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Year: 1871

] sat alone with my conscience,


In place where time had ceased,
And we talked Of my fnrrnor living


In a land where tine time increa sed.
And feel should have 10 answer


The question il put TO me,


And face the answer and question


Throughout an eternity.


The ghosts Of forgotten actions


Came floating before my sight,
And things that thought were dead things


Were alive with terrible might.
And the vision OF my past life


Was an awful thing 20 face
I Along with my conscience sitting,


In that solemnly, silent place.
And I thought Of a far away warning
! Ofa sorrow that was TO be mine,
/ In land that then was the future,
! But is the present time.
! And thought Of my former thinking
Ofthe judgment day to be,
Z But sitting alone with my conscience
! Seemed judgment enough for me.
And 1 wondered iftnere was a future
/ To this land beyondIthe grave;
But no one gave me answer,
AMI no one came to save.
/ Then felt that the future was present,
And the present would never go by,
For Il was but the thought OF my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then awoke from my timely dreaming


And the vision passed away,
And knew the far away warning
Was a warning of yesterday
And pray that may not forget II,


In this land beyond the grave,
That may not cry In the future


And no one come TO save.
And so have learned a lesson


Which ought to have known before,
And which, though I learned # dreaming,


1 hope TO forget no more.
So sit alone with my conscience


In the place where the years increase,
And try 10 remember the future


In the land where time shall cease.
And know at the future Judgment,


How dreadful 50 e'er il be,
That to sit alone with my conscience


VIII be judgment enough for melon
don SDeefatOr.
Year: 1871

If there is anything TO be dedueed
from the results Of the recent election
it is the fact that the Administration
has the cordial and hearty approval
Of the great mass Of the people. And
this, too, in the face Of all the bitter
and intense opposition which has had
three years to be heard in. A more
significant fOreshadOwing Of events
could not be had.
Year: 1871

penalties inflicted on our people q
short time after Noah built his ark.
The gable end of q house on Cherry
street was blown of, and a man at
work was very neatly picked up by
the breeze and dropped on the ground.
The force Of the wind may be judged
from the statement Of the fact that
brick was hurled by it from Baum's
building clear across the street and
through the window Immediately OPP
pOsite. The Times says the river
presented the appearance OF Lake
Erie during the storm. 1t was ultti-
cult to keep ones equilibrium on the
great steamer R. E. Lee. The Lucy
Kearn was badly injured. The smoke
stacks OF one steamer were blown
down, and numerous other accidents
of a minor character happened. Old
BOreas was evidently "On a tear"
MURDER NEAR FOUR MILE BRIDGE.


One Lewis Broadman, a colOred
man, is reported to have done some
serious carving on the person OF one
Ashley Stewart, also cOlored, on last
Friday. In fact, Stewart was cut so
badly that "his life is despaired of, y
as a country physician once said of
a dead patient. Stewart died in about
an hour and a half after the occur
renee. BrOadman has been arrested
and taken to Vicksburg. 1t is about
time some Of the ruffians, both white
and black, who use knives and pistols
with such total disregard of human
life, were instructed In the art of 'rOpe
walking
Year: 1871

Special to the APPEAL.l


GRAND JUNCTION, February 21.-
The construction train coming north
on the Mississippi Central road, this
evening about twenty minutes after
six, ran over a man lying drunk on
the track, one mile and a half south Of
this place, cutting his person entirely
to pieces. Papers found bear the
name Of MCGEE, and since being
brought here parties recognize the
body as that Of MCGEE. He was
young man, apparently about twenty
or twenty-five years Of age. He left
here late this evening, walking down
the railroad track. His body is COM
pletely mangled, nothing being left
by which he could be recognized but
his face. Preparations are being made
by Conductor Turner and Agent John
son for an inquest and burial.
Year: 1871

This specimen OF human depravity
comes from Chicago; A few nights
ago an officer was shot dead IN that
town, at the corner Of a street, where
he was standing talking to another
officer by the name Of Hanvetter. No
one witnessed the deed but Hanvetter,
who said be saw fash in the dis
tance, and nothing more. Il turns
out that Hanvetter himself was the
murderer.
Year: 1871

