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Year: 1871

joys and bliss Of the future world, they prefer
to have others 60 and enjny it.


This may be self abnegation or pure unselfish-
ness-Heaven knows!


"Arc you most rcady?" asked the ruflian
raising his knife as he saw the other hesitat d.
Ill give you just three minutes. and il the de-
vii is not here you'll he with the devil!'


"My friend" said the parscn. into whose
head brilliant idea ha popped, that there
is hell is a well-eatablished fact, as l can
prove by hundreds Of writer's, and that the
devil exists allows Of no contradiction; and
that have the power TO make him appear is
also true; but dreadful for you will be the
consequence if he does Better for you had
you never been born than to see Satan face TO
face in the wicked state in which you are in"


"D-n you, stop your preaching and call
the old boy 4! I'll stand the consequences; and
be quick, for times up"


The parson went to the Fireplace and took
hence brand, which he applied to the box Of
fax. 1t blazsd up almost like gunpowder.
and tie unearthly yell that issued from the
poor devil in the box was truly appalling.


With an acrobatic power Of the possession
of which be was himself unaware, he leaped
out Of the box, covered.from head to..foot with
burning fax. With roars aud howls Of agony
he made straight for the door, but he was not
30 quick as the owner Of the premises, for with
one look of terror. at the burning figure he fed
out Of the house Closely followed by bis "Sa-
tanic majesty.T


When theyiwere both gone the parson gavo
his hostess short but effective lecture on con-
nubial duties. after which he seated himself
comfortably before the fire.


When the woman's husband returned he
treated the parson with the greatest respect,
fully convinced that he hac the power to raise
the devil at will.
Year: 1871

Oh let the soul its slumbers break
Arouse its senses, and awake


To see how soon
Life, in its glories, glides away
And the stern footsteps Of decay


Come stealing on.
And while we view the rolling tide,
Down which our flowing minutes glide


Away so fast,
Let us the present hour employ
And deem each future dream a Joy


Already past.
Let no vain hope deceive the mind,
No happier let US hope to find,


Tomorrow than to-day,
Our golden dreams of yore were bright,
Like them the present shall delight


Like them decay.
Our lives like Fastening streams must be
That into one engulfing sea


Are doomed TO ALL
The sea of death whose waves roll on
O'er king and kingdom, crown and throne,


And swallow all.
Alike the rivers lordly tide,
Alike the humble rivulets glide,


To that sad wavel
Death levels poverty and pride,
Anu rlcn anu poor sieeP siue W siuc


Within the grave.
Our birth is but startingpla


And death the goal;
There all our glittering toys are brought
That path alone, of all unsought,


Is found of all.
See then how poor and little worth
Are all those glittering toys of Earth


That lure US here;
Dreams of sleep that death must break;
Alas before it bids US awake,


We disappear.
Long ere the damp of death can blight
The cheeks pure glow Of red and white


Has passed away:
Youth smiled and all was heavenly fair
Age came, and laid his finger there,


And where are they?
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The step that roved so light and gay;


The hearts blithe tone?
The strength is gone, the step is slow,
And ioy grows wesrisome, and woe!


When age comes on
Year: 1871

The Kentucky and Great Eastern Railway
Company has, by contract with Commission
ers of the State of West Virginia, acquired the
franchises and property of the West Virginia
Central Railroad Company.
Year: 1871

It seems San Diego wants more than a continental railway, and as much more as 1t can get honestly, we shall rejoice to see in its possession i; but when its people undertake to prey upon our people, then to that extent we shall give them our earnest oppo- sition. By our Arizona City letter, it will be seen that San Diego wants taXes-a common want-but wants them this side the Colorado, and we tell the enterprising people of that ambitious city, that California does not now nor never did have legal juris- diction over an inch of territory this side the center of that river. Any in telligent man, who knows where the Mexican and U. S. Boundary crosses the Colorado, may readily discover this truth by a careful examination of the records of the Boundary survey, together with the treaty of Guadelou- pc Hidalgo which makes said survey part of the treaty, the Constitution of California, and the original Organic Act of New Mexico. In making these examinations, the searcher for the truth must keep in mind that the na- tional boundary line actually crosses the Colorado about seven miles 5eJow Arizona City, and at that point and no other, the California boundary in- tersects the one between the United States and Mexico.

