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Year: 1872

ALL fhO3VoGU 4HGhEAhE VE IEE NAVY.


The action OF the House OF Representatives


in amending the bill for the construction OF ten


s1oops-o ofwar, by reducing the number to six. is


very commendab1e. The construction depart


ment Of OUT naval history does not yet show


that re arc able to build navy worthy OF the


name, and, it NO are going into ship-building, it


is preferable to commence with few at first,


and see how wo succeed, rather than to under


take the building Of navy, and squander mill


iona Of money to no purpose, as has been done


heretofore. Our navy yards are full


Of vessels laid up in ordinary; OF


hu1ka which nero commenced years


ago and have never been finished OF


completed vessels, which lack the first element


Of successful navigation, that is the capacity to


float and Of huge and heavi1y-armed steam


vessels, intended for ocean purposes, which are


not seaworthy, and can only be made available
for coast defence In addition to these, aome
have been destroyed and q large number sold to
any one who would purchase, without regard to
bids or prices. Mr. Beck, in his remarks while
the bill was pending, alleged that, dur
ing the past five years, AL vessels


belonging to the navy Ind been
disposed Of in various Ways. In view Of such
facts as these, and thatit is not the province Of
the Navy Department to build vessels for sale
but for use, it is better to determine whether We
can build six vessels than VII ether ve can build
q navy. In case the bill should pass the Senate,
the question may possibly be answered, as three
of the sloops will be built in Government
and three in private yards but it
must be confessed that the record
of cur navy ship-building for several years past
has not been sufficiently brilliant to inspire any
confidence that the six sloops-of-war contem-
p1ated in the bill will be OF any practical uge
after they arc built. It is rather remarka BILE.
however, that our ship-buillers can launch some
Of the finest merchant vessels in the world,
that our foundries can turn out the best and
heaviest Of ornaments, and that We cannot
build frst~c1ass war vessels. If the reason for
this is sought, it will bo more likely to be found
in the inevitable jobbery and ring contracts
which have degraded tho navy service from it's
once high position, rather than in any want Of
skill among American slip-bui1ders. Meanwhile,
the House has done we'll to so cut down and
amend the bill as to make the construction OF
these vessels an experiment, costly though it
mny be. Il ship-building for the Government
is to be bnngled and mismanaged as it has been
for the past fifteen or twenty years, ne had
better stop it altogether. There are better sail
ing qualities and more endurance to-day in some
of the e1a Abs Of 1912, slowly going to de-
Year: 1872

A rumor has prevailed for several days that
Attorney General Francis C. Barlow instead OF prose
cutting Mayor Hall on the old Indictment by resuming
the Interrupted by the death of Of the juymen
had resolved try virtue there might be in new
Indictment Inquiry week ago showed that there was
truth then in the report. But yesterday mornne
large of printed documents understood TO DC tne
evidence submitted the antiRing Grand jury "as
forwarded from the o1ce Of Wheeler H. Peckham' VINO
has the conduct Of Halls to the
office to be laid before the Grand Jury Of the Genera
Sessions which met on Monday last The conclusion 70
submit this evidence has been reached In the DiscF
Attorneys Office and the probabilities are that nothing
will be done but to the old and force u 10
verdict At present all action against the indicted King
the legislation which asked authorize Judges
from other districts to try these cases.
Year: 1872

NEwBuRGH, May s.-A boy, age IA, living
on william Howells farm, near Walden, N Y commit
ted suicide by hanging himself In barn last night He
had run away from home and refused give his name,
or information the whereabouts OF his parents
He had been sick for several days
Year: 1872

With thee certain my resolution is to
die (; how can live without thee; how
forego thy sweet converse and love so
dearly joined, to live again in these wild
woods forlorns Should God create an
other Eve, and 1 another rib afford, yet
loss Of thee would never from my heart !;
no, no, feel the link of nature draw me.
-Afilton.
Year: 1872

We adopt the following correct view
Of the Cincinnati convention, which we
copy from the Cincinnati Times & Chron-
Scss: "The nomination of Horace Greeley
is the result of dark political intrigue,
and has occasioued much disgust in the
minds of many of the ablest and SIN.
oerest friends of the Cincinnati move.
ment They regard him not only as the
representative Of ideas entirely opposite
10 their own, but as an eminently un.
suitable person to entrust with Presi-
dental power. Some of the original
Adams men may get over this feeling,
but many of them will in preference vote
sQuarely for Grant


