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Year: 1872

According to some of the Paris papers
vigorous effort will be made when the AS
sembly resumes its sittings to set the Republic
on solid basis. It is proposed to make NJ


Theirs President for life, to create an Upper
Chamber and the Office of Vice President, to
partially remodel the Assembly, and to modify
the electoral laws by providing some restric-
tions upon the right of universal suffrage.


Until some such changes are made France
cannot be said to be Republic in the proper
sense of the term. II is impossible to refuse
to admit that France has wonderfully recuper-
ated under the government of M. Theirs and
the Assembly. But the state of things
is provisional. Too much depends
upon the life of one man. The
death of the President tomorrow could not
fail to be great national calamity, and it
might revive all the horrors of the Communal


It is high time that this provisional state of
things should cease. An Upper Chamber and
Vice President are certainly necessary if
France would enjoy the blessings of constitu-
tional government. The Upper Chamber
would act as check on the Assem-
bly,, and in the event of the sudden
death of the President the Vice President
would be ready to step into his place. With
two-thirds majority in the Assembly willing
to do his bidding President Theirs may sue
ceed in accomplishing his purpose and carry
ing through his proposed amendments. It is
questionable, however, whether the mass Of
the people will be found as subservient as the
Assembly. There are hundreds of thousands
Of Frenchmen who are of the opinion that the
present Assembly has had q long enough lease
Of power, and that it ought to die What
these persons want is the dissolution of the
Assembly and fresh appeal to the people.
If M. Theirs attempts these constitutional
changes without appealing to the people he
will certainly raise storm. If he appeals to
the people he is likely to find an answer very
different to that which he would wish. There
is difficulty either way. Believing, as we do,
that President Theirs really wishes to give the
Republic fair chance, we wish him all man
ner of success; but we cannot refuse to admit
that in the accomplishment of his work all his
skill and tact and frmness will be needed.
Year: 1872

THE SUEz CANAL AND THE TRIBUNAL OF
COMMERCE. readers will .emember that
some months ago the Suez Canal Company on
their own authority altered and increased
tonnage dues chargeable on vessels passing
through the canal Loud complaints were
immediately raised by the British merchants,
and some Of them went SO far as to say that
the increased dues made the canal route so
costly that it would be more economical to re-
sumo the old route and seek the Eastern seas
via the Cape of Good Hope. The question
was raised whether the canal company had the
right to alter on their own authority the dues
originally fixed. This question was referred
TO the Tribunal Of Commerce. The Tribunal
has decided against the claim Of the company.
II is thought that the company will appeal
against this decision but the presumption is
that the old rates will be resumed.
Year: 1872

TIE GREAT TRIBULATIoN-THE LAST WEEK
3oF THE CAMpAIcN.-We enter to-day upon the


last week Of this ferocious Presidential cam
'paign-the last week of our State canvass and
The last week Of the contest for our municipal
Officers to be elected on the general election
day Tie 9th of November will bring all these
violent connections and cross-frings to n set
Element, and we are glad that ''the great tribu-
lation" is so near the ending Another ''seyen
Eays' battle" and we shall oil be out Of the
ewamps Of the Chickahominy.
Year: 1872

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF. believe there
is committee in existence whose business it
is to pronouce upon the merits of candidates
for our State Legislature. But the true method
on the part of the voter is to think for him
self and to vote upon every candidate in tho
field according to his own honest judgment,
democrat Liberal OF republican,
Year: 1872




past services, despite the degeneration of re-
publicanism and the blunders of the Cabinet.
They will ask, however, that in the four years
that are coming the experience Of the four
years that viii soon have passed shall
not be disregarded; that General Grant, in
return for the confidence they repose in him,
will free himself from the policy indirectly
condemned by his own organs that he will
call about him advisers more in sympathy with
the popular sentiment, and prove himself still
as independent Of political intrigue as he was
when he rebuked Congressional interference
with the army, resisted the attempt to violate
the parole granted to General Lee, vindicated
the sincerity Of the ex-rebels in their abandon
ment Of the heresy of secession, and con-
demned the immediate enfranchisement of
millions of ignorant freedmen incapable of
understanding the responsibilities of ON
elector.


