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Year: 1872

Workingmen who are waiting, hoping
and striving for the Amelioration Of their
condition, are apt at times to loose faith
in the final triumph Of Just principles.


They forget that great reforms move
slowly. They feel the iron bond Of op-
preston upon them, and under the cir
cumstances a delay Of a few years seems
to them almost an eternity. IL they will
however, but turn over the pages of past
history and look upon the condition of
labor in the centuries that are gone they
will see steady though slow advance.
Once the toilers were serfs, the property
Of feudal lords, bought and sold with the
land they cultivated, and though their
condition now 10 not what it ought to be
it 10 far in advance Of what it was in feu-
dal times.


II we look back but few years We may
take encouragement from the retrospec
tive view. We well remember twenty
years ago that the operatives of Lawrence,
Lowell, Manchester and our chief manu-
featuring cities labored in our factories
about thirteen hours day for six days
per week, and less than ten years ago the
majority Of our country factories were
running twelve or thirteen hours a day.
A few years ago the intelligent advocates
Of Labor Reform measures wero few and
isolated now they are to be counted BY
thousands if not millions, and are organic
ing in all civilized countries for the grand
onward movement. The crowned despots
in Europe are alarmed at the extent and
power Of this great movement, which they
dread more than the laundering Of can.
mons, the crack Of musketry, or the bayon-
cts Of hirling soldiery


The friends Of labor reform may take
courage from the fact that the movement
10 not confined to any particular locality
but Is becoming worldwide and powerful
The young giant is becoming more Wig
orOus day by day. Great and cultivated
minds are bending their energies TO tbs
solution Of the labor question and ar,
gradually coming over to the side Of right
U, workingmen, we shal triumph if vi
take courage and present compact front
moving on with one mind, one purpose
for the accomplishment of one mighty enc
the social elevation Of all who labor for
living - L1r,.nce Journal
Year: 1872

From the Army and Navy Journal


From the testimony taken by tb


Arms Investigating Committee, durin
tbs past week, it appears that amor
those seeking to purchase arms OF Il Il
Ordnance Bureau during the Frent Il
war was gentleman who has been
contributor Of the Army and Nary Jo' r
nal. but not IAN editor, as the T15p n,
reports it Mr.. Peck, the gentleman il
question, is clever man OF busin' .ss
and we are not surprised, therefore. tC
learn that he has included specula lior
in arms among his ventures. For hi
own sake, however, we regret ths ht
should not have taken us into bis con
fidence sufficiently TO enable US &c
inform him 10 season that the 70; ID &c
influence with the War Departure Mt is
not through the devious ways OF ie male
besuilement. 1t is hardly necessary
for us to add that neither the editor OF
this journal nor any one associated
with its editorial management has been
engaged in the purchase of arms from
our War Department and no one had
any authority to make use OF the real
or supposed influence Of the JnSrdSto
further any such purpose.
Year: 1872

CINCINNATI, April lS.-Ata a meeting
Of the moulders to night, resolutions of
sympathy with the striking coal men
were passed. A resolution was also
passed that the moulders shall demand
an advance OF Is per cent on their pres
ent wages, and that, If not granted, they
will strike. 1t is stated the toundrymen
are about 10 strike in behalf Of the coal
beavers and drivers now out.
The committee in charge OF prepar.
ing the Exposition Hall for the coming
Conventions are getting it up in excel.
lent style, and everything is being ar
ranged for the convenience and com fort
of the delegates. The press facilities
will be of the most ample kind. Tables
are now being arranged for the ACCOM-
mediation Of over one hundred report.
ers.


The Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph
Company have run their wires to the
hall, and will be fully prepared for the
transmission of press and commercial
matter with facility. The American
Press Association have made every
arrangement for . full and upnpre.
hensive report Of the proceedings OF
both Conve2tiops.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, April IS, 7:3O P. NJ
ProbaJiliHes.-The lowest barometer
over West Virginia will move east over
the Middle and Atlantic States. The
area Of cloudy weather and rain will
extend over New England during to-
night. Clear and partially cloudy
weather with west winds will prevail
very generally from the lakes to the
Gulf and the South and Middle Allan
tic coasts on Friday, and will extend
over New England during the day and
evening. Brisk westerly to north wind:
will probably prevail from Cape Hat
teras to Cape Cod on Friday morning
but dangerous winds are not anil
cipated.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, April lS.-This morning O
well dressed young woman was seen to
so out upon the end of the Lake Pier,
at the foot Of Oakland avenue, and
after walking back and forth q few
moments she deliberately leaped into
the water. Her body was soon after
recovered. All possible means were
used to resucitats her, without avail.
Year: 1872

CoLrNBrS, April Ex-senator Hart
to-day opposed the appropriation for a
fence around the State House, on the
ground that there was not money
enough in the State Treasury to pay the
expense
Year: 1872

Old John Rasgen, long known among
us as Dutch John" who will be remem-
bered by every one as having foot that
turned backward, and who has been an
inmate of the county asylum for num-
Der cf years, was missed from the poor
house about two weeks ago. Superintend-
ent McN illiamS made il general inquiry
about him and also requested us to publish
a notice in the REGISTER, which we did
hoping thus to lead to some information
concerning his whereabouts Having
seen him or the day of his demise with
heavier coat on than he was accustomed
to wear, Mr.. McWilliams finally conclud-
ed from what he knew of his Peculiarities
that he had taken sudden freak to go off
for himself, and rested in the hope of get
ting some answer to his inquiries for his
whereabouts But on Sunday last all that
IS mortal that remains of old John was
found in a pasture northeast Of the poor
house at distance of 30 or 40 rods, re-
mains consisting only of the skull, one
bone from the upper part of the leg, and
shoulder blade, the body had been entire.
ly deYoured by hogs running in the pasture.
How he came to this fearful end can never
be known; but the subject must ever be
one of conjecture only Several of the





ing nuts in this pasture at different times,
and II IS known that ] Ohm has this year ven
tdred to climb the tree fornuts and said he
came near falling and should not try it
again but he may have tryed it again ann in
doing so lost his footing and fell to the
ground, perhaps killing him Instantly.
But the only facts in the case are simply
what are attested by the few fragments Of
clothes his bat and bones found in the lot.


He was man of about 70 years old,
and has been a resident of this county for
many years-thirty at least All the old
residents will remember him, and every
body will regret his unfortunate end.
But we can conceive of no blame what
| ever that can be attached to any one


Since writing the above we learn from
| Mr.. McWilliams tha the knife, keys
pocket book and suspenders of the unfor-
tnnate man were lso.found And that
the pasture had been frequented by differ
ent persons nearly every day since the old
man was first missing, from which it is
clearly evident that the body was immedi-
ateiy destroyed.-Cfo1on Point Register.
Year: 1872

qustion; will it be this side of eternity !?
The great Ruler of all only knows.


| understood yesterday, by a re-
mark made, tat one whose feet had trod
this floor; whose voice had echoed
through these rooms whose sentiments
had been listened to at the last insti-
tute,-only year ago-by many who
ARE now present, has since been called
to rest May not that fate be ours,
may not one of us, perhaps more, be
relieved of the cares of this life and be
allowed to 90 Home? God forbid, that
we should be called unprepared. Teach
er keep this in view; remember that
you are mortal remembe. that your
children are. Remember that you nor
they can remain what you now
are, but you mast change. There is an
immortal spirit within you, and within
your children, that must sooner or late
return to the God who gave it. Your
time is short. o work faithfully ; pray
for them constantly, not only in your
morning exercises, but in your private
devotion. Look to the God Of all for
help, he alone can help, for, by His aid,
your prayers are formed. | do not
mean to condemn written prayer, |
dare not do it; for we are commanded
to g hold fast to towns of sound words
But do say We can 90 to God and let
the spirit speak for itself. Perhaps
and would say that it is far better
to have written prayer in public, and In
fact, we should have,-but In private,
when you and Gud alone are witnesses
when you know you will be understood,
your real heart read, give the spirit to
God; let it speak for itself. Gcd
knoweth the heart;" let it tell all its
woes, as a child goes to a parent
While there, remember your fellow'la-
borers; ask that they may not be dis
couraged ask that their work may be
blessed, and that you may all have the
spirit to work as one.


