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Year: 1871

We presume that every commu-
nifty is more or less annoyed by a
set Of unfortunate persons, whose
peculiar mental conformation leads
them to suppose that they, like At
las, were born to take the world up
on their shoulders, and carry it
steadily along through endless cy-
cles Of time. Whether any other
place is cursed with more such per
sons than this, we do not know,
but for the honor of our common
humanity we should hope not. Our
town is certainly infested with its
full complement Of churlish grum-
blers, backbiters, slanderers, and
other persons of that ill. They
are always busy too. They live on
CAB. We have incurred the dis
pleasure of this delectable class,
more than once, but, despite the
maledictions, threats and anathe-
mas thrust at us, we can say, with
the immortal Webster, that we "still
iver' We have never endeavored
to please them-never shall while
we ive-nor shall we ever try to
conciliate or avert their wrath, as
we regard both themselves and
their threats with the utmost con-
tempt. We can snap our fingers
with the most ''serene indifference
to all such cattle. Even if we de
sired to please them, we should be
almost sure not to do so, for do
what we might, we should still be
wrong, in their eyes. Our position
would be something after the fash
ion of the fnger-board, with the
direction, "Turn to tlie left be
meath which was written


The plsn of this road is a paradox luite,


For in leisurely trudging along.


If you turn to the left, you are sure TO 20


right,


Aud If You 20 rirI,t you. &c wrong.
Year: 1871

We love little babies, and love
everybody Eho does love babies
No man has music in his soul who
don't love babies. Babies were
made to be loved, especially girl
babies when they grow up. A man
isn't worth shuek who hasn't a
baby, and the same rule applies to
woman. A baby Is a spring day in
winter; a ray of sunshine in frigid
winter, and if it is healthy and
good natured and your sure it's
yours, it is a bushel of sunshine,
no matter how cold the weather. A
man cannot be hopeless as long as
he loves babies, one at time. We
love babies all over no matter how
dirty they are.


Babies were born to be dirty.


We love babies because they arc
babies and because their mothers
were loyable and lovely women
Our love for babies is only bound
ed by the number babies in the
world We always look for babies;
we do. We always have sorrowful
feelings for mothers that have no
babies and don't expect any.


Women always look down heart
ed who have no babies, and men
who have no babies always gamble,
and drink whisky, and stay out of
nights trying to get music in their
souls; but they can't come it. Ba-
bies are babies and nothing can
take their places. Pianos play out,
and good living plays out, and
sweet tempers play out, and beauty
plays out, unless there's baby in
the house. We've tried it; We know
and We say there's nothing like q
baby. Babies are a productive sub
ject, and we intend to talk more
about babies in the future.


We intend to tell our young
friends if they want to be happy in
this world they must have baby
in the kouse-one of their own pre-
fcrred. Babies stimulate exertion;
they make q young man scratch
gravel; and in this view OF the case
they are all the while laying golden
eggs. A man is hardly ever worth
three red cents until nc gets a wife
and a baby. They push him into
it. While he is making enough for
their support nc is sure to have
something over.
Year: 1871

A subject that is now -engrOsslng
the attention of Christian ministers
and the religious press of the eoun-
try, is the sparseness of the con
gregations on the Sabbath. The
complaint is not confined to any
particular church or denomination
of Protestants, but is experienced
more or less by them all. They
find that magnificent and well ap-
pointed churches, exquisite music
by quartets and organs, eloquent
preachers-sensational, popular and
otherwise-and all that can charm
the senses and crafty the aesthetic
tastes of men, fail to attract the
masses. On any given Sunday in
the year it will be found that not
one in fifty of any religious congre-
CATION belongs to the working clas-
ses or to the really poor of our pop
ulation. This may be accounted
for, however, partly by the fashion
ableness of our churches, which
have been built of late years with
out much, if any, regard to the
moral or spiritual wants of the
poorer people, and partly by the
style and character of the preach
ing, which consists very much of
the novelistic MATERIAL grain of
wheat in q bushel of chaf-or the
newspaper style of two lines ofnews
and a column of dummy and di-
luton" Ministers do not seem
fully to appreciate the age in which
we live, or to comprehend that the
people to whom they preach under
stand theoretically as much of re
ligious truth as do their teachers.
People live deeper and higher now
than they ever did, and the various
forms of truth, social, moral, spirit
ual, scientific, enter far more into
the daily life and conversation Of
every one of us than they ever did
in any age before. There is, there
fore, greater inquiry than ever; but
this inquiry is after truth, not theo-
ry or speculation.


