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Year: 1872

Duluth is as good bankrupt to-day. Several of
her business men contemplate leaving that overtaxed
burg and this place Ashland IN the spring,
where dikes and breakwaters are not needed, and a
much better nducement is offered to the capitalist and
laboring man.


Flour has raised and Xxx winter wheat is now
selling for Sl2 per barrel in market. The contem-
plated railroad work has raised the prices of the neces
stiles of life except whiskey, ~ which is watered.
tobaccoed and then swallowed by some poor devil,
who don't care whether his family has anything to eat
or not.


the line as far as White river where he is engaged at
the crossing Stone for the bridge abutments will
have to be hauled on sleds at least miles, there be-
ing no stone accessible nearer by. The stone work
will commence soon. The bridge is to be an iron
structure 80 feet high and 1000 feet long.


We had a very pleasant call from n. Staughton
of the firm of n j. Staughton, railroad contractors
and Daniel Donavan engineer in charga of the build
ing OF the W G. Il r. Co.'S iron docks at Ashla"d, on
Monday last They talk encouragingly of the future
of Ashland county and the Lake Superior reg gen
erallv and they expect several hundred men in few
davs when piling and timber will be gotten out for an
iron dock and Mr. SIS will be engaged in build
inc the road bed between Ashland and White river
which is to be completed early day as possible
so as TO enable the work the immense iron bridge
ut the crossing of that stream to be finished by the
first of July This done and the work will progress
rlpidlv and by the middle of November it is hoped
that the cars will be running from Ashland the Gap


It is expected that good deal of work in exploring
and mining will be done before fall at the Range
and considerable ore shipped east. Success to the
good work.
Year: 1872




The brief and pointed message of Governor Wash
burn regarding the encroachments Superior Iarbor
and the action of the Legislature in the matter have
melted Governor Austin OF Minnesota to transmit quite


lengthy specal message to the Senate. 1t is special
plea FIR Duluth and against Superior, and tue people
Of Wisconsin, which think wotld better become a
Duluth lawyer than Minnesota Governor.


He assumes that is necessary to cut canal across
Minnesota Point make a safe and commodous har-
Dor for Duluth But that canal not necessary There
is now an entrance Duluth harbor through the river
channel 1t has always been used aud would still he
used but for the fact that it compes the Duluthtes,
and those y no visit the city by water, pass the
magnificent site of Superior City


While the Duluth harb0r is complete without the
canal Superior trbor will be injured by the canal.
If there is no dyke built the st Louis river will be
diverted bv the canal and the to Superior
harbor viii be filled up Ii there is dyke built. nav
igaon of the Bay of Superior will be obstructed In
any event them the canal will damage Superior.


The Governor quotes Judge Milcr's complaccnt sug-
restion of method of compromise if it were grave
adjudication the ghts of the parties, whereas the
legality of the dyke in no sense at Issue Speak
inc of the order of the War Department by which its
first policy was reversed, and the people OF Duluth
permitted to 90 on with the canal, he says The De
partment has constantly beleaguercd by the State
of Wisconsin, and the parsans OF Superior to procure
the renewal of its order and the closing up OF the canal


But who belea aguered" the Department to reverse
its original order? Give special message on Hdt
point. good Governor Was it the vrtuous Minncao-
tians *ho can do wrong? Was it the pure e-mind-
ed patriots of the North Star state, Jay Cooke or
some other man having pre- mption in the Depart
ment who did the belcaguerng? We want light. We
to know whether Superior City has right to use
the navigabe waters of the Bay and whether or not
great river be diverted and what rights Minnesota
has in the War Department that Wisconsin has not!
IF the fraterna relations which reported to OBJ
tain between the States have prompted Wisconsin to
treat these aggressons with forbearance, certainly, on
the ground, Minnesota should be sIoW-yes,
should reiuse-to commit them.
Year: 1872

Shas as follows


ANOTHER SEcRET MEETIyG.-W understand that the
Council held another secret or so-calied informal
meeting this morning aud that even the City Oefs was
not allowed to be present. What trick is being fixed
up now? What you trying to do gentlemen, that
YOU are ashamed afraid 10 have known?


1t is said that the secret meeting called for the
purpose of arranging to send one of the ring" to
Washington look after the canal and dixie rlatter.


To enlighten the Tribune man a little we
will inform him that the Council were de-
Iberating on the expediency of sending a
man to Washington to stand in readiness
on the 18th to receive a telegram from the
Council that +" the dixie is finished" and con-
vey or have it conveyed to the Secretary Of
War, as they (the CounciD have concluded
they cannot complete 1t dy that day, and
fear they may have trouble with their
pledges, they want to send a man to carry
out an arrangement as per the following
from the Duluth Herald of the 8th inst.
The italics are ours.