 We have given the people of San Diego credit for pluck, for proper am- bition, average honesty and intelli- gence, but if they cannot ascertain their error in this case, and drop the contest, then we shall be obliged to admit that one or more of our credits should be withdrawn. There is less use for San Diego to investigate this question to naake out a case to meet their views, than to find the truth as we have stated.

 Had it not been that Arizona City and higher local authorities have, at times heretofore, submitted to the col lection of taxes east of the Colorado, we should regard this San Diego as- sessor's conduct as piece of unparal- leled official impudence.

 Unasked advice is seldom welcome, but we urge our Arizona City people to proceed with their town site busi- ness just as rapidly as possible, and we venture the opinion that the land officers of the government will grant them a patent to the land in dispute, and that in every phase the case can be presented to the U. $. authorities, that the position we take will be sus- tained
Year: 1871

We have often thought if those who most
delight in abusing newspapers, knew anything
of the labor expended in their publication if
they considered that the tuelre thousand pieces
of type in every column of the Republican, for
example, is handled separately t,cice in getting
up the paper; that the greater part both Of
the editorial and mechanical labor is done at
night, by tired hands and over-worked brains,
when unreasonable patrons are asleep, and
that it costs money, and great deal of it, to
publish the paper, their views would be very
considerably modified. Everybody knows, too,
that newspaper may say any number of good
things and get no credit for them, but the
smallest possible bluhder will bring the entire
upon il. it.-Lynch. Republican.
Year: 1871

A good conscience is to the soul what health


is to the body; it preserves constant ease and


serenity within US, and more than countervails
all the caamities and affections which can pos
| sibly befall us.
Year: 1871

A coLoRED gentleman of the Texas
Legislature has realized the difference in
the signiacatlon of the various moods Of
the verb "to sell" He had voted on a
bill that had something in it" and while
relating to friend the satisfactory tlnan'
cial result Of the operation to himself, re-
marked that he had been bought four or
five times during his terrestrial existence,
but that was the first time he had ever
handled the proceeds himself, Selling
one self he had discovered was more
pleasant thing than being sold by another.
Year: 1871

The heayics loser by the Chicago fire
Is said to have been C. F. W. Peck, who
went to that city in 1881, and who is now
dead, leaving an estate still worth mil
lions. It is said he never gave a note or
signed one for another, and never took
or raye credit or grace
Year: 1871

JVE desire to return our thanks TO our old
w customers and the public generally for
the liberal share Of patronage extended TO u,
in the past, and hope to merit continuation o,
The same by close attention to business ana
offering CHEAP GOODS.


RICHARD s WELSHANS.
October Is, 1870. u
Year: 1871

MARROW ESCAPE FROM FIRE. Wdgery's s
wharf had a narrow escape from destructive
fire last evening. Work had been closed in
the establishments on the wharf, and nearly
all the men employed there had gone home,
when smoke was discovered issuing from Bar
stow's cooper shop. Entrance was obtained,
and it was discovered that beam above The
fire place was on fire, having caught, probably,
from spark which had lodged there. The
fire was extinguished before any damage was
DONE Fifteen minutes later and there would
not have been a man upon the wharf, and the
fire would have had ample opportunity tor de-
structon in the combustible materials in the
shop, and then among the numerous adjoining
wooden buildings. 1t was most fortunate
discovery for the property holders on that
w rf
Year: 1871

The Albany Eoening Journal says it has
reason to know that Secretary Boutwell, has
for months contemplated reduction of taxes
at the next session of Congress to the amount
of not less than fifty millions, and expects to
embody recommendation to that effect in his
next annual report
Year: 1871

must Oeleye that private pTOspeTi-
ty is measured By the extent to
which the public credit may be
pushed in the money-lending
world, and that its very founda-
tons would be overthroWn by|
whatever should deprive even the
worst rulers of the ability to bor-
row in the name Of the govern
ment. In short, we must believe
that a public debt, though con-
tracted for the sole aggrandizement
Of banded swindlers and plunder-
ers, and though as towering as Pc
lion upon Ossa, and as heavy as
Etoa upon the breast of EuCsla-
dus, is aprivate blessing, il the on
ly alternative is the paralysis Of the
public credit in hands that have
corruptly and recklessly abused it.


