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Year: 1874

truth and iustIce against his falsehoOd and inJustice And we have it from the high est authority that the Interior Department has the proof on file that Colyer was an official scoundrel The Peace Commis- sion, of which William Welsh is leading and probably the best member, heartily sustained Colyer after the President and Interior Department discovered his char acter and the press of the nation united with them in asserting the necessity for his removal. We only care to cite this conspicuous and well-known example of how and when that self-righteous Con- mission upheld a liar, fraud, and na- tional disgrace, in the person of prom inent member of itself, to show how slow people should be in believing its charges against anybody or thing. Its members separately and collectively de- fame frontiersmen from the sanctuaries of their churches. Their most zealous eff forts have been to scandalize and bring into disrepute a hard-working, self-sac- rificing people on the frontier, who, to say the least are as honest and much more charitable and merciful than people aver age in old settlements surrounded by all the appliances of advanced civilization.

 We could write columns Of fact in this strain, but our space forbids it anG we think it unnecessary, for the day is about past when officers can be broken down on the cry of "stop thief'' by men whose lives are mostly made up of inconsistent professions of piety and goodness, imper- tinent intermedGling, and the advocacy of the usurpation of the powers of state by the church or any of its many branches. Regarding the management of the Ind ians, the Interior Department has much nearer favored the frontier policy than the Peace Commissioners, and finding the true character of these national nuisances, it has ceased to send them on errands to the frontier; therefore it is but reasona- bic the latter should raise some cry, in the name of honesty of course, against the former which is responsible department, and which in defense of itself and the people of the frontier, has been obliged to practically ignore said Peace Commis- sion.
Year: 1874

Beneath the quaint old bridge you hear The waves make music as they pass; And, winding to the elm-tree near,

 You see the pathway through the grass, Where we were won't to walk, alas! The river wanderS as of old

 Beneath the shade of Willow-trees; The sunlit waters gleam like gold,

 And ripple to the gentle breeze;

 But am far from thee and these! The sky bends over, broad and blue,

 And, in the soft and mellow light, You tread the lane our footsteps knew In former days, when days were bright; Do these days bring such sweet delight! And still that lane with grass is green;

 With fragrant flowers the banks are fair; In golden gloss and silver sheen,

 The bees still haunt the balmy air;

 But you will fail to find me there. Again, perchance, may not see

 The ruStling rows of willOW-trees (Which lent leafy canopy

 When we Strolled underneath at easel; For l am far away from thee and these! Our joys forsake us. Soon does Spring Pass by and for the Summer call; Soon do the birds lose heart to sing,

 When fading leaves in Autumn fall;

 And Winter is the end of all.
Year: 1874

The New Haven Journal of a recent
Monday records as follows the case of a
young lady in that city, about nineteen
years of age, who had been lying in
cataleptic trance since the night of
Wednesday of the previous week: !" She
retired on that night in full possession of
body and limbs perfectly rigid, and has
remained so ever since, last evening show
ing no change in her situation. Respira-
tion and pulsation are regular and nat
ural, but she has been unconscious and has
taken buta very trifling amount of nour-
ishment. The lady haa been subject to
catalepsy for eighteen months past, and
has at times, without a moments warning,
become perfectly rigid and remained SO
for longer or shorter intervals, sometimes
for hours, sometimes for only few mo-
ments. She has been seized when about
reaching her hand for an object, and in a
moment would lose all control of her mus
cles. Another singular circumstance at
tending this case is that about a year ago
she lost all power of speech for twenty
four hours, but being at the time con-
scious, making known her wants by
signs. When regaining her speech she
could articulate nothing but the German
language, language which she had not
been in the habit of using, and which her
parents were not aware she could speak,
except simple words. Her parents are
both of German birth, but the daughter
has not been in the habit of conversing
in the language, but while in this state
she spoke it with great fuency, greatly
surprising her parents, who had never
heard her use the language to any extent.
The disease of catalepsy, or trance, it is
we'll known to medical men, is disease
of the nervous system rarely met with,
but not necessarily fatal"
Year: 1874