We ought not to be deceived into false
security, however, by the general impress
sion that this nomination, brought about
as 1t has been, Is a weak one. It has
some very conspicuous elements of weak.
ness. Mr. Greeley's record is In many
respects most damaging one among Re-
publican voters, and his position as a
Temperance man threatens to drive of
the entile German vote on which the
Liberal movement has so largely relied
His course just before and during the war
was enough TO drive every soldier and
sailor from his support. AS chronic
bolter and querulous disorganizer, he has
long since come to be regarded with dis
favor by all who esteem the triumph of
Republican principles as more than any
mans personal promotion or the gratifi-
cation OF individual whims. No man who
still believes in Republicanism and in the
maintenance of Republican ascendency
can vote for Mr. Greeley.


And this brings US to the point that the
nomination OF Greeley and Brown is in
tended to put them in the lead of the
Democratic party, and to make them in
struments in effecting its resuscitation
and Its resolution to national power 1t
Is part OF the scheme to secure ratifca-
ton OF these nominations by the Demo
cratic National Convention. The Enquirer
and other Democratic papers are busily
at work to accomplish this part of the ar
rangement. Should this succeed, it might
be regarded as dangerous combination !;
but 1t seems at present utterly impossible.
If, on the other hand, Greele ley is rejected
by the Democracy, the whole move
ment will dwindle out and end in moth
Ing.


In an event, as between Grant and
Greeley-no true Republican can hesitate
for moment. Grant, if renominated by
the Philadelphia Convention, will be the
representative of the principles of the Re-
publican party, and the guarantee for a
perpetuation of the results it has accom-
plished. Greeley will be the representa-
tive OF opposition to that party, and every
vote for him will give aid and comfort to
the Bourbons"
Year: 1872

A large number of the Republicans
who took part in the Cincinnati conven-
tions are dissatisfied with the result; not
80 much because they are dissatisfied
with Mr.. Greeley's nominations, as that
the nomination renders it certain that the
Democrats will hold a convention and
nominate a full Democratic ticket. In
that event. Liberal Republicanism would
amount to very small affair, without the
least possible show of success and hardly
enough to be noticed by either party.
Hon. Morgan. H. WEIR of Laporte on
his way home from the convention an
nounced his determination to vote the
Republican ticket if the Democrats make
anomination. There are hundreds who
have determined to act in the same way.
Year: 1872




| Just look at it. Commence with Sault
Ste lNarie. The ship canal is rapidly being
enlarged, and yet more is to be done on
that very important work in the future.
This, and the cash expended by Ft. Brady,
will make the village lively and prosperous
for some time. Marquette, of course, is
steadily growing, and with the enlarging at
the Sault, will soon have at her docks the
heaviest ships that float the lakes, taking on
loads to their fullest capacity. By next
winter she will be in all rail communication
with Chicago. LAnse must not be forgot
ten with her docks, mill privileges, railway
and sudden growth. Next comes the dual
city on Portage Like Copper is reviving,
the Calumet and Heckla spouting a steady
stream Of the cold red lava, and other mines
beginning to follow suit. Here the Miner
al Range railway is Oh the tapis, and will
soon be on the ties. The Lake Shore rail
road under different name, is also ap-
preaching the Portage, while the grand
shortcut ship-canal is fast opening to navi-
CATION, bringing Hancock and Houghton
into full alignment with other ports.


Oatonogon now heaves in sight with her
revived copper commerce, prospect of hem
lock extract factories, and golden and sill
yer prospects too, not to mention the Lake
shore connection, the Oshkosh railroad,
and the fact that this port will soon be the



