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Year: 1871

What shall we do with boys2 What
shall parents do who live in towns and
cities? What shall professional men dc
whose children cannot participate i'll
their parents work?


Instead of keeping them anxiously
within doors, thrust them out as much as
possible. Do not let watching become
spying. Let children have sports and
companions, and unmatched liberty. Put
them upon their honor. Boys will early
respond TO this. Do not make too much
of their mistakes and faults. How can
one be child and not be full of faults
Explain their mistakes gently. Be pa
tient Wait for them Children musi
have time to grow. Somebody had to
wait for you. Never let fear make a
gulf between the child and you. Within
due bounds liberty is the best thing for
a child, as it is for a man. 1t will lead
to irregularities, but out of these will
come experience. and gradually, self
control. The object os all family gov.
ernment is to teach children to get along
without being governed. They must
therefore be trusted even if they abuse
it, they must be trusted. Keep them
busy with pleasant work if possible
Awaken in them curiosity about the
things which lie around them. A very
little instruction will make children Gu.
rious of plants, minerals, natural history
of literary curiosities, autographs, post
age stamp collections, and thousand
things which will inspire pleasure in
their reason rather than in their appe-
tites.


Never scold children, but soberly and
quietly reprove. Do not employ shame
except in extreme cases. The suffering
is acute; it hurts self-respecti in the child
to reprove child before the family; to
ridicule it, to tread down its feelings ruth.
lessly, is to wake in its bosom malignant
feelings. A child is defenseless he is
not allowed to argue. He is often tried,
condemned and executed in a second
He finds himself of little use. He is
put at things he don't care for, and with
held from things which he does like. He
is made the convenience of grown up
people. Is hardly supposed to have any
rights, except in corner, as it were is
sent hither and thither, made to get up
or sit down for everybody's convenience
but his own is snubbed and catechised
until he learns to dodge government and
elude authority, and then be whipped
for being "such lying whelp that no
one can believe YOU


Well, Well; girls may have the haid.
est time of it in after life, but for the first
fifteen years boys are the sufferers.
Year: 1871

PHILADELPHIA, December SIN ac-
cordance with the instructions Of Judge
Patterson investigation has bsen made
into the affairs Of the city treasury.
The official reports say that all bus'
less Of the city treasury is suspended,
no person being authorized to receive
or pay any monies, and owing to such
Suspension large sums Of money has
accumulated in the hands Of the chiefs
OF the various departments greatly in
excess OF the money for which bonds
have been entered by said departments
Such facts have been presented that
the Grand Jury is Of opinion that those
whose duty it is to provide for the man
agement OF the city treasury and the
safety Of the city funds have been de-
ficient in duty ard censurable for such
mismanagement, whereby the city funds
have been embezzled, the citizens sub
jected to inconvenience and loss and the
credit of the city impaired. Judge
Patterson is considering what action
should be taken in the premises.
Year: 1871

ERIE, Pa, December 8.-The schoon.
er Lake Forest, heretofore reported off
the peninsula in distress, is still in the
same position. Last night gale came
up and considerable anxiety was felt for
those on board, but she weathered it.
The wind is still blowing gale on the
lake and no tug can get out of Buffalo
to render assistance till the wind abates
For the past twenty-four hours there
have been nine tugs waiting at Buffalo
to proceed to her relief. but it is not
probable that they will be able to get
out before to morrow. If she is then
atioat she will be towed 10 Buffalo, but
the chances Tor reaching that port are
growing less every hour, as the harbor
at Buffalo will soon be frozen solid.
The Lake Forest has now been off Erie
nearly week awaiting aid The Lake
Forest, the bark Board of Trade and
the schooner Osborne all entered Lake
Erie together. The Board OF Trade is
ashore and the Osborne has not been
heard from. A vessel was seen drift
ing down the lake Off Port Waitland
yesterday, and still later to-day vessel
was seen of Port Colborn, eight miles
out, apparently helpless. This is prob
ably the Osborne, but the fate Of the
crew is still mystery.
Year: 1871

persons concerned in this matter whose
arrest has been ordered, but the names
are withheld at present. They are not
prominent. Powell, the clerk, was ap-
pointed in 1868 from Cincinnati, and has
always stood well as a clerk. The Off


