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Year: 1870

THE Courier is greatly exercised
over the fact that Senator Morton
and. Governor Baker alluded, in their
speeches, to the maladministratiou
of the present City Council. Ii says
of the Governors exhortation:


The Governor made a desperate attack
upon the City Council for having assessed
q piece OF property which he sold some
time ago for $4,000. at sl7. 600 now. he felt
that he had lost $4,000. But he never once
Thought how severely he was Furnishing
Heilman, one OF the nominees just made,
for making that very assessment. The
truth, OF the matter is, these men who
claim to be over assessed dare not go be-
fore the Board of Equalization and make
oath to that Effect Courier.


The idea that men whose real es-
tate has been outrageOusly appraised
must go before the Council and make
affidavit to that effect. is new one,
and peculiar to the Van Riper Coun
oil. We assert that any number of
tax payers would cheerfully make
oath that their property is assessed
too high if allowed to do so. Not
only that, but several that we know
of would be glad to sell every foot Of
real estate owned by them in the city
at least twenty-five per cent less than
it has been appraised by the Council.
We understand that several tax.
payers have appeared in per-
500 before the Council, and CON-
planned of its unlawful appraisement,
and they have been informed that the
appraisement was absolutely neces'
ssry, in order to raise the amount ol
money required by the prese MT Coun.
Gil to carry on the city government
Others who complained, only secured
an advance in the appraisement, Of
their own aud neighbOrs' property.
as was the case with some property in
the Ashland Place. Hence the Coun'
Gil seems to have determined or
standing by its illegal appraisement
The effect Of such unwise proceeding
upon the credit and prosperity of the
city is absolutely alarming to contem
plate.
Year: 1870

It will be noticed, by reference to
the city news, that US. Senator d. ID.
Pratt, of this State, will address our
citizens next Wednesday evening, at
the Opera house. We are gratified to
know that our people will have an
opportunity Of listening to the dis
tinguished gentleman, who so WORTH
ly represented Indiana in the Senate
of the United States. L should also
be esteemed privilege for them to
give him a hearty welcome to our
city. During the past session of
Congress. when Evansville was ask
ing special legislation to promote our
business interests. in the way Of u.
s. District Court, Port of Entry and
Local Board Of Steamboat Inspectors,
there was no one who more heartily
labored for the SUCCESS of these meas
ures than Senator Pratt. Our oiti-
zens, therefore, owe it to him to give
a good reception on this his first Wis
it to Evansville. We hope to see the
Opera House crowded on Wednesday
evening. The ladies are especially
invited
Year: 1870

You will find that a great deal of
character is impaired and received
at the table. Parents too often
forget this; and therefore, instead
of swallowing your food in sullen
silence instead Of brooding over
your business, instead Of severely
talking about others, let the con
versation at the table be genial,
kind, social and cheering. Don't
bring disagreeable things to the
table in your conversation, any
more than you wouldin your dishes.
For this reason, too, the more good
company you have at your table is
an educator to the family. Hence
the intelligence and the refinement
and appropriate behavior of a fam
lily which is given to hospitality.
| Never feel that intelligent visitors
can be anything but blessing to
YOU and yours How. few have
fully gotten hold Of the fact, that
company and conversation at the
table are no small part Of educa-
| ton.
Year: 1870




At a recent meeting at Louisville Mr..
Lloyd said: Previous to the war we were
the second commercial power in the
world. We are now degraded to the
fourth position, and our degradation is
advancing with rapid strides. The great
reason of the disastrous effect is the ex-
cessive duties levied on ship timber, cop
per sheathing, cordage, sail cloths and
all materials which enter into the con-
sruction of the ships. These duties are
so high as to render it impossible for our
shipbuilders to compete with those Of
other nations.


