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Year: 1872

No more in volumes olden


Culling and coming all day,
Take your winged steed to yon mountain
And loosen him there to play;
0 mountain. rise up from my Poet


And show him your grandest peaks;
Let your bird from the brown cliffs call hin
Wnie she cries and wildly shrieks.
Let him sing Of the homeless hero


Who loitered around your base,
When man, in spacious freedom,


Dived for the camp and the chase;
Sing of the heightened pack trains


That wound through the soiitudes
Of the song that never echoed


In the wildness of other woods.
Sing of a weary miner,


Who long, long years ago
Traversed these lonesome gulehes


And climbed to a summit of snow;
In the dead and lonesome silence


lie lighted his red campfire,
And it warmed the heart Of the forest,
Reaching up higher and higher,
And the gray side of the mountain


Comes forth like scenic show,
With a group of pantomime shadows


Wandering to and fro.
And the sound of the sea comes to him
Like thunders of distant cars;
The brook leaps up from the canyon


And catches the listless stars;
The campfire slumbers beside him
In rhyme with the cricket,,s drone;
His meat is crisped on the embers.


And he drinks his tea alone.
A CHASTITY skull of the red man


Shines out from the feru leaves there;
Alas, and alas, poor miner,


Thine own is as smooth and bare!
The mad blaze snaps at the pine boughs
That quiyer and waver and fall,
And his qha had0W laQng over the dead logs.
Lengthened and crooked and tall.
From the wild and gloomy forest


Comes the cry of a lonesome owl;
From the dark ravine up breaking
The threat of savage grOwl;
But his rife stands by the fir-tree-
In his belt knife and brace;
So he dreamily looks in the campfire,
And a smile plays over his face,
Down in the gnlch he has sifted


Some sand that is fine and black
There is gold lying under the boulder
And under the rivers track.
Now down on the side of the mountain
He strays in rambling quest
Of level nook by a fr-tree


To spread his lonely rest.
In dreams sweet visions come to him
More bright than the gold below,
For be dreams that the woman is faithful
Who was false long years ago;
He hears her loving whisper.


And they pledge their VOWS anew,
And hand in hand the dreamland
They wander through and through.
o Poet, sing Of my hero;


He is weary and homeless and old,
And he sleeps by his dying campfire,
Dreaming of Love and gold.
In his wild woods shrill note echoes,
And dead leaf drops from the stem,
And a shadow stirs under the ir-tree-
Go, sing now in numbers of them.
Year: 1872

Among the many curious phenom-
ena which presented themselves to me
IN the course Of my travels, says Hum
boldt, i confess there were few by
which my Imagination was so power
fully affected as by the COW tree. On
the parched side Of a rock on the noun
iains Of Venezuela grows a tree with
Year: 1872

A FRUIT TREE.-The saeo-palm Of the
East Indies ranks, if it does not outrank
the date-palm as a food producer. 1t is
truly an extraordinary sight, says Wal
lace, after describing the process Of max
ing sago- bread, to see whole tree-trunk.
perhaps twenty feet long and four or five
circumference, converted into food
with SO little labor and preparation. A
good-sized tree will produce thirty
bundles of thirty pounds each, and each
bundle will make sixty cakes of three to
the pound. Five of these cakes are a
days allowance. A single tree will thus
supply man with food n whole year.
The labor to produce this is very moder-
ate. Two men will finish a tree in five
days, al two women will bake the whole
into cakes in five days more but the raw
sago will keep very well, and can be
baked as wanted, so that, as he estimates,
n man in ten days might produce food
for the whole year. If he has to buy his
tree and pay for the labor at the usual
rate, the total cost of his years food will
be about twelve shillings.
Year: 1872

Foxes AS SHEEP ii ERDERs. The Stock
ton (CdI) Republican vouches foc the
following story: People often wonder
at the remarkable instinct displayed by
well-trained shepherd dogs, but what
will they say when we tell them of a
band of sheep that is guarded by foxes
alone. The story seems improbable, but
of its truth we have the most undoubted
proof. On Whiskey hill, four miles from
Milton, may be seen, almost any day a
large flock of sheep herded by foxes.
These guardians of the little lambs are
three in number-one gray fox and
the other two of the species known as
the red fox. In point of intelligence
these novel shepherds are said to greatly
surpass the best trained shepherd dogs.
They perform their work well, and from
morning till night are ever on the alert.
The gray one seems to control, and in a
great measure direct, the actions Of the
other two A gentleman informs us that
he yesterday saw the gray fox pursue
and attack a hog that had seized lamb
and was making off with it. The contest
was short and sharp, and resulted in the
hog dropping the lamb and beating a
hasty retreat The fox picked up the
apparently un-injurcd lamb and carried
it back to the flock.
Year: 1872