We do not believe that President Grant will
disappoint the people who are about to bestow
their highest honor upon him for the second
time. Certainly he has splendid opportunity
to found reputation in peace only equalled
by his reputation in war-a reputation that
shall place his name in the list of American
Presidents second only to that of George Wash
ington. His resources are immense, for while
ruling over nation of over forty millions OF
people be holds them together almost as one
man through the power Of the telegraph and
of railroads running from ocean to ocean.
Within the next Presidential term he can
Year: 1872

THE Atlantic AontliLy, which in It's
political articles heretofore has not
warmly endorsed the administration.
comes out decidedly for Grant in ils
October number, regarding the Greeley
Democratic coalition as untrust worthy.
After comparing the two candidates it
sums up thus:


"With President Grant the country
has at least the assurance Of tranquility.
1t will not be lifted to state of perfec-
ton, but it will incur no new PERIL
The administration of Grant will make
no rash experiments on our finances
and our dangerously expanded curren-
ey. The public currency will be safe.
The country will have security from
foreign wars, fllibustering attempts,
and domestic violence. The eonstitu-
tional Office Of the President will re-
main intact, TO be used to protect the
public credit and Treasury from hostile
legislation and the bourdless Southern
claims growing out of the war. Recon-
ciliation will be established on the onIv
possible terms, submission to equal
laws. There will be that public conf
dence which is requisite to the expand
ed trade and credit of civilization, and
which is vital need in our financial
currency and banking situation; and
the country will have as much curren.
cy reform, tariff reform, and civil SER
vice reform as Congress and public
opinion will support"
Year: 1872

The good effects of associated action
have never been better illustrated than
in the establishment of cheese factories
in the United States. The improve
ments that have been introduced into
the manufacture ofthis important arti.
|cle Of diet have through this agency
been so great that the American prod
uct now competes with the best English
in the London markets, whereas it was
almost unstable twenty years ago.


The soul is by an ancient writer figur-
ed as the dotted outline of man. The
voice Of the soul is thought, by savages
ami half-civilized folk like Polynesians,
to be murmur, or whistle, or a ghost
of a voice, and this idea still exists in
some parts of England.


The construction of ovens heated by
gas for the purpose Of Matching eggs is
now so perfect in France that the gas
fame regulates its own rate of eOmbus-
ton, and keeps the variations of tenn
perature in the oven within one degree.


NJ. Boussingault finds as the result Of
a series on churning milk that only
three-fourths of the butter is obtained
by this method. He also states that it
is not difficult to detect by the micro
scope the difference between this milk
and the buttermilk that remains after
churning cream. The mixture of but
termilk with skim-milk may also be
detected and distinguished from fresh
milk, which it closely resembles.


Black-lead pencil or crayon drawing
may be fixed by smearing the back of
the sheet of paper with q solution Of
shellac in alcohol.


IT flowers do not mature well, they
may be made to do so by placing half
an inch of powdered charcoal on the
earth in the pot. Another authority
asserts that solution or suspension Of
white hellebore in water may be used
with great advantage in destroying the
insects that infest so many towering
plants. A fair friend has tried the ex-
pertinent with success, and reports that
If the bugs sneezed as she did, it was no
wonder they lost their lives.
Year: 1872

Science shows clearly that man has
lived upon this earth more than 5000
years.


Time will by-and-by hang up his
scythe that is, he will when he shall be
no mower.


Our opinion of man Is apt to be
determined by his opinion of US.


They who are unable to govern them
selves are always very desirous of gov
erning Others.


Ice wateri should be drank very
sparingly unless the ice is perfectly
ripe.
Year: 1872

The Fulton Telegraph proposes con
ven'ion Of newspaper men at St. Louis
in honor Of Horace Greeley and Gov
Brown, the former one of the most sue
cessful journalists of the country, and
the latter the founder of an Influential
Western journal. In consequence of the
honor done the press in the nomination
Of these gentlemen, it certainly would be
nothing more than proper to express or
appreciation IN some such manor.
Year: 1872

