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Year: 1870

To fhe Editor Of The Tribune.


Sin. A few days before the adjournment OF
wrote the ncosed article at the request OF one
o our well known citizens and sent IL TO him In New
York He was in Washington, and when the article
reached him it too late for publication II has been
returned to me. and place IL at your disposal


There are those who regret that Congress did not at
the last moment authorize the transfer Of foreign ships
TO the United States flag. am not OF that numper'
Such transfer, in nineteen cases out OF twenty Wouu
have been only nominal, and the foreigner would nave
reaped the entire benefit from it, Our flag would u-
doubtedly have oaed more ships than IL docs az
present and some few Of people no doubt Would
have benefited from purchases of foreign shipping nade
in good faith; but the nation would have suffered IRE
parable injury from the Introduction OF snch apohcy
Let us once commence purchasing foreignpnl' shps'
and all ship building in the United States necessarily
ceases II would be oourting national dependence ana
inviting national ruin because we cannot either IN our
manufactures shiPyards, successfully compete
with the pduper labor OF England.


The Introduction OF iron shipbuildng, and the sub
sttuton Of that material for wood is unquestonaby the
leading Of the ruin of this great national interest
Our duty foreign iron imposed in order to pro
tect aborrs against the pauper labor OF England
and in ignorance Of the fact that it would operate in
iuriously upon our shp-buding interest. Experience
has taught error and the remedy is exceedingly
simple No change the tariff Of duties on iron or any
other material which enters into the construction and
equipment OF sailing ship steamer Is necessary OF
even desirable. All that requisite TO revive our ship
building interest is law providing for return OF the
duties unintentiOnally imposed upon it.


The purchase OF foreign ships simply because OF the
pending in Europe would have been an error which,


am satisfied the Presidents strong common sense will
very make clear TO him as it is to the practical
minds OF our commercial community That war, however,
Will render any other protection to our ship


builders than return Of the duties inadvertently
abstracted fromthem. Yours. &c, j. WATSON WEBB


Branford, Conn, Aug. 4, 1870.
Year: 1870

Then came the inevitable pipe Of peace,
where there is no peace, and after solemn
putting, more hand shaking, and twenty
seven goodbys, they returned to the lofty
attics Of the lodgings where the Govern
ment has placed them.


Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, the many diff
ferent Bears and Wolves, and others, have
had quite enough of civilized life, and sigh
heavily for the green sward Of their savage
home and the delights Of the buffalo hunt
and the war dance. They will soon go.
What good result will come of their visit
has not yet manifested itself very forcibly.
There are no treaties to be made. What
the Indians want is to have those in exist
ence already carried out.
Year: 1870

Upon going to serve a civil process upon
a citizen who does not make a habit of
violating the law, constable Price was Ss-
tonished to find his man In line Of battle
and ready to shoot at the laws agent with
an unugually big pistol. The constable,
however, succeeded in arresting and dis
arming the excited party, who was subse-
quently arraigned before Justice Mathews,
on the charge of resisting an officer. The
good character of the accused and the in
ference that he had acted without full
knowledge as to the official authority of the
constable were considered in his favor, and
no punishment, beyond the payment Of
costs, was decreed.
Year: 1870

FIRE IN 1o5rH STREEr.-At fifteen minutes to two
O'CLOCK yesterday afternoon nre broke out In the
engine house attached to the kerosene oil works Of
Dinsmore Germain at the foot Of 1octh street.
East river, caused by leak in the fuel pipe leading
70 the oil tank. The building in which the nre
broke out one story Frame with contents was
entirely DESTROYED causing loss OF $4,000 on which
there was no insurance. Mr.. Dlnsmore who was IN
the engine room 1t the time the nre broke out was
severely burned about the face. neck and hands.
lie was removed TO mis- nome In Mott Haven py
t-ienlS
Year: 1870

both rich and poor, ignorant and intelli-
gent, to educate the people, 1t is at once
the policy of safety to the country, of econ-
omy to the rich, and of justice to the poor
But discussion involving the proof of these
several assertions belongs more properly
under another heading, and may be at
tended to in the future.
Year: 1870

Runners Affecting the Honor of n Doctor OF


Di,inity-Hc Is Charged with Breach of Pre-


mise OF MarriaRe.