We Yesterday saw a splending drawing of the dyke
and inner harbor, the handiwofk of that capital
draughsman, Mr.. G. +. IIongsworth 1t shows
Riccs Point Minnesota Point and the DIXIE cOHiaced,
and likewise the plan of the great docks now budng)
of the Northern Pacific railroad company This sketch,
which has been gotten up very accurately, together
with Photographic view of the dyke, will be sent by
special messenger the War Department at Wash
ington-an extra locomotive and passenger car to
convey him, starting hence Sunday morning.


This is pleasant little plan, and fully on
par with the former nice little honest oper-
ations by which these harmonious and
truthful parties have approached Judges
and officials. We are glad to learn that
one Of the Council thought it would be use
less to spend the necessary amount to carry
found to be false. We have good author
ity for making this statement. Will the
War Department be humbugged so easily :
Year: 1872

The Sunday Liquor Law i'm Chicago.


The attempt to enforce the Sunday Liquor
law in Chicago has awakened the ire of the
votaries of lager, who swear by the beard Of
Gambrinus that they will have their beer,
Sabbath or no Sabbath. To their philosophic
minds the right to lager is coexistent with the
right to live, and as the constitution declares
that every man is entitled to pursue health and
happiness in his own way there can be no
doubt that any attempt to stop the drinking Of
lager is clear nfraction of individual right.
The children of Deutschland cannot be happy
If they have no beer, and it is evidently an un-
paralleled tyranny to deprive SO large q class
of the community Of seventh part of their
possible enjoyment by telling them they shall
not be allowed to drink lager on Sunday.
The authors Of the measure are de-
nounced as Puritan fanatics who never
felt the soothing influence of the
German beverage, and who endeavor to i'm
pose their own long-faced principles ON
others without any respect for personal liberty.
However, this is only one side of the question.
as the temperance society have rallied to
the support Of the authorities and profess
Year: 1872

ashes of twelve years disaster, or
the new one which faunted its
deceptive folds at Cincinnati this year, or
whether it will not find its elements among the
very victors of to-day in some such question
as the tariff or the labor question, both of
which are biding their time as national issues,
to break down old party lines as the issue
of the war broke them down at the North. 1t
was by the merest evasion on both sides that
the first of these was postponed in this can
vass; the second may have to wait longer, but
it is always in reserve. As Pierce and his party
forgot their promises in the magnitude Of their
victory, SO the republicans, blinded by their
success, may forget theirs with like result
They ore now doubly responsible for mag
nanimous policy to the South as well as for
genuine civil service reform. A people fully
alive to the work of their elected rulers will
watch this with keenness because if the les
son of New York last year means anything, it
is that the broad honesty Of the people, though
often slow to act, feels its power, and will scat
ter at need the plans Of the politicians to the
winds.
Year: 1872

The WALL STREET MARKETS took the result
OF the election very quietly, and the stock
spectators seemed for the nonce more con-
cerned about the chances of the candidates
Tor Mayor than about the fluctuations of
shares or gold The latter advanced to 1925
on runners that the Bank of England rate of
discount would be advanced this morning.
Year: 1872




tiOn.


The announcement in our Washington de-
spatches that Mr.. Fish is to retire from the
Cabinet on the 4th Of next March is not by
any means piece of startling information
The country is fully prepared for that event,
and Mr.. Fish has SO often expressed desire
to be relieved from the cares of the State
Department as to show that he is prepared for
it also. The only thing to prevent his retire.
ment is the announcement that he is going out
of the Cabinet, and we hope that on this occa-
sion consummation SO generally desired will
not be baked by any such insufficient reason
If the President is fully alive to his duty to
the country-and we believe he has its best
interests at heart-Mr. Fish will not be alone
in his retirement. Mr.. Boutwell, evidently
desires to exchange the Treasury for the
Senate, but whether his wishes in this respect
are gratiied the country will demand new
Secretary for that department. A clean sweep
Of all the heads of departments is the true key
note to Grants new policy, and by this alone
can the President fully meet the wishes Of the
people. With new Cabinet we may expect
bettur and more earnest policy from the admin
istration, for by this means alone can General
Grant realize the expectations he has formed
Of his second and last four years of the Presi-
Dental Office
Year: 1872

SWEEP OF HURRICANE IN ITALY, WITH
MoURNFULLY FATAL CONSEQUENCES. The cable
brings again sad news from Italy. The
sweep of hurricane has followed the vista
ton Of the Po River inundations, producing
sadly fatal and very mournful consequences.
The telegram tells us tc.day that the town of
Palazzuolo, in the neighborhood of the city Of
Brescia, experienced violent storm Of wind
on the 5th instant. One-half of the buildings
in the place were destroyed, thirty-two persons
killed, and one thousand families rendered
houseless. This is another severe blow to the
industry Of the consolidated nation. It comes
at moment when the people are mourning
for their brethren who have just been dis
tressed by the Po River floods, these again
following almost before the ashes which were
poured out from Vesuvius during its latest
eruption had time to COOL We sympathize
with the Italians in their present domestic
griefs just as we have rejoiced with them on
the completion of the measure Of their national
beatitude.
Year: 1872

