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Year: 1872

Whis1ey influences some and the party
lash others.


A certain other class of men have an
ambition always to vote on the winning
side, and it is not an unusual thingt to hear
men boast of "never having lost vote"


Others again are influenced to vote
rather by the expectation and hope OF office
than by the promise thereof.


We desire to say few plain words to
this last mentioned class Of voters. We
have now neither time nor inclination for
political coquetry. We come with strictly
honorable intentions. We mean business,
and do not intend to be trihed with.


There is certain class of men looking
to future benefit, from Federal patronage,
when Greeley shall be President, who yet
are unwilling to deprive themselves Of all
hope in case Grant shall be reelected.
These men, therefore, intimate Or declare
more or less openly their preference for
Greeley at the same time that they express
their determination to vote for Caldwell.
They flatter themselves that by this
double dealing they have safe thing of it.





They think to themselves to say, If Gree
ley be elected, awe were always for
Greeley" and at the same time leave them
selves room to d" hedge" against the No
vernber election by voting for Caldwell.
We tell these men that if they pursue
this course it will be the greatest mistake
of their lives.


Nothing can be better settled than the
fact, that no man who honestly desires the
election of Greeley can, with his senses
about him, vote for Caldwell.


1t may, perhaps, be well for parties who
expect or hope for Office under Greeley, to
consider whether the fact Of their having
voted for Caldwell will smooth their road.
1t may be well for them 20 think what an
swcr they can give, when getting up recon-
! mendations for office, if they should be
! asked the question: Did you not support
Caldwell, the representative man Of the
corruption and force and anti-peace and anti
conciliation party, when every sane nal
! in North Carolina knew that every vote
given for Caldwell, in August, was more
than equal TO two votes given for Grant
and against Greeley i'll November


Let this class Of men, we say, who are
" expecting" office, consider the matter a
/ little more deliberately, and think about
/ the shoals Of g Greeley republicans" there
/ will be after Merrimon is elected.


The surest way to prove friendship for
! Greeley is to vote for MCrrimOn.
Year: 1872

The Chronicle aud Sentinel is credibly
informed that fifty thousand silver half
dollars have been sent from Washington
by the Republican Executive Committee,
for use in North Carolina. The wards Of
the nation are greatly tickled by the jingle
of silver, and their eyes dwell upon ''rhino"
with delight
Year: 1872

The following letter was received by
Senator Sumner day Or two ago. 1t
shows, as we long ago predicted, that a
large number OF the coiorcG race III that
State will vote for the Liberal ticket at the
approaching election
Year: 1872

1t is said that the representatives of q
Syndicate Of German bankers are ready
TO take the whole four, four and half and
five per cent funded loan, for commits
sion Of 81 per cent, leaving the Treasury
Tree of all expense.
Year: 1872

The american artisan says: Among
the most recent of the devices for me-
chanically setting type is an English in
yention, in which magnets are so ar
ranged in relation to system of grip
pers as to transfer the types to the lat


ter in regular order, the grippers in turn
carrying the types to guide, whence
they may he readily conveyed to the
galley. A plan is also suggested for max
ing the guide itself magnetic, SO that it
may draw the types from conducting
tubes and retain them in the requisite
vertical position, and in proper refer
ence to each other. In order to be acted
on in this way, the type must be of ma
terials susceptible to magnetic attrac-
ton, which ordinary type metal is not.
The British inventor proposes to imbed
a small piece of iron or steel in the base
of each separate type, a method difficult
to execute, and more than likely to
prove only partially effective for the
purpose. A better way would be to
make the types by machinery from steel
wire, and use volatile hydrocarbons in
stead of soap for cleaning them after
use in printing, to avoid the corrosion
to which, by the more usual manner of
cleansing, steel type would be exposed.
Year: 1872

The greatest profit on the investment
is in favor of the Houdans, with the
Leghorns next, and the Dorkings least.
1t would have been interesting, how
ever, to know the weight of the eggs
laid by the several varieties, to see what
actual difference there was in the
amount of food furnished by them, and
its value at fair estimate of weight.
On such basis it is quite probable that
the Brahmas would have shown the
greatest profit
Year: 1872

