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Year: 1872

The Griggsville Gazette in speaking of some
measure which was carried through by an in
iuential citizen, says SIN this he had will as
is his Won't" The question naturally arises,
what is will "as is a won't?
Year: 1872

Notwithstanding the conspicuous position
which President Theirs occupies at the pres
ent time, it is said that less copies of his
works are sold now in France than at any
time during the past twenty-five years.
Year: 1872

Parliament, in England, during the week
lust past has been thrusting a very bungling
finger into the question of time and work,
especially with regard to women. Adult
women are TO be prohibited from work in
mines, and the hours of employment for the
large bodies Of milliners and dressmakers are
to be restricted so as to bear some proportion
to those claimed by men. AT first sight these
provisions appear simply humane and reason
able, and to open no ground Tor argument.
The question, however, with regard to the
women employed as miners and coal-heavers,
is between that work and starvation. There
is but one mode of labor open to them in tho
districts to which it belongs, and the men are
not of the class who support their women
folks as mere house necessities, much less lux
uries. The female cOal-heaver drinks her pot
of ale, drags her load with as sturdy thews,
and "ras lsn with her companions after her
work is over with as hearty gust0 as the
male animal beside her. She is a brutal, pitt
able object enough, it is true, to her delicate,
tenderly nurtured sister; but in that very bulk
and stomach and ox-like back she has her
conversations. after all


There is another side to the question of the
ONeIWOIhtu hCNluS NomNh5 VI Nh'Ah Nii''
Emily Faithful is making such narrowing pie
lures. The time of labor extends from 8 a. m.
TO 10 D. m in the monster dresSmaling estab-
lishments in London, which Miss Faithful
designates as cruel and inhuman. 1t must be
remembered, however, that this period of
press of work only lasts during three months
of the year. During the remainder the sew
ing women are so much idle that the majority
are clad to accept the hurry and overwork for
short season to make up their deficiencies.
To prohibit absolutely any woman from earn
ing her daily bread at the mouth of the coal
nit provided her muscles would warrant it,
or any other from clearing few shillings by
improving the exigencies of Overwork, is
hardly just. Half the house-mothers of the
middle and lower classes in this country
would be glad to compromise their stent" of
daily unpaid work for any fourteen hours OF
stitching on tulle and muslin.


The common sense of the matter is that It
is as useless to try to legislate on the amount
or duration of labor practicable for all men
or women as to prescribe one universal diet
for them all, whether of flesh, fish or -four.
According to the recent dicta of German
scientific colleges. we all work too much.
The months of study, it is proposed, shall be
reduced in German Universities to seven, six,
and in one case to five. The brain of the
student shall thus have more than half the
Year: 1872

find anything in il in praise Of Dr. Grant at
all. That is the curiosity Of it. There is q
little bit Of lawyer-lke talk aboat the Gen
erals nepotism but that, after all, is only an
extcnuation. As a general rule, the rhetorical
General evidently thought it best to leave the
Ii. ID. General severely alone. In fact, he
said I" am not going to allude to Gen. Grant
Gin any way that will make this personal
"contestw Really, was there ever such pru-
dent magnanimity exhibited by political
advocate before


But to come back to Gen. Buffers great
bugabOOl When Mr.. Greeley is elected we
are "tO find ourselves drawn into vortex,
"and voting to repay the losses Of the South
land to pension Confederate soldiers" We
might, indeed, ask how Mr.. Greeley or any
other man as President could have the power
to do all that Mr.. Butler raises questions to be
considered in the Congress districts but what
have they to do with the election of Presi-
dent-at least with the election of Presi-
dent who may be trusted to keep
strictly within the limits of the COnsti-
tutiOnf The only serious talk which
we have heard of the propriety and ne
cessity of doing these horrible things,
did not come from Greeley men, but
from men who bOlted the Baltimore
nominations and set up an Ant-Greeley-Dem
ocratc party on their own hook. 1t was Mr.
RichmOre Jackson, seeding Democrat, who
thought with Gen. Butler that Mr.. Greeley
ought not to be elected, who proposed in the
little Anti Greeley Convention that the Pension
laws should be extended to embrace all South
ern soldiers and that the liberated slaves
should be paid for by the nation. When the
Boiling National Convention shall meet on the
Sd of next September these notions may
be digested into a regular platform but
until then we beg Gen. Butler to
refrain from trotting out his scarecrOw con-
iectures and it would be rather lamentable
if he should find the Boilers going for Grant,
just to beat Greeley, after all. Meanwhile he
can amuse himself by trying to find out
whether it is the Democratic party which has
taken up the Liberal Republican candidate, or
whether it is the Liberal Republican can
didate who has taken up the Democratic
party and these points being settled whether
the Democratic party formerly bOted from
Gen. Butler, or whether Gen. Butler bolted
from the Democratic party. There is no end
of pretty little problems like these, if Gen.
Butler wishes to try his hand at solving them.
Year: 1872