Emperor William is fighting feudalism in
Prussia. He presents the extraordinary spec
tacle of exercising the prerogative of sover-
eighty against the hereditary aristocracy Of the
Kingdom in favor Of popular rights. During
the session Of the Chamber of Deputies last
year bill was passed providing for local self
government in the rural districts. At the
opening Of the Diet this year it came up in
the House of Lords, where it met determined
opposition. In spite Of the earnest support it
received FROM ROM tbs QgQxn, and ef threat that e
the Diet would be dissolved unless the measure
gained the sanction Of the Upper House, it was
defeated on the S1st ultimo by a vote of one
hundred and forty-fve against eighteen. As
good as his word, the Emperor terminated the
session on the following day. Now he has Gre
ated some sixtynew Peers, who, of course, may
be expected, on the reassembling Of the Diet.
to add their votes to the score Of those who
upheld the popular enfranchisement
against the superannuated claims of the
old feudal Lords. AS His Majesty is
not apt to do things by halves, it is obvious
he intends that this popular measure shall
become law, and in case the old Peers remain
stubborn he will make enough new appoint
ments to outvote them. Such o method Of
giving the people their rights would seem
little strange to republicans accustomed to
the constitutional supremacy of the majority.
but under the Old World idea that the few
should rule the many, it may be accounted
lucky when arbitrary power is welded for,
and not against, the popular interests. Sew
eral notable precedents are found in European
history where similar tactics have been resorted
to for carrying out the will of the sovereign
against majority of the aristocratic Upper
House. In that way the union Of Ireland with
Great Britain was secured in 1893. Probably
when the Prussian Diet reassembles the stiff
necked Lords will prefer adopting the law
giving freedom to their rustic fellow sub
iects rather than to constrain the Emperor to
add still more members to the House for the
purpose Of carrying his point and enlarging
the legal rights of the rural population.
Year: 1872

the memory of the famous conspirator werd
thirsty, and this, perhaps naturally turned
their attention from gunpowder and ''villa-
nous saltpetre" towards whiskey and rum.
They demonstrated against the Liquor License
law, and this to such an extent that the move
ment eliminated in a riotous tumult, which
was suppressed by the police after difficult
action, in which several persons were wounded
An English ballad, contrasting the progress
of the present age with the material status
which prevailed in the time Of Guy, makes
the bafied conspirator to run of and hide in
Mr.. Brunels tunnel, but then adds that he
would have done SO, but I'm the time Of
James the Thames had neither tunnel NOR
Brunei" Had Guy lived to-day he would
have run behind the barrels of q barroom tap.
Year: 1872

its fragments were gathered up year or two
later, with many democrats, in the new organi-
cations Of the Native American or Know
Nothing party and the republican party. But
the election of 1852 which promised twenty
years of unbroken power to the democrats,
turned out Bull Run victory to them full ol
disasters to come. Pierce and his party in
power violated their pledges in the repeal of the
Missouri compromise, one of Clay's measures
Of peace on slavery, when the republican party
then came to the front and from that day
down it was rapid run for the Southern
democracy into the rebellion on the slavery
question.


Is the fate which overlook the old whig
party the destiny which now awaits the Gree
ley coalition, including as its only great ele-
ment the democratic party? From the feel
ing exhibited by the democratic and liberal
organs there is no doubt they consider their
defeat q crushing one. 1t is shown strongly
in the general appeal dd miseric0rd;am which
they make to the victors in the fight of Tues
day. We are gratified to observe that in the
manifest OF them this appeal ignores the pulling
fear which pretends to discover danger to
the Republic in General Grants reelection.
1t has not misplaced its reliance on the people
backed by patriotic and independent press.
Despite the high belief Of others in the per-
petuaton of their oft-defeated party, it will
now become a question for the near future
whether the party to oppose tho republican in
the next four years will stand under the olden
Jacksonian banner, plucked out Of the
Year: 1872