a few years since, in crossing the East
river, the observer could count thirty
three large steamships in course of cree
ton in the harbor of New York. Last
fall but a single one was in course Of
construction, and this with the recent
construction of the Spanish gunboats,
comprises all the large ships which have
been built in that port in the last year.
In that city were eight large iron works
celebrated for the manufacture of large
steam engines, whose work has excited
the admiration of all lovers of machin-
cry. These establishments employed
nearly 4, 600 hands. OF these eight, two
only are in practical operation One is
leased as a car stable, another has
passed into bankruptcy, and the balance
are closed. This paralysis rose out OF the
decay in shipbuilding In 1864, we
counted in the harbor of Bath, Maine,
eight large ships in process of consuuc-
ton, varying IN size from i, 200 to I 600
tons. Not a single vessel has been
built at that port for years past. The
effect of the tariff upon this industry is
illustrated by an incident occurring in
New York last fall. A merchent meet
ing friend condemned as foolish and
suicidal the tariff on copper sheathing,
stating that he had owned a ship which
needed to be coPPered, but he should
not copper it in this country, because he
could get the whole work done in. Eng
land for less than the copper would cost
him in this country. Similar results are
visible in the manufactures Of leather
and wooden products. The makers of
these are remoYeing from Our side Of the
st. Lawrence and the lakes and erect
ing their works on the Canadian shore,
because of the greater cheaPness of ma
terial and freedom from the restraints of
our protective system. And yet this
system is said to protect American in
dustry. The industrial classes of this
country may undoubtedly say, From
such protection, good Lord deliver us. ."
Year: 1870

THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-Itt turns
ont now that the report Of a compromise be-
tween the friends OF the Senate bill incorpora-
ting the Texas Pacific Railroad Company and
the managers Of the Fremont or Memphis and
III Paso enterprise is without foundation in
fact. 1t is authOritatively stated that there is
little or no prospect of anything like consol-
idation or compromise.
Year: 1870

Mr.. HAMLIS presented in the Senate thi-
morning memorial from a number of scientific
gentlemen, asking that an appropriation be
made to purchase new telescope for the Naval
Observatory, a. the one now in use was ma lie
over thirty years since, and is not equal to the
powerful instruments which have since been
patented, and are now in use at the principal
Observatories OF the world. The one now in use
Is inadequate to cope with the modern problems
OF solar and stellar physics.
Year: 1870

HALIFAX, June IA correspondent of the
Chronicle urges all those interested in the CITY
of Boston to raise funds for the defence of the
libel suit, brought by the Inman Company
against the Times letter asserting that the
steamer was overloaded. The correspondent
believes the trial will develop the cause of the
disaster, and starts the fund with ESQ sterling.
Year: 1870

sectlon that If the said Baltimore and Posomac
Ailroad Company shall at any time neglect to
<eep said bridge in good repair and free for
public use the government of the United States
may take possession of the said bridge.
Year: 1870

We are reaching the maximum of solar
spot activity, and we may also look for
some grand auroral displays in connection
with 1t, after which there will succeed a
period OF comparative rest for the next
eleven years on the surface of the great
orb which rules our system. The precise
nature OF the mysterious bond which
unites sun-spots and auroral displays, Is
a question which just now is full of alb
sOrblng interest to astronomers. They
are evidently on the eve of some great dis
covery which will unite the chain whose
links they hold, and gave clearer under
standing of the laws which govern the
material universe, revealing the harmony
and symmetrical beauty of the forces
whose action they now imperfectly com
prehend.


An English observer records i'm the Lon
don Times some interesting observations
which he made on the 10th of February.
There were then eight groups of spots
visible on the sun, some OF them Of enor-
nous dimensions. Four of these groups
were situated i'm the suns northern hemi-
sphere, two in the equatorial regions and
two in the southern hemisphere. The
largest single spot had a length of two
minutes OF an arc by a mean breadth Of
one minute, which is equal to superb
cial area of Ass, ,0O0, 900 millions of square
miles, or seven times the entire surface of
the globe.


Obser vatiOns made a few DAYS later,
exhibited an entire change. The northern
hemisphere of the sun presented most
remarkable linear series Of six groups of
spots, parallel with his equator, each
group separated by the average length of
one group from the next in order, and the
whole forming connected chain of not
less than 100000 miles in length,
Year: 1870

A PLEASANT story has lately circulated
about Count Bismarck. A country clergy
man, an old fellow collegian of the
Counts, was anxious to get his son into
the marines, and at length summoned up
courage to address his quondam comrade,
entertaining, however, but faint hopes of
the great Minister remembering him. Not
being much i'm the habit of writing to
grandees, the good man could not for
some time determine how to begin, but
at length commenced his letter, q" Your
Highness," He soon received the follow
ing: "You old blockhead, you do you
think / have forgotten the happy time
when we studied and drank together in
Gottenberg, and when we were so often
waiting on each other? And now, how
can you address me in such foolish way?
Pray never again call me Highness. Let
us continue on the same terms as of old.
As to your boy, send him to me. I'll take
care OF him"
Year: 1870

