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Year: 1870

tious in the town, and the former rendered
a call to a minister and it was accepted
the time for installing exercises had been
fixed. and the selectmen began to fear that
the estate would be claimed. The board
waited upon the church officers and asked
if some arrangement couldn't be made oy y
which the school department could stiii
gain advantage from the bequest. The
reply was somewhat evaslve-slmply that
thew desired noundue advantage, and should
merely expect their own. About this time
a meeting of the Universalist society was
called, and a call was rendered to hev.
Joel Winch, Methodist oetogenarlan. re-
siding in the town, to become their pastor.
The call was at once accepted; Father
Winch replying, " Inasmuch as ne had ever
believed and preached that all men would
be saved, who accepted the gospel, he ac-
cepted the call to become the pastor OF the
Universalist Society in Northtield. The
installation services took place within day
or two, and 9 the first settled pastor be-
came proprietor of the bequeathed estate,
which was next transferred by Rev. Joel
Winch to the town of Mortified, to be for
ever improved for the benefit of the schools
of said town. Father Winch soon after
resigned his pastoral charge. The notified
/ installation at the Congregational church
didn't take place.-Salem Register.


The narrator of<his odd chapter of V err
mont history should revise the story by
saying that the bequest was sequestration,
usual in the town charters, of certain lands
1 for the use and behoof of the first settled
minister, and also certain other lands fol
the use of schools or academies. These
were called, in common parlance, ministers


rights and school rights Father Winch
was queer genius in his day, sometimes
catching his antagonists with guile, and
quoting scripture for the deed.
Year: 1870

THE GULF SrREAM-There Is a river
in the ocean. In the severest droughts it
never fails, and in the mightiest floods it
never overfows Its banks and its bottom
are of cold water, while its current Is of
warm The Gulf of Mexico Is its foun-
tain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.
1t is the Gulf Stream There is in the
world no other so majestic flow of water.
Its current is more rapid than the Mississip-
pi or the Amazon, aud its volume more
than a thousand times greater. Its waters,
as far out as the Corolina coasts, are of an
indigo blue. They are so distinctly mark
ed that the line Of junction with the COM
mon sea-water may be traced By the eye.
Often one-half of the vessel may be per-
ceiyed floating in the gulf-stream water,
while the other half is in the common
water of the sea. so sharp Is the line and
the want of affinity between these waters;
and such, too, the reluctance, so to speak,
on the part of those of the gulf stream, to
mingle with the common water of the sea.
In addition to this, there is another pecu-
liar fact. The fishermen on the coast of
Norway are supplied with wood from the
tropics by the gulf stream. Think Of the
Arctic fishermen burning upon their hearts
the palms of Hayti. the mahogany of Hon
duras, and the precious woods of the ANA
zon and the Orinoco,
Year: 1870

LOOKING UPwARD.-Among the Romans
there was touching custom of holding
the face of every new born infant toward
the heavens, signifying, by thus presenting
Its forehead to the stars, that it was to look
above the world into celestial glories. 1t
was vain superstition: but Christianity
dispels the fallacy and gives US a clear real
ization of that pure yearning, in the deep
solicitude which all the disciples cherish
for the spiritual welfare of the young. The
design of the Sunday school organization is
to turn the faces of little children toward
heaven, and prepare their spirits for i'm
mortal glory.-Luterior.
Year: 1870

SHARP PRACTICE.-An old clergyman of
high standing related to US the following
story, and as we do not recollect seeing it
in print, we give it as we remember the
story from him.


In the town of Mortified, VT, there had
been an estate bequeathed to the ' first set
tied pastor of said town of Mortified. "
For long period no one could claim the
estate, and the town authorities improved
it for school purposes. There were regular.
ly organized societies of the natives in the
Congregational and Universalist denomina.
Year: 1870

WASHING HIS HANDS IL INNOCENCE
Some twenty years ago beautiful little
church in the West was ready for eonse-
ervtion. On the day appointed the yenera-
bic Bishop Chase, with several clergy, was
present Just before going into the church.
the bishop had written the deed of conse-
Grafton, and, in so doing, had soiled his
hands with ink


He did not observe this until after he
was IN Jue OnolIoUi, and a,.rs44l5 One Pvosre==
upon his blackened fingers, he was appa-
rentlv much annoyed. He called some of
the clergy to his side, and exhibited the
soiled hand, and said he must wash it.
But he was very heavy and unwieldy, and
could not get out and in the chancel without
great difficulty, and therefore declined going
out into the vestry-rOom, where there was
a bowl. i" Bring the bowl and towel to
me- he said


One clergyman ventured to suggest to
him, Sotto roce, that wet towel might do
as well, and would be less noticed by the
congregation.


