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Year: 1871

AUBURN, n. Y, Oct. 12.-Secrctary Seward, on
arriving the railroad depot here, was wclromed by
large crowd Of citizens anxious TO thcrdstnguiShed
tOwnSnan On reaching his residence he was welcomed
10y the Hon. Michael = Myers, who made brief speech
Of welcome to which Mr.. Seward responded fol
lows:


Ma MrERs ASD FRIENDS The words which YOU have
spoken 10 me and the pressure of the hand which You
What would have willingly avoided. have taxed my
neighbors and friends often and ~ long that have
would like 10 steal away from them. and to
soften the sadness OF parting as the nearest domestic
relations do when they part. And, when come back
like III them by surprise, ana meet them III
thcm to come TO me- still it Is What has always hap
pcned the course Of 80 MANY years. whenever
faye had occasion to go ont of Auburn-s0mctmc
nearer sometimes further, sometimes upon the trail Of
duty sometimes OF study. sometimes of labor, sometimes
of public and sometimes private interest
suffered to part from my here without demon
stratiOn Of their Affection Ii has often been my lot 10
achievement, which have excited might have
cited envy sometimes defeated ana with nortihcatlon,
sometimes with domestic sadness which cannot lightly be
spoken and sometimes with public anxiety which can
not be expressed ana yet never nave come nome Will
out being received as h.iglpor ana iilehd. sncn
hcighbOrs deserve all the anecOh ana all the gratitude


that can pay % can and I ask rre S%e S So SGfyr n1 a
day or hour when | have not ftn ;mnefed % them and
prayed God that what might not be able to DO for their
weaie and happiness might be done by hlIn through
other agencies. My friends, we are met together,
Which, in - is nctpiion seemed to many eecen,
ric, but trust hat all al, my o. n.lshoors and



| found that, OIL returning home TO the occupations
which were before that expected 10 enjoy rest
FROM abors and which we're thought 30 have been
severe and Opprcssng found that, at my Sge and IN
my condition Of health rest was rust and nothing re:
maned to prevent rust but TO keep III motion, selected
the way that would do the least harm, give tho east Of
tense enable to acquire the most knowledge, and
In the course of my wanderngs have seen, not all the
nations but some Of the nations Of every race the
earth I have looked the whole human family III the
face taken by the hand and eonyersed with my fellow


a in his lowest degradation and In his highest stage of
civilization. ! have found no nation so distant and no
race so low that the character OF an American citizen
did not secure to merely safety but also respect
and affection. You may judge, therefore,
whether in returning TO my own country, have less
reason to love and honor 1t.


My friends and ncighbOrs, have trcspassed beyond
your patience and my own strength III speaking these
words to YOU / give you my sincere and heartfelt
thanks and hope tomorrow and on early future days TO
learn that happiness has been In all your dwellings and
that all the enterprises which you are engaged have
crowned with success, know there will be at all
affection ana friendship which has been the great happi
ness Of my life.
Year: 1871

A statement was published in The Times OF
yesterday to the effect that "he Broadway Bank has
thrown open its with the city " the Inspection
Of the Committee of Seventy and that the accountants
Of the Committee are work upon the books OF
ne Rapk" WA sssertea " the sane parRRrSph that
Year: 1871

We find in the Liberal Citizen the follow
ing notice of the capable and efficient Repre-
sentative of the 4th Congressional district !:


"This isgentleman seems to,be coming in for
quite large measure of abuse through the
columns of the Richmond Wing and other
Democratic papers of the Southern section
of the State. The great source of his of
Tending seems to be his unlimited control
over the colored voters of the Fourth Con-
gressional District.


'They admit that in his personal appear
ance and intercourse with the ''white
folks" he exhibits all the evidences of
well-bred and perfect gentleman, and there
fore an unfathomable mystery how any
one, wearing such livery, can condescend to
hold intercourse with the ignorant, hated
'black race" There are great many
things these blind Democrats don't under
stand, and a great many they will never
learn, unless they rub the scales from their
eyes.