When the jury in the Mi"Or cOnnterfeting
first retired Wednesday they stood eight for ac-
duttal and inr conviction. IN about live hours
three OF the voted for acluitng Minor but the
twelfth Juror declared Tat he would vote for Minors
conviction until the crack OF doom" 1t took HIM
honr and half change his mind There ten more
indictments against Minor for dealing in counterfeit
money. AMI it il the ntr:on Of the Government to try
him upon oua of these AZ early day.
Year: 1871

The Bunkcrs and the Manufacture of Oils


the Use of FUrsc Seincs IlegaIs


The fishery commission Is now an object of con.
siderable attraction In connection with the law
creating it, The cause Of this Is the agitation beng
carried on In different parts or the State with refer
ence to section four Of the laws Of $780, which makes
1t unlawful for any person to set any pound,
weir or setnet at any time between the 10Th day OF
March and the 18TH day OF June in each
year In any OF the waters within the juris.
djcton Of New York State, unless each OF the meshes
OF said net is OF as great IN extent lve Inches
two and a half inches between the bars, any
OF less dimensions found in use to be con1scated
TO the State, and he person SO usisg, IN violation
Of the provision OF section four, 10 forfeit the
OF 81 90 ior eacl ofence. Some lawyers hold that
tae law does not relate to the use OF purse els
Is from eighty to 100 feet In depth and $50 feet IN
length but Its meshes are less in extent than five
Inches or two and half inches between the bars,
and Is used for taking bunkers, bony lsh and
menhaaen m From these species is made
slyely used by Long Island farmers as fertilizer
II Il l. net coItnnaily set. but is Kept on board
the lsh described sighted. The season Tor catch
Ing them usually begins in May, and the business is
carried On IN aag Island nn Sound and
keep within sight OF the fishing smacks. Several
such companies have been organized the past
Winter. Mcnhaden are caught to the extent Of a
hundred thousand al haul, and the Downs Fishing
Company last year caught three million in one
week. Farmers after they have harvested early
crops, strew them IN heaps about their fields to rot
for manure. Thus the relation OF the law to them
becomes matter OF serious interest, and involves
nearly million dollars annually. II the law at
present restricts the taking OF these fish application
and that no time might be lost petitions are being
circulated IN every hamlet. The fishermen are un-
decided in the matter, some OF them arguing for o
prosecution Of their work regardless OF the law
others contending that the penalty Is too heavy for
risk and advising concerted action ana respect for
the statute.


These fish are the food Of the bass and bluefsh.
and 1t is held that II they are DESTROYED the edible
species will wholly desert the pay waters. The
opinion prevails that the shore fisheries have rapidly
decreased since tho establishment Of those foating
oil factories and the wholesale catching OF the bOnv
and menhadcn fish. The matter is to be inyesli.
gated by the fishery commission without delay.
Year: 1871

Fairmount, In the township Of West Farms, came
Bear being the scene Of fatal aiYray between
father and his son on Sunday evening last James
Fitzpatrick Jr. in the course Of an altercation with
his father, became greatly enraged and committed
murderous assault upon him, beating and Kicking
him in the most brutal manner until his life was in
danger. The son was arrested, and yesterday Jus
tice Lent committed him 70 the county laL
Year: 1871

John Guy bore a striking resemblance to
General Lewis Cass, and while he was pro-
prietor of the National Hotel, in Washing
ton, the Michigan Senator was among his
favored guests. Guy dressed like Cass,
and although not as portly, his face, includ-
ing the wart was strangely similar One
day Western friend of the house came in
after long ride, dusty and tired, and walk
ing up to the Office encountered General
Cass, who was quietly standing there. Mis-
taking him for Guy, he slapped him on the
shoulder and exclaimed "Well, old fellow,
here am the last time hung my hat up
in your shanty, one of your clerks sent me
to the fourth story; but now that have
got hold of you, insist upon lower ROOM"


