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Year: 1874

Since leaving Salem, we have been
among the Southern people, have
rested in their desolate households,
have beheld the long, rank grass
waving over their mutitudinous dead,
and listened to their dismal miseries
in that once beautiful and naughty,
then heart-broken and ghostly land
of graves. While staying at a water.
ing place in Missouri, we saw the
rebel widows dropping about in their
weeds, accompanied by thOir forlorn
little ones with their childish sem
blance of woe; and it was very pitt
full. One little thing, some four or
five years old and as beautiful as the
spirit of the day, was conspicuous.
With her we contrived to make
friends under the spreading walnut
trees of Missouri, and at last she
came and laid her snow-white little
hands upon the strangers knees, and
looked up into his face with,ber great,
wide, desolate eyes, with an inarticu-
late Representatives,, as though we
had slain her father at Pea Ridge and
buried him in the bloody trenches.


We are not ashamed to confess
that this was more than human sym
pathy could endure; and for the time
unmnidful that there were many such
scenes in our own Northern land, and
seeing only American beauty and sin
less childhood in bereavement and
desolation, we turned away from that
stern and pathetic judgment bar with
swelling heart and clouded eyes. 1t
may have been only a sentimental
fancy; a fever-dream under those bra
zen sultry midsummer skies, but the
sad impression still fingers, and the
sweet, accusatory face OF that little
one stands out in reliet upon the
walls of memory, phropbesying
against cruel, curseful, inhuman war.


Since then, we have done with de.
nouncing the unfortunate and mis-
taken people with whom we have
been in bloody and exterminating
conflict We are cured of our patri.
otic inhumanity and vindictive un-
charity. Hencetorth, when provoked
to bitterness of recollection we shall
call to mind the dead rebels child,
with her great, wondering eyes and
airs Of unspeakable desolation May
God keep the sweet little preacher of
peace and forgiveness, and crown
her in her young womanhood with
that imperial beauty, that spotless in
nocence, which almost hallowed her
childish face, al she wandered about
in melancholy solitude amid the
groves of Arcadia, besides the lordly !
Father of Waters. And il she shall
eyer be found dropping upon the
blood stained slopes Of Pea Ridge,
searching in affection among the
DamelesS graves for one Of the unre
corded dead, may she look up from
her weeping to behold the friendly
and benignant standard Of her coun-
try unfolding its splendor in the sun
and fiinging its protecting shadow all
around her, and say TO herself. ut
was but tho event Of heroic war it
was long, long, ago; the horrid storm
birds have flown far away, and no
longer the charging truppets bowl"
Salem Statesman.
Year: 1874

THERE is good story Of little
boy who, going into a book store
with bis mother, crept up to the ia
yenile of the establishment with the
sly query "Say, have you got any
books for boys that amt got any re-
ligion in 'em.
Year: 1874

Our political weakness reminds me
of the apostrophe of the Irishman to
the excayating machine: "Your
arms are strong, We can dig a great
deal, but you can't vote!' I am not
unmindful that in this vast domain
Of which l speak there are several
Territories, and that they have dele
gates on the floor of the house; but
these delegates, howsoever much
personal influence they may WELD,
possess no vote. Judge McFadden
and John Haley are both noble,
hard working men. They rendered
me valuable assistance and kindly
encouragement in my labors in your
behalf.


Another subject of which 1 must
speak is
Year: 1874

the wants of the country, 1 urged
upon the Committee the overshadow-
ing Importance of giving to us this
line of railroad. And I believe 1
did all that could be done before
that committee.
Year: 1874

AT Big Creek, Arkansas, they have a
peculiar fashion which sometimes proves
embarrassing. As there Is no preacher
within thirty miles, the way for marrying
iskissing across a table. Recently New
York drummer was out there. lie put
up at private house and became quite
intimate. One evening he was fooling
around one of the girls trying, gently
trying the extent of her sweet temper,
when, she gave his whiskers a pull and
ran. He followed. She got the table
between them. lie chased her around il
several times. When out of breath he
stopped on the other side, making a
wild plunge, caught her in his arms
and gave her hearty kiss. She then
sat down on the sofa, and they talked
pleasantly for a couple of hours-he
thiaking it singular that she should sit
up so late.


