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Year: 1872

Whatever construction has been, or may fairly be placed upon the utter ances of this paper with regard to the ineficiency of juries, or the efforts oi the people to defeat the good work courts and iuries now and then do to ronress murder and the lesser crimes,

 we are opposed to mob law; hence our criticisms of juries, courts and peo- nle wherein their acts tend to incite mob law. To say that murder upon murder committed from time to time in Arizona for ten years, has never been legally punished, Is to state a fact; and to further add that such non- enforcement of statute law tends to excite mob law, is another fact, and not favorable expressions of mob law. If one man kill another and be justified or acquitted because he was drunk or on plea of insanity which would have been regarded as slauder upon the murderer before the act; or from some fancied or even ordinary insult; it is high time to sound the alarm that no mans life is safe. Let murder go unpunished much longer upon these fimsy excuses, and thousands of men will purposely get drunk, or feign insanity, or ex- aggerate provocations or pretended ones, just to kill good men who might have properly incurred their mere dis pleasure.

 We again repeat that the laws of Arizona are ample to enable officers and legal tribunals to sufficiently punish all crimes including the terri ble one of murder; but will any one show wherein the law for murder has been legally enforced in Arizona dur ing its entire corporate existence !? Does not the law authorize and require district attorneys, juries and courts to promptly punish criminals, instead of seeking legal bubbles to give them their liberty and legal sanction of their bad deeds

 Again we say, let us have the crim- inal laws enforced in their spirit to the end that mob law may not ensue, as it inevitably does the world over when the people realize the insecurity of their lives and property under statute law. While we deprecate mob law as a terrible evil, yet we have lived to know how imprudent it is to actively oppose an outraged populace who find no other mode of self-defense than their own acts outside of legal forms. We plead for the enforcement of stat ute not mob law.
Year: 1872

ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF PAINT
ING.--The boss painters of this city have
agreed upon new schedule Of prices for
their work, to take effect on and after the
LIST of June. These prices are somewhat
higher than they have heretofore charged,
being made necessary by the advance in
the cost of materials and in the advance in
wages of journeymen painters Cs2 so per
day. which takes effect June 1st. For one
coat of plain house painting the new
schedule rate is nine cents yard, the price
heretofore having been from six to Seven
cents. The other prices are raised in pro-
portion.
Year: 1872

Democratic sentiment with respect to
the political situation seems to be assuming
more definite and coherent form than it
exhibited week ago. Many Democrats
who precipitately threw up their hats for
the philosopher have replaced their hats on
their heads and bethought them that the
course of wisdom for all who desire to
achieve the success of liberal principles in
the approaching Presidential campaign is to
preserve the integrity of the Democratic
party and await the action of the Balti-
more Convention. The number of rep
resentatye Democratic journals that de-
clare Internationally for Greeley is COM
paratiyely few. The number is somewhat
greater of those that advocate the nomina-
ton of Democratic ticket at Baltimore.


But by far the greater and more induen-
tial number counsel Democrats not to conf
init themselves either way, but to stand by
their principles, maintain the integrity Of
the party, and thus enable the Democratic
party as one united whole to throw its
mighty power into the Presidential cam
paign as shall be determined in its National
Convention at Baltimore.


The proportions of these several views
among leading Democratic journals will be
perceived from the subjoined list, in which
it will be seen that ninety advocate con-
tinuance of the ''passiye policy" until the
meeting of the Baltimore Convention, forty
four declare against Greeley and in favor of
the nomination of another ticket at Balti-
more, and twenty-nine pronounce for the
philosopher unconditionally.


Every Democrat should keep one fact in
mind, namely, that nothing can be gained,
but that everything may be lost, by divis-
ion. 10 pronounce for or against the Gin
cinnati blunder at the present time is to
commit second blunder which may prove
more disastrous than the first; it is to in
sure division, and disruption, the sacrifice
of Democratic principles and probably the
triumph of the party of corruption. If
that party is defeated, it is the Democratic
party, acting as a party, which must
achieve the result. 1t cannot and will not
be achieved by the disruption of the Demo-
cratic party. Nothing in the future is
sursr than that a disruption of the Demo-
cratic party upon the Cincinnati blunder
will reflect Grant.
Year: 1872

Speaking Of friends and moi speaking of
the one or two, as it may happen, very
closest relationships good fortune
it is that most of us have no idea how little
our friends think of us. With all our talk
about human loneliness, we are lonelier
than we imagine. This strange brutal ele-
ment of selfishness, how impsrious it is,
how often, in the best and tenderest of
us, it drives out thought or care for
others.


