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Year: 1872




From All the Year Round.l


OF sea anemones there are in the Cry
stal Palace aquarium twenty-one spe-
cies, all alive and doing we'll OF these
the largest is the tealia crassicornis, or
thick horned anenone, which, owing to
its great size, sometimes ten inches
across, when fully expanded, permits its
interior to be easily examined The
smallest in the aquarium is never more
than one-tenth OF an inch in diameter at
its greatest stretch. Although to the
uninstructed and unobservant eye these
anemones appear to belong to the vege-
table rather than to the animal kingdom,
looking like specimens of weed or fun
gus, only two, they being coral, out of the
twenty-one specimens in the Crystal
Palace aquarium, are absolutely non
locomotive being fixed immovably du-
ring the whole of their existence to a
hard base. All the others have the
power of locomotion, accomplished in
snail.like manner, in various degrees,
one of them, the plumrose anemone hay-
ing been known to travel from three to
six inches in twenty-four hours. The
anemones are carniverous, and are fed
with the flesh of the mussel, which is
cut into small pieces, and being handed
to them by an attendant, with pair Of
wooden tongs, is grasped by the tenta-
cles, and by them conveyed to the
mouth in the center of the topmost disc,
which, gaping open, receives it and
passes it into the stomach. The high
state of health of this collection of ane-
mones is shown by the fatcs that
they are almost all nearly constantly
open, even by day, this being the
normal condition of anemones in the
sea, where they are seldom closed,
save when in the act of taking food,
or when stranded. In the Crystal
Palace, indeed, they are quite as much
expanded by day as by night, though,
with but one exception (aHthea), they
are nocturnal. AS the process of seeing
them and the other animals fed is very
popular, especially with the visitors on
Saturday afternoon, it has been found
necessary to make Sunday jour mai
gre, or absolute starvation day, in order
to keep them in health. A curious
proof of the need of an aquarium such
as this, as means of instruction, is to
be found in the fact that most English
people of all classes, refuse to recognize
water creatures ss animals They
may be fish, shell fish, or anything but
animals, as of course they are.
Year: 1872


Though we may not change the cottage
For mansion tall and grand,
Or exchange the little grass plot
For a boundless stretch of land
Yet there's something brighter, dearer,
Than the wealth we'd thus command.
Though we have not means to purchase
Costly pictures rich and rare, ft
Though we have not costly hangings
For the walks so cold and bare,
We can hang them o 'er with garlands,
For the flowers bloom everywhere.
We can always make home cheerful,
If the right course we begin;
We can make its inmates happy.
And their truest blessings win;
1t will make the small room brighter.
If we let the sunshine in.
We can gather round the freside.
When the evening hours are long;
We can blend our hearts and voices
In a happy, tocial songs, N
We can guide some erring brother
Lead him from the path of wrong.
We may fill our house with music.
And with sunshine brimmiDg Ger,
If against all dark intruders


We will firmly close the door;
Yet should evil shadows enter,


We must love each other more.
Oh there are treasures for the lowly,
Which the grandest fail to find,
There's o chain of sweet affection
Binding friends of kindred minds;
We may reap the choicest blessings
From the poorest lot assigned.
Year: 1872

The San Francisco Call says: Salt
Lake City has now population of about
thirty thousand, and there are scattered
throughout Utah some three hundred
small towns, settlements and mining
districts, drawing their supplies from
that city, 1t is prophesied by those
familiar with the country, that in five
years the population of Salt Lake will
be one hundred thousand, and that Of
Utah will contain at least five hundred
thousand people, The trade Of this
country is within the grasp of the mer-
chants of San Francisco, who have
already made certain efforts to secure it,
Year: 1872

"GoISd WEST AND GIVING IT UP.
The Baltimore american makes this
statement Those who have hankering
after the cheap lands of the far West,
should give attention to q fact reported
by Il gentleman who says he has been in
the United States Land Office for five
years, that about one half the homestead
entries made are eabandoned, aud the land
entered by others in many cases the en-
try is abandoned three or four times be.
fore coming into the possession Of per.
sons WHO hold itpermanently. Proof OF
six months abandonment is sufficient to
have the entry cancelled. This alone,
and there is no reason to doubt the fact
stated, should convince those who have
but small means how poor are their chance
of success in regions where, il there are
neighburs to be found, every one has us
much as he can struggle under in his ef-
forts to effect clearing, and hence il
sickness ind accidents Of any kind should
overtake the settler, what an amount OF
sorrow aud trouble, and finally loss Of
all the labor that may have been per
formed, must finally attack those who
seek their fortunes in those desolatC re-
gions.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness. Indeed, without these tte journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed wi despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness Of
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1872

would sum up the policy Of the Ad-
ministration to be "A thorough enforcement
OF every law: a faithful collection Of the
tax provided for economy in the dis
bursement of the same, and prompt
payment of the debt of the nation n re-
duction Of taxes as rapidly rs the require
ments Of the country will admit; ieduc-
ton OF taxation and tariff to be so ar.


