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Year: 1875

o, friends! with whom my feet have trod
The quiet aiSles of PRAYER,
Glad witness to your zeal for God
And love of man bear.
trace your lines of argument;
Your logic linked and strong
I weigh as one who breads dissent,
And fears doubt as wrong.
But still my human hands are weak
To hold your iron creeds;
Against the words ye bid me speak
My heart within me pleads.
Who fathoms the Eternal Thoughts:
Who talks of scheme and plan?
The Lord is God / He heedeth not
The poor device of man.
walk with bare, hushed feet the ground
Ye tread with bOldness shOd;
1 dare not fix with mete and bound
The love and power of God.
Ye praise His Justice; even such
His plying love l deem:
Ye seek king; 1 fain would touch
The robe that hath no seam
Ye see the curse which overbroods
A world of pain and loss;
hear our Lords beatitudes
And prayer upon the cross.
More than our schoolmen teach, within
Myself, alas! 1 know;
Too dark ye cannot paint the sin,
Too small the merit show.
I bow my forehead to the dust,
l veil mine eyes for shame,
And urge, in trembling self-distrust,
A prayer without a claim.
see the wrong that round me lies,
feel the guilt within;
hear, with groan and travail cries,
The world confess its sin.
Yet, in the maddening maze of things,
And tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed stake my spirit clings;
know that God is good
Not mine to look where cherubfm
And Seraph may not see,
But nothing can be good in Him


Which evil is in me.
The wrong that pains my soul below
dare not throne above;
I know not of His hate-I know
His goodness and His love.
1 dfmIy guess from blessings known
or greater out of sight,
And, with the chastened Psalmist, own
His judgments, too, are right
long for household voices gone,


For vanished smiles I long;
But God has lead my dear ones on,
And He can do no wrong.
know not what the future hath


OF marvel or surprise,
Assured above that life and death
His mercy underlies.
And if my heart and flesh are weak
To bear an uptried pain,
The bruised reed He will not break,
But strengthen and sustain.
No offering of my own I have,


Nor works my faith to prove;
1 can but give the gifts He gave,


And plead His love for love.
And so, beside the Silent Sea,


l wait the muffied oar;
No harm from Him can come 10 me
On ocean or on shore.
1 know not where His islands lift
Their frOnded palms in air;
l only know 1 cannot drift


Beyond His love and care.
o, brothers! if my faith is vain,


II hopes like these betray,
Pray for me that my feet may gain
The sure and safer way.
And Thou, o Lord! by whom are seen
Thy creatures as they be,
Forgive me II too close / lean


My human heart on Thee.


-[Arthurs Home Magazine.
Year: 1875

The Scientific Amer5cdsa says if bot
tie of the oil of pennyroyal is left un-
eorked in a room at night, not a mos
quito or any other bloodsucker will be
found there in the morning. Mix pot
ash with powdered meal and throw into
the rat-hOles of a cellar and the rats will
depart. If a rat or mouse gets into your
pantry, stuff in his hole rag well sat
urated with solution of Cayenne pep
per, and no rat or mouse will touch the
rag for the purpose of opening commu-
nication with depot of supplies.
Year: 1875

A. considered her in most respects m.kaby strong
man, very strong her moral character strong her powers
OF loving and in ondurng she had awondeal endurance


think never that could endure patiently and
so quietly as she could she had wonderful strength.
Year: 1875

We owere very sorry few days ago to
sec our nelghbors, the Washington county
pa Republicans, at their County Con-
vention, ncglecting to express themselves
on the subject Of the third term issue
Their omission to do 80 gave rise to un-
pleasant apprehensions that they might
be acting under suggestions from the
master spirits who would control the
State Convention that was called to meet
at Lancaster on Wednesday last, How
ever, VT are glad to realize that whatever
was tho motive that actuated the Wash
ington county brethren in keeping silence
on that issue, the State Convention did
not keep silcnCe-not by a good deal
but came square out against any third
term Presidential nomination.