terminal point for a line of steamers; and
last but not least, a river harbor improved
by the Z. S. Government sufficiently to
dredge its own navigable chute Now we
make the Apostle Islands, and steaming in
at the South channel, below the Madeline,
round Chegwamegon Point, and tie up
down at Ashlu3a3 dock Here is the
youngest city of the Lake, cutting streets
and laying sidewalks through the. forests,
building houses in the woods, pushing dock
after dock into the bay, spiSing down the
rails, bridging rivers, and sending her
namesake locomotive whistling south to
pass the Iron range, and meet the tracklay-
ers that are coming north through the will
derness We come back to BoYfeld the
Gem of the Isles, and Fountain City of the
Upper Lakes, full Of happy tourists, and
busy with the big steamers that by three
channels seek her Island harbor, and CON
venient dock. A seven hours run carries
Us to D,loth and Superior. The first busy
in all the glory of a young city with great
transfer trade, and the second waiting
calmly and contidentially on her beautiful
harbor, for the mammoth development that
will be demanded at the head of Lake Su-
perior, when the Northern Pacific strikes
the Western Sea, and rings under the com
merce of the globe
Year: 1872

The Chicago Raiiacdy Recie'c, noting
the fact that the hurricane deck of the
Metis, Hippocampus and other wrecked
steamers became detached, and t1oated,
supper ing a number of passengers, sensiby
SUGGESTS that the hurricane deck OF steam
ers be hereafter constructed with special
view to use as a raft in case Of need; that
it have air chambers in its beams, and be
strong enough to withstand the surf. v Ill
builders of lake boats make a note OF The
excellent advice? 1t will prove paying
investment.


Eight propellers and steamers now
give Portage Lake the go by. The new
ship canal will change all this, and all the
prope.lers will go by way of Portage Lake.


Many sailors on lake craft are old salts.
Strange as it may seem to the romantic
mind, sailors are influenced by pecuniary
considerations. They ship on the lake for
the sake of higher wages They prefer a
life on the ocean wave only in winter when
the lake wave does not pay.
Year: 1872

1t is your duty as citizen to work for
the interests of the place, as well as for
your own interests. 1t is your duty as a
citizen to improve your property, pay your


taxes, do your share, give your quota, set
an example, back up men Of enterprise and
public spirit, and agree With your neigh
bors on questions affecting the growth OF
the place, unless you have reasons of the
very first magnitude for disagreeing 1t Is
your duty as citizen to see the laws en-
forced, frown down ruffianism of all de-
grees, help train the rising generation at
home, at school, and on the street 1t is
your duty as citizen to be willing to be
among the leaders in all enterprises of plth
and moment, especially if hard work and a
little personal pluck is required; and es
pecially is it your duty to kick any fellow
who argues that all men are consummate
scoundrels because he is, and that all dirty
work is lawful that will bring a dollar.
Year: 1872

A writer in the Milwaukee Neacs Of Sep
tember Is, makes what was evidently in
tended to be telling onslaught on the Hon.
S. III. Clough of this place, for the crime OF
being Grant man while finding fault with
the niust determinations of Grants Secre-
taries against this important harbor and
site AS the Superior TINES is not a Grant
organ at last advices, we feel free to say,
though without Judge Clough's knowledge,
and doubtless without his consent, that the
little attack of the Neacs is very uncalled
for, and can work no manner OF good to
Wisconsin interests on Lake Superior. OF
which the Vers affects to be so earnest a
champion. 1t strikes us that the Judge has
right to follow out his ancient political
convictions if he chooses so to do, and he is
probably one of the last men anyhow, who
can be whipped into the traces by the edi-
toria cat 20 -nine-tails of either party.


We may say, also, that there are two
stand. One is why a Greeley paper" trusts
it will hear no more criticisms on Grants
administration from u Grant man. We
should think such criticism were capital
campaign material, and that very dull
apprehension which could not see the point,
and a very poor political manager who
would not improve it 20 the utmost, instead
of throwing it away to spite one voter, and
not spite him to any great extent. Anoth-
er mystery is why if it be "of the least pos
sible consequence whether Judge Clough
supports Greeley or Grant for President, !"
and ono particular Importance attaches to
the event. that the Neacs should waste a
quarter column of good type in magnifying
the matter Let us have peace. Selah.
Year: 1872

It is an old rule of natural philosophy
that what is gained in velocity is lost in
power. Something of the same kind is true
of towns. A forced growth does not pay
Extensive advertising, heavy expenditures,
building by the block, may gather multi
tain sort of business, but unless farming,
manufac turing, mining or wholesale trad
ing keep pace with the so-calied improve
ments, there will be reaction as surely and
naturally as the tide ebbs after the flow.


