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Year: 1874

Custom house and other Government author
ities, furnish very good reason for gong
no further in the matter Of the effort
to remove Judge Hogeboom and instaii
Gen. W. S. Hillyer in his place. There could
not be u better time for serving notice that
this sort of thing has to stop. 1t is time tna'
the merchants of New-York should receive
authoritative information of the Withdrawal
of the discredtable nomination OF Gen.
liillyer.
Year: 1874

Unbelievers have, often told us that the story of the prophet swallowed by 8 great fish was an absurdity. They, say that, being so long in the stomach of the monster, the minister would have been digested. We have no difficulty in this matter. Jonah was most un. willing guest of the whale.' He wanted to get out. However much he may have liked fish, he did not want it three times day and all the time. So he kept up fdget and g struggle and turning, and gave the whale no time to assimilate him. The man knew that if he was ever to get out he must be in perpetual motion. We know men that are so lethargic that they would have given the matter up so quietly that in & few hours they would have gone into hukes and ,fshbones, blow holes and blubber. Now we see men all around us who have been swallowed by monstrous misfortunes. Some of them sit down on a piece of whalebone and give up. They say. ,.. ,,., O..

 "No use I will never get my money, or restore my good name, or recover my health" ..I -- 5..t nj .,,-.1rs 5f,ru

 They float out to sea and are never heard of. Others, the moment they go down the throat of some great diff. culty, begin immediately to plan for egress. They make a rapid estimate of the length of the vertebrate, and come to the conclusion how far they are in. They dig up enough spermaceti out of the darkness to make 8 light, and keep turning this way and that, till the first you know they are out. Determination to get well has much to de with re- covered invalidism. Firm will to defeat bankruptcy decides financial deliver. ance. Never surrender to misfortune or Encouragement. You can, if you are spry enough, make it as uncomfort- able for the whale, as the whale can make it uncomfortable for you. There will be some place where you can brace your foot against his ribs and some long upper tooth around which you may take hold, and he will be as glad to get rid of you for tenant as yon are to get rid of him for a landlord. There is a way out, if you are determined to find it. All our sympathies are with the plaintiff in the suit of Jonah vs. Leviathan. r+r t.--.--r..-
Year: 1874

J. H. Witt, of Bear canyon, Colorado, went into the mountains to look for some cattle that had strayed away, and after proceeding about three miles, and while pausing to listen and look about, suddenly large cinnamon bear, which had been concealed in the bushes near by, sprung toward him with the evil dent intention of giving him hug. Not fancying such intimate friendship with strangers, MT. Witt declined to permit the affsctionate embrace, and made for tree which fortunately stood close by, and reached the lower branches near the ground, just as bruin seized hold of his right leg and ankle. After severe struggle he succeeded in freeing himself from the bears hold but before he could get out of reach the other leg was grasped with such firm hold that he could not shake him of, and he began to fear that his time had come and that he was destined te be- come a meal for the ravenous beast. But finally the bear let go, slid down the tree, and retreated from the field. As soon as he deemed it prudent MT. Witt slid down and then walked three miles to Rounds mill, where his wounds were dressed.
Year: 1874

Not with reproof for any of that days sins of omission or commission. Take any time but bedtime for that, If you ever heard little creature signing or sobbing in its sleep, you could never do this. Seal their closing eyelids with Q kiss and blessing. The time will come when, all too soon, they will lay their heads upon their pillows lacking both. Let them, then, at least have this sweet memory of happy child hood, of which no future sorrow or trouble can rob them. Give them their rosy youth. Nor need this involve wild license. The judicious parent will not so mistake my meaning. If you have ever met the man, or the woman, whose eyes have suddenly filed when little child has crept trustingly to it's mothers breast, you may have seen one in whose childhood's home "dignity and severity <" stood where love and pity

 should have been. Too much indul-

 gence has ruined thousands of children,

 too much love not one.-Fdraay Fern.
Year: 1874

The New York zEn,es is convinced that there need be no apprehension of anything like general distress this autumn or winter. We quote:

 "That business will be prosperous we do not expect. That it will be so next spring is more probable. There has been & very serious blow dealt to the general business of the country, and especially to the railroad interest and those connected with 1t. From this we are slowly recovering. The country goes on producing steadily, and it's consumption has diminished. Sooner or later this leads to renewed activity. It may be gradual renewal, or it may be rapid and extensive one, when it comes. But the renewal is bound to take place."
Year: 1874