THEY had done good work in their day


They were large and round, so that when
she saw thing she saw it. There was a
crack across the upper part of the glass,
for many baby had made them a play
thing, and all the grandchildren had at
some time tried them on. They had some
times been so dimmed with tears that she
had to take them off and wipe them upon
her apron before she could see through
them at all. Her "secOnd sight" had
now come, and she would often let her
glasses slip down, and then look over the
top of them while she read. Grandmoth-
er was pleased at this return of her vision.
Getting along so well without them, she
often lost her spectacles. Sometimes they
would be for weeks untouched on the,
shelf, in the red morocco case, the flap up
lifted. She could now look off upon the
hills, which for thirty years she had not
been able to sec from the piazza. Those
were mistaken who thought she had no
poetry in her soul. You could see it in
the way she put her hand under the chin
o. 3 primrose or cultivated the geranium.
Sitting on the piazza one evening, in her
rocking chair, she saw ladder of cloud
set up against the sky, and thought how
easy it would be for spirit to climb it.
She saw, in the deep glow of the sunset,
a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire,
and wondered who rode it. She saw
vapor floating tlinly away az though it
were wing ascending, and grandmother
uttered in low tone: "A vapor that ap
pearcth for little season, and then van
isheth away" She saw hill, higher than
any she had ever before seen on the hori
zon, and on the top of it d kings castle.
The motion of the rocking chair became
slighter, until it stopped. The spectacles
fell cut Of her lap. A child hearing it,
ran to pick them up, and cried: Grand
mother, what is the matter ?" She an
swered not. She never spoke again. Sec
ond sight had come Her vision had
grown better and better. What she could
not see now was not worth seeing. Not
now through a glass, darkly Grand
mother had no more need of spectacles
Rec. Thomas De Watt 1dlnaoge
Year: 1870

l, nave read and dreamed of beautiful gate.


Movlng on hinges OF purest gold
IN IN, the otner side of the River of Death.


whose waters are dark, and dreary and cold.


Many have reached that deep, dark stream.
On ITS quiet brink TO watch and wait


FOR the messenger pale, to bear them across
Its waveless tide to the Golden Gate.


The first one that left our household band


Was one who had eyes of deepest blue


with brow as fair as the pale spring flower.
ana heart as pure as the morning dew.
Long she lay on bed of pain,


Long, l, very long. did we hope and wait,
NY angel sister, where is she now?
one mas entered in at the Golden Gate,
An angel came, and within her palm
Sne pore her away to her home above:
caught the gleam of a glitter;ng band.
ana heard sweet words from a hymn of love.
But the angel guest soon came again,
ana another one left our broken band
another one passed through the Golden Gate
Into the beautiful shining Land.
Mother, oh mother, l cried in nv grief.
How long on earth must 1 weep and wait {?
I'LL it pleaseth God, voice replied,
10 call thee home through the Golden Gate.
mus , one by one they all passed away,
nile L am left lonely and desoate,
how sometimes yearn for the angel to como
AND bear me too through the Golden Gate.
In fancy see my mothers face
And my gentle sisters violet eyes;
And the rest that have left me, 1 see them too.
Looking down ut me from the azure skies.
When the slantng rays of the setting sun
A glory of molten gold create,
e, ehllds soft whisper reaches my carr
we are waiting for thee, at the Golden Gate.
w hen the sun moves south in the Autumn sky
And the leaves their branches all forsake.
L know that l, like them, will die,
And pass to my rest through the Golden Gate.
Year: 1870