The Pittshurg Commercial of yesterday says:-


The community for some time past has been
excited over rumors affecting the honor and
reputation of well-known and popular minis
ter pastor of very large and fourishing con-
gregation in Allegheny. The minister Is
Widower, his wife having died some three years
ago. In his congregation was young lady,
the daughter of a widow in humble clrcum-
stances, but highly respectable. The lady had
received a good education, had qualified herself
for the profession of teaching, and had for some
time taught in one of the ward schools OF Ale
gheny.


This lady was a great favorite with her pastor,
and in due time he became a sutor for her hand,
aud was accepted. 1t is said that she has in her
possession ninety-siX notes and love letters,
which he had written to her, and in one of them
the promise TO marry is referred to, and June,
1870, fixed uton as the time. The intercourse
continued mutually agreeable until recently,
when the Doctor became cold towards her, ana
finally expressed his determination not to marry
her. The rumor also goes that the Doctor IS In
love with young lady in an Eastern State, who
is an only child and heiress to large fortune.


There is intense excitement in his congrega-
ton over these rumors, and some forty families,
it is said, either have severed their connection
with the church, or contemplate doing so, unless
a satisfactory explanation is made. The church
session has taken informal notice of the matter,
and will probably bring the case before Presby-
terry. The young lady first alluded to has given
all the Doctors letters into the hands of the
session. She states that she has no desire to
prosecute him, but only wishes to have his
duplicity exposed.


She has applied for situation as teacher in
school in Chicago, where she has brother re-
siding, engaged in the practice of medicine. II
is not known whether the Eastern lady is aware
of the situation of affairs here, but the matter
has assumed such serious aspect that a full ex-
planation will ere long be demanded by the
church judicatory.
Year: 1870

Disaster Mt 50, Anthony,s h Enils.The Tunnel


BtOckadcr FaiIen Out.


The st. Paul Press of April has the follow
ing:-


Last evening the startling report reached the
city that another disaster to the Falls and water
power of Minneapolis and st. anthony had
taken place, and that the whole Falls were in
imminent danger of destruction.


The exact time or full extent of the disaster
in itself, and the consequences probably to fol-
low, scarcely any one could tell, but the follow
ing are the main features of the reported dsas-
ter, as obtained from gentleman who was at
Minneapolis yesterday afternoon


The disaster at the falls last season, the Her
culean effort TO stay the destruction, and the
large amount OF money expended in repairing
the break of water into the tunnel running
under the islands, and threatening to wash
away both islands and falls, are fresh in the
minds of our readers,


1t will be remembered that a Golfer dam was
built above the falls around the break, the
water shut out, and afterwards two solid dams
built across the tunnel below the break, both
reaching TO the bottom OF the tunnel, and that
the spot between these was also filled in.


This whole solid mass, embracing an area OF
some fifty feet square, we are informed, has
sunk down some twenty feet, and the bottom OF
the tunnel fallen through.


Another informant states that the whole mass
has sunk out of sight, and in fact that all the
rocky bed underlying the Falls at that point has
fallen through.


Great alarm is said to exist in Minneapolis
and st. Anthony, and strong apprehensions are
entertained of the ultimate tearing out and de
struction OF the Falls as well as the islands.


We do not understand that this destruction
is now in progress, or that the water is pouring
through the tunnel. The Golfer dam prevent
this; but the fear is that, despite all labor ant
precaution, when the water rises a couple o
feet SO as TO pour over the Golfer dam, 1t will
rush through the tunnel with the same destruc
tive power as of old. Indeed, citizen of Min
neapolis remarked that the expenditure o
many thousands had by this disaster becom
useless.
Year: 1870

Ing IN Love.


To-day, Just as the sun is at meridian, Just as
with solemn sound the great bell of the old st.
Louis Cathedral tolls forth the hour of noon,
soldier will pay the penalty OF a crime for which
military justice knows but one eXplatlon. The
limited States barracks, below the city, has been
the place selected where the execution is to take
place, and the green sward OF the parade
ground will ere many hours be stained with the
CRIMSON life-blood of the unfortunate man.