Editor HerJM: Now that the con.
ventions of the different counties of this
district will soon assemble
for the purpose OF nominating candid
ate FOR the scat now occupied by Hon,
Andrew King, would it not be well for
the reoplc to be begin to look up their
man for that place And as it has here
toroge been the custom Of the Demo
cratic party to honor its sitting member
in Congress with second term, espe'
cialy SO when that member has shown
himself worthy of the confidence reposed
in him and as the Hon Andrew King
il true Democrat in every sense Of the
word, gentleman of indefatigabIe In
dustry, full of good works, above cor.
rupton. and has at heart the prosperity
of both his constituency and his country
at large; man Of great dignity and
perspicuity, and who will, if re elected,


restore to his district much of the honor
of which it has been robbed in late


years, it surely would be nothing but


fair and right to irdorsc b. re election


our present worthy memter. With all


due respect, therefore, to all other aspi.


rants, am in favor of the good old Gus.


tom of showing to faithful servant that
| his labors have not been in vain.


would therefore spectfuly submit to the
/ Democracy the name Of Hon. A King


for Congress. JUSTICE.
Year: 1872

A gentleman advertised for a boy to
assis, him in his Office, and nearly fifty
applicants presented themselves to him
Out OF the whole number, be in short
time selected one and dismissed the
rest


'--I siioala IKE 70 know SAID a friend
ION what grounG did you select that
boy. who had not single recommends
ton"


You are mistaken,' said the gentle
man. ''1e had a great many. lie
wiped LIS feet when he came in, and
closed the door after him. showing that
he was careful. He gave up his seat
instantly to that lame old man. showing
that he was kind and thoughtful He
took off his cap when he came in, and
wcred my questions promptly and
respectfully, showing that he was polite
and gen;lcmanIy He picked up the
book which | had purposcly laid upon
the floor, and replaced it on the table,
while all the rest stepped over it or
showed it aside, and lie waited quietly for
his turn. instead of pushing and crowd
ing. showing that he was honest and or
derly. When | talked with him | no.
ticed that his clothes were carefully
brushed, lis bair in nice order, aud his
teeth as white as milk and when he
wrote his name, | noticed bis finger nails
were clean, instead of being tipped with
jet, like that handsome little fellows in
the blue jacket. Don't you call these
things letters of recommendation ? | do.
and |. would give more for what | can
tell about a boy by using my eyes ten
minutes than all the letters he can bring
ne
Year: 1872

RBAD AN HOUR \ DAY Thee was
+ lad who, at the age of fourteen, was ap-
prenticed to soap boiler. One of his
resolutions was to read one hour day,
or at least at that rate, and he had an
old silver watch, left lin by his uncle
which he timed his reading by. lie
stayed seven years with his master, ard
said when he was twenty ore he knew
as much as the young squire dii. Now
let US see how much time he had to read
in, in seven years, at the rate Of an hour
each day 1t would be two thousand
five hundred and ffty-fve hours, which
a, the rate of eight reading hours per
day, would be equal to three hundred and
ten days; almost to an entire years
reading. That 'ime spent in treasurinG
up useful knowledge would pile up a
very large store. am sure i; is worth
trying for. Try what you can do. Be
gin now. In after years you will look
back upon the task as the most pleasant
and the most profitable you ever per-
formed
Year: 1872

the duty of our Government to guard
with jealous care the rights of adopted
citizens against the assumption Of unau-
thorzed claim of their former Govern
ments and we urge continual careful
protection and encouragement and Pre-
lection of voluntary immigration.


o The franking privilege ought to be
abolished and the way prepared for a
speedy reduction of the rates of postaga.


10. Among the questions which press
for attention is that which concerns the
relations between capital and labor, and
the Republican party recognize the duty
of so shaping legislation as to secnre full
protection ana the amplest field for capi
tai, and for labor, The creator of capital
the largest opportunities and just share
of mutual profits of these two great SER
wants of civilization.


IL We hold that Congress and the
President have only fulfilled an impera
tive duty in their measures for the sup
preston of violent and reasonable Or
CARNATIONS in certain lately rebellious
regions. and for the protection of the
ballot box. and iharsfosa th~y ore -,'i'i~'s
to the thanks of the nation.


l2 We denounce reputation of the
public debt, in any form or disguise, as a
national crime We witness with pride
the reduction of the principal Of the debt
and the rates of interest upon the bal
ance and confidently expect that our
excellent national currency will be per-
fected by speedy resumption of specie
payment.