We consider this great victory for the
Republican party throughout the coun-
try. We hope to see it made still great
or victory by the action Of the Republi-
cans Of Ohio at their Convention on the
ID Of ncxt month. With two such great
States as Pennsylvania and Ohio commit
ted against third-tcrmism, the party may
possibly escape that dangerous shoNl in
1877. That ism has already cost the Re-
publican party n great many votes and
would have cost 1t still more in future.
Gen. Grants persistent refusal to say
word discountcnancing the movements
and manipulations on his behalf for a
third term have been dead weight on
the Republican party for year past. And
now, since he would not help the party to
throw of this weight, that was telling so
heavily against it, the next best thing is
for the party to throw him of. In fact,
we rather prefer this latter method, now
that the issue has run as long as It has
without his help to sOtit at rest.
Year: 1875

The Iberia Progress mentions that two
colored men, named Sam johnson and Jim
Boyd, were arrested in the lower part of
the parish upon the charge OF horse steal
ing. and without any warrant, without any
preliminary examination or trial of any
kind, we're hung by ''the people, There is
no denying the bad character of the men;
but there is possibility they may have
been innocent Of the crime for which they
we're hung, and there are those who think
a man has right to trial by jury before
being hung, even if the trial ia not an i'm
partial one. Iberia gentlemen evidently
think otherwise. and have progressed no
further than the lynch law of Texas.
Year: 1875

The NatchitOches Republicanfelates some
OF the difficulties met with by the census


taker in the parish in which that paper is


printed. The people are not all iutelhgeu,


to remarkable degree. and many Of them


object to being counted. Many Of the in


habitants of the parish look upon census


taking as Republican movement. and will


not give their names to the officers. Not


only that, but they advised the ignorant


colored men that an army draft was going


on, or a plan for colonization was in bro


gress. One planter warned the census


taker mot to put his foot On his place I'M


less he came to him first before going else


where" What has occurred in Natehi.


toches is most likely matched in other


parishes. Census takers find plenty of
people who are disposed to hinder and
none to help them in their work. and for
that matter the same is true Of the CITY.
Heads of families would write what they
considered laughable answers to the inter
rogatiohs, and if blank was not left with
them, or was left and not called for, these
brilliant heads Of families woufd write let
ters OF complaint and inquiry to the news-
papers instead of to the supervisor. 1t was
q long time before the more intelligent peo-
pie realized the importance of the present
census; and it Can be easily understood
that larger class, WHO take no interest in
any public matter, cared nothing for the
census. There is no backwardness, how
ever, in making complaints of the census
takers. and it is impossible TO conceive of q /
plan of doing so great a work to the salts
faction of all. Louisiana has naturally
large moving population, Influenced ac
cording to the demands for labor. Some |
compared with previous census.
will be found Co have gained and others to
have decreased in the number Of inhab
tants. When the work for the State has
been completed some judgment can be
Ormed Of how we'll il bas bee n done.
Year: 1875

L


| The danger suggested by the disciosur,


that 1t was not d remote possibility tha


the Western Union Telegraph Company


might be captured by a band of spectators
and consolidated with it's rivals has startled
the press into common sense. The conse


auences of such coalition and the scan,


mercy such monopoly would show have


created reaction in favor of the postal
telegraph. which these same papers derided


year ago as a, scheme to increase the


power Of President Grant.


Postal telegl aph las proved failure in
England, it is said, because its revenues


have not been equal to its expenses. That


is matter Of very little moment. 1t is a


fact that q message may be sent from one
end of Great Britain to another at a less
cost than one from Boston TO New York.
even though that rate is less than TO several


way stations. This has proved one of the
greatest blessings since the establishment
Of penny postage. aid in a country as small
as England will certainly pay under proper
ansgenent.


In this country the postal service has
never paid, simply in consequence of the
extended routes Of the West and South
eating up the profits of the shorter and re-.
munerativs ones of the East. No one would
abandon our system for that fact alone, and
il has been proved that reduction of rates
increases the revenue. The time will come
when any mailable package shall be car
ried from Maine 20 Oregon for one cent,
and the multiplicity Of letter writer's will
make the department selfsupporting.