He was member of one of the companies OF
United States troops stationed near village in
one OF the interior parishes of Louisiana. Near
the camp of the company was the plantation
of n wealthy gentleman who had sympathlzed
with the Union cause during the war, ana WHO,
therefore, was the object OF special attention on
the part Of the officers of the command then
performing provost duty. The planter mad
large family, among whom was daughter VINO
possessed in q remarkable degree that rare type
of beauty for which the women of the South are
noted She had imbibed the sentiments OF her
father, and therefore took great pleasure in en-
tertaining the officers who frequently visited
the house.
Black, at once conceived n warm attachment for
the beautiful young creole, and endeavored IN
every way to induce her to share his feelings.
Strange to say, however, the lady treated him
in n peculiarly polite but formal manner that
proved her heart was ice toward him. This was
a great shock to his vanity, and he was at loss
to understand it. Finally the explanation came,
when one of his companions, playtully rallylng
him upon his Ill success, SldJeu JudG hS uau us
covered why the lady refused to smile upon him.
He had accidentally witnessed an interview
between herself and Private Alfred Blake, the
soldier who had been detailed to guard the house
an interview which proved conclusively that
the heart of the young creole was lrreVocaoly
the private's and not the officers.


This Intelligence was too much for Lieutenant
Black. His pride was wounded in the most
vital point He mad been forestalled where his
heart was most enlisted, and by one of his own
subordinates. Seeking Private Blake at once,
he poured out the vials of his wrath upon him,
taunted him with his position, and declared he
would send him where he should have no more
opportunities Of dalying with shameless girl
while on duty. Alfred Blake had borne much,
but this coarse allusion to the woman he loved
better than life fired his heart and brain, and
with one blow he struck his officer PROSTATE
upon the ground in the presence of his company.


Then followed the trial-which was rendered
inexpressibly touching by the presence OF the
woman who had dared to love private soldier
the sentence of death, to be preceded by im-
prisonment Mt Ship Island.


To-day the sentence is TO be enforced and the
majesty of the law sustained.-Aet0 orleans
JiCUlJttlLp.
Year: 1870

There is a very dull feeling lngeneral financial
circles, which accords perfectly with the condi-
ton of trade. The money market is amply sup
piled with loanable funds awaiting employment,
but there is SO little inducement held out to
capital that the supply appears much greater
than il really is. A scarcity of funds during the
balance of the season is now out of the question:
and lenders are accommodating themselves to
the circumstances by advancing freely without
the least reference to possible tightness in the
market pretty sure indication that no such
contingency is feared. The prospects are in
favor OF an easy money market for some time to
come, but we would prefer TO see stringency
brought about by the business activity usual at
this season.


on call with good collaterals, and discounts at
6GO7 per cent. for first-class names


The gold market is dull and the premium has
Auctuated entirely between 11194 and 111H, with
slight upward tendency.
Year: 1870

MUSICAL DICTIONARY FOR CHrRcm
CnoIRs. w hat is siurl Almost any
remsrkone Singer makes about another.


What is a rea' Going out OF the choir
for refrcshment during sermon time.


What is singing with an understanding
Marking time on the floor with your foot.


What is a symlohonY! Flirting with
the soprano singer behind the organ.


What 10 . sfacodto nOvementi Leav-
ing the choir in a huff when one is dissatis-
fed with the organist.


What is = sweA? A professor Of music,
who pretends to know all about the science,
while he cannot conceal his ignorance.


What is a turWp When one singer is
discharged to make ioom for another


How do you produce discord? ? BY
praising one lady's singing At the expense
Of a rival who orerhears yen.


What is pause When the sryan-
boy gots asleep when the choir is ready to
sing.


What is a fat! A singer who supposes
himself or herself indispensable to the sue.
cess of the choir.


How to secure a quartetfe Get two
good-looking unmarried gentlemen for bas.
20 and tenor, and there will be no trouble
in ., s,curiug soprano and alto.
Year: 1870

ORlGIN OF MAHOGANY FURNirURE-A
West India captain about the beginning
Of the eighteenth century, had brough,
some logs Of it as ballast for his ship, and
gave them to his brother, DIR. Gibbons, ar
eminent physician who was then building
house The wood was thrown aside as
too hard ior the workmen's tools. Some.
time afterward his wife wanted a candle.
box. The doctor thought of the West In.
dia wood, and out Of that the box was m de-
it, color and polish tempted the doctor to
have bureau made Of the same material
this was thought SO beautiful that it was
shown TO his friends. The Duchess OF
Buckingham, who went to look at it, beg.
gsd wood enough to make another bureau
for herself. Then the demrnd arose for
more, and Honduras mahogany became a
common article Of trade.
Year: 1870