In all the range of. Scripture
teaching success is promised only
upon the adoption and enforcement
of the command that heads this ar
ticle-Preaching of the Word. phe
Word,.in Scripture parlancc, signi-
fies Jesus Christ, and He says of
Himself, "And I if I be lifted up
will draw all men unto me-" And
ST. Paul gives to young minister
the charge most needed in our day,
as it was in his, preach the Word"
This, and this only, can be depend
ed upon to draw the masses. Jesus
Christ, the beginning and the end
ing, and the centre and life of all
preaching, is the only magnetic
power which can bring sinners to
hear the Gospel. But our pulpits
seem to think differently, and they
discuss the war in Europe and
browbeat Romanists, and infidels,
and freethinkers, and liberal think
ers, and liberal Christians, and dis
course about everything else under
the Sun but the one thing upon
which the Master predicated sue
cess. Gospel truth carries with it
n conviction that cannot be resisted
wholly. It viii make infdels and
skeptics at some time or other err
out, Truly this man was the Son of
God" Ministers should therefore
exalt Jesus and not themselves or
their peculiar theories.


But the Christian Church mem
bers are not altogether free from
blame in this matter There is not
IN the h7c3 and convcraation and
Year: 1871

a cheerful companion that is free
from swearing and scurriIous dis
course is worth gold. 1 love such
mirth as does not make friends
ashamed to look upon one another
next morning, nor men that cannot
well bear it to repent the money they
spend when they are warmed with
drink. And take this for rule:
you may pick out such times and
companions, that you may make
yourselves merrier for a little than
a great deal Of money. "Tis tho
company, and not the charge makes
the feast.
Year: 1871

The poorest man to be met with,
especially in these stirring times, is


one who is too poor to take a news
paper. Wepity such a mar, especi-
ally if he is a man of property.
Who ever heard ofa man too poor
to smoke or chew tobacco, If addict
cd to either? And yet many who
spend ten or fifteen cents a day for
'the weed are too poor to take a
newspaper, in the intellectual enjoy
mcnt Of which their families might
participate. Really such men are
poor. They are objects Of pity.
Year: 1871

Girls, beware of transient young
men; never suffer the address of a
stranger; recollcct that one steady
farmer boy or mechanic is worth all
the floating trash in the world. The
allurements of a dandy jack with a
gold chain about his neck, a walk
ingstick in his paw, some honest
tailor's coat on his back, and a
brainless scuil, can never make mp
the loss of fathers house, and a
good mether's counsel, and the So
ciety of brothers and sisters; their
affections last, while those of such
a young man arc lost in the wanc of
the honeymoon.
Year: 1871

No man is fit to manage farm
who does not think beforehand
what it is best to do, and which is
the best way to do il. Work with
out thought, without plan, has been
the blunder OF many who pretended
TO be farmers.
Year: 1871

As the diamond is found in tho
darkness Of the mine, as the light
ming shoots with most vivid flashes
from the gloomicst cloud, so docs
mirthfulness frequently proceed
from heart susceptible ofth deep
est melancholy.
Year: 1871

If the Earth We're to Stand Still.