IMPOSITION UPoN A CRrLD-The latest
dodge of parent to overcome his sons
aversion to medicine, and doctor" him
at the same time, occurred on Prospect
street, where a croupy youngster vas in
duced to make quite hearty meal from
a plate of buckwheat cakes and "maple
syrup"-but the latter proved to be nice
syrup of squills. The boy said he
Thought something allied the molasses
the minute his father told him to eat all
be wanted TO. ."-Ceveland Leaisr.
Year: 1872

The Providence Journal asks if it
is not q misuse of terms to call an
enforcement BILL" or "a Force
bill," a bill which authorizes the
Judge of the United States Court to
appoint two persons of different po-
litical parties TO be present at the
polling and the counting of the votes
at an election for member of Con-
gress f? What an act of tyranny !
What an illustration of the despot-
ism of the Republican party! That
two men, one of each party, shall
have the right to look on, and in case
of fraud shall be competent wit
nesses! What is the country CON-
ing to?
Year: 1872

The Ohio Statesman couldn't car
ry the Greeley load. It's financial
back broke under the burden, and
the pet enterprise of Samuel Medary
is now among the things that were.
Grow, boiled or raw, was too much
for its digestive organs and the poor
old Statesman reluctantly pegged
out, its business having been merged
in that of the Evening Dispatch.
We drop tear TO the memory of
the fallen. The stanch old Demo-
cratic sheet deserved better fate.
Year: 1872

When Horace Greeley declared
that he hoped the time would come
when the soldier who fought with
Lee and Johntson will occupy as
proud a position in the hearts of the
people as the soldier who fought
with Sherman, he forfeited all claims
to the support and esteem Of the
great body of men who maintained
the nation's honor.
Year: 1872

Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips
aud Gerritt Smith can justly lay
claim to the honor of having been
the first in the country to wage bat
tie with slavery; these men now all
oppose the mongrel party, the pos
sible victory of which, because a
Democratic victory, is looked upon
as a great misfortune to the country,
and especially to the colored race.
Year: 1872

President Grant is happy. Since
the organization of the Greeley par
ty he has been relieved of half the
pressure from offiee-seekers. 1t is
no small boon to get rid, all at once,
of the hungry horde who have gone
over to Greeley.
Year: 1872

Andy Johnson Is going to run as
an independent candidate for Con-
gresham at large from Tennessee,
against the rebel General Cheatham,
the regular nominee of the Demo-
cratic party. He may so divide the
vote of his party that a Republican
will SliD in.
Year: 1872

A gentleman advertised for a
wife and received answers from
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
husbands, saying he could have
theirs. This is given as an illustra-
ton of the value of advertising.
Year: 1872

Senator Wilson mentions that
during his recent campaign tour in
the West, the vast majority of
the young men of that section are
Republicans. This observation is
equally apparent among the rural
districts of New England.
Year: 1872

Just as the last sentence was be.
ing uttered, under a high state OF
mental excitement and somewhat
theatrical position of body, dog
jumped into the room from the out
side and bit King in the leg. The
attack came so suddenly and unex-
pectedIy, that it made him jump
about four feet high. On landing
and seeing what was the matter, he
cried out in a bewildered and half
frightened manner-"See here! one
dog at time is quite enoughv


This brought the house down with
such boisterous laughter, as to make
it almost impossible to regain sufi-
cient order to proceed.


We have never been much in IA
vor of dogs, but if Darby township
can produce breed that will watch
these Democratic stumpers, aDd
hold them to the truth, and bite
them if they don't tell the truth, we
shall go in all we can for perpetual
ing that breed.


