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Year: 1872

have been on the hill
Where sleep the dear ones whom We miss
SO much,
To see # spring had made the violets thrill


To new life. at her touch.
The snow lay here and there.
In shadUwy hooks, where sunshine feared
But where the sun had kissed the sod and


where


The grass began to grow.
found some tender blossoms
Sweet with the fragrance of summer dead;
Or was IL but the memory of perfumes


That stirred their hearts instead?
And as gathered there
The sweet blue ylOlets for my lonely room.
l thought. Each blossom is a tender prayer.
BreaIhed upward from the tomb.
For tuis hold as true:
Our loved ones, when they go away alone,
Can not forgeJ to think OF me or you,


Whose love they long have known;
But from their lowly rest
They pray for us; and every tender prayer
Becomes a flower, TO blossom on their


And shed its fragrance there.
And on your grave so low,
Oh, loved Onel many violet metmy view,
And as looked, saw fair DUd blow,


To say, II think Of your
All, yes you thought of me!
I know you heard me as l softly said.
Rest sweetIy, dear one. May thy slum-


calm. in thy quiet bed"
I felt a soft wind blow;
From every violet rose a fragrance rare;
An angel came, TO heavenward bear,


know,


the incense Of your prayer.
Year: 1872

In the midst of a general revolution
in the mechanic arts, in which it is
/ proposed to substitute paper for iron
in ear-wheels and ship. aTmOr, and to


grind wheat without mill stone it is


hardly a matter of surprise that a
method should be proposed for saw


ing without the aid uf a saw. We


learn, accordingly, that a gentleman
in New York has invented a process


of cutting wood by passing galvanic
current over a platinum wire in suffi-
cient quantity to raise its temperature
/ to red heat He asserts, on the
streI 9Th of repeated experiments.


that by gently pushing a piece of
wood against a red hot platinum wire,
giving the wire at the same time q
slight saving movement, the wood is
divided in any required direction as
by a handsaw. The work is done
without the exercise of any consider
able muscular power and requires no
skill in its performance. Only the
simplest kind of battery is necessary,
as II Is upon the quantity and not the
intensity of the current that the sue
cess of the operation depends. The
surface of the wood is slightly charred
where it is divided by the wire, but
The thin. black layer thus produced
is not considered injurious, and it is
even claimed as an advantage in
some cases, owing to its influence in
preserving the timber.


Fer cutting lumber, whether in
trees, logs, or planks, the wire is
guided by handles or any other suita-
bic device, and may be readily adapt
ed TO any description of work, so as to
entirely supersede the axe and saw
1t would appear that by means of this
process, so simple in its nature and
requiring so little muscular force in its
application, small boy may take the
place of the most stalwaTt wOOdsman
and fell the largest trees as easily as
the slendeTest sapling -afiOrding
another marked illustration of the
of mind over matter.
Year: 1872

The little that I have seen of the
world and know of the history of
mankind teaches me to look upon the
errors i'm sorrow, not in anger. When
l take the history of one poor heart,
that has sinned and suffered, and rep
resent to myself the struggles and
temptations it passed through-the
brief pulsations of joy the tears Of
regret the feebleness of purpose +,
the scOrn of the world that has no
charity the desolation of the souls
sanctuary, and threatening voices
within: health gone; happiness
gOne-I would fain leave the erring
sOvl of my fellow man with him from
whose hand it came.-Dr. Chalmers.
Year: 1872

II a body meet a body coming
through the mud, and a body splash
a body need a body seud? Every
highway has its crossing, nOue are
always clean; and so if a bOdy's
boots get dirty, do not call him green.
If lady meet a lady coming through
the slush, need she frown to see some
spatters on her silk and plush All
the lasses go a shopping when the
days are bright; but o, it is tire
some job with gloves in such 8 plight.
Everybody have their trials, either
dust or blood; but they should keep
their tempers down when coming
through the mud.
Year: 1872