We may perhaps more properly
give the name of superstition to be
idea which would attach taint to
the character Of every citizen Of
State whose finances have come to
such q pass, under mismanagement
and corruption, as to involve inn
mediate or remote, complete or
partial repudiation; for We can
scarcely concede it the intellectual
dignity of a fallacious theory. To
be sure, it is no pleasant thing iIr
one TO be reminded that he is .
citizen Of an insOlyent and repudia-
ting State; but it is not more IN
pleasant than the consciousness OF
being citizen Of State govern
I'd, as to revenue, as to c'edit, and
as to debt wholly in The interest
If conspiracy of rogues and rob
bers. The shame If the thing il
in the system, not the logical Incl

dent; in the rulers whose unWar-
rantablr and proaigate course ne
G, ssitated some kind. OF form, or
,legree of repudiation, not in Che
mass of hardworking taxpayers
who can not discharge mountains
II fraudul,n! mortgages upon their
industry. In cases where the pub
lie credit is used only o bad ends,
and implies a progressive augmen-
tation Of taxes, the sooner it Is lost
the better; for the loss of il is at
least a negative blessing, when
that loss, however deplorable, IS
the sole effective cure Of an intole-
rable evil


How far the citizen must Be at-
feoted BY the odium ot his repudia-
ting government, We take to be .
question for she circumstances of|
each par icular case to determine.
An industrious and candid student
Of history could not easily put his
finger upon q single government
Of modern Europe which has not
to some extent rspudiated Obliga-
tions contracted OF incurred ii its
name. A notable instance was the
by the French repub-
Ia of some millions aud billions of
and mandats. Yet his
tory does not on this account i'm
pugn either the honesty on the pa
iriotism u the body of the French
people who sanctioned the act L
does not tell US bat the private


- v = 4
Year: 1871

THE king OF THE SPANIARDS
Arrival of His Majesty Amadeus


at Madrid.



ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE
Mode and Manner Of his Election to


the Throne.
The Parliamentary Vote of Cortes


and the Parties.
Year: 1871

TO the Editor of the Washington Chronicle


Your suggestion in to-day's paper, that
"the special committee to investigate the
condition of affairs in the South should
summon before them one or more leading
editors from each State, both Democratic
and Republican" is good one, and if car
ried out and the summons con6ned to those
who have not become bitter partisans and
lost to all sense of discreetness. much more
real satisfactory evidence can be obtained
from two Or three of these gentlemen than
could possibly be adduced by the evidence
of almost any score of other persons that
can be named. But it seems to me the
committee cannot arrive at satisfactory re-
suits as to the real or imaginary evils of
society 10 the South by sitting here and
sending for persons and papers.


A knowledge of the condition of the
people with respect to the outrages COM
mitted--of which the whole country is
heartily sick and tired--the facilities for
redress by the civil tribunals, aud the
remedy to be applied can only be had by
going into the States and communities
where the alleged outrages have been most
frequent. Economy should suggest the
propriety of this course to the committee.
| The North Carolina Legislature is now in
session, and the members thereof, repre-
senting every county 10 the State, would
be able to render to the committee more
reliable information in three or four days
than it could obtain here in so many
months.


1t does Lot require an editor to explain
why the Republican papers in the South
are not self-sustaining. Generally speak
ing there was no Republican party in the
South before the war. The wealth and in.
telligeuce went into the rebellion, and the
numbers who have joined the Republican
ranks slice the war among the white popu'
lation, to say nothing of the colored, are
not the most wealthy, and hence can no
so well sustain newspapers, if they would
as the Democratic population. | think
Mr.. Hoar's most excellent educational bill
would contribute largely toward making
better citizens and better communities
which deem equivalent to saying that
would strengthen the Republican party a
we'll as encourage and sustain Republican
papers.


Respectfully, II. H. HELPER.