The General, most dignified personage,
taken aback by this salute, coldly replied
"You have committed mistake, sir. l
am not Mr.. Guy; am General Cass, of
Michigan" and angrily turned away. The
Western man was shocked at the uncon-
scious outrage he had committed; but
before he had recovered from his mortifica-
tion, General Cass, who had passed around
the Office, confronted him again, when a
second time mistaking him for Guy, he
faced him and said :" Here you are at last.
have just made devil of mistake l
met old Cass and took him for you, and I
am afraid the Michigander has gone off
mad" What General Cass would have
said may well be imagined, if the real Guy
had not approached and rescued the inno-
cent offender from the twice-assailed, and
twice-angered statesman.
Year: 1871

While the last century was flourishing
there dwelt in what is now famous city,
not a mile from Boston, an opulent widow
lady, who once afforded queer illustration
of that compound of incompatibles, "hu-
man nature" 1t was New Years Eve,
during one Of those old-fashioned winters
which were SO bitter cold, The old lady put
on an extra shawl, and as she hugged her
shivering frame she said to her faithful ne
gro servant


"It's terrible cold night, Scrip l am
afraid my poor neighbor, Widow Green,
must be suffering, Take the wheelbarrow,
Scrip, fill it full of wood--pile ON good
load--and tell the poor woman to keep her
self warm and comfortable. But before
you go, Scrip, put some more wood on the
fire, and make me nice mug of flip"


These last orders were duly obeyed, and
the old lady was thoroughly warmed, inside
and out. And now the trusty Sci2io was
about to depart on his errand Of mercy,
when his considerate mistress interpreted
again: tn


"Stop Scrip You need not 60 now
Tho weather has moderated"
Year: 1871

Secretary Boutwell,, in his Cleveland,
o., speech, said of the country at large:


I can not doubt that the last five years
constitute the most prosperous period in
the nations life. Judge it by the extern
sion of manufactures, the construction of
railways, the growth of cities in every part
of the land, the wages of the laborers, the
deposits in savings institutions which rep
resent truthfully the condition of the
laboring classes, the improvements of
farms and farm buildings, the decrease of
pauperism, and, finally, by the prosperity
of the railray system, which tests as by a
thermometer the prosperity of every sec
ton of the country traversed by it. The
wages of labor are nearly as great as they
were during the war, while most articles
of necessity and comfort are barely more
expensive than they were in 1859 and $780,
mention low-priced woolens, cotton
clothes, flour, and grain generally, in sup
port of this statement.


OF one fact there can be no doubt, the
present wages of laborer, and if he be a
skilled laborer, then is he striking ex-
ample of what say, will procure at least
25 per cent. more of the comforts and ne
cessaries of life than he could have obtain
ed from his labor in 1859.


l am now dealing with the labor ques-
ton, or seeking to unfold the relations of
employer and employed; only now pre-
sent and array facts known to all, against
the error that the country as a whole is not
prosperous.


Yet forsee even greater prosperity than
is now enjoyed. Cheap communication
between the East and the West will be of
mutual benefit. The Western farmer may
receive more for his crops while the East
ern consumer pays less. the difference in
the cost of transportation being divided
between them. AS q consequence, the
products of the East will be delivered to
the consumer at prices reduced by the di-
minished cost both of production and
transportation.


The growth and standing of the United
States politically and financially will slim
ulate emigration from Europe. The recent
war and the present unsettled condition of
affairs are causes operating in the same
direction. If we preserve the peace, if we
protect the national honor, if we provide
for general education, if we secure to every
citizen his constitutional rights. Europe
must either accept republican institutions
or the best part of Europe will come to
America.
Year: 1871

The friends of Temperance will hold meet
ing tonight, at the Old Methodist Church. II
is desired that as many of our citizens attend rs
possible. Speakers viii address the audience
There is certainly need for united action in this
city in this great cause. The vice is spreading
with alarming rapidity, and our people are every
day made aware, in some fearful lesson, of its
saneful results. Let there be a good meeting
tonight.
Year: 1871

Win, In from one to twenty minutes afford ease and
comfort, and this medicine rapid in stopping pain
be purchased for fifty cents per bottle. at almost
every druggists and country merchants store on this
continent and within one hours distance of almost
every habitatiOn in the United States.
Year: 1871

with painfulsensation ofhav-
ing left undone something
which ought to have been
done. Often complaining of
weakness, debility, and low
spirits. Sometimes many of
the above symptoms attend
the disease, and at other
times very few of them; but
e organ most involved. Cure
Year: 1871

