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Year: 1872

Almost all the cases of real destitution
which come under our observation are from
other sections-people brought here by
steamboat, sail or by rail. Corporal Ban
croft, Algiers, Thursday evening, found a
man, wife ard three children at Morgan's
railroad depot sick and utterly destitute.
All he could do was to send them to the
Charity Hospital for medical treatment
They had just arrived from the country. If
their history could be written, doubtless
some strange events would be told of hor-
rible wrongs and criminal indiscretons.
Year: 1872

opinion as ~ tHo appropriation lOI CuC
Louisville canal, and the clause fixing the
tolls:


DEPAREXENT OF JUSTICE, /


Washington, August 7, 1872 )
To the Hon. W. W. Bekuap, Secretary of War


SIR have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter Of the fifth instant in
closing copy Of an act approved June 10,
1872, making appropriations for the repair,
preservation and completion of certain pub
lie works on rivers and harbors, and calling
my attention to the following provision
therein: "FOr the continuing Of the work on
the canal at the falls OF the Ohio river
$300000; and.the Secretary Of War is hereby
directed to report to Congress at its next
session, or sooner if practicable, the cOndi
ton OF said canal, aud the provisions neces-
sary to relieve the same from incumbrauCe,
with a view to such legislation as will
render the same. free, and commence at
the earliest practicable period, subject
only to such tolls as may be nee
essary for the superintendent and repairs
thereof which shall not, after the passage
of this act, exceed five cents per ton" You
inquire "whether the act above stated ne
cessitates the Louisville and Portland
Canal Company to accept the rate of toll
prescribed by II, should they consent to the
improvement being carried on" Conhning
myself to the question submitted by you,



ment the expenditure of the appropriation
to continue the work on the canal at the
falls of the Ohio will make no difference
with the rights of said company in respect
to the toll of the said canal. The two
clauses Of the above cited provisions are
separate and distinct. and the execution Of
the one is in no way connected with or de-
pendent upon the execution of the other.


Whether such company have any right to
refuse or accept, or in any way interfere
with the use of the appropriation as indi-
Gated in said act of Congress, or whether
they have any right to impose at this time
any tolls in excess Of five cents per ton, are
questions upon which l express no opinion.
l only mean to say that the rights
which the company now have as to all tolls,
whatever they may be, will continue unat-
fected by the use OF said appropriation in
continuing the work on the canal, whether
the expenditure is made with or without
their consent. Very respectfully, your
Obcdient servant,


II
Year: 1872

The best feature connected with the
South African diamond ficlls is the dis
covery that the Cape country is one of the
richest agricultural regions in the world
From country almost barren Of people.it
will in time become one of the most thick
ly settled portions of the globe.
Year: 1872

EF A bald headed friend, Of q heavy
phlegmatc temperament, was accosted
on the street by waggish acquaintance
with the inquiry, "Tom, why is your
head like Alaska TOO much for me
Zach--I give it up Because it is is
Which bear place.
Year: 1872

reception by Hustfcs ana stray Pic
nicrxcrs-Anothcr Reception at Water
town-Thc President and Party Highly
Pleased.


UTICA, N. Y, August l. 1872
General Grant, with Senator Conking and his
party started from here this morning, shortly after
eleven O'clock in two carriages for Trenton Falls.
There was no excitement about their movements
ana no notice in particular was taken of their de-
parture. The ride was a most enjoyable one
throughout, and the Senator ana his guests made
the most oft Five miles of continued upward
slope, through fertile and generally delightful
country, brought them to the top of "Blg Hill, the
summit OF whose range forms the northern bound
airy of the famous Valley OF the Mohawk. There the
carriages stopped few moments, that their occu-
pants might enjoy the pleasure OF


LETTING THEIR EYES WANDER
over the broad and varied expanse beneath includ-
ing the entire valley, with the city OF Utica azlly
smoking in its bosom and bathing her feet I'm the
winding Mohawk River, whose silver thread showed
itself here and there along the entire length OF the
valley. The party moved on and went headlOng
down an irregular descent of some nine miles until
they drew up at Moore's romantic hOstelry, imme-
diately adjoining the Falls.