The extending of telegraph wires from
the re gular stations to the show grounds
of agricultural societies which has been
so long the custom in this country,
seems to be quite a new idea in England.
The Scotsman says that it is only with
in the last year or so that the plan has
been adopted.
Year: 1872

Be a man! Can't you let strong drink
alone? Will YOU love it more than
wife. children or friends, more than
property, honor or life itself; for it will
rob you of all of these. Are yOu such a
poor weak thing as let the power of an
evil habit have dominion over you
Where is your manhood Spurn strong
drink and resolve to drink no more.
If you have a will then you are free!
Year: 1872

BrRGLAR's Tools DISCOVERED
While Mr.. George Shafer, sexton Of the
Reformed Church, in this place, was
clearing away the debris which was left
in the church by the mechanics after
completing the work on the stceple, he
discovered between the ceiling and the
roof yalise in which were deposited a
complete set Of burglar tools including
a crow-bar. a number OF skeleton keys,
chscls, and, in fact everything which
would likely to be Of service to burg,
lar in his midnight depredations. In
formation Of the discovery was lmmedl-
ately conveyed to the proper authorities,
and it was determined to retain the
strictest privacy in order to surprise and
capture the burglars, but, unfortunately
by some means the news got noised
about until the whole town was soon
cognizant of the discovery.


There is no telling what losses might
have been incurred but for this discOve-
ry by Mr. Shafer. The papers in which
the tools were wrapped were dated Jan
uary 6, evidently that they were but re-
Gently concealed in the church.-Hd-
gersfown Thrice A Uteh.


A WIFEs COMMANDMENTS s.-Thou
shalt have no other wife but me, nor
shalt thou in thy sleep dream OF other
women.


Thou shalt not take unto thy house
any beautiful, sly, brazcn image Of a ser
want girl to make love to when my back
is turned, for | am jealous wife.


Honor thy wife's father and mother
wear a smile when they meet thee.


Thou shalt not be behind thy neigh
Dor, but outshine him, in dressing thy
wife and babies,


Thou shalt let thy wife have the last
word in every row.


Thou shalt not get drunk, nor go to
bed with thy boots on.


Thou shalt not say nice words to 9th
er ladies' in my presence, nor praise
them in our privacy-rsmember am a
jealous wife.


Thou shalt not stay out, after nine o :
clock at night, nor snore at my side, nor
kick in my sleep.


Remember, oh thou Benedict, these
commandments and keep them holy, for
they are the law and gospel.


BUrFALoEs AND THE Cold WEATHER.
1t appears that the buffaloes were
very much discommoded by the late
terrible snow storm on the Pacific rail
road. While one train Of cars was i'm
bedded in the snow these animals gath
cred to the lee side for shelter. a cor
respondent says:


''If any one felt disposed he might,
from his seat in the car, pop them over
with his revolver-the rest would not
move-they could not be driven away
by engine whistling or human voice, but
crowded their shaggy sides close up to
the cars and there stood with bowed
heads for the storm to pass. Many were
seen to fall down in their tracks, dead
from the cold"
Year: 1872

LOWER leu. ~ 49,


EDITOR HERALD:-As you are always on
the side of the poor and for the rights OF all
men, the same to-day as tomorrow, would
like to say few words on the subject OF
our public land question.as There is a large
tract OF land in my neighborhood that Is
worth absolutely nothing if the timber Is
cut off, and | see that it is fast being de-
stroyed by few that don't care whether
any one else lives or not. They have not a
chick nor child in the world, but are as am
bilious to destroy the timber as though they
were the only men in the world. There Is
some of this timber land that would make
GOOD ranches for small families, but when
the timber is gone no new settlers need be
looked for. | think that if this land was
put in market and the timber stealing stop
ped, we could have our schoo-houses filled
with scholars, and the expenses OF educating
our children greatly reduced There are
men here that have thousands of acres, fenced
with brush, that have no families, which is
injurious to the neghbors, and only serves
the purpose of keeping others from settling.


Yours, j.


