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Year: 1870

The accession Of Nice-Admiral POTTER MS
chief of the Navy Department has already
cnused great dctrlment to the service. Until
his voice became powerful at Washington
gratifying esprit do corps prevailed among
naval officers, whether of the line OF staff.
Indeed, the distinction between line and staff
was scarcely ever mentioned. In the ward
room-the family circle of mau-of.war--all
was harmony and kindly feeling. Our yes
sells Of war were models Of discipline and
effectiveness, because the officers worked to-
gcthcr to promote the good Of the service.
Abroad they were regarded by professional
Judges in other navies as the most efficient
SHIPS anoat.


But that is all past. Where once harmony
and good-fellowship prevailed, dissension and
discontent have crept in, and turned the
pleasant wardrooms into arenas for acrimo-
NOUS discussion of questions that would
never have arisen there had not the Vico-
Admiral unwisely opened the long settled
subject Of relative rank. His General Or.
der No. 100, reducing the rank of the staff
officers, and unjustly discriminating against
them in the matter of pay and emolumcnts
as well as Of rank, outraged the sense Of JUS
tice Of large body Of officers. The line was
left untouched while the staff was treated
with ignominy. OF course, this inj ustice was
not submitted 20 in silence The relative
merits of the two div sons were investigated
and discussed criminations and recrimina-
tons followed, until the line and staff were
engaged in open warfare. The families and
friends Of the parties now join in the quarrel,
and their social relations arc frequently 20.
tally destroyed.


In addition to the wrong done the active
officers Admiral PORTER has injured the
SICK and MANNED officers on the retired list by
usurping power that belongs TO Congress
alone. The effect Of his order has been to
change the pay Of a number Of these officers,
who unfortunately belong to the staff alone.
Fourteen surgeons who received as captains
on the retired list 81 coo year. now receive
only s1,i00. Fourteen paymasters and two
chief engineers suffer the same loss by being
reduced from the rank Of captain to that Of
commander. Ten surgeons have been reduced
from the rank Of commander TO that OF lieu
tenant, and their pay has been reduced FROM
$l,i00 to $1,000 per year No line officer is
affected by this order.


Where Admiral PORTER finds authority
for this act we are at loss 10 know, for
Congress alone has the power to alter
the pay of officers and mon. While
reducing the pay of old and faithful retired
officers, he wastes millions on fancy engines
and the silly alteration of old vessels.
and destroys the spirit and efficiency of the
Navy How long is he to be permitted to in
dulge in these usurpauons?
Year: 1870

cral CHAMPLAIH were alarmed at the threat
Of the FoLEY.ANTHoN Committee. We
doubt not that Gen. GRANT and Secretary
FIsn would be quite as much frightened by
a similar demonstration in behalf of the Re-
publican party. Indeed, nothing would be
easier than for the disguised, disappointed,
and dsaffcctcd electors in each party to raise
the standard Of successful revolt and either
compel their reorganization on a sounder and
broader basis, or, ly union Of these disin-
tcgrating elements, TO ultimately produce O
new party which might control tho affairs
Of the nation till the close Of the present cen
Year: 1870

A year or twoago | dined in
San Francisco, with the fam
lily of a pioneer, and talked
with his daughter, a young lady
whose first experience in San
Francisco was an adventure,
though she herself did net re-
member it, as she was only two
or three years old at the time.
Her father said that alter land.
ing from the ship, they were
walking up the street, a ser.
want leading the party with a
little babe in her arms. And
presently huge miner, beard.
ed, belted, spurred and brist-
ling with deadly weapons
just down from long mining
campaign in the mountains ev-
idently-barred the narrow
passway, stopped the servant
and stood gazing with a face
all alive with eradication and
astonlshment. Then he said,
reverently "Well if it amt q
cLildl" And then he snatched
a little leather sack out of his
pocket and said to the servant,
"There's a hundred and fifty
dollars in dust there, and I'll
give it to you to let me Kiss
the child.p But see how things
change. Sitting at the dinner.
table, listening to that ahec-
dote, if l had offered double
the money for the privilege Of
kissing the same child l would
haye been refused. Seventeen
years had far more than aoub.
led the price Aark Tscain.
Year: 1870

ONE glass of Rosenheims stomach
Bitters; the Great Western Kennedy !;
will do more to restore health and
strength than all the drugs you can
nut in your stomach. Take them as
directed, and you will have no need OF
the physicians and the polsons. They
srs made to cure and never fail.
Year: 1870