The secret of Mr.. Stowell's influence
with his constituents lies principally in the
fact of his being a gentleman in every
sense of the word But he is more. He
is a man of enlarged and liberal views, has
kind and generous heart, and truly and
sincerely sympathizes with the poor, down.
troddcn and abused of every cline and
country.
Year: 1871

The Convention that adjourned this
morning, was marked by degree of har-
mony and dignity in its deliberations which,
was cheering to the friends Of thet
cause. With rare. exceptions spirit of libe-
ralty and concession prevailed among the
delegates. The action of the Convention in
nearly every important particular was well
considered, impartial, and calculated to
strengthen the Republican cause in the
State.


The platform and resolutions bring the
party up to present duties, and define
sharply and distinctly, the living issues Of
the canvass. Upon these issues it takes
high ground, and may safely appeal for the
united and enthusiastic support of all its
members. The people of Virginia have
now TO choose between party, whose
leaders are in the hands of wealthy and
corrupt ring of New York stock brokers,
seeking to enforce their Shylock demands
upon destitute people, and party which
stands for the preservation of the people
first, before it attempts to preserve the
empty name of State credit.


Between party which assaults the free
schools as the cause of the heavy taxes,
while it takes from the people over a mill
lion of dollars in excess of its own admit
ted need for current purposes, and loans it,
at four per cent, to wealthy bankers, who,
in turn, loan it out to the needy at II to Is
per cent; and party which confines the
taxation to the current expenses of a gov
ernment economically administered. The
people are to choose between party whose
representatives in Congress voted to shut
up Virginia mines and cripple its industries,
and one which declares for protection to
American labor and the doctrines of Henry
Clay. s.


They are to choose between frank,
bold, outspoken policy, and the cowardly
silence which shirks every living issue, be-
cause its real purposes are too bad to bear
the light, and would be secuted with indig-
nation if proclaimed to the people.


With such platform, we can go before
the people strong in the faith of the justice
of our cause, and in the certainty of its
eventual triumph
Year: 1871

A sailor went to matchmaker, and pre-
senting a small French watch to him, de-
manded to know how much the repair of it
would come to. The Matchmaker, after
examining it, said; "It will be more ex-
pensive repairing it than its original cost"
81 don't mind that" said the tar 81
will even give you double the original cost,
for gave fellow blow on the head for
it, and if you repair it Twill give you two"


A young lady at an evening party some
time ago found it hard to use the expression,
g Jordan is hard road to travel,o but
thinking that too vulgar, substituted the
following: " Perambulating progression in
pedestrian excursion along the far-famed
thoroughfare of fortune cast up by the
banks Of the sparkling river of Palestine is
indeed attended with heterogeneous con-
glomeration of unforeseen difficulties"
Year: 1871

r. L. Totty, brakeman on the Rich
mond and Danyille train, fell from the train
near the nine-mile post, yesterday morn
ing, and was severely injured. He was
brought to his house in this city. iE


The special committee of the City
Council to whom was referred the petition
of the fremen who were recently dis
charged, held a meeting yesterday morn
ing, and after careful consideration of the
subject, ratified the action of the Board of
Control of the Fire Department
Year: 1871

RUNAWAY ACCIDENTAL horse rid
den by young colored man named John
Pryer, ran away yesterday evening about
sundown, on Third street. Near Main, the
animal came near running over lady. He
rushed on 20 Franklin street, where the
rider was thrown off and pretty badly in
jured. He was placed in carriage and
taken to his home.
Year: 1871

Some men move through life rs a
band of music moves down the street.
flinging out pleasure on every side thro'
the air to every one far and near who can
listen. Some men fill the air with their
presence and sweetness. rs orchards, in
October days, fill the air with the per-
fume OF ripe fruit. Somo women cling
to their own houses like the honeysuckle
over the door. yet, like it. fill all the re-
gioE with the subtle fragrance Of their
goodness. How great bounty and n
blessing is it TO hold the royal gifts of the
soul that they shall be music to some. and
fragrance to others. and life to all 1t
would be no unworthy thing to live for,
to make the power which we have with.
in us the breath Of other mems joy, to
fill the atmosphere with brightness
which they cannot create for themselves.
= Beecher.
Year: 1871

81 wish God had never permitted man
to invent green blinds, said n gay, bril-
liant woman.


Why did She say it t?


Because she saw, wherever she went,
over our fair and sunshiny land, that
green blinds were closely shut upon our
comfortable houses excluding the suns
light, which we may be sure God sends
down Tor some blessed purpose. That
blessed purpose is to promote growth
and strength. To impart color, TO gild
beauty, to inspire good thoughts, and
to insure light.hearts and cheerful faces.