In the mean time, the people want cheap
telegraphing, and more than that, they
want fixed rates, which shall not be at the
mercy of boards of directors, who are only
responsible to their stockholders for divi-
dends. AS is said by the New York Herald
the story of the London Times that the
postal telegraph is a failure, ia of the same
kind OF jobbery as that Of a year ago, when
the cable companies telegraphed letters at
their own expense to influence Congress.
sional legislational against it. OF course.
Mr.. Orton prefers to IT ain the revenues of
the Western Union Telegraph in his
hands. and go do the speculators. who hope
to control them themselves. Neither desire
to SEQ the public served. BY the government
taking possession, and the Herald secs the
Issue plainly. when it says:


We invoke the aid of the government, rot
because we believe that public officials can
do the mere work Of the telegraph more ell.
GENTLY than private parties. but because
the government is our natural tuiwark
against such influences as we deplore-in
fluences that aim to subject the whole tele.
graph system to the mercy OF desperate
gamblers in stocks
Year: 1875

When you see a man sitting down on the
sidewalk, his cane in the gutter, his bag of
peaches broken open, his hat in another
place, help him up at once. There is no
sense in asking man so situated if he fell,
or what he thinks of man who will drop
banana peel; and if you ever expect to
borrow IS of friend you see in such q
plight you will not laugh.
Year: 1875

which the rocking chair stood menac-
ing the whole universe with abutting
motion. Mrs. McStinger had no time
for investigation just then, and she
pitched over the rocking-chair and
clear down the stairs, the chair after
her, turning over and over, and kicking
Mrs. McStinger at every jump until
they both landed in the hall below,
where the chair broke all to atoms.
This ended the fight


OBscxsE PUBL1cAr1oxs.-On what
principle of law or public morals every
other obscene publication is rigidly
suppressed in New York and yet the
Beecher trial is thrown broadcast over
the land every day by the half million
copies is a puzzle to plain, old-fash-
ioned people. In every point of view
the report of this trial is more revolt
ing to decency and injurious to pub
lie morals than any fight of pruri-
ent fancy developed under the head of
of obscene books" and yet very few
demonstrate against these reports, and
all the leading papers of the country
print and circulate them in a majority
of the most respectable households all
over the land.


The defense is that they are "ne,cs"-
reports of actual transactions by dis
tinguished parties, and not the fancied
events of some Paris maison de joie.
There's preachers, deacons, and female
devotees concerned in them, and not
gamblers and nymphs du pave-and
this apology makes the garbage all the
more demoralizing.


A little Of it might not be SO bad;
but when it comes by the month in
daily installments of twenty columns,
and nobody can say when it will end,
why really, it seems to us, some pro-
test is due to public decency, modesty
and morals. All the printed obscenity
previously known to mankind ap-
proaches nowhere near to this enor-
nous and insufferable outrage on dec
orum-this national deluge of filth
which obtrudes itself upon everybodys
notices by the mere vastness Of its vol
ume. The printed obscenity which
is pursued to punishment with such
rigor by the guardians Of the public
morals is but here and there an often
sive puddle; but this is an engulping
tide--a veritable overflow of nastiucss
which permits nobody on foot to step
over keep out Of fit-pouring through
the land every day Of the week for
months in q never ending tide; ti'T
one may say we not only "sup full OF
horrors but are forced to take ev-
cry meal out Of the same dish. ass


Some say don't read the reports"
and few do read them. It would re-
quire six hours every day to read these
rcports-bnt still 80 long as you look
at the newspapers you cant keep out
out sight Of this trial. 1t stares at
you from every chink and Granny in
the prints, and when you shun the
main body Of filth you run suddenly
ovcr.shoes into divergent sluices Of an
|ecdote, prurient witticism, comment,
prophecy or speculation about the tri-
al. One might a. we'll hope to get
home without use Of the road, as to
read the papers and escape this all
prevalent deluge Of Grim con. II is an
awful mischief and nuisance. -Geo'>
gia Telegraph and Messenger.
Year: 1875

