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Year: 1872

The following is said to be one of the


most brilliant articles written by the Ia


mented George ID. Prentice:


"The fiat of nature is inexorable
There is no appeal for relief from the
great law which dooms us to dust We
forest, and the flowers that bloom and
wither in day have no frazier hold upon
life than the mightiest monarch that ever
shook the earth with his footsteps. Gen
erations of men will appear and disappear
as the grass, and the multitude that throng
the world to-day, will disappear as the
footsteps on the shore. Men seldom think
of the egrelt event of death until the
shadow falls across their own pathway,
hiding from their eyes the faces of loved
ones whose living smiles was the sunlight
of their existence. Death is the antagonist
of life, and the cold thought of the tomb
is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not
want to 20 through the dark valley, al
th ough its dark passage may lead to para
disc we do not want to lay down in the
damp grave, even with princes for bed
fellows. In the drama of Ion, the hope
of Immortality, so eloquently uttered
by the death-devoted Greek, finds deep
response in every thoughtful soul. When
about to yield his young existence as
sacrifice to fate, his Clenantha asks if they
should meet again, to which he replies =
Il have asked that dreadful question of
the hills that look eternal-of the clear
streams that flow forever-of the stars
among whose fields of azure my raised
spirit has walked in glory. All were
dumb; but as | gaze upon thy living
face, feel that there is something in the
love that mantles through its beauty that
cannot wholly perish. We shall meet
agaiu. Clemantha.
Year: 1872

of cheek and brightness of eye, cheerful
ness of temper, vigor of mind and purity
of heart: Consequently, She must be
more cheerful and lovely as a daughter,
more digni6ed and wotianly as sister,
and more attracting and confding as a
wife. If you have not the door-yard
ground, then get dozen pots. and plant
the seed of flowers to your taste. The
care and attention required to rear and
train the growing plants, occupies the
mind to exclusion oftentimes of senseless
novel reading, senseless waste of time.
You listless, pale-faced fragile thing of a
girl, throw off your mock delicacy, put on
gloves if you will, but work in the flower
garden, till your cheeks vie m color with
the blush of the rose you cultivate
SucTU7]ae to Bee.
Year: 1872

A few days since one of our popular
attorneys called upon another member of
the profession. and asked upon certain
point of law. The lawyer to whom the
question was addressed, drew himself up
and said, Il generally get paid for telling
what 1 know" The qnestioner drew a
half dollar fractional" from his pocket,
handed it to the other, and cooly remark
ed T: ''Tell me all you know. and give me
the change There is coldness between
the parties now.
Year: 1872

GIRLS In THE GARDEN.-H there is
any one thing more beautiful than another
In garden of flowers, that thing is a
beautiful girl. with sun bonnet on her
head SO wide and capacious that you have
get right square before her and pretty


near her, to see the glowing cheeks that
are sure to be there if she Is at all aecus-
toned to garden walks and works.
Physically, there can be nothing better
for daughters. and. indeed, for many
wives, than to take sole charge of small
flower garden The benefits derived. from
early rising. stirring the soil. snufing the
pure morning air, are freshness and glow
Year: 1872

A young lady in New York was in the
habit OF writing on the subject of tenn
perance. Her writings were full of pathos
and evinced such deep emotion of soul
that friend accused her of being mani.
ac ON the subject of intemperance, where
! upon she wrote the following touching
lines


Go feel what Ihave felt,


Go bear what have borne
sink meath the blow father dealt,


And the cold worlds proud scorn:
linen suffer on fro II year to year
Thy sole relief the scorching tear.
Go kneel as / have knelt, Il


lmplore, beseech, and pray
Strive the besotted heart to melt,


The downward course to stay
Be dashed with bitter curse aside,
Your prayers burlesqued, your tears de-


fled.


