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Year: 1871

EDIToR CITIZEN Allow me to
ask through your columns two ques-
tions Of some of your theological
readers, based upon the Bible as
sertion that 'Dust thou art and un-
to dust shalt thou return" -


Is it not fair to presume that
when all the dust of which the earth
is composed is made into human
beings, the end viii come?


Is it not fair to presume that the
end viii not come until all the ma
terial for human formation is ex-
hausted?


Let these questions be answered
and, if admitted, let some one make
the calculation to. see what proper
ton the weight of the people who
have lived in the world bears to the
weight of the world itself; then, as
the weight Of the nations is to the
weight Of the world, so is the pres
ent age of the world to its age when
the end comes. .
Year: 1871




There are thousands who know
nothing of the blessed inluen ces
of comfortable homes, merely for
the want Of thrift or from dissipat-
cd habits. Youth spent in frivo-
lous amusemonts and demoralizing
associations, leaving them atmiddle
age, when the physical and intel
lectual man should be in its. great
est vigor, eneryated, and without
one laudable ambition. Friends
long since lost, confidence gone,
and nothing to look to in old age
but a mere liberation in the com
munity where they should be or
namentsa No home to fly to when
wearied with the struggles incident
to life; no wife to cheer them in
their dependency; no children to
amuse them, and no virtuous house
hold to give zest to the joys oflife.
All is blank, and there is no hope
/. or suecor except that which is given
out by the hands of private or pub
lie charities. When the family of
an industrious citizen gather
around the cheerful fire of a wintry
day, the homeless man is seeking
shelter in the cells of the station
house, or begging for a nights rest
in the outbuilding ofone who start
ed in life at the same time with no
greater advantages; but honesty
and industry built up that home,
while dissipation destroyed the
other
Year: 1871

SELF RELIAScE.-The success of
individuals in life is greater owing
to their early learning to depend
upon their own resources. Money,
or the expectation Of it by inherit
ance, has ruined more men than the
want Of it ever did. Teach young
men to rely upon their own efforts,
to be frugal and industrious, and
you have furnished them with a
productive capital which no man
can ever wrest from.


TIA hole made in a wall by a can
non ball is called a breach, would
two such holes make a pair of-oh,
go6d graciousl
Year: 1871

The Doylestown (Pa.) Domocrat
gets Off the following fish story, which,
il true, will remove manya doubt
from the skeptical mind as to the ad-
ventures recorded of Jonah:


l'p the river, in town called Eas-
ION, two Of its inventive citizens are
training surgeons to u novel use.
They cause a couple Of the fish to
draw u small boat, in harness, and at
lach them also to two imitation swans
which float above them and prevent
their diving. The boat Is shaped
like q shell. The mode of Harvesting
the surgeons is peculiar. A broad
India rubber band, encircling each
fish behind the ectoral fin, has q
brass ring attached on top. Through
these rings u stout ashcn pole, about
eight feet long is Inserted, and to two
staples in the pole the traces are fas-
tened. There is also n gum-elastic
band around each sturgeon, just be-
hind the dorsal fin, with loop in the
side holding the opposite ends Of q
much lighter pole, to compel them to
swim at regular distance from each
other. Phillippi, who acts as driver,
has his seat in the bow, and directs
their course with goad, which is u
long pole, and as thick as one's wrist,
with sharp spike sticking out at right
angles from the,end, and it is surpris-
ing with what alacrity they obey.
When they are to be turned to the
right or left, u sudden prick on the
opposite side Of each sturgeon causes
tie pair to take the desired course;
when a!greater speed is desired they
are pierced near the tail; when they
are required to halt, the goad is reach
rd forward and they are pricked in
front Of the head.
Year: 1871

Beecherism "There is nothing more
offensive to me than to be greeted IN that
rough religious wa7, "Well brother Beecher,
how is your soul to-day" None of your
business. It is a kind of familiarity that l
don't relish. If ny father were 10 come to
me on the ferry boat, and put his arm around
my neck, should look up with pleasure {;
but should a stranger do the same thing, I
should resent the action as an insult. And
what won't permit to be done to my body,
| shall not tolerate on my soul"
Year: 1871

An Eastern paper thinks that PROPOSE
Arlington property, and thus perfect the
Government's title, would not receive twenty
votes in Congress. Don't know about that
a great deal would depend on the size of
the pile involved, and the lady's willingness
to divide fairly with the lobby.
Year: 1871

AIKEN at the sign of the Golden Eagle Is
selling all dress goods at cost.
All hosiery and gloves at cost.
All haunels at cost.