PICNIC RECEPTION.


They were met at the entrance to the grounds by
long procession of the farmers Of the district and
some picnic parties from the negnbOring towns,
headed by the inevitable brass band, and escorted
to the hotel which they entered amid enthusiastic
and handshaking, which lasted nearly half an hour.
Indeed, the Presidents reception at this romantic
country resort was much hearter than any other
he has received since he last left Long Branch and
he appeared to enjoy 1t hugely. After the hand
shaking came dinner and after that scamper
through the woods and an inspection OF the really
magnificent falls which give this locality part OF Its
name. After thoroughly enjoying themselves


THE PRESIDENTS PARTY
started for home at six O'Clock p. NJ, and arrived
here at half-past eight, highly pleased with their
days rustcatiOn.


The President will leave here tomorrow morning
at eleven O'Clock by special train and arrive at
Watertown at half-past two, where another civic
reception awaits him.
Year: 1872

tool place yesterday afternoon some Of Moore'4
friends had seen him., and ne convenient!E
The case was further adjourned until tomorrow, ID
order that the carman who moved the goods may
who employed him. The prisoner was remanded to
the prison. and will be held without bail until JUS;
tice Cox shall have heard all the testimony ana
rendered his decision.


Mrs Bloodgood had the anrontery to tell her
husband she had been on intimate terms with
unite her future with his upon his being liberated
Year: 1872

EDITORS CHRONICLE: L have noticed,
now and then, your structures upon the
Memphis Appeal with regard to the status
of the colored people, and l am prepared
to say that | heartily indorse them. That
the -1ppedy is ably conducted no one can
deny who is familiar with its columns, but
its views with regard to the race in ques-
ton are wholly out of the question and
betray an unusual weakness. The effort
of any Southern journal to pat d01on the
black man, is simply suicidal. AS to his
rOting, he must be allowed to vote Just as
he likes, without any interference or any
threats of ostracism. He is freeman,
and if he don't vote foryour party or mine,
we must not get into a passion about it
and threaten him with annihilation, for
such is the logic of the Appeal. That
journal would sweep him from the face of
the earth simply because he did not vote
the AppedpS ticket!


Now, if any respectable portion of the
Southern people endorse and adopt the
chimerical and outlandish views of the
Appedl they might as well put a razor to
their own threats and be done with it.
What would he the result Just this: de-
priving thousands of the muscle of the
| colored race, without which they would
| become bankrupt in ten years or less time.
| No other race on earth is fit to cultivate
cotton fields but the black race. White


men cannot Withstand the burning sands
and the scorching sun of Southern lati-
| tude. The Southern people know this,


and, therefore, it would seem strange for
| them to accept the doctrines of the Appedt
| and to carry them out. Instead of driving


off the negro and otherwise maltreating
! him, they should draw the closer to him,
| cultivate amicable relations with him, Sc


cure his favor and thus command his CO.
operation. They can't dispense with his
| labor. 1t can't be substituted. He will


make more cotton than anybody.


The South has its periodical spasms with


regard to the colored man. They occur


whenever elections occur. 1t has


so happend that he has usually voted
contrary to the way the whites have voted,
| and this accounts for the milk in the cocoa


nut. Those spasms must be checked, OF


else vast injury will befall the pocket. Such


papers as the appeal, in its fury, may in-
fiict untold mischief upon the South. The
labor question is a vital one with the South


ern States. y SoUTHERNER.
Year: 1872

The Boston Post says: With regard to
the working women, it is gratifying to OBJ
serve that some of the large manufacture
ing establishments are making arrange
ments for the immediate unemployment
of their usual force; but certainly weeks
and probably months will elapse before
this numerous class of industrious ciuizens
will he able to earn again tine wages that
supply them with lodging and with food.


