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Year: 1872

deprived Of his Office in consequence Of the
denial of the right to vote of any citizen s'on


account OF race. color. or previous condition


OF servitude. Judge Durell interposed to


prevent the regular State Returning Board


from declaring the result of the cleo


ton. to give o pretended legality to


the existence of the bogus Heron


Board, and to place in Office such members of
the State Legislature as Heron and his asso-
ciates. withouta single official return to guide
them, chose to declare duly elected To ac-
accomplish this fragrant usurpation Judge
Durell, with the cooperation Of partisan


United States Marshal. surrounded the State
House with cannon and federal bayonets;
held armed possession of the halls of legisla-
tion; seized upon the State armory, dsarmed
the State militia, and thus assisted in the dis
placement of the Governor of the State,
the breaking up of independent State Courts,
the suppression of q free press, and all the
other outrages which have followed in the
wake of federal interference. 1t is these feloni-
ous assaults upon the constitutional rights of
State-these indications that the liberties Of
the people may be held at the mercy Of any
partisan federal Court, backed up by federal
bayonets- have startled and alarmed the
people. Apart from this they care nothing
about the squabbles of the Louisiana scala
wags and carpet-baggers, and would be only
too glad if their fight could have a termina-
ton similar to that which resulted from the
battle Of the historical cats of Kilkenny. aot
Year: 1872

The REPORT OF THE CHIEF ExcNEEn OF
THE ARMY on our land defences, which we
published yesterday, would lead the Man in
the Moon to believe that we ore surrounded
by formidable hostile nations on the warpath,
and that our main business is the building OF
Notifications, the casting of heavy artillery
and the transportation Of gunpowder for the
war against our encircling foes. We say, how
ever, that if the Treaty of Washington means
anything, "let us have peace"


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TIE Track OF THE GREAT STORM is
marked by non,erou wrecks and disastrous
consequences on the land and sea. The full
force Of the tempest appears to have swept
the coast of New England, Ney BRUNSWICK
and Nova Scotia, and as it passed out into the
Atlantic to the channel Of the Gulf Stream,
along that line to the other side of the Allan
tic, serious misfortunes are apprehended.
We can only hope that q few hundred miles
out the storm was exhausted or reduced TO an
\ordinarv December gale.
Year: 1872

peated in week at other places anl' ever


week thereafter in still other neighbour oode
for an indefinite period, What reason, thes,.
can Spain give for this inability TO cope with
what she calls q small rebellions The afro
cious, ruthless struggle that continues to be
waged debars her from shirking this demand.
We look at the question outside of sentiment
and in the light of humanity alone. Were
the ranks of the insurgents at present doubled,
the conflict, if made more bloody for time,
might be shortened by giving victory to their
side This isa contingency which Spanish pride
might never accept as possible until convinced
beyond doubt. The four million negroes
here, who are now moving in behalf of
five hundred thousand of their race en-
shaved in Cuba, could furnish large
army if they were free to go. We do
not bring these things forward simply to
cause irritation. The government Of the
United States has observed neutrality too
markedly one-sided to make it probable that
the Cubsns would be allowed to ship single
negro to fight for his brethren. But the
weakness of Spain in Cuba may, at
any hour, from home complications, be
made weaker STILL and the i American
government might, in the bloodier struggle
that would follow, be compelled to take part
so as to end it. What that part would be will
be interpreted by every one according to his
desires From the equivocal stand occupied
by the American government and people TO-
day it would be hazardous to conjecture on
which side they would strike.
Year: 1872