Go weep as have wept


O'era loved fathers fall,
See every promised blessing swept


outh's sweetness turned to gall;
Life S fading flowers strewed all the way,
That brought me up to womau's day.
Go see what Ihaye seen,


Behold the strong man bowed
with gnashinS teeth-lipS bathed in


blood


And cold and livid brow;
Go catch his withered glance and see
There mirrored his SOULS misery.
Go to thy mothers side,


And her crushed bosom cheer,
Thine own deep anguish hide,


wipe from her cheek the bitter tear:
Mark her worn frame and withered brow:
The gray that streaks her dark hair now
with fading frame and trembling limb,
And trace the ruin back to him
Whose pliSlIted faith in early youth
Promised eternal love and truth
But who, forsworn, hath yielded up
That promise to the cup,
And led herdOwn through love and light,
And all that made her promise bright
And chained her there mid want and


strife,
That lowly thing--a drunkard's wife.
And stamped on childhood's brow so


mild.
That whitening blight-the drunkard's


child.
Go hear, and feel, and see, and know,
All that my heart has felt and known
Then look upon the wine cups glow;
See If its beauty can atone
Think of its flavor you can try,
When all proclaim It's drink and die
Tell me HATE the bowl?-


Hate is Il feeble word
L loathe-abhor-my very soul


With strong disgust is stirred
When i see, or hear, or tell
OF that dark beverage of He'll.
Year: 1872

CINCINNATI, January, 3O.-A young
boy named Edward Summers, in at
tempting to skate across 10 the Kentucy
shore, this morning, ran upon the track
of last nights harbor towboat, and as
the ice was merely OF last nights
formation it was insufficient to bear
him, and with cry for help he disap-
peared beneath the ice. On rising to
the surface he caught at the ice 10 save
himself, but it crumbled in his grasp
A dozen times he rose to the surface
and as many times his efforts failed.
By this time some one had started 10
his assistance, but breaking through the
ice and barely escaping with his own
life he retreated to the shore, where an
immense crowd had collected, but no
one dared to venture on the new made
ice. For long time the boy was LEFT
to his apparent fate. At last, armed
with long ladder, young man named
Paris Brown and Richard Burns, clerk
Of the steamer Lawrence, started out at
the peril OF their own lives to save him:
Ia the meantime several had started
out from the Kentucky shore, pushing
themselves along on the ice in a
skiff, but the method proved slow and
they finally desisted. Ropes were
thrown to the boy, but his hands were
too cold to retain their grasp. Rapidly
the two young men neared the open
space, which had grown quite large in
the boys efforts 10 save himself, and
finally he was hauled out on the ladder
in a completely exhausted condition.
having been in the water fully three
quarters of an hour. The young
men Immediately divested themselves
OF their coats, in which they wrapped
the boy, and while one pushed the lad
der towards the shore, the other com
menced vigorous rubbing. The half
drowned and nearly frozen lad was I'M
mediately taken on board the steamer
R. R. Hudson, where he was rubbed
with fannels and gradually brought
to. The saving of the boy was loudly
cheered bv the vast crowd assembled
on both sides OF the river.


Cotton Exchange.


The Cotton Exchange in connection
with the Chamber of Commerce was
opened for the first time to-day. Speech
| es were made by Mr.. Rowland, Presi:
dent of the Chamber OF Commerce, aud
Mr.. Eddy, President of the Cotton Ex'
change, after which a banquet was given
by the cotton merchants.
Year: 1872

pents and generation of Vipers, how
can We escape the damnstiou OF HellY'
/ don't like to speak "evil OF
Dignitaries," but slasl that would be
difficult to do, as l know not where
there are any in this wretched country.
| hope you will read this, and the
Lord give you sense 10 understand it,
and act rightly on it, and BY, so doing
greatly oblige sick, poor, and helpless
old widow in her seventy-third year.
l will not trespass on your precious
time longer than 10 remind YOU (for
which you ought TO thank me, as you
seem to have forgotten iD that there
is such place as the Judgment seat
of Christ )" and / tell you would not
like to stand there as the oppressors Of
poor women and children. Hoping |
NAV not by this reminder be doing
what the Bible condemns, viz: Cast
ing pearls before swine, that they may
trample them under their ieet and
turn again and rend you.


am (at present. disrespecttuIIy.


January l4h, 1872.


S.-What is to be the end OF all
this rascality? 1t will send many poor
widows to the Insane Hospital, many
more to the poor house, many more
broken hearted to the grave, 1t will
send the Legislature to the pepiitlon OF
ungodly men, and our oppressed and
unhappy country to disgrace, contempt,
and destruction. You who were placed
there TO be terror to evil-doers, how
and what have you done? taxed us ali
to get money for you to pay us the in
terest on our money, which you swore
you would do. and now you have got
all the money in the treasury.