If the revolution of the earth on
its axis were to be suddenly stop
ped, the temperature of everything
would be raised TO such adegree as
to be incapable Of existing in any
other form than vapor When a
bullet strikes the target it becomes
so hot that it cannot be held in the
hand. It's velocity is at the rate of
1900 feet a second, but what must
be the heat produced when a body
like the earth, moving at the rute of
100000 feet a second, is sudden
" arrested. II would soon be con
verted into q sea of fire, and all life
would become extinct. It is not
probable that this catastrophe viii
take place in our generation, but rs
the light of the sun is said to be
due. to the combustion of worlds in
its atmosphere, our time may some.
time come to add fuel to the flame.
Year: 1871

"A Boston gcntlcman who could
not dance offered a young lady ono
hundred dollars if she would let
him hug her as much as the young
man did who just waltzcd with her.
1t was Il good offer, and showed that
money was no object to him; but
they put him ont of the house so
hard that it made his eye black.
Year: 1871

An carly settler in New York ask
cd an Indian chief why he did not
work and lay up money. lie said
that he saw no good reason for MAX
ing n slave Of himself sll his life,
that his children might be lazy all
OF theirs.
Year: 1871

It Is a very pleasant and proper
thing DO doubt to have a purpose:
but happy is the man who can give
over at intervals the steepie chase
ofthe world and have heart holi-
day pass bis hand across bis brow
and wipe out the wrinkles. sud 50
reverse Iife's engine and be g boy
again.
Year: 1871

One pound Of gold may be drawn
out into beautiful wire that would
extend arouad the world. So ono
good deed may be felt through all
time, and even extend It's eonsc.
quences isto eternity. Though
done in the flush of youth, it may
gild the last hours of a long life,
and form the only bright spot in it,
Year: 1871

The unseemly has which marks the rush
ing to the defense of the Supreme Court by
the Sacramento Reporter reveals its salts
faction at the decision of that high Judiciary
on the consttutiouality of the act authorizing
the taxation of private property for the bene-
fit of railroad or other private corporations.
The defense of the Reporter is uncalled for,
and coming from Journal owned and there
fore controlled by the Central Pacific Rail
road Company; is exceedingly bad taste.
The Supreme Court cannot be defended. If
the occupants of the Bench are the just and
conscientious men whom the people believed
they were electing to that high position,
their every act is hedged about with a sense
of right and justice forming mail of proec-
ton against which the shafts Of calumniators
and traducers may be hurled in vain Such
men need no protection; their acts pro-
tect them. If these five Judges have fallen
from the high pedestals on which the people
have placed them, and sink the law beneath
the level of interest, they are beyond the
reach of protection and no defense can be in
terposed which will shield them from public
cxecration and eternal nfamy. They who
feel themselves called upon to criticise or
condemn the decisions of the Supreme Court
may do SO; there is no law to prevent and
custom sanctions the privilege, but however
eager and however earnest the Reporter
may be to e, ince its zeal for the interests of
those who own a majority Of its stock, it
must be admitted that its assumption Of the
position of champion and defender of the Su-
premc Court will add nothing to the dignity
or respectabilily of the highest tribunal of
.ur State We assume the subsidy dccis-
ion Of the Supreme Court to be based upon
what the Judges believe to be Constitution
al law; but it happens to be a decision in ex-
act accordance with the wishes of the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad Company, and the ex-
ultant "good boy style in which that cor
poraton pats the Court upon the back, is an
insult to the dignity of the Bench and cacu-
lated to shake public faith in the integrity of
those who may be in reality undefiled The
purity and wisdom of a legal decision may
be maintained with greater power 10y those
whose interest are unaffected by it than by
the party whom it places in possession of a
long coveted treasure. To the Supreme
Court the "wel done plaudit of the Central
Pacific monopoly, through the Reporter,
must sound much like the thanks of the
criminal who has escaped the halter through
tecnicalty of the law.-San Joaquin Re-
publican.
Year: 1871