and easily as one would tear paper, and the
floor gaped wide beneath them with the fierce
strain. They saw the great brick mill
trembe and collapse like a childs house of
blocks, and the chapel rise and sail like boat
around the point just below, there strike and
fall to pieces. They saw neighbor floating
past on roof, extended their hands from a
window, and aided him to escape to their
refuge. What emotions they felt in that
hour of waiting they can never very clearly
tell, except that they thought the next mo-
ment they too would go. They did not talk
very much, nor did they sing, and their
prayers were not uttered aloud; it was sea-
resignation as stunned and deadened ac-
ceptance of fate The fate, however, passed
them by; the wave that so lightly tore away
the heavier main portion of the house and
dashed into splinters their great barns with all
the contents spared their slighter structure
and left them safe. When, shortly after, they
were at work In the mud heaped confusion of
their house the girls were almost bystericaly
gay with the reaction from the fearful strain
upon their nerves. Mr.. Quigley, from the
bank, few rods of, watched the destruction
OF his home and property and the environ
ment OF his family in an agony of anxiety
impossible for those who read this to appre-
ciate.


The death of the entire Birmingham family,
consisting of Henry Birmingham, his wife
and three daughters-M Mary, aged eighteen,
Lille fourteen, and Carrie eight-will create
wide gap in the social life of Williamsburg.
The circumstances connected with their case
are painful in the extreme. Mary was a
teacher in one of the Northampton schools,
and, as was her custom, had come home to
spend Saturday and Sunday. When the alarm
of the approaching flood was sound
ed she was at work assisting her
mother in her household duties. Her
sister Lille had but just got up, while Carrie,
the pet of the household, was still asleep in
her bed. Mr.. Birmingham, who was Super
intendent of the James woolen mill, had gone
to his work. and did not discover the approach
ing wave until it had neared his residence,
situated but a short distance above the fac
tory. Had he remained in the building his
life would have been saved, but, with the
fierce determination characteristic of the man,
he made dash for his house, intent on saw
ing his family if possible, but as he neared the
doorway the torrent was upon him, swooping
away the house with its inmates.


George Roberts, a bright lad of fifteen, the
only surviving member of the family of
Alexander Roberts, engineer on the New
Haven & Northampton Railroad, was carried
some distance with the rest of the family in
their house. and when that broke clung to
some debris and was carried with the torrent
nearly mile, when he was rescued by James
Forsythe. The facts connected with his escape
which he can clearly recall are that he floated
very near to the embankment, but before he
could make a landing he was carried into the
current. When finally taken from the water
he was stupefed by exhaustion, but soon re-
covered, and is now in his usual health.
Year: 1874

Rather more than three hundred
years ago, u ship partly laden with
green birds captured in the Canary
Islands, having been wrecked near
Elba, the birds made their escape,
flew to the island, and settled them
selves. Numbers Of them were caught
by the inhabitants, and OH account Of
their sprightly vivacity and the brill
liancy of their voice they soon became
great favorites, and rapidly spread
over Europe. The original color of
the canary is not the bright yellow
with which its feathers are generally
tinted, but kind of dappled olive
green, black and yellow, either color
predominating according to circum-
stances. BY careful management the
bird fanciers are able to produce cana
ries of every tint between the three
colors, having instituted a set of rules
by which the quality and arrange
ment of coloring is reduced to regu-
lar system. Still the original dappled
green is always apt to make its appear
ance and even when two cOlored birds
are mated, green one is pretty sure
| to be found in the nest. For my own
part care little for the artificial va
rieties produced by the bird fanciers,
and to me an intelligent bird and a
good songster is not one whit the less
attractive because the colors of its
plumage are not arranged according to
! the fanCier's rules.
Year: 1874

Why Should Horses Wear Biindcrsf


We never could see what vice or deformity
lay in horses eye, that should make it nee
essary to cover it up, and shut out its owner
from at least two-thirds Of his rightful field of
vision. The poet says that old age looks
backward; but we never heard such an idio-
syncrasy charged upon the horse. The theory
that horse is least apt to be frightened when
shut out from every thing behind him, we sus-
pect to be fallacy, else saddle-horses and
war-horses would be duly blinded.


