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Year: 1874

and reform and both have been con
| stantly stimulated by the press, which
has not hesitated to demand the remov


al of the second officer of the cabinet
| and his Immediate assistants. Mean
while "Butlerism" has sensibly declined
| The member of Congress who is not the
leader of the House is General Butler
| The same gentleman is he who is not
likely to be the next Governor of Massa
chusetts. But there was general dispo


sition not very long since to consider Re


publicanism and Butlerism synonymous


and to smile at the suggestion that the


general had not yet mastered the party


The situation of the Southern States


also, has not escaped the observation and


the criticism and censure of the party.


The committee of Congress, indeed, could


not find proper grounds for taking South


Carolina in hand, but it did express sym


pathy and consciousness that there was


much to be deplored, while there has


been no stronger denunciation of the


enormities in that State and elsewhere


than in the Republican press On the


the other hand, and as an illustration OF


the difference between two dominant


parties, during all the Democratic delir


ium about slavery in the Southern States


before the war, we recall no similar criti


cism and unshrinking condemnation in
the Democratic press of the country;
the managers of the party in those
States were never called to account, but
all guilt and responsibility were thrown
upon "Northern interference"


The fear that the Republican party has
fallen hopelessly under the control OF
unfit leaders and disastrous counsels is
not justified by the facts. We do not
say, of course, that it has wholly escaped
them, or that there is not conflict with
them proceeding at this time. Indeed,
that it just what we do say But the
encouraging sign to those who know
that in free countries government must
be carried on by parties. and that there
is now no great dividing issue in our pol
itics, is that the Republican party has
healthy vigor enough to wrestle with it's
own evils and abuses, and that events
show a willingness and q wish among its
members for publication and reform. If
it be said that the truth is, the party is
and is therefore merely throw |
ing over its contraband freight, we reply
that that is the very thing which other
parties have not done nor attempted to
do. The Free-soil Democrats in 1S4S the
Douglas Democrats in 1857, tried to per-
suade the Democratic party to tighten
ship, and they were themselves thrown |
overheard for their pains. And if to-day, |
as will not be denied the best Republi-
cans in the country have more heart and |
hope than for many months before, it is
because they see more clearly than they
have hitherto been able to see that there
is spirit in the party which is coura-
geous enough to give battle to those who
would disgrace the common name, and
a spirit which now seems to have the
of victory
Year: 1874

No student of our political history will
deny that the Republican party shows
within its rank both an independence of
criticism, readiness of reform which no
other great and dominant party has ever
shown, and which is sure sign of its
real vitality, an augury of its continued
and deserved supremacy. The Demo-
cratic party, which was so long in the as
cendant, became steadily more and more
corrupt, more and more besotted with
slavery, scorning a chance which Douglas
offered it of assuming a virtue which it
did not have, until it sunk beneath the
wrath and contempt of the people. But
it Is the praise of the Republicans that
their press denounces most strenuously
maladministration of every kind, and
that the Congress which they control
scrutinizes impartially and severely the
conduct of administrative officers, and
the Republican officers are removed and
the Republican laws repealed when such
action is plainly proper The effect of
all this upon the country is evident. As
there is no great dividing issue, and as
the chief question at this time is one of
administration, the wish of the country
is to know whether the dominant party
is likely to purify its own conduct of af-
fairs, or whether honest men must turn
10 Gu0 OShOOId1lC III AOp0 vi ISllSl,
invoking ills it knows not of. That this
would be the means of any considerable
change of sides at the election is we'll
understood. II am dissatisfied l think
that l must vote the Democratic ticket,
and see what comes of it. is the express
sion of certain class. But nobody, ex-
cept a Democrat, says that he expects
of course greater honesty and purity
from Democratic administration.