AS you joined in the hymn at the morn
ing service yesterday, you were touched by
a certain plaintiyeness in your own tenor
you thought your friend, whose thumb
nestled against yours on the opened hymn
book, also noticed and was moved by it.
Bless you! it was her own wailful alto that
started the tears in those gentle blue eyes.


| hardly dare put it here in black and
white-but it is true ss truth-that while
there is tender compassion for those upon
whom any great personal calamity has
fallen; who are stricken, say, by fatal di-
sease, there is also--dim and unacknow-
lodged and impotent it may be--something
of the same impatience and pitilessness
that causes certain wild beasts to fall upon
and rend their sick and crippled. Our
friend is well and prosperous shudder
at the fancy of any great trouble falling
upon him; it comes. and, though our
hearts so out in loving helpfulness, there is
just a little cloud over that sympathy
partly due to our chasing him with others
in like manner afflicted. The individual
hardship seems to be trife less because
well, it may be because there are Stats.
tics of misfortune Just about so many
people will become consumptive, Just
about SO many people will lose their limbs
by railroad accidents, just about so many
people must die this year.


o, that last and most pitiful accident !!
Have you not sometimes thought of your
self lying there "cold and quiet?" have
you not pictured the roomful of sobbing
mourners; the weeping procession bearing
you to the grave? 1t has seemed almost
worth the perilous passing for the sake of
such an agony of devotion. But, my
friend, sincere as would be the grief, not a
single human soul could send with you the
intimate, intense, all-embracing and con-
slant sympathy for which you yearn.-
The f" Old Cabinet" Sc'fbneI''s to, June.
Year: 1872

Notwithstanding occasional Ku-Klux
troubles and other lingering remains of the
rebellion in the South, that section is MAX
ing steady and most gratifying progress in
all the elements Of material prosperity.
The old system of subordinaling every
other industry to cotton-growing, and de-
pending upon other sections or countries,
not only for all wares or fabrics, but even
Tor food supplies-a system born
of slavery and encouraged by the
British free-trade school Of political
economists been practically abandon
ed in most parts of that unfortunate region,
and lively appreciation of manufactures
and mining industries is beginning to be
manifested. We notice that in Georgia
and Alabama the most rapid advancement


is making in this direction. Thousands of
spindles have been set in operation since
the war within sight of the cotton fields,
and there are now running in Ala
bama six cotton factories, which
number in the aggregate over AS
600 spindles, and consume upward of
10000 bales Of cotton annually. Hitherto,
it is said that less than one-filteenth of the
cotton crop has been worked up in South
ern factories. Yet water power and coal
abound in the cotton districts, and if the
proper effort We're made skilled labor and
capital could be obtained there as easily as
elsewhere, and by thus bringing the factory
and plantation together large item in the
cost of transportation is saved.


The time is coming when one-third if
not one-hat the cotton of the South will
be made into yarns, at least, in that Sec
ton, and, when it does come, what has
been the poorest portion of the country
will become the richest. Stimulated by
the greatly increased home market for food,
grain farming and grazing will then be no
less profitable than cotton growing. Thus
there will be practical diversity of indus
tries with its resulting prosperity, and there
will be no longer an excuse for exhausting
and abandoning toa worse than their prm-
itive wildness whole tracts Of land.


Let but the Southern people generally be
stirred by this industrial awakening, es-
chewing the rancors Of politics, except to
see that neither free-trade demagogues nor
carpet-bag adventurers misrepresent them,
and glorious future awaits them-an era
Of wealth, business activity, peace, and
good feeling, which shall consign to per-
petual oblivion the distraction, desolation,
and bitter hatred which resulted from the
war.
Year: 1872

BY TELEGRAPH.


FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL


The Tobacco Interests
RELIGIOUS BODIES In SESSION
NEW YORK CITY ITEMS
National WOrkingInGn'S Convention
GRANT AND WILSON NOMINATED
Loss OF THE STEAMER BALTIMORE
Latest Foreign News
Year: 1872

Ladies may feel interested to know that an
elaborate pattern of a cashmere sha wi occupied
a weaver's time from twelve to i've months.
A female spinner earns the magnificent sum
Of IS cents month. Over hundred thousand
persons In Cashmere are employed in the
sha wi manufacture.
Year: 1872

ST. CLAIR. Pa, June II
The drying house connected with the powder
mill at this place, exploded to-day. The men
were all at dinner and nobody was hurt Cause
uni The noise was terrific
Year: 1872

4 dew-drop came, with a spark Of flame


It had caught from the suns last ray,
To a viOlet's breast, where IL lay at rest,


Till the hours brought back the day.
With n blush and a frown n rose locke


down,


But smiled at once 10 view,
With its coloring warm, her own bright form
Reflected back by the dew
Then a stolen look the stranger took
At the sky so soft and blue,
And a leahet green, with its silvery sheen
Was seen by the idler too.
As hethus reclined, a cold north wind
ora sudden blew around,
And n maiden fair, who was walking there
Next morning an opal fOundi
Year: 1872