You say you will not give cent TO It's
suffering owners. Was there ever
stealing like this deliberately concocted
by men before? You ought to make
it lawful for every man and woman 10
say we won't pay for anything we get,
nor our debts either; that will relieve
US some. 1t is time for us as whole
people TO arise and call on Col, and
pray that he would deliver us from
our deadly enemies and from the hands
of all that hate Us, for vain is the he =
Of man. Do Governor Walker set n
day for this purpose and you will have
my sincere thanks. Please take time
to read this letter.


?. S.-We ought to have you all
arrested and put in the State prison for
stealing the public money. | wonder
the Church don't send q missionary to
you instead OF the heather for the part
you have played outstrips anything
that the heather ever did for they have
no light Remember you Lawgivers
that the Gospel is saver of life unto
life or OF death unto death. Az you deal
rightly with us may God deal with you.


?. 81 suppose a woman has n
right to write letter il she has no
right 10 live.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, January 30.-When
the President decided to withdraw the
nomination Of Mr.. Willard Warner as
Collector Of the port Of Mobile he de-
termined to restore William Miller
who was suspended in order to make
wav for Warner. 1t is probable that
Miller will be restored today.


The committee on Ways and Means
have had under consideration the re-
duction of duty on Canada lumber in
logs. No conclusion was arrived at.


The Congressional Committees.


The committee on Appropriations
made some amendments OF minor i'm
portance to the naval appropriation bill.


The House committee on Foreign
Affairs have had under consideration
the fisheries clause of the Washington
treaty. There is a growing impression
that when this clause OF the treaty
comes up in the House it will meet
with formidable opposition. .


The Senate Finance committee had
under consideration to-day the reduction
OF the tariff on rice. A number Of
southern planters appeared before the
committee and argued against the reduc-
ton, on the grounds that 1t would
destroy the production of rice in the
United States. The committee, how.
ever, have decided to reduce the tariff
to one-half the present rate. A delega.
ton OF zinc dealers were also heard
aeains. the reduction OF duty on zinc.


The Senate committee on Foreign
Affairs had under consideration the
Cuban question, but came to no con-
clusion.
Year: 1872

W. suggest to the members OF the
1.o;s,ature from this county that a


,;.t.otorv mode of disposing OF the
sa'''a'.aii ~hn1s railroad CONTROVERSY now asi'a-
ting the people of Wheeling will be TO
L., both of the competing companies
co.oe before the public on an equality
IN the law. Let each have fair show
and stand or fall as its own merits may
deserve. Let an enabling act precisely
Ike that proposed by Governor STAN.
TON in relation to the Wheeling and
Tuscarawas Valley railroad be passed
for the friends of the Wheeling and
Lake Erie road; or let the name OF the
company be stricken out OF Governor
Sr,SToS's bill and authority be gwen 10
subscribe to any railroad running d.
rectlv from Wheeling to Toledo or
making connections with other ROADS Dy
m,ao. Of which better route than now
exists NAV be available between ttese
two ponts, and let no restrictions as 10
the location OF the eastern terminus De
exac,ed, other than that 1t shall De
within the corporate limits Of the city
of Wheeling. Put both of the proposed
roads upon an equal footing and Ie; the
people choose between them.


We believe that this course Will
satisfy all fair and reasonable men o'
both parties and will tend to harm onlze
some OF the antagonisms that now exist
among our citz in relation to the
railroad to the Northwest. We are not
prepared, nor do we think that very
many OF those who attended the meet
ino at the Court House last night are
willing to take snap judgment on the
Wheeling and Lake Erie road ana
declare, without further investigation
that the Wheeling and Tuscarawas Val
lev road alone shall come before our
citizens as claimant for their favor ;
neither do we th.ak t fair that the
latter company snail be freed rom the
condition of making its terminus on the
east side OF the river, while that pro
vision is required OF the former. II II
;s stricken from the act authorizing
the CITY TO subscribe to one road let II
be also stricken from the other.


