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Year: 1872

A young man recently ran away from
the galleys of Toulouse. He was strong
and vigorous, and arrived next morning
before a cottage, and stopped to get
something to eat, and get refuge while
he reposed a little. But he found the
inmates of the cottage in the greatest dis
tress. -Four little children sat trembling
in the corner, the mother sat weeping
and tearing her hair, and the father was
walking the floor in much agony. ~


The galley slave asked what was the
matter, and the father replied that they
were that morning to be turned out Of
doors, because they could not pay their
rent.


You see me driven to despair" said
the father, my wife and little ones de-
prived of food and shelter, and / without
means to provide for them" gE.a


The convict listened to the tale, with
tears of sympathy, and said:


" / will give you the means. have
Just escaped from the galleys. Who
soever brings back an escaped prisoner
is entitled to reward of fifty francs.
How much does the rent amount toY


Forty francs" answered the father.


"My children should starve before |
would do so'base a thing. " "a


The generous man insisted, and de-
clared that he would 60 and give himself
up if the father would not take him.
The latter yielded, and taking his pre-
server by the arm, led him to the city,
and to the mayors office.


Everybody was surprised to see that
little man had been able to capture
such strong young fellow.


The fifty francs were paid, and the
prisoner sent to the galleys but after he
was gone the father asked a private in
terview with the mayor, to whom be
told the whole story. The mayor was
so much affected that he not only added
francs to the fathers purse, but wrote
Immediately to the minister of justice,
begging the noble prisoners release.
The minister examined into the affair,
and finding it was comparatively small
offense which condemned the young
man to the galleys, and that he had al
ready served out half of his term, or
dered his release.
Year: 1872

An ingenious Frenchman has in.
vented species Of artificial fins, by the
aid of which the swimmer can walk IN
the water with comparative ease 1t is
rather strange that Of late years invent.
ors desirous Of enlarging the sphere OF
mans locomotion have confined their
attention almost exclusively to the air.
They have seemed bent upos making
man a poor sort of bird, when it would
have been much easier TO make him a
successful fsh. Water being much
denser element than air, it follows that
it presents fewer difficulties to the man
who desires TO become amphibious than
are presented by the thin air to him who
desires to fly. Why should not man be
enabled to walk or run on the water as
easily as he does on the land? How to
make this possible is problem which
inventors might proftably undertake to
solve, and it would seem as though they
would be far more likely to succeed in
such an effort than in the oiten-tried at
tempt to make balloons or artificial
wings of any practical value.
Year: 1872

THE New York Evening Post (Repub-
lican) says: " A severe contest is ex-
pected in the Senate over the PROPOSE
tiOn to allow the President to suspend
the writ Of hd6eas corpus beyond the
present session Of Congress. We trust
it will not assume the form of partisan
contest, but that there will be enough
Republicans in opposition TO prevent the
Democrats claiming all the glory Of de-
feating the measure. The privilege of
the writ Of hdbe0s corpus shall not be
suspended unless when, in case of rebel
lion or invasion, the public safety may
require it, These are the plain words
Of the constitution Of the United States,
article one, section nine, paragraph two.
They leave no room for argument The
Republican party cannot afford to iden-
tify itself permanently with the uneOn-
stitutional measures which a majority,
unfortunately, has thus far thought
nessary."
Year: 1872

SENATOR ALCORN, a Republican
United States Senator from Mississippi,
late Governor, says that in his judgment
not one-tenth of the internal revenue
tax that has been collected in North
Mississippi since the close Of the war
cotton tax and internal revenue tax OF
all kinds-has found its way into the
Treasury Of the United States. As q
little illustration Of how things are man.
aged down there, he says;


Why sir, last year q man appointed internal
revenue collector for the Northern district OF
Mississippi defaulted for all he collected His
bail WAS not worth q cent; IL was straw bail I;
and belieye-at least am told upon what
conceive 20 be good authOrlty-that little
while before he failed Cor all Of Il he came
here and gOI six thousand dollars Of revenue
stamps. and sold them, ana that Is all gone;
and not dollar has gone into the Treasury.
do not see how the government can improve
this until men Of a different character are
sent there 20 hold Office.
Year: 1872

