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Year: 1873

While the mortality report is still a
thing to weep over, still tells story
that speaks fearfully of the power of the
fever to destroy, we yet have the graft
flying assurance 10 convey to day
Of a rapid abatement Of the disease, t.
be accelerated, no doubt, by the very
cold weather prevailing. The number
Of new cases yesterday was very
small-sO small as to encourage
the belief that, perhaps, this
week cold weather continuing, will see
the last Of the yellOw-fever. The deaths
reported yesterday number twenty
eight-eighteen from yellow-fever and
ten from other causes. Two Of the cases
reported were thrown ont by the health
officer, for informality, but we count
them in 10 avoid any possible misappre-
hension sbroad. Those -four citizens out
Of The city will be advised, when they
may return by an official notification.
Until that is published, let them con-
tent themselves in patience. Only
few days more and we will be together
-r-5-
Year: 1873

WAsHINGTON, October 27.-The treas
ury up to this afternoon had not paid out
any silver currency, and no order had
been received by the cashier to pay sill
yer over the counter of the cash room.
Sellers were beseiged during the day for
silver coin in exchange for greenbacks.


EX-President johnson had cOnsuita-
ton with the comptroller of currency to-
day with reference to the affairs of the
First national bank, and Ex-Secretary
McCullOch had long conference on the
bank system of Europe as compared
with the system of this country.
Year: 1873

ALL HOPE LOST FoR THE mssISe FOURTEEN


Toronto, Nov Z.
All hope of safety for the fourteen missing
since the burning of the steamer Boodrtdn in
the st. Lawrence river is now abandoned.
Year: 1873

the questions that force themselves
on the mind Of every thinking per-
son and demand an answer, their
discourses would accomplish fAr
more good than any eulogy ON Paul
or exegis on predestinatlon can do.


The churches ought to guide the
people, not in spiritual things only,
but in temporal, by viewing tenn
poral things from . spiritual stand
point. Instead Of Sinking from
aluding to things which are pass
ing in the every day world around
us, they should comment intelli
gently, fearlessly and candidly upon
them and teach the people their
duty in every emergency. In other
words the church needs in q meas
ure to be revolutionized This is
being done slowly but inevitably
and will 20 on until the fact is fully
accomplished.


If the people knew that by going
to the churches they would hear .
calm, dispassionate comment on
the events which have engaged their
attention through the week, instead
of the usual discussion of purely
religious questions, the houses OF
worship would be ever crowded and
would have to be enlarged. There
is much in the church service that
is interesting and impressive. The
music, the solemnity and the sense
of close sympathy which the con-
gregation can not help feeling,
coming together Sunday after Sun
day as they do, makes the church
an institution possessing peculiar
powers. If to these inherent. ad-
vantages it should join more pop
ular style of preaching. reaching
out more widely into popular life,
it would become q much more 20.
tent instrumentality for good
Terre Haute Express.
Year: 1873

OF late on questions relating to
Christianity and the increase of
skepticism and infidelity through
out this country and Europe. It
can not be denied that the spirit of
free inquiry, a desire to find the
truth wherever it may lead, has
spread with remarkable rapidity
during the past few years, and that
it has spread a deleterious influence
on the churches. In other words
the churches seem to be losing in
measure that vital power which
once characterized them. This fact
will hardly he denied by any honest
and unprejudiced observer of pass
ing events.


In seeking the cause of this state
of things we naturally turn to the
ministry. The church is what the
clergy make it. On them rests the
responsibility of giving it influence
and power. They can lead the pub
lie opinion or follow it. When they
do the first the church becomes q
vital institution, exercising o vast
power among the people; when they
do the latter it ceases, to great
extent, to move and guide the
masses It would seem that the
clergy of the present time are fol-
lowers rather than leaders.