GERS Of the Government have been un-
sparing in this matter, and there is no


doubt Of the speedy punishment OF the
Year: 1871

THE st, Albans Messenger says that on Tues


day morning Alvin Glover of franklin, who


had been drunk for a week, began to quarrel


with one Of his sons. An older brother, Lewis


A., ~ years old, being 10 the chamber, went
down and asked his brother to 90 out as the


surest way to end the quarrel and the boy and


his mother did accordingly The old man then


began t. quarrel with Lewis, threatening to


shoot him. On many former occasions he had


made the same threat, and once last fall be at
tempted it, but the young man had wrenched
the gun from him and broke it, This time he
no sooner made the threat than be started for
q bedroom, where needle-gun, one of the
Fenian rifles, stood, and the son, seeing that
any attempt TO escape would imperl his life
and that OF his mother and brother who had
just gone out, sprang after his father and
wrencbed the rifle from his hands lust as he
was in the act of raising it. The old man then
sprang back into the kitchen, where a loaded
shot-gnn stood in the cnrner at the same time
Keeping up bis threats. just as he was reach
ing for the gun the young man drew
heart, killing him almost instantly. The
young man made no effort to escape,
claiming that he had acted only in self de-
fence; and is now in Jail at St. Albans. The
deceased was aged about So; is said to have
been good hearted man when not under the
influence of liquor, but those occasions were
so rare and he was So brutal and quarrelsome
when Intoxicated that he was generally re-
garded as a decidedly hard character. he was
was the father of twelve children, eleven OF
whom are now living, 1.-THE eldest about fortv
and the youngest fourteen. One son commit.
,aid, of the fear of bis father in which he con-
TAM lv stood
Year: 1871

Mrs. Fair. the San Francisco muir
deress, is the advance guard of the
psychologists. woman 's-rightists,
marriage theorists, and social novel
ty-mongers of the age. Her plat
form. rs clearly set down in her
recent trial. amounts to three prop
ositions. which are thus enunciated
by the New Orleans Times: l. The
superior right of soul marriage"
in contradiStinction to legal mar
riage. ,. The right of the woman
having the certificate of ''her soul, "
that she is the wife Of man. mar
ried by legal forms and rights to an


other woman. to demand his abln-
dOnement of the previous legal but
therefore, void marriage and ad


here to the partner of his soul. ).


On the failure of the said masculine
to obey the demands of the soul
over the legal marriage, the right
cannot be questioned, and the duty
and humanity cannot be doubted,
of the soul spouse to proceed imme-
diately to slay and consign to cor


ruption and decay the sinful body


which would thus wickedlv resist
the demands of the soul These are
the leading ideas Of the platform
upon which Mrs. Laura Fair places
herself. and the new party, Of which
she is to be the honored and APP
plauded exponent. to which poor
Crittenden was offered up as the first
victim. How many others will fol-


low. will depend greatly upon the
verdict Of the San Francisco jury
1t is said that the blood of the mar
tvrs is the seed of the church" And
rs people of advanced ideas are gen
orally martyrs. we confess that we
hope the rule may hold good in this
case. and that the blood Of the foul
Fair may at least frighten her fair
successors from using fowling
pieces to forward their advanced So
cial fallacies.
Year: 1871

The kU kLUY BILL.-The statute
violates the letter of the Constitu-
ton by declaring that to be a rebel
lion against the United States which
is nothing more than violence to in
dividuals, and by permitting the
writ Of habeas corpus to be sus-
pended in time Of peace; by author
lzing the President to employ the
military forces in repressinS oppo-
sition to State laws without any ap-
piication from State authorities; by
extending the prohibitions of the
Fourteenth Amendment to cases of
private wrong; and by clothing the
national courts with jurisdiction over
ordinary crimes and with the func


ton of ordinary police repression.
1t violates the entire spirit of the
Constitution by comforting upon the
President III time of peace military
discretion which belongs to him only
as Commander-in-C Chief in time of
actual war: and by destroying the
separate although subordinate in
dependence of the States within
their appropriate spheres, which
was firmly established in the Consii-
tuition as an essential feature Of our
institutions.- From the Nation.
Year: 1871

How Two BOYS KILLED A PANTHER
A subscriber to the Sacramento Union
vouches for the truth of the following incl
dent, which occurred on the north fork of the
Grindstone, in Colusa county, CAL, last sum-
mer:


"Two young men started to the mountains,
as is customary, with band of sheep. One
was named Orlando Burris, aged fourteen
years, and the other Chas. Hull, aged eigh-
teen years. After getting thoroughly settled
in their cabin and the sheep in good control,
they started off one bright morning trout fish
ish, having with them sheep-dog and jack
knife, the latter in the possession of young
Hull, and the only weapon of defense in case
of an attack from any wild animals. They
had not gone far when they came to an cid
moss-grown log, and were about to step on II,
when out sprang large she-panther and her
two cubs. Young Burris hissed the sheep
dog on the panther. She Immediately seized
the dog by the head and was Furnishing him
in frightful manner when young Burris
came to the rescue, catching the panther by
the tail and endeavoring to pull her off the
dog. In case the panther let go her hold it
would have been sure death to the young ad-
venturer. Just in the nick of time young Hull
seeing the danger his companion was in, drew
his jack-knife and rushed to the scene of the
conflict. Running his hand down over the
panther until he felt the pulsations of the
heart, he raised the knife, and, with unerring
aim, drove it straight into the panther heart.
The animal fell dead between them. Thus,
by the merest accident, the lives Of the two
young heroes were spared. A few days after
ward they hunted up the two cubs which es-
capped during the fight with the old one, and
killed them also. Amy person paying visit
to their fathers residence can see the three
skins hung up as trophy of the victory they
accomplished. The dog recovered and is as
faithful as ever.
Year: 1871

KANGAROO LEArHER.-A consignment of
1000 salted kangaroo skins was received in
San Francisco, several months since, from
Australia, and purchased by parties who pro-
pose to convert them into leather. The skins
are now being tanned at a tannery located on
the beach opposite Yerba Buena Island, on
the northern outskirts of Oakland. The skin
. of the kangaroo is quite thin, but exceedingly
tough, and when tanned into leather is very
pliable and soft, wearing a long time without
cracking, and turning water better than calf
skin. Tanned alligator skins from Mexico
and Central America are a common article in
the San Francisco market, and are used to
considerable extent in manufacturing boots
where strength and capacity to resist water
are more desired than fancy fit or elegance
of appearance, but kangaroo is emphatically
new sensation in the leather line.
Year: 1871

We observe that Gen. No-yes will
assist the African population of
New Richmond, Ohio, to celebrate
the 1st Of August in windy STYLE
That will be his first effort at speech
making in the present campaign,
and there isn't tho least doubt but
what his twaddle on the occasi on
will tickle all the black and white
Republicans in the State.
Year: 1871

makes you legislators, and as
Legislators | address you.-
When you vote, you vote to
make Or repeal laws; to do so
intelligently you must investi-
gate--think earnestly and hon
estly, for it is only BY so doing
that you can protect rights
and liberties.


THE TARIFF TAX.


A tariff is n tax which com,
pels a person to pay more for
am article than it is worth
And of all taxes the most OPP
pressive, insidious and odious
lis the tariff for what is called
protection. 1t is oppressive
because it mainly falls on Ia
bor; insidious, because it is
paid in the increased price of
the article, bought, without be.
ing seen; odious, because for
every dollar Of tariff tax which
goes into the treasury the peo-
pie are compelled to pay the
home manufacturer a bonus of
three dollars. Only one fourth
of the woolen goods used in
the United States are imported.
And for every four pair of
pants worn the stuff for only
one pair is manufactured
abroad, and for the other three
at home. On woolen goods
for pantaloons there is q tariff
tax of sixty cents on the dol.
lar. If the imported stuff to
make a pair costs three dollars,
the tax is $50, and the value
of the goods $l.2O. The home
manufacturer then adds sixty
cents on the dollar to the value
of his stuff for pantaloons, and
sells three times as much as is
imported, it follows that the
people pay him a bonus equal
to three times the amount paid
into the treasury on the same
materials, Deducting the tax
Of twenty millions on tea and
coffee, and we have LIFT a tariff
of about one hundred and six
ty millions. And assuming
that we consume three times
as much Of our own manufac-
lures as we import, it follows
that the same year we pay one
hundred and sixty millions in
to the Treasury as tariff, we
pay four hundred and eighty
millions to the home monopo,
list more than his good are
worth.