Perhaps the eye of the OmniseieEt
sees more fagrant exhibition Of sell
hshness and unbelief and downright
irreligiOn in many luxurious homes
of refinement than he sees in some
dens OF sensual vice, where ignorance
is SHINING against but small light and
under powerful temptation. Pleasing
self, without caring whether God is
pleased or not, is "sinful pleasure"
Year: 1872

A gentleman is 4 rarer thing than
some of us think. Which OF us can
point out many such in his circle,
men whose aims are generous, whose
truth is constant and elevated, who
can .lOUk the world honestly in the
face, with equal manly sympathy for
the great and the small? We all
know 4 hundred whose coats are well
made, and q score who have excellent
manners but of gentlemen how
many? Let US take little scrap of
paper and each make our list.
Year: 1872

Never lose an opportunity OF seeing
anything beautiful Beauty is Gods
handwriting-a wayside sacrament:
welcome it in every fair face, every
fair sky, every fair flower, and thank
him for 1.-THE fountain of lOveliness:
and drink It in, simply and earnestly,
with your eyes; il is a charming
draught, cup of blessing.
Year: 1872

Will not christians remember this
school, and pray especially for those
young women, who are just beginning
the new life, but whose age is such
that the law will permit them to enjoy
the protection of that institution but
a few months longer? The past his
tory of some of them shows that when
they leave the shelierand loying sy m
pathy of that hume at the Springs,
they will greatly need the prayers of
Gods people TO shield them from the
snares of those who lie in wait to de-
ceiveand destroy. Then let christian
fathers and mothers pray for those
young women as they would pray tor
their own daughters.


N p. BAILEY.


WARREN, Ohio.
Year: 1872

When we consider that a school of
the character of this needs to be spe-
cially secluded, and guarded against
those influences and annOyances
which result from close, or even easy
contact with cities and lines of travel,
we think the present location wisely
adapted for the purpose; while the
grounds surrounding the buildings
are all that could be desired. The
situation is both beautiful and healthy.
These several advantages greatly out
weigh all the disadvantages resulting
from its seclusiOn. The only thing
needed to make the school all that
the most humane, philanthrOpic aud
patriotic can ask, is suitable buildings.
Year: 1872

are bound by no party allegiance as
Democrats, and may hOnola6ly attach
themselves to the personal fortunes of
any political aspirant for national or
local office This is the attitude in
which they are placed by the former
of Mr.. Summers recent let ers. He
justifies his abandonment of the reg
ular Republican organization and his
attachment to his new found friends
on the grounds that the whole
Democratic party has become Repub-
licau.
Year: 1872

The city Was treated with a runaway yester
day. which was frst.clsss in every particular
excepting that no damage was done. The team
stated from the Ionic mill, during the tempo.
rary absence therein of the owner of TIE
horses. VIM. Mackey. The frantic ami.
mails dashed northward on L, Sale street,
AVOIDING, by that inscrutable Providence which
attends ali runaw1ys, the numerous carriages
which lined both sides of the Court House
square, as well as the piles OF brick, mortar and
sand in front If Mr. Hobaus new building.
After tipping the wagon against the south side
Of the Turner Hall. the team stopped. At the
time the snimsls were careering past cur Office,
the brass band Of the New York Combination
was in wagon proceeding along the north of
the squire. One of the performers stopped his
footing, and, with the speed of demi.semi.
4uaver, leaped from the vehicle and over the
fence surrounding the Court House. 1t is still
mootcd question whether the trombone or the
performer collapsed the quicker.
Year: 1872