Every horse is as familiar with his own
carriage as with his own tail, and, as far as his
personal fortitude is concerned is no mole
distui bed by being persued by one than by
the other. As for scaye-crows that come up
behind, they are mostly so familiar to the
animal, that, the more fully the horse can
perceive them, the more quietly does he sub
nit to their apprach. Then it is pity to
cover up one OF the most brilliant features of
this most brilliant ere ature.


The horse has borne such hand in the
civilization OF this roug gh-and-tumble world,
that it seems not so much a cruelty as a dis
courtesy, as well as disgrace, to hide his form
with embarrassing toggery. No wonder we
estimate the force in the world as horse
power; no wonder the Romans and Germans.
each in their own language, designate their
aristocracy as riders no wonder their descen-
dants made chfvalry synonym for their
highest virtues. Let the horse be given his
due, and unblinded. The check-rein is anoth-
er nuisance in harness-wear which has almost
entirely disappeared from England, the army
having at last given it up by order Of the
commander-inc chief, Sir George Burgoyne.
Year: 1874

A young lady without arms was married
last week in New Jersey. But it was re-
marked by her friends at the wedding, that if
any persons thought she wasn't prepared for
the emergencies Of married life, they just
ought to see her Kick the stuffng out Of a
bag of sand. s-
Year: 1874

The following prophecy, which has
been nearly literally fulfilled, is from an
address Of the Southern delegates in Con
gress to their constituents in 1S49, Hon.
John G. Calhoun being the author:


"If emancipation should ever he ef.
fected it will be through the agency of
the Federal Government. controlled by
the dominant power Of the Northern
States of the Confederacy against the
resistance and struggle of the Southern.
II can then only be effected by the pros
traiion Of the white race; and that
would necessarily engender the bitterest
feelings Of hostility between them and
the North. Owing their emancipation
to them, they could regard them as
friends, guardians and patrons, and GEN.
ter, accordingly, all their sympathy in
them. The people of the North would
not fail to reciprocate, and to favor them
instead of the whites. Under the in
fueoce of such feelings, and impelled by
fanaticisn and love of power, they
would not stop at emancipation. An
other step would be taken TO raise them
to political and social equality with
their former owners by giving them the
right Of voting and holding public Of
fees under the Federal Government


ave see the first step toward it in the
bill already alluded to-to vest the few
blacks and slaves with the right to vote
on the question of emancipation in this
district. But when once raised to an
equality they could become the fast po-
litical associates of the North, acting
and voting with them on all questions,
and by this political union between
them holding the white race at the South
in complete su6jection. The blacks and
the prohigate whites that might unite
with them could become the principal
TcClpltits VI Etucia billctN anu patioh-
age, and would in consequence be raised
above the whites in the South in the po-
ltical and social scale.


1--WE would, in word. change condi-
tions with them-a degradation greater
than has ever yet fallen to the lot Of a
free and enlightened people, and one
from which We could not escape should
emancipation take place (Which it cer-
tainly will if not preveniedD, but by flee
ing the homes of ourselves and ancestors,
and by abandoning our country to our
former slaves, to become the permanent
abode of disorder, anarchy, and wretch.
edness."


We extract the above from documents
preserved by the Southern Historical So
ciety.
Year: 1874

A fellow who was in the habit Of get
ting drunk Whenever he went to town.
in returning home one day fell from his
horse and was as quiet as though dead.
A buzzard spied him. few round and
round, and lighting near hoped up and
picked his nose. which aroused the fel-
low little. The bird stepped up and
struck him again. This brought one eve
open. and as he realized that the bird
though, he Wa dead. he wresthed his
lips with drunken scorn. and looking
the bird square in the face, said; "You
needn't he so darn smart am not 81
dead as you think | am.
Year: 1874

"You have heard" said youth TO his sweet.
heart who stood,
While he sat on a corn--heaf, at dsylight's de-
cline
"You have heard Of the Danish boys whistle
Of wood
wish that that Danish boys whistle were
mine"
And what would you do with it7 Tell me-"
she said
While an arch smile played over her beautiful
face
u would blow it," he answered, "and then my
fair maid
Would ~ to my side, and would here take
her place"
rs that all you wish for? That NAV be yours
Without any magic" the fair maiden cried !:
~ favor 40 slight ones good nature secures"
Aud she playfully seated herself by his side.
II would blow II again, said the youth, "and


the charm
Would 80 work that not even Modesty's check
Would he able to keep from my neck your


