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Year: 1872

ish cunning; always doing wrong, and
knowing that it was wrong, but quite un-
able to resist temptation; and then pro-
fuse in futile explanations, gesticula-
tionS, mouthings of an "0hl OH OH"
so pitiably human that you can only
punish her by laughing at her, which she
does not at all like. One cannot resist
the fancy, while watching her, either
that she was once human being, or
that she is trying to become one. But
at present she has more than one habit
TO learn, or to recollect, ere she become
as fit for human society as the dog or
cat. Her friends are, every human be-
ing who will take notice of her, and a
beautiful little Guazupita, or native deer,
a little larger than a roe, with great
black, melting eyes, and heart as soft
as its eyes, whe comes to lick ones
hand, believes in bananas as firmly as
the monkey, and, when she can get no
hand to lick, licks the hairy monkey for
mere loves sake, and lets it ride on her
back, and kicks it off, and lets it get on
again, and take half turn of its tail
round her neck, and throttle her with its
arms, and pull her nose out Of the way
when banana is coming, and all out of
pure love, for the two have never been
introduced to each other by man, and
the intimacy between them, like that fa-
nous one between the horse and hen, is
of natures own making up.
Year: 1872

The commercial principle in the dis


posal of pretty daughters is quite as


well understood in India as in this coun-


try or elsewhere, and is perhaps rather


more openly practiced. A citizen of
the town of Etawa was the doting father
of an unusually attractive maiden, and,
innocent of the danger of straw bids"
he gave it TO be understood that he would
sell her to the wooer who offered the
highest price. After a lively competi-
ton, an offer of fifty dollars brought
down the hammer, and pocketing the
money, the fond father gave orders for
the wedding. After the bargain was
closed, another suitor appeared and Of
fered an advance of fifty per cent. The
parent could not throw away such
prize, and he took the money, appointed
the wedding for the same day that had
been fixed to make the previous pur-
chaser happy, and then, to avoid un-
incontinently took his de-
parture. When the day arrived two pro-
cessions met at the door of the maiden
house, each headed by an expectant
bridegroom. The inevitable result, as
soon as the parties comprehended the
situation, was a collision, and it was of
so lively and enthusiastic character
that the fair maiden will have to be put
up at auction again before she becomes
a bride.
Year: 1872

All things attest the nobleness of per-
sonal independence, and all things at
test the need of it. Why then should
we not devote ourselves to its culture Z?
Is it thing hopeless of attainment2 To
judge what is right is no easy matter;
and the individual verdicts might, very
possibly, clash together in a manner
most deplorable. But the way to learn
swimming is not to stand shivering on
the bank of the pool. No dread Of the
plunge will answer the purpose Of the
dip and struggle The proper way 10
judge wisely is to judge as wisely as You
can. Would you have light, use the
light you have. Conscienees, like limbs.
are made strong by using them. Self
reliance comes from relying on self. in
hope that self will presently become
worth relying on.
Year: 1872

From Harper's Magazine.l


You have thousands of readers


writes correspondent at Nashville,
Tennessee) who appreciate good thing
even at the expense of that "bulwark
of our liberties, the trial by jury. The
Hon. N B, for many years be-
fore the war, and at present our highly
respected circuit judge, while perhaps
as good nisi prius judge as has ever
worn the judicial ermine, is at the same
time one of the most genial of men.
No one enjoys or can tell good story
better than he. This one / think well
worthy of preservation in your treasury
of good things, the Editors Drawer.
Not many years ago, the judge says, a
man was on trial at Waynesborough, in
that State. on charge of murder. The
evidence for the State in-of itself fa-
tally defective-the defendant on his
part, by the testimony of several unim-
peachahe witnesses, established a per-
feet " alibi. The judge and every one
else supposed the prosecuting attorney
would thereupon give up the case. But
no; he was an obstinate fellow, whom
the defendants counsel had made mad,
and, moreover he had no use for the
defendant any way and argue the case
he would. Court adjourned till the
next morning. Meanwhile our attor-
ney general spent good portion of
the night in ransacking the books for
bloody cases, more especially those in
which the judges had INDUCED in vast
deal Of rhetoric in their descriptions of
the horrible nature Of the crime of muir
der. These extracts he read to the jury
in his speech the next morning, quoting
also freely from the Old Testament as
to the proper disposition to be made OF
the murderer, and closed up in perfect
conhagration of English adjectives in
giving his own notions as to the inde-
scribable Nervousness of the crime of
murder The court then charged the
jury briefly, who, after few moments
retirement, brought in verdict OF
Guilty of murder in the first degree p
OF course new trial was at one granted.
Defendants counsel, however, was natu.
rally curious to know how the jury could
have found that verdict, and so, walking
up to one of the most intelligent Of the
twelve, he said to him, How on earth
did you find that verdict? on what evil
dence did you base it2'