SOLITUDE. There are few things more con-
ducive to the health of the mind than OCCASION
al solitude aud silence. If the conscience be
unsullled silence will be 2 season of enjoyment;
if the recollection of crime weigh on the mind.
in silence resolutions of amendment are more
usually formed than amid the tunuIt and con-
fusion of the world. The man who habituates
himself to spend an hour every day in silence
and seclusion, can scarcely become depraved;
he who never withdraws himself from the busy
throng of selfish men can scarcely be otherwise.
The army that is always marching cannot act
with energy In cases Of emergency; and the
mind that never reposes from the labor of arti-
fetal excitement. will be but i'll prepared to
grapple with violent temptation. Silence is to
the mind what the bottom of the river is to the
swimmer when he can rest his feet upon the
solid ground, he can look around him and see
where he is. He can mark out his course and
start anew. To the religious man, silence is
the throne of Deity. For when the world is
shut out-when the passions are stied, and the
wandering thoughts are curbed, his soul is in
the presence of his maker. To those who never
have habituated themselves to silent reflections,
these things may sound like dull sermon on
morality. Those who have tried the experiment
viii confess that the soul is truly alive when the


animal mass is restrained, and the redundancy


of aimless thoughts pruned. The stiller clock


and the better time it will keep; and an hour
| glass runs the faster the less 1t is disturbed.
Year: 1870

amount from the first year, and will undoubted
~ increase to its utmost capacity In less thar
20 years.


1t appears that the Erie Canal has paid the
entire cost OF construction with all Its interes
and is now yielding clear profit of from $3.-
0oo, ,oOO to $4,000, 900 yearly, with its limited
freight, dHonly In operation seven months ol
the year. Now, is there any consideratc mind
that can believe that the Virginia Canal will
yield less than thjD times as much as the Erie.
when we take into Consideration the length of
time it will be open while the Erie will be
closed by Ice, together with the fact that it will
be the shortest and cheapest route for three
fourths of the Western population to get their
produce to market, and that in all probability
the tonnage of coal alone will equal the entire
tonnage of the Erie Canal to say nothing of
lumber, iron and other way freight that will
seek transit over this line.


In view of all this who will &y that the
above calculations or estimates are mot too
s., small fn;..' Who will say that the capf6 will be


To double its capacity will notSrequire the
cost to be doubled, perhaps fifty er cent ad-
ded to the $4O,00O,OO0 would triple the capac-
lty OF the Canal This most assuredly would be
the case, for there would be only 27S miles
where the locks would be less than 200 feet
long and 40 feet wide, and the width of the
line less than 100 feet 1t is quite common to
lind the capacity too small on important lines,
and they have to be enlarged at increased ex-
pense and delay. But why should this line he
SO constructed as to require speedy enlarge
ment, when We know that it is beyond all com
parlson the most important and that it will
have no parallel as to tonnage?


We shall have to look at the extent of coun-
try that will seek this line of transit, and con-
slider its productions for transportation, and its
PARSONS of the cost of transportation by other
lines, both by water and by Railroad, to realize
the Importance of this improvement.


A VIRGINIAN
Year: 1870

There have been periods in the history of the
Church when earnest Christians have distorted
the teachings of the Bible by magnifying i'm
portant doctrines and leaving out of sight 9TH
ers OF kindred value. They have found certain
doctrines closely linked with their own personal
experience, and these have absorbed their at
tentlon and given tone to their lie and labors
A very interesting article in the British Quar-
terry illustrates this tendency by comparison
between the evangelical spirit a half century or
more ago, In England, and in our age. 1t
says: .2r 9a5


1.-The older evangelism trusted almost excu-
sively to the attraction of the cross. 1t took
somewhat narrow view of what was meant by
the preaching of Christ cruci6ed, and in seek
ing to win souls to the Saviour it knew scarcely
any other magnet than His dying love, His
atonlng and redeeming passion and death. The
evangelism of our day thoroughly sympathies
with all that the older evangelism taught and
said upon the glory of the cross of Christ, and
is thoroughly with it in the conviction that, in
pre-eminent sense and degree, Christ crucifed
is the power of God and the wisdom of cd un-
to salvation. But 1t has broader and more
inclusive mode of thought and speech than that.
1t remains all that the evangelism of the last
generation thought and said but it adds to it
the great and fruitful thought that the person
of Christ is a potent attraction as well as the
dtOueneuG anu FecOilcHidilOn cOtlSuulnaCeQ once
for all in His death. The living Christ is in its
eyes a mighty factor of the christian life, as we'll
the dying Christ and it reckous upon the
powerful attraction which the personal Saviour
has for every soul of higher type which has any
yearnlngs for the true, the beautiful, and the
good. La former day the appeal of the eyau-
gelica pulpit was almost exclusively to the sense
of guilt which rankes In every human soul, and
to the fears of the coming judgment which such
a guilty conscience engenders, aud to the sense
of duty arising from such a taste OF lost souls to
flee for refuge to the hope set before them In
the one only atonement. The evangelism of
our day sums up all the elements of Christ at
traction over human souls and holds that the
fulness of Christ himself is the fulness of His
attraction. Unless we held forth Christ in the
plenltude both of what He is and what He does,
we are not holding Him forth in all the pleni-
tude of His power to draw to himself, aud to
bind to Himself forever, in trust and love, the
immortal souls of men,"
Year: 1870