EbSit House, January 23.
Year: 1871

A WIRES DEvoTIoN.-At the opening
of the general sessions in New York, last
week, Minnie Lee, who few days ago
pleaded guilty Of carrying into the 'rombs
prison implements for helping her husband
to escape from that prison, was put for
ward, and the Judge addressed her as fol-
lows


You have pleaded guilty of an attempt
to violate the law. There are many mltl-
eating circumstances in your case. be-
lieve you to be young aud devoted wife,
but most unfortunately married to a
man now confined in the Tombs on a
charge of burglary. When you entered
the prison door and undertook to aid your
husband to escape, l do not think you
acted from the promptings of wicked
and depraved nature. While | cannot for
moment countenance the offence OF aid
ing prisoner to escape, still | feel it to be
my duty, considering your youth, respeeta-
bility and previous good character, to post
pone Judgment in your case. You may
go.
Year: 1871

The Chesapeake and Ohio Road.-Hard-
ly day passes but that the cars of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad company are not
filled with stalwart laborers, bound for the
western terminus of the road, which is being
hurried up with energy and spirit, and with
all the haste that money and influence can
command. 1t will be a great day for Rich
mond when this great and most important
road shall stretch its iron rail across the State
from the Ohio river to Hde-water Virginia.
Year: 1871

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connuba
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes II weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly darkens to the viow, the mind
becomes sh,dowcd with despair and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness of
another is blightcd with own
Year: 1871

diets since he had been raised to
the bench.


The most conspicuous example
of an intellectual failure in fairness
was Sir John Leach. He delighted
to gallop through his cases. He
was so fast that stage-coach was
named after him, "The Vice-Chan-
cellor." Almost as soon as a case
was opened he decided against a
plaintiff or defendant, and never
thoroughly heard it through. 1t
was wondered what he would find
to do after he had cleared his list
off. "Do! why he will hear the
other side" was the answer. This
was indeed an egregious example
if the facts stated of him are true,
and they are stated by Lord Kings
down; and such Judge himself
deserved the penalty Of criminal.


Cases arc on record in which
Judges have confessed themselves
mistaken. One Judge, thinking
that he had caused an injustice to
be done which it was beyond his
power to rectify, left the injured
man a large sum of money in his
will. 1t is said that the case Of
Lord Cochrane, afterward Earl Of
Dundonald, almost broke the heart
and FASTENED the resignation and
death of Lord Ellenborough. This
great man and most upright magis-
trate had conceived political
prejudice against Lord Cochrane,
and summed up violently against
him. He aftcrward saw good
reason to believe that he had been
mistaken in his facts, and had been
too harsh in his sentence.
Year: 1871

The strong attachment of sub
scribers to we'll conducted news
paper is fully confirmed by publish
ers. "Stop my paper" words of
dread to new beginners in the busl-
ness, lose their terror after a paper
has been established for a term of
years. So long as paper pursues
a just, honorable and judicious
course, meeting the wants of it's GUS
toners in all respects, the ties of
friendship between the subscribers
and the paper are as hard to break
By an outside third party, as the
links which bind old friends in
business or social life. Occasional
defects and errors in newspapers
are overlooked by those who have
become attached to it through it's
perusal for years. They may some
times become dissatisfied with it on
account of something which has
slipped into its columns, and may
stop taking it; but the absence of
the familiar sheet at their house or
office for few weeks becomes an
insupportable deprivation, and they
hasten to take it again, and possibly
apologize for having stopped it.
This we believe to be the common
experience in the history Of all es-
tablished newspapers. No friend
ship on earth is more constant than
that contracted by the reader of a
journal which makes an honest and
earnest effort to merit his continu-
ed support.
Year: 1871

1t is good 81 On when a man is
proud of his work or his calling.
Yet nothing is more common than
to hear men finding fault constantly
with their particular business, and
deeming themselves unfortunate be-
cause fastened to it by the necessity
of gaining livelihood. If these
men fret, and laborously destroy all
their comforts in the work; or they
change their business, and go on
miscrably, shifting from one thing
to another, till the grave or the
poor house gives them fast grip.
But while occasionally q man
fails in life because he is not in
place fitted for his peculiar talent,
it happens ten times oftener that
failure results from neglect and
even contempt of an honest busi
ness. A man should put his heart
into everything that he does. There
is no profession that has not it pc
culiar cares and vexations. No
man will escape annoyance by
changing his business. No me-
chanical business is altogether
agreeable. Commerce, in its end


less varieties, is affected, like all
other pursuits, with trials, unwel-
come duties, and spiriting necessi-
ties. 1t is the very wantonness of
folly for man to search out the
frets and burdens Of his. calling, and
give his mind evef fskAINS'to con-
sideration of them. They belong
to human life. They are inevita