Republicans everywhere are in
vited to send to Darby township
and procure some of this canine
stock, for it is plain from Demo
cratic testimony, that they won't al
low the stumpers of that party to
misrepresent General Grant without
resenting the insult.
Year: 1872

The MarysvilIe (Ohio) Tribune is
responsible for the following first
rate dog story. 1t seems that a
Democratic orator named King
went out to Darby township, Union
county, to make speech. He said {:


"LADIEs AND GENTLEMEN:-In
my present feeble health, twenty
FIVE dollars would have been no
temptation to induce me to address
you on this occasion; but owing to
the critical situation of our country,
[ deemed it to be my imperative
duty to come out on this occasion.
But in the mean time, my fellow
citizens, where is Useless Grant at
this time? Why, sir, he is in bed
drunk, and according to the merid-
ian, latitude and longitude that
Long Branch is in, and the merid-
ian, latitude and longitude in which
we live, Grant up to this hour has
been in bed drunk for eight hours
But where is your humble speaker
Why, sir, he is here, doing his duty
to his God and his country, and
Year: 1872

which are to be used in Roi Carotter at the Grand
Opera Eouse All the goods are OF French manu-
facture, being In duplicate OF those nsed In the
representation OF the piece In Paris. The magical
make the peculiarly OF which Is calculated to
create by its very novelty decided sensation


The patrons OF the cosey little Fifth Avenue Thea
tire win be agreeably surprised next fall at the
great change that is being made In the appearance
OF the auditorium Of this establishment The trans
formation IL already so far advanced as to make
the house hardly recognizable even to its old ami
lars. Garibaldi the Italian fresco painter and ten
assistants, are busily engaged IN Deautifying the
walls, dome and boxes and many capital mechan-
ical improvements are being made with view TO
an Increase of comforts and cOnveniences.
Year: 1872

The census OF 1870 does not furnish the banking
capital OF the country or sufficient data upon
which an estimate can be made OF the business OF
each State or Territory. II the statistics of the
agriculture, the manufactures and the commerce
OF every State OF the Union were at hand it would
be necessary to estimate the proportion to which
each branch OF industry would be entitled. No
satisfactory basis for the purpose can be OBJ
tanned. and after consultation with the Secretary
OF the Treasury 1t was decided that the distribution
of the circulation, one-hali upon population and
one-haf upon the resources or wealth Of the coun-
try, would comply with both the letter and spirit
OF the act more nearly than any estimate not de-
rived from official data.


The report gives the amount OF outstanding and
Year: 1872

Charity is an eternal debt and with
out limit.


A noble heart, like the sun, shows
its greatest cOuntenance in its lowest
estate.


The certain way to be cheated is
to fancy one more cunning than 9TH
ers.


1t is no advantage to have a lively
mind if we are notjust. The perfection
of the pendulum is not to go fast, but
to be regular.
Minds of moderate ealibre are too
apt to ignore everything that does
not core within their own range.


The difficulty in life is the same as
the difficulty in grammar-to know
when to make the exceptions to the
rules.


Great powers and natural gifts
do not bring privileges to their pos
SCISSORS so much as they bring dn-
ties.


It's a morifying reflection for any
man to consider what he has done,
compared with what he might have
done.


The mere lapse of years is not life.
To eat, and drink, ank sleep-tO be
exposed to darkness and light-to pace
round in the mill of habit, and turn
thou Ebt into al implement of trade
this l. pgr life In all This hut a moor
fraction Of the consciousness Of hu-
manity is awakened, and the sancti-
lies still slumber which make it worth
while to be. knowledge, truth, love,
beauty, goodness, faith, alone can
give vitality to the mechanism OF ex-
istence.
Year: 1872

A terrible scene has taken place at
a monastery in Palermo. The facts as
they have reached here are as follows:
For some months past rumOrs have
been flying about tO the effect that a
nun Ia young lady of great eXpecta-
tiOns and exquisite beauty had been
attached to her father professor, lie
being one Of the brethren OF the mon
astery. Thither, it would appear,
she was secretly conveyed, and
kept in close confinement for a long
period. She gave birth to q child, the
result of her illicit intercourse with
the monk. The child was quickly
disposed of, and the unhappy mother
was even more cruelty treated. Not
knowing very well how to hush up
the scandal, several of the monks de-
termined upon destroying her during
the temporary absence Of her para
mOur. They passed 4 cord round her
neck, and dragged her along the floor
until she was stEangled. Her scream
ing, howevery, attracted the attention
of some Greek sailors, who effected an
entrance into the monastery. Three
Of the holy fathers paid the penalty Of
of their crime. One received a death
wound from the sword of the first
sailor, another was shot through the
lungs, and the third received several
wounds on the head while he was in
the act Of retreating, from which he
has since died.
Year: 1872