The poor that Boston has always within
its limits form burden that is borne none
too gracefully; and as we enter upon the
inclement season with thousands added to
that class of dependents, and with other
thousands cut off temporarily from the
means of livelihood, we cannot Afford for
their sakes, to repulse the offers of assist
ance made in their behalf These are peo-
pie who will not beg, but who must he
sought out and cared for and in accepting
the gifts from abroad we concede nothing
of our ability to care for our own poor, any
more than to rebuild our own warehouses,
but heartily acknowledge the good will
that prompts such brotherly action.
Year: 1872

certain entent, but deplore that it goes no
farther.


Compulsory education is a needed, necessa,
ry principle essential to the well-being OF all
and will undoubtedly supply the requisite
stamina now wanting in our school govern
ment / write this with all due Difference to
the feelings of our worthy school officers but it
is an indisputable fact that the system needs
toning up, requires deal ofstrengthening in
order to bring it to that degree nearest per-
fection.


Heretofore Maine has evinced her loyalty to
her ''Dirigo' and in many of the great ques-
tions of reform has taken her position at the
front and '1ed' all the other States in the
matter of wisdom. Here is another opportu--
nity for 'Down East" to show to the world
her natural shrewdness and foresight. Com
pulsory education will come sooner OF later
and wien better than now while we are all
striving to develop our latent resources and to
turn our natural wealth into channels OF use
fulness and benefcence? Compulsory educa-
tion together with degree more of concise
ness in the text books, giving them bearing
more directly upon the demands Of active,
practical life than towards the solution of diff
ficult problems would tend largely to-
wards the perfection of the entire system and
would be of incalculable value to the people
and State. BREWSTER"
Year: 1872

COMPULSORY ATTENDANcE.-Thef follow
ing suggestions ofa correspondent in regard


to compulsory attendance on schools is well
worthy the attention of the Legislature: -


The coming Legislature in addition to the
great amount of legislation on other impor-
tant matters must and will take hold of this
subject of common-school education with
earnestness and we trust with efficiency The
right and responsibilities of towns, the simpli-
fication of methods, the matter and amount
of matter desirable are all questions which are
deserving of all attention bestowed ON them
and demand more or less legislation to secure
beneficial results. But the single question
which rises par excellence above all others is
Shall we or shall we not have compulsory
education as an amendment to our school
system? / am not of that class who cry
down the present regime as being in the high
est sense un-educational, tyrannical or devoid
of common sense. No, regard the present
system as eminently right and valuable to a
Year: 1872

sons engaged in the granite business on the
islands near Rockland, large amount of which
is expended in that city, giving business an ac-
tivity which but few cities in the State are real
izing. The lime business, in which Rockland
is extensively engaged, is now unusually good,
and the facility for winter transportation very
much increased by the completion of the rail-
road to Bath, furnishing speedy communication
with all the great markets c.,
Year: 1872

THEIRS SICK AND INCAPABLE.-The Paris
correspondent of the New York World says:


Despite M. Theirs activity it is evident age
is making rapid progress. He is constantly
falling asleep. In meetings of the cabinet, in
prolonged conversations, he falls asleep, no
matter what may be the subject under consid-
Grafton. His death may mOmentarily be ex-
pected. His resignation seems even more inn
minent Power has made him intolerent of
all difference of opinion. 1t is evident he will
resign if the Assembly refuses to vote his pro
tective tariff, and his bill for the organization
of the army. His reception of the complaints
of officers of the army, who declare his system
of shed barracks in the country to have made
military life intolerabe, has produced such
widespread discomfort in the army as to have
made all the officers eager for restoration of
the empire. His incapacity to satisfy popular
craving for reforms, his loathing for ali social
questions, will make him unpopular and oblige
him to resign.
Year: 1872

MASSACHUSETTS is in great glee over an
offer for the Hoosac tunnel. The managers
of the short line called the Troy & Boston
railroad propose to buy the tunnel thirty
years after completion for four millions of dol
lars. During the period OF thirty years they
would pay the State semi-annual rental of
$12O,OO0, or six per cent. upon the price to be
interest, the entire amount to be paid to the
State for the tunnel would be about ten mil
lions of dollars. Practically, the State would
be about half reimbursed for what it will ex-
pend upon the enterprise
Year: 1872

