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Year: 1874

An instance Of extraordinary intelligence
is given by correspondent of Land and


Water. The gentleman who witnessed the
event was short time since on visit to
Scotland, and during one Of his walks he
came across somo men who were washing
sheep. Close to the water where the oper-
ations were being carried on was small
pen in which detachment of ten sheep
were placed handy to the men for washing.
While watching the performance his at
tention was called to sheep dog lying
down close by. This animal, on the pen
becoming nearly empty, without word
from any one, started off to the main body
of the flock and brought back ten Of their
number and drove them into the empty
washing pens. The fact Of the dog bring
ing exactly 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
surprise, as soon as the men had reduced
the number to three sheep, the dog started
OF again and brought back ten more and
80 he continued throughout the afternoon,
always going for fresh lot when only
three were left in the pen, evidently being
aware that during the time the last three
were washing he would be able to bring up
fresh detachment.
Year: 1874

There is marvellous similarity Of tone
among partisan organs, no matter how differ
cnt the tunes that they play. On each side
they are profoundly convinced that all truth
and al honesty are lodged in their own party
and thlt among their opponents there is a
monopoly of folly ana fraud. The organs of
the party in power predict woes unnumbcred
il the outsiders come in, ana the opposition
assert that the millennium is merely waiting
for the Official canvass which shall announce
their victory. 1t is growing little familiar
and tircs0me, bat there is as yet no prospect
of a change in the fashion. Just now The
Democratic organs agree upon nothing but
the abstract proposition that it is Democratic
principles which nave gained the recent great
successes. i'm Ohio they say they were gained
by Initiation; in New-York they say they were
gained by Hard Money. In Pennsylvania they
call the rout of the Philadelphia Ring a
triumph Of Protection, and in our neighbOr-
hood it is claimed that Free Trade has beaten
Mann and Cameron. But the organs are
everywhere convinced that their party has
triumphed, that everybody who voted the
Democratic ticket was Democrat, and that
there is nothing further to do but to enter in
and possess the Government. They try to
blink the fact, which is as plain rs the sun at
MONDAY, that their party has succeeded solely
by the dissatisfaction of Republicans, that
it has no principles upon which it can to-day
unite, that it is as profoundly divided upon
the currency, the tariff, and questions of
honest legislation as the Administration party
itself Instead OF trying to devise ways and
means Of reconcling these differences, or that
failing, of uniting right-thinhing men upon
basis Of sound legislation, they are exhausting
themselves in an effort to show that their
party is a unit in principle, and that its mere
conquest OF numerical majority in Congress
Year: 1874

ualists or something else. On any question
which should compromise the interests OF the
ex-Emperors son, the BOnapartists would
sacrifice MacMabon and his government without
hesitation. The constitutional adherents OF
the Orleans family would rather disOblige the
Marshal than tho Count of Paris or the
Duke of Aumalc. The Lcgitimsts even
now arc threatening the Cabinet with dlsso-
luton upon the very threshold OF the
session. because their King forbids any
further patering with the revolution. 1he
Comte dc ChambOrd certainly deserves
statue from the friends of freedom in France.
He has done more for their cause in the last
two years than all the orators Of the Chamber
and all the gamins of the boulevard could do
in n lifetime. Two or three times when,
through incredible cxcrtions and intrigues, the
crown WAS made ready to place upon his
head. he has by some act Of stoid stupidity
thrown it away. lie has seemed to fight
against all the accidents which happened in
his favor The present demonstration Is OF a
piece with the rest. He has several supporters
in the Cabinet, where one would think IL
would be to his interest to keep them. But
he has written them a letter virtually direct
ing them to give up their portfolios In case
the Marshall President carries into effect his
intentions to recommend the passage OF the
constitutional laws necessary to the iirm
establishment of the Scptcnnate. He imaSlneS
that this would be trenching upon his shadowy
authority and diminishing his imaginary pres
tIge.