"0hP said the iuryman, thar want
nothing in the eridence that teched him;
but you see, the laW Dds so -
strOngl"
Year: 1872

CRUEL TREATMENT.-The body of a young girl named Mary Long, was ex- humed at Poughkeepsie New York, at the solicitation of her friends. When she died her body was left alone and one eye and the nose were torn away by rats. She was buried next day after her death in secret manner, no funeral service being performed. The testimony at the inquest showed that for several years past her father, Edward Long, treated her in Q brutal manner. He acknowl- edged that he sometimes tied her hands behind her and used 8 gag on her. One witness testified to seeing her bare head ed, bare-shouldered, and barefooted, driving Q team of horses for her father before harrow in field. The father walked behind her sowing seed and swinging a stout black whip with which he at times would lash the girl over the shoulders and legs, always using the but end of the whip on her shoulders. It was also stated that he tied her hands be- hind her and threw her into creek. The verdict of the Coroner's jury stated that she died of exposure, but did not in any way refer to her father, ..
Year: 1872

1t is an Established Fact, that Consumption be cured but it is far better to prevent the cruel disease from fostering itself on the system by e timely This standard preparation will speedily cough or cold, and Consumption often yields to it's great power
Year: 1872

Provide Against Danger.

 At this season all the great lines of travel begin to sw arm with human beings intent business pleas ure. Are these moving mutitudes of the danger which from drinking different varieties of water and breathing atmospheres to which their lungs are unaccustomed? Do they realize how important it is to be pre-armed with antidote that will defend their systems from the evil consequences of changes and from all ailments and disturbances which from the

 asma 50 plentfuy evolved from the soil this period of the year Such antidoteeertan in it's protective operation and free from everything objectionable its composition and avorhas been for twenty before the world. No instance be adduced, during that period in which Hostetters Stomach Bitters has failed as an aecmating medicine, a preventive of the bodily ills to which the undefended system is liable in unhealthy localities.

 good appetite perfect digestion, vigorous condf- tion the system, functional regularity pure and active circulation the clements of health nd these signal blessings may be secured and perpetua ted by the of this powerful yet harmless vegetable tonic Such the experience of all who have taken it as safeguard against the diseases which debility irregularty and morbid condition of the solids and N,;d of he hodv are to invita-
Year: 1872

The London Saturday Reriew sarcasticay and
sneeTingly says "One Of the most remarkable de-
velopmeuts of modern mythology is the worship of
tho workingman RS tho impcrsonation of virtue and
wisdom" The seems to us to be plain enough.
All classes Which have been wronged and neglected,
tho moment the world awakes to even feeble sense
of the injustice with which they have been treated
are through tho inevitable reaction in feeling
rated and credited with excellent qualities which
they may not. after all, possess Society does this
involuntary pcnancc for its previous want Of the
commonest kind Of equity. Our own colored popu-
lation afford u striking illustration of this reaction
ary propensity In making out decenly just case for
the blacks some warm hearted philanthropists have
fallen into the mistake of considering them more in
tcllgont than they really are and this exaggeration
has done much mischief.
Year: 1872

Earthly affairs arc speedily to be wound up if
The Worlf8 Crisis newspaper is to be believed.
Poruse this o careless reader and shake:


T cup fnquy about full the harvest nearly rps and


me will descend begin their great Of separating
The III. 1t solemn hour which living
bu few realize how living 20 the end Of the present
It to be vide awake gazing from the
a gmmcr o. t from the dawn of The eternal morning
bs all ready to depart at moments warning"