UP IN A BAnnooN.--A balloon ascen- sion was advertised as one of the attrac- tions of the county fair at Morenci, Ill.,, few days ago. While being inflated the machine broke away, and a man who was assisting in the operation got his leg entangled in the trapeze ropes and was carried mp to 8 height of nearly a mile. He succeeded in fighting him self and hung on until the balloon de- scended in an open field some distance away, when he was rescued, frightened but unhurt.
Year: 1874

may answer the purposes OF comedy, 1t the


enemy gets caught in them, but they will
never carry the next Presidency The Re,


publcans are still responsible for the Gov.


ernmeut They hold the Executive and


judicial branches exclusively, and one halt


OF the Legislative. They must show Ca


pacity for souething other than stratagem


Il they expect to recover the ground they


have lost. Nor will it be safe to rely on the
stupidity of the next Congress to help them
out The Republicans are the ADLER poll
ticlans of the two, but they must expect
that there will be desertions from their
side to the apparently winning party


Among the deSerters will be captains, and
engineers, and dril.serceants. The enemy
will not suffer torwaut o! instruction in the


manual of arms They already have lead.
ers who know what the party lacks, and
VINO will see that it is supplied, The Re-
publican leaders must do some positive
good for the country while they have the
power, that is, during the coming session
OF Congress, else all their cunning devices
to trip the next Congress will prove fruit
less, aud serve only to brighten the con
tempt heaped upon them by the people (by
their own party no less than by their oppo.
nents) in the recent election.
Year: 1874

The world was not made in day, neith-
er is our stock of goods all sold out. but
they are going at a lively rate, and it can
only be that we are having such lively
trade from the fact of keeping the finest
stock of goods in this section and at prices
that cannot be equalled


WADswORlH & PARSONS.
Year: 1874

The President thinks that the great ele
ment of discord in the Republican party
was the uDwlse attempt to force upon the
American people the theories of Senator
Sumner, embodied in the civil rights bill
Last spring 1t was authoritatively stated
that the President did not favor the civil
rights bill. it can now be said that his
views in opposition to it have been much
strengthened by the recent election. He
is firmly convinced that the civil rights bill
had more to do with the defeat Of the party
than all ether causes combined.
Year: 1874

I


The Corsicana Observer has the tol.
lowing remarks upon the new print
ing bill: .Aa


"The Printing Committee to whom
this question was referred have re-
ported bill which authorizes the
public printing to be done by cons
tract. The Senate is unanimous in
favor Of the bill, and is expected that
it will meet with little if any oppo-
sition in the House. We look upon
this as one step toward reformation,
and a return to the true policy of
economy, foreshadowed by the inau~
guration of the Democratic party.
Under Radical rule the whole Radi-
cal press was subsidized and paid to
do the dirty blowing tor the party,
for which ungodly service it was paid
out OF the Treasury of the State. But
when Democrats rule, every tub must
stand on its own bottom, and il
money is to be drawn from the Treas
ury, the party must give an equiva
lent. We will now have no public
printer who can presume upon his of-
fetal position to make his paper the
official organ of the party. 1t is now
an open field and fair fight"
Year: 1874

Brick Pomeroy says: "lIad the Re-
publican party kept faith with the
plow holders, and the people gener-
ally, there would have been no neces-
sity for any other political party"
All (! Brick, there is the rub. They
have kept no pledge except that to
crush the South. This, they have
done in one sense, but in all Others
they have failed. They crushed out
slavery, bnt there are those in the
South who believe we might have
been subjected to far greater evils.
But, in crushing .out slavery, they
have given life - brain and muscle
that will, in few years, assisted by
our splendid natural advantages,
work out a glorious future for the
young men and maidens OF our sunny
land. hhas taught us that we have
an inherent power and fortitude that
is capable of graphing with the
gravest and severest problems of
human life. In this the Republicans
have taught us the true nobility of
effort at the plow handles. We are
not sure but the South owes to this
same party an untold debt Of graft.
tude, as 1T will owe future crushing
defeat to the young Democracy of
the nation and of the South ~ the


xt election Tor President.
Year: 1874

Sumner is dead! The great apos-
tie of abolitionism has gone to the
"great beyond" We leave him to
the Judgment of a power less preju-
diced than we ought to be. One
thing we know--he was q man of
very extraordinary powers, and has
welded an influence that has been
potent in crushing out slavery.
Year: 1874