Within the few past months the Re-
publicans have had the good sense and
the courage to repeal the SALARY grab"
act, for which, although warmly support
ed by many Democrats, they must, as the
majority, bear the responsibility They
have abolished in the House the moiety
system, after thorough examination
conducted by a Republican committee.
They have repealed the Sanborn contract
law, passed by Republican Congress,
and they have solemnly censured, in
adopting the report of the Committee of
Ways and Means, the Republican Secre
tary, Assistant Secretary, and Solicitor of
the Treasury. They have thoroughly
investigated the management of the Dis
trict of Columbia under the Territorial
system established by Republicans, and
it is understood that the report will deal
as vigorously with the results as the
other committee and reports have dealt
with the other abuses which have been
exposed The great scheme of imitation,
although passed by both Houses, was
powerfully opposed by the most eminent
Republican leaders, and was supported
by the divided Democratic as well as Re-
publican vote, while the Republican
President, in accord with the spirit of
the national declaration of the party


promptly vetoed it,. 49,


These more prominent events of the
last six months show, at least, that the
Republican party is "hide. bound. -
Meanwhile its press has spoken in un-
mistakable tones. Press and platform
began last autumn to demand inquiry
Year: 1874

Dr. Andrew Combe is an instance of
what may be done under the most disad-
vantageous circumstances, even by a
hopeless invalid. He was well educated
in medical science, and for many years,
he practiced as a physician. Then he
was compelled, by disease of the lungs,
to withdraw himself from the active du-
ties of his profession. He had now to
watch his own health with the utmost
discipline and caution. He knew that
he was suffering from a fatal disease, from
which there could be no hope of cure,
but he knew that with the utmost care
and selfcontrol, his life might be indefi-
nitely prolonged, though always with a
feeble and uncertain tenure. He fully
acted up to the conditions which he saw
imposed upon him, and his life was spar
ed during ten years. In this period of
extreme ill-health, caused by extensive
organic disease, he addressed himself to
literary labor, which had wide usefulness
and little popularity He issued volume
after volume, in which he made import
ant knowledge intelligible to almost
every order of mind, His long expe-
rience as an invalid was useful to many
invalids, on whom he urged the necessi-
ty of moderation and self-discipline
With all his weakness, there was hardly
any healthier man who lived so active
and beneficial a life. A writer speaks of
"that TALL spare figure, with its bright,
mild and malignant eye, and a manner
modest, yet firm and self controlled-a
man who struck the observer at once as
above the ordinary stamp. The express
sion of his face, to casual observer,
showed that he bore what he had to en-
dure with manly fortitude. There was
no querulousness, no discomfort, no
peevishness, no disappointment in the
lines of that face. He was in the
region above complaint. He used the
talent which had been entrusted to him,
and with abundant reward. ~ Leisure
Hours.
Year: 1874

MUSCULAR CHRIsTIANTIY.-Ag good ex
ample Of muscular christianity is re
corded of Father Lynch, an Irish priest
formerly attached to the Roman Cath
olic College below Niagara Falls, and
who was afterward Bishop Of Toronto
Returning home one dark night or
horseback, Father Lynch was accosted
by footpad with a bludgcon, who
ordered him to dismount and surrender
his horse and purse. The reverend
father did as he was ordered, and in SC
doing sprang on his assailant and lait
him fat on his back. care YOU at
lrishman 2' II am, siry "A Catho
licY' "Sure that l am swell, / an
Father Lynch, and shall take YOU
punishment out of the hands of th,
law" saying which he laid his riding
whip upon the back of the astonishet
offender with such vigor that the lat
ter probably registered q vow that hi'
next assault should be on n layman
Year: 1874

A reporter called on board one of the European steamers to ask an explana- tion of the telegram in regard to the French steamer Amerique, in which it is stated that "the accident and leak ing were caused by the valves being left open" The Chief Engineer, to whom he was referred, said that he supposed that the valves alluded to were those technically called "sea corks," which were placed in the bottom of the ship, and through which the water was sup piled to the condenser of the engine. This water after passing through the condenser is elected from the side of the ship by means of 8 pipe called the "bilge ejector," the orice of which is u4ually above the water mark, but sometimes below, when vessel is deep- ly laden.s It is most probable that if the loss of the Amerique was owing to leakage through the valves, it entered through the tssea cork" When the orifice of the s sbilge eiector 1" is below the surface of the water, it immediately rushes in the moment the engine ceases to work, unless it is closed. In case of g leak at sea, the water supplied by the leak is used for the condenser, and the "sea cork immediately closed. The valves need very close attention, as if left open 8 large vessel would be sunk in three or four hours. If they were left open in the Amerique it could only have been the result of the most gross carelessness on the part of the engineer in charge. If the leak arose from any other cause the valves should have been closed at once.
Year: 1874