Il is almost painful for man of
an active and intelligent mind to
listen to many of the sermons which
are preached from Sunday to Sun
day in the churches throughout the
land. They strike him as being
peculiarly dead and powerless.-
They are the mere echo of sermons
which were preached hundred
years ago, and which had power
then because in keeping with the
times Now, as then, the minister
reads his scriptural passage and
proceeds with his formal first, sc.
cond AMI thirdly, to expatiate on
some doctrinal point, with painful
elaboration, which has been eluci.
dated q thousand times before in
almost the same language. He sets
forth the life and trials of Paul, or
goes into q scathing denunciation
Of the Jews for their rejection and
mistreatment of Christ. Discourses
of this kind are not calculated to
increase the power and usefulness


of the church to make it an institu.
| ton strong with vital force. There


is little in them to draw the masses


They may partially satisfy the old


members of the church, who have


got used to them and never weary


of hearing their favorite dogma.


set forth in strong terms, but te


the worldly mind there is in then
q barrenness which is uninvitine


and uisatisfying. This class mis-


q certain novelty and practicalnesl


which it is the nature of the human


mind to demand. This style O
preaching is not what the churche,
need to make them as useful q,
they ought to be.


The field which the clergy hav,


to till in m almost ilimitable one
, The regions of fact and fancy, O
history and science, of poetry, poll
|. tics lin the highest sense Of tn,
J. word and philosophy are at hand
they should not be satisfied to cir


Gle round forever in the norro1


limits of sectarian theology. If tn
; ministers in the many thousan,
churches throughout the countr
would forget doctrines and begir
; as some have done, to deal with th
lpractical questions of the time,
Year: 1873

Sweet is the smile OF home; the mutual look
Where hearts are of each other sure;
Sweet all the joys that crowd the household


work;


The haunt of all affections pure;
Yet in the world even these abide, and we
Above the world our calling boast;
Once gain the mountaintop, and thou art


free;


TIL then, who resi-, presume; who turn to
look, are lost.
Year: 1873

Idreamed Of great republic
Whose people shall all go West,
Sow plums and reap tomatoes
In the land that they love best;
Where jobs of all dimensions
Shall bloom on every hill,
And chickens low in the barn-yard,
And gooseberries toll at the mill
I'm tired Of seeing the cabbage
Handle the rake and hoe;
I'm tired of waiting and watching
For the grasshopper bush to grow;
long for the time when spinach
Shall cope with bread and milk;
When hens shall lay bananas,
And horses spin raw silk.
Oh! sweet were the vanished hours,
When wandered along the glen
And wreathed my brow with tomatoes
And pluck the ripened hen;
When the donkey climbed on a trellis
And the cucumber chirped in the


grass,


And the sweet potato whistled
To Its mate in the mountain pass.
Year: 1873

BOURBON, IND, Jan. 27, 10
DEAR REPpBLIcAN.-This quiet little
city is resting in the enjoyment of health
peace and plenty, with no element that is
likely to cause disturbance of this happy
state OF affairs for the immediate present
at least. st no very distant day in the
past little speck ofa social and uncivil
war cloud Foonled up ominously in the
horizon, but now the mighty hosts of
partisans, have quietly donned the usual
complacent smile Of friendship, and have
buried the hatchet, and smoke the CAL
met together as if nothing had ever dis
turbed their friendly association of "auld
lang syne."


Rev. Mr.. Castle, is conductinga series
OF religious meetings, at the U. B. Church,
that are eliciting more than usual interest
among this people.


The County Teachers Association is to
hold meeting of the society in Bourbon,
on Saturday, February 9Th, when it is an
ticipated profitable time to teachers, will
be experienced. All friends of education
should encourage the association by their
presence, if by nothing more substantial


Mr.. James o. Parks, the new township
Trustee, is entering upon the duties OF his
! office, with degree of enthusiasm,
scarcely preeedehted, and is doing a good
work for the public schools. 1t is said
that he proposes to make strong effort
| to erect a commodious public school
house in the North part of this city, that
| shall be an enduring monument to his
ability, enterprise and faithfulness as a
public servant, and an evidence that he IS
determined to do the work intrusted to
him by the people, in a manner satisfacto-
ry to those electing him to office, instead
of acting his own pleasure, regardless OF
the wishes Of those whose servant he is
| but then, Mr.. Parks is man who has
had long experience in places of honor
and trust as we'll as profit, andls past that
time ofpublic life, where mere election
| W OAilCC Will ulSlIdCb HIS UIdiu, anu CduSe
him to imagine himself superior to ev-
cry one else, by the accidental selection to
aIpublic office, be that eralted, or houeg-
er Insignificant. He is man with suffi-
GENTLY well balanced mind, to know his
exact worth IN or ont Of office, and is not
now, and undoubtedly neUer qcas inglari.
ously pain, at being once IN has lifetime,
public official, by the merest accident, that
could never possibly occur again, as some
times is witnessed in every county This
county may well congratulate itselfon the
election of SO efficient and obliging q
| Trustee as is found in Mr. Parks, and will
doubtedly continue him in the present
official position as long as he can be made
to retain the place, he has filled with
honor to himself and satisfaction to those
elccting him.