Is. The Republican party is mindful
of its obligations to the loyal women Of
America for their noble devotion to the
cause of freedom. Their admission to
wider fields of usefulness is viewed with
satisfaction, and the honest demands Of
any class of citizens should be treated
with respectful consideration. ,


16 We heartily approve the action of
Congress in extending amnesty to those
lately in rebellion, and rejoice in the
growth of peace and fraternal feeling
throughout the land


Is The Republican party proposes to
respect the rights reserved by .he people
to themselves as carefully as the powers
delegated by them to the State and to
the Federal Government. 1t disapproves
of the resort to unconstitutional laws for
the purpose of removing evils, by inter-
ference with rights not surrendered by
the people to either the State or National
Government.


1G. 1t is the duty of the Federal Gov
erEment to adopt such measures as may
best tend to encourage and restore Amer
lean commerce and shipbuilding.


IT, We believe that the modest patri.
ollsm, the earnest purpose, the sound
judgment. the practical wisdom, the in
corruptible integrity, and the illustrious
services of Ulysses s Grant have COM
mended him to the heart of the Ameri-
can people; and with him at our head
we start to-day upon a new march of
victory.


After the reading of the platform-tho
section of which relating to the loyal
women of America excited great applause
and laughter-Gen Burnside rose and
said i move for the adoption Of tbs
platform as whole.


The motion was put and unanimously
carried.
Year: 1872

The training of women in the duties
of domestic economy, is attracting great
attention in England, and an institution
is soon to be established under the
patronage of the Earl of Shaftesbury
and other distinguished philanthropists,
for the purpose of teaching the art of
housekeeping. Lessons in cookery and
baking bread are to be given, and lee
lures are to be delivered on food, cook
ing, housekeeping, the laws OF health,
and other subjects of importance.
Competent teachers and lecturers have
been engaged for the purpose.
Year: 1872

Drowning the Squirrel.


When was about six years old, one
morning, going to school, ground
squirrel ran into his hole in the ground
before me; they like to dig holes In
some open place where they can put
out their head to see if danger is near.
1 thought, now l shall have fine fun.
AS there was a stream of water just at
hand, determined to pour water into
the hole till it should be full, and force
the little animal to come out, 30 that
might kill it. was soon pouring wa
ter upon the poor squirrel could
hear it struggle and said, +" Ahi my
fine fellow, L will soon have you out,
now."


just then heard voice behind me;
Well, my boy, what have you got
therer'


l turned, and saw one of my neigh
bors, good old man, with long white
locks.


"Well," said I, " there is a ground
squirrel in here, and l am going TO
drown him out"


Said he: Jonathan, when was
little boy, more than fifty years ago, l
was engaged one day, just as you are,
drowning squirrel; and an old man,
such as l am, came along, and said to
me, you are a little boy now if you
| were down in a narrow hole like that,
and 1 should come and pour water down
upon you, would you not think was
cruel God made the little squirrel,
and his life is as sweet to it as you:
Why torture to death little innocent
creature that God has made p" He
added, al have never forgotten that,
| and never shall. Now, my dear boy,
1 want you to remember this as long as
you live; and, when tempted to de-
stroy any little animal or bird, to
think what / have said; God does not
allow us to kill his creatures for our
| pleasure"


More than forty years have since
passed, and L have never forgotten what
the good man said, nor have have ever
wantonly killed the least animal for
amusement since. Now, you see it Is
ninety years since this advice was hrst
given, and it has not lost its effect yet ;
no v many little creatures it has saved
from being tortured to death L cannot
tell, but have no doubt a great mum
Der, and 1 believe my whole life has
been influenced by it.
Year: 1872

lIIGu PRICES FOR WooI.-lt Is n rcmarka-
be fact that wool is HOW higher than it has
ever been Ecforc. An agent tora northern
house now in Richmond is huyin@al washed
wool he can hear Of at Scvcnty-ii and eighty
cents pound. which is forty cents mere per
pound Than it brought last spring. The great
rise in the price is owing no less to the fact
tliat wool-@rowing is less engaged in now
than heretofore than that the demand for
wool is every month increasing. These facts
aflurd an unan>weIablc argument for tic dog
tx law.
Year: 1872