The bishop looked at him over his spec
tacles and said: Sir, | never wash with
a towel


At last the senior warden of the parish
was obliged to go out and bring in a bowl
of water And, by single coincidence,
just as the officiating clergyman was Civ
ing out the twenty-frst Psalm


81 III wash my hands in innocence


And round thine altar GO
the Bishop dipped his hands in the bowl.
and washed them. Some of the people of
the parish to this day think that this was
part of the ceremony of conservation.
Year: 1870

The Prussian Government has military
maps of every foot of its territory, so COM
plete that every hill, brooklet, field and
forest is delineated with perfect accuracy.
It is common boast of Prussian military
men that within eight days $4,000 men
can be concentrated to the defense of any
single point within the kingdom.
Year: 1870

The st. Paul Dispatch a Republican


paper of the radical stripe, proposes


the above conundrum, and discourses


upon it as follows: .rf


The country has been laboring un-


der hallucination. 1t thought the


war ended several years ago, and that


the work now to be performed par


took of the nature of pacific reconstrc-


tion. Instead of this we see Congress
struggling over the admission of
States, and endeavoring to impose
pains and penalties upon them. The
Senate now has the Georgia bill before
it, and it is seriously proposed to ad-
NIT the State, only on condition that
Gov. Bullock and his co-adjutors are
kept in Office. The people are not to
be allowed to elect other men at their
coming election for fear they will not
be Republicans, and accordingly the
act of admission must provide for the
retention of these officers beyond the
expiration of the term for which they
were chosen. Such legislation Is
monstrous, and no party can afford to
shoulder the responsibility of such
acts. Notwithstanding this, Senators
Morton, Fenton, Drake and Yates are
urging the passage of the bill.


Gen. Ames has been reported by
the Judiciary Committee as ineligible
to seat in the Senate from Mississip-
pi. 1t is nevertheless semi-officially
announced that the Senate will admit
him because they dare not risk another
election. This very course is virtual
acknowledgements that he is not the,
choice of the people of Mississippi,
and will misrepresent them in the
Senate.


These high handed acts for the pur-
pose of gaining temporary party ad-
vantage will recoil upon the party
which profits for the time thereby.
Law and order should be enforced.
Acts of violence should be suppressed
and punished with the utmost severi-
ty, but the right of the people to vote
for the men of their choice should not
be interfered with. A people wronged
by the denial of this right may be
held IN subsection, but they will not
be conquered. The manifest wrongs
will rankle in their bosoms, only
awaiting tile opportunity to burst
forth. If they were to be held as ter
ritorial appendagesr and treated as
though in an actual state of revolt
there would even then be no apology
for this course, as they would be en-
titled TO no representation whatever,
but to assume to reconstruct and sG-
nit those States to all tho rights and /
privileges of their sister States, while !
at the same time denying them repre-
sentatiou is hollow mockery of ius-
tice aud of a Republican form of gov
Year: 1870

| ishing and the prices of thcir com


Modities will go up.