HgAuAcaE-Mix half and half Of Renne $
Magic J.l and water, and sAturAse the head
with the mixture, then put few drops Of
the Oil clear, on the temple and where the
pain is ssvsresi also swallow 3 or drops
OF ,he oil, if sick at the stomach then find
your pain II you can
Year: 1871

The SSAKEs--The Snakes is or are
or am disease of II very peculiar kind,
and the fellow who got it or them on
Sunday night last and woke the echoes
as he fled bowling along Washington
Avenue had most prodigious attack.
While crossing Twelfth street he fell, and
Wclden who was in pursuit captured him,
and with the aid of bystanders tied the
frenzicd man and placed MIN in go-cart,
in which he was wheeled away to Jail.
There were in pursuit of that man on that
night all the demons of lightning whisky
with all the hairs of their impalpable
but horrible heads writhing like serpents,
and about his body all kinds of reptiles
were twisted and knottcd, crawling and
Kissing with their poisonous tongues.
What dreadful whisky he must have
taken down! We would venture bet
that it can kill alta greater range than
the Chassepot
Year: 1871

SERESADE.-A paragraph in which we
returned thanks to the Evansville Silver
Band for splendid serenade Monday
morning, was crowded out yesterday by
other matter. But "it is never too late TO
do good,' and We now renew our thanks.
The music to which We were treated was
delicious, AMI we know few bands in the
country can furnish as good an article of
melodious sounds. The band was passing
home from visit to New Orleans. DO
Year: 1871

Everything is nice about the Orleans
House, and that proves that Captain Gus
Richards knows how to do well everything
that he undertakes. He satisfied the public
OF his transcendent ability as steamboat
captain when he run from Harvey's Canal
to Barataria Bay last year, and many of the
patrons Of the Orleans House are wishing
for the time to come when they can make
trip with him next year. The Orleans
House is located at the corner of ST. Charles
and Common streets, and is just convenient
all the time, whether in the day or evening,
for that point is a great centre.
Year: 1871

The near approach of Christmas reminds
us OF an event that will take place Just two
days before Christmas 1t is an event that
may prove Of much more than ordinary in
terest to good many of our people who
have presents to make during the holidays
and are at a loss to know where the money
is to come from to buy them. The event We
aliude to is the next single number drawing
OF the Louisiana State Lottery. 1t will take
place ON the twenty third of this month,
when over iour hundred valuable prizes will
be distributed. Everybody who would like
to draw prize and feel happy during the
holidays had better provide themselves with
tickets
Year: 1871

There are Just ono hundred and seven
bulls on the CONVERSATIONAL calendar and in
the hands of members having iu view the
complete and triumphant rehabilitation of
American commerce. One hundred aud
seven ways, each different from every
other, each effectual in itself, to mix and
concoct panaceas for what is claimed on all
hands to be a critical, If not An incurable,
disease
Year: 1871

The weather at this writing is not au-
spicuous for pleasant trip on the Crescent
City this morning, upon the invitation of
Captain Burdeau, of the Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company.
Year: 1871

The laws OF the United States relating


to the enforcement Of the rights of voters


will be found in our paper to-day. Wo
shall keep 1t as standing matter for several
days in our columns We wish every cit
izen, whatever be his party bias, to vote
freely and without being controlled by
improper influences. The law is just and
impartial in its operations, aud covers all
with its protecting shield alike. Let every
man exercise his rights and, see that his
neighbor has the same privilege. Read
the law carefully, and learn just what
those rights are and the mode of seeking
a remedy. All violations of this stringent
law are to be tried in the Federal courts,
where justice can be sought without fear.
Lay by the papers containing these i'm
portant provisions for future reference.
Year: 1871