HeA We are offering our goods at the loves
CASH PRICES, and we are determined t
give satisfaction to all who may need anythin,
in our line of business. M


We solicit the citizens and Farmers gener
ally who have not tried US TO do so We thanI
all our frienis for their past liberal patronage
and respectfully request a continuance OF tn
same Do not forget the place. Be sure t
call on


@ RICHARDSON & WHEAT.
Year: 1870

turition, they yield little, and overlap
each other, and thus, by rendering the
birth more easy they save the mother
much pain, and contribute to the safety
of the foal without a change in the form
of the head, from q compression and
yielding of the bones of which il is COM
posed, the animal could not be born.


D. MARTIN.
Year: 1870

TELEGRAPH IN JAPAN Wonderful Effect
of oar National PreSent.-The Japan Week.
Ly Mail, to hand by way Of Europe, con-
tainS al amusing account OF a trial of 4 field
telegraph lately presented by the American
Government to the Mikado, in the Imperial
presence


By the Mikado's desire the apparatus
was erected in the grounds of the palace,
one terminus being his Majesty's private
study. and the other the pleasure pavilion
which stands in the centre of the Maple


Gardens, where were assembled three


princes of the blood, the Prime Minister,


and q host of members OF the Privy Council,


to receive and answer the imperial mes


sage<. The working of the wire was en-
trusted to two Japanese, and when all was


ready message arrived at the pavilion


announcing the presence OF the Mlkado


at the terminus in the study. To this
announcement most respectful message
was returned, thanking his Majesty for his
gracious presence. Shortly after the mes
sage came, THE Emperor is highly pleased
with the wonderful western invention )"
and then Immediately afterwards, "Who
are in the pavilion, and what are you
doing?" TO this an answer was returned
giving the names Of those present. and say
ing that they were awaiting with profound
veneraton his Majesty's gracious orders.
To their intense embarrassment, the an
swer wasretilrned, Telegraph to us some
thing amusing" As may be imagined, this
message caused the greatest CONSERVATION
among the courtiers. How were they in
moment to conjure up anything that
should be amusing, and, at the same
time, respectful. At length one privy
Councillor suggested: This day will be
memorable in the annals Of the empire as
that on which his Majesty for the first time
witnessed the working OF a telegraph
But this was instantly rejected as being not
in the least amusing. AT last youthful
courtier proposed, "We all mean to get
merry on the wine which we expect your
Majesty to give u.s."


This was at once received with delight
and transmitted to the palace, and to it
reply was Immediately returned that they
should not expect in vain, and the proceed
ings terminated with d message from the
Emperor expressing himself satisfied with
the experiments and thanking the officers
who had worked the telegraph. ,.,,,...at..


AT the Emperor's desire the apparatus
was left standing in the grounds, in order
that he might learn to work it himself.
Year: 1870

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CoURr.-The
presence of Judge Bond at the opening OF
this court is quite problematical, as he is
supposed to have business about that time
IN North Carolina. Judge Underwood


states that there will be session next Jan.


uary, and that In the interim only the


" formal business" of the court viii be


transacted.
Year: 1870

SAMPLE MERoHANTs.-It will be seen by
the ordinance published elsewhere that the


City Council has made an important change
in the ordinance concerning sample mer-
chants, reducing the license to ten dollars
per month, or fifty dollars for year. II
the Legislature would make like change
In the State law universal satisfaction would
be given and a larger revenue realized.
Year: 1870

1t is an instrument of great versatility
in its operations. twill hem, fell, braid
cord, gather, tuck more beautifully than
any other machine in use, without bast
ing or any preparation Of the work.