And then as regards the time OF com
pletion, there ought to be some limit
The eighteen months contemplated In
the resolutions Of Council last fall is
undoubtedly too short, but under Gov
srnor SrASroS's bill our subscription to
the Wheeling and Tuscarawas Falley
railroad will be binding even II that
road is not completed within eighteen
wears, or eighteen hundred years lot
that matter. Some reasonable limit
should be fixed in the act and shoulo
BE- the same as regards each of the pro-
poaed roads.


In short, we desire neither OF these
roads to have any advantage over the
other in the act or acts authorizing
subscription to their stock but 'Ha'


.Lou bova q fair and equal chance
:, rscsive the aid which this city is able
ond willing to afford.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, January 5O.


Some Cheating Going On.


The Congressional committee now
engaged in investigating the accounts
of the Treasury Department, have
stumbled across some startling facts In
connection with the sale Of arms by our
Government to the French during the
late Franco-Prussian war. 1t Is lntl'
mated that there are huge discrepancies
between the amounts received from the
French Government and the sums actu-
ally received into our Treasury and
there credited. The committee are en-
deavoring to keep this matter as quiet
as possible until they make their final
report. The parties engaged in this
fraud are said to be the military ring in
New York, at the head Of which stands
Rufus Ingalls,, Grants intimate adviser.
Carl Schurz has been on the track OF
this fraud for some time, and however
much others may be disposed to cover
It up, he will insist on its exposure.


Two Splendid Arguments


in favor of amnesty were made in the
Senate to-day to crowded galleries. Mr..
Salisbury, of Delaware, led off In an
elaborate review of the principles upon
which our Government is founded, and
held that the intelligent people OF the
North were far ahead Of their repre-
seutatives; that they did not look upon
this question in any partisan view or
from any selfish standpoint, but that
upon high grounds of public policy they
were now anxious that complete am
nesty should be extended to their
brethren of the South. In reference to
Mr.. Summers amnesty bill, he was out
spoken, declaring that it was degrading
to the white people and OF no benefit to
the negroes. The people Of the South
he said, would not have amnesty if this
was 10 be the form OF it.


Schnrz on Amnesty.


Mr.. Schurz followed in the most
brilliant, exhaustive and eloquent
speech that has yet been made on this
subject. He struck the key note in
proclaiming that if the North and the
South were to live together in harmony
they must be placed on terms Of perfect
equality. He pointed to the treatment
Of the Hungarian Rebels by despotlc
Austria as an example worthy OF our
imitation, mentioning the noticeable
fact that Count Anderosey, the Hun
garion leader, was now at the head
of the Austrian Cabinet. His
perora,ion in behaltofthe plundered aud
ruined South was thrilling beyond
description, and the sensation produced
on the listeners was most profound
None of the opponents OF amnesty at
tempted reply, except the butfoon,
Nye, who poured out his usual TRADE
OF vulgar abuse upon the South, but
seemed to awake no echoing response.
An effort will be made to arrive at a
vote tomorrow. ALPHA.
Year: 1872

From the Richmond Enquirer


The following letter, addressed to the
Legislature, and formally sent to that
body, has (t matters not to explain
how happened to come into our poe
session. 1t was intended to be read TO
that body, and the writer, a most
respectable widow lady. signs her name
in full-which we withhold.


We can assure our readers that it will
abundantly repay perusal. There is
an honest vigor about it that is partic-
ularly striking. We hope it will have
some effect on the Legislature. Here
is the letter:


SPRING GRANGE, just above


Brook Road Toll-Gate.


RI send you this letter with the re
quest that you will hand it to the Leg
islature-more truly would it be called
a den Of Thieves


The Legislature Of the State Of Vir-
ginia (so-called) will please pay to the
Tax collector my taxes for this year
out of the Interest due me on the
bonds funded to pay the State debt
l hope you will comply with this re-
quest, as the debt was funded by you,
and you can't get the taxes any other
way but by selling me and the very
little / possess in this world, and this
may possibly reward me for working
hard and honestly to support me "nen
too old to work any more, and am now
a good subject for the Poor house. IL
will be more to your interest than mine
If you comply with my request stlli !
should be thankful il you do, outli not,
l must apply to you the words OF Him
who always spoke truth: "Ye Ser
Year: 1872