Sad word, farewell. but it must be
spoken but if it please God, may 1t
be only eau reroiiy' good bye for the
present. But nevertheless, not our will
lhae His be done.
Year: 1872

~ Teeth extracted without pain, by the use of
Nitrous Oxide tor Laughing Gas) TEETH; from
one tooth to full sett, cheap that the rich and
poor can all get them. Office open all day except
Mondays and Tuesdays. [34tf[
Year: 1872

Some statistical person has counted the Re-
publican German newspapers in the country and found
them number 1870, Of which six favor a denomination
Of Gen. Grant OF these the most influential is The IL


nois Stats Zeitng, quoted with such discontinue to
himself by Senator Conkng as an expression OF German
sentiment concerning the OF Senator schurz and


y described by the latter in return expression OF
the sentiment Of Internal Revenue Collector. But
this paper has been finally constrained to express
an opinion the sales OF investigation as follows


For President Grant there is already now-certanly,
however the investigation Is elOsedbut one
Just pursue III this matter and the testimony OF
the Secretary OF War ought to show him that course
The Secretary OF War; and all his subOrdnates who nave
been Of the character OF Remington a. French
agent must be dismissed in most eclatant manner H. on
account their crime against the international law the
himself shall not be made responsOle by the
public opinion.


We commend the above opinion to Senator Conklng.
and recommend him to make another quotation from
The Illinois Staats Zeing in debate at his first oppor-
tunitY
Year: 1872

The Reform Democracy met in large num-
hers last night at Apollo Hail. the proceedings being
opened by a proposition from Henry L. Clinton that
Benjamin Wood should occupy the chair. This proposal
was received with few cheers accompanied by storm
of Kisses and other signs OF disapprobaon For several
minutes the utmost disorder reigned, and MI Chntons
voice could not be heard Something like order having
been restored Mr. Wood arose and, in agi-
tated voice and excited manner, declined the
chairmanship. VIM. II. Wickham was then proposed
as chairman and there being opposition he accepted
the Office The officers Of the General Committee were
unanimously elected members OF the Executive Commit
tee The organization Of the party by Assembly districts
was then considered and moved and carried tha


the charmen of the various organizations OF the several
Assembly districts be declared members of the General
Committee The roll of Assembly districts was called
and it was found that out Of the q districts the party
had organizations all except the Third Eleventh, and
Thirteenth The meeting then adjourned to meet at the
call OF the chair.
Year: 1872

THE rURPoRTED LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE NOT


WRITTEN By JUDGE DAvIs-PoINTs IN THE


PLATFORM SAID TO BE REPUGNANr 10 THE


NOMINEE.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.I


WASHINGTON, March 19.-It has just been discov-
cred that the letter purportng to have been written
by Justice Davis, accepting the nomination tendered
him by the Labor Reform Convention held at Colum-
bus, was hot written by the Judge, but was the in
yeition of correspondent In this city, OF Boston
evening paper Judge Davis is reported not to have
formally accepted the nomination at ALL and Is said
not to approve of several important planks in the
platform Of that Convention.
Year: 1872

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY AND THE ST.


CROIX LAND GRANT.


MADISON. March 19-The following joint res


.io, nassed both Houses OF the Legislature today
Pesoyred That members OF the House OF Representa-
t in Con gress from this State requested 70 bring
70 tho immediate notice of the Congress Committee
now Investigating the management and affairs OF the
Northern Pacific Railway Company the contract
recently made between said Company aud the
Lake superior and Mississippi Railroad Com
pany for the purchase Of the afer ToaG from
Of purchase is conditioned on the defeat in Congress Of
Tho b 70 renew the grant OF land to the State of Wis
nnsn in aid of the construction Of the railroad from
ST. Croix River or Lake TO Lake superior.