RE-oPENING AN OLD MINE-On the mid
die fork of The American river, at American
Falls, a company, composed principally Of
Grass Valley men, have for a number of
years past owned an extensive mining claim,


in the effort to open which they spent many
thousands of dollars, year after year. with
out being successful in overcoming the OBJ
structions offered Ly the Falls, holding back
the gravel to the depth OF some Is feet or
more. We notice the incorporation of the
Great Crevice Mining Company to reopen
and work an extensive mining claim on Muir
derers Bar, mile below the American
Falls claims, and as the workings of both
claims are some hat similar, we take from
the Record the following notice of the Great
Crevice Complny's cltims: There is his
tory connected with this enterprise which
carries us back to the flush days of 40 and
so, which on recital will at once occur to
the early miners of this section In those
for gold, discovered a rich deposit in the bed
of the middle fork of the American river, at
point known "a Murderers Bar, the local


ty having received that unple Is mt title from
fact that four men were once found murdered
there. The miners delvcd and made for
tune, but the Spring freshets coming on they
were obliged to abandon the work, and are
said to have returned home. In 1854 the
locality was again worked by Col Potter, NJ.
Maus and others, but owing to the fact that
every Winter the improvements of the pre-
vious Summer were washed away, they
abandoned the work. The bed has not been
approached, we understand, for about twelve
years, yet those acquainted with it were full
ly convinced of its richness. Within the
past year or two, however, new mode of
river mining has been discovered, which con-
sists of sinking a large iron tube Give feet ii.
diamctcr) into the gravel bed until solid bot
tom is struck; then excavating in and around
this tube, and tunneling under the river by
the same process used in all tunneling opera
tons. Thus the river may flow on above,
while miners are searching for the precious
dust beneath The tube, of course, will be
the means Of ngress and egress. The orig
inal owners Of the claim have determined to
commence operations once more, and have
incorporated in order to sell sufficient
amount of the stock to enable them TO erect
the necessary work and prosecute the exca-
vations. One thousand shares will be sold
at five dollars per share. The miners are
confident there is a fortune in it if they are
successful in erecting the necessary appar-
atus for working the claim. Over one-half
the shares have already been taken by we'll
known citizens of Sacramento.
Year: 1871

ScHURz AND BLAIR.-Citizens of Missouri
have cause to congratulate themselves upon
the able manner in which their State is rep
resented in the Federal Senate. Indeed, we
may say that it is more ably represented
than any other State in the Union, and is
making its weight and power felt i'll the Wig
orous attacks now being made on the Ad-
ministration. Senator Schurz leads the at
tack, and leads it brilliantly and gallantly,
in opposition to the Presidents San Domn-
90 policy, while Senator Blair is bolder and
not less spirited in his exposures of the re-
construction acts of Congress. The one is
a Radical and the other a Democrat, and
yet they have no difficulty in finding COM
mon ground upon which they can unite for
the purpose of attacking a common enemy
the President of the United States.


But not in their general political sentiments
are the two Senators more unlike than in
their mental constitutions and their style of
argument and manner Of speaking. Senator
Schurz is German by birth, "a philosopher in
temperament, a diplomatst by education,
graceful and fluent in debate, seif-possessed, !,
coldy logical, without passion and almost
without enthusiasm, polished in diction, cpl
grammatic in point, ana delivering his blows
as coolly and in as deadly manner as a
swordsman sends his rapier home. Senator
Blair, on the other hand, is a Western man
by birth and education, a politician of the
jackson school, bold by nature and rash on
calculation, impetuous and at the same time
cool, a natural leader and controller of men,
hesitating in delivery but strong and logical
in matter, and always in the midst of the
melee, he delivers his blows with the strength
and accuracy and skill of trained man-at-
arms. Both are admirable in their way,
and both, as we said, doing good service to
their State and country.-lVarrenton NO. }
Banner
Year: 1871

A mother was amused the other day TO
hear this bit of argument from her little
boy. "Mamma, | don't see how Satan
could have turned out to be such bad fell
low-thcre wasn't any devil to put him up
to it,
Year: 1871

Stern Of Public Ipdignaficn-A Mass
Meeting CaIled-Temporary Triumph Of
Corruption-What Dudley .. Gregory
Says.