The settler can claim but 1GO acres Of
land, and that must be where his house is,
and outside of that any man can settle, ,wheth-
er in or outside of these brush fences. TC
stop the cutting of timber on public lands il
is only necessary to make complaint to the
L. 5. land office, and the timber agent viii
send the T. 5. Marshal and take the tres
passer before the United States Courts at
San Francisco. .-ED. HERALD.
Year: 1872

DEATH OF PHILIP LYNCH.-Philip Lynch
died at his residence in Gold Hill. Nevada,
on the 18th instant, in his fiftieth year.
Deceased was citizen of this county from
1852 to 1868, served one or two terms as
Justice of the Peace. and afterwards repre-
sented the county in the Legislature. lie
was connected with the editing and publish
ing of two papers while here, and also spent
some years as farmer and stock-raiser.
He leaves many old friends in this county
who will read the news of his death with
sorrow. His remains were brought to this
State and buried beside those of his step-son
at Suisun.
Year: 1872

SOME complaint is made by county people
that our professional men do not stay in their
offices when not absent on business. This
is unreasonable. How can men stay in
offices with no fire, no wood to make one
and nobody to light or start it. The demand
is prepOSterOus.
Year: 1872

THE lobby at Sacramento propose to take
contracts for the creation of new counties for
81 GOO; no county, no pay; but the lobby
refuses TO bind itself 10 any given number Of
acres of land to be included in new counties.
Here is a chance for every village and neigh
borhood in Placer to have county of its
own. Who wants a county? Don't all
speak at once.
Year: 1872

The Nevada Transcript tells Id that il
Meadow Lake township is attached to Placer,
Dutch Flat will soon be the county seat.
That don't frigbten Us much, unless Nevada
city wants to come also. and bring her court
house and court house ring along.
Year: 1872




door wide to rascality.-Ep. HERALD


SCHOOL LAW.


After long time, our friend Larkn has gotten
his school bill before the Senate. The change
which do most approve is the paying of teach
ers from funds out of the State Treasury. 1t is
true, the people have to pay for the education of
their chlliren under any system, yet this will
help sparsely settled and poor districts. Mr.. l..
says this bill Will provide the means to keep n
school III any district, where there are ten chill
dren or more for period of six months, and
then the people of the district Gun raise as much
in addition as they wish. Mr.. l.. is generally
right and think this principle right vet there
are some provisions in his bill which / do not
think as good as those in the bill of the Political
Code.


HUNTING on PRIVATE GROUNDS.


bill was introduced by Mr.. Wilson to pre-
vent hunting and shooting on private property,
without first obtaining the consent of the owner
thereof 1t was amended to read "on enclosed
ground" Well, the first bill did not like ms if
was long step in our advance towards English
game laws. did think the Senate would vote
1t down, but they could not see it as l did.


ROAD LAW MANIA


have been studying why each county needed
special road law for itself, and the only solu.
ton have come at is that it affords every mem
Der OF the Assembly, and Of the Senate, an Oh
portunity of distinguishing or extinpuishino
himself, as the case may be, by the Introduction
OF bill. From thence forward that man is an
author-has a law of his own making on tha
statute book. This must be the reason. for I
find in the Political Code good law for the
whole State which will undoubtedly pass; but
there will be few counties left for it to be oper.
Year: 1872

CAPTAIN SILAs BRENT, in recent lee
ture, delivered in st. Louis, termed
THE Thermometric Gateways to the
Pole" made the startling assertion that
to reduce Northern Europe to frozen
wilderness we have only 10 make big
enough cutting in the Isthmus OF Pan.
ANA to send the surplus equatorial cur.
rent of the Atlantic into the Pacific,
instead OF having it diverted, as now.
to the shores Of Europe. We could do
this, the lecturer said, for the small sum
Of three hundred thousand millions OF
dollars; and by thus freezing Europe up
we shall be prevented from sending an
apology to Germany for furnishing
France with munitions OF war during
the late struggle which, at the same
time, it would relieve our minds from
all anxious forebodings as to the course
Germany intends to pursue If we persist
in refusing to apologize when we are
officially asked TO do 30 Warrington
Patriot.