All cassimeres at cost.


All real and imitation laces at cost.
All fancy goods at cost.


All beached and brown sheetings and
shirtings at less prices than they can be had
elsew here.
Year: 1871

Eight years ago the pirate Alabama made
her first capture and an expert ar,thmeti-
clan has calculated that the spe, aches and
documents printed on the subjects since then
would furnish more than full freight for
the pirate and her prize
Year: 1871

THOSE who desire to shield themselves
from that fearful scourge consumption can
not do wiser and safer thing than to
furnish themselves with supply of DR..
Bells Balsam of Alpine Moss, a capital cure
for diseases Of the Chest and Lungs. Set
advertisement in this paper.
Year: 1871

This handsomely reconstructed place of
another brilliant audience. If it continues
this way, Mr.. Bidwell, the most enterprising
proprietor and manager in the South, will
have no cause to regret the large amount of
money he has expended this season to make
the Academy one of the handsomest and
this or any other country.


1t has always been favorite place of re-
sort here, from the fact that the manage
ment has endeavored to keep pace with the
times. Mr.. Bidwell not only endeavors to
have the best theatre in the South, but he
spares no expense in obtaining the best
talent in the world, to render the perform
ances at his establishment the acme of art
in all that appertains to the mimic stage.


lie does not tire the public with any par
ticular branch of the drama, but furnishes
a variety of performances in the course of
the season that keeps curiosity on tiptoe to
know what comes next, anc thus success
fully eaters to the taste of all who have q
relish for that which is pleasing, entertain
ing and instructive. Novelties are indeed
presented at this recherche establishment in
rapid succession, and are retained no longer
than is sufficient to fully crafty the public
desire to see them.


Last evening Miss Lille Eldridge, pleas.
ing and rather talented young actress, made
her second appearance before a New Or.
leans audience, as alma TessiAain, in the
three act drama entitled "Alma, or Held in
Bondage" The play is new one and is
not without merit as o dramatic compost
ton, though it can not be considered a.
coming mp to our standard plays that have
been much longer candidates for public
favor. Miss Eldridge plays alma in man.
ner that attaches much credit to the young
impersonator, who does not fail to have q
fair conception Of what the character should
be.


The Granville de Tigne of Mr.. j. Wesley
Hill, is a very fair piece of acting. 1t is
neither under nor overdone. and must im-
press an audience rather favorably with
the gentleman as an actor. The other char
acters are well sustained, and the plav has
been rendered thus far very acceptably.
Year: 1871

- This Edition Of "THE
True NoRTHERNER" is printed
earlier than our Regular Edition
and is mailed to every subscrib-
er. With proper encouragement
we will issue such an Edition
every week. What say the
people ?
Year: 1871

Our friends and patrons can greatly aid us
in extending the circulation OF the TRUE
NoRrHERNER, by each one procuring ono new
subscriber. BY 80 doing you will enable us
to improve the paper. Speak TO your neigh
bors and friends and induce them tosubscIlbe.
We feel sure they will be pleased with the pa
per. Let each one do something to aid us in
extending its circulation.
Year: 1871

heart and hands ns woman's work does.


Besides all this. man Is helped BY many
strong relishcs aud incentives TO labor


lie is out in the world among folks. Ho
comes and goes and is refreshed 10 spirit


But woman works alone aud almost up-
known. To plea her husband and her
God is possibly her only motive, and alas.
how mnny wives there be who sob in g.
crct before their God because they fail 10
win one smile or word Of praise from their
husbands II is stupid for any ordinary
man TO be finding fault with women.
Year: 1871

Over fifteen hundred clergymen Of the
church Of England have signed a formal
protest against the admission to the CON-
municn-tahle in Westminster Abbey Of a
Unitarian divine who Is one Of the CON-
mission to revise the translation Of the
Bible.
Year: 1871