A CALL was made for the Liberal Re


publieans TO meet Throughout the State
on the twenty-fourth instant, but the
leaders Of the movement in this con-
gressional district deem it proper to meet
on the nineteenth. This call is made in
response TO Messrs. Fowler and Others.
Year: 1872

A meeting Of citizens was held at the
Mayors Office, at Pittsburg yesterday,
for the purpose Of sending an expression
Of their appreciation of the great ser
vices of Professor Morse to the National
Telegraphic Association at Washington.
Year: 1872

| Well, this is cool The season must be tin-
| commonly far advanced Down East. The
| GRANTEES of the Vth Maine Congress District


being charged with buying up voters at the
late election, the organ of this precious party,


The Machias Republican, responds after the
following brass manner:


"Well Republicans have used some money; but, in


the language Of another, they have got something to
show for they have got good receipt and have got
the article they paid their money for"


| There is one popularity about the Grant
party which strikes US as without precedent.
It's "organsO seem to have no sense of shame


Its managers do not affect the slightest con-
cealment of their little games. From Cabinet
Officers down to Postmasters, they behave as
if they were acting in self-defense, and had
right to resort to any expedient to. carry their
point. Something, of course, must be par
dOned to men in such a desperate condition ;
but, though we may not severely blame this
dishonesty, it is our duty to expose it. The
Grant party has brought into the field all the
power. weight, might, and authority of the
General Government. IL is acting precisely as
if it were the Cove rnment, and were justified
in resorting to any measures TO save itself. Y


The lesson which this political campaign
ought to teach is, that the Government Of this
Republic does not belong 10 any party, but 10
the whole people; that no set of men have
vested interest in the places and their emolu-
ments; that this country does not exist merely
to feed horde of oilice-holders and that
those who are weighed in the balance and
found wanting must be either gently removed
or mope ruthlessly kicked out according to
their compliance with the popular will OF their
tenacity in sticking TO their stools. Need
there ia that it should be hammered into some
hard heads that oflGes are eetablIahed. not fOr
Year: 1872

release which was held out to them at Cincin-
natl, and encouraged by the assurance that a
movement is in progress at the Nortn WINCH


is to result in the election of an Administra-
ton which will not shield thieves and mur-
derers, however sound or loyal their poItlcS
may be. The people of Arkansas, like those
of many other Southern States, have ceased 10
look to Washington for justice. If the present
Administration is to be continued, what avenue
of escape is offered to them 7 They see thelr
best and most capable citizens excluded from
all participation in public affairs Their county
officers, elected by force and fraud, or illegally
appointed by the State authorities, rob ana
murder them. Their Legislatures are openly
yenal and rapacious. Their State Governments
do not seek for respect, being contented IL
they are feared. And beyond all these, there
is the Federal Government at Washington
coldly hostile to the people and cordially IN
alliance with their vulgar and greedy oppressors'
Is there not already enough of thisf Is 1t
not time for this state of petty war, which
profits only thieving politicians and grayely
Injuries q whole people, to give way to nor
NAL and peaceful rule of law7 We shall see
if majority of the people of the North ap-
prove that policy of sterile and unending Hate
which has found utterance in the offlce-hold-
crs' conventions. We shall see if Wendell
Phillips merely uttered the voice Of individual
malignity when he declared for the Presidency
of Gen. Grant "until every living Southern
I" man above forty years Of age is put forever
under ground" or if he gave expression to
the secret wish Of the party with which he has
at last found his congcnial home.
Year: 1872

The National Liberal Convention of cOlored
men az Louisville, n.y. yesterday, seems to
have been above the average of these conven-
tons in intelligence and patriotism. The plat
form, of which we have a synopsis, indicates
a clear knowledge of the details of the present
situation in national politics, as well as an in
telligent valuation of the Grant Administra-
ton, which promises so much and performs so
little
Year: 1872

All this has been won, too, in defiance of
such efforts by the Postmasters and by the
whole power of the Administration to cripple
or destroy TIE TRIBUNE as were never
before put forth in the history of the country
We have successfully defed these efforts,
though they must have done us serious in
Jury. But for them, Judging from the popu-
lar favor with which our course has been
received, we may safely reckon that our gain
would have been double what it is. After the
4th of March next we shall be relieved from
this difficulty. An Administration will then
be in power which will have no occasion to
meddle with newspapers, whether to help or
hinder them.
Year: 1872