All this risk of future failure in the case
of towns having forced growth, is greatly
increased if the site be not one that is nat
urally advantageous, and that not onl on the
map, but to the travellers and tourists eye
And while any town may suffer, as Superb
or has by the forced growth of 1857, and
the temporary and incidental business ex
ctement Of 1869, yet it remains truth
that a site in the natural paths of commerce,
at ''the meeting Of the ways" must devel-
opf into a business centre as surely as time
rolls on It's past failures are explained by
the very evident truth that they were the
natural result Of attempting to gather a
population, without agriculture, mining or
manufacturing, in town without railroad.


Had we q railway, one branch of business
might be Immediately undertaken by capi-
tai and its combinations, namely the whole
sale trade. But while remaining without
rail communication even this is cut off, and
the expectation Of seeing a business growth
is for the time of such delay, preposterous,
unless there are combinations tor farming,
manufacturing or mining at once.


In brief, the assembling Of a number of
people, and the building of number of
houses does not constitute cuisines" in
any place And if we would see business
in Superior, we must take the legitimate
steps for that object. As things are in this
climate and peculiar section, the first es-
sential is a railway connection. Then the
securing a wholesale business by the proper
capital, agents and efforts Then the active
advocacy and fostering Of all the ordinary
branches of manufacture especially In iron
and wood. Farming, by necessity, Will be
last and slowest. Mining must be for a
time in allegiance. But any sort of organ
lied effort or practical combination, will
line our streets with wholesale houses of
good capacity, when once we have, as we
expect to have, IN advantageous connection
with the railway system of the great " est.
There are many men who appreciate the
great advantages of locating on such site
as this, and growing with the growth of its
inevitable trade. And when the first trains
begin to move out Of Superior, a day GER
tainly not far distant now, we shall see tie
men who have an eye 70 an advantageous
point for wholesale trading with the West,
moving in, and quietly beginning the in
creasino trade of n life time
Year: 1872

According 10 the Mining Gazette, the
steamboat Ivanhoe left Portage Lake for
Ontona9on via the new ship canal on the
18th inst We are not told the size and
tonnage of the Ivanhoe, but the Gozette
says she carried both passengers and
freight, and also heads the item An Event
In Our History" SO we are to conclude that
the canal is at last open to navigation
Some work however probably remains to be
done ere the boats of largest size and heav-
lest frelghtaee, can avail themselves of this
short cut. The new route when complete,
will save halt days steaming, besides fur
nshing 4 good harbor Of refuge at one OF
the most exposed and dangerous stretches
of navigation on Lake Superior. Steam
boats can run from Portage Lake to the
Apostle Islands by this route, IN the same
time that was formerly occupied in round
ing keweepaw Point to Ontonagon.
Year: 1872

MANFRED men should take warning
from the fate Of William Peyton, Of
Kentucky, and never strike their wives
on the head with . poker and kill them.
It seems that Peyton did so several
years ago, aud was sent to the Penl-
tentiary therefor, but was pardoned on
account Of his craziness thirty years
after. On the same day Of the week
and month on which he committed the
murder, Peyton was going through a
piece Of wood, when q falling limb
struck him on tho head and killed him.
Verify, Peyton's case Is fresh Illus
tration of the fact that It Is best to let
poker alone.
Year: 1872

TIE following is copied from manuscript slir
written by the late Alice Carey. 1t has never ap
peared in print of her poems, but it is very
characteristic, and has deep meaning, tende1ly ex
pressed:
The sun, who smiles wherever he goes,


Till the flowers all smile again,
Fell in love one day with bashful Rose


That had been a bud till then.
So he pushed back the folds of the soft green hood


That covered her modest grace,
And kissed her only lover could


Till the crimson burned her face
But woe for the day when his golden hair


Tangled her heart in net
And woe for the night of dark despair


When her cheek with tears was wet
For she loved hlm as only a maiden could


And be left her crushed and weak
Striving in vain with her faded hood


To cover her guilty cheek
Year: 1872

If by any device or knowledge,
The rosebud its beauty cou know,
1t would stay rosebud forever,
Nor into its fullness grow