Our correspondence from Austria has already
given THE TRIBUNE readers an account OF the
projects for the Worlds Fair at Vienna, which
is to open in May, 1873, and we have also
announced the appointment of Thomas B. Van
Buren, as Commissioner on the part OF our
Government. Congress has appropriated no
money, however, for the purposes of this ex-
hibition even the Commissioner serves at his
own expense; and whatever is done to give
America a respectable place in the show must
be done by the enterprise of individual citi-
zens. There are to be competitive exhibitions
not only of all the products of human in
genuity, taste, and culture, but of all manner
of articles of commerce, the fruits of the
earth, the riches of the forest and the mine,
cattle and other animals, model dwelling
houses and farm-hOuses, articles of food, &c,
&C.. and these are 20 be arranged in such a
way as to have direct practical influence on
the development and direction of trade.


OF course it is highly important that in such
a display the United States should be fairly
represented Not only our national pride but
our pecuniary interests are enlisted in the
project, and American inventors and manu-
facturers who send specimens of their best
work to this exposition may be sure that their
enterprise will bring them a valuable return.
As yet the people seem hardly alive to the
scheme, and the applications for space have
been entirely out of proportion to the rank of
the United States among the industrial ma
tions of the world. Let us bestir ourselves.
Full information can be obtained by exhib-
itors from Commissioner Van Buren at his
Office, No. 81 Chambers-st., NewYork
Year: 1872

To the rescue of Dr. Grant comes now The chris.
tiGn Union, arguing in behalf of the Doctor with
desperate disregard of facts and logic which is really
touching 4" 1t is impossible says this shrewd news
paper, that he (Dr. Grant should be at once ths
dull ignorant, indifferent man they represent and
deep. ambitious scheIner, determined to overthrow
the liberties Of his country and subject us to mill
tary despotism." To this reply that any man
who could plot to overthrow the liberties Of tho
country and subject to a military despOtism
would probably be a dull, ignorant man-no sharp
and well informed man would undertake such
impossible absurdity Besides, great tyrants have
frequently been exceedingly stupid characters; and
it is not uncommon TO meet with men whose
ambition is quite out Of proportion to their brains
As for the military despotism, it is indisputable
fact that considerable portion Of the country las
already been subjected to it, and has hardly any


liberty left TO overthrow. A President obstinately
bent upon having his own way, and not likely to bo
much in love with the best way-a President who
NEEDLES constantly in important matters with what
is the particular business of the departments-a
President who does wrong things with no apparent
notion that he is doing wrong, maymake great deal
Of mischief though he may not be particularly
bright.
Year: 1872

The letter Of the Hon. Revcrdy Johnson.
which we have already printed, giving his
views on the state of the country, must at
tract general attention, both on account of
the prominent position of the writer and the
compactness Of his statement. His arraign-
ment of the Administration is admirable in its
way, and the whole document has a terseness
and vigor of expression that will not fail 10
make profound impression.
Year: 1872

Politicians are often reproached with inconsist-
ency-sometmes with reason often without-but
there is one against whom the charge can never be
plausibly urged. His name is Thomas ii. Bond and
he lives in NewHayen, Conn. Some twenty years
ago he was Wing Senator from Oswego in this
State, when the Whig party was impellod to take
ground agains, the diffusion Of Slavery. whereupon
he renounced aud became Democrat At length
the Democratic party takes q decided step in the
direction of Progress and Equal Rights; whereupon
Bond renounces it in turn and goes over to Grant.
If the primeval darkness were anywhere accessible
Bond would doubtless make for it at once as it is.
he gets as near it he We shall probably soon
hear of him reconstitutng the mystic worship OF the
Druids OF at least sacrificing a bull TO Jupiter
Year: 1872