Considerable excitement was created ON the
south side on Thursday by canine accused
of madness, A little child Of Mr.. Channels
was holding the dog, when the latter had
tit. The animal was Immediately locked up in
the room and shot through the window. NO..
body bitten, and peace rcigns.
Year: 1872

cit will make no difference hundred
years hence" A very easy thing to say
to man who is in trouble-a very poor
consolation sometimes. And yet it is a
consolation. These fretting cares, these
accidental reverses, that seem almost past
endurance, will not leave ripple on the
ocean hundred years hence. Time cures
all. 1t will not take century, nor life
time, nor decade, nor year, generally,
to rub out griefs and annoyances that
seem so great at the present moment 1t
is cheerful maxim this that reminds us
of the element of time which softens
every disappointment


But there is also bad side to it. Men
sometimes break the force of RESPONSE
bility in the same way. They reason that
since it will make no difference a hun
dred years hence, therefore it makes no
difference now. But actions of moral
character are the one thing time does not
efface. 1t will make great difference II
hundred years hence whether you are
true and generous and pure now II will
make great difference that you have
done wrong now. 1t will make differ
ence in you and in others. Wherefore
let the proverb be forbidden in all its
fancied bearing upon morals?


And after all, we very much fear that
the saying is rather worthless one. 1t
matters little to a child crying from a
bruised finger that cit will be all well be-
fore he is twice married." What does he
care about the state of his body or mind
at the time of his second wedding, and
what consolation is it to him that his Sec
ond wife will not be called upon to SYM
pathize with his present misfortune? 1t
is present pain that grieves him. And
when you tell a man that it is all the same
hundred years hence, you are talking
impertinent nonsense. What do we care
for the next century?-Hearth and Home.
Year: 1872

MAX ADELER says: "Down in Will
mington they have law against the
storage of nitro-glycerlne and other ex-
plosive chemical compounds within the
city limits. And so, the other day, a
certain individual who had a grudge
against man named Smith, informed
the authorities that Smith had large
quantities of concealed protoXide of
hydrogen secreted in an clubhouse in his
yard, Two policemen proceeded to
Smiths to make an investigation. Smith
denied the allegation, He said it was a
sheer fabrication; that the man who as
serted that he had protoXide of any kind
around the place, was sinner in whom
the truth was not to be found. But the
policemen insisted upon examining the
premises. Smith said they shouldn't A
conflict ensued, and after Smiths head had
been mashed into jelly, and Jumps raised
upon him, and his arms broken, and
chops enough for a small family's dinner
had been bitten from his leg by the
policeman's dog, the officers laid him on
the sofa to recuperate, and started for the
yard. They found there only the ice
house packed full. 1t occurred to them
then TO go around to the drug store and
ascertain the nature of the congealed
protoxide ofhydrogen, so that they would
know it when they saw 1t, Ihey learned
that hydrogen in that shape Is merely ice.
And poor old Mr.. Smith has now brought
six or seven suits against the city for
damages-one for each ruined arm, leg,
head and nose. But all the policemen are
now studying up chemistry"
Year: 1872

spective States In the Electoral College, and that
when this Convention meets again at ten o'clock
tomorrow morning the delegates 30 elected report
themselves for the purpose Of proceeding TO the
transaction Of the business OF the Convention.


As the President was about to put motion
to adjourn, vociferous and persistent calls
were made for speech from Senator
Schurz, who finally made his appearance on
the platform and firmly declined to favor the
audience with Speech thanking them for
the cordial manner in which they had called
him out.


Amid cries for Cassius M. Clay and other
noted speakers, the Chairman then an
nounced that the Convention stood adjourned
until ten o'clock Thursday morning.
Year: 1872