II il fortunate for France that the worship
crs of this blind divinity are like unto hln.
The two Lcgitimist Ministers are reported Is
ready to obey this senscess order ard to break
m the Cabinet unless MacMahon yields. lie
can hardly do this without ruin to his author
itv 1t will not be in the least surprising to
see him following the example OF THEIRS who
went into the Presidency a Constitutional
Monarchist, and was impelled by the force oi
facts to side heartily with the Republicans
It is true that Theirs was a great statesman,
of quick perception and eminent practical
talent. and MacSIahOn is q soldier, very little
acquainted with the science Of government
and strongly preiudiced against the Republic.
But even he can hardly resist the continual
pressure cxerted by the votes of the county,
the good behavior of the Left OF the Chamber,
and the malignant and obstinate opposition OF
the Extreme Right to every scheme when
promises to give an orderly and settled gov
crnmeut to France. His proposition to raise
the state of siege and the determined opposi-
ton it met with in the Cabinet shows concll-
siyelv how far he is already IN advance or ms
Ministry in the direction Of liberalty ana
| common sense.
Year: 1874

The excitement into which the lower part OF
the city was thrown yesterday by rumor OF
the escape of Tweed may serve as reminder
70 the proper officers that il would not be
wholesome for them to repeat the performance
of last year, when Mr.. Harry Genet was
kindly assisted to recover his endangered


liberty by friendly Sherift7s deputy. The
general disgust which this freak occasioned
was oay partially cured by the prompt though
Inadequate punishment of the parties impli
Gated.


If Tweed should now under any pretense
be allowed to get away, the public sentl-
meat would Immediately demand the most
summary dealing with all those responsible for
his safe keeping lie is too rich man to be
permitted to slip, if the Sheriifs Office
desires to retain its good reputation. Every
one connected with the administration OF
Justice into whose hands this bulky
prisoner comes is tenfOld more interested
in holding him than if he were an
ordinary burglar or murderer. No one would
would believe that clrclessncss or ill-luck
had ANYTHING to do with such an evasion, If
he should turn up missing. He is too large,
too heavy in his movements, too well known,
anu 100 IlCI, lO ItdNc al SIltu vi hoHNSV 'h'ii
actcr among his keepers, if he should elude
their vigilance. If, for instance, the rumOr of
Yesterday had proved true, there would have
been IN instantaneous agreement OF the gem
eral voice that Il great conspiracy had been
prepared, embracing not only the keepers and
the family of Tweed, but his lawyers also,
and even the magistrate by whose order he
had been taken out of prison. The public
sometimes confounds bad lack with crimi-
nality, and would be apt to do so in such
case as this. There would be good deal Of
both in allowing Tweed to escape.
Year: 1874

During the last two or three weeks of the late
campaign the air was darkened with cloud OF lies


invented by Administration politicians and editors
concerning the use of money in the canvass One of
the slest of them was the story that Mr.. 1ilden
had paid, or was to pay, large sums of money to
The TRIBUNE for its expression of its views
concerning the Third Term At first, it was
efforts of people thrown off their balance
By the prospect of defeat. But later developments
provoke the suspicion that they were intended as a
bind. IL is now known that largo sums of money
were sent into the Assembly Districts by prominent
Administration leaders-Sums much larger tLan
there could have been any legitimate way of spend
ing for campaign purposes. The subject having now
been raised, We beg thus early to urge upon
the attention of the GoyernOr-elcct and tie
now Legislature the desrabity of probing ii to
the bottom Let rs have Committee of lnvestiga-
tion on the campaign expenses of both sides. Let
it be fairly composed of men of the utmost energy
and unqucstioned integrity from both parties and
let them make thorough work. We believe there
are men, holding high positions in the COM
munity, who were guilty of transac-
tions in the last campaign which
ought to dcbar them from ever holding again any
Office Of honor or trust; and no matter on which
side they may be found. we want their operations
exposed and themselves punished. If we are ever
to check the constantly increasing tendency to cor
ruptiOn in our politics. this is a good chance. We
earnestly urge that it be improved.
Year: 1874