Free speech is like the angel that liber-
ated Saint Peter from his prison its mis-
sion is to 60 ever up and down the earth
and release from captivity some great
principle, some great truth, some great
idea which unjust men lock up III
their dungeons and hold fast in
their chains and for thirty years in this
nation the province of free speech was TO
educate up to a sublime idea which some
men sought to crush into the earth, but
which arose like Tennyson's flower, and
burst into the blood-red blossom of war,
with its heart of fre-an idea which
some men undertook to bind like as
with those green .withes with which
Samson was bound, but which, like
Samson, escaping from its foes, put one
arm around the pillar of the North and an
other arm around the pillar of the South
and crushed the two together with shock
heard around the world-an idea which
when some of us, loving the lib
erty of our native land, sought to
engrave it upon that flag, others
among US, enemies and traitors, pointed
their guns at the flag until dropped at Fort
Sumpter but it dropped only that it
might go to the earth, that there it might
mingle with the poor, with the despised,
with the lowly, SO that when again it
should be lifted up, behold all menshould
be lifted up with it.-1iHon.
Year: 1872

COMMERCIAL TRAvELERS.-Th COM
mercial traveller in these parts has become
as inevitable as j. ?. r. James horseman,
who might have been SEEM wherever
that prolific novelist chose to lay the open
ing scene of his yarn. Every few days the
commercial traveller comes in conflict with
the laws of our State or city, and whether
innocently ignorant of their provisions or
not, is subjected to considerable expense
and trouble. Much as we are opposed to
existing restrictions upon commercial inter-
course between the States, these restric-
tions are lawful, though unwise enactments,
and there is no option but to enforce them
while they remain upon the statute books.


1t would be well for parties to inform
themselves concerning the requirements of
the State law as well as the city ordinance,
and to comply with those requirements be-
fore offering to sell goods by sample in
Richmond. Much trouble and expense
could thus be avoided. A gentleman from
Baltimore was arrested by Pat Woods this
morning suspected of violation of law,
and taken before Justice White. 1t was
found, however, that city license had
been obtained, and that no attempt had ac-
tually been made TO sell goods under it.
Though holding city license, he would
have been liable under the State law had he
made an attempt to sell. He was dis
missed.
Year: 1872

from the New York Citizen, edited by Robert


IL. Roosevelt, M. c.


Gen Erant-Iiis Character and His Chances


as Seen by an independent Democratic Com


gresham.


1T is the mistaken idea of some persons
to belittlc Gen. Grants ability, to run down
his qualifications, and to underrate his
mental requirements. Instead of being the
stupid, senseless individual that these per-
sons would have the public suppose, he is
one of the shrewdest managers Of the day.
Not only as a leader in the war to which
he first gave favorable turn, but as
manipulation in politics he has shown re-
markable skill. The rebels continually
took the same view that the Democrats are
taking now, and denounced the Union gem
eral as an ignoramus every time he won a
victory over them !; and the more efiectu-
ally he crushed their armies the more clear
ly they proved that he was utterly incom-
petent as a military commander, and en-
tirely unequal to the task which he
had assumed. There are soldiers at
the South to-day who can clearly estab-
lish the fact that General Grant was the
poorest officer the world ever saw, that he
ought to have been beaten in every battle,
and that he was only saved from utter ruin
by incredible luck. So also with the Dem
ocrats they prove conclusively the Pres
ident's imbecility as a politician every time
he scatters their best laid plans for his
overthrow, and while he has so demoral-
lied his adversaries that they hardly have
a candidate against him, they insist that a
weaker politician never lived.


One of the greatest of follies is to under
rate an adversary, and necessary as the de-
feat of the Republican party is to the we'll
fare of the nation, it will never be brought
about by contemptuous revilings of its
candidate, or a failure to appreciate the
desperate nature Of the struggle which
must be won, and the resources at
the command of the great leader who
intends to be candidate. That General
Grant will fail by any contingency of a re-
there is not the remotest like
lihood; he has entire and absolute control
of the matter, and he uses his power with
a wisdom and discretion which are sure to
effect the end in view. Opposition in his
own party is practically crushed. He
never was favorite Of party chiefs, who
originally accepted him only on compulsion,
but he had hold on the people which they
dared not ignore.
Year: 1872

The GoDDIN AND BROCK CASE
Goddin an Brock, recently sent on to the
Hustings court, have been before that tri-
bunal for two days under writ of habeas
corpus on an application for bail. The ex-
animation is not yet concluded, and will
probably occupy the attention of the court
all day tomorrow.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Greeley did not leave his children
efggeGs 5 GOO His as5 5PTGPsry hai besn sstatfd
half that sum it will afford handsome
competence. He sunk large sum in the
late unfortunate campaign, which he was
ill prepared to do, for he had buried great
deal in the Chappaqua folly. Greeley made
a bad choice of country home. He
might have located as Bennett did, near
the city, where every dollar invested in
land is now worth five. Instead of doing
this he settled in sterile tract which had
long been known Poverty Hollow u
Here lie sunk fortune in warning against
nature. Last year be began "model
farmhouse" which is now unfinished
Cor. ChicdQO inter- Ocean.
Year: 1872