ApRoTECTIyE TARIFF IS OPPOSED


Between the States of the
Union we have absolute free
trade. The farmer sends his
products into Pennsylvania and
New York, his only cost being
that Of transportation. Sup
pose that he had to pay tax of
five cents q bushel upon deliv-
ering his wheat, where would
be his profit -?


Absolute free trade is not
proposed with other countries,
but we do propose a large re-
duction of the tariff.taX, and
thereby not only reduce taxa.
tioh, but the general price of
goods.


Commerce means the inter.
change of commodities. and
that system must be wise which
enables the people to sell the
surplus of their productions at
a good profit in a foreign coun-
try. But this must be mutual.
If we raise more wheat than
we can use and England makes
more goods than she can use, it
becomes our interest . to ex-
change the surplus Of our wheat
for o part Of the surplus Of her
goods, and we are both gamers.
She gets bread and we get
clothes. But our wheat and
her stuffs have to be carried
across the ocean, which requires
ships, and ships open to us the
trade of the world. Then,
Ohioans, which do you prefer
the interests of Ohio or of
Massachusetts, ?


RETRENcHMENT AND REFORM,


The whole expenditures of
the Federal Government, less
the navnenta on the Duhlic
Year: 1871

THE COMMON Schools. Where education
has generally prevailed we shall find the most
prosperous, enlightened, and peaceful people,
the fine arts promoted science at full tide of
success, civilization generally far advanced,
and literature an acknowledged profession.
On the contrary, the nations most noted
for misrulc, impotence, crime, and general
degradation, are those which spurn the rich
blessings of education If we should follow
this thought, and apply it to communities,
families, and individuals, the same truth
would be apparent in great degree, viz;
that education and civilization go hand in
hand, while ignorance is the mother of thrift
lessness, anarchy and crime. Therefore, it
is imbortant, not only TO provide the largest
facilities for obtaining an education, but to
see that those facilities are enjoyed by every
class of our people. BY all possible demon
stration, both in public and private, endeavor
at all times to popularize the belief that edu-
cation is essential to the growth of a full and
healthy manhood No lover of his country
opposes the common schools or any thing
which tends to their prosperity. They are
the country right arm, and on them we must
depend for the intelligence which is to take
upsthe affairs of the land and carry them along
through the great hereafter. God bless our
common schools, and always prosper and
protect them
Year: 1871

A 1Ypos ERRoR-The anguish of editors
will never cease until type settlers are wiped
off the face of the earth There, for instance,
is the editor of the Eastern Argus. lie al
luded to one of the most eminent citizens of
his village as ga noble old burgher, proudly
loving his native State" But was it not a
serious case for dissatisfaction when he saw
in the paper next morning that the remorse-
less fend had made him speak of the emil
ncnt citizen as ga nobby old burglar prcwl
ing around in his naked state"
Year: 1871

A CELEBRATED lawyer once said that the
three most troublesome clients he ever had
were young lady who wanted TO be married
a married woman who wanted a divorce, an
old maid who didn't know what she wanted.
Year: 1871

An Imposing Display.


The grand political pageant in honor Of ex- Shern
O'Brien, candidate for senator in the Seventh dis
trict came OF last night and Of very imposing
character. The Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty
first wards turned out in force. The representatives
OF the Eighteenth ward formed on Twenty second
street, the right resting on Second avenue and ex-
tending to avenue A. The Twenty-drst ward assem-
bed on Lexington avenue the right wing resting on
Twenty street and extending to Third avenue
The Twentieth ward representatives assembled a
Thirty fourth street and Seventh avenue About
hafpast eight the procession started. the Eign-
teentn ward In the front, the Twentieth following
and the twenty forming the rear OF the process
sion The line OF march was along Fourth avenue
TO Eighteenth street, thence to Third avenue. then
turned into Fourteenth street and marched 10 Eighth
avenue, thence through the western portion OF the
Seventh senatorial district. At Ninth avenue
the procession turned into Twenty-elgntn st rect
and passed Apollo Hall. where o very large crowd
had assembled and where indoor and outdoor
meetings were being held Much enthusiasm was
displayed along the whole route OF the procession,
but especially at Apollo Hall, where ex-SheriT
O' BrIen IN person appeared ut the window and was
greeted with loud cheers. The procession took
nearly half an hour In passing Apollo Hall. The
ratification meeting at Apollo Hall was crowded.
Samuel g. Courtney presided. Speeches were made
by samuel J. nlden Mr.. Clinton and others.
Year: 1871