There ara several good suggestions in the
address of Mr.. Chambers, the presiding officer
of the Alabama State Grange. He thinks that
the State ought to be urged to have
geological survey made so as to attract to
Alabama a class Of men that will develop its
great mineral wealth. he wants legislation on
the dead d-fall" system, under which dishonest
negroes now dispose of farm products stolen
by night; he wants measures taken to secure
square dealing in commercial fertilizers"
which are now very uncertain in their COM
position and value; and he recommends that
more attention be paid throughout the State
to raising food supplies at homo. All this is
much better sense than is usually projected at
Grange meetings and should carry weight.
We cannot say as much for his recommend
alton to establish an organ Of the Changers.
They should take warning as to the organ
business from the sad experience of men in
Year: 1874

The various resolutions brought before the
Cheap Transportation Convention at Rich
mond yesterday were somewhat Incompatible.
They recommended opening four great water
routes from the interior to the seaboard, and


the immediate improvement of the mouths of
the Mssissippi; they also resolved that the SEN
timcnt of the Convention was adverse to an
increase of taxation upon the people i'll the
shape of interest upon additional bonded
debt. All these resolutions were turned over
to a committee, that will have hard time to
harmonze them. When the art of extracting
snnbeams from cucumbers is discovered it
will be time to hope to dig National canals
without an increase OF public debt and taxes.
Year: 1874

There has been no finer evidence of the desire of


the people of tins State irrespective of party ties to
secure genuine political reform, and no finer tribute
to the power of the press, than in the triumphant
adoption of all the Constitutional Amendments


Even those TO which the most hostility was
excited, and against which tho Tammany
vote i'll this city was thrown solid, were
carried by majority nearly two-thirds greater
than that Of Mr. Tilden. THE TRIBUNE, which sup
ported these amendments with great earnestness
from tho outset, and obyiated the apprehended
scarcity of ballots, particularly in the rural dis


tricts, by printing in the whole OF its heavy country
circulation, through all its editions tickets suitably
prepared and ndorscd for the reader to cut out and
vote may be permitted to take especial pleasure and
pride in this result. There are only two of the
Amendments concerning whose validity and present
binding force any doubt has been raised. These
two were changed by the second Legislature which
acted upon them and in the opinion of leading Ad-
mlnistration members of tho Legislature of lS13
such changes invalidate them These arc the
Amendments making tho salo of tho lateral canals
possible and checking special legislation. Careful
jurists express tho belief, however, that
tho changes are not Of sufficiently serious
Year: 1874

From the detailed statement in our columns
as to the course which each of our fire in
surance companies proposes taking as to risks
in Chicago, it is evident that many of them
will not be in haste to resume this sort OF
business. The new risks there that are ac-
cepted and the old ones that are renewed will
be thoroughly canvassed. But confidence
which at best is of slow growth, is returning
quite as fast as Chicago is reforming, and it
will not be long before insurance is no more
difficult to effect on property there than III
other Western cities. Now is it not time to
take action respecting the Eastern District of
Brooklyn7
Year: 1874

The people who are talking about an ap-
pointment to the Russian mission for Colonel
Forney, or for the Charge d'Afiaires, or for any
one of dozen excellent people, may spare
themselves the gossip. "The place is be-
"spoke,n and a gentleman who has several
times been talked of for the Secretaryship OF
the Treasury is to take it if he wants 1t. lie
has not been q brilliant success in politics,
though there is still the possibility that he
nay not care for the St. Petersburg banish-
ment.
Year: 1874

Gen. Butler is reported as hopeless of the
success of tie Republican party in 1876 Con-
sequently he expects to start one of his own,
with platform of protection to American in
dustrics and unlimited greenbacks. The in
dustries that appeal to him for protection are
to be pitied; but if the inhationists want
leader he would be just the man for their
money.
Year: 1874

SrRAYEO- "A small red and white COW
.-rather more white than red-With .
rope around her horns. A liberal re-
ward will be paid for the return of said
COW, or for information of where she
may be found. on application at this
of5fNa
Year: 1874