PHILADELPHIA, January 3O.-The
election in the Fourth Senatorial Dis,
trict to day resulted in favor of Gray
the regular Republican, by a small ma
jority. Colonel Mcclure, the Reform
cand date, will contest the seat. The
reform men are very jubIlant over the
large vote cast for their ticket
Year: 1872

Lottery buyers may be classified in
regard to special characteristics in nu-
merOus subdivisions. There is the
man who once secured a small prize,
and has since spent twenty-fOld its
amount in the vain hope Of obtaining
a successor Of more respectable pro-
portions. There is the man who
knows a man who heard q fellow
talking of another fellow he once
knew who had drawn a capital, - aud
he cites the misty tradition as q certain
sign that he is sure to have the same
luck. There is the man who saw the
new moon over his right shoulder the
previous evening, and augurs- from
the accident that he is TO have q good
run of luck. There is the man who
WOOes the goddess Fortune in dashing
haDhazard style, and pulling out the


first ticket he happens to get his fing-
ers on, resOluteiy turns his eyes cell
ingward, SO that he can thrust it into
his pocket without seeing what num-
ber it bears; he has an unfaltering be-
lief that this way Of doing the thing
is vastly superior to any other, and IS
certain to bring q prize sooner or later.
There is the man who is an exact Op-
pOsite, and makes the selection of his
ticket 3 matter of close calculation of
chances by looking over the drawings
for number Of days tn get precise in
formation as to what numbers have
been drawn, and from this shadowy
foundation divines what ones will be
drawn. He is a devout believer in
the solemnly uttered axiom of the lot
terry dealer, that during the year each
number is drawn an equal number Of
times; and if any one has not been
drawn for several days, he begins to
purchase tickets, bearing It with an
unquestIoning faith that is amusing
to an unbeliever. There is another
man, however, whose faith in his
power of divinatiOn is as amazing as
the case cited is amusing; and this il
the individual who is certain that q
selected combination of numbers Is
sure to be drawn, and who rushes in
frenzied haste from one Office to
another looking for the ticket bearing
Ii, and incOnsOlable if be does not find
it, nevertheless does not let fortune
give him the slip altogether, but plays
the numbers in that delusive game
called policy, which is to be described.
This sort of buyer can never be mis-
taken. He is the person who rushes
into an Office, eagerly calls for the
'Kentuckys, F" hastily looks over the
tickets, departs as hurriedly as he
came, and of whom the man behind
the counter remarks, before he is fair
ly out of ear-shOt, zone Of the sharps
he's going for a sure thing plot
terry Gamblers By EdlOGTd Crdpsey,
in AprH GALAXY.
Year: 1872

The observations of the late eclipse
have not yet been fully gathered in,
and the results to be deduced from
them can hardly be expected for some
weeks, but there is reason to know
that they will be very rich. The
eclipse was observed by Professor
Respighi, De la Rive, Jaussen and
LOekyer, with numerous scientific
assistants, who, in almost every in.
stance, report successful attempts in
photOgraphing the important phe-
nomenon. The composition and
structure of a part of the solar corona
has been forever set at rest, while
seventeen accurate photographs
taken by instruments of the same
pattern and power-have rewarded
the zeal of the astronomers who went
to India. Such mass of information
has never been in the possession of
astronomy with which to investigate
the exterior coronal regions of the
sun, 1t has been oonolusively deter
mined that the great star of our sys-
tem-on which the entire terrestrial
economy depends for heat-is sur
rounded by an immensely extended,
excessively rare atmosphere of a hy-
drogen base. AT the beginning of
tOtality the spectroscope /. clearly
revealed the reversal of the dark lines
and the unmistable hydrogen bright
lines dnring the whole period of
totality. This hydrogen atmosphere
the sun is proved to be
permanent, and not due to any out
side or cosmical causes, and it is said
without doubt to besupplied by matter
elected with great violence from the
photosphere. There is doubtless much
in store for science from the discovery
of the nature of the sun in its rela-
tions to the meteorology, climates and
seasons OF our own planet, and the
world is now looking toit astronomers
to make vigorous attempts to solve
the whole solar question. NJ Y
Herald.