The necessity for this large volume


of circulation is apparent in our grow


ing and swelling population. The


vast enterprises which are-opening up


and redeeming The mighty realms


which lie between the waters of the


Mississippi and the Pacific ocean; the


great and valuable staple products of


the west and south, as well as the gil
| gantic commerce of the northern lakes
and the sea-boards of the east; the
corn, the wheat, the cotton, the rice,
the sugar, the tobacco, the hogs, the
mules, and the cattle on thrice ten
thousand hills, and all the other myr-
lad productions of agricultural labor
will absorb IN the coming fifteen
years an issue of currency sufficient
| to liquidate the ffve-twenty bonds
Railroads and steamboats, will lift up
their giant heads to welcome the re
freshing stream. Employment would
flow i'll upon those who now seek la
Dor in vain. Households would smile
with plenty which are now pining in
want. The toiling millions would
have money as WeAa as the untaXed
masters of opulence, idleness, and ILL
gotten treasure. The States that lie
in the embraces of the Mississippi and
its tributaries, from the far-off upper
regions of snow down to the yellow
groves of the orange, would have a
circulating medium for their people as
well as the more favored States that
lie on the northern coast of the At
lantic. And, above all other. bless
lngs, the people would emerge from
the shackles of debt, no part of which
is now being paid. The loud preten-
slons of the administration on that
point can best be met by q single state
ment which is proven by the record.
The interest bearing debt when the
last administration closed was S2,O49,-
9I5,100. The Secretary of the Treas
ury stated it few days ago to be now
S2,100,O00.000; an increase of $50
024, 800. This is stubborn fact
While taxation is mountain high the
debt is actually rising higher. laF


Slr, l plead to-day for a plan to
change all this. plead for it as the
law OF the contract, and as even more
than just remuneration to the bond
holder for his advancements.5 l plead
for the interest of the Iaborer whose
debt it will pay and whose appalling
taxes it will at once reduce. 1 plead
for it IN the name of every MANNED
and wounded soldier ON your pension
rolls, the price of whose flesh and.
blood you pay in discounted curren-
cy, while you pay the speculator in
gold. plead for it in the name of
every widow and orphan made by the
war, the purchase of whose tears and
broken hearts you provide. for in de-
pEeciated paper. l plead for it in the
sacred name of eternal justice, which
now lies mangled and outraged by the
present fagitious policy. I plead for
it finally in behalf of all the mighty
interests III the country, whose Ian
gushing energies it would revive,
whose dropping trade it would re-
store, whose fainting industries it
would imbue with new life.
Year: 1870

The differences of character are new
er more distinctly seen than in times


when men are surrounded by diff
culties and misfortunes. There are
some who, when disappointed by the
failure of an undertaking from which
they had expected great things, make
up their minds at once to exert them
selves no longer against what they
call fates, as if, thereby, they could
ayenge themselves upon fate. Others
grow desponding and hopeless; but a
third class of men will rouse them
selves just at such moments, and say,
''the more honorable it win be-" and
this is maxim which every one
should impress upon himself as a law.
Some OF. those who are guided by it
prosecute their plans with obstinacy,
and perish; others, who are more
practical men, if they fail in one way
WIFI try in another. 49,.
Year: 1870

The Page county, Iowa, Herald has
the following account of man lifting
himself blind: "The sad event was
the result of lifting two heavy sticks
of timber In half an hour after he
had over-taxed his strength he was
sightless. He felt no pain at the time
and has experienced none since.7
Year: 1870

In the MINER Of August l3, we stated that tho Anahein Lighter Company had reduced lighter age 10 sl3 per ton. We should have said to e per ton, and charge for storage. Bear it in mind
Year: 1870

THE SUBSTANCE of Judge Lawrence's bill
to enforce the Constitutional Amendments
gives to the United States Courts power to
do everything necessary to enforce any con-
stitutional amendment already made or
hereafter to be made, as well as to enforce
and carry into effect the fundamental condi-
tons on which any State is admitted to re-
presentation in Congress. The final section
provides that any person who under color of
any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, GUS
tom or otherwise shall subject or cause to be
subjected any citizen or inhabitant of the
United States or Of any State or Territory
to deprivation or denial of any right, privi-
legc or franchise secured, protected or
granted by this act or by any amendment of
the Constitution which has been, or may be
made, or by any fundamental condition upon
which any State has been or may be admitted
to representation in Congress, or admitted
into the Union, shall be deemed guilty Of
misdemeanor and punished accordingly.
This will, Of course, conclusively affect any
State officers who may refuse to assess, or
receive tax, or take the votes, of colored
citizens, and it is therefore highly impor-
tant bill
Year: 1870