The latest achievement of the Grant people
is to boast that they tried to bribe German
editor to defy his constituency by going
against Greeley, and bemOan in public the
failure of their effort.
Year: 1872

Our correspondent in Hartford presents
resume of the results of the Liberal Republi-
can canvass of Connecticut which will surprise
even Liberal Republicans themselves. Our
friends there regard the State as incontestably
theirs, and insist that nothing short of po-
litical earthquake can deprive them of such
majority as Connecticut has not given Tor
years The betting men are ready to back
this faith with works. and their offers of bets
that they will carry Hartford Co., that they
will carry the Ist District and that they will
carry the State are freely made. The Liberal
Republican Committee have been doing admira-
BILE work, and before the election comes on
their organization promises to be well-nigh
perfect.
Year: 1872

Wo copy the following from a New-Jersey
newspaper as embOdying several faisehoods
about TIE TRIBUNE that have been printed,
simultaneously, in different papers:


The course pursued by TIE TRIBUNE In denouncing
tho candidates and principles Of the Republican party
and aying itself with the worst elements OF the Democ
racy Ia said be very dsasefu to some OF the stock
holders OF the concern We informed that at meet
ing held day this week, the subject of change In
the editorial policy Of The TRIBUNE was discussed
amid great excitement Of the stockholders actually
fayorpg the abandonment OF Mr. Greeley and the sup
port of Gen. Grant instead. This may seem impossible
Of belief, but it is well known that the loss OF
subscribers has been great TO very
largely diminish the income OF the establishment
and If the present editorial shall be persisted In
there ia no doubt that the stock of the Association will
decline so materially in value to induce the utmost
anxiety on the part OF the as to the ultimate
fate OF their investments. Tie subscriptions to THE
WEEKLY TRIBUNE which have been hitherto very large
falling Off the ten thousand, only small percentage
Of those expiring being while the circulation
Of THE DAILY is constantly diminishing 1t is quite pos
sble that should the October elections go strongly fOr
Grant, THE TRIBUNE management, in response TO the
appeal Of the pocket nerve. will undergo radical change
and that even should the paper st support Mr. Gree
ley IL will ia other respects favor Republican principles
and candidates. The information upon which we base
this conjecture is had directly from headquarters and Is
thoroughly trustworthy"


1t may interest the friends of THE TRIBUNE
to be assured that this is pure invention from
beginning to end. No such meeting has been
held or thought of. Instead OF diminishing,
the actual paid circulation of THE TRIBUNE
has increased every month during the year =
the increase being


In Julv $3.50 copies
In August 1O,25O copies
In Septomber, thus far...... $500 copies
Year: 1872

Cockbnrn in refusing TO sign the award OF
damages and publishing an argument which is
colculated TO revive the old i'll feeling. Nor
does MIR. Lowe appear to understand why the
Grant Administration should chuckle over the
amount of money which has been awaruec W
the United States; indeed, he actually tmnks
we might naturally feel irritated at the result
of the arbitration. He does not know that
our people have long since relapsed into dis
gusted indifference.
Year: 1872

Through its opposition to the propagation
of the dogma of Papal Infallibility the Prus-
sian Government has drifted into a conflict
with the Catholic Clergy. The long pending
case of the Bishop of Ermeland has at last
come to crisis. That prelate having persist
entity refused to recognize the sovereignty OF
the State over the Church, the Emperor Will
liam has formally sanctioned a suit against
the Bishop At present the only proceedings
which it seems in the power of the State to
institute must affect all Catholics indiscrlml-
nately. Unless the PrOtestants are to be like
wise affected by these measures, which is
hardly probable, much dissatisfaction is GER
tain to arise between the two classes.
Year: 1872