The reefy coast of Massachusetts, is declared
to be the fsherman's paradise by correspond
ent whose agreeable, breezy letter we print
to-day If next to the delight of seeing plea
SAINT scenes is that of reading of them, that
enjoyment is commended to the reader, who
will find description of vacation ON the
Old Colony coast on our second page.
Year: 1872

Anybody who has money TO bestow in charity can
find an excellent opportunity for beneiiccnce at
Alpena. in Michigan, where fire on the l2th inst.
destroyed sixyfye houses in the heart of the city.
The horrors of catastrophe like this in little city
like Apena can hardly be oyerstated. The editor Of
The Argus saved nothing from his Office except a die
tionary and as he purposes with that remnant OF his
capital to start again, we suggest that those who
have use for Michigan newspaper testify their APP
probation of his pluck by adding their names to ms
list of subscribers.
Year: 1872

ANEcDoTE OF DoG.-A narrow log lay
as dridgc over a deep ravimc. From the
opposite ends OF the log, at the same moment,
there started TO cross it big Newfound and
dog and little Italian greyhound; of course
they met in the middle; OF course there was
not room for them to pass, neither could they
70 back. The height was a dangerous one
for the greyhound, and to the water at the
bottom he was extremely averse. The New
foundland could have taken the leap in safe
~, but evidently did not want to- There
was fix! The little dog sat down on his
launches, stuck his nose straight up in the
,ir and howed. The Newfoundland stood
intent, his face Solemn with inward workings
Presently be gave nudge with his nose TO
the bowling greyhonnd-as if to say, "Be
still, youngster, and listen" Then there was
4 silence and seeming confilbulaiion for sec
ond or two. Immediately the biz dog spread
his legs wide apart like a Colossus, bestrd
ing the log on its extreme outer edges, and
balancing himself carefully. The little dog
'prang through the opening like fash.
When they reached the opposite shores the
greyhound broke nto frantic gambols Of de-
light and the Newfoundland, after his more
sedae fashion, expressing great complaceney
in his achieyementas he surely had right
to d.
Year: 1872




County of Placer,
l, b. +. BURT, County Clerk and ex-oficiC
Clerk of the County Court in and for sale
County of Placer do hereby certify that the
foregoing is true and correct copy of the origi
nal Notice Of Application of Pardon now on file
in my office


In witness whereof l have hereunto set my
~ hand and impressed the seal Of the
SEAL County Court, at my Office in Auburn
wv this 26th day of June, A. d. 1872.


b. +. BURT,
ie29-iw1 unity Clerk.
Year: 1872

The Concert itself will be the most brilliant 0rches
trail display that occurred in the West One hun
dred performers, gathered from all parts Of this
try and from Europe under the direction of Professor


Hast will contribute to this grand musical carnival
And to afford ample for every ticket holder to
enjoy such unusual musical festival, the Concert
will be given in Central Park, where arrangements
have been made to accommodate all who may come.


Persons holding whole, half quarter tickets will
Year: 1872

San Juan boundary says:


An unofficial letter from a United States
official in Berlin says little or no doubt is
entertained there that the Emperor of Ger
many has decided in favor of the United
States, as arbitrator between Great Britain
and this country in the matter of the San
Juan or northwestern boundary line. 1t is
otherwise stated that the delay in the
official announcement is to wait for the
excitement over the Geneva award to sub
side in England.
Year: 1872

KANSAS CITY, February lO.-The
Times special from Jefferson City give
the details OF another terrible acciden
on the Missouri Pacific railroad near
that city Yesterday. Two sleeping cars
and one ladies car were precipitated
down a bank twenty feet, making
fearful wreck and wounding badly a
large number Of passengers. An etfigy
OF General Superintendent A. A. Tai
medge was found yesterday hanging tc
telegraph pole near this city, The
firemen on this division Of the road
have struck for higher wages.
Year: 1872

To THE DEMOCRATIC Rpro--. uENERAL COMMIT
TEE:-


In January last, when you unanimously elected
me your chairman, accepted the position with the
distinct avowal on my part "that it should not be
a committee organized In the interests OF any one
man or set of men and subject to their manipula-
ton, but committee whose labOrs should
be unceasing In behalf OF reform and
the best interests Of the democratic
party" Recent events have convinced me
that effort is making to use the organization as
an instrument OF personal ambition, and this, too
by methods that not only sacrifice democratic prn-
cipes but will put in extreme peril, If not utterly
ruin tho movements for reform in this city. While
ready at all times to employ my best energies in
secOndIng for our city an honest wise aud efficient
government also desire to use every honorable
effort to aid In the election OF Horace Greeley
aud B. Gratz Brown, the candidates OF the
democratic party for President and Vice President.
Believing that fidelity to the cause OF municipal
reform Is entirely compatible with allegiance to the
democratic party, cannot consent to remain at
the head OF an organization, some OF whose prom
inent members are willing to combine with Its
enemies for the defeat OF its national candidates.