We do not believe one word of this; we have not
the sl ghtest idea that the world is about to be de-
stroyod made over that the wheat and tares are
about to DO separated. Those who do so believe we
have observed never have the least doubt of the
branch Of tho cereal family to which they belong ;
we never knew millenarian who thought himself
of the tares. We affirm that one who is working
we'll to-day may calmly trust the hidden season of
Tomorrow. and that one who passes his time in
soaring nervous people out of their senses may be
greyously mistaken as to tho quantity of treasures
which ho is laying up i'll heaven.
Year: 1872

A debate in the House, yesterday, on the
Naval Appropriation bill, revealed a state OF
things in the Navy Department which is any
thing but cheerful. The upshot of the whole
business is that we must close out the con-
cern and begin again. The country will not
hear this with much patience, because the
Naval service has already cost great deal
We are told that the inefficiency of the Navy
is the result of too much parsimony. NOW,
then, if the vast sums of money acknowledged
TO have been spent on the Navy have gwen
rs snch poor affair." how much will the
needed reform cost
Year: 1872

The newspaper printers of Massachusetts, have not
all gone over TO FREQ Trade yet An association of
them which met the 9th inst. in Worcester, voted


S to H. no TO request the Massachusetts, Members of
Congress TO interest themselves in behalf of the
repeal of the present duties on type and printing
material" 1t was thought wisely, think. that it
would DO unwse to commit the association as body
to Free Tradea step which would probably have
resulted in dcmolislng the association altogether.
Year: 1872

We give space on our second page to a
communication from Mr.. Babcock, the Clerk
of the Ncw-Jersey Senate, in defense of the
printing arrangement lately exposed in TIE
TRIBUNE. The statements there printed are
sufficiently disposed of without the important
fact which comes to us in last Dights news
from Trenton, that the belief there is, that the
printing ring deprived of its profits by the 35
per cent requirement was composed of three
men, one of whom is this same Mr. Babcock.
Year: 1872

Bcttcr late than never. Collector Forney
doc, rot get his letter from the President as
promptly as did Collector Murphy, nor is it
quit, so hearty But it indicates a desire to
put he former cx-oficial as nearly as may be
ou a par with the latter and dissipates the
charge OF partiality. The country will have
reason for congratulaton if the loss to the
Philadelphia Customhouse should prove to be,
as we nope gain to independent journalism.
Year: 1872

The official courtesy which is 80 strained


that it balks justice in the courts had better


be dispensed with. 1t has been entirely dis


carded in some of the upper courts for the
protection of the plunderers of the Ring, and


we confess we should like to have seen Re
corder Hackett and Judge Bedford a little less
punctilious when they had an opportunity OF


Kidding us forever of the system OF IObbing
poor emgrants which we have so often de-
nounced, by sending Charles Moore, the leader
of the gang, to State Prison. But the evil is
not irremediable. Moores guilt is undOubted {;
he has confessed it by making restitution OF
the stolen money, in hopes of getting rid of
the witness whose positive testimony could
send him to prison. BY a blunder of the
Assistant District-Attorney and the over
politeness of the bench, the case has been
transferred from a court which impartially
dealt out punishment to MOOres cOnfedcrates
in the same crime to one i'll which, as now
presided over, the public have no confidence.
1t is the duty of the District-AttOrney to
remedy the blunders of his subordinate by
having the case taken back to be tried before
Bedford or Hackett whom we can trust, here
after, to let no feelings of delicacy Obstruct
the Justice they know how to deal impair
TALLY. Will the District-AttOrney act in this
matter7 Will Judge CardOzo insist on trying
in his court a case which Tweed and all the
rest of the Ring are trying, for political
reasons, to affect fayorably for the prisoner I
Year: 1872