We clip the following bit Of good
sense out of the Columbus Dispatch:


cat the present day it behooves
every man to have his newspaper to
keep himself posted on current events
AID to be able to converse intelligently
with mis- fellow men. In this country
the newspaper press il constantly in
creasing IN numbers, and still the old
established papers ,nlarge their circula-
ton, white tile rev ones find their
thousands Of readers, and in many In
stances OuLstrip their old cOntem pOra-
ries. A live newspaper gives life to
the town or city where it is published,
attracting attention and business to
the locality which would not be drawn
thithsr by other means; yet, there
are even in this enlightened and pro-
gressive age, some people who think
the newspaper but a gOssipy visitor
for mOmentary amusement. This is
a mistake, for the paper is a public ed
ucatOr; and therefore we argue for
every family having its newspaper" !"
Year: 1872

a female student, says the y. Y.
World, in Michigan University is said
to saw far more wood than any Of her
male associates. It need scarcely be
added that she is in the szw-far-mOre
class.
Year: 1872

"Fat Contributor processes to
know how it is, and tells it is this way:
Il know when I have made success
lin lecturing] without being told. The
committee bring their wives up to the
platform and introduce them to me.
Some influential citizens come up and
introduce themselves. The editor takes
me warmly by the hand, and wants to
know where the next number of his
paper will reach me. If 1 stay over
night with my friend, the association
president, he invites in some of the
neighbors, and there is a social time in
the rarlor. Or, if am at the hotel,
the boys call around and invite me
out to eat oysters and it is difficult to
get away from them sometimes to 90 to
bed. There are people to see me off
i'll the morning, and I hear it stated
over and above board that if l should
come to that town again the hall
wouldn't be large enough to hold the
people. Little boys on the street are
respectful. But when fail nobody is
to be introduced. The editor who in
the afternoon said he must be sure and
see me after the lecture slips off home.
His paper doesn't reach me, either
(unless it reaches me under the fifth
rib The secretary hands me the stim-
pulated amount with fIigid politeness,
and departs AS [ pass along the side
walk on my way to the hotel l hear
some little boy shout 'humbug!' in a
voice of startling shrillness. The land
lord surveys me with look of pity as
l enter-he has heard all about it-and
| sneak off to bed as soon as possible.
No one attends me to the depot in the
morning to see me off, and I. overhear
a rude fellew tell another on the plat
form, as | am about to step into the
cars, If that fraud ever comes to this
town again he'll get a head put ON
him.
Year: 1872

A bill has been introduced in Con-
giving to railroad companies which
transported troops during the war more
pay for the services than has already
been paid them. The extra pay provi-
ded by this bill would amount, in the
aggregate, to three hundred million dol
lars. And the bill is quite likely to
pass. 1t is the last chance with some
Of the Congressman who will vote for it,
to make haul from the Treasury, and
is likely to be the last chance of the
Presidential bummers to share the spoils
which will follow the signature Of this
stupendous piece of rascality, by the
President, for sign it he doubtless will,
if an opportunity be afforded him. He
has signed every bill Of corruption al
ready presented to him. notwithstanding
his fair pledges and promises to the
contrary. Now, is there no way to
prevent the passage Of this three hund-
red million steal bill? Of course there


is, but the way will not be made use of
by the people. They seem to be indif-
ferent to how much is stolen from them
They feel like an individual who has
lost all, and who cannot be made worse
off by anything that may happen. So
they let the stealing go on, and on it
gocs.-Dubuaue TELEGRAPH.
Year: 1872