CAss1AR MINEs.-A gentleman just re-
turned from Cassiar rerorts that there
is very poor opening there. The dis
coverers and those who wintered
there have taken up all the paying claims
and can make good wages, but there is
no room for any more. Our informant
SAYS rs men returned at the same time
he did, -se0 -rsHEgF
Year: 1874

44>We have devoted this column to our
young in order to interest and improve
them, and we hope that the boys and girls
who write for The GRANGE ADVANCE will
try to see how nicely they can write, and
how much better they can write each time,
Remember that the boys and girls Of to-
day will soon be the men and women Of our
country, and in their hands will be the
farms, the homes, the schools, the interests
and welfare of the State and Nation,
Year: 1874

-1n Minnesota is a most extensive
mandatory y Of Limburger cheese. One
nundred and twenty cows contribute to
the formation Of the article. It is said
. cheese is considered ripe" when q
piece the size Of bean will drive a
dog out OF a lanyard. Harper's Week
Iy.
Year: 1874

The first time [ was ever in Sir Ed
wins studio was about twelve years
ago. when we drove there one Summer s
day with my father to see picture of
the Highland Flood" just then COM
pleted. We came away talking of the
picture, touched by the charm and
kindness of the master of the house,


laden with the violets from the garden,


which he had given us. Another time
the master was no longer there, but
his house still opened Hospitality with a
kind greeting for old days sake from
those who had belonged to him and


who had known my father. We were
let in at the side gate. There stood


the great white house that we remem-
bered /: we crossed the garden, where
the dead leaves were still heaped, and
some mist was hanging among the bare
branches of the trees, and so by an en-
trance lined with pictures into the
great studio once morej where all the
memories and pictures were crowding,


hanging to the walls, piled against the
easels. We seemed to be walking into
the shrine of long life, and one al
most felt ashamed, as if one were sur
prising It's secrets. All about the walls
and on the ceiling were time stains
spreading in dim vail; ne used to
say that he hated whitewash, and that
he would never allow any workman but
himself about the place. It seemed to
Year: 1874

me at first as if the cloud of his later
days still hung about the room, where
he had suffered so many cruel hours !;
but, looking again, there were bis many
bright and sweet fancies meeting us on
every side, and the gloom suddenly
| dispelied. < 4


When he was almost at his worst
SO some one told me-they gave him
his easel and his canvas, and left him
alone in the studio, in the hope that
he might tslke up his work and forget
his suffering When they came back
they found that he had painted the
picture of little lamb lying beside a
lion. This and 1.-The Fout" were the
last pictures ever painted by that faith
full hand 1.-THE Font" is an allegory
of all creeds and all created things
corning together into the light of truth.
The Queen is the owner of ''The Font. %
She wrote to her old friend and ex-
pressed her admiration for it, and ask
ed to become the possessor. Her help
and sympathy frightened the sadness
of those last days for him. 1t was
we'll known that he appealed to her
once, when haunted by some painful
apprehensions, and that her wise and
iudioious kindness came to bis nurses.
She sent him back message bade
him not be afraid, and to trust TO those
who were doing their best for him, and
in whom she herself had every conf
dence. Sir Edwin once told Mr..


Browning that he had thought upon
the subject, and come to the conclusion
that the stag was the bravest of all
animals Other animals are born war;
riors, they fight in dogged and deter


mined sort of way! the stag is natur-
ally timid, trembling, vibrating with
every sound, flying from danger, from
the approach of other creatures. halt
ing to fight. When pursued, its first
impulse is to escape but when turned
to bay and flight is impossible, it fronts
its enemies nobly, closes it's eyes not
to see the horrible bloodshed, and with
its branching horns steadily tusses dog
after dog up one after another, until
overpowered at last by numbers it sinks
to its death. It seems to me, as [
think of it, not unlike a picture of his
own sad end. Nervous, sensitive,
high-mihded, working ON to the end,


he was brought to bay and at last over
powered by that terrible mental fout
and misery. He wished to die in his
studio--his dear studio for which he
used to long when he was away, and
where he lay 50 long expecting the end,


but it was in his own room that be
slept away. His brother was with
him. His old friend came into the
room. He knew him, and pressed his
hand, 4 i x < x