Good news from Washington
county comes by the last mail. They
have organized Grange of Patrons
of Husbandry, at Long Point, with a
full membership and an excellent
corps of officers. See our Grange De.
partment.
Year: 1874

Ehlenger, a new German village,
near La Grange, in Fayette county,
is said to be very promising village.
There are no better citizens in the
State than those halling from the
German Fatherland, and we are glad
to welcome them.
Year: 1874

DEDICATION The Conference Academy
ia TO be dedicate on the 23d inst. The Rev
rhps. Guard, Of b iimore, and other able
speakers. are to DC here TO address the audi
endc, which. from present Indications, will
be h large ons, as this il an enterprise that
ensts the sympathes Of large portion Of
the population of this whole Peninsula. We
hear that there ls some talk of the ladies Of
Dover giving dinner on that day, III the
large dining hall of tho Academy, to all
lhose who will be present on that occasion.
Wa think that 1t will be a good Miny, not
only on account OF the ediJies, but as day
of social enjoyment. We hope that the
programme will be carried out, which it will
be Il the ladies get interested in the matter.
Sentinel.
Year: 1874

The London Lancet says: Some few
wears ago one of the London hospital
physicians called attention TO the fact
which had come under his notice re-
pcatedly among the out patients under
bis care, that the use of the sewing ma
chine was injurious to the health of
those who habitually employed it for
many hours together. The patients
suffered from nervous debility and other
symptoms referable to its employment,
and admitted that the constant ex-
ertion which necessarily occurred in
using heavy double actioned machines
had an exciting and exhausting effect
upon them. These statements were
somewhat strongly denied at the time,
but we think the almost universal adop
tioa of hand worked machines in family
life since the date shows that there
was pretty general feeling among
the profession, and probably the
public, too, that the exercise required for
Young ladies in order to work the treadle
machine was not calculated to improve
their health. Facts which have recently
come to our knowledge show that TIE
evil was no imaginary one, and that
many workers at the sewing machine or
machines of similar character do suf-
fer very materially in their health. One
of the heaviest forms of machines is, we
belieye, that employed in "braiding,"
and young women working in this de-
partment have suffered very materially
and have been compelled to discontinue
the employment. But the distress is not
confined to one class OF employees; II
seems to affect pretty generally all those
who use the feet alternately as the mo-
tive power of their machinery. If the
workers themselves or their immediate
supervisors were to speak out, there
would, we believe, be abundant evi-
dence found that machining Is
a most exhaustive employment,
and one which gradually breaks
down the health. When it is considered
how great the employment of sewing
and allied machinery by female opera
tives is, and that many city houses have
dozens of them in their establishments,
it is obvious that the evil we have re-
ferred to is not slight one. We would
be tho last to interfere with the female
labor marI1e:, always overcrowded as it
is with needy seamstresses, but it is not
unreasonable to ask whether in the case
of large establishments employing
dozens or egep hundreds OF machines, it
would not be possible to adopt steam as
the motive power, and 10 Fetain the te-
male hand only as the guide of the ma
chine thus get in motion. If a steam
engine can dive many spinning ma
chimes or looms, one does not fancy there
could be much difficulty in giving the
necessary motion to sewing or braidlng
machines, the work Gf which is not one
whit more intricate.
Year: 1874

AFTER giving all of Monday to the
memory of Charles Sumner, the Senate
devoted several hours yesterday to a
less formal but more instructive discus
sion of the humiliation that embittered
his latter days, namely, his supersedure
in the Craftsmanship of the Foreign
Relations Committee by Simon Cam
eron. The contrast drawn by Senator
Thurman between the persistent posi-
tiveism of the President on theSan Do
mingo scheme, and his ambiguous Ian
guage on the great question of finance
in his last message, together with his
vacillation for days after the Senate
bill had passed, shows how great the
man is In little things, and little in
great things. .
Year: 1874