The Senate last evening, refused TO order to third
reading the joint resolution submitting the question OF
Constitutional Convention TO the people, and passed
the bill exemptng private property from seizure TO pay
municipal debt.
Year: 1872

1t was said of Thoreau, we believe, that he
could take up any given number OF lead
pencils without counting. A celebrated trap
per once assured us that he could tell how
many balls he had in his bullet pouch by plac-
ing his hand on it, and without stopping to
count them, and added, 81 can tell the num-
ber of bullets instantly, without stopping, as
you pronounce a word without spelling it,"
Southey was accustomed to take in the sub
stance of book in turning the leaves over
continuously, glancing down the pages.
HoIdan the magician, trained himself to
quickness OF perception, when boy, by run
ming past a show window at full speed and
then trying to tell what was in it. We once
met a man on canal boat who was amusing
himself by going from passenger to passenger
and telling almost every one where he had
seen him before, on such a train, in such
hotel, in such street, giving date and place
to people with whom he had never exchang
ed word. This training of the faculties in
particular directions is carried to marvellous
extreme by backwoodsmen, trappers, and men
who guess the weight of animals. Perhaps
the most remarkable instances are the mark
ers who leap from log to log at the mouth of
a boom, standing on the floating log and
translating instantly an old mark into new
one, remembering wkat equivalent to give for
each of a hundred marks, and chopping it up
ON the log in the time that il floats its length.
1t is said that that Thoreau knew the rela-
tive order of Towering of all the plants in
the Concord woods, and knew the note of
every b,d, and thousand out-of-t e-way
things besides.
Year: 1872




We have charity for fast girls We bava
oiten found them generous and warm heart
eu, ana are tully ready to believe that their
ulSregard OF cOnventionalities is often the
Doiuness OF innocence. For example in some
iainiiles the chamber of the sister is the re-
sort OF the brother in the first place: then of
tne cousin VINO IS almost a brother, and then
of the brothers intimate friend who is treated
as one of the family. When this free svIe Of
living is ira lsferred from the shadow of the
family, to the apartment of crowded hotel
or boarding house, it gives occasion for much
tree speaking and free thinking-for a style of
Judgment that often does the young girl great
injustice. We have SAID that our Americans
had their faults. The want of conventional
limits of propriety between the sexes is one of
them. The young French girl is kept seclu-
ded and never suffered to see gentleman un-
watched. In America, from their early child
hood, little girls and boys grow up together
and on the whole it is best they should. But
in order that this liberty should produce good
effects, parents and guardians should inces-
sanity teach certain limits of propriety. There
are certain places, times and modes of inter
course, that aIe proper places, times and
modes. There are certain other places, times and
modes that are improper, and it ought to be a
part. OF the early training of every girl to
teach her this. Every approach on the part
of young girl to any personal familiarity
with any young man, such as she might most
innocently take with another girl, exposes
her to miscOnStruction which it was the duty
OF her mother to prevent by timely warning.
A favorite author has said that such personal
advances on the part of women, were Sim
moralites of manner" even where the inten-
tion was innocent. So girls, take care-re-
spect yourselves-respect your sex, and do
not give the enemy chance TO speak reproach-
fully. Listen, all of you, to what a man
says. 1t is out of some old fashioned Fathers
Legacy, or some such antiquated book. He
says: "A fine woman has power over us
which she very little dreams, but little too
near acquaintance often dissolves the illusion
and converts the angel into very ordinary
girl" Let mother tell you, girls, that
mothers, when they send their boys into the
great world and its temptations hope much
for them from the influence of good women.
Did you ever think of this, when you tell
young men that you dOte on smoking; when
you urge wine upon them at parties? Some
mother, some sister may wish that you
would lead her son or brother TO nobler, pur-
er conceptions of life. Ought not some
higher motive to govern your intercourse
with the young men of your acquaintance
than merely the desire to fasten their admira-
ton on yourself-to please them at any and
every hazard? Be sure that a young man
who is pleased through the lower nature, be-
cause you encourage his indolent and self in
dulgent habits, and parts with his last eleva-
ted impulses, will think of you by and by
only as part of something unworthy, which
his better self will seek to outgrow.- Mrs.
III. B. StO,oe.
Year: 1872