Sc"chAnS Aor ing SchsAo SeNecS Wv


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The painful conflict Of authority has ceased
in reference to the removal Of the debris from
the site of the recent calamitous conAagration
in Centre street in order to recover the re-
mains Of the unfortunate persons known to
have persisted in the flames or by falling walls.
To delay and quibble under such circum-
stances is q disgrace to our boasted civiliza-
ton and reflects sadly upon the system of
government in New York At length, how
ever, the relatives and friends of the dead may
hope to recover the charred and mangled re-
mains Of those buried beneath the blackened
ruins though it cannot be said that they will
be greatly indebted to the city authorities for
the privilege. While Coroner Herman was
getting up an elaborate document as
to his intentions and authority in the
premises and engaged in consultation
with his colleagues Messrs Dowling and
Jones each contributed two hundred and fifty
dollars, and yesterday started gang of men
to remove the rubbish and find the bodies. Of
course the expense has been the chief deterrent
Of the various city departments from the first,
and these gentlemen determined to furnish
the funds out Of their own pockets, thus prac-
tically breaking the deadlock and tending to
relieve the anxiety of bereaved and sorrowing
parents and families. The Coroners subse-
quently stated that unless something were done
by Tuesday, the 31st instant they would COM
mence to search for the seven victims either
with or without the cooperation Of the other
departments; but private benevolence has
forestalled them A depufation from the In
ternational Council also waited upon Mayor
Hall yesterday afternoon, who informed them
that he had given orders to Coroner Herman
to have the debris cleared up.


Finally Justice Bowling succeeded in secur-
ing the assent Of one of the Commissioners of
Charities and Correction to have hundred
able-bodied men from the Workhouse to as
sist in the search. Hence the work Of clearing
has been fully entered upon. In twenty min
utes after the first shovel Of material had been
removed the body of woman was discovered
and duly identified. The search will be con-
tinued and probably ended to-day, and it is to be
hoped the occasion will prove beneficial lesson
to those in authority for the future, convincing
them that if they hesitate in the performance
of purely humane and paramount duty there
are citizens who know how and will not hesi-
toto n parforrn IL for them
Year: 1872




Secretary Of State without any legal rights
pertaining to the position, without any fixed
tenure and liable to be removed at will by the
authority that appointed him. There may
have been some question as to the power
of the Governor to remove Bovee; but Bovee
was compelled to 60 to the Courts to test that
question, and could not legally perform a
single official act until the decision was rem
dered. There can be little question as to the
right Of the Governor to remove Heron; but
Heron, if desirous of testing the right, was
bound to do so through the Courts, as his pre-
decessor had done. Heron was appointed to
succeed Bovee in precisely the same manner
in which Wharton was appointed to succeed
Heron, and the legality Of his own appoint
ment and of the removal of Bovee have been
maintained by Heron in the Courts


The politicians who have been implicated
in the disgraceful proceedings in New Orleans
may as well understand that the people Of the
United States care very little about them or
their partisan pleas. Their scrambles and
fights would have attracted but little attention
outside the limits of the State they plumber
but for the fact that they have led to acts on
the part of the federal administration which
threaten to subvert the principles of free gov
ernment. The weakness of Mr.. Herron's
case shows the outrageous usurpation of Judge
Durel's Court Under the cover Of law
which confers upon this Court special juris-
diction to give relief to person who, being
candidate for any Office ''except Elector for
President or Vice President, member or Dele
gate in Congress. or member Of the State
Legislature " is defeated in the election and
Year: 1872

u 1t is amusing to hear aspirants for Legis-
lative honors preaching up the necessity of elect
ing honest and pure men, At the same time. they
have got it into thier heads that there is lots Of
money IN Senatorial election, and if they can
only creep in on the honesty dodge, they can make
enough to nix themselves comfortably, and set
their sons up in business. The next great CRY of
bribery and corruption that We have will he
against mes who we're elected to the Legislator.
because of fhsir honesty.
Year: 1872

Y Doesn't the Atchison Patriot consider it
rather poor business to advise persons to patron
il: certain hotel or business house, because the
proprietors are Greeley meni If that rule were
observed in all business transactions, what state
of affairs would it soon bring abonti If the Grant
men should practice the same thing, what would
he the effect upon the house that the Patriot rec
ommendsf
Year: 1872

II Charles Sumner has declined the Liberal
Democratic nomination for Governor of Massa-
chusetts He knows too well what the people Of
that State think of him, to wish an expression at
the ballot-bOx.
Year: 1872

c..a,.v hos swuug around the circle, and is back
70 cb,nnaoua. His managers, seeing the desper-
a.. condition of his cause, adopted the der
uier resort of sending him around for his health
to wake up the enthusiasm of the people. he
SWING, and the people focked to see, as they
would flock to see an elephant, or whale. A
whale or an elephant excites no enthusiasm, al
though thousands 60 to see them. So with Gree
lev. He creates no enthusiasm. He spoke his
piece, aud put his foot into it. Now he is at home,
with more gloomy prospects than ever. The on
ly spark of hope left them, is the prospect that
the Republican State ticket may he defeated IN
Pennsylvania, through dissensions in the party,
which may encourage the Greeley party to renew
ed exertion in the Presidential election.