Clay, through Misrepresentation, was in
duced to post my wife Rhoda in the papers,
now beg leave to inform the public that
have again taken her to wife, after settling all
our domestic broils in an amicable manner,
as that everything as usual goes on like
clock work"


1t is we'll known that Of late verdicts have
been rendered in Wyoming territory by
twelve romen in a box, and the lullaby sung
in their wives absence by the husbands OF
Wyoming to put the baby to sleep. has flowed
into this measure;


Baby. baby darling,


Don't get in fury


Because mamma has gone


To sit upon jury.
Year: 1870

Every farmer, merchant, lawyer, business
man. in the State of Maine, is interested in
the acts of the Legislature, and should be
we'll informed in relation to the doings of that
body while in session.


The DAILY KENNEBEc Journal will give
full reports of each days proceedings during
the session, and will be the legislative paper.
Former legislative journals have contained
little but the legislative proceedings, but in
the DAILY KENNEBEc Journal subscribers
will have a complete daily paper, with the
latest news by telegraph from all parts of the
world, editorials. locals, home and foreign
news by mail and correspondence, and have
the doings Of the Legislature besides.


While we thus shall furnish subscribers
with paper worth more than double former
journals of the Legislature, we offer it upon
more liberal terms than ever before, and shall
depend exclusively upon the efforts Of inter-
ested and public spirited parties, such as
Members ofthe Legislature, Postmasters, &C.,
to make up its subscription list. Our terms
are as follows -


copy to one address for the session, 81 90
& comics " d" 8.75
10 q " 300


And additional subscribers taken at the
same rate.


ANY person raising club of five, and send
ing the money to US, as above, shall have an
extra copy for himself.


Any person sending the money for ten, as
above, shall have an extra copy for himself.


For every additional club of ten, the person
raising it shall have an additional extra copy
for himself, for which he will find taker
without difficulty.


All clubs must be sent in one package, to
one address.


All clubs must be raised this month, as none
will be received at this Office after the session
opens-only single subscriptions at the full
rate will Re taken.


Those who want the complete legislative
record, must begin with the first issue. Back
numbers of the paper cannot be furnished.


Those who intend to raise clubs had better
move at once, and not defer it to about the
commencement of the session, as some do to
their loss and our Inconvenience.


SPRAGUE, OWEN s NASH.


Augusta, Dec. 6, 1870.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of an English paper gives
a look at the dark side of the picture in the
diamond digging business, at Cape Colony, in
the following;


81 have been two months at the diamond
fields, and fear they will be the ruin of many
young men who throw up their appointments
Year: 1870

The Virginia Petersburg Index recently
learns that many farmers from the North
have sold out, and that many others would
do so if purchasers could be found. 1t is
said that they have been led to this step
from that sectional animosity and conser-
vatism which makes Northern ideas and
ballots at least uncomfortable to their hold
Year: 1870

THE PRAYER-sEEKER.
Along the aisle where prayer was made,
A woman all in black arrayed,
CIose-veiled. between the kneeing host.
With gliding motion of a ghost,
Passed to the desk and laid thereon
A scroll whioh bore these words alone:


Pray for me!
Back from the place of worshiping
SIZE glided like a guilty thing;
The rustic of her draperies, stirred
By hurrying feet, alone was heard;
While, full of awe, the preacher read,
As out into the dark she sped:


Pray for me!
Back to the night from whence she came.
To unimagined grief or shame!
Across the threshold of that door
None knew the burden that she bore;
Alone she left that written scroll.
The legend of a troubled soul:


Pray for me!
Glide 81 on, poor ghost of woe woe l:.ig or sin!
Thou lay st a common need within:
Each bears, like thee, some nameless weight,
Some misery inarticulate,
Some secret SIM some shrOuded dread,
Some household sorrow all unsaid.