Disraeli has made Il speech at Man.
chester in defence Of the monarchy.
One point which he made interests us
over here. He said that the civil list
under Victoria was only half as expen-
sivc as that of the Uunited States under
are public. We are unprepared to say
whether he is right or wrong, but the
same statement has been made on this
side of the water and elaborately sup
ported by figures aud assumed facts. It
is certain that the simplicity and reas-
onableness of expenditure which FORM
erly characterized the public, and which
alone comport with the spirit Of our
government, long since gave way to a
rage for extravaganza and gingerbread
finery which are as snobbish and vulgar
as they are expensive.
Year: 1872

/


The fcrvcnt Forney was, we suppose


justified in being able and cloquen,


when taking leave of his employees Of


the Philadelphia Custom-House, but the


charitableness that we have for twaddle


on such occasions, large as it is will not


cover this:


81 remember Grant as the man who


saved my country and yours. I remcn,-


Der how he siezcd our cause when it


was sinking almost for the last time,


and bore it to victory; 1 remember his


patience and bis perseverance; 1 re-


member how he avoided complaints to


the authorities and appeals to the peo.
pie; [ remember when Richmond fell


he refused to ride through that conquer
ed city at the head of his victorious
army, but quietly returned to his FAM
lily, then in New Jersey; I remember
how he abstained from the presidency
till it was forced upon him, and that,
but for him, in 1858, we should have
been defeated, even by Seymour and
Blair"


"A more Sickening specimen Of syco-
phancy than this was never uttered.
Make the most of Grants military rec
ord, and we are not disposed to bclittlc
it; and the assertion that he saved the
country is an untruth, a slandcr and a
folly. 1t is an anti-rcpublican falsifca-
ton of history. The man who will
shout over Grant as man who saved
the country, has but one more step to
take, and that not long one, to be-
come monarchist. They utter stuff
in such phrases as that, when our cause
was sinking for the last time, Grant
siezed it, would disgrace a school-boy.
A teacher who would allow pupil to
write such miserable Justification in a
school exercise, without rebuke, would
deserve discharge and condemnation.
The spectacle of multitudes always
seeking excuses to worship somebody
running to idol worseip headlong-;s
discouraging to those who desire to pro-
mote the ultimate triumph of Republi-
can principles in the world. Why
Grant refused to ride through Rich
mond we don't know or care but it is
necessary to say that the excess of mod
esty claimed for him in this case has
not been shown in his innumerable
journeys since the war. If there is
deep anxiety for retirement and mod
est longing for quietude displayed in
the sixty thousand miles in special cars
since the fall of Richmond we fail to
see it. After Forney's tale of the ne
gotiation that led to putting up Grant
for the presidency, in which that Office
was dickered about in the spirit Of
horsc trade, he ought not to have re-
ferred to Grants remarkable abstinence
from the presidency. He evidently
looked upon it as question Of money
and personal position, not of usefulness
and dignity. And if it is true that no
Que but Grant could have saved us
from Seymour and Blair-if he must
go on saving the country over and over
again-what is to become of us when
he is gone? Is there any Dent capable
Of succeeding him? or is Lieutenant
Fred likely to be grown in time to save
us?
Year: 1872

Here we have some facts that ought
to open the eyes and shut the fists of
working people. For less than forty-six
dollars, were it not for the tariff, the
goods above enumerated could be pur-
chased, but with the tariff they are made
to cost seventy eight dollars, twenty-three
dollars tax on forty-six dollars worth of
goods. Is it any wonder that it is diff
cult for working people to make bare
living? Is it any wonder that farmers,
even with large crops, the bounty Of
providence, and running in debt, or at
the best, merely holding their own,
when, as in the above case they have
to pay nearly twice as much for every
thing they need to buy as they would
were it not for the tariff Here is where
reform ought to begin and tear out by
the roots the iniquity which has SUBJ
jected the people to the domination Of
monopolies. Dubuque Telegraph.


Ard not one cent Of this tax goes into
the treasury or to benefit any but the
weSithy eastern capitalist. who manu-,
facturers and sends these goods out tc
be bought, paid for. and consumed by
the farmer. Ed. P. D.
Year: 1872

IF the early direction given to life
had been ever SO unfortunate, a mans
folding his hands over it in melancholy
mood, and suffering himself to be made
puppet by it, is a sadly weak proceed
ing. Most thoughtful men have some
dark fountain in their souls, by the
side of which, if there were time and it
were decorous, they would let their
thoughts sit down and wall indifferently.
i Friends in Council