After careful consideration, and In accordance
with the advice OF friends in whose Judgment l
conlde, and with full appreciation OF the many
acts of kindness and courtesy have received from
the committee, beg leave to tender my resigna-
ton its chairman, to take effect RON this date


w. II. WICKHAM.


NEW YORK, August 8. 1872
Year: 1872

His Majesty King Amadeus has signed decree
providing for the gradual abolition of slavery in the
colonies of Cuba and Porto Rico.


ENGLISH DIPLOMACY IS THE CAUSE OF EMANCIpATIoN.


A deputation IRON the Ant-Slave Trado Associa-
tion Of England waited on Earl Granville short
time ago to request his lordship to use his in


uence in favor of the abolition Of slavery at Porto
RICO and Cuba. Earl Granville said that there
1'could be no doubt that the Spanish government
had not acted up TO the treaty. but it was dinlcut
matter for Great Britain any other power to in
terfere In the affairs OF o country which had an
insurrection its hands. He had had some discus
sion with his colleagues on the general subject but
Old not feel justified in making the result public"
Year: 1872

The Queensland thinks the prospect
for wool-growing in Australia are better
than ever before. The yield is large and
the Hocks are in good condition. The
quality Of the clip satisfied buyers and the
wool now finds market where it never
was sold before.
Year: 1872

Too MEcH FOR THE DEvIL.-This is
Rev. DR.. Edward Hale's story: A man
had sold himself to the devil, who was to
possess him at certain time, unless he
could PROFOUND question to his satanic
majesty which he could not answer, he
being allowed to put three queries to him.
The time came for the devil to claim his
own, and he consequently appeared. The
first question the man asked was concern
ing theology, to which it caused the devil
no trouble to reply. The second he also
answered without hesitation. The mans
fate depended on the the third. What
should it be = He hesitated and turned
pale. and the cold dew stood Oh his fore
head, while he shivered with anxiety,
nervousness and terror, and the devil tri-
umphantly sneered. AT thisjuncture the
mans wife appeared in the room with a
bonnet on her head. Alarmed at her
husbands condition, she demanded to
know the cause. When informed, she
laughed and said 81 can PROFOUND
question which the devil himself cannot
answer. Ask him which is the front Of
this bonnet?" Tire devil gave it up and
retired in disgust, and the man was free.
Year: 1872

For several years we have offered, in
connection with our own, most Of the pub
ications in the country at greatly reduced
rates, even lower than the lowest club rates
in many instances. We do this to induce
advance payment, and people to subscribe
who are not now subscribers, and also to
do good favor to those who patronize us.
We cannot offer club rates for the NEWS
DEALER, nor can we send it more than a
year at the regular rates, for the price is
now so low as to be within the reach Of
every one, and so low as to leave 10 mar
gin for profit. All new subscribers who
pay in advance, and all old ones who will
pay arrearages and year in advance, can
avail themselves of this offer. The first
column OF figures gives the regular sub
scriprion price of the publication offered,
and the last is the price for it and the
NEwsDEALER. Any publication not appear
ing in the list will be procured at advau-
taoeous rates Read the list
Year: 1872

The buckling on of the knights armor
by his lady's hand was no mere caprice
Of romantic fashion 1t is the type Of an
eternal truth, that the souls armor is new
er well set to the heart unless womans
hand has braced it and it is only when
she braces it loosely that the honor of
manhood fails.-[ Ruskin.
Year: 1872

1t is not truth which makes man
worthy, but the striving after truth. If
God 10 his right hand held every truth,
and in his left the one inward impulse at
ter truth, although with the condition
that should err forever, and bade me
choose, / would humbly incline to his left
hand saying, o Father give me that !;
pure truth is for thee alone.-- Lessing.
Year: 1872

AS to the value of conversions God
alone can Judge. God alone can know
how wide are the steps which the soul has
to take before it can approach to a cofn-
munity with Him, to the dwelling of the
perfect, or to the intercourse and friend
ship of higher nature. - Gothic.
Year: 1872