fine arm"
She smiled-and she laid her fine arm on his


neck.
"Yet once more would blow, and the music


divine
Would bring me a third time an exquisite


bliss;
You would lay your fair cheek to this brown


one Of mine,
And your lips stealing past it, would give me


kiss"
And the maiden laughed out in her innocent


glee:
What a fool Of yourself with your whistle


you'd make;
For only consider how silly 'twould be
To sit there and whistle for what you might


take"
Year: 1874

The INTERIOR JoURSAL is out in "a.
vor of Hon. Jas B. Beck for Governor.
1t seems as though it were impossible for
Mr.. Beck to withdraw from public lite.
Even since his last emphatic refusal of a
seat in Congress, the people of Shelby
county have instructed for him in the
Congressional Convention. and the Clark
County Democrat declares that CLARK
county would have done the same thing
If there had been any likelihood of Mr..
Beckis acceptance, aud now comes the
proposition Of the INTERIOR JOURNAL To
make Mr.. Beck Governor of Kentucky.
A much more Improbable event might
take place than the elevation Of our able
Congressman 10 the gubernatorial chair,
where he would have the vantage ground
over all competitors for the next Senator
ship. But it is Of no Use speculating
as to what Mr.. Beck will or viii not do.
He may be ietIered in the gubernatorial
race, as he was in the congressional, by
promises. Pres.
Year: 1874

sinew and tone to life, fortitudo and
courage to man. That would bs dull
sea, and the sailor would never acquire
skill, where there was nothing to disturb
the surface Of the ocean. II is the duty
Of every man to extnct oil the enjoy!
ment he can within him; and, above all
be should look on the bright side Of
things. What though things do look q
little dark; tho lane will turn, and the
night will end in broad day. What is Ill
becomes we'll; what is wrong. right
Men are are not made to hang down
their heads or lips, and those who do
only show that they are departing from
the paths Of truth, common sense and
right. There is moro virtue in one sun
beam than in whole hemisphere Of cloud
and gloom. Therefore, we repeat. look
on the bright side, Of things. Cultivate
what is warm and genial. .>not the cold
and repulsivs, the dark, and morose.
Year: 1874

CHEAP VINEGAR.-Take quantity
of common irish potatoes, wash them un-
til they are thoroughly clean, place them
in large vessel and boil them until done.
Drain of carefully the water that they
we're cooked in, straining il. II necessary.
in order to remove every particle Of the
potato. Then put this potato,saier In o
jug or keg, which set near the stove. or
in some place where it will be kept warm,
and add one pound Of sagar to about
two and oue-balf gallons Of the water.
some hop yeast or a small portion Of wbis>
Ky. Let IL stand three or four weeks.
and yOa will have excellent vinegar, at
a cost Of six or seven cents per gallou.-
Journal Of Chemistry.
Year: 1874

There is o locality in Breckinridgs
county, near the Hardin line, containing
some eight or ten acres, in which no AMI
NAL can live any length Of time, owing
to tho strong miasma. A short time
since the owner Of the ground undertook
to clear 1t, and with bis son proceeded 70
the work. The son was overcome, and
it was with difficulty that the father af.
fected as he was, could get himself and
son out. A calf was turned into the
place, and soon after died. There is
nothing in the looks Of the place or the
smell of the atmosphere to indicate the
deadly miasma lowering over it. All of
the above is amply vouched for in every
particular.
Year: 1874

BABY TYRANTs.-Here is picture true
to life, from the Oneida Crrcular When
will mothers learn how to train their
babies?


"a traveller from Oneida has often a
story to tell on his return home. On his
last trip there was a handsome, we'll
dressed young woman in the cars who
had in her arms an infant not old enough
to walk, but quite old enough to be a
tyrant. The little fellow had the COM
plete mastery of his mother and exer
cised his tyranny continually. He made
her walk the car with him until she
looked as though she would drop to the
floor with fatigue; but if she stopped for
a moment he would scream and throw
himself about until she started on again.
The poor mother looked so pale and
worn that it was pitiful to see her She
had no idea whatever of controlling him;
she would threaten to punish him in va
rious ways; but she didn't do it, and the
child knew she wouldn't. If our traveller
had felt a little bolder, he would have
offered to take the boy and subdue a
little of the irrepressibleness' which was
making such an abiect slave of his moth
er; but he modestly forehore."