The prospects for busy season, for the
next spring and summer are evident to
every one in this locality, both in and out
of the city. The preparation for the cree
ton of substantial buildings, is going rap.
idly forward


| Yours Ever,


| A
Year: 1873

We hope that every man, whether mem
Der of Congress or not, who was guilty
of swindliog the government by means of
the Credit Mobilier Company, will be COM
PEELED to restore the stolen money, and
serve the State in some useful occupation,
within the walls of pri son. But we
would not have the innocent confounded
with the guilty. Nor should we like to
see the slanderer, who, for the sake of
party, would rob virtuous men of their
good names, go unpublished.


The effort that is being made to fasten
upon the name Of Schuyler Colfax the
stigma of bribery, when as yet no facts
have been developed to prove the charge,
shows the desperate means partisans will
use to gain their ends. The attacks upon
Colfax, are made for the purpose of injur
ing tbs Republican party, and have the
effect to injure the reputation of every
member of Congress WlFo has heretofore
sustained an unsullied reputation. Col
fax, they say, is guilty and he was con-
sidered the purest man in Congress-
"They ale all guilty. The judgment is
made up. There can be nc such thing as
an incorruptible member of Congress. y
This is all wrong-men should not be
Judged without evidence. A life of puri-
ty should weigh something against the
charges of prejudiced or slanderous
tongues.
Year: 1873

The Ledger STANDARD suggests that it
would be Il good idea for our Legislators
now in session to pass an act declaring It
a misdemeanor to use kerosene oil in
kindling fires, or to fill lamps while burn
ing, and assessing heavy fine and i'm
prisonment for aterm of months for every
offense.
Year: 1873

A number of our most wealthy and in
fluential citizens are in favor of adopting
a city form of government for Plymouth.
Our town has outgrownits old town char
ter, and it must have new one or
the old one made larger, to serve the
wants of our people.
Year: 1873

A barrel fell through hatchway in q,
Pekin pork house, the other day, and
struck an employee on the head strange
to relate the barrel was broken while the
man was substantially uninjured.
Year: 1873

The Signal Service Bureau don't seem
to be giving any better satisfaction, than
the Civil Service machine. The weather
was terribly out of fix last week. Drift
ing snow-storms interfered with railroad
travel, and the weather was cold enough
to kill potato bugs.
Year: 1873

A Bloody contract was effected by two
of Brazirs most prominent citizens. they
made a solemn compact to never taste
liquor again, writing the instrument in
warm blood. They obtained the blood
by taking it from the veins of a third par
ty, whom they bled until he was so weak
and faint that it became necessary tor
them to carry him home.
Year: 1873

Our cltrZenS must sooner or later wake
up to the necessity of doing something TO
give our town more life and activity. We
need more mechanics and manufacturers
Every tub, pail, or barrel that is used in
Plymouth, ought to be manufactured here
All the wool that is raised in this county,
ought to be manufactured into yarn, OF
cloth in this place. All the pork that
is consumed here. ought TO be cured here
The quality OF the pork is much bette
than the average that is taken to Chicago
i and cured, and then brought here and
sold at from three to four hundred per Ct
above the cost OF the best Marshal
county pork.


Boots and shoes can be manufactured
here as cheaply as they can elsewhere
Rents are low and produce cheaper thar
any place of the same number of inhabi
tants, with equal transportation facili
ties.