BILE. Brooding over them only gives
them strength. On the other hand,
a man has power given him TO shed
beauty and pleasure Oh the homell-
est toll; if he is wise. Let man
adopt his business and identify
it with pleasant associations; tor
Heaven has given us imagination,
not alone to make us poets, but to
enable all men to beautify homely
things. Heart varnish will cover
up innumerable evils and defects.
Look at the good things. Accept
your lot as man does a piece of
rugged ground, and begin to get
out the rocks and roots, to deepen
and mellow the soil, to enrich and
plant 1t. There is something in
the most forbidding avocation
around which man may twine
pleasant fancies, out of which he
may develop an honest PRIDE
Chicogo yo~rnoi of Commerce.
Year: 1871

Mot many years ago II gentleman
of South Adams, Mass, owned .
pet span Of horses and a numerous
family, who were also pets, as was
every living thing under his pro-
lection.


The district school was a mile
off, over a bleak road, in very
snowy country.


These horses, when colts, were
accustomed to carry and fetch the
children, and after a while were en-
trusted with the whole business
After being hitched up to the old
lumber-box sleigh, they would of
their own free will, trot up to the
farmhouse door, receive some half
dozen or more children, who would
in great glcc, get in among the
buffalo skins and blankets.


Then the horses, without driver
or guidance of any kind, would
start off briskly, 60 to the school
house, turn up to the door, wait for
the children to tumble out, then
make their turn carefully and re-
turn home.


At night they were sent alone
for their load again, and would turn
mp to the school house door, and
wait patiently for the children.


This business was done by the
horses for twenty years, and their
kind master kept them until old age
carried them off. s.
Year: 1871

Some men of large landed proper
ty become their own underwriters.
William B. Astor owns six hun
dred buildings, and can afford to do
his own insurance. 1t would re-
quire $4,000 to pay the annual ex-
pense OF insuring his property, and
it is probable that, in reality, he
does not lose onc-third that amount.
The same remark will apply to
Lenox, the Rhinelander, the Stuy-
vesant. and some other large estates.
Astor has always been fortunate on
this point. His property has never
come within the scope of our large
fires, and the heaviest loss he has
met since my residence here was
that of the Park Thcatcr, but the
lot was SO well improved by the
building subsequently, erected th2t
the loss proved gain. This state
ment is equally applicable to the
land burned over in the great fire
Of 1885. The owners in personal
property and of merchandise lost
their all, but the real estate proprie-
tors could sell their vacant lots at
such a handsome rate of profit as
made up for the loss Of buildings.
Land is generally doubled in value
when cleared by an extensive fire,
and dull street is often changed
into place Of activity. An in
stance of this is found in Broad
street, where the writer served as
clerk in 1910. At that time it was
the Sleepy Hollow of New York,
for though broad and spacious, it
was utterly deficient in business at
fractions. A few boarding houses
and retail grocers were to be found
there, and in the upper part Of the
street a small amount of traffic was
done in a gentle and quiet manner.
In lS45 Broad street was complete
" burned over, and the result was
that land increased prodigiously in
value. Large stores were erected
in place of boarding houses, and
the progress continued until the
brokers' board took possession of
the street and made 1t one of the
most important spots in America.
A similar result was manifested
after the great fire in your own
city, and l have no doubt that Chi
cago will eventually be improved
by this fearful calamity.-Zetter to
IroY Times.
Year: 1871

THE DIFFICULTY OF COMMA
r1oN.-Why are things not improv-
ed? Why are not follies swiftly re-
moved? You convince an individual
any number ofindividuals-of the
foolishness ola folly; but you can
not bring these convinced people to
act in concert. Combination is very
difficult; and social improvements
must always be very hard to make
in large communities. 1t is not
difficult to imagine a community
every individual member Of which
shall be thoroughly convinced Of
the foolishness of some folly which
he, or she, commits daily. Nay,
more; each member Of this commu-
nifty shall know that every other
member of the community thinks
as he does about the whole matter.
And yet the folly shall continue to
be rampant for two or three genera
tions.-Arthur Helps.