At last she said, Don't you think its
about time we went to bedY


Il guess you are right he remarked,
lets CO.


She lit candle, and he was about to
do the same, when she said, Il reckon
ones enough. One candle will light two
folks to bed


Undoubtedly it would, when those
two people occupy the same room. But
your candle won't illuminate my cham.
Der.


'Ain't we going to occupy the same
room. Amt we married.


'Ain't we what? shouted the gentle
man.


Married Didn't you kiss me across
the table? That married us


A cold sweet spread over the drummer.
He knew that il he said he wasn't married
to her she would make an outcry, and
then her loving and much tabacco-con.
suming father would arise in his wrath
and carve him into outlets, and her
brothers would bring down their shot
guns and empty the contents into him
He mus; be strategic. He must put her
off. So he SAID:


'Fairest OF your sex, permit me to re-
mark that did not know that kissing
across the table constituted marriage
ceremony. But ! am content, have
never seen one who SO completely filled
my ideal of beautiful, sweet, loving
and modest woman. However, | would
never think of holding you to this marri'
age until | had asked the permission O.
your father to pay my addresses to you.
Tomorrow, at dinner, when The entire
family are present, l will propose foI
your fair hand


This satisfied the lady, and after bestow
ing upon him fervent kiss she went to
her room aud he went to his. He pack
ed his carpet bag, took off his boots, ant
made tracks for the nearest railway sta
ton. He didn't feel entirely safe until h'
reached st. Louis. He hasn't informe,
his wife of this little adventure He,
afraid she might wre to Arkansas for the
facts in the case, and then he might ge
arrested for bigamy. Women sometimes
won't listen to reason, you know.-Ma
adelphia Press.
Year: 1874

To he the first 10 communicate start
ling news is an ambition most of us must
confess to. There is fascination about
communicating the intelligence of n dis
aster that few of us can resist. We hear
that So and so is dead, and we start at
once for home. Every body we meet
stops TO ask how he does. We say,
"IIow are your" and say it so calmly we
are surprised at ourself. lie stops, too,
and looks at US. The salutation is so
bare of those qualities which go to en-
chain man that he suddenly feels as il it
would have been much better to have
communicated the intelligence at once.
The other party is standing expectantly,
and staring curiously at US. In desper-
alton at the time We are losing, we give
him the news, experience thrill ofgrat-
itu de at the shock it gives him, and start
on again. The nearer we approach home
the greater our fear that somebody may
get ahead Of US after all How il nerves
us ahead. We reach the house; all our
eagerness is gone. We remove our coat
and hat apd while we are hanging
them up. and have our back to the
audience, we say very quietly! That
was rather sudden DEATH" Death
Who is deadf' is cried in rather a
startled tone that makes our finger ends
tingle with joy. "Why, handt you
heard of it" in tone of surprise, So
and so is dead-just died"


Something; so and so is reported dy-
ing-suddenly stricken with a fatal dis
ease, and we put for home with the same
eagerness and we when succeed in being
first with the news, there comes the fear
that after all he may not die. II tortures
US in spite Of all reasoning, and having
set forth in glowing colors the great dan
ger he is in and how sad il is to he for
his family, and so enlarged upon all the
awful features of the coming catastrophe,
that there remains nothing more TO add,
we feel in certain sense responsible for
his carrying out the programme. How
eagerly We watch every intelligence of
him, and how impatiently We wait for
his taking off. As his symptoms grow
more and more uniavoable we grow
louder and more pathetic in our sympa-
thy should he commence to mend We
feel the sympathy oozing from Ms, and
in its stead comes the horrible suspicion
that he may possibly recover in spite of
all. 1t doesn't seem possible that man
who has given out that he is going to die
can have the face to get well again. But
there are people who will do it. Al
though we mention no names. Danbury
Mus.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. 1874.
THE INITIATION LoOPHoLE IN THE FINANCE


BILL-AMENDMENT BY TILE HOUSE UNpAIAT-


ABLE TO THE SENATE


During the brief debate In the Senate on the
Finance bill Senator schurz vainly tried to get
Senator Sherman to say that the greenbacks called
In would, by the wording or intention OF the bill,
be absolutely cancelled and not on any pretext re-
issued. Mr. Sherman, after good deal OF fencing.
refused to commit himself TO this position, and the
understanding Is therefore that, II the Secretary
OF the Treasury saw ut to reissue such called-in
legal tenders, he would have right to do so. or
OF wild imitation. Senator Logan to-
day asked what would be the result
in the Senate II the House should SO amend the
bull as to require the cancellation OF the with
drawn greenbacks ana forbid their reissue under
any circumstances. He replied very promptly
that such an amendment could not pass the
Senate, and that 1t would kill the bill II IL was in
sisted on. 1t is now quite certain that the bill Is
intended to favor further ination OF the currency,
and 1t is equally certain that number OF leading
republicans In the House will oppose its passage.
except with an amendment absolutely forbidding
the reissue OF legal tender notes after they have
been WITHDRAWN under the provisions OF the bill.
On this point there will be vigorous debate, and
the innationists In the House will be forced to
s'show their hands,"
Year: 1874

THE GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS NOT LIKELY


TO RELEASE HIN.


BOSTON, Dec. %, 1874
Powerful influence Is being brought to bear
upon the Governor to prevent the release from
the State PRISON OF the notorious Spence Pettis,
1t Is claimed that his evidence Is worthless. and
the whole movement q ruse to secure his virtual
unconditional pardon as he himself well knows,
stolen from the District Attorneys ONCE, and
there Is now no evidence against him IN this
state. 1t ts believed here that the Governor Will
refuse to release him.
Year: 1874

JEwELBY STORE RoBBED on $12 900 WORTH


OF GOODS.


BOSTON, Dec. %, 1874
Some time between Saturday night and this
morning the Jewery store Of George W. Daring b
Co.. No. l65 Washington street, was broken into
and robbed OF gold Watches diamonds and other
articles OF the value OF upward OF Sl2oO0 The
discovery OF the robbery was made by clerk who
opened the store this morning. The thieves gained
access to the back yard Of the building by an
adjacent skylight and forced open the rear wooden
shutters. Two sales were broken open and all the
more valuable contents carefully selected and the
balance OF the stock left strewn about the place
in confusion. The store is In the most central To-
were opened without much noise. There is no
clew to the thieves. WHO are thought to have come
from New York
Year: 1874

800 REWARD.-LOST, EITHER In A BROAD.
way or in the street between Thirty fourth and
Twentieth Streets Case containing pair of diamond
earrings The nnder will the above reward by
leaving them at 80 West Twenty fourth street NO Quos
tonaa n Sk al
Year: 1874

nomination. except few letters in an
obscure evening paper in Cincinnati
many years ago against the Catholic
denomination. have treated all with
a manly frankness, as would treat
my own. The Christian truth is bro
ken up into many fragments, and if
eact sect possesses one it shalli have
my support. Love has been very con-
slant. [ found in Calvinism a con-
stant attempt to magnify the glory of
God such a belief [ could not inter
pref AID mankind they needed the
breast and not the arm, mother and
not ruler Such have not preached
Christ to be. In doing so l have had
your sym pathy and that of many 9TH
others, but if l had not that support l
should yet feel fully paid in Gods own
sweetness. / have had many expert
ences, such as all men have had, of sor-
row and defeat; to my public life not
one too many when looked at from the
other side. But of one thing, my dear
ly beloved, be fully assured my great
est joy shall be assured when | stand
in the presence of the revealed God
and you come up, we shall shake
hands in eternal blessed reunion. /
shall ever be by the side of my loved
Savior. whose servant l have beeu.-
This is IN brief recapitulation of my
ministry. l am conscious of duvoting
to it my best energy. nay best strength,
and best mind l have worked with q
single eye to the advancement of the
knOledge of Christ's grace amoug men,
and no man shall take from this hon
or. What is for the future care not.
1t is in the hands of cur universal pas
tor. / can leave every thing in the
hands of the Lord. living or dying
Let Hs take again the staff of work,
and grid up anew our loins, and the
Savior VIII lead US forward until we
meet in the kingdom of the future.
Year: 1874




During the past three nights the en-
gineers and machinists at the round
house of the Virginia and Truckee
Railroak Company, in this city, have
been in a state of lively excitement
about some strange electrical distur-
Dances which have occurred there reg
uIarly every night. For three nights
all hands have been engaged in trying
to solve the mystery, but have only
partially succeeded. The company
erected q large smokestack, which
rises to a considerable height above the
roof of the round-house. At the base
this smOkestack is spread out in the
shape Of funnel. It was builtin or
der that the locomotives may stand
under it 20 cool off when they come in
off the road and also when they are
being fred up in the morning. Into the
side of this smOkestack, three or four
days ago, was run a stove-pipe from
stove standing in room forty feet dis
tant. It is about this stove that the
electrical disturbances take place. The
first that was observed Of these was
about II o'clock, four nights since,
whensP. Pipplngham, a wcll-known
iI'dtIAiIIoC3 OppIOGCliSu lilc olONC iOI
the purpose of putting wood in it. AS
the stick neared the stove he received
such a shock that it fell from his hand,
and his arm was benumbed. He at
first thought ne had taken a sudden
cramp in his arm. In trying again to
put the wood into the stove he received
second shock. This time he observ-
ed a flash and heard sharp snap,
which he at once recognized as a dis
charge of electricity. They tried all
manner Of experiments, and found
that the stove was fully and heavily
charged with electricity, it giving ont
sparks and flashes when a piece of
iron, steel, wood, or the naked hand
approached it. After an hour of two
the phenomenon ceased. The next
day nothing was seen of it: but the
next night about ii o'clock, shortly
after locomotive came ia and stopped
under the funnel of the smOkcstack,
the stove was again charged, and be-
gan swapping and cracking, sending
out sparks and flashes on all sides. So
it has been every night since. They
now know that the heated locomotive
causes this electrical display, but in
just what way is that which is still
puZzling them.
Year: 1874

tremity gradually northward.-Balti-
more Sun.


These sensational professors and as
tronOmers ought tc be punished. They
cause a vast deal of suffering amongst
nervous people. When we reflect that
we cannot see through a column of
steam or a very cloud, and yet can see
stars through the tail of a comet, we
may well treat such tails" with con-
tempt, and say with that great philoso-
pher and physiciso, John Tyndall that
we could put whole comet, tail and
all, into a one-hOrse cart. The tail,
too, always stands off opposite the sun
evidence enough that it is about as
substantial as a shadow. The atmOs
phere of the earth is a cushion that
would protect us from injury if solid
body moving at the speed that usually
characterizes visitants from the celes-
tial regious were projected into the sir
above us. It would be shivered into
ten thousand pieces and almost con-
sumed by its own heat. Look at the
comet if you will but laugh at it.
Richmond Dispatch.
Year: 1874

When Ex-President Johnson was
here last Thursday many of our citi-
zcGs called on him at the Nickels
House, At whose boun;iful tables sew
cral OF them diled with him. The
Ex>President is a manifcent tallier
and his converse tions were little less
than fine oratious, or more correctly
speaking learned and forcible lectures
on The political situation. The period
Of bis retirement, after a service so
Through comprehensive and conspic>
nous, has furnished fHe opportuni
ty fer his ponderous and active brain
to create an ideal of order which
must be worked from our past politi-
cal chaos. and we hazard little In
saying that he has now the most logi-
cal and practical views CT all o0r
Statesmen. Never ia his life before
was he so highly capacitated for
public service, and Tennessee. almost
prosrate beneath her necessities, will
lose largely if she should longer fail
to call into official activity his great
powers. On the subject our State
finances we want a great leader. A
collection of mediocre mental equals
never yet achieved any large public
good. Such men are jealous of each
other and their opinions merely clash
inharmoniously to the tune of nothing.
1t was the overtopping intellect of
Jefferson that gave birth to the De-
ciaratior of independence. Frank
lin was the one embodiment of our
efficient foreign ministry. Washing
ton was our one great genius on the
field. Look what a work they
wrought.


The great Statesmen of Virginia
and her sisters other than Tennessee
are either dead or in their dotage.-
Only Tennessee has yet LEFT in
the prime and maturity of his
powers such a mind as that of An
drew johnson. And as never before
has she bad such sore needs, so il
cannot. ust not be, that she will al
low him to sit down unused at this
time.
Year: 1874

of the Richmond DIsPATCH says:


The melancholy days have at last
come. Grant shook the dust of the
capital from his boots at five o'clock
this afternoon and started for Long
Branch. All the members of the Cal =
met have also left town, or a0iU do so
i'm the earliest trains tomorrow, ex-
cepting perhaps Williams, who, what
ever else may be said of him, is gener-
ally to be found at his post. even in
the dullest of the dOg-day season. He
is not rich enough to make very exten-
sive pleasure tours. The Cabinet and
the President will make flying trips to
Washington during the summer. The
Secretary of the treasury will be here
most of the time. How the new Post
master General will stand the hot
weather after his sojOurn in Russia of
c'uFse cannot be known until he al
Tives.


General Bristow has nearly compile
led his reorganization OF the Treasury
Year: 1874

Newspaper men are asking why
Grant went all the way to Russia to
get a Posimaster>General. We an
swer, because Jewell was a first-class
tanuer, and one does not pick first
c ass one in this country every day.
Year: 1874

THOSE SASH RIBBONS which LEVY BROTHERS


are selling so cheap arc going fast. We advise those
who are likely to want sashes within the Lext week
or two to call at once and make their selections
Year: 1874

Trial OF civil warrants this morning.


A number of sales of real and personal
property in front Of the courthouse yes
terday.


The Board of Trustees hold their last
regular meeting tonight.
Year: 1874

from this t,ate and have marked our goods down al
prices that will convince friends and the pub
lie that II is 10 their best interests TO buy their


--ILOIUlNG AND FURNISHING GOODS--
Year: 1874

Two years ago the Most Rev. Archbishop
McClosky determined on forming q new parish at
East Forty.third street. The mission TO carry out
his wishes was intrusted to the Rev. Father Mac
DowalL The immense crowds that throngei
to Croton Hail. where divine service was
temporarily held, proved the great necessity
that existed Tor Catholic church In that
popuous district. The young and popular pastor
Father MacDowall Immediately purchased the site
Tor church In East Forty-third street, and, not
withstanding the embarrassment and dificulty
created BY the late panic, succeeded IN building
and roofing IN the basement, where divine service
has been neld for some months past.


The iaIr to be opened next Monday In gotten ND to
collect funds FOR the completion OF the church,
and from the preparations made by the ladies' IN
charge OF the different tables the fair Will prove
most attractive and we trust successful.
Year: 1874

Paon Natiero IS an Italian who lives In Thompson
street, near Grand, and Is Q part OF that super
abundant human material that weighs down the
price OF labor along the shores OF the city. He is
perhaps useful to himself. certainly q benefit to
stevedores and steamship companies at present
ana decidedly an object ior the hatred OF the
s'strikinRn 'iongshoremen. Yesterday afternoon
an unknown man hit him on the mead with stone
while at the corner OF King and Varick streets
Natero, the namesake OF the COrslcan patriot
Pao, was attended by a surgeon at the Twenty
eighth precinct station house. and thence was
sent nome.
Year: 1874

There is no death Tho stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore
And bright in Heavens jewelled crown
They shine for cvermore.
There is no death The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer showers
TO golden grain or mellow fruit,


Or raiubow.tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize


To feed the hungry moss they bear
The forest leaves drink daily life


From out the viewless air.
There is no DEATH The leaves may fall,
The flowers may fade and pass away,
They only wait, through wintry hours,
The coming Of the May.
There is no DEATH An angel form


Walks o'er the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best loved things away,


And then we call them "dcad."
He leaves our hearts all desolate,


He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers
Transplanted into bliss they now


Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones
Made glad these scenes of sin and strife,
Sings now an everlasting song


Amid the tree oflife.
Aud where he sees smile too bright,
Or heart too pure for taint and vice,
He bears il to that world Of light,


To dwell in Paradise.
Born into that undying life,


They leave us but to come again;
With joy We welcome them--the same,
Except in sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread
For all the boundless Universe


Is lifc--therc are no dead.
Year: 1874

Il is said that the custom Of having
orange blossoms for bridal wreaths was
derived from the Saracens, among whom
the orange branch, from The circumstance
Of its bearing fruit and fowen at tho same
time, was considered an emblem Of pros
perity. Not one bride IN ten NOVA days
knows anything about tradition, however.