Capital and enterprise should be invi
ted here, and encouraged when they come
Wagon manufactures at South Bend, are
over-run with orders for their products
Plymouth can manufacture wagons as
cheaply as South Bend, and as well bu
our manufacturers are not encouraged, ol
Jack the capital to drive a large business


The country is far ahead of the town, il
wealth and prosperity. The country re
quires vast amount of machinery and
farming implements, which are manufac
tured at distance, and sold to farmers BY
travelling or local agents. Much of this
machinery should be manufactured il
! Piin.outh.
Year: 1873

The Toledo (Ohio) Blade believes
the Democrats have leaae. in train
ing for the last ditch:


ut is now given out that Colonel
Allen is not only candidate for Gov
ernor, but that such candidacy is only
for the purpose of getting the old man
warmed up for the Presidential race in
ISIS. That is counting upon q very
long and painful death struggle for
the Democratic party"
Year: 1873




The trade movement was moderate all through
the last week, and there was comparatively little
activity In any department. though the markets in
numerous instances showed increased hrmness.
The business in dry goods showed large falling
or yet fair business was done In all the leading
fabrics. Hardware was very little sought after,
and business was decidedly quiet. The same was
true OF most other Kindred articles OF commerce.
AT the Produce Exchange there was considerable
buoyancy, but not nearly so much as during the
preceding week, and most kinds OF produce were
lower At the close OF hast week, even with the Erie
Canal closed or the winter while the stocks in
Year: 1873

FOREIGN EXCHANGE.


The tendency of this market has been somewhat
in favor OF former rates, there being fair demand
from importers and moderate supply OF cotton
bills from the South. Easy rates OF money in Lon
don have likewise exerted the effect OF bringing
long and short sight together.


The following table shows the extreme fuctua-
,,ops for rho week in the leading shares.-
Year: 1873

Reflect that q sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubal
buupincss. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the 1neancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1873

A MINNEsorA gentleman had the
misfortune to drop through an air-hole
In the ice into the rive, and was swept
under by the current. Recollecting
another air-hole go feet further down
stream. lie swan for II, aud landed him
self high but not dry upon the Ice.
And his name was Murphy.
Year: 1873

that but very few of the three hundred
members of the last Congress have had
the decency or honesty to return the
$4,000 of money they wen by passing
the Back-Pay bill:


The trouble, according to the Tndi-
ana Senator, is that the public have
such high notioas of official honesty
that the member Of Congress to-day !,
though equally honest with his pred>
ecessors, finds it difficult TO keep up
with public sentiment. Thus the
public sentiment that disapproves of
members of Congress sharing in the
s35, 100000 stolen by the Credit
Mobiiier Company Is more exactir &
than the public sentiment that prevail
ed from I7S9 1861; the same public
sentiment complains that the license,
sanction and encouragement given by
Congress, and the Government Gcper>
ally, to all manner of frauds and
populations in the Civil Service is not
only wrong in itself, but has had a
m ost demoralizng effect upon official
integrity in the States and municip; Ii
ties. At this time there is perhaps ten
or fifteen States officers who are default
ers oil over the country there arc town
city, and county officers who have
practiced in municipal affairs the loose
morality and defiant irresponsbillty
which is general in the national service
and when Mr.. Morton arraigns public
sentiment as altogether too high when
1T insists that all this shall be reformed,
and that the country must leave the
correction of all these evils to the Re
publican party acting through its caucu
sesa nd its Congressman, he fails to do
justice to the intelligence as well
as the integrity of the people at
large.
Year: 1873

1t is a fact, conceded by all, that
not only in the pulpit, but on the
lyceum platform, Henry Ward Beecher
is one of the most effective and able
speakers in this country. We present
the following as the essential points in
his lecture on Compulsory Education.
Mr.. Beecher began BY saying:


Thought passed in waves. At one
time all Europe was discussing war
problems ; then politics again theology.
Very many Of those matters which once
commanded the most thorough research
and study we're now considered OF no
account whatever. Now more
important aud practical question was
attracting universal attention educa-
ton occupies the mind of the civilized
world-common rudinental instruction
of the masses, and not the peculiar
privileges of the more favored cases
and for this he pleaded. In Great
Britain the church question had be-
come subordinate to that of education,
and now the query OF most importance
was, Who shall instruct the children
shall the priest or the people Pain
lv it was the duty of the citizen and OF
government. The priesthood had done
good service, but their day had gone,
and education h become the duty OF
the State. In Great Britain it had
come to be considered the God-given
right of the people, and German
influence was being felt all over Europe.
The German Empire owed its solidity
to its schools. 1t was the intelligence
of the North German soldierY that
conqured Austria, and she was learning
wisdom from her conqueror. In Italy
and Switzerland education has been
made compulsory, while France lags
behind-is the bottom State-because
her masses Me ignorant; and may
never hope to cope with her neighbors
while such is the case.