When your horse first shows signs of the dis
ease blanket we'll and put in warm stable.
Give immediately warm bran mash with a
large dose of Damon's Stock Powders. to move
the bowels and stimulate the action of the kid
neys; then rub the throat and chest freely and
vigorously with DR.. Hart's Great Relief. This
will relieve the swelling and soreness of the
throat, and by repeating this treatment a few
times your horse will be all right again.
Year: 1872

The Loudon Journal says that Cathar inc
Brown, widow lady residing on the north
found dead near the ruins of her house on


Tuesday of this week.. 1t seems this old ladv


and her son lived together short distance from
this place, and Tuesday last, during her SON 5
absence the house caught fre-the old lady
being in very feeble health, was unable to es.
cape from the devouring flames until she was
burned badly. When found, she had managed
to get out into the yard, but was cold in death.
The son being some distance from home, knew
nothing about the fire until late in The evening.
Year: 1872

taken off by the next. and by the time
he got to the fourth, he was divested of
everything under heavens which made
him. sizable. and stood there shivering
in the wind, miserable, deformed, weak
shaky, diminutive, shrunken man, with
nothing under Heaven remarkable about
him but his white hat, and the fact that
he had one boot and one shoe on.


Tweed and his friends saw this shrink
ing process going on as he approached
them, and they became alarmed.


Good Lord I' said Okey Hall, "if
he amt any bigger and more muscular
than he looks now we can't make any
use of him. He'll never be strong
enough to pull us out of this !''


Them on the bluff which had regard
ed his departure with such looks of sad
ness, bust out into peels of laughter.


'There amt hundredth part as
much of him as we supposed" shouted
they" "We've nothing to fear from
him % and they laughed vociferously at
the ridiculous figure he was making
of himself.


All this time Horace was a standing
on the one term round of the ladder,
which was the thinnest of all of them.


Come down to US ~ shouted Tweed.


81 can't go any further down than
this!'' replied Horace, shuddering as he
saw the plight he was in.''


Whereupon Tweed and Hall and the
others run up the ladder to support him.
They was dripping with the nastiness
from the slum below, which fairly COW
cred the poor old man as they rubbed
against him. Then they threw upon
him Tammany banner and Con.
federate flag. To keep him steady both
of them run up the ladder and got on
the same round. Sam Sinclair, John
Cochran and some others come down
close behind him to assist, and the unit
ed weight was too much. The ladder
broke in two and Tweed, Hoffman, Gree
ley, Sinclair, Iriboone and all plunged
into the quagmire. There was splash,
a gurgle or two and the entire billing of
them sank out of sight.


The splash awoke me, and 1 meditat-
ed a half hour over singular dream
before taking another drink and going
home. ''Can it be-" thought I, 'that
r99hh1- r9h \ mas 11Irury p6euf So %rru ali our
venchers Chase comes to us, but when
he stepped over the line, he left all his
strength behind him. Seward, instead
of being help to US proved to be load
to carry Have we taken Horace to our
bosoms only to find him helpless dead
weight to be carried instead of Giant
strong enough to carry us? Is this dream
prophetic? Is the Cincinnati ladder too
weak to hold Greeley and us uns, and
will it break down with our united
weight ? l fear me.


And pensively L drained my glass,
and carelessly going through the regu-
lar form of telling Bascom to mark it
down, went sadly home. fear me the
day of our deliverance isn't yet at hand.


PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY.


(Which was Postmaster)
Year: 1872

The success of almost every enterprise
depends upon the degree to which those
engaged in it tax their powers of mind.
Many things deemed impossible by the
rest of the world have been effected by
those who have brought the full force of
their mind to bear upon what they set
themselves to accomplish. Whatever
may be said of the difference in talent of
individuals, and inquire into the cause
of their success. we shall find genius out
stripped by moderate talent when the
latter brings its full power of mind to
work. Whether in the school-room, or
in every day business of life, in the
humble walk of bodily toll, or the pro-
fessional avocation, when the mind Is
most depended on in invention or exc
cution, in theory or in practice, the
question on which success depends is
not who has the strongest power of
mind, but who brings that power into use.
Year: 1872

An enthusiastic ritualist, wishing to
make present to his. rector at Easter,
ordered beautifully embroidered cleri-
cal vestment to be made in another city.
He gave directions that the garment
should be sent by express and marked
C. O. D.,-and so it was, in the most
elegant style of fancy needlework, and
prominently on the back, where it could
be plainly seen by all.