1t is distressing to read Of the perpetual
meetings Of John Kelly's Committee on
Discipline. We always suspect an army
whose commander-in-ch finds it neces-
sary to order out a squad of soldiers every
morning to shoot mutineers When an army
is healthy and satisfied when it believes in
its leaders, its principles and its flag, there
is no need of discipline" The soldiers
are content and cheerful They stand by
their cause and are willing to die for it. No
fatigue of the march, no danger of action,
no labor in the trenches, neither cold nor
hunger nor wounds nor disease nor death
appal them. They have within the burning
fire Of great cause. That is their sustain
ing hope, even to victory. But when
matters 90 badly when the general
loses his head when trusted Off
GERS are overthrown and favorites are
placed in commando when the pay is cut
down; when contractors are allowed to rob
the soldiers when shoes are of paper and
uniforms Of shoddy; when they begin to find
that, after all, there is no principle at stake;
that the war is q war for personal gain, is it
any wonder they mutiny2 This is the con-
dition Of Tammany Hail. Every morning
we read Of the meeting of the Committee on
Discipline, and that another batch of de-
serters has been shot. To-day it is in one
district tomorrow it is in another. Poor
John Kelly and his officers are riding from
rank to rank, from camp to camp,
sabring here and shooting there and
threatening elsewhere. and breathing
Year: 1875

THANKSGIVING. President has issued
the usual proclamation, recommending the
observance throughout the whole country Of
celebration the Puritans gave the first exam
ple though in a manner quite different to
that most favored in these days. The proc
lamation is not altogether in the usual STYLE
and makes some declarations that will
be criticised and starts from some assump-
tions that will not be admitted, but its gene
raj recommendation will be none the less
welcome, for the festival is of popular origin
and needs only general consent to the date;
and the only use of the proclamation is to
fix this.
Year: 1875

Mr.. George w. Blunt is too patriotic, else
he would not look into the past so closely or
object so sternly to the sentiments uttered at
Richmond on Tuesday when the statue to
Stonewall Jackson was unveiled. 1t was an
event in which there was no dishonor to the
memories of the hundreds of thousands of
soldiers whose bodies fill graves from the
Mississippi to the Potomac, as Mr.. Blunt
affects to believe. Nothing of the kind was
intended, and we are sure the living soldiers
of the North will not regard it as any rehec-
ton on their dead comrades. They are not
more likely to forget the side on which
Stonewall Jackson fought than Mr.. Blunt,
it, but they will remember also that
the flag, in battling against which
General jackson earned his great renown,
was everywhere displayed along the line of
the procession in his honor and was greeted
with enthusiasm by the vast multitude No
hearts of the thousands who participated in
the ceremonies, and those who love their gov
ernment best were foremost to honor the
memory of its most earnest foe. Such an
event would not have been contemplated in
any other country, nor would it have been
permitted anywhere else but this only
proves the liberality of the American people
and their confidence in their institutions.
In republic the people can afford to honor
the virtues Of even their stoutest enemies,
and this was all that the yirginians purposed
or attempted. The name Of Stonewall Jack
son is very dear to them, not SO much be-
cause he was stern and successful soldier
as because his virtues shone as resplendent
as his valor, and for this reason the whole
country looked on with satisfaction when
they erected an enduring monument to his
faua
Year: 1875

The great battle of the municipal campaign
will be fought in the Fourth Senatorial dis
trict. On one side John the lion, on the
other John the fox The lion and the fox
struggle for the Senatorship, Callahan and
Quinn for the Civil Justice. The real fight
is between the lion and the fox, the big
John and the cheap John of New York poll
tics, the one maintaining that the salaries OF
Wickham and his lazy officials shall be re-
duced and insisting that the poor laborers
shall receive two dollars q day; the other de-
claring that Wickham and his men shall re-
main undisturbed and that true economy
consists in lessening the wages of the
laborer. Mr.. Justice Quinn is a conspicuous
politician, the trusted friend of John Kelly,
who made himself immortal in New York
politics by first viewing with alarm the
rapid growth of the German element in this
country of ours" 1t is remembered to his
detriment ALSO that Justice Quinn presided
in Tammany's General Committee when
the decree of condemnation was entered
against the laboring men of this great me-
tropolis. He sat in the tribunal when tho
proclamation of Punishment was issued
against Morrissey and his followers because
they had the manhood to raise their voices
against this Ring. John Kelly demands
that the laboring men of New York shall
confirm Tammanys misdeeds by electing to
Office his fiatterers and servants in the BAN
ner district Of Tammany. The fight grows
more and more intense. Whatever the
people may think of many instances Of Nor
rissey's character they know he will not
steal, and that he will not shrink from an
emergency, and that he has no interest apart
from the people He is neither q liar,
coward, a thief nor sluggard. Before the
canvass is over it would not surprise us if
John Kelly learned in the banner district OF
Tammany the lesson Of Shakespeare