4 vampire fattening on the pain
OF bleeding hearts and children slain
a toe to virtue, learning, truth.
The bane of age and snare Of youth
\ licensed woe snd murder den,
\ curse and pest to honest men;
\ nations burning plot and shame,
Which all its noble deeds deIame .
Deaths gilded door round which men


wait,


And mally take the poisoned bait
\ source from which pollution streams,
Darkening beauty's heavenly beams;
The poor mans foe, and the wise man s


dread,


Where poverty to vice is wed
y trumpet call to all the good
To Join in holy brotherhood,
This glaring wrong to sweep away,
And hydra hosts OF evils slay
The misery and crime it brings
To rank among departed things
Whose Notwithstanding in the gloom,
Us waketul keep lest it resume
Its blasting sway and daring wage
Destructive warfare with the age.
Then rouse ye, all who hold the helm
OfpuLlc action in the realm
Mark well the facts within Your reach,
For these fearful lesson teach
OF fostered ignorance and sin,
In these abodes of beer and sin,
If, then, from guilt YOU would be free,
Declare this evil shall not be-
Year: 1872

\ TERRIBLE PRENoSIroN REALIZED.
Cleveland last week was the scene Of
one of those awful cases OF mysterious
warning and sad realization that have
been agonizing the country papers lately.
The sad circumstances are a follows:


\ Young and beautiful married lady,
whose husband was down town attend
ing "a railroad meeting, stepped into a
neighbor's house to while away an hour
or 50 until he returned. While engaged
in knitting a stocking, she was startled
by the sudden dropping Of the stitches
from one needle, but not being snpersti-
tious, she proceeded to gather them up
when looking-glass in the room fell
and broke; she then felt that some dead
ly peril hung over her husband, and
rushed home. The front door was open
his overcoat hung upon the floor, and
his plug hat was placed upon the mar
ble bust Of Daniel Webster, in the par
lor When an undeniable feeling of
terror, she rushed to her room only to
find her warning realized; there be lay
on the bed, with bis boots on the pill
lows, and the ace of spades tightly
clutched in his hand. She did not faint,
but denied trumps and played club
around his head-until be promised to
give up such tricks.
Year: 1872

he W aShlngton correspondent Vl
the Herald Of Health writes in the April
number of that lively magazine


TIE PRESIDENT.


Everybody knows that he is a smoker,
and a tremendous one. too. He told
me that while he was in the field ne
smoked literally all the time. but that
in civil lie. confined IN ,Hc house - Ec
is many hours in the day, he has been
obliged to reduce the number Of cigars
that he allows himself Especially in
w2lking does he smoke lie takes his
solitary walks regularly every day, and
graduates the length Of the walk to the
length of the cigar When John GUN
cy Adams was Secretary of state and
President, he set an example OF care Ion
health. with reference to bathing. Eve
" mornin-, early, during the summer
months, he took his plunge into the
Potomac In that form of hydropathlc
zeal, the present occupant Of the White
House certainly does not initiate NJ,
Adams. The Executive Mansion cua-
bles him to take his ablulions in moro
private and more agreeable manner
than by a swim in the great river.


But President Grant has another hab-
it, which is very wholesome both for
mind and body-he believes in the san
itary value of an occasional journey, a
trip to the seaside. run across the
continent And he is right No mat
ter if partisan newspapers do ridicule
him for it, it is the proper thing for him.
1t brings him into contact with the
minds Of the people 1t saves him from
the illusions which an incr,>ant stay in
Washington Is sure to breed. Above
all. it gives to mind and body the re-
taxation which both need from the tor-
turing strain OF executive duties


it is hard to find fault, even in the
mildcst fashion with a man like
Year: 1872




The Chicago papers are just now
urging the necessity of taking steps
for the better training Of the chill
dren of the streets in that city.
There are a large number of these
children who are neither employed
at any work nor attend any school,
and it is urged that State law
should be passed compelling attend
ance at school, and city ordinance
,proylding'for the arrest of all boys
and girls found upon the streets
during school hours and incapable
of properly accounting for them
selves; together with the establish
ment of city or county trade
school, in which these classes might
be placed, whether for day, week,
a month, or any longer period. The
suggestion is an excellent one, and
we hope the united action of the
press will have its effect. I