A contemporary says Queen Victoria will
make one of the most serious mistakes Of
her reign if she allows that boy O'Conner
TO be punished according to the sentence Of
the court-a years Imprisonment and
twenty lashes; and that she ought to grant
him a full pardon; but if she allows the
jashes to be inflicted, she will commit one
of those blunders which are worse than
crimes. The treatment of O'Ccnner is
certainly discreditable to the administration
of the law in England. He made demon
stration against the Queen with an I'M
loaded pistol which, moreover, was found to
be damaged old weapon, that could not be
discharged, if loaded. His own account Of
bis intentions, fully corroborated by his
acts, was that he intended to scare the
Queen into signing certain papers, which
he had on his person, along with pen and
ink. This, in the presence Of her guards,
and an assembled multitude! In this in
sane project, preposterous in every feature,
the boy risked his life, for be might well
have been cut down or torn to pieces in the
excitement of the moment. Yet the absurd
character of the act seems to have saved
the insignificant perpetratOr from imme-
diste resentment, though it has since been
visited upon him, deliberately. AT the
trial the jury of doctors called to inyesti-
gate and decide Oh the mental condition OF
the prisoner, brought in verdict to the
effect that the youth whom almost every
one had supposed to be lunatic or an idi-
ct, and whose brainless exploit had stamp
ed him as a fit inmate for lunatic asylum
or home for inbeciles, was possessed OF
sound mind and was fully responsible for
his acts. 1t might be expected that, if the
court believed in the truth Of this medical
decision, the sentence of the prisoner could
be little less than life. long Imprisonment.
But there seems to have been animpression
in the mind of the court that the prisoner
was not altogether responsible for his acts,
for the sentence is very light considering
the apparent enormity ofthe offence, alleged
TO have been committed. Another
feature Of the sentence will at
tract attention-the fact that the
prisoner is to receive twenty lashes during
the time Of his incarceration. This mode
of punishment hardly seems TO conform
with the usually accepted ideas Of the dig
nifty of British custom, when the offender i:
charged and proved guilty Of Ga grievou'
assault upon the person Of her Majesty, the
Queen;" that a youth with his tendencies
should be shut up in an asylum, or even I
prison, was natural enough, but it seem
singularly cruel to add vindictive punish
ment against poor creature whose act no
body can consider without seeing in it
very strong presumption, if not an absolute


proof, of insanity.
Year: 1872

Secretary Fish to the Foreign Commit


tee.


WASHINGTON, April 23.-The Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs received letter to-
day from the Secretary of State, suggesting
that in view of the pending correspondence
on the Alabama Claims, it is not expedient
or advisable for Congress to make any de-
claration upon the subject as proposed by
Judge Peters resolution, which opposes the
claim for consequential damages.


The statement made by Gen. Banks in
the room of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs to-day was to the effect that he re-
Gently called on the Secretary of State with
reference to the reports as to the action of
the Government on the Alabama claims and
was informed that there was no division in
the Cabinet on this question; that no propo-
sition had been made to withdraw that part
of the case relating to consequential dam
ages, and that it was not understood the
Government had power to change the case
that had been made.


Representative Peters is in receipt of nu-
merous letters from prominent persons in
the country endorsing his resolution against
the presentation Of claims for cobsequen-
tial damages before the tribunal of arbitra-
tors. Elihu Burritt has written to him a
letter of thanks.


The Civil Service SquabbIe.


The Committee of. Conference on the dis
agreeing votes of the two houses on the
amendments making appropriations for
the legislative, Executive and judicial ex-
penses of the government for the year end
ing with June, '73, have agreed to fix the
amount at $4,000, to enable the President
to carry into effect the civil service reform.
The appropriation had been cut down from
$50, 1000 to $4,000 by the House.
Year: 1872

Many bright eyed beauty, to say moth
ing Of happy old maids and miserable
bachelors were aroused last night from
their slumbers by delightful strains
of music from the Post Band who
under command of Capt. j. NJ. Thatcher
and Capt. Winters, were on a grand seren-
ade to various parts of the city. We ac-
knowledge thanks for the excellent
music, which is but an additional
evidence Of the improvement the members
of the band have recently attained by con.
tinued practice. The band last night was
drawn by coach and four and an escort
of carriages containing appreciative admir-
ers following in the rear.
Year: 1872

To the Editors of the Union and American;


AS the time has come for US to be looking
around for suitable men to represent US in
the