DERsONS WISHING BOARD IN A
L PRIVATE FAMILY can be accominodated on
first or second floor. Also, u pleasant BASEMENT
ROOM. suitable for gentlemen. mn s-3te0dE
DOOk AND JOB PRINTING NEATLY
d DONE AT THIS OFFICE.
Year: 1872

AT PRIVATE STABLE, 65 WEST FORTY. FOURTH
n street, very fne Landau also Park Phaeton Eng


sh style but little soied made by Brewster of Broos
street and Fifth also superb coupe Horse per-


ccy sound and kind only for sale as the owner s going
nbv
Year: 1872

20 The lola Register thinks it would now be
eminently proper for some person to give the
leading Republicans of Kansas a regular "setting
up," and proceeds to mention few that might
be attended to ID this respect. As the editor of
the Register appears to be about the only person
troubled on the subject, and seems to know 30
well who need rubbing up, perhaps he had bet
ter undertake the job.
Year: 1872

B The Ottawa Journal thinks that the law
exempting manufactures from taxation, is one of
the most important ever enacted in Kansas, and
will have the effect of attracting an immense
amount of capital to the State. The only draw
back to that influx of capital, seems to have es-
capped the attention of the Journal The Governor
declined to sign the bill, and it did not become a
law
Year: 1872

II Some of the papers are urging the respecta-
BILE ladies of the State Capital to call upon and
sociate with the converted prostitutes, a means
Of elevating them, and encouraging them to per-
severe in their reformation. Perhaps some of the
respectable ladies' think their husbands have
called on them often enough to answer for the
whole family!
Year: 1872

The appointment Of the veteran Ex-Governor
Francis Thomas, of Maryland, rs minister to Peru
is a graceful recognition by President Grant of
the worth and patriotism Of q statesman who has
devoted the best years of his life to the service of
his country. The Baltimore Ameriodn says of
him:


His devotion to the principles of human liberty
dates to the organization of the free-soil party.
He wrote a letter indorsing the ntislavery plat
form of the Buffalo convention in 1e4e, and soon
afterward went into the congressional canvass
with Hon. William r. Hamilton ON the issue there
in set forth. Of course he was beaten. but the
fact that there was man in Maryland who dared
to- raise the anti-slavery banner in those DAYS
should not he forgotten. From that time until
the breaking out of the war he lived in retire
ment-almOst in seclusion. The firing on Sumter
walked up his slumbering energies, and rekndled
the patriotic fervOr of his soul. The appeals
which he made to the people of western Mary
land to stand by the union will be remembered
long after the gray-haired crater has been laid to
his rest. He was elected to congress for three
successive terms. and notwithstanding the fact
that he represented district in which many of
the old anti-slavery prejudices still fingered. he
was always found voting for what were then
called the extreme measures of the advanced Re-
publicans. He voted in favor Of the bill grating
tn the colored men of the District of Columbia
the right of suffrage, and he went before the
people of his district and justified the act. After
his retiring from congress, Governor Thomas
appointed collector of internal revenue for the
fourth congressional district, position which he
now fills.
Year: 1872

HERE is gem of true understand ing entirely too refreshing to be buried up in column article. It is from Secretary Delano's annual re- port, and we commend it to the su- perserviceables in the Indian business who insist that the warriors only need to be kindly advised of their errors and the christian's plan of salvation to induce them to stop the one and embrace the ether, and thenceforward be as good as the boys which only grow up in the Sunday school books. But to the Secretary's paragraph:

 There is but little in the past to encour- age the belief that the adult Indian of to- day can be very thoroughly civilized. We can hope for little more than to hold him in restraint, confne him to smaller reser- vations, and induce him to remain at peace, while we devote the energies of the De- partment to the improvement of the rising generation.
Year: 1872

THOMAS MAST, the famous carica- turist connected with the Harper Brothers of New York, is now mostly engaged upon illustrations of the Pick wick Papers. The public may now expect new charm to be added to this universally admired volume of Dickens.