captain Brents theory was exploded
months ago. See the GALAXY.
Year: 1872

AMONG those "on hand to meet the
Grand Duke at the hunting camps OF
Willow Creek is our old friend Spotted
Tail, accompanied by large following
of Indians, who will take part with
the Duke and his party in the hunt
after the buffalo. In order to ensure
the good behavior OF the Indians
during these festivities, twenty wagon
loads Of provisions have been provided
for distribution among them after the
hunt shall have been terminated.
This peace-offering will doubtless prove
very timely in aiding the era OF good
feeling; but the presence Of two com
panies OF regular cavalry will add zest
to the enterprise, and will give to the
Duke that peculiar Mark Tapleyish
feeling of security, which. under the
circumstances, cannot but enhance the
pleasure and cheerfulness OF the
occasion. Certes, his Imperial High
ness will have whereof TO converse
when he shall once more be safely
housed at the paternal domicile in ST.
Petersburg, and shall retail bis adyen-
lures in the American wilds.
Year: 1872

TIE long anticipated decision Of the
United States Supreme Court reversing
the previous decision OF the same tribu-
nal adverse 10 the constitutionality OF
the legal tender act, has at length been
promulgated. The decision was rem
dered, appropriately, by Mr. Justice
Strong. one OF the two justices Of
the Supreme Court, concerning whom
it has been publicly and widely alleged
that their appointment 10 the bench By
Mr.. Grant was made expressly with
view TO the reversal Of the legal tender
decision. Whether the present declsion
may or may not be correctly regarded
as the substantial confirmation OF the
truth Of that allegation, there can be
little doubt that the public will gener-
ally 90 regard It In this light. instead
Of a decision by the judicial power. it is
merely decision by the political power
OF q military policy President Chicago
THeS.
Year: 1872

The Murderer OF the Park Family.


INDIANAPOLIS, January ia letter
received here from Clark county says
the murderer OF the Park family is now
known and the evidence against him
is conclusive. He is one Of the most
prominent of the lynchers and was
particularly active in having the
negroes hung. Other villainies are
hinted at in connection with the murder
which are to be duly investigated as
coon as his arrest can be made safeIy.
Year: 1872

The scheme for an additional ocean
cable, which has been a prominent
topic in commercial and financial
circles for some months past, begins to
assume a shape. The contract has
been signed and the work will proceed
at once
Year: 1872

1t is stated upon good authority that
the army estimates for the coming year,
which will shortly be presented to
Parliament, will show considerable re.
duction in the expenses Of the military
authorities. A still further decrease is
contemplated and will probably be car
ried into effect.
Year: 1872

e -.


The Memphis Auataache has the
following suggestive paragraph, which
should be carefully read and pondered
over by certain class of newspaper
readers


By some unaccountable misappre-
hension of facts, there is ii large class
of people in the world who think it
costs nothing to run newspaper, and
if they buy copy from newsboy
when too far from the Office to beg,
think they are regular patrons, and
entitled to unlimited favors. Men
call every day at the Office to get
copy OF the paper, just from the press,
for nothing, who would never think of
begging pocket handkerchief from a
dry goods store, an apple from con-
fectioner, even on plea of old ac-
quaintance, OF having bought some
thing before.


One paper day amounts to nothing,
but a hundred day amounts to con-
siderable in the course of time. Bat
this is a small drain compared with
the free advertising newspaper is
expected to do. Some men who have
paid two dollars for an advertisement
worth four or five dollars, appear to
think they are stockholders in the es-
tablishment for life. They demand
the publication of marriages, funeral
notices, obituaries and family epi-
sodes, for the next fortyyears. "Don't
| patronize your paper 81 9 Yes, but
you received the value for what you
paid" But,n says the patron, it
will cost you nothing to put this in"
which is just about as ridiculous as to
ask a man to grind your axe on his
grind-stone and tell him it won't cost
him a cent.


1t takes money to run newspaper
as well as any other business, and no
paper succeeds financially which car
ries on a dead-head system. Any
mention of the peoples affairs they
wish to see in print, is worth paying
for, and when printed is generally as
good as any other investment of the
| same amount.