ranged as to Afford he greatest relief to
the greatest number f; honest and fair
dealing with all other people, to the end
that war, with all its blighting conse-
ouences may be avoided, but without
surrendeIing any light or OBJ bigttion due
TO the United States Ie m in the
treatment OF the Indians, and the whole
civil service OF the country and, finally,
in securing pure, untrammelled ballot,
where every man entitled to cast a vote
may do SO just once at each election,
without fear o. mJlestatiOn oi prosCiip iption
on account OF his political faith. nativity
or color. U. 5. GRANT.
Year: 1872

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Year: 1872

tofore bought goods of Messrs. Thomas j.
Pope g. Co., but who does MT see exactly the
propriety of thus mixing up politics and busi-
ness. II is our mOurnful duty to inform
Messrs. p. g. Co. that, upon reading their
amazing forebodings, the said correspondent
first exploded with a laughter like unto the
laughter Of the gods, after which he sent the
dreadful document to us, expecting us, no
doubt, to use our influence with Messrs. Cree
ley and Brown in persuading them to retire
from the field. We can't do it. Pig Iron a.
Co. and Pope g. Co. must stand the racket.
The Liberal men must go in, whatever
the effect of their ingOing upon Pope a. Co.'S
ingots. But we cannot conceal from these
gentlemen our opinion that, feeling as they do
it is their duty to write and put out pam
phlet in which their views may be given to
the public in more extended way. Ii they
will but prepare it, and send it to the Grant
Committee in Washington, or to MIR. Douglass,
the Presidents Private Secretary, we think
that they may be sure of tho publication of
large edition Of it for gratuitous circulation in
the Metal Trades. Meanwhile, we venture to
express the hope that Messrs. Pope g. Co. are
as well as can be expected. They say, rather
mournfully, in their circular that the metal
trade continues very quiet" and possibly
if they should initiate the metal trade in this
respect, it would be none the worse for them.
Year: 1872

ing this, not like whispering conspirators in


corners, but loudly and openly. what kind of
an Administration must it have been which has
80 moved themf What kind of Government
when it becomes so general an opinion that
any change must be for the betterP Bear in
mind the immense popularity of Mr.. Grant
when he went into office, and then tell us
how he has lost it Yet we would not have it
understood that the Liberal party is proceed
ing in any spirit of reckless hostility to Grant
personally. The platform tells the story. The
charges against the Administration are full,
numerous, and explicit. Nor is there any dis
trust Of the Liberal candidates in the Liberal
ranks. There never was party which more
thoroughly understood precisely what it
was about; nor with its ample cause for quar-
rels with the Administration is there any occa-
sion for it to adopt any such absurd slogan.
Year: 1872

The denomination newspapers, in spasm
of virtuous indignation, are constantly charg-
ing the Liberal party with having no other
battle-cry than Anything to beat Grant !"
One of the most servile asserts that fair
paraphrase of these words is: "Things are so
"bad now that they cannot be worse, and any
"change, therefore, must be for the better"-
that is to say, very large and respectable
body of citizens have organized themselves
into political party for the purpose of per-
petuating the very evils which excited them
TO form such an organization. That is to say,
q minority or majority, rs the case may be,
of the citizens of the United States are idiots
not fit to be trusted with the management OF
affairs-are spending their time and putting
themselves to considerable expense upon the
silly assumption that "any change will be for
Z" the better,n while they admit that there will
be no change worth mentioning There may
be those in the Grant party who are fools
enough to make such charges without seeing
that they amount to considerably less than
nothing, but we trust that there are not many
in the Liberal party who are fools enough to
be Justly amenable to such accusations.


Our denomination cOtemporarles, II they
were not stone blind with wrath, would see
that there is an awful significance in the
phrase Anything to beat Grant" and would
hardly quote it so confidently and so gllbly ;
for it clearly enough implies disapprobation
and disgust which must be very great when
,he people begin to reckon in this way; Beat
Grant and we shall be rid of Plenipotentary
Cramer, and Collector Casey, and Fish, and
George Butler, and all the fathers and the
children, the brothers-in-law and brothers by
blood, the nephews, the first cousins, the sec
ond cousins and the third! Deliver us from
this festoon of leeches dangling from the body
politic, no matter what may follow Again +:
Beat Grant. and we shall no longer have the
spectacle of a President growing rich upon
the strength of an Office in which the early
servants of the Republic grew poor! Beat
Grant and we shall no longer behold the
Executive struggling for personal supremacy
in all the subordinate departments of the
Government. Beat Grant, and we shall no
longer have President who cannot forget
that he was once a Lieutenant General! These
are sufficient suggestions for the present, and
the well-informed reader will find no difficulty
in adding to them for himself.