The King of Burmah has announced
officially that he is about to construct a
system of telegraphy for the use of his
subjects. The proclamation intimates
that the present founder of the city of
Mandalay, builder of the royal palace,
ruler of the sea and land, lord Of the
celestial elephant, and master Of many
white elephants, being exceedingly
anxious for the welfare of his people,
will introduce the telegraph Ia sci
ence-the elements of which may be
compared to thunder and lightning for
rapidity and brilliancy, and such as his
royal ancestors had never attempted to
subdue." r
Year: 1871

THERE is a boy down east who
is accustomed to 60 out on a rail.
road track and initiate the steam
whistle 80 perfectly as to deceive
the officer at the station. His last
attempt proved eminently success.
ful the depot master came out
and" switched him off,"
Year: 1871

TKE Brownsville Bee, in an able
article advocating the repeal Of the
usury laws, makes the sensible sug-
gesuOn that it would be q stroke Of
good policy ior Tennessee to open wide
all her gates for money and capital to
f1w in. Let the flow 5s unrestricted
for all time to come, and let each man
be bis own judge as to what he can
afford TO pay for it. By restricting 1t
We simply drive it from us-we do
not cheaper it a iarthing. We ex-
clude Ourselselves from it-or the
privilege OF using ii by not allowing
it to bring what we are willing TO give
for 1t. Give Us more money and let
the price regulate ITSELF
Year: 1871

A NEW YORK correspondent writes
under date OF the 10th instant: About
the 20;h Of this month there viii be a
conference in New York of as many
leading Democratic politicians as can
be got together from different sections
of the country, TO compare notes and
take counsel together with reference
to the present position and future
couEse OF the party, with particular
reference to concert Of action In the
coming Presidential election. II your
correspondent is not misinformed, the
invitations TO this conference have
been in the form Of printed circular,
signed by the chairman Of the Demo-
cratic State committee.
Year: 1871

| Interesting Letter from One who Crossed
the Ocean with the Great " "Finnncior."
The New York Times of the 4th inst,
| publishes letter from Edmund Jussen,
| formerly Collector of Internal Revenue


at Chicago, dated Bremen, Oct. 10, from
which we make the following extracts


The pilot had left the steamer, and


we were fairly out at sea before was
aware that Garvey and wife were on


board. While friends were bidding
| farewell to each other at the steamers
dock, while the boat glided slowly into


the river, amid the cheers and greetings
and tears of honest men, the criminal


and his better half were locked in their


state-room. Off Sandy Hook he came


on deck and introduced himself as a


Mr.. Mcdonnell, of New York. [ had


not conversed with him five minutes,


and had looked but once upon the dia-


mof1ds ornamenting his wife's hands,


when 1 put him down as the worst


type of New York shoddy.


If had never exchanged q word with


the runaway swindler, [ should have


known from the childish, abject fear
which he displayed during the voyage


that I was in company of a conscience
look upon his ghastly countenance
during heavy weather; he would ask q
hundred questions in q minute about
the safety of the ship, and like fright
ened boy whistling in the woods, while
he fairly trembled with terror, he would
descant upon the excellent sailing ca
pacities of the Hermann, praise her Of
ficers to the skies, and while he was
white in the face like q raw recruit with
a battery in front and bayonet behind,
he would say with a sickly smile,
"Who's afraid?" His terrible fear fairly
unnerved him; he evidently was not
yet ready to go to his fathers the heavy
bags of public money weighed down his
spirits.


At Southampton neither himself nor
his wife were seen upon deck. AS 1 af-
terward learned, he was in mortal fear
of an arrest by telegraph. When we
weighed anchor and steamed again into
the Channel, there was no end to the
questions he asked about the name and
business of every passenger who came
on board at Southampton. The badge
of the German pilot who joined US at that
port, almost scared him out of his wits.
But at Bremerhaven he laid bare his
guilty conscience in the most absurd
and ridiculous manner. While the
steward was assisting him to land, the
pay-master of another steamer stepped
on board. The brass buttons and blue
cloth were terrible sightfor the pseudo
Mcdonnell. He thought his hour had
come, and, like true son of Tammany,
as a last resort attempted to save him.
self by bribing the officers of justice.
Quick as thought he handed the pay
master a handful of sovereigns. The
latter, surprised and indignant, threw
the money at his feet, and left him to
gather the shining pieces out of the
mud, amid the wonder and derisive
laughter of the bystanders. In Bremen
he stopped at an obscure third-rate
hotel, and started the same evening for
Basel, after cautioning the steward not
to inform me of his destination.
Year: 1871