The man that once did sell the lions skin


While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
Year: 1875

MORE MONEY WANTED. Kelley, who once
lay heavy on the soul Of the nation in the
form Of the pig iron nightmare, and who
now lifts us from solid ground with the airy
fancies Of initiation, has been to Georgia. lie
says that people there have not got money
with which to transact ordinary business.
This must make them regret the flush days
Of the Confederacy, when there was SO much
money in circulation that o man often paid q
thousand dollars for ten cent cigar The
poverty Of these days is lamentable by the
,contrastl
Year: 1875

THE LEADING MEN on the anti-Tammany
ticket are Iiackett and Phelps. About them
a strong canvass is made because of the at
tacks Of John Kelly upon our honest Re-
corder and our high-minded District Attor-
ney. But the friends Of independent gov
ernment in New York should not be content
with electing Hackett and Phelps They
should elect the whole ticket. Let Kelly
find his Waterloo on Tuesday. Let him be
routed, horse, foot and dragoon. Let every
voter strike the whole Tammany ticket and
vote against every nominee from the top to
the bottom. The good men whom Tam
many has nominated and who would thus
be defeated can be taken care Of in the
future, when we have q reorganized democ-
racy. Now the fight is upon the one man
power as typifed by John Kelly. Let it be
fought TO win.
Year: 1875

THE ESUREsT WAY to vote against John Kelly
and the one-man power IS to vote for the
whole anti-Tammany ticket. II is better
than the regular ticket The nominees are
Of higher character as an average. 1t may be
unfortunate to defeat some Of the Tammanv
nominees, but it is no time to distinguish
Strike the whole ticket. Let the battle bo
thoroughly fought and thoroughly won.
Year: 1875

FUNNY FELLOWS. Sit does not seem to be
80 much Of a joke to exhibit ones capacity to
explode a can Of nitro glycerine in public
square but, as will be seen elsewhere, this
appears to be thodght witty at Harvard; and
perhaps it il outside opinion that is at fault.
Year: 1875

PEACE OR WAR.-''So far as human iudg-
ment can discern, peace is more assured now
than at any time during the twenty years
preceding the reconstruction Of the Empire. I"
Such was the semi-prophetic observation
made yesterday in the name of William Of
Germany to the German Parliament Such
a phrase from an Emperor may justly lead
people to apprehend the early occurrence Of
war
Year: 1875

The last drawing of the so-called Ken
lucky "Library" lottery has again
called attention to these schemes and the
men who inaugurate them. There is
little doubt but this drawing will be the
means of enforcing more stringently the
statutes made for such cases. Speaking
of lotteries, the american AgriculteU'iSt
says:


1t is not the least of the bad features
OF the lottery in all its forms, that it al
lows few men who produce nothing,
and who instead of promoting industry
by legitimate business, carry rlnhappi-
ness to hundreds of homes, to grow rich
at the expense of the industrious. Look
ing at it in all its bearings, we regard the
lottery as pernicious in its effects to
those few who draw prizes, as well as to
the many who draw blanks; and we in
clude in this all the forms and diguises
of the lottery; whether called gift con-
certs, distributions, or what not, and no
matter what charitable, or in itself
worthy, object is used to cloak its ugly
shape. Indeed, we regard the open and
declared lottery more respectable than
the scheme that skulks behind some
other name, and pretends to be working
for charity, while its whole end and
aim is to make money for the managers.
But few greater misfortunes can befall a
young man just starting in life than to
draw a prize in lottery. Almost every
one who can remember the times when
lotteries were not only tolerated, but
legal, can recall cases in which men were
absolutely ruined by drawing prize in
one of them. The gain of few thou
sands in this manner untitled them for
all useful business ever after, and they
ruined themselves in endeavoring to re-
peat their former luck. Those who do
not regard lotteries as gambling, and
hold them to be fair Investments, do not
make very wise distinctions in morals,
and they are in a very small minority
the better thought of the community, as
expressed in the laws of almost every
State, is against them. The extent to
which this lottery evil extends is not
generally known, and the unhappiness il
causes wives, mothers, and children, who
see those they love carried away with the
passion for this form of gambling, is
most saddening