NJ. L. A.-To-night Hon. William Parsons
the celebrated Irish orator, will deliver the
first lecture of the season before tho Mercan-
tile Library Association, taking for his subject,
Peasant Life in Ireland. Judging from the
lecture delivered by this eloquent speaker last
season, he will not fail to invest the subject
with an interest such as is rarely taken
in sketch or narrative that he has to be
compressed within the limits OF an hour


The concert by the Portland Band at
the beginning of the lecture is in itself worth
more than the price of the ticket of admission
Year: 1870

AssEMBLY.-The first grand assembly by the
West End Boat Club will come OFT this even
ing at Fluent Hall. Chandler's full quadriile
band is engaged for the occasion and happy
time is expected.
Year: 1870

Is q Recent Improvement.
Replaces the use Of the BITTER SULPHATE
QUININE, with which all are familiar


Dose for dose it i.


W RR A N TED
Fully equal in every way TO Bitter Quinine,
And, like it, is the ono
Great Positive and Unfailiag CURE for all
DISEASES OF HAZARDOUS ORIGIN.
Fever and Ague,
intermittent Fever
Chill Fever.


Remittent Fever,
Bilious Fever,


Dumb Ague.
Year: 1870

b Rev. c. Workman, Presiding Elder of the


United Brethren Church, who resides near


Mastersville, Harrison county, had quite an
encounter with black snake on Thursday


last, June 30th. He was engaged in making a
torif of his district, and while going to Bow


erstown, having occasion to pass through a
strip of woods along small stream, and be-
ing on foot, snake attacked him, making at
the same time kissing sound. He instantly
lstepped back and struck at 1t with his cane,
! but missed it, when it sprang upon him and
wrapped itself firmly around his body. Hav-
ling no knife with him, he caught the snake
around the neck with his right hand, when it
Immediately transferred its body to his right
arm and wrapped itself with such power that
he felt himself loosing strength in his hand.
! At this stahe of the proceedings he stepped to
| a sapling that stood near, and placing its head
against the saphng, with his cane in his left
hand he succeeded in crushing the snakes


head, when it tloosened its hold and fell to the


ground. 1t was a bright, black snake, about


five feet in length TWsearGscgs Chronicle,
Year: 1870

The girls at Long Branch are like the girls
of the world in general. They are slightly
mixed. Some are lovely, but some are, on the
contrary, quite the reverse. There's more
hair down here than would cover the heads of
all the women in New York, and powder and
paint enough to make the houses Of Jersey
City glisten again.


Did you eUeT see a thin girl take a bath in
the surf and come out with her bathing dress
sticking tight to her like poor woman's plas-
ter?


Funny, wasn't it:


Well, it's nothing compared to fat girl in
the same posish. 1 DO think Of all the comical
sights in the wide world, the funniest Is fat
girI when she comes out of the surf. I've seen
puppy dogs with blue ribbons OH their tails,
and neatly embroidered flannel shirts on
their dear little neclls, and I've seen Horace
Greeley at party, but they are as nought,
and the dust in the balance alongside of wet
fat woman in her bathing clothes. 81


l don't think men look any better, but we
don't expect grace and beauty in our sex, and
can stand the sight. If you are very much in
love with girl and want to break the spell,
take hsr to the Branch and see her in her surf
t1ggery.
you'd better marry her and call it square,
Cor. " 7. Star.
Year: 1870

BY OLIVER NENbEAAf ltOl4Ait-rs
Oh! she was maid Of laughing eye,
And she lived in garret cold and high;
And he was thread bare whiskered beau,
And lie lived in cellar damp and low.
But the rosy boy of the eherub wing
Has many a shaft in his slender string,
And the youth below and the maid above
We're touched with the flashing darts OF love.
And she would wake from her troubled sleep,
Ger his tender bllet-doux to weep;
Or stand like g statue bright and fair,
And gaze on lock of his bright red hair.
And he who was SO tail and proud,
With his step so firm and his laugh SO loud.
His beard grew long and bis face grew thin,
And he pined in solitude over his gin. a.
But one soft night in the month of Juae,
As she lay in the light of cloudless moon,
A voice came floating soft and clear
To the startled maiden's listening ear.
Oh, then from her creaking couch she sprung,
And her tangled tresses back she flung,
She looked from the window far below,
And he stood beneath, her whiskered beau.
She did nos start with foolish frown,
But packed her trunk and scampered down,
And there was her lover, tail and true, -
In his thread bare coat of the brightest blue.
The star that rose in the evening shade
Looked sadly down on weeping maid
The sun that came in the morning pride ~
Shed golden light DER laughing bride. &c
Year: 1870