Governments have long been trying
to learn how best to ride the people,
and it has proven that the best saddle
is intelligence that knowledge implies
good citizenship. Education is military
force, and our civil conflict was really
the Northern school against the South
ern plantation. The most intelligent
people produce the greatest wealth per
capita; our country leading among
the nations, and Connecticut among the
States. The patent records showed one
invention 90 every s3l people in that
State, while in Arkansas only one in
$1,000 knew enough TO invent anything
Prices are regulated by the amount of
brains required in prodution, and
combinations can no more produces
uniformity than they can make men
look alike The man who has the
most brains receive the best pay, and
| Concluded on foarM pa6e.
Year: 1873

| oSICptaieO Outo spooSu,
Morton of Indiana undertook to
justify the unparalleled corouptions of
the present administration, by the
most ummitigated bare faced falsehood
ever uttered by the tongue Of man,
he said:


"The standard of public morals is
to-day higher in this country than it
has ever been before; that public
morals have been improved and elevated
during the last twelve years; that it is
not that Congress is more corrupt than
formerly, but that public opinion
demands a higher standard of rectitude
on the part of public men than was
ever before exacted."


This statements not only false Ell solute
ly, but it argues therottenand dangerous
doctrine, that public servants have a
right, to be just as corrupt as the
general morals and patience of the
people will permit, and so long as the
sovereigus of the country do not demand
a more close adherence to honesty
public men have licedse to steal, rob
and plumber without limit, just in
proportion to the guliblIity OF the
people they.represent and serve. Morton
also says:


"I have searched history for the
past hundred years, and find that
public morals day are higher than
they have been at any date within that
time"


This is paying brilliant tribute to
he patriot fathers and mothers of the
revolution, but the whole statement is
as false as hell itself The truth is,
this old thief has been searching history
to find something to allay the constant
rawlings OF suilty conscience, and
cover up his own perfdy and crimes
The mar who, in our judgement, would
tor the purpose of covering up
his owu infamy, publicly state, that the
standard of public morals was higher
at this time, that at any time, driDg
the existence of the Republic, would
disinter his grandmother, for the
purpose of stealing the copper cents
that held down her eye>lids. But for
a complete answer to Morton's speech
on that subject, we prefer to give the
comments of the Chicago Tribune
as the expression of our sentiments:


against this declaration we place
solemn records of the Government.
Leaving on the transactions of the War
the fraudulent coDtrats, the general
swindlIng and rascality practiced in the
hour OF the national troubles, we will
begin with the time when the wal
closed. 1t is matter of record thai
during the next four years, much Of
the taxes collected from the people
never reached the Government; thai
the whole Civil Service dengeneratet
into system of plunder and robbery
that personal gain became, to a great
extent, the exclusive motive for seeking
Office. The Civil Service, including
all branches Of the revenue collection
became notoriously and confessedly
corrupt aud dishonest. The constant
theme of the Republican party at that
time was the depravity which prevaded
the administration of the public service
1t was true that andrew johnson was
then President, bnt he could not make
an appointment that did not require
the previous approval of the Senate
nor was he allowed to dismiss any
officer without the permission of the
same body. How has the service been
reformen since? Let the reports of
the various Investigating Committees
answer, as to~the unquestioned corrupt
Year: 1873

what they were. lie took the largest
lump and tested it, and said


Pewter =


I asked him if pewter was ever dug
ont of the earth in that shape


"Well,' said he, seeing that pewter
is an alloy of lead and tin, it couldn't
be very well dug up, unless somebody
had gone and buried it before hand"


Touching further explorations on my
Twist lot,' | will not speak. l will
only add that have an old stocking
with half dozen Jumps of pewter in
It and | never look upon it, but l am
forced to acknowledge that dreams are
sometimes very strange and wonderful
things.