The astonishment created in Jersey City at
the announcement that the Bergen '.ring''
had found Its way into the new govern
ment OF the city continues unabated. The
honest, trustworthy men on the commissions which
are 10 rule the city are In hopeless minority AL
the efforts OF the committee sent from Jersey City
TO secure the passage or an honest measure with
honest men TO control the city treasury were un-
avalllng. Accordingly there is widespread dis
party.


MASS MEETING


M nas neen called Tor tomorrow afternoon to enable
the taxpayers 10 give expression to their feelings In
the matter. Preliminary meetings were held in
several wards last evening and in the FOURTH
Seventh and Eighth the republican members OF the
Legislature IRON Jersey City were de-
nonnced as having sold themselves to the Erie
Railway and the Bergen ''ring." In fact, public
Indignation was never expressed In a more EN-
phatlc manner. II the new charter were only sub
mitted TO the people, or even to the republican
parry from whose leaders 1t is supposed to emanate
three names would be certainly erased from the
Board OF Works.


The charter was taken up in the legislative COM
miitee at Trenton on Wednesday evening but
owing to the strong opposition manifested BY Dud-


DENouNcED THE MEASURE,
It's further consideration was postponed till next
Tuesday, when host OF citizens viii address the
committee IN opposition to it, Mr.. Gregory using
every effort to protect the people against what Is


FRAUD, swINDLE AND AN OUTRAGE
on the people Of Jersey City. His father who was
eahuiaate ior United States Senator, IL also heart
on MIN yesterday and the old gentleman stated that
tae Gnaer cannot possibly pass in its present state
!eat the corrupt men who are epdeayorfng to ride
lnto power and pnnder the people.
Year: 1871

The Proposition 20 Sell the New York


Msrkets-COmmotion Among the Long


Island Farmers.


The resolution of the Commissioners Of the Sink
ing Fund, to sell to private parties under appraise-
ment all the New York markets, except that in the
Eighteenth ward, has caused considerable OF sen.
sation among the farmers Of Long Island. The
farmers cannot understand the nature of this move
ment. Some incline 10 the idea that the city au-
thorities resort to this an artice to repel
the approach OF the farmers, and TO 0bvlate the
effect that refusal to grant their petition would
create. The press having taken q lively interest In
the matter has awakened the people to true
sense OF the 1nadeuuacy OF the markets,
and If taxpaying influence is capable Of bringing
about reform there seems now but little doubt OF
its accomplishment The agricultural mind cannot
conceive how is to be benefited by the sale or the
markets TO private parties. Those who are fore
most in the movement think 1t is gong to bring
about splendid results II the market Is purchased
by capitalists who are desrous OF increasing their
fortunes they will AFFORD TO the farmers all reason
able accommodation, while they will also that
they are protected IN the sale OF their products
Other farmers think that the market Will be de-
stroyed and warehouses and manufactures erected.
to land their produce at the Eighteenth Ward Market
is but little spoken Of All the questions VIII be dis
cussed at the mass meeting next Monday No little
excitement prevails over the proposition to sell the
markets, and the farmers fear they VIII not have
time to organize a company Tor the purchase of q
site before the crafty spectators VIII have monopo
llZeO everything.
Year: 1871

the result in the Twentieth and Twenty second
wards nad not been up to the hour OF going
to press 1t Will be published in q later edition.
Siges majority for Register certainly over ~ 900,
ana the democratic majority on the State ticket In
Tho cilv IN Ih OOO.
Year: 1871

The following is q comparative exhibit Of the vote
cast for Secretary OF State in the couaties lying
north Of New York city, as far as could be ascer-
tained from the returns forwarded to the HERALD
up to the time Of our going to press. Though in
complete 1t is sufficient to show how the State has
gone. The gains OF the republicans, as shown in
the town and county returns published, are, It is
believed. as proporuonately great throughout the
entire State