The dead body of colored man was found
on Friday evening last in Cross Greek, below
Arnold Lawton's Mill, by some parties who
were seining in the stream. Information was
immediately conveyed to Esquire Boyd OF
West Middletown, and the body removed to
that place The Justice impaneled Jury and
an inquest was held on Saturday. The body
was identified as that Of Samuel Brown, a
colored man well known in the vicinity A
post mortem examination, held by DoctorsRay
and Dodd, disclosed the fact that the deceased
had come to his death by violence, his skull
having been smashed in two places. He has
been missing since the 25th ult., but no search
was instituted for the reason that no appre-
hension was felt in regard to his tate. The
discovery of his dead body was the first inti-
nation that foul play had been contemplated.
A search of the ground in the neighborhood
disclosed traces of a struggle, and the track
by which the body was dragged to the creek.
We understand that suspicious are entertain
ed as to who were the guilty parties, and a
number of circumstances have since come to
Light tending strongly ~ confirm them


Since the above was put IN type, we have
learned further particulars in reference TO the
horrible affair. It seems that the murdered
man had for a number of years past lived un-
happily with his wife, on account of the in
fideiities of the latter. He went into the army
during the war, and while absent she was no.
toriously intimate with several parties, and in
particular with half-bred named John Full
ham. This criminal connection was carried
on after Browns return IRON the service, and
was the cause of frequent violent quarrels
among the parties. We learn that the testi-
mony elected on the inqust goes to show that
Browns wife and Fulham had formed various
plans to make away with Brown, and that
Fulham had often publicly threatened to kill
him It is shown that Fulham had been alb
sent from the place where he was working at
the time Brown was first missed. The prlncl-
pal witness is a colored man named jerry
knight, living at Pleasant Hill Seminary
where all the parties formerly worked. The
facts elected at the inquest were sufficient to
demand the arrest of the parties, and on Satur-
dav evening Esquire Boyd issued warrant
Fulham was arrested on Sunday by Constable
Core, Of Hopewel, accompanied by James
Mcclure and Stack Hamilton of Middletown.
He was found in Hanover township, at a
point near Florence. The wife of Brown was
also arrested, and both parties having a full
hearing before Esquire Mcclure, additional
and stronger testimony being elected, they
were sent to jail to await trial. Jerry Knight
who seems to be familiar with most OF the de-
tails of the case, was also incarcerated at the
same time. The coroners jury after dellb-
erately weighing all the evidence, returned q
verdict that the deceased was murdered by
his wife and John Fulham


The accused IS nearly white, and has always
been regarded as vindictive and dangerous
He combines vast amount of cunning with
sufficient nerve to carry out any undertaking
-IFashiRgt0H Pa Reporter.
Year: 1870

tine may have stood, and however


grandly or enchantingly he may have
written. Who shall say how many
young mer. have been encouraged to


lead lives of impurity and degrada


tiOn not so much by reading ''Cain"


and Manfred" and'Don Juan" as
by the fulsome plaudits heaped up


on their author Is it not strange


that refined families allow this mar


ried libertine's foul breathing, GILT


and embossed, to cumber the parlor


table and corrupt the youthful mind!


Why does not some writer, gifted


but unprincipled, pOetize and embel-


lish the nameless works that are now
>debarred from open sale and use by


the healthy ban Of law? Thus
sugar-coated, they would find ready
access to our best families and be so
helpful in forming correct literary
tastes and moulding youthful habits
and manners! Oh, for a Lord By
ron, the deluded und spirit broken
victim of so many impure and de-
signing women, to yersify and adorn
the forbidden Fanny HIP and the
thousand other equally moral publ
cations extant! But even our mob
lest and most refined country-women
.enzoned with purity and candor and
Justice, have not the grace arrogated
by Plus the Ninth-they are not in
falIible. And Harriet, 1 have some
what against thee. How couldst
thou forbear Iashing the conspiracy
that ahenated man and wife and
converted her, in spirit at least, ifnot
in act into the shameless mistress
of a brilliant sensualist, and goaded
him in frenzy Of vengence, to i'm
brue his hands in a brothers blood;
while, as dark back ground of the
repulsive picture, on the one hand,
mock justice scouts the solemn in
terdict, what God has joined to-
gether, let not man put asunder,"
and counterfeit priestliness on the
other hand, affects to unite in holy
wedlock, the dying ibertine to the
undivorced wife? How canst thou
harmonize thy blistering condemna-
ton of conjugal faithfulness and
harshness in the old world, with thy
paliation of them in the new? What
bearing has the forgiveness extend
ed by the sinless One to a guilty
woman bounded by hypocritical
wolves seeking His life rather than