The colored politicians who gathered
here yesterday seem TO be in sad pre-
dicament. They are evidently dissatis-
fed with the Republican party: Else
why set up the distinction of color and
exclude from their councils all brother
Republicans who happen to have
white skin? Why this prejudice of
race and color against the pale faces of
their party, unless the latter have lost
their confidence: Yet they vociferate
No to any suggestion of joining the
Democracy, and emphatically disclaim
any notion of springing third party,
black or white or mixed. Between the
devil and the deep sea, what are they
to do-whither go? We might, in des-
peration, advise them to join the
Grangers and quit politics, but We have
not been initiated into the secrets Of
that Order and cannot say how the
thing would take.


We think the colored brethren are
altogether too severe on Parson Brown
low, They expect too much of human
nature. They seem to have hugged to
their bosoms some very unwarTantable
delusions about the man who proved at
Philadelphia in 1858. to his own satis-
faction, if not DR.. Pryne's, the Divine
right of Shareholders. They have been
laboring under some strange hallucina.
ton about the man who has urged the
lynching of negroes without judge OF
jury. when they happened to fall under
accusation. Senator Brownlow's atti
tude on the civil rights bill is pretty
much in accord with his lifelong
views, and he never WIS a Democrat
either.
Year: 1874

THE Freedman's s Bank concern seems
to be a widely ramifed affair, and any
alarm at any point causes a tremor all
along the line. We believe this class
o; institutions are mainly conducted
by white officials, and no doubt they
realize the usual dividends of banks on
the earnings of negroes deposited with
them. 1t is to be hoped that the lead
ers of the party which claim a monop-
oily of concern for the welfare of the
race, are exercising due vigilance over
the management of these Freedmen's
banks.
Year: 1874

Was shington special april % to the Cincinnati


Times.


1t is authOritaiively said that the vacant
Judgeship of the Court of Claims will not
be filled until after the return Of Secretary
Richardson, to whom the place has been
rendered. Mr.. Richardson said the night
before leaving the city that he did not
think he would accept the place, but would
remain in the Treasury for the present.
Year: 1874

The House then took up the legislative
appropriation bill, and Mr.. G arfield, Chair
man of the committee, addressed the
House, giving a full resume OF the pro-
visions of the bill and the changes made in
it by the committee of the whole.
Year: 1874

y SWEEPING MEASURE OF REFORM was cour-
sgeously adopted last night by the New York
ponce commissioners, who, to sever all Gntang-
ling alliances between leading officers of the
force and citizens, transferred 80 captains. thus
placing every police command in the CITY in
new hands, with the intimation that should
any captain be found guilty of harboring a
gambling house in bis command, a speedy trial
and dismissal from the department will reanIt
Year: 1874

Our readers in the Fourth District will find
at Mr.. F. O. Greves of Jackson and Magazine
streets many fancy articles, which will cost very little
and make very appropriate holiday presents. He has
Of the most attractive stores In the Garden Dis
trict and his stock AID fresh. Thoroughly
conversant with his business and attending to it in
person readers may be that article pur
chased Of him will give satisfaction.
Year: 1874

:, A young man writes for the best way to
gain entrance to our most respectable fami-
lies. We like to see our young people aim
to improve themselves, and in no way can
they do this as surely as by good books and
the society of the refined. To gain entrance
to our best families. the easiest and most
direct way would seem to be by the front
door, although our young friend might tun-
mel under the sidewalk and come up through
the cellar. ,.-.. .......! a.a
Year: 1874

STORY OF A MILLIoSArRE.-lsaac
Rich, who left million and three
quarters a year or two ago to found a
college in Boston, began business thus:
At eighteen he went from Cape Cod
to Boston with three or four dollars
in his possession, and looked-about
for something to do, rising early,
walking far, observing closely. and
rejecting much. Soon he had an
idea. He bought three bushels of
oysters, hired a wheel-barrow, found
a piece of boar,l, bought six small
plates, six iron forks, a threecent pep
per box, and one or two other things.
He was at the oyster boat, buying his
oysters, at three o'clock in the morn
ing. wheeled them three miles, set
up his board near a market. and COM
menced business He sold out his
oysters as fast as he could open them,
at good profit. He repeated this
experiment morning after morning
until he had saved hundred and
thirty dollars, with which he bought
horse and wagon, and had FIVE cents
left


"How are you going to board your
horse?" asked a stable keeper who
witnessed this audacious transaction.


