tow the condemned schooner
Uncas, which was recently purchased by the


Government for this purpose and proceeded with IL TO
the vicinity of the Brenon Reef Lghtshp, followed by
the United States Despatch, with the Congress
sional Committee and large number OF prominent
naval officials and others on board The plan tried to-
day is tine one proposed time by Naval Con-
structor Hanscomb 1t consisted Of exploding the
deadly by of spas As feet in length run
out their full length from the bow Of the vessel The Two
torpedoes containing 100 pounds OF powder each were
attached to the ends OF these spars and were pushed
forward by the officers and Of the Intrepid and
by OF delicate appliances one OF them was e1podeu
directly under the schooners bow tearing away as II
it had been nothing more than bundle Of shavings,
amid the breapless suspense Of the spectators This
was followed immediately by the firing Of the second
torpedo. which completely demolished the already
shverng mbers The force OF the explosions did not
leave a piece OF timber worth saving by the many
saiboats In the vicinity, and the air was lite
rally alive with dirt, splinters, foam and smoke,
causing all present to shudder at the terrible loss
Of which would be the result OF this terrible mode az
warfare piece OF the timber. six feet In length, with


dozen more huge spikes planted In it, landed on the
Intrepds deck with great force but no one was injured
The experiment was IN every way satisfactory 10 the
Committee and will prove the world that these bags
OF powder" termed such at the experimenting AT hcy
West capable Of doing all and even more than re-
quircd of them. Immediately after the trial the Dee
patch proceeded TO Boston, where the Chariestown
Nayy-Yard will be inspected.