The newspaper business is very ex-
acting on all connected with it, and
the pay is comparatively small. The
proprietors risk more money for
smaller profits, and the reporters and
editors and printers work harder aud
cheaper than any other class of men
requiring the given amount of intelli-
gence, training and drudgery. The
life has its charms and pleasant asso-
Citations scarcely known to the outside
world, and anxieties, and hours for
exhaustion, which, likewise, are not
known to those who think the busi-
ness all fun. The idea that newspaper
dom is charmed circle, where the
members lead a life of ease, free from
care, and go to the circus at night on
a free ticket, and TO the Springs i'll
summer on a free ticket, is an idea
which we wish to explode practically
and theoretically.


Business is business, and the journal
that succeeds is the one that is con
ducted on a square business footing
the same as banking or building
bridges, keeping hotel OF running 8
livery stable.
Year: 1872

Perhaps there is not another public
man in the Union who would not have
succumbed in the trying ordeal
through which Governor Warmoth is
triumphantly passing at this moment.
Opposed by a numerous band of COR
ruptionists and red-headed disorgan-
izers, whose avowed purpose was to
rule or ruin the commonwealth, with
a daring and persistency almost un-
paralleled, and which single him out
as most consummate leader, almost
unaitled and alone he dislodges and
routs his blood thirsty foes. His wis
dom, no less than his courage, has
saved the Crescent City from a new
baptism OF blood. For while the law
makers of Royal street, under their
Texan leader, would be law breakers
of Royal street, the timely and etfec-
tive measures adopted by our youth
full but indomitable Governor. pre-
vented a collision whose tragic results
would assuredly be. felt at many a
hearth. Devoted to the laws, and to
every interest of that public to which
he is the guardian as well as the serv-
ant, his actions admitted of no pre-
text which favors the designs of un-
principled men. Conscious of the
justice of his course, he wrapped him
self in the panoply of the law, and re-
fused to compromise the dignity OF
the State, by surrender of a single
public right. The issue, which gives
such universal satisfaction, proves
the genius as well as the patriotism of
him to whose mastery alone it is due.


-IberiLLe NeWs.
Year: 1872

thern people, composing as they do a
large majority of the voters of the
country, should declare that none but
true Northern men, should hold of
fee? But the Northern people say
no such thing. The Republican por-
tion of them insist only ON national
men for Office. They are not controlled
in their ideas of government by sec
tional consideration. They are not
even disposed to inquire into anteced-
ents, provided they are satisfied the
applicant for Office is loyal at heart
and true to the whole country. This
fidelity to the whole country can be
shown only by acts. The applicant
for position under the Government
who is urged by his friends, OF who
urges himself, on the ground that he
is a g true Southern man" in the sense
used by the Enquirer and those it
represents, at once becomes an object
of suspicion to loyal men, and does,
indeed, by the very ground upon
which he bases his application, dis
qualify himself from serving accepta-
bly, the whole country.


The representative men of the South
are those who are true to the nation
rather than to a section, and who are
| elected by a majority of votes. All
other men may be "true Southern
men," but they are not representative
men. To permit such to control and
shape the destinies of the South would
be, virtually, to establish the so-called
Confederacy.


Every minded citizen is not
only disposed to coneiliate the South,
but anxious to do so. But the South
must put itself in an attitude to be
conciliated. 1t must meet the Gov
eminent at least half way. 1t must
not come forward with a pout and a
frown, and then expect to have sugar
plums crammed in its mouth. Con-
ciliation, to be etfectual and lasting,
can be promoted and accomplished
only by doing justice to both sides
When the Government gives, the
South must not hold back. Above all
there must be confidence between the
two. The work of conciliation pre-
supposes friendly feeling. We fee
sure the Government entertains this
feeling for the Southern people. Let
them reciprocate it as they should, and
the policy of conciliation will prevail
to be followed surely and speedily by
full and final reconciliation between
sections heretofore more or less es-
tranged, embittered and alien toward
each other. Those who control thu
National Government can have NJ
motive but the good of the whole
country. We believe that, while they
will do Justice to all, they will lose NJ
suitable opportunity to conciliate ant
compose the Southern people. This
is, doubtless, regarded by them as tht
high dictate alike of interest and du
ty. Ii i'll feeling, insubortlination ant
violence are to continue i'll the South
| and become chronic, it will not be tn,
fault of the Government nor of th,
Northern people.