The magnificent victory achieved by oul
friends in the District of Columbia is thu


occasion of rejoicing all over the country


1t is everywhere felt to be something more


than mere local triumph. The battle


was hotly contested at every point. The
issues made up were broad and national,
There were no merely local questions to


affect the result, beyond the interest which


all business men felt in the ascendency OF


a party whose past record justified their


confidence. The election was untainted


BY any possible frauds. 1t was peaceful


and undisturbed almost beyond precedent.
It's result is a vindication of the great
party whose representatives have jsst
closed their labors at the Capitol where the
election was held. 1t is substantial en-
dorsement of the stern legislation with
which Congress closed its session. In the
stirring words of Col Forney, of the
Philadelphia Press:


1t closes the period of Republican dissension
and opens the future of Republican victory. II
is death to the defeat that springs from perso,
nal quarrels, and life to the spirit born of per-
soual magnanimity. Itsaves the capital of the
nation from periodical discussions about ipl
possible removal to doubtful localities. 1t in.
dicates the ability of the colored man to epioy
the liberty won by the bullet and consecrated
BY the ballot. 1t rescues the capital fromsin-
2uences which, however capable, must have
been certainly calamitous.


Itinvites to you Northern men and North
ern money; and through you pours emigra.
tion, enterprise, and wealth all over the fertile
and semi populated expanses of the South.
Had you failed in your struggle to day, the
great capital started by Washington and saved
by Grant would have been q sort of Flanders
between the North and South, where discor dant
factions, shaming the name of Democracy,
would have plotted new distrust in the one.
and new devastation and treachery in the other.


But from this night you date a new evangel-
ism. You begin another career; and in the
name of the millions who are getting prouder
every day Of their country, as they contrast it
with the lacerated condition of such nation
as poor, bleeding France, so do they become
prouder of the capital of that country. In
their name. and as one who has followed your
fortunes through good and through evil re-
port, congratulate you on the magnificent
victory of to-day.
Year: 1871

We print to-day full abstract of the
bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment
setting forth clearly all its provisions. We
congratulate the country upon this mag
nificent addition to the securities of the
citizen. We thank Congress for its pa
thence and tenacity and thoroughuess with
which it has performed its work. We
thank the President for the deep personal
interest that he has manifested in the adop-
ton of precautionary measures against
new rebellion. We send our congratula-
.tions to the hunted and periled thousands
of our loyal friends in the barbarous dis
tricts of the South. They can now appeal
with confidence for national protection.
The way is open everywhere to the courts
of the nation.


Good men of all parties will rejoice
when they examine this bill without pre-
Judice and find its penal provision pointed
only against the cruel and the wicked.
That its guarantees of protection cover





every innocent man whose life, liberty
property or peace of mind is in jeopardy
from threats or open violence. 1t is
great advance towards true national life
It will stimulate the growth OF loyal senti-
nents and attach the Southern people to
he government more firmly than any mis-
'alled measures of pacifcation.


We wish we could chronicle along with
bill to repress gerrymanderiog. That
will come next, we trust. We are making
teady progress towards national unity. |
'ut we can never attain it fully till we
ave national system of education which
'uts every child in the schools, That will
. the crowning achievement, and is sure
} come in due time.
Year: 1871

Secretary Boutwell, has directed that in
terest on the new loan be paid by check of
the treasurer of the United States, payable
to the order of the holder of the bond, so
that hereafter parties holding the bonds
will not be compelled to call upon assist
ant treasurers to receive their interest, but
will get it direct from the treasury depart
mept.
Year: 1871

II it be true that the "devil may
quote scripture for his purpose what
q happy time he must have with the
proverbs. For instance, when q
young friend shutfles off the mortal
coil We console ourselves with the
reflection that whom the gods love
die young.' On the other hand,
when wicked little scapegoat hands
in his checks we treat him to that
proverbial morscl, "rhc wicked shall
not live out halt his days
Year: 1871

1t IS suggested that an act be
passed BY the coming Congress, for
teiting the citizenship OF any Ameri-
can who shall leave the country to en-
gage in war or rebellion against q
nation with which we arc AZ peace.
This is \ most sensible proposition,
and should be adopted. An Ameri.
can citizen has no right to fight for
any other country than his own and
still claim its protection.
Year: 1871

THE great object of physicians ought ever
to be, the application of the remedy to the
seat Of the disease. Durno's Catarrh Smut
is . practical illustration Of the utility o
this principle Call for il at all lssdiu,
drug stores.