= The symptoms of Liver
Complaint are uneasiness
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels


in general costivc, some
atimes alternating with lux.-
d with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hay


ing left undone something


Which ought to have been


done. Often complaining OF
weakness, debility and low
ssniri,s Sometimes many OF
Year: 1871

HOTEL DE VIcKsBuRa.-The Chicago Tri
bune publishes the following bill Of fare found
in one of the camps at Vicksburg. 1t is sur
mounted by an engraving of a mule head be-
hind which is a hand brandishing what might
be bowie, or may be carving knife. The
Tribune thinks it is melancholy burlesque:
Year: 1871

- We all see farther in rainy day
than we do in one cl ar and bright; that is,
further intc the day before yesterday just
as we see more Of the heaven in the night
than we do in the day time.
Year: 1871

tiOn.
Do YOU know YOU have asked far the
costliest thing


Ever made by the hand above?
A woman's heart and woman's life
And woman's wonderous love?
Do you know you have asked for the
-, priceless thing, ~.
+. AS child might ask for toy?
Demanding what others have died to WIN,
With the reckless dash of boy?
You have written my lesson of duty
Man,iike have you questioned me-
Now stand at the bar Of my womans
Until I shall question thee. s5.I
You require your mutton shall always be
hot,
81 Your socks and your shirts be whole ;
require your heart to be true as coos
And as pure as His heaven your soul.
You REQUIRE cook for your mutton and
-'' beef; -.


Irequire far greater thing;
a SeamSCreSS you Te wanting AOA So1AS
and for shirts,


I look for man and king.
A king for tho beautiful world called


home,


And man that the maker-God-
Shall look upon as he did on the first,
And say cit is very good,'
I am fair and young, but the roses will
From my soft young cheek one day
Will you love then mid the falling leaves,
AS you did 'mong the gloom OF May?
Is your heart an ocean SO strong and


deep, .o
T may launch my all ON its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made bride.
I require all things that are grand and
true,


All this that lneu should be;
If you give this all, I would stake my


life.


To be all you demand Of me.
If you cannot be this-a laundress and
You can hire, and little to pay; -.
But q woman's heart and woman's LIE,
Are never won in that way.
Year: 1871

the making of the railway" They
forget that there, are two sides to the
question, and that it may be said with
as much propriety, I" It's the rail
way that has been the making of
the trade and of the port. So will
it always be. 30 ..


fear that my letter has been 'un-
duly long, but 1 will promise that
my next, in.whlch I-want to read one
Of the lessons taught by this little
railway, shall not be solengthy.
Year: 1871

The local oolumns Of q newspa-
per are the most valuable to ad-
vertfsers, because they are the first
read by every body, and no pub
Usher can give them up to putting
this mans patent mahogany saus-
age suffer. or that ones new fan
glel, double and twisted stump
puller, for nothing and board him
self. Publishing a newspaper is
q legitimate business, and the
Newspaper man should havc pay
for his labor the same as the man
who carries the hod or wields the
hammer in blacksmith shop 1t
costs money. time and vast deal
OF patience to conduct . newspa-
per, yet no class of nen are ex-
pected to do as much for as little
pay as the publisher. .-FoRr
WAYxERsPusLlc An.
Year: 1871

Portland is at last railroad
town. Early last Saturday morn
ing the construes1Urat train ca0e up
from Ridgeviile with five car loads
Of iron, and by E CLOCK p. NJ the
first rail was laid into the corpora
tion.o All hands then adorned 10
a splendid dinner set out BY the
ladies- of Portland, close BY the
track just south of Walnut street,
to which they did ample justice.
After dinner the track was laid %
far as the residence OF John Wall.
In the evening the event was eel
ebrateti by an 'anvil chorus bon
fire, and the spelling of an enor
nous quantity OF fifty cent best.
The track has, been finished
through town, and the switch laid.
The passenger train will commence
running 10 Portland some tune
next ek.-Jay Republican.