Pray for ,ss!
Pass on The type of all thou art,
Sad witness to the common heart
With face in veil and and seal on lip.
In mute and strange cOmpanlonship
Like thee we wander to and fro,
Dumbly imploring as we go:
Pray for as!
All. who shall pray, since he who pleads
Our wants perchance hath greater needs
Yet they who make their loss the gain
Of others shall not ask in vain,
And heaven bends low to hear the prayer
Of love from lips of self-despair:


Pray for us!
In vain remorse and fear and hate
Beat with bruised hands against fate
Whose walls of iron only move
And open to the touch of love,
He only feels his burdens fall
Who, taught by suffering, pities all.


Pray for us!
He pray eth best who leaves unguessed
The mystery of another's breast.
Why cheeks grow pale, why eyes o'erfow,
Or heads are white. thou need'st not know.
Enough to note by many sign
That every heart had needs like thine.


Pray for usl


Atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1870

Mr.. STURGEON has formed bad opin-
ion of the religious condition of Eng
land. He is reported to have said in a
recent sermon "The Church of
England seems TO be eaten through
and through with sacramentarianism
but conformity appears to me
to be almost as badly riddled
with philosophical infdelity. Those
of whom we thought better things are
turning aside one by one from the fun.
damentals of the faith. At first it was
the doctrine of the eternity of future
punishment that had to be given up
now it must be the very doctrine of the
Fall-frst one thing, then another, the
whole must go. They treat our doc
trines as though they were all to be
knocked down at their good pleasure
when they choose to amend our theolo-
gy. Through and through, ! believe
the very heart of England is honey
combed with damnable infdelity which
dares still go into the pulpit and call
itself Christian"
Year: 1870

THE Dead Letter office is one Of the
most curiously interesting branches OF
the Government, and the cause of it, or
the necessity for such an institution, is
a mystery. 1t is impossible almost to
conceive of the carelessness, stupidity
and ignorence by which more than
fourteen millions of letters were intrusted
to the Post-office in single year, for
which no designation could be found, in
consequence of inaccuracies, imperfec-
ton and fatal omissions in dissection
upward of 5000 have no address what
ever. And the mystery is the more
remarkable when it is considered that
these letters contained money to the
amount of at least 100000, in small
sums generally, and checks, drafts, g.,
to the amount of 100000 moro. This
property was of course returned, or most
of it, upon information obtained by
opening and examining the letters at the
Dead Letter Office.
Year: 1870

PROFESSOR jacob, of Russia, has sue
ceeded for the first time in producing
specimens of pure iron, that which
hitherto has been considered the pure
metal being in reality compound.
The pure iron deposited by the action
of the galvanic battery, and which is al
ways rich in hydrogen, being placed by
him under the receiver of an air pump
and heated to redness, disengaged hy-
drogen in torrents, increased in volume
and changed to a silver white metal
the true iron), very malleable and due
tile, and 50 soft as to be readily cut with
scissors.
Year: 1870

The crops in New England are suffering
greatly from drouth, as there has been but little
rain since May. A correspondent writes US
from Maine under date of August


The drouth in Maine has been unusually
severe. and, although rains have now COM
menced to fall, some Of the crops must be more
or less damaged. The heavy rains OF the spring
gave every indication Of large quantities of hay,
but the heat and drouth OF June and July has
injured the uplands very much. Many of the
uplands have not yielded more than a one half
crop. Meadows and intervales have not suffered
much. The entire hay crop of the State will
probably amount to about twO-thirds as much
as usual but it is gratifying To know that this
amount has been preserved in the best condi
ton, causing some farmers to remark that what
they lose in quantity they gain in quality
In the Spring every one predicted an abundant
yield of apples, but the dry weather has caused
large quantities to fall from the trees, and the
growth of the remainder retarded, and perhaps
so much so as to prevent their attaining their
usual size, Potatoes are usually far advanced
by this time, but in consequence OF the drouth
they have not grown much thus far, but there is
every reason TO believe that with moist weather
we can have about the usual supply. The Weld
of corn and other crops will probably be about
the same as usual should the rains continue"
Year: 1870

DIPLOMATIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. appli-
cations are daily received at the State Depart
ment, for appointment as bearer Of dispatche.
to our ministers abroad, but as the contingent
fund of that department is very low, very few
messengers will be sent out, and those selected
WI be prominent and well known parties who
will carry only very important dispatches. but
as general thing the mails will be entrusted
with diplomatic communications