Greeley, in his Pittsburg speech, villifed the
soldiers who had met there in Convention, and
reiterated his doctrine in favor Of secession, when-
the people of any portion of the country felt
disposed to secede. At other points, he attempt
ed to explain his Pittsburg speech, but only
worked himself more deeply into the muddle.
His travelling companions, aud those who turned
out to receive him, were generally Democrats, old
and hungry.


At the outset of the campaign, the Liberal man
ayers saw the necessity of keeping Greeley quiet
-forbidding him either to write or speak, lest his
known imprudence would ruin all. For time
they succeeded; but they little knew the task
they had undertaken. Greedy cannot live with
out writing or talking, and has done enough Of
both to seal the doom that was already in store
for him. His swing around the circle, to blow
himself out and be done with it, has not improv-
ed his case; and now he returns home, to await
the verdict of the people, that shall send him back
to the Tribune, with its depleted subscription list.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the Prairie
Farmer writes as follows /: "Take two
poles, twenty-five or thirty feet long,
according to the desired height of the
stack tie them together at the top
ends, fasten there two guy ropes, and a
pulley having lifting rope running
through it. Place the but-ends of the
poles between the place for stack and
the wagon, and about fifteen feet apart.
Secure them in an upright position by
tying one guy rope to stake on the op-
posiet of the wagon and the other one
on the opposite side of the stack, Civ
ing slack enough for the top of thepoles
to play from the wagon to the centre of
the stack. Then drive a pulley stake
on the slack side of the foot of the
poles. This stake must be little in
side of the foot and about two feet from
it. Now, all things being ready, the
the fork and start the horse. When the
fork reaches the pulley above, the lift
ing-rope pulls the top of the poles over
and the hay is dropped on the stack.
The end of the trip-cord is tied to the
guy-rope over the wagon, and the latter
rope is drawn within reach, and by this
the top of the poles is easily pulled over
the wagon. This derrick is cheap, SIM
pie, and effective, and can be used in a
barn by having short poles placed on
the scaffold above. It requires about
sixty feet of inch rope, and one hundred
feet one half inch for guy.
Year: 1872

The soundings which were made between
Ireland and Newfoundland before laying
the Atlantic cable have made the bottom
of the Atlantic almost as well known as
the surface of Europe or America. 1t is
covered With fine mud, the remains of
microscopic insects, which will one day
doubtless harden into chalk. Of the inc
qualities of this ocean bottom, Prof. Hux-
ley says:


1T is a prodigious plain-one of the
widest and most even plains in the world.
If the sea were drained off. you might
drive wagon all the way from Valentia,
on the west coast of Ireland, to Trinity Bay
in Newfoundland; and, except upon one
sharp incline, about 200 miles from Valen-
tia, am not quite sure that it would ever
be necessary to put the skid on, SO gentle
are the ascents and descents upon that
long route From VaIentia the road would
lie down hill for ABOUT two hundred miles,
to the point at which the bottom is now
covered by seventeen hundred fathoms of
sea-water Then would come the central
plain more than one thousand miles wide,
the inequalities of the surface of which
would be hardly perceptible.
Beyond this the ascent on fhe American
side commences, and gradually leads for
about three hundred miles to the New
foundland shores"
Year: 1872