Ii is thoroughly well known that no
valuable plant can grow well without be-
ing visited by the direct rays Of the
sun; no plant can bear seed, no fruit can
ripen without it, Ii is thoroughly known
that no valublc animal can grow and
perfect itself except it enjoys the direct
rays Of the ife.giving sun. The pigs OF
friend of mine. which were shut under
his barn, and who had every thing
favorable except the sunlight. failed to
grow well; they did not at MI equal
those which had the ordinary run in the
open air. So il is. as we all know, with
city grown children they arc pale weak.
lings the world over


The fish of the Mammoth Cave are
white; their eyes Te not open, because
they have not felt the glorious light;
they are imperfect kind OF idiots, if
fish are liable to that wretchedness.


Now, then, can men. can women
thrive if lebarred this life giving light?
Can our lovely Americans afford to shut
out this light from their houses, and
grow idiotic in the dark? Are not green
blinds curse rather than n comfort
We appeal to our fine women who wish
to he strong. who wish to be beautiful,
who abhor "low spirits" to consider the
matter


Recent discoveries have shown there is
conveyed to animals, by the direct action
of the suns rays. Il subtle current of iron.
1t does not exist in light, or, but very
slightly, il ut all. but it. is n part of the
suns s.-Thcrefore, we must enjoy
these rays, if we would feel their full
effect. This iron it is, which is supposed
TO give color to plants and animals. and
TO impart strength and beauty. With
strength and beauty come health AMI
good spirits, and dcspondency and fear
are banished.


Sleepless people-and there ARE many
in America-should court the sun. The
very worst soporilic is laudanum; and
the very best sunshine. Therefore it is
plain that poor slecpers should pass
many hours in the day in sunshine, and
as icw in shade ms possible.


Many women are martyrs and yet do
not know it. They shut the sunshine out
of their houses and their hearts, they
wear wells, they carry parasols. they do
all possible to keep off the subtest and
yet most potent influence which is intend
ell to give them strength and beauty
and cheeriulness. Is il not time to
change all this, and. so get color
and roses on our pale checks, strength
in our weak backs, and courage in our
timid souls? The women Of America
are pale and dclicatc-they may be bloom
ing and strong, and the sunlight will be
a potent influence in this transformation.
Will they not try it q year Or two, and
obiiec thousands of admirers?
Year: 1871

Do Your BEsT.-If you are running
along in a hurry, and stumble over n
brickbat. and spill your dinner pail. all
right. Kick the brick bat out of The way,
pick up your dinner.pail, save your bread
and butter, if you cam if mol whistle
"Hail Columbia" and run to school.
1t won't do TO be put down by brickbat.
Take hold of your books rs squirrel
takes hold OF hickory-nut. Be bound
to get the meat out if there is any In it.
Because Tom Lazyshops wants 10 be
a fool, is no reason why you should be
one. Do your best, every time; and
then when the Teacher calls out the
classes, you can walk up like man. and
tell him To 60 ahead
Year: 1871

"A good way to cook meat Is to seal
it in vessel Theoretically tight.
Cooked thus long time in it's own
jlioes, it is rehdefed very tender, aid
has peculiar appetiaing flavor.
Take an earthen jar that will stand
HEAT, with tight fitting cover. IFbuyf
10 to be the dish for dinner, cut it In
convenient pieces. lay them In the
jar, rub each tiecb with salt ana pep,
per and a little limp of sugar, and
put in little water then lay on d
piece of thick buttered papor, and
press down the cover.


If you think it will allow ahy steam
to escape, mia shorts or rye meal with
water to paste press strips of this
all round tho edge of cuver: Bike in
a moderate oven four or five hours,
according to tenderness of meat.
Chickens or turkeys ars excellent
cooked in this way. The tohgheat
meat isrendcrsd tender BY this pros
CESS and none of tho nutritious fiat
ter is wasted, as in many of the fornlo
of cooking.
Year: 1871