JUDGE SooFIELD of Pennsylvania has intro
duced bill in the House, at Washington, to
permit the free circulation of weekly news
papers in their own county, and he will also
include in it, when it comes up for consid-
GRAFTON, provision permitting the present
system of free carriage for exchange papers,
The Judge comprehends the fact that no
means of disseminating popular intelligence
is more important than the free exchange of
newspapers. They carry the liberal and
active thought of the great centres directly
to the most remote localities, and enlighten
the whole country upon every question of
public importance. The few dollars TO be
saved to the Postal Service would be poor
compensation for the immense loss popular
instruction would sustain, by wiping out the
present concession.
Year: 1870

Little bird, winging your way to the West
Tell to my lover for me
In song gushing with love from your breast,
Tell to him, Ich lfeben sic!
Tell him my love for him never shall fail,
Tell him my hearts Ger the same.
Tell him my thoughts Of him never shall pale,
Whisper to him, Je vous aime
Wherever he shall go, whatever his lot
OF profit, of gain, or Of loss,
Tell him with him count all but naught,
Whisper, Ego amo pos!
And II he really refuse to believe


What all this means. then tits time
Te sing in plain English out loud e'er you leave
love you Thine own Valentine
Year: 1870

WHEN THE SMALL FRY of Democratic
newspapers wish to say something particu-
larly mean and spiteful about colored men,
but hesitate to assume the full responsibility,
they preface their remarks by, "a friend at
our elbow suggests" We venture to sug-
gest that the " friend at their elbow" is the
devil Of malignant prejudice, and that, at
their elbow is his accustomed dwelling place.
Year: 1870

In the Senate, on Monday last,
the bill providing for the enforcement
of the fifteenth amendment came up
for consideration Mr.. Thurman, al
though unweu, and desirous of an
adjournment, was compelled to speak,
the Senate, in its anxiety TO get
through the measure, refusing the
usual courtesy. In commencing his
speech Senator Thurman said he
would 'tfore 90 any argument on the
question whether the so-called tff-
teenth amendment is 4 part Of the
constitution of the United States. l
shall speak for a practical purpose,
and therefore 1 shall not moot ques-
ton upon which know the dominant
party of the Senate is fully commit
ted, and which it would be entirely
useless therefore to discuss; but what
l wish to do Is to try in good faith to
convince the senate, it is willing to
be convinced, that there are pro
visions IN this bill which ought not
to be in it, and that the bill. taken as
whole, Is not one that should receive
the appreciation of the senate" The
remainder of the senator's speech fol
lows:


NO NECESSITY FOR SUCH LEGIS-
.r LATION. -


Nor, sir, shall discuss the gener-
al question whether congress should
proceed to legislation of this kind
without waiting to see what will be
done by the states, without waiting
to see that there is Il necessity fol
such legislation, without waiting for
one single act done in violation of The
right of any citizen under your ST.
teenth amendment Before any man
has been deprived of any right VIII t
soeyer, or even threatened with a de
/ privation of any right whatsoever, i
| is proposed to pass bill of pains ant
penalties Whether that can be done
| is a question which I shall leave with
out discussion, because l concede thai
this is a foregone conclusion with thc
majority Of the senate. 1t is true
that is question which l should like
to discuss, if thought there could be
any good produced by discussing it.
Without any act on the part of Il sin
gle state, without any threat of re
sistence OH the part of single state
when state after state, has permitted
the colored race to vote at the spring
elections, and there is no complaint
anywhere that any one of them ha;
been deprived of the right ofsufrage
1 do think it is of most evil eX
ample that bill which bristles al
over with pains and penalties, n bill
which makes it impossible almost fol
a man Of character ana responsibility
to hold the office Of judge of election
should be introduced into the senate
with fair prospect of its passage.


But, sir, passing this by, let u:
look at the details of this bill.


THE FIRST SECTION NUGATORY
What is the first section !? L speak
now of the amendment proposed by
the judiciary committee and here ]
ought to say thai though a member
of that committee was not in com
mittee when this matter was considered
1 was absent from the city; and il
was not until this Aery morning thai
for the first time 1 saw this bill
What is the first section of this pro-
posed amendment


"That all citizens of the United
States who are or shall be otherwise
qualified by the law to vote at any
Year: 1870

election by the people in any state,
territory district, county, city, parish,
township, school district, municipali-
ty, or other territorial subdivision,
shall be entitled aud allowed to vote
at all such elections, without distinc-
tion of race, color, or previous condi-
ton of servitude, any law, custom,
usage, or regulation of any state. or
territory, or by or under its authority,
to the contrary Notwithstanding.