THE GRAET HAIR PRoDUcER.-Hair Oils,
Pomatums and Pomades have had their day
They belong to the musty past. Nobody that
understands the chemistry of the hair and the
philosophy of its growth thinks of using them.
Instead of clogging the pores of the scalp with
thick onguents, and thus obstructing the in
sensible perspiration which is essential to the
health of the fibers, we now tone the surface of
the head with an invigorating application


which penetrates to the roots of the hair and
stimulates them in the same way that the fer
tilizing agents spread over the meadows slim
ulate the grass roots and cause the blades to
spring up in myriads, coating the earth with
verdure. The invigorant best adapted to this
purpose is LYoN's KATHAIRoN. 1t may well be
called the fertilizer Of the head To the barren
scalp it communicates vegetative power. If
the hair is dropping out or becoming dry and
withered, it arrests the process of dilapidation
blight. The hair thickens and becomes glossy
and flexible under its genial operation, and as
a dressing it is unapproached by any prepara-
ton that has yet been laid on the toilet of
Fashion oct13-eod1w&w1t
Year: 1872

When man thinks that nobody cares for
him, and that he is alone in cold and sell
fish world, he would do well to ask himself
what he has done to make anybody care for
and love him, and to warm the world with
faith and generosity. Generally those who
complain the most have done the least.
Year: 1872

HIRE is something to make the hair Of the
Archbishop of Canterbury stand ON end.
Some one has discovered from the annual re-
view of Hindostanee literature that there is
actually a subscription on foot in Bombay to
build pagoda in London for the worship of
Vishnu and silva.
Year: 1872

The Stockton (Cal.) Republican voucl-
cs for the following story:


"Pcoplc often wonder at the remark
able instinct displayed by wcll-traincd
shepherd dogs, but what will they say
when we tell them of n band Of sheep
that is guarded by foxes alone. The
story seems improbable, but of it's truth
we have the most undoubted proof. On
Whisky Hill, four miles from Milton,
may be seen, almost any day, Il large
flock of sheep headed by foxes. These
guardians of the little lambs are three
in number-onc q gray fox and the 9TH


or two Of the species known as the red
fox. In point of intelligence these nov
cl shepherds are said to greatly surpitss


the best trained shepherd dogs. They


perform their work we'll, and from
! morning til night arc ever on the alert.


The gray one seems to control, and in
Il great measure direct the actions ofthe
other two. a gentleman informs us
that he yesterday saw the gray fox
pursue and attack it hog that had seized
n lamb and waa making off with it.
The contest was short and sharp, and
resulted in the hog dropping the lamb
! and beating IL hasty retreat. The fox
picked up the apparently uninjurcd
lamb and carried it back to tho flock.'
Year: 1872

There are in prospect two local political con-
tests of vast import, on which it may be well
to say an earnest word before what may be
termed the national issues, so far as individuals
are concerned, are finally and formally made up.
Both too have one feature in common, that a
Reform of gross abuse, within the locality, is at
stake, and that in promoting it the strictness of
party discipline is thoroughly disturbed. We
refer to the State elections in Indiana and Penn
sylvana. There is an election for Governor
in each, in which, for candidates, the party of
Reform has selected the best and strongest
men, and the Administration faction their
worst. State Legislatures, too, are to
be chosen, not only with a choice of Sen
ators for each, but chance, in making that
choice, of getting rid for ever of men and
their surroundings who for years have exer-
cised a dominant and pestlent influence.
Such by eminence are Oliver p. Morton
and Simon Cameron. OF the former we do
not mean, at this time, to say a word even
in passing But the revolt against the latter
in the Commonwealth he has controlled so
long is so full of interest, and constitutes what
may be termed so propitious an incident of
the great canvass about to open, that we may
be pardoned for specially referring to it.
Not that we have the slightest idea of tracing
such mans story, now running over more
than thirty years. or solving the problem it
suggests, how, i'll community so full of men
of intelligence and intellectual accomplish
ment, an individual who has neither, who is
uneducated and inexpert in the maneuyers of
the very smallest politics, should have won
such success. The degrading fact is incon-
testabe. During his long career it is no
ticeable that Simon Cameron never has
dared to present himself as a candidate for
popular suffrage There is not day in the
last twenty years when, if he had been nOmi-
mated for Governor, he would not have been
ANONYMOUSLY defeated. AS candidate,
he turks in nominating conventions. Men
are secretly pledged to his support Legisla-
lures elected without apparent thought
of him are manipulated. There is no depth