One great cause of the poverty of the
present day is the failure Of many
people to appreciate small things. They
say that if they cannot save large
sums they will not save anything.
They do not realize how a daily ad-
dition, be it ever SO small, will soon
make large pile. If the young men
and women of to-day will only begin,
and begin now, 10 save little of their
earnings, and invest it in some savings
bank, and weekly or monthly add to
their mite, they will wear happy
smile of content and indendence when
they reach middle life. Not only the
pile itself will increase, but the desire
and ability to increase it will soon
grow. Let the clerk and tradesman,
labOrer and artisan, make now and at
once beginning. Store up some OF
your youthful force and vigor for future
contingency. Let parents teach their
children to begin early to save. Begin
at the fountain head to control the
stream of extravagance. and then the
work will be easy to choose between
poverty and riches. Let our youth go
on in the habits of extravaganza, fol-
fifteen years to come, as they have for
fifty years past, and We shall be beg
gars with a moDeyed aristocraey. LIE,
a generation such as save in small
sums he reared, and we shall be free
from want. Do not be ambitious fol
extravaQant fortunes, but seek that
which it is the duty of every man tC
obtain-independen and a comfort
able home. Wealth in sufficient guam.
titles is within the reach of all. Il
can be had by one process-saving.
Year: 1872

Don't live a single hour of your life
without doing exactly what is to be
done in it, and going straight through
it, from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is-take hold at
once and finish it up squarely and
cleanly; and then to the next thing,
aOith0ut letting any moment drop Olt
bettDeen. 1t is wonderful to see how
many hours these prompt people con-
trive to make of day it is as if they
picked up the the moments that the
dawdlers lost. And if ever you find
yourself where you haveso many things
pressing upon you that you hardly know
how to begin, let me tell you a secret ;
take hold Of the very first one that
comes to hand, and you will find the
rest all fall into file and follow after
like company of well-drilled soldiers
and though work may be hard to meet
when it charges in squad, it is easily
vanquished If you can bring it into
line. You may have often seen the
anecdOte of the man who was asked
how he had accomplished SO much in
his life. "My father taught me-" was
the reply, "when 1 had anything
to do, to 90 and do it," There is the
secret-the magic word nOtU.
Year: 1872

From small volume, the "Secret of
Beauty" we find the following hints
how to judge the character from the
color of the hair:


"COarse black hair and dark skin
signify great power of character, with
q tendency to sensuality. Fine hair
and dark skin indicate strength of
character along with purity and good
ness. Stiff, straight black hair and
beard indicate a strong. rigid, straight
forward character. Fine dark brown
hair signify the combination Of es-
quisite sensibility with great force of
character. Flat, clinging, straight
hair, melancholy. but extremely con-
slant character. Coarse red hair and
whiskers indicate powerful animal
passions, together with correspond
ing strength of character. Auburn
hair, with florid countenance, denote
the highest order of sentiment and
intensity of feeling, purity of character
with the highest capacity for enjoy
ment and suffering. Straight, even,
smooth and glossy hair denotes
strength, harmony and evenness of
character, hearty affections, a clear
head and superior talents. Fine silky,
supple hair is the mark of delicate
and sensitive temperament, and speaks
in favor of the mind and character of
the owner. Crisp, curly hair indicates
a hasty, somewhat impetuOus and rash
character. White hair denotes lynn
phatic and indOient constitution, and
we may add that, besides these quail
ties, there are chemical properties re-
siding in the coloring matter of the
hair-tube which undoubtedly have
some effect upon the disposition. Thus
red-haired people are nOtOriously pas
sionate. Now, red hair is proved by
analysis to constitute a large amount
of sulphur, while very black is colored
by pure carbon. The presence of these
matters in the blood points to pecu-
liarities of temperament and feeling
which are almost universally associated
with them. The very way in which
the hair flows is strongly indicative of
the ruling passions and inclinations,
and perhaps a clever person could
give shrewd guess at the manner of
a man or wOman's disposition by only
seeing the hack of their heads"
Year: 1872

Small men are very large in little
circles. While you are measured only
by your village you are possibly q
phenomenon. But the town shrinks
us all, and the state is really unkind
in the swiftness of our self-reduction.
The lord of the village town meeting
with a fluent tongue swells suddenly
into the size of statesman to the vii
lage eye. Off he goes to the legisla-
ture, and he finds plenty of peers.
Higher still he rises to Congress, and
he is silent. The village wonders that
its great man has dwindled so sadly,
and that his eloquent voice is not
heard But the truth is that the Leg
islature and Congress have lifted his
lid, and the vapOr of conceit has es-
capped. He, too, would have exploded
in the village, but the world has been
his safety-valve. For the higher a
man rises the more Immediately he is
measured by picked men. The public,
we think, is often deceived, and even
prefer gilt to gold. But the world
knows great deal about its greatest
men despite the proverb. 1t does not
admire Shadwell, but it defies Shaks-
peare. The instinct of respect for
Washington is as true as any other
law of Nature. Lucy sings sweetly i'm
the parlor, and we smile or weep as
she sways us with her song. What
more could Pasta do, or Catalani? So
Lucy must go to Paris and be a prima
donna. But then it is no longer Jane
in the next house, and Mrs. Jones,
who sings in the choir, with whom she
is to be measured it is with Malabran,
with Jenny Lind. And only if she be
really one of the great singers will she
stand the tremendous test.