Gov. Parker of New Jersey has offered
reward for the apprehension of any OF the
murderers of the negro laborers killed in the
late riot near Pattenburgh. No more hagrant
and brutal violation of the laws than this as
sault has been reported for long time. A
feud between the white and colored laborers
broke out in an open attack on colored set
tlement, and three of the negroes we're killed
outright. 1t would seem that the particulars
of the dreadful affair were hushed up by the
people living in the vicinity, so that the ring
leaders were able to leave the State before
the Sheriff knew what had happened 1t is tc
be hoped that they may yet be found anc
summarily punished.
Year: 1872

peremptory sale OF hardware will be held
on Monday morning, Goth inst at the auction
rooms Of Messrs. Ogle d Miller, 6O5 Market
street: The sale will be continued until all the
stock is sold


me sale Of china and decorated ware will be
continued at the rooms of the above firm, this
evening These goods must be sold to make
iooh Tor large sale OF imported goods.
Year: 1872

We have some very blue reports from Kent
county Of the harm done the Strawberries, by
the protracted drought The fruit is now just
forming, and it is said to be almost dried up.
Timely rain may yet save it, but the alarm felt
il serious and genuine.
Year: 1872

Correct likeness of yourself sent and
your fortune told. Young Greer, IN
answer to the above advertisement, re
ceiyes looking glass, and is informed
that he can tell his own fortune by
counting bis money.
Year: 1872

A Reporter who obtained entrance
to the studio Of a noted young lady
sculptor states that she was at work With
'1her arms bare to the shoulder aud her
ankles likewise" Goodness gracious
Year: 1872

An APT ANswER.-An Irishman one
morning went out very early in search
of some game on an estate where the
game laws were strictly enforced. Turn
ing sharp corner, whom did he meet
but the gentleman who owned the es-
tate Paddy seeing the game was up,
cody advanced toward the gentleman
and said =


The top of the morning to your Hon
or, and what brought your Honor out
so early this morning ?"


The gentleman replied by saying


Indeed Paddy, i'm just out to see If
would find an appetite for my break
fast" and then eyeing paddy suspicious
ly, said


And now, Paddy, what brought you
ont so early this morning


Paddy replied


"Indade your Honor, | just strolled
out to see if could find breakfast for
my appetite.
Year: 1872

1t never can be too strongly im>
pressed upon the mind that nothing
releases a parent from his duties to-
ward a child. No waywardness, no
disObedience, no rebellion, no pro-
figacy, can ever justify a father in
casting son or daughter adrift.
We hear of sons being cut off with


out shilling, or daughters being
forbidden their fathers house, and
without any exception such cases
are proof that of whatever sins their
children may have been guilty, the
father is even more guilty. No
person can commit against society
so great a crime as a father commits
who is thus false to the trust which
he himself impOsed-who thus
thrusts off from himself the soul
which he called into being.


A father should be governed by
no motive but his chiId's best inter
ests, and a child's best interests can
never be served by anything but
his fathers constant and loving care.
IF a child is so bad that his influence
is feared on the other children, sep
arate them. IF it is feared that
money bestowed On him will be for
his injury, provision may be made
against that. But when father in
a fit of anger disinherit5 or refuses to
see his child, he commits a crime
which the laws indeed do not rec
Ognize, but whose guilt it would
take many a legal crime to out
weigh. There should be absolutely
no limit to parental forgiveness and
forbearance. Seven times and sew
enty times seven should the father
receive the prOdigal son who seeks
his face and if he never seeks it, il
he goes on, stubborn and rebeIliOus,
not one atom of fatherly care and
interest should he relax; for the
child is his offspring, born of his
will, and no vice or violence can re
lease the man from his solemn OBJ
legation to guard and guide as far as
possible, the life he dared to give.
Year: 1872

Three new asteroids must be added to
the list, discovered within as many
months, one by a German astronomer
and two by American observers. There
are now one hundred and twenty frag-
mentary planets circling through the
planetary ether in the great gap be-
tween Mars and Jupiter. 1t is no use to
be out of patience at the advent of these
new brothers and sisters, for men OF
science calculate that at least thous-
and are floating round to be caught as
soon as we get telescopes of higher re-
fracting powers. By and by it will be
no more to sight an asteroid than it is
now to pick blackberry. We wish
we could imprison some of the starlets
and make them give a history of the
tremendous concussion which brought
ruin and desolation upon the fair planet
which once. perhaps, shone among the
stars, larger than our neighbor Mars,
and less than our magnificent brother
Jupiter.
Year: 1872