The only observation L have. to
make about that is that the thing is
wholly unnecessary and nugatoiy if
the fifteenth amendment is a part of
the constitution of the United S;ates.
You cannot add any strength to the
fifteenth constitutional amendment
in the shape of a statute. The
whole thing, therefore, is simply in
officious and nugatory.
Year: 1870

Washington, April % The votes
cast in the senate by Senator Lewis in
the interest OF the extreme Radicals
has been matter of mystery especial
IL in view OF the liberal elements by
which he was elected to represent the
mother oi States. The story is here
that the Senator is like other mortals
human II al he is affected by selfish
considerations, and that his brother
(Chmrles) was appointed to a foreign
mission as Il consideration tor the votes
OF the senator in support OF the "intol-
cradle Radicals.


The senator has been tugging away
at the public jug quite vigorously, and
is very exacting in his demands fol OF
fetal patronage. Like new converts
generally, he is among the most ultra
aud intolrrant, and his vote may be
found in the list OF the most radical OF
Radicals. His compensation is to be in
the distribution of official patti Onage,
and at the end of his term in the United
States Senate he will be retired to pri-
vate life. never more to be heard of.
Year: 1870

A few years since there was in the city
of St. Petersburg. a young girl so bcauti-
full and lovely that the greatest prince of
Europe had he met her, even in peas.
ants hut, might we'll have turned his
back upon princesses to offer his hand and
his crown.


But far from having first seen the light
in a PEASANTS hut, she was born in the
shadow of the proudest throne. It was
Marie Nicolewna, the adored daughter of
Russia.


As her father saw her blooming like the
May flower, and sought for by all the
heirs Of royalty, he cast his eyes upon the
fairest, the richest and the most powerful
of them, and with the smile of father
and King. said to her:


''My child, you are now Of age to mar
ry, and l have chosen for you the prince
who will make you Queen, and the man
who will make you happy"


"The man who will render me happy"
stammered the blushing princess with a
sigh, which was the only objection to
which her heart gave utterance "Speak,
father" she said, as she saw frown gath
er on the brow of the Czar, "speak, and
your Majesty shall be obeyed."


"Ebeyed!" exclaimed the Emperor,
trembling for the first time in his life
lis it then only as an act Of obedience
that you will receive husband from my
hands p


The young girl was silent and conceal
ed tear.


us your faith already plighted p


The young girl was still silent.


Explain yourself, Marie, command
you!'


At this word, which sways sixty mil,
lions of human beings, the princess fell al
the feet of the Gear.


"Yes. father, if must tell you, my
heart is no longer my own it is bestowed
Year: 1870

evil of separate interests Being off the
public pathway, it can only properly be
opened to public resort by associating it
in some way with the notoriety culminat-
ing at the Watkins Glen. Were both in
the hands of one active proprietor, his self
interests, if nothing else, would compel
him to run car between both Glens-in
fact. to unite in greatdegree both towns,
result we sincerely believe would in
every way be one of mutual advantage.


The peculiar beauties and attractions OF
this Glen are incomparably superior to
most subterranean vacuities known. There
is grand magni6cencein the whole scene.
which thrills with awe while animating
with unspeakable delight and interest.
Year: 1870

How TO GET Work DONE ON A FARM.
Every farmer is at times pressed with the
sense of the overwhelming number Of
things that require to be done. We have
seen nervous man in such circumstances
commence one job, and before he had got
fairly started, abandon it for something
that seemed more pressing, merely to
leave this in the same unfinished state;
when night came he had accomplished lit
tie or nothing, and passed hours tossing
on sleepless bed thinking Of what he
should do on tomorrow. A young farm
er could not adopt better rule than to
repeat to:himself every morning: "What-
soever thy hand 6ndeth to do, do it with
all thy might" and act upon it. When
job is commenced, finish it before COM
mencing another; but, at the same time,
attend to the little things. But if you
happen to get behind, strike lively gait.
Do one thing at time, and when it is
done, take little rest by Immediately
commencing another, and in this way you
will pull out in time. -