A steam pump is on exhibition at
Philadelphia, which, If correctly de-
scribed, is hydraulic novelty. It con-
sists of a cast iron pipe twelve feet long
and twenty inches inside diameter,
which stands upright in basin of wa
ter, the lower end resting in an iron
basket to prevent sticks or stones from
passing into the pipe. Through this
pipe is run steel shaft, upon which,
at intervals of about four feet, are cast
iron propeller wheels, each of two blades
with an angular pitch of sixty-iye de-
grees, This shaft is attached by belt
at the top to twenty-five horse power
engine, and makes four hundred revo-
lutions q minute Running at this rate,
there is discharged through the pipe
the incredible amount OF ten thousand
gallons of water minute, or nearly fif-
teen million gallons day. With such
a hydraulic elevator as this, the task of
pumping water into a reservoir to sup
ply the largest ciry would seem to be a
very easy matter. In fact, we need
hardly feel astonished if some real es
tate speculator should bring on few
Philadelphia pumps, and undertake to
empty one of the great lakes. A tube
like that described would be good
thing to reverse the current in Bonnet
Care crevasse, we're it not for reversing
the whole stream and leaving Louisiana
dry as desiccated snuff-box.
Year: 1871

At late sitting OF the French Acad-
emy of Sciences (says GahgnanD Gu
rious communication was received from
M. Zaliwski, which, if it were borne
out, would be invaluable to navigation.
He states that if a hollow cylinder made
of thin materials, open at the top and
provided with sharp edged bottom,
be properly ballasted and then put in
to a tub or other vessel filed with wa
ter will soon move in never varying
direction from West to East! The
round tin boxes in which concentrated
milk IS preserved, will do perfectly for
the experiment, which will be-
come more and more perceptible
the oftener the same cylinder is made
to do duty in this way. If this be true
and practically applicable on board
ship, the advantage to be derived from
it will be immense, especially in the
case of iron-built vessels, which, it is
we'll known, occasion very considerable
deviations of the needle Indeed, ta-
bles of correction have to be made out
for each craft of the kind by expert
ment, and mistakes which may cause
shipwreck are often the cause of mis-
calculation in this respect. Now, if by
M. Zaliwski's discovery the direction
from west to east can always be ascer-
tanned, the bearings of the needle may
be corrected with greater certainty.
Year: 1871

In another column will be found a
note from Mr.. Bonner to the New York
Times in regard to the reputed of a
horse belonging to ex-Gov. Stanford,


in California. We dare say this is a
fast horse. We have private letter
from San Francisco which says that
Gov. Stanford drove him last year him
self in 2:23, and that since then he has
been carefully handled. Therefore, it
is likely enough that he may have trot-
ted half mile in 1:07 The style of
the account in the Sacramento Report
er would, however, rather lead us to
doubt it than to put faith in it. When
a man, in writing about some green
horse starts, outwith the assertion that
he is going to make Dexer take back
seat, we put him down as an ignorant
person; for however great the promise
of the green horse may be, everybody
with a little horse-sense knows the pro-
liability to be that he will never attain
to the excellence that Dexter has dis
played in every way of going and at all
distances. So of the offer of the


+" well-known sporting man" to lay ST.
900 that he could take the horse for
week and drive him in 2:15. This offer
of the "well-known sporting man"
reminds us of we'll known adage con-
cerning fool and his money. And
is of the statement that Gov. Stanford
paid $3, 300 for the horse and can get
$99, ZOO for his bargain. We have
no doubt the horse is very fast, but
friend of ours who knows him we'll
tells us that he is no square trotter, but
runs behind. He also adds that he has
a horse not able to trot in better than
2:25, and that he should like to match
him against the horse at Sacramento.
Year: 1871

Boat Containing Three Mc1, swamp


ed ia the Rapids-The Bodies Swept


Over the Horseshoe Falls.


From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, Friday.


Three young men, quite respectfully
dressed, were noticed at Niagara Falls
yesterday, being strangers and keeping
in company with each other. About
noon they proceeded to Suspension
bridge, and returned to Niagara Falls
in the afternoon. near three o'clock.
The party went to the Union Hotel, a
small tavern in the village. About four
o'clock they proceeded up to the head
of Days canal, and stopped at Walkers
boat house. A lad, son of Mr. Walker,
was in attendance, and, as the men
wished to hire boat to go over to
Grass Island to take a swim, he let them
have fat-bottomed scow. The
men started off and reached the island
in due time, where they disembarked.
Soon after they got int the boat
again and headed for the Canada shore.
Their movements were watched from
the American side, and it was observed
that the current soon caught the scow
and Whirled it down stream. Several
spectators ran along the shore and
watched the party with intense interest,
as 1t was beyond doubt that nothing
could save them 1t is said that when
the boat first reached the rapids it
broke in two The man that was row
ing, being an expert swimmer, swan
within six feet of Streets islands, but
the rapids drove him past. He then
got discouraged, threw his hands in the
air and sank The two others were
seen to rise once, but were soon carried
away, and nothing of them was seen
afterwards.