II am going to board him at your
stable"


"But YOU are a minor, and | cannot
trust you more than a week.


The next morning the lad, who had
established a good credit with the
oystermen. bought thirteen bushels
Of remarkably fine oysters, which he
sold 10 the course oi the day At =
Year: 1874

u


moral offense, and by his punishment
he was disgraced and degraded in his


own estimation and that of the public,


and this produced mental and moral in


luenees that acted on his physical sys-
tenn. And the more he and his friends
endeavored to make him a martyr, so
much the more they kept alive his pun
ishments and disgrace His newspaper
friends in referring to this fact OF his
punishment in their obituary notices,
continued to endeavor to make him mar
tyr to his false philanthropy for the ne
gro by saying that he was punished for


making an abolition speech in the SEN
ate. This is false, and nothing can be
farther from the truth. The cause of
Mr.. Brooks attack upon Mr.! Sumner was
this: Mr.. Brooks, a member of the
House of Representatives., was a nephew
of Judge Butler, and Judge Butler was
amember of the Senate. Judge Butler
was a profound scholar and jurist, an
able. statesman, > and an accomplished
gentleman. He was, we suppose, about
seventy-five years of age He had been
on the bench as Judge in South Caro-
lima for twenty-five years, and was serv-
ing his second term in the Senate of the
United States, and was one of the ablest
debaters in that. body. Mr.. Sumner
seized the opportunity when Judge But
Ter was absent from his seat in the SEN
ate on visit to, his home, to make
wanton and violent personal attack upon
him.. The attack was highly offensive,
immoral and cowardly. And if a reply
by blows is ever justified to the attack
of wicked and poisonous tongue, Mr..
Sumner was justly punished and not too
seyeFeIyz- r.-f..-- fsE -
Year: 1874

1fasterIy Inactivity Of the Navy.


WASHINGTON, July 13.--The Navy De-
partment VII not order north this sum-
mer the vessels now in the Gulf of Mexico
and cruising in the waters adjacent to the
their present stations so, that in case of any
necessity Cor their presence in Cuban
waters or elsewhere in that latitude it will
not be necessary to fit out and send vessels
from the North to that quarter


The COmmOdores Railroad Tax.


The Attorney General has directed the
United States Attorney for the Western
District Of New Yorkto take an appeal TO
the Supreme Court in the case of the New
York Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company against United States Internal
Revenue Collector Rriley,
Year: 1874

Mr.. Henry Bruckner of No. A Wythe-ave.
went cunning yesterday Long Island In the even
ing he met his wife and grandchildren at Coney Island


where they had spending the day The party rode
on the Coney Island cars TO Fteenthst the city
line where while Mr. Bruckner In the act Of step
ping off, the hammer of his gun caught in the guard OF
be seat The gun fired. and the contents, consist
ing OF heavy charge OF shot lodged in Mr. BruckDers
left side causing terrible wound from which the man
died III II few moments. The body was taken TO the
Eighth Precinct Stationh house. and subsequently, 10 his
residence in Wyhe-ave The deceased was so years OF
Year: 1874

beginning to end Tor the benefit Of those


now in possession of the government
Of that State, and there has never yet


been q fair count of the votes, the re.
suits having bees reached BY dishonest


10 cans too we'll known to be repeated:


1t is therefore not probable that he will
In his forthcoming special message,


make any recomm epdation for new


election, his opinions as recently pri-
vately expressed, being that Congress


has no more right to order new elec>
ton in Louisiana than it has in any
other State because OF local cofiict, all
the States now being equal in union,
and are as much entitled to the came
general protection from illegal or un-
constitutional interference by either
branch Of the Federal Government as
they are against invasion or domestic
violence, and besides there are means
to settle Louisiana and all kindred
cases without resort to Congressional
action or the ordering of new election
Year: 1874

The Ecclesiastical unpleasantuess''
still continues to be the theme Of local
comment, and, a. everything in relation
to the matter is read with good deal
of svidity. We surrender . large portion
Of space this morning to communica-
tions upon this subject The writer.
manifest considerable divergence Of
opinion.