hers, upon the verdict ofmen justify
ing a husbandin Staying the sedu-
Ger of his wife and the murderer Of
his peace? Unsay, l adjure thee,


recall the untrue and dangerous SEN


timent, that because an ambitious


wife has found her husband whom


she perhaps married in undue haste,


to be unprosperous, nay even thrift
less, she may rightly pour her


complaints into the ear or


pillows her wearied head on the
/ bosom of any other man than her


husband. Not even her brother nor


I her father may know of such dis
appointment, and how much less


one who is but q friend.
Year: 1870

"Tell you, you cornstOck, you cab
bage, you son of caulihower. It's
the first time l ever heard such an
unfeeling remark. l tell you 1 have
been in the editorial business going
on fourteen years, and it is the first
time / ever heard of mans having
to know anything in order to edit a
newspaper. You turnip! Who
wrote the dramatic critiques for the
.second-rate papers? Why, parcel
of promoted shoemakers and appren-
tice apothecaries, who know just as
much about good farming and no
more. Who review the books? Peo-
pie who never wrote one. Who do
up the heavy leaders on finance?
Parties who have had the largest op-
portunities for knowing nothing
about it. Who criticise the cam
paigns? Gentlemen who do not
know a war whoop from q wigwam.
and who never have had to run a
foot race with a tomahawk or pluck
arrows out of the several members of
their families to build the evening
campfire with. Who write the tenn
perance appeals and clamor about
the flowing bowl? Folks who will
never draw another sober breath till
they do it in the grave. Who edit
the agricultural papers, yOu-yam?
Men, as a general thing who fail in
the poetry line, sensation drama
line, city editor line, and finally fall
back on agriculture as a temporary
reprieve from the poor house. You
try to tell me anything about the
newspaper business! Sir, 1 have
been through itfrom Alpha to Omaha
and l tell you that the less a man
knows the bigger noise he makes and
the higher salary he commands
Heaven knows if / had been ignorant
instead of cultivated, and impudent


instead of diffident. l could have


made name for myself in this cold
selfish world. l take my leave, sir.


Since 1 have been treated as you have


treated me, / am perfectly willing to
90. But l have done my duty. 1
have fulfilled my contract, as l was
permitted to do it. l said l could
make your paper of interest to all


classes. and l have. l said could


rrn vonr circulation up to twenty
thousand copies, and i'll had had
! two more weeks, I'd have done it.
And I'd have given you the best
class of readers that ever an agricul-
tural paper had-not a farmer in it
nor a solitary individual who could
tell watermelon from a peach-vine
to save his life. You are the losel


by this rupture, not me- Pie-plant


Adios.n


Ithen left,
Year: 1870

you Tickle Me, and I Will You"


Man is at best dependent being.
Now and then one tries to prove
himself independent, but soon or
later his effort is seen to be failure
Seeing him driving grandly, or walk
ing prompously or sitting proudly,
one would naturally suppose that
the Creator was subject to him, and
that the vast work of creation is for
his sole benefit. 1t is not so; he
NAV choose to die rather than be
waited on in sickness, may even dig
his own grave and fall into it, but
he cannot shovel the cold clods nor
the rattling clay upon his defunct
body. Some poor, shabbily dressed
lout has the pleasure of performing
this sad office. How it must cause
the aristocrat's soul, (ifhe have one }
to writhe in agony of chagrin, when
an unlearned and uncouth member
Of the lower ten covers his remains
from sight. know of no relief to
such a one, except to elect some dig
nitary sexton. This would not pre-
vent the present necessity of depen-
dence, but it would avoid the morti-
fication of being inferred by an in
ferior. 81