If we don't have circus, or an earth quake, or tliberap ratification, or some of these old bachelors about Joliet don't get get married, or some of the younger ones who want to, and are taking advantage of these pleasant evenings to do their sparkling over the front gate, don't get hung on a picket, or lady fall on the dilapidated sidewalk on Ottawa street and sprain her ancle; or if our cross-railroad don't get built, or a child get lost in the dog-fennel, the editor of one of our city journals will be short of local items in his next issue. So says one of our severely tried leaders of public opinion.'
Year: 1872



 vicinity, it strikes me, are much like an- gels visits-tew and far between; and I think it is about time Cornwall Bridge was heard from in some form or other, be it good, bad or indifferent. suppose the real reason why you so seldom hear from this place is, that nothing happens here worth communicating. To be sure there are the usual number of street fights, an oc- casional runaway, and the regular number of men and boys much the noisier for liquor to be seen on our streets daily. But these arc only every day occurrences, and not calculated to excite very much interest. Thompson, the artist, who has been in the place few weeks with his ''d7E," ap. pears to have his hands full, taki1ag all the people, far and near.-Our merchants all seem busy as usual.-Manvel, the miller, seems to be laying in larger stock of grain than usual, as he has filled his mill and is now storing corn in the vacant store near the Gepot.-The improvements CD being made upon our roads deserve notice. Gin ders and ashes do make such smooth clean roads. I'm sure the public cannot fail to see and appreciate the advantage to be de- rived therefrom.-B another subject arises, and trust shall not be trespassing upon my neighbors' rights, if mention an incident which occurred in another village. If so, can only say to them Forgive us ] our trespasses, as we also forgive you." Being in West Cornwall few days ago, l was struck with the gallantry of some gen. tgeaae,a, as persume they call themselves i; whether they deserve the appellation or not remains to be seen. saw party of three ladies drive up in front of a store; on the stoop sat a number of men-I should say about half-a-dozen. One would naturally suppose in such case: there might have been one among them, gentlemanly enough to offer his assistance to the ladies. We should expect nothing less in any civilized community. But they did nothing of the kind. The most they could do, (and they did it well, too, was to sit and gaze at the ladies while they alighted from the wagon and secured the horse as best they could. But, for the credit of the establishment, be it known, the proprietors thereof were not among the number outside the store. They being no doubt, occupied inside, did not notice the arrival. I'm sure they did not /; for noticed when the ladies took their de- parture they were kindly assisted by the gentlemanly MT. W, which service was duly appreciated. One of these ladies re- lated to me that before they were out of the village an incident occurred which proved to them that there were some 'gen- tlemanly gentlemen" even there. Some part of thelr wagon gave way and they found themselves in trouble. But two gen. tlemen came to their assistance, by whose kindly aid they were soon enabled to go on their way rejoicing {; and possibly, should those gentlemen chance to read this, il might interest them to know they arrived home in safety, and without further acci dent. But could not help thinking that had they been obliged to depend upon those men first mentioned, for assistance, they might have stood there until this time fol all the help they would have received from them. A. H. l..
Year: 1872

NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY 6l8 BROAD
In way between Houston and BicecKer streets-Every
one should visit this wonderful Museum It Is full OF
everything people should and undersanG Lectures
unable attend these important lectures have them
forwarded post free on recetpt Of 20 cents BY
Broadway New York.
Year: 1872

VIM. E. Robinson, formerly Wash
ington correspondent of the Tribune,
and Democratic member of the last
Congl ess, at a meeting held in Brook
land to ratify the Cincinnati ticket,
bears this testimony to the character of
Mr.. Greeley


Some things can be said of Horace
Greeley which no ibeler even dare
question. He is natural Democratic
Republican of the best type. Burns
was not truer Democrat, nor was Jeffer-
son a purer Republican. / venture to
say that no man could detect a change
in his countenance, whether a Duke
asked him for Information or an outcast
solicited aims. With him, above all
men / ever knew, rank and wealth are
nothing manhood is the gold and mind
the true nobility. He is the ablest wri-
ter and journalist chief among the giant
intellects Of our day. His life is one of
singular purity and simplicity. He
never forgets his friends. His word
once gwen. and you can stake your life
ON Its performance, and his monogram.
written on his face and in his heart by
the Almighty. and inscribed by himself,
on every step of his career from the
dawn of early childhood to the uoon of
honored manhood, is honesty. His
charity is unbounded. can convey no
idea of this trait of his character.
Hour after hour, and daily, / have seen
the destitute and heart-broken of both
sexes, the unfortunate outcs.sts and
wanderers from all climes and all class
es, invade the ever-open door of his
charity; and never have I seen any one
sent empty away while he had shill-
ing or could borrow one !? 1 often
looked on, with amazement. knowing
his antipathy to whiskey and tobacco,
as l have seen some poor creature,
whom he had known in earlier days,
staggering to his desk and asking for re-
lief, which was not denied, even under
the certainty thatit would be left in the
first har-room. have seen his hat full
of protested notes on which he had lent
money. and when. as his lawyer, have
demonstrated with him for taking such
paper. he usually replied that any one
would lend on good paper. 1t was
those that could not borrow elsewhere.