A printer out west, whose office
is half a mile from any other build
ing. and who hangs his sign on the
limb of tree, advertises for an ap-
prentice. lie says: ga boy from
the country preferred"
Year: 1872

The Nation, in one of its shrewdly
philosophic moods, says: "People
say a great many wild things, but
they do not say them in court with
their right hand up, and there will be
great deal of admiration expended
on Greely's old clothes and big
brains between now and November
by men who will take care not 10
show it at the polls"
Year: 1872

-
Take six times any number,
Divide it then by tree,
You must then sncuuber
1t if you wish to see
My age, by multiplying
BY two, divid BY four,
Add ten without signing,
Since you must work some more.
So now then will -uh;r~ct
Our first lumber. Therefore
Divide by five, attack
1t then on y once ore,
Multiplying by three,
Add to It even and two,
And then my age you see.
ask my age of you?
Year: 1872

TRADE CNIuNIsM N THE hfrcHEN.-
II appears that the Scotch have paved
the way for lock out among the
kitchen maids. Recently meeting ui
domestic servants resident in Dun,iee
and neighborhood was held. The Dun
dee 1dreTfiSer says: Two girls adj
dressed the meeting at some length.
contending that the domestic servants
were entitled TO a half holiday week
and free Sabbath every fortnight
They stated that they saw nothing to
prevent such an arrangement being car
ried out; but if there was really any
thing to prevent all the SCI wants getting
away on one day, lull holiday once a
fortnight be substituted. Then ii was
considered that il the servants got up al
d clock i'll the morning and went to
bed at 10, there would be sufficient time
10 do all the worA required of tnem.
while ii was strongly argued that no
labor should be performed Oh SUNDAY
except what was absolutely necessary.
1t was declared that on the Sabbath
there was usually special cooking, and
that hence IA great amount of labor was
entailed on the servants which they did
not experience On the o her DAYS of he
Ntth, anu lHdt lile -aDDdtt, therefore,
entailed an amount Of lrudgerv which
was unbearablc y long and animated
discussion afterwards was held a to the
restrictions which were placed upon the
wearing apparel Of the servants. twas
centended that if they were compelled
TO wear what was generally known "a, a
flag, it should be at the expense OF the
mistress. The opinion was. however,
that it should not be worn at all. The
stipulations as To what should be worn
in the way OF dress and jewelry were
also considered, aud it was thought the
| mistress had no right o interief re with
their apparel in any way 80 long as it
was paid for. Some humorous remarks
were made a. TO the slringency with
which mistresses inquired into the char
acter OF their servants. 1t was pointed
out that they were perfectly omnipo,e ,ent
| in their control of their servants career,
and it was urged that it was high time
that the domestic servants should form
themselves into an organization where
| by they would be enabled to secure in
formation not only regarding the charac-
tiers OF those who might become tneir
employers, but also respecting their gem
eIal temper and conduct. Ii a agreed
To form an association"
Year: 1872

BELL MINE.--We were shown box OF fine
looking specimens from this mine by Mr.. Sick
els the locator, some days ago, many of them
showing free gold. This mine is located near
old Mlertown, about one and a half miles from
here. We have not yet been able to visit it, but
it is attracting attention both here and abroad as
may be seen from the following, which we clip
from the Sacramento Union.


FINE SPECIMENS were shown yesterday
some fine specimens OF quartz obtained at the
Belle mine. located about n mile from Auburn,
and owned by party of nine or ten Satramen-
tans. The company are working steadily upon
it, and evidently have "good thing, innsmuch
as the rock near the surface was rich enough to
pay for working, while that obtained fifty feet
below the surface is twice as valuable
Year: 1872

THE GRAND ExcHANGE.--This is the newest
and latest attraction in Auburn, and the man
that has failed to call had better do so soon if he
don't wish to be considered behind the age.


Billy Mullen is at home and will make all who
call also feel at home. See the card in our new
advertisements and govern yourself accordingly.
Year: 1872

SCARLET FEVER This disease is in number
of families in town and several children and
some olde persons are down with it, but as yet
only one death has occurred, and as to the real
cause of that child S DEATH there is some differ
ence of opinion.