like to see a man who acts as il
he had neighbors, and who, no mat
ter what his wealth or position, ac-
cepts assistance as cordially and
gratefully from a rustic as from
prince. And 1 admire him who
though worldly great, bestows kind
nesses upon an inferior so as not to
wound his pride; for not the high
alone are proud, I think mutual
sympathy and benefeence, regard
less of circumstances, the music and
poetry of humanity: and my senses
become active to exhibitions of pure
philanthrophy far beyond the effect
of the sweetest vocal harmony or
the loftiest flights of metrical rhetor-
ic; for while the singers heart may
be the nest of kissing serpents.
though his voice be soft as a lutte
and while the poets affections may
be unbridled lust, though his verse
breath angelic purity, the moral
worth of the true humanitarian in
tensifes his deeds of beneYolence.
It seems to me that no act OF man
places him nearer divinity than
charity bestowed upon the unfertu-
nate and fallen. s


But there is a sort of sympathy
and mutual helping born Of Purga-
tory if not of hell. 1t is a banding
together for the purpose of accomp-
fishing ends Of injustice and wrong
We see it in the whisky ring and in
all those congressional movements
whose object is to enable undeserv-
ing avarice to thrust its grasping
hand into the public treasury. Alas


all the growing cerberi have not
suficed to frlghten the greedy cor
morants from their glittering prey,
and while not all the public; debt is
chargeable to the thrieving of neT
trusted by their patriotic conssitu-
ents with the nations money, one
cannot help thinking, if not believ-
ing, that official corruption has
doubled the burden legitimately ano
necessarily saddled upon our gov


ernment by the late war.


cJ-r1Ur
Year: 1870

Tie Mystic lost sight Of early the race ana her
time was not taken the start Beyond the Narrows
there WAS a good breeze, which was well adapted TO
bring Ouf the sailing qualities Of the light -lOops The
race between the WhItecap and Daphne, who were a.
most wngaudw wing In this part of the course, and that
between the Apollo and the Fyaway, who pursued her
closely, were very exciting. The two latter turned on
the hOmesrech the spit not being required, accord
ing 10 the allowance, go round the buoy The Anna
ambously sought oyertake the two leading yachts
of the Hook The order in passing the buoy was not
changed however. The time vas taken in the case OF
only part of yachts, the judges being compelled 10
r. the sarngp point TO witness the conclusion Of
the race and intervals between the contestants hay
ing grown = great. The home very line Inc
following shows the time OF arrival at the line between
the two tagboat-. from which the start made:
Year: 1870

Hoes IN SoclErY.-If you had trav-
eled as much as l have; If you had
scrambled as much as have for seats,
and for the best ones-for bad manners
are contagious-if you had travelled as
much on steamboats,, and seen how
people, that are the most decorous at
home, when the bell rings and there
are to be two tables, rush through the
cabin and down stairs to their meals,
you would appreciate the necessity for
9 reform In this matter. But l do not
think you need 60 to steamboats, or
or railway depots to be convinced Of
this. If you have been invited to fash
ionable parties, and seen what pigs
men make Of themselves who are well
fed at home; how they behave them
selves at the refreshment table, how
they loose their self-respect, you do
not need any further arguments on
this subiect.-Beecher.
Year: 1870

Boxing CHILDREN's EARs.-Boxing
the ears Of the children is condemned by
a writer in Good Health, on sanitary
grounds. Anxious parents must. there
fore, look up some other mode Of pun
ishment, and We are not sure but it will
be for the good of the parent to be re-
strained from what is not only very
handy means Of summary discipline, but
also, in not a few cases, very ready
way of giving vent to passion, which
does both parent and child great moral
mischief, aside from the physical dam
age. The writer says: "Children's ears
should never be boxed" The passage
of the ear is closed by thin membrane,
especially adapted to be influenced by
every impulse Of the air, and with moth
ing but the air to support it internally.
What. then, can be more likely to injure
this membrane than sudden and forci.
BILE compression Of the air in front of it.
If any one desired to break or overstretch
the membrane, he could scarcely devise
q more effective means than to bring the
hand suddenly and forcibly down upon
the passage of the ear, thus driving the
air violently before it, with no possibility
for its escape but by the membrane Civ
ing way. And far too often it does give
way, especially if, from any previous
disease, it has been weakened. Many
children are made deaf by boxes in this
way; if there is one thing which does
the nerve Of hearing more harm than al
most any other, it is q sudden jar OF
shock. Children and grown persons
alike may be entirely deafened by falla
or heavy blows upon the head.