A prisoner in the penitentiary of
Bruchsal, town in the Grand Duchy of
Baden, has lately succeeded in burning
down the greater portion of the prison.
Carl Schwable, notorious desperate,
was incarcerated for robbery. He
wrenched off portion of his iron bed
stead and broke open his cell door.
Shouldering the instrument of escape,
he deliberately marched through the
corridors unmolested, and made for the
jailor's room. He forced the door and
entered. He arrayed himself in the
.jailor's overcoat and hat, and exchanged
his fragment of bedstead for the official s
sword. AS he was stalking through the
building on his way to the outer gate,
he was discovered. An alarm was given.
He made for the chapel, scaled the wall
inside, crawled through a window and
He esconced himself behind the para
pet, forced out a number of stones and
hurled them down upon his pursuers.
Several shots were fired at him without
effect. He called out to the officials
below, declaring that unless they would
give him chance to escape, he would
fire the Jail. On their continuing to
discharge their revolvers, he deliberately
lighted match, gathered together some
dry splinters of wood, and set fire to
the roof of the chapel. The flames
spread rapidly, and the entire building
was soon ablaze. The fire brigade was
called out, but before the fire was got
under, large tower, the chapel, and
the offices fell prey to the flames.
Schwable fed to an adjoining building,
and the guards for long time sought
in vain for the desperate. At length
ha 1icooryapoI 70
floor of a lookout at the summit of a
lofty tower. Sword in hand, he fought
like demon. Riddled with shots and
slashed with saber cuts, he still kept
his assailants at bay. At last they
rushed upon him in body, and pitched
him from the tower, height of six sto-
ries, into the prison yard. Marvellous
to relate, he was not killed. He fell
into cart-load of rubbish, but in a day
or two afterward he died of his wounds.


ALL attempts to remove the bar in
the Mississippi below New Orleans by
dredging seem to be Intellectual. 1t
still remains serious obstacle to navi-
CATION. A recent report of the United
States engineer in charge of operations
there states that by several months
labor a channel had been cut with a
minimum depth of eighteen and a half
feet. A storm came on and in few
hours entirely filed up this channel F.;
but a subsequent survey showed that
during the same storm an unusual rush
of water had torn out new channel in
another locality quite as deep and as
navigable as the one constructed by
dredging has ever been.


Do NOT Work BEFORE BREAKFAsT.-
Hand or headWork ought to be post
poned until the stomach is satisfied.
The digestive organs ought to be sup
piled as soon as may be after sleep is
shaken off. The lawyer should not go
to his Office, nor the preacher to his
desk, until he has ministered to the
carnal appetite. We give no praise to
one who boasts that he has done half a
days work before his morning meal,
whether in the milking of COWS or in
the preparation of briefs.-Heraa Of
Health.
Year: 1871

From the Lansing Republican.


An instance of remarkable presence
of mind, in saving property in the late
fires in Michigan, has come under our
notice, well worth relating. A large
portion of Gratiot county was overrun
by the fires the last two or three weeks,
destroying dwellings, fences, timber,
saw mills, and other property. The
only mill saved in that section was that
belonging to D. L. Case ard James M.
Turner, of this city. An old English
man in their employ, named Jacob
Laird, saw that the mill was in the
range of the fire, and that it was
speedily coming upon him, and he
made preparations to meet and fight it
like an old soldier, for he had served
the Union cause gallantly during the
late Rebellion. Taking all the movable
property from the mill, blacksmith
shop, and clearinghouse, he buried it
where it would be safe from the de-
vouring element. Then he dug a series
of wells, inclosing the mill and hun
dreds of thousands of feet of lumber,
placing by the side of each we'll bar
rel filled with water, pail in each well
and another in the barrel. These wells
were dug thick as needed for the
speedy protection of the property. One
well he dug deeper than the others,
that in case his efforts to save the prop
erty should be in vain and his own life
in danger, he could jump in as a last
resort.