How many manly form is palsied :; how many noble mind is destroyed {; how many priceless soul lost through the curse of strong drink To the de- spairing victims of the Satanic tyrant Alcohol, whose shattered nerves, and trembling limbs, and racking head aches, seem to find no relief except in the renewed use of the fatal poison which brings them every day nearer to their miserable end, we announce glad tidings of great joy DR. WA1KER's VINEGAR BlTTERs contain not 8 single drop of alcohol in any form, but are 8 sovereign remedy for the ills of drunkenness. They restore tone and strength to the system, and entirely eradicate the pernicious appetite for liquor. Try few bottles of VINEGAR BITTERs, and you will never crave strong spirits again, but find your health repaired, your mind restored, and be once more man in the best sense. Health is cheap when VINEGAR BITTERs are $1 bottle.
Year: 1874

Here is fact for some of our lady housekeepers. One of the difficulties in regard to the purchase of liquid or syrup honey in quantity is, that it soon candies or crystalizes. This difficulty can be obviated by keeping it in the dark, the change being due to photo graphic action. The same agent that alters the molecular arrangement of iodide of silver on the excited collodion plate causes the honey to assume 8 crystalic form. IL is to this action of light that scientists attribute the work ing of bees by night, and why they are so careful to obscure the glass windows that are sometimes placed in their hives. Is this instinct or reason?
Year: 1874

PARLoR MATCHES. Great Barring ton (Mass. merchant found a box of parlor matches on the store floor the other morning, which had been knocked off the shelf by a rat or mouse over night. On opening the box the discov- cry was made that by the concussion every match in the box had been light ed, and the wood of which they were made was charred and turned brown. It was narrow escape, and if @ fire had taken place, its cause would have been perpetual mystery.
Year: 1874

Many feeble people and invalids who are troubled with constipation of the bowels may be permanently benefited by using very little of the common tincture of nux vomica. A druggist will give half an ounce for five cents : then put two drops into about half an ounce of cold water, and keep it for use. Each day when it is needed, put one drop into part of a tumbler of cold water and drink it all, several times during the day. Do not take any more than this in one day; but it may be continued each day until permanently cured. Graham bread and vegetable diet are great help for this trouble ; but they are not agreeable to some peo- ple's tastes, and are not easily obtained by many who know that they might be benefited by them.
Year: 1874

We are perfectly willing that they
should have the honor, so heg OF them
all not to deny the acc lsation.


The aforementioned pedegogue re-
marked to a friend that IT, certain
lady did write those letters she had
told him a


DELIBERATE LIE,


And he should be sorry to number the
writer among his friends. We shall
not discuss the first part Of his remark,
as it would be an insult to the lady's
veracity; as to the latter, we can say
on our own account that Zoe's heart is
broken, and we have strong thoughts
of com mmitting suicide, especially as 1t
is just about bathing time. Blythe
bye, q friend of ours remarked to us
the other day that If the gentleman
said anything to her on the subject,
she would box his ears. We do not
say that the act would be perfectly
justifiable, yet "under the circum-
Stances" it might be Wright.


Zoe ZELLA.
Year: 1874

sl- The tide ofi'nmigration is steadily set.
ting in, and the fist thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
l new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2Ho
Year: 1874

An instance of extraordinary intelligence in a dog is given ny correspondent of Land and Va. fer. The gentleman who witness ed the event was a short time since on visit to Scotland, and during one of his walks he came across some men who were wash ing sheep. Close to the water where the operations were being carried on was a small pen, in which q detachment of ten sheep

 were placed, handy to the men for washing While watching the performance his attention was called to 9 sheep-dOg lying down close by. This animal, an the pen becoming nearly empty, without a word from any one, stated off to the main body of the f1Ock aud brought hack ten of itheir number, and drove them in to the empty washing pens. The fact of the dog bringing ex. actly the same number of sheep as had vacated it he looked upon at first as strange coincidence, a mere chance. But he continued looking on, and much tO his sur prise as soon IS the men had re- duced the number to three sheep the dog started off again and brought back ten more; and so he continued through out the af- ternoOn, never bringing one more nor one less, and always going for 8 fresh lot when only three were left in the pen, evi. denuy being aware that during the time the last three were washing he wOuld be able to bring up a'fresh detachment.
Year: 1874