And if thou didst know thy own sweetness
o. little one, perfect aud sweet
Thou wouldst stay child forever,
COmpleter whilst incomplete!
Year: 1872

COLUMBUS, July 10.-The news from
Baltimore made no special stir, as it was
expected, The Liberals and Democrats
are happy, and while under the influence
of their delight, have arranged for a ratifca-
ton meeting tonight at the East front of
the State House. The Republicans express
themselves as glad that Baltimore placed
Greeley regularly in nomination, and that if
he is to run they want him to 60 before the
people as a Democrat and not as Liberal
nominee alone.
Year: 1872

The o'clock train North over the


Troy and Boston railroad, Conductor H.


J. Clark, met with an accident on We'd


nesday evening about half a mile south


of Johnsonville, which promised to be


attended by the most disastrous results


but these fortunately were prevented by


what may be considered the interposi-


tion of providential protection. The


train consisted of six cars, in addition


to the engine Gould, and was running at


a rapid rate of speed. Suddenly the


shaft to the rear drivers of the engine


broke, and the two wheels went spin


ming along over the frozen ground at


fearful velocity. On one side of the


track at the point where the accident


occurred there is high and steep en-


bankment, down which one of the drIv-


ers plunged, and ran off into the fields


distance of forty or fifty rods. On the


other side the ground is ascending, and


the wheel here, after following the track
a little distance, turned over and rolled
DANh u pun LAIO u am anu ALNO LI1C b1dA11s
The trucks of three cars were broken
and thrown off the track, and the Won
der is that the cars were not hurled
down the embankment. Fortunately
they kept to the road bed until the train
could be stopped, and great calamity
was avoided. The passengers in the
broken cars were all very much fright


ened, and several tried to get out at the
doors, but were kept back by the en-
ploycs upon the train. The veteran en-
gineer, Robert Clark, was i'll charge of
the locomotive, and acting with his
usual presence OF mind soon brought the
train to a stop. The position of the Ell
gineer and fireman was very preCari-
Gus one, for the connecting rods of the
broken drivers with each revolution of
the remaining wheels thumped up
against the bottom of the tender and ac


tually stove hole intoit. Superintend-
ent White, of the Bennington road, run
his train from the State line to the scene
of the accident, and took off the paSsen-
gers for Bennington. Those for Adams
until the train could be adjust
ed, and were then taken to the Hoosick
Junction by the locomotive. Here
new engine was procured, and the train
went on to North Adams, arriving there
at 12. 30 at night. No one was hurt
but it is hardly possible for like acct
dent to occur at the same point with |
like good fortune.
Year: 1872

A trial for murder under extraordi-


nary circumstances has just taken place


at Melun, in France. A small farmer


of Saulx, named Ducorbier, aged twen-


ty-six and who was married in 1867, ap-


pears not to have lived happily with his


wife, his disorderly and prodigal habits


being a frequent cause of quarTels. The
man and his father, who resided in the
same village, and who sided with his
son, then resolved to get rid of the
woman by numbering her, but not hay
ing the courage to perpetrate the deed
themselves, they looked about for some
willing instrument. Proposals were at
first made vaguely by the husband to a
laborer named Moreau, but he showed
crime. DucOrbier was more successful
with thresher named Bertin, man of
a wild and brutal nature, who was in
state of profound misery, and who un-
dertoOk to do what was required of him
for a sum of 1500f. The husband
told him to throw chicken down the
well, and when the woman came to look
down it to see what was the matter, he
was to take her by the feet and throw
her in. He did as he was desired, and
the wife came and looked over the brim,
but the mans courage failed him at the
moment, and the woman went away un-
harmed. Ducorbier reproaohed Bertin
with his cowardice, and as the same
stratagem could not be employed
second time, the farmer told him to use
a hatchet. This was done, the man
took advantage of a moment when the
woman was alone in her kitchen, to fell
her to the ground with blow on her
head, and then strangle her. The con-
duct of the husband was the more bar
barous, that the wife was five months
advanced in pregnacy. Bertin was ar
rested and confessed his crime, and the
two DUcOrbiers were sent to join him
in prison. The father c0ntrived to com
nit suicide by hanging himself the son
has now been condemned to death, and
the actual murderer to hard labor for
life.