The unfortunate men were swept
over the Horse Shoe Falls, and up to
eleven o'clock this morning their bodies
had not been seen. A part of the
scow was found floating in the river be-
low the ferry. The men were aged be-
tween twenty-five and twenty-three
years. One was dressed in a brown
suit and brown cap; another in blue
suit and soft hat; and the third wore
an overcoat. 1t is thought possible
that the party were trying to evade the
law, from sundry remarks overheard,
but it seems strange that they should
have taken SO desperate means to put
space between them and their pursuers,
if there were any of the latter.


The men are thought to be pedlars
by profession, as they left several pack
ages ofprize candy, bogus gold watches
and chains, boxes of blacking, and so
forth, at the Union Hotel. They did
not register their names on the book at
the Office, as no rooms were engaged or
meals taken.


We endeavored to obtain full partic.
ulars this morning by telegraph, but
the only further news in addition to
that we have given above, was that it
is supposed that one of the drowned
men was Johnny Murphy, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, and the other, two Israel
ties, who have lately come from Flori-
da. Time will solve the mystery.
Year: 1871

. The symptoms of Liver
Complaint are uncaslncss
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken
for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
times alternating with lax
| with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss
Of memory, accompanied
with painful sensation Of hay
ing left undone something
Which ought to have been
done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
spirits. Sometimes many or
Year: 1871

Reflect that 4 sound mind and body a"o the
most necessary requisites - prolIotc cvNmuDla!
happiness, Indeed without these the Journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, TIC
prospect hourly durkens TO the view the mind
becomes shadowed with dc=pnir and Tiled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness "i
another is blghted with our own
Year: 1871

At the close OF the year 1865 General
Grant made tour of inspection in the
South, to ascertain the condition OF
affairs, and, as he says, ito learn, as far
as possible, the feelings and intentions
of the citizens Of those States toward
the General Government" On the 18th
of December he submitted his report
to tie President, in which he said -
am satisfied that the mass OF think
ing men of the South accept the present
situation of affairs in good faith. The
questions which have heretofore divided
the sentiments of the people OF the two
sectons-slavery and States rights, or
the right Of State to secede from the
Union-they regard as having been
settled forever by the highest tribunal
-arms-that man can resort TO. l was
pleased to learn from the leading men
whom | met that they not only &C
cepted the decision arrived at as final,
but now that the smoke of battle has
cleared away and sufficient time has
been given for reflection, that this de-
cis;on has been fortunate one for the
whole country, they receiving like ben,
efts from it with those who opposed
them in the field and in council.


There is such universal acquiescence
in the authority OF the General Govern
ment throughout the portions OF the
country visited by me that the mere
presence of a military force, without re
gard to numbers, is sufficient to main
tain order.


The late slave seems 10 be imbued
with the idea that the property OF his
late master should by right belong TO
him, or at least should have no protec'
ton from the colored soldier. There is
danger OF collisions being brought on
by such causes.


NV observations lead me to the con-
clusion that the citizens OF the Southern
States are anxious to return to SELF
government within the Union as soon
as possible; that while reconstructing
they want and require protection from
the Government; that they are In
earnest in wishing to do what is re-
quired by the Government, not humlll,
ating TO them as citizens, and that II
such a course was pointed out they
would pursue it in good iaith. 1t is to
be regretted that there cannot be a
greater commingling at this time be-
tween the citizens OF the two sections,
and particularly OF those intrusted with
the law-making power.


If the condition OF affairs described
in this report has changed since then,
who is responsible? The control OF
the Southern States was taken out oil
the hands OF President johnson and
given to General Grant as Commander
in-Chief; afterwards he became Presi-
dent, and ever since has had complete
control.