A horrible case of neglect occurred in Hart
ford last week friendless man who had fallen
down a staircase while intoxicated, and receiv-
ed dangerous INJURIES being left to die in an
old building without care. He fingered three
days so neglected that cats fed Upon his
wounds, and finally died on Friday. His inju-
ries were not fatal and only demanded good
care.
Year: 1872

THE friendship of despotic Russia for
democratic America is of a singular nature.
The official journal of the Russian govern
ment is profuse inits expression of gratitude
to this country on account of the reception of
Alexis, but M. Catacazy was kept here to in
suit our officials as long as possible. He finds
support and sympathy at home, and it is said
that his royal master will express his dissat-
isfaction with the treatment his envoy has re-
ceived by delaying for some time the appoint
ment of his successor. .a:s
Year: 1872

OHIO is the chosen home of the new de-
partures. The newest new departure has
been taken in Hamilton county in that State
where certain obscure politicians have pro-
mulgated a declaration of faith intended to
secure the adherence of men of all parties.
approves of all sorts of reputation, and
demands a return to gold and silver. Of
course no such new departure as this will
have the support of the Pendletons and the


Ewings, who have new departure of their
Year: 1872

A well-informed correspondent, whose COM
munication appeared Monday, shows that
the deposits in savings banks are taxable, the
popular impression to the contrary notwith-
standing. The impression doubtless arises
from the fact that though no special law
exempts such funds, they are nevertheless
practically free, because the officers of the
banks are not obliged by law to give such in
formation to the assessors as will enable them
to levy tax upon them. The demand of
those who would have the deposits taxed
means no more than that the tax should be
based on returns made by the officers of the
several institutions. Our correspondent could
not have given our suggestions even that small
degree of attention which their importance
deserved, if we may judge from his assumption
that we ask for the taxation of small deposits.
We emphatically protested against such
> course, and our object in writing the article
was as much to claim the continuance of the
exemption for men of small means as to call
attention to the disposition of capitalists to
share it. If the deposits in our Maine banks
have increased forty per cent during the past
year, as is alleged, it will not be concluded by
ANYBODY that the widows, children, orphans
and laborers of the State have saved sic
millions in twelve months! That state of
things would indicate nearer approach to
the millennium than anybody believes we have
attained.


The abstract of the Bank Examiners re-
port, published on the outside of this paper,
shows that considerably more than one half
of the aggregate deposits is made up Of sums
of $1,000 and upwards, the average being
1920! Will our correspondent or any other
intelligent man contend that this large sum
Of fourteen and halfmilions cannot be
reached without also involving widows, Or
phans and laborers? The depositors of these
fourteen millions and a half are, only five
thousand in number. They and the larger
number whose deposits are between $500 and
$1,000 might be taxed, while the 81, ,564 depos-
itors of sums less than $500 might be subject
merely to the same liabilities as at present.
The objection that such course would i'm
pair the usefulness of the banks so far as their
legitimate business is concerned is not well
AOuiluCu. IuC CIndSodSuuoCtto pIcCcueHt SHOWS
this conclusively. Capitalists ought not to be
allowed, in addition to all their other means
of escaping participation in the public burdens,
to be allowed to place eight or ten per cent.
of the Whole valuati0p of the State beyond
the reach of the assessors. aet


So far as the proposed restriction on the
liberty of banks to invest in Western securi-
ties is concerned we are content to let our cor
respondents argument go for what it is worth,
merely suggesting that the greater safety of
our home securities would seem to be a full
equivalent for the higher rate of interest paid
by Western communities where there is only
corporate responsibility for corporate debts.
Year: 1872

A QUAKEP PRINTERS PROVERBS Never sendest thou an article for pub lication without giving the editor thy name, for thy name oftentimes secures publication to worthless articles.

 Thou shouldst not rap at the door of ] printing office, for he that answereth the rap sneereth in his sleeves and loseth time.