Anything TO beat Grant," Well, If 1t be
really true that thousands Of voters are say
Year: 1872

Nothing so strongly marks high state or
civilization as the tendency of the intellectual
leaders of the people to despise mystery and
superstition, and to search for the reasons of
things. We are far from believing that the
Virchows are greater than the Yoltaires, or that
the chemists are of more use than the bread
makers and well-diggers; the difference be-
tween them is not one of distance, but one OF
quality. Americans are q practical people,
and we advance materially rather than theo-
retcally; we distribute among all classes the
proceeds of study and labor and capital ana
governments and though we do not produce
doctrinaires so rapidly as do European nations,
We raise q more intelligent class of ordinary
neonle. What one has, all have, and the
distinctions of classes among us are slight.
Indeed, when we see that everybody has the
advantage of the customs, the cOnventionah-
ties of life, we are apt to believe that there
are in America no classes at all-Only masses
Whatever good and true thing there is, leavens
the whole lump. A great political movement
in Europe divides the people into two classes; ;
it creates an opposition; but this tendency is
not so strong in America, because there is
greater material, as well as greater intellec-
unity uulOuS pOOPiO' @HN' "'S 'N~-
during the war, when Republicans and Demo
Gratis strove for precedence in line of battle ;
and there was time when men, usually styled
sensible, SAID that if England would only
attack us she would restore the Union.


Theories for ascertaning correct and sue
cessful modes of procedure in life, in labor
and in government are not urged by our public
men with that fineness and sOphistry which
characterize the lace of dOctrinareS in Europe


in whom the people have but little trust, be-


cause they cannot understand them; but yet
our advancement is more rapid and more sat
isfactory. and reasons for our social conditions
are easily discovered. The only representatives
of the European system are found among
doctors whose system is the science oil
guess work, and whose fundamental prln-
cple is that what they think must be true,
because their thinking is not hampered by
the claims of bread and butter. They are
involved in maze of mysteries, and they
set up the abstract theory that the maxims
they coin and the antitheses they spring upon
their readers are better thermometers of pub
lie advancement than the labOrers bank book.
Say the doctors, from Malthus to Mill IF
"you would advance wages sou must stop
population :" and they advise private pru-
dence and legal restraint. But the truth Is
that the so-called evils OF over-popuIation and
low wages tend in this country. if not in all
enlightened countries, to right themselves
Year: 1872

An effort was made last week to indemnify
Gov. Eyre, the hero Of the infamous butch
cries seven years ago under British rule in
Jamaica, for the expenses attending his trial
The effort is noteworthy for one reason, that
it is a significant hint of the persistent policy
of Great Britain toward her colonies; and as
that policy is one which our present Admins
tration is striving to force upon us perma-
nently, it is worth our while to look into It's
workings


The motive of government in England has
always been, not TO assimilate the ruling
power with the cOlOnists or outlying weaker
members, in temper or spirit, but to exercise
over them force pure and simple, the more
absolute and CALLING the better. She learned
no lesson from the loss of her American col
ones. India, Australia, Canada have been re-
earded and used by her as so many pasture
lands, whose wealth and produce could be
drained for home use. The differing tempera-
ments or religions of the peoples have never
been humored or consulted. Whatever afro
cities of cruelty have been perpetrated on them
by Government officials, Government has
either sustained and authorized, as in the case
of shooting Sepoys from the cannOn's mouth ;
or if forced by public opinion to censure them,
it has been feebly done, with an after pat on
the back of appreciation, such as this indem-
nifty of Gov. Eyre. The result of this pur-
blind policy has been the loss of half conti-
nent here, and the gradual severing of all
real ties between the little island and her
enormous dependencies in Australia, until
slip of the knot is all that is needed to take
them from her altogether.