Come of with your coat and roll up you sleeves

 Young man. Tm speak to you; Oh why do you stand in this busy land, And gay there's nothing to dol" Just pull of your coat and roll up you sleeves, And do whatever you can; You'll find it will pay in the end. I say, To let the world know you're a man. Come of with your coat and roll up you

 sleeves

 Then you will find plenty to do; Don't sit down and srowl, but get up and

 howl,

 And paddle your own canoe" If you're in hard luck, then show you've

 got pluck

 Never sit down and complain; But get mp and dust, and SCOUT Off'the rust, And then go it again. Come of your coat and roll ap your

 sleeves

 Young man why do you complain. And stand in the street like dead beat, If"nothing was made in vainl' Now, of with your coat and roll up your

 sleeves, And dO-the best that you can; In the end twill pay, as you'll find some

 day.

 To let the world know you're 6 man. Come !! off with your coat and roll up your

 sleeves

 Take hold and work like man; Don't be drOne in tEis world all alOne- You'li find it's not the best plan; But of with your coat and roll up your

 sleeves

 And be the first in tha'van: Now, mark what 1 say! in the end twill

 pay

 To let the world know you're a man.
Year: 1874

A YOUNG MAN AND HIS WIFE DESIRE SlTUA-
N tons in the country; the young man as coachman
and gardener and the woman cook, wash and iron
best references honesty and ability by both Ad
dress THOMAS BROWN. Herald office.
Year: 1874


Mary, let's kill the fattened calf and celebrate the


day.
For the last dreadful mortgage the farm is wiped
I have got the papers with me, they are right as
Let US laugh and sing together for the dear old farm


is freel
Don't all the Yankees celebrate the Fourth day of
Because twas then that Freedoms sun lit up our
Why shouldn't we then celebrate and this day meier


forget
Where is there any freedom like being out of debit
I've riz mn many a morning an hour before the sun.
And night has overtaken me before the task was


done, -,
Each day viii help to pay the mortgage on the farm
And. Mary. you have done your part in rowin' to
By takin eggs and butter to the little village store
You did not spend the money in dressing up foi
And sang from morn till evening in your faded cal


leo.


And Bessie our sweet daughter-God bless her low
The lad that gets her for wife must be by nature


smart
She's gone without piano. her lonely hours 10 eharm
To have a hand in payin' off the mortgage on the
farm.
III build little cottage soon, to make your hear
rejoice:
| I'll buy a good piano, to go with Bessies voices
You shall not make your butter with that up and
down concern,
For III 60 this very day and buy the finest paten
churn.
Lay by your faded calico. and 90 with me to town.
| And get yourself and Bessie new and shlnini
gown,
| Low prices for our produce need not give US nov
Spruce mp little. Mary there's no mortgage oil
| the farm.
While our hearts are now SO joyful. let us, MarJ
not forget,
To thank the God OF Heaven for being out Of debt
For he gave the rain aad sunshine and put strengt
| into my arm.
And heightened out our days to see no mortgage o
/ the farm.
Year: 1874

One more gone TO the mansions above,
One less on earth to cherish and love;
Close down her eyelids, and smooth BACK her hair,
Never before was our darling so far.
One more done with the world and its strife,
One more freed from the galley of life;
Her soul has gone over the beautiful river,
Pure as ii came from the hand of the Giyer.
One more vacant chair and lonely hearth,
To mind us this is the end of earth.
" Ashes to ashes. and dust to dust"
Neither the thief, the moth, nor the rust
Can come TO our treasure. she's safe in the fold,
With those who have gone through the gateway o


gold.