 Neve7 io thou loaf about: ask questions or knock down type, or the boys will love you like they do shade trees-when thou leaveth.

 Thou shouldst never read the copy on the printers case, or the sharp and hooked container thereof, or he may knock thee down.

 Never inquire thou of the editor for the news, for behold it is his business at the appointed time to give it to thee without asking. -s

 It is not right that thou shouldst ask him who is the author of an article, for it is his duty to keep such things unto himself

 When thou dost enter his office, take heed unto myself that thou dost not look at what may be laying open and concerneth thee not, for that is not meet in the sight of good breeding.

 Neither examine thou the proof sheet, for it is not ready to meet thine eye that thou mayest understand.

 Prefer thine own town paper to any other. and subscribe for it immediately

 Pay for it in advance, and it shall be well with thee and thine.
Year: 1872

The fall of the leaves not only symbozes human de- cay but promotes it. In other words the euvia from dying and rotting vegetation is unfavorabe to health To this and other rcausesespecialy of moisture

 in the atmosphere-may be ascrbed the prevalence of acute disorders of tho stomach and liver at this Every person of bilious habit is liable to be rery bilious in the fall Then too, all persons whose digestion is weak are than ordinarily dyspeptic and individuals predisposed to coc diarrhea and dyen

 sry particularly hkel to e attacked by these plaints The most complete defence against each and all of these distressing ailments is bodily vigor To obtain this blessing m all it's plentuds where it docs exist and preserve and perpeuate it where it does exist, Hostesrs Stomach Btters is earnestly ommended It is the peculiar office of this preparation to reinforce and regulate the important which digest and temper the food, and convert it uto life sustaining blood Bodily vigor depends upon tho nour

 shng qualities of that hud and the nutrtiousness of the blood depends upon ths functional activity and uarty which the special province of the Btters to Hence it is the hest defence of health at this season. and indeed at all seasons When dysentery, diarrhea bilious colic and other violent affections of the bowels become epidemic they often do in certain parts of the country in the fa it will be found that who have been wise enough to resort to the Bit ters as q preventive almost invariably exempted from the scourge. ts
Year: 1872

A STRANGE SToRY.-From Hon. Domi

 nic O'Malley of Westport, we learn the following particulars of most singular case of mental Arrangement that has come under our notice: Miss Margaret Kelley, a girl about sixteen years old, who lives with her parents, in the town of Dane, in this country, suddenly lost her reason on the evening of the 3Oth of July last. She was we'll and hearty as usual up to the hour of her Arrangement, when her strange conduct betrayed her unfortunate condition. Her mental disorder mani- fested itself in most peculiar manner, as accompanying her loss of reason, was the entire loss of all knowledge of the English language, which is her native tongue. At the same timo she lost the use of the English language, she acquired complete command of the German lan- guage, and spoke it very fluently. The unfortunate girl has lately recovered her reason but is still unable to speak or understand English, but speaks and con- verses intelligently and accurately in the German language. Neither the parents nor anyone of the family can understand her nor she them except through an interpreter. What is most singular, the girl never studied German, never learned to speak it, never lived where it was spoken and could have derived no knowl- edge of the language in the ordinary man. ner. The facts as stated above are vouch- ed for as correct and are attracting con- siderable attention in the community where the girl lives. Several physicians have visited her and admit that her case bafdes their skill. It has been suggested that number of our Madison doctors visit the patient and endeavor to give some solution of this most mysterious mental Wisconsin Paper.
Year: 1872

What shall I call her when VIC mset2

 She knew no other name on earth Than that wh;e mother finds SC sweet,

 Though words be cold and little worth !; sour baby" seemed name complete. But now, 50 many years have flown

 Since from my fearful gaze she passed, How shall I, in the great unknown,

 Amazed where all is strange and vast, How shall there reclaim my own' What sweet rare title does she bear?

 For when meet her on that shore, Grown wise and great as she is fair,

 "My baby" can say no more, shall be the infant there.