The fire came down upon him like a
tornado. With his force of hands he
met it, and where it crossed the line
here and there, setting fire to piles of
lumber, the water ready at hand
quenched the flames. At last he came
off victorious, for he saved the mill,
lumber and all the property, with the
loss of his own hair, eyebrows, whis-
kers, and even the wooden shirt from off
his back. When rallied by his en-
ployers as to whether he "did not find
it hot work." his reply was, at was not
much of soldier who couldn't face the
fire, after facing as many cannon as he
had.'


AS a fitting reward, Laird's wages
have been nearly doubled, and he was
furnished with a fine suit of clothes,
and told that he could remain there as
long as he chose.
Year: 1871

A rather remarkable movement has
been put on foot in Washington by Mrs.
Admiral Dahlgren, Mrs. General Sher-
man and the other ladies who are tax
ing an active part in opposing woman's
suffrage, the scheme being nothing less
than to completely outfank the suf-
fragists of the Tilton- Woodruff school.
These ladies do not believe that the
Constitution, as it now stands, gives the
women the right to vote, and they al e
determined to deprive the others of
their so-called Sixteenth Amendment
by occupying the ground themselves
with an amendment providing for a
uniform system of divorce. Their prin-
cipal argument in favor of this new
measure is that if the courts in OF her
States are obliged to recognize Indiana
divorces as valid, though they are gen.
orally obtained by fraud, the tribunals
of that State virtually absorb the whole
divorce business of the country and i'm
peril the property and marital rights of
every woman from Maine to California.
This, they think, makes the question
one of such national importance as to
require the interference of Congress,
under the constitutional safeguards
and they desire the constitutional pro-
vision they are seeking to be called the
"Sixteenth Amendment" They are
going to work like real high-b born ladies
to encompass their ends, and design
having the measure first introduced into
the Senate rather than the House, since
the former is a body of much more de-
corum and dignity than the latter.
What is more, Mr.. Trumbull is to be
asked to take charge of the amendment,
both as Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee and as the purest and best
of the Senators of the United States.
1t is believed that this measure will Sc
cure for American women all the rights
they care to exercise in public affairs,
and save them from the wrongs of such
pernicious legislation as is the disgrace
of Indiana. The flank movement of
the suffragists by appropriating their
favorite amendment, is regarded as a
good stroke, and one that will put at
rest the agitation of question which a
few ambitious women, by driving its
best friends into obscurity, have made
disreputable. 1t is not intended to make
the amendment too radical, and it is
only feared that it may be defeated by
the promoters of so-called reform over
loading it and killing it. A lively
scrimmage among the female politicians
is expected, and the movement cannot
fail to add new features to that remark
able lobby in which women play such
such varied and important parts.
Year: 1871

From the New Orleans Picayune. Oct. Is.


The sugar crop, it was generally ex-
pected, would give fair average yield,
but according to the statements of a
number of planters who called upon us
yesterday, this has been one of the
most disastrous seasons for cane known
for years, to say nothing of our unrelia-
BILE and expensive labor. To begin
with: The stubble cane suffered ex-
tensively from the frost last winter, and
seed cane was much injured. Add to
this that, contrary to the general i'm
preston the breadth of ground put in
cane this season is much less than that
of last year-our informant's estimate
is little more than one-half. The sea-
son, too, has been a most unfortunate
one for the planter.


The long continued rains of early
summer laid an embargo upon field
operations. 1t is within our knowledge
that one planter did but day and a
half's work in his field during the
whole month of June, and we may add
that the story of one is the history of
many. A more unpropitious season for
working the crop has not been encoun-
tered, it is alleged, for many years. The
prospective yield may therefore readily
be estimated. According to our in
formation, the crop in West Baton
Rouge, Lafourche, st. John, St. James
and st. Charles is distressingly poor, as
general thing, with, as is understood,
here and there an enviable exception.
In some fields the grass is as high as the
cane. A number of planters will not
grind at all. Some fields do not give
half a hogshead to the acre.