Tho Jersey City is tho most UNANIMOUSLY managed
Ferry in America. The passengers by the only train
hom tho South Oh Sunday night were Obliged TO cool
their heels on the dock from 10 to half past. very
nearly There ought to DO some redress but pre-
Sumo thoro ~ none
Year: 1872

per pound-Iess than twenty-five per cent. OF
it's foreign cost. Does The World seek total
abolition of our Tariff and support OF our
Government by direct internal taxation alonef
does il wish our Tariff 80 framed as to dis
criminato against home productionf or does At
simply rail at every duty, high or low, without
meaning anYthing in particular
Year: 1872

| Beth for what is known and what is as yet
concealed, the resolution of Senator Sumner in
regard to the purchase of arms by the French
authorities in this country demands to be at
once adopted and put promptly into execution.
The evidence of Victor Place, late Consul of
France in New-YOrk, in his recent
trial before the French courts, attempts
to throw dshOnor upon the American
character. Every piece of rascality with which
he was charged he excused by saying that such
things were universal in America, and that it
was unreasonable to expect any important
public business to be- carried on without
bribery. The Duke of Audifiret PasQuier,
President of the Commission on the Pur-
chase of Arms by the Government OF
the National Defense fatty contradicts
the charges of NJ. Place, and completely
exonerates the American firm especially charged
with wrong-dOing. But we cannot afford to
be satisfied with this Off-band testimony. If it
shall appear that there was any truth in the
statements of the derelict Consul, it is our
duty to ascertain it and to punish the delin-
quents who remain in our power. Mr. Summers
resolution has already created great excite
ment among those likely to be affected by
it. most important symptom of the ten
dency of the investigation he asks for, is the
characteristic behavior of that newspaper in
this city which has assumed the duty of
shielding all .villainy committed by Federal
officers. The Ne~- York Times attempts to an
swor this dgni6ed and public-spirited move
ment of Mr. Sumner to cleanse the


American name of foul imputation, by
malignant abuse of him and of another,
gentleman who has loyally laid all the in


formation in his possession in regard to this
matter before the proper persons in the Cabi-
net and the Senate. This is game which
will hurt only the players. It is too late for
any party or any faction to think of smother
ing investigation into any frauds to
which the public attention has been
once directed. The Senate will not have
the t'n:rity TO refuse TO adopt Mr..
SUMMERS resolution. The pitiful excuse tlat
Year: 1872

An enthusiastic young produce deal
er. a few evenings ago, In a serenade
to his inamorate, thus recorded his
high resolves: IN chase the ante
lope over the plain, and the wild
spring chicken Ill bind with chain
aud the cauliflower so fierce and neat,
I'll give the for nosegay sweet"
Year: 1872

To PARENTs.-Parents run the risk of
losing the love of their children who put
aside their questions as of no consequence.
An interrogation point symbolizes the life
of childhood. "Wby" and "what' are the
keys with which it unlocks the treasury of
the world. The boys numberless ques-
tions often seem trivial, but the wise pa
rent will never turn them off unanswered,
if he can help it. 1t is his rich opportunity
of teaching. els met half way, and there
is all the difference between impressing
truth on an eager mind and an uninterest-
ed one. The little fellow, helping you to
your work, and pelting you with endless
questions, may learn as much in half an
hour there as in week when his body is
prisoner in the school-room and his
thoughts are out of doors.
Year: 1872

gers home, and then the whole of that ter
rible night of misery comes back to me.
They are devils that have haunted me night
and day; they have made me shun my
fellow men they have made me live in
this seclusion. Day and night, day and
night, live in terror of hearing them.
Sometimes in my dreams 1 hear Milly
singing the first song gave her, and in
the midst Of this happiness some devil
seems to chant those cursed SONGS in praise
of wine.


flush! 1 hear her voice; she sings tho
song gave her in those happy days; she
is goingaway; l must follow her. Hush
she is singing me to sleep. Mily! my
own dear Millyr'


1t was broad daylight when we regained
Mr.. Fielding's house. Little Charon was
with us, weeping bitterly for the kind
friend he had lost.
Year: 1872