Now in a monarchy, where the central power
represents the brain, there was apology for
such policy. But in republic, where every
effort should be made to hold and bind equal
members into one, the system of force which
Grants Administration would make permanent
over the South is more obnoxious and will
work with double swiftness to as fatal con-
clusions To use, first, all means to crush,
and then all means to conciiate people
anxious and willing to submit to Union of
order and good feeling, is, however, such
craftsmanship as we might look for from a
purely military leader. The experiment of
placing civil government into the hands of a
soldier in time when the economy of peace
was necessary has never been successful in
this country, except in the first instance; and
Washington was exceptionally qualified for
the Office by an education which had taught
him craftsmanship, and in birth to social po-
sition which made the personal accumulation of
money an object of small moment to him.
Selfish greed did not interpose between him
and Justice.
Year: 1872

yention men of divers politics had written TO
Mr.. Greeley, suggesting that he should DO
candidate for President. He wrote TO no per-
son whatever, except in reply to these solici-
tations. and never named himself when
thousand times asked, "Who shall be the One
"Term candidate for next PresdentW Of
the answers he gave to the letters addressed
to him on this subject part have been given
to the public without objection on his part,
though all Of them were private. All know
that the tenor Of part of them was" Wait.
1T is not yet time to open the next
" Presidential canvass ~ while to the resi-
due he said: 81 do not think the
" Opposition to Gen. Grant can be- concen-
trated on me.n If any one has any letters
from him of different tenor from these, no
matter how confidential, we are authorized by
Mr.. Greeley to challenge their publication.


AS to those recently pretending TO give the
substance of any letters written by him, we
are also authorized to pronounce their state
ments grossly untrue. He never desired any
person on earth to get up meeting in
his behalf He never invited any person
to visit NewYork in order to confer with
him on the subject OF the Presidency. And
he never invited any person TO visit Horatio
Seymour or any one else in order to win his
favor or secure his support for any office what
soever. We repeat that, while quite number
have addressed Mr.. Greeley on this subject
and some of them have evinced disposition
to run where they were not SENT Mr.
Greeley has pursued the even tenor OF bis
way, and oftener repelled than invited prof
fers of support for the Presidency. III any
one has letters from him which are alleged to
conflict with this statement, now produce
them or be forever silent.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Van Cott, having opened the case for
the prosecution in the Barnard impeachment
trial. yesterday, the evidence was fairly
reached. There was some delay, owing to the
absence of witnesses, but testimony concern
ing one Of the numerous complications of the
accused with the corrupt Erie litigation was
finally introduced. The beginning thus made
does not possess much significance; but the
prosecution promise, in the able speech of
Mr.. Van Cott, to prove all the charges which
have been formally made in the formidable
articles of impeachment. The public will be
relieved to learn that Judge Barnard stoutly
disclaims all intention of resigning; such a
termination of this great scandal would be
deDlorable.
Year: 1872

From Boston comes a report that Senator
Sumner has written letter to weu-known
citizen announcing his intention to glve the
weight of his name and services to the Liberal
Republican candidates during the Presidential
canvass The letter, however has not yet
been made public.
Year: 1872

We hope the story furnished by a reporter
concerning the effort to conceal the frauds Of
an employe in the CustOm-house, and keep
him in Office by simply transferring him to
another branch Of the service from that which
he has been despoilng, may prove inaccurate.
But the Custom-house authorities may be sure
that whatever the facts are they will have TO
come out.
Year: 1872

Secretary Boutwelrs lecture to the people OF
North Carolina does not appear to be very
paiatable 10 the people for whom it was IN
tended One of our correspondents, whose
letter is to-day elsewhere printed, says that it
was unfortunate for the Secretary to assert in
Greensboro that the Government had lost
only 100000 by Internal Revenue collectors,
when it was notorious that one collector in
that very place was a defaulter for Sl67'ooo.
AS THE TRIBUNE has frequently noted, the
Secretary's maladroit statement that the South
is hostile to immigration and free schools has
already created much discussion and hostility
toward the speaker.
Year: 1872

Half dozen letters from Liberal Republicans in
Toledo speak of the amazing performance of The To-
ledo Blade paper mythicaly edited, we believe by
q drunken postmaster from the Confederate Cross
Roads, for denying that Mr. Gerrit Smith signed the
ba-bond Of Jefferson Davis. We have known news
papers of that caber guilty of good many things,
but none quite so audacOus as this. The name Of
Mr. Gerut Smith is the next TO that of Horace Gree
ley on the bond in question: and no man having the
slightest regard for his reputation either for veracty
or intelligence could have thought for an instant OF
disputing a fact so notorious. We reprint the full
bal-bond in another column for the satisfaction OF
our Toledo friends. Meantime il NAV be well for
them to set it down that nothing which The Toledo
Blaae may hereafter say can require any attention
The editor who could make that contradiction must
be either too ignorant too untruthful TO be worth
minding
Year: 1872

The undersigned. deeply impressed With wonderful curative
prodigy which appears the battle Of GettYsburg and learning
that tue design Of publcsrt citizens utilize in the Of
medical and the of humanity bv erecting the vicinity


hotel for the and treatment Of the afflicted Of our
and other countries who seek here their lost health deem 20 be
duty commend the proposed enterprise emineny phnhropc
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