Oh, that mothers were more sensible
oh, that they could know how to govern
themselves-and their babies 1t would
be so easy. Then it would be so much
better for baby Oh, the misery of igno-
rancei
Year: 1874

An UnwhoIesome Season.


losing days of winter and the early days
e are very trying to the feeble and sensi-
are apt to affect unpleasantly even the
bust and vigorous. Nothing can be more
enial to the nerves or more depressing


spirits than damp, chilling winds, fogs
A rains, and of such unwelcome visitors
e a superabundance at this season. Conn
audience suggests, therefore, the propriety
tying the system against these insidious
& of health and comfort, and the expert
Inore than quarter of century points


hter,s stomach Bitters as the all.safsi-
Year: 1874

g The young married man who found


himself at the theatre, the other evening,
with feet encased in steel-colored boots,
from liberal application of stove black
ing in the dark, wants to know "how


long the house cleaning business is going
to last, any way" szv
Year: 1874

Il; The Neao National Era is one of our
most valued exchanges. 1t was estab.
fshed by the celebrated Frederick Doug
lass. and is now edited by one of his sons.
We take the following cutting and
truthful articles from the Era:


1t appears to be the purpose of malig-
nant rebels in Louisiana and Mississippi
to create an impression that colored men
are intending retaliation. in kind, for the
forced miscegenation by white men in
the South This is the last resort to
give strength to prejudice against the
negro and to secure the sympathy of the
North. The New York San is an, ally of
that class in the South, who having out
ragged the defenceless colored women in
the days of slavery, pretend to fear retail
iation in the days of freedom.


Some of the Mississippi editors are in
a boiling rage over the fact that a white
young lady has married half white man.
Whether the gentleman's father or moth
er was white we cannot learn, we how
ever, lean to the opinion that it was his
father. Now, there is a moral to be
found in the fact that the man is half
white. The enraged editors of the South
will do well to study it out and reflect
seriously upon it. Remember that the
parties causing the excitement are legally
and decently married. ....-....
Year: 1874

Much has been said in America about
Mr.. Holman Hunts '' miraculous" pic
tire of the 90 Shadow of Death, and it
has been praised as a,revel -tion of new
capacities in art. I saw sole mn per
son on the street with an advertisement
on his back telling where the picture
was to be seen, and shilling passed me
into the solemn show. more absurd
picture was never painted. The partic-
ular pretension of this picture is Its
literalness, but the litter of shavings on
the floor of the Savior's carpenter shop
seems to account fully and exclusively
for that. The "Shadow of Death
could not fall across the light of the
window as represented. Such a jewel
box as Mary, the mother, is looking into
was nevel seen in carpenter shop.
Such silken drapery as is trailed among
the shavings was always impose Eble in
an association like that, and theDYoung
Carpenter, the Christ OF the piece, is
the funniest fellow have ever seen III
picture. His only garment is what
the Indians call breech- clout. 1t has
the advantage of being fine article OF
figured silk, and though the Savior has
| been toiling with plane and saw, and is
in the act of throwing up his hands with
a sense of relief, having accomplished
his days work and earned his bread IN
the sweat of his face, there is no trace
of possible perspiration. Mr.: Hunts
Savior has a finely developed Jewish
nose. which is all well, no doubt; but
his hair seems shadeRtoo yellow, and
his eyes degree too blue for one of the
young men of the place and period
and we have to account for those hues
by considering his complexion, which
is a fine, bright copper color, producing
a most grotesque effect1 If il is the OBJ
iect of art to make krist ridiculous,
Mr.. Hunt should stepsto the 'front.'
London letter of NJ. Halstedd.


PERHAPS love is never so potent as
when it seizes upon those who have
passed the prime of life. The choice
made is then likely to be thoroughly
suited to the nature of the man; and
any intellectual gifts on the part OF the
woman are likely to be more attractive
to a man of this age than to younger
person. Besides, there is ia feeling that
as life is not likely to be very long, tins
late love is the last thing to be chung
to: and that after it, should it be lost,
ali will be desolation, Arthur Helps.