Over the river, on the hill,


Lieth village white and still;
All around II the forest trees
shiver and whisper in the breeze,
Over IL sailing shadows go,
OF soaring hawk and screaming crow;
And mountain grasses low and sweet
Grow in the middle of every street
Over the river, under the hill,
Another village lieth still;
There sec in the cooling night
Twinkling stars of household light,
Fires tnat gleam from the smithy's door,
Mists that curl on the rivers shore;
And in the road no grasses grow,
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill
Never is sound Of smith or mill;
The houses are matched with grass and flowers,
Never clock to tell the hours;
The marble doors are always shut;
You may not entci at hall or hut.
All the village lie asleep,
Never grain to SOW or reap;
Never in dreams to moan or sigh
silent-and idle-and low-they lie.
In that village under the hi
when the night is starry and still,
Many weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there,
And weeping and sighing, longs to go
Up to that home from this below;
Longs to sleep by the forest wild.
whittier have vanished wife and child,
Aud heareth, praying, the answer fall
"Patience! That village shall hold ye ALL"
Year: 1872

We envy neither the men nor wo
men who cannot speak to a fellow
creature out of their own circle
nor to anybody without the formal
ity ofan introduction. There is no
computing the amount of profit as
well as pleasure such persons lose
by hedging themselves in with this
stupid fence of fastidiousness. We
have always found more of this feel
ing among persons who were touchy
on their social position. vhan among
those self-respecting persons who
thought nothing about it. A great
deal of Intelligence is fica.ine
round the world without heing Ia
beled, and those men or women who
have the good sense to recognize
tais fact and act upon it, not only
are educating themselves, but con.
ierring that pleasure which we arc
all bound by the common ties OF
humanity to exchange with each
other. 1t seems to us that it is only
the snOb and pretcnder who takes q
different view of this question.
Year: 1872

The sympathy expressed for the
"pOor drunkard" has been different
ly expressed BY a recent act OF the
Wisconsin Legislature, which pro
vides, among other things, that lit
shall be unlawful within this State
for any personEto become intoxiea-
ted" The punishment Of violatOrs
Of the law is Imprisonment from
one day to two months certain,
with q further contingent impris
oument ct the discretion OF the
court until the cost Of conviction is
betrayed. Further still, any person
found drunk may be taken in
charge by any person so disposed,
and held until sober, when the eX-
pense of his Keeping, together with
a fee or two dollars per diem, must
be paid This is a move in the
right direction. but il should be i'm
proved upon 10y chasing drunken
ness with insanity, and taking the
person to an asylum. A person
who will get drunk is only fit to
live in an asylum.
Year: 1872

The Washington correspondent OF
the Boston Globe writes to that pa
per: To-day there walked to the
open space in front of the Vice Pres
ident a gentleman whom a sarcastic
Radical reporter in the gallery
above, characterized as ''the advance
guard Of the Confederate army"
1t was appropriately amended by the
suggestion that 1t was its rear
guard" EX-MajOr General Ran
dOlph, Of the Confederate army, was
sworn in as United States Senator
from the Old North State, and so
the vacant chair, originally made SO
by the Inauguration of a movement
for which so much Was sacrificed,
was filed by a man who was very
gallant and believing soldier in the
army which struggled to make these
vacancies a finality.


The associations were indeed pr
culiar. The special nature of all
represented in the presence Of that
very handsome and dignificd look
ing man came up in vivid and stri-
king memories. Se~ator Ransom
is the first man Who has entered the
Senate after such service. In the
House there are a number, and the
seat of Brooks as we'll as the home
of Calhoun is represented by the
Americaa negro.
Year: 1872

A full grown man carries pound
and three-fourth3 of phosphorus
about his body, enough to make four
thousand ordinary boxes Of friction
matches, provided he was supplied
with sulphur to match: but he has
not enough of this to strike fire,
though mrst men have magnetism
enough to make light which would
be seen twenty miles away. 1t is
wonderful how brilliant most men
might be, if there was any way Of
getting it out oil them. But 20 get
a scintillatinn OF vii or glinm,r Of
an idea out of most men is harder
work than to get blaze from rub


bing q bit OF shaving soap on Gle.
Year: 1872

Two very significant events have
occurred since the adjournment OF
the Cincinnati Convention. One Of
them was the election Of Ferry TO
the United States Senate over the
Radical candidate BY the combined
vote Of the Democrats and Liberals,
in the Connecticut Legislature, and
the other was the virtual instruction
for Greeley and Brown giveH by New
York Democrats to their delegates
70 the Baltimore Convention.