As time goes on the men are born, one
by one, who seem to bring us the an
swers to the secrets of life, each in his
place and revealing in his turn accord
ing to his gift. Such men belong to
Natures true priesthood; and among
their names not forgotten, will be that
of Edwin Landseer.-Miss Thackery.
Year: 1874

Family likeness has oftet deep
sadness in it. Nature, that great trags
ic dramatist, knits us together by bone
and muscle, and divides us by the
subtler web of our brains blends
yearning and repulsion and ties us by
our heaft=strings to the beings that jar
us at every movement. We hear
voice with the very cadence of oiir own
uttering the thoughts We despise, we
see eyes-ah so like our mothers
averted from us in cold alienation and
our last darling child startles us with
the air and gesture of the sister we
parted from In bitterness long years
ago. The father to whom we owe our
best heritase-the mechanical instinct,
the keen sensibility to harmony, the
unconscious skill of the modelling hand
gals us and puts us to shame by bis
daily erfors the long-lost mother.
whose face we begin to see in the glass
as our own wrinkles come, Uuee fretted
our young souls with her anxious hu-
mors and irrational PERSISTENCE. gsor2a
Eliot
Year: 1874

oh, the comfor. the inexpressible
comfort of feeling safe with person,
having neither to weigh thoughts nor
measure words, but pouring them all
night out just as they are. ohaff and
grain together certain that faithful
hand will take and sift them, keep
what is worth keeping, and then with
the breath of Kindness, blow the rest
away.
Year: 1874

He who would sympathlse must
be content to be tried aud tempted.
There is hard and boistefous rude
ness in our hearts by nature, which re-
quires to be softened down Wepass by
suffering gayly, carelessly, not in cru
city, but unfeelingly, just because we
do not know what suffering is. We
wound men by our looks and our abb
rupt expressions without intending it,
because we have not been taught the
deGcacy and the tact, and the gentle
ness, which can onl ly be learned By the
wounding of our sensibilities. There
is naughty feeling in uprightnoss
which has never been on the verge of
fall, that requires humbling. There is
an inability to enter into difficulties of
thought which marks the mind to
which all things have been presented
specifically, and which has never ex-
perienced the horror of feeling the ice
of doubt crushing beneath the feet.
Therefore, if you aspire to be son of
consolation-if you would partake of
the priestly gift of synpathy-if you
would pour something beyond common
place consolation into tempted heart
If you would pass through the in
tercourse of daily life with the delicate
tact which never inficts pain-if TO
that most acute of human ailments,
mental doubt, you are ever to give
eGectual succor. you must be content
to pay the price of the costly educs-
ton. Like Christ. you must suffer
being tempted. --Robertsoa
Year: 1874

We learn that the members of the indie
pendent order of Odd Fellows in this city,
are making arrangements to celebrate in a
worthy manner the fifty fifth anniversary OF
the organization of the order. The cere
monies or exercises of the occasion will be
held at Odd Fellows Hall, on the twenty.
seventh of April. The programme will be
announced hereafter.
Year: 1874

DIR. ALLEN, DENTIST,
Office and Residence No. 1913 Canal street.
Teeth made in every style at greatly reduced
prices.


Teeth extracted without pain by the use Of gas
or chloroform.


Teeth filled with gold as to prevent further
decay All operations will be done in the best
manner possib g. fell ly
Year: 1874

Young man ahoy! Fitzpatrick is
the man you are looking for. He will give
you the incest fitting garments to be had in
the city; cloth of the best material; work
done upon honor, and the best satisfaction
generally. Call ON him and have a full suit
made at once. jy2 tf-3
Year: 1874

MS The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. go
Year: 1874

We are selfish enough to hope that
the ladies Of Wheeling will postpone
the saloon and sidewalk prayer meet
:ngs until the weather is good 1t will
be more pleasant then for reporters to
write EN- up big.
Year: 1874

SrocKs-Opened firm with au advance
OF t to l per cent, but at tie second
board there vss slight reaction from
the highest point, which decline was
not recovered and at the close the low
est prices OF the day were made.