1t is so with your verses, my dear
CorydOn. You must have the post of
homer in the county paper. You are
the poet at the cattle show, and yours
are the odes on the Fourth of July and
the original hymns when the new pas
tor is ordained. 1t is understood that
you are genius, and such brisk fire
of adulation is kept up under your
boilers that you are perilously full Of
steam. 1t would be sad that such an
excellent boiler should burst for want
of safety-valve. And as you have
just published neat volume of the
poetry that has been commended by
the paper in which most of it first APP
peared as combining the sublimity of
Milton with the sweetness of Thomas
Moore, your pressure of steam Is extra
ordinary. Really no man and no
boiler ought to carry so much; and
when you find a safety-valve in the
great city journal, you ought to be
grateful that you have been saved from
catastrope-but / fear that you are
not.
Year: 1872

There was reunion of the Society of
the Army of the Potomac, held at Cincin-
matt, on the 9th inst. AT this celebration
an Grafton was delivered by Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford, of New York-and from this
Grafton We make the following extracts


The morning crept slowly on-frst into
gray dawn, then into rosy flush. Still on
Still on The mists crept upward and into
line you wheeled, and on your muskets lay
down, each man in place, to get scant rest,
er sought nor needed. You were squarely
across Lees front, and had closed forever
his last line of retreat.


The enemy, reaching your cavalry ad-
vance, saw the serried line of Union troop
ers. Gordon gathered and massed his
men for their last charge. Tattered and
hungry, worn by ceaseless marching and
fighting, with no hope of victory, with lit
tie possibility of escape, they closed their
lines with fidelity of discipline and a sol
dierly resolution, to which words can do
little justice, but which each soldier heart
must recognize and honor.


As the old guard closed around their EN-
peror at Waterloo, SO those men closed
around the flags of their lost cause. My
heart abhors their treason. But it warns
beyond restraint to their manhood so
grandly brave, even in disloyalty. Slowly
they advanced to their last attack. No
battle yell, no crack of the skirmisher &
rifle broke the strange stiffness OF that
Sabbath morn. Steadily, silently they
came when Sheridan drew back his horse
men, as parts some mighty curtain and
there stood the close formed battallons OF
infantry, the cannon cleaning in the open
ngs, quietly awaiting the coming of Cor
don's men.


Instinctively your enemy halted. Mean
while Lee has turned back to meet Grant
and surrendered his command. Sheridan
swung his cavalry around upon Gordon
left, and was about to charge, when Custar
reached Longstreet. Assurance of sur
render was given, and the end had come.


That Sabbath day, with tears and in sor'
row, Southern men folded the banners Of
the Lost Cause" and their bravest and
best sought honorably to bury them from
sight forever.


How sad it is that poor ambitions, jeal
ousies of race, the wretched greed of pelt
and place, and the miserable hates of so
cial rivalries should so often disturb the
hearty reconciliation OF that surrender
and for a time revive the bitterness which
you then sought to bury in common
grave.


This hour is no time for politics. Mine
are not the lips, l trust, to introduce them
here. But when think of the heroic pas,
which your faces and presence so vividly
recall. and then how trading trickster poll
ticians, forgetful of what baptism of blood
sealed the new birth OF TIE nation. seek tc
array races in deathless hostility: to excite
the ignorance Of the one and the brutal
prejudices of the other, l would like tc
summon a guard, half from the rebel army
of Northern Virginia, and half from the
loyal army of the Potomac, take such NAL
contents out, give them drum head court
martial, immediate execution, and soldier
ly burial under the apple tree at Appomat
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