Fold her white han1s, and lay her away,
She is singing hosannas in heaven to-day.
One more grave meath the yew trees shade.
One more form in the dust is laid;
A few ore years and our work is done.
A few more tears and the victory's won.
Those who have gone have but gone before,
And are waiting on the further shores;
Our Father hath willed it--why should we weep.
For He giveth His beloved sleep.
Year: 1874

New USE FOR CATs.--The following
little bit of strategy is worthy the inven-
ton of woman. We find it floating
through the papers that one Arbuckle,
of Wolcott, wishing to run some lead
pipe through drain of six rods, tried
number Of experiments without avail
till a thought struck him that was inme-
diateIy acted on. The old cat was pro-
cured, cord hitched 10 one of her legs
and attached to the lead pipe. the old
cat placed in the mouth Of the drain
the word scat given, and before scat
was said the second time, she came out
at the lower end of the drain. The cord
was then united from poor puss, and with
cord the pipe was drawn through.
Year: 1874

The LOpfDa L1I1S,


About this season of the year we commonly
receive various communications, some asking for and
Others rendering advice 10 tire public 10 the best
methods OF avoiding suusrokc The necessary precau-
tlons are after all such common would dictate
Temperate living light and loose clothing proper pro-
tectOn the head cold bath in the morning, and the
avoidance OF that eXciahe us-ness 10 tho heat Or
the weather which many persons exhibit 70 the in
crease their and other peoples discomfort Yer
table cases OF sunsroke do ~ England Ot course
but the majority OF such attacks especially when fatal
are probably attributable ito the combined effects OF
heat languor and some pre- Xstug affection OF the
crculatory respiratory organs condition which j.
i'm reality allied TO fnting than sunsrOke may
oyertake those who encounter heat ana fatigue Win
long intervals Of abstinence from food and the
thing is very apt follow in those persons who have
dcranged their digestion and overloaded their stems
by course OF dinners Young and healthy men DO not
require any stimuiants; they can refresh and cool
themselves with any iced non alcoholic drinks. or With
iced claret and water great desiderauin IL really
dry and hot seasons, when choleraic and ebrile
plants likely to occur, many people begin 10 mani
fest hydroDhoba without any autecedent bite OF
rabid dog, for they not at al confident to the
quality OF drinking water even II IL procura
bic fresh pleasant state at refreshment Iu
the case Of mddeaged and Older men, who, from being
occupied IN town. very apt 10 abstain from taking
anything during the day, aud TO forget, perhaps that
their appetite for breakfast IN hot weather Is small.
think very light midday meal, or sandwich. with
some iced oarct aud water, In OF feeble health
or where extra gue IL undertaken smulant in
the shape OF sherry even brandy aud soda water,
advisable. OF thing. however. that the
frequent recourse To very small doses OF alcohol
variety Of shapes is bad.
Year: 1874

DOCKAWAY-sIx SEATED BROWN CLOTH LIN.
~ ing with linen slip cover steps close by spring
make has been used seldom and in perfect order
will be sold cheap. Apply at 1855 East Twenty third
street. Inquire tor Morris.
Year: 1874

Eels, it has been proved, have both
sexes in one, and spawn somewhat after
the manner of other fish. Like the tur-
tie they can travel out of the water Tor
some distance, from stream to stream,
so that in almost every rivulet, however
small, they can be found. The gllls or
the breathing organs are covered up Dy
a most delicate curtain which acts IKE
valve and a reservoir for water, thus en-
sbIino the fab to take In a gill-full Of
Jvater7 so TO speak, to keep its gills moist
dnrinp the time it is ont of the water.
If has a heart in the tail, the same that
Is known to exist In the salmon, with
pulsations at about ninety-four the
minute.
Year: 1874

THE handsomest men in the union
are Kentuckians, and the preservation
of their good looks is said to b due to
the fact that while all the Bourbon
whisky is manufactured in Kentucky,
the great bulk of it is consumed else
where.
Year: 1874

WHEN a paper says that there has
never been a family fight in the town of
Clio, Iowa, it little knows of the way
women have of choking their husbands
with the left hand to drown the noise of
their screams as the rolling pin falls.
Year: 1874

TRUTH enters the heart of man when
it is empty and still but when the
mind Is shaken with passions, as with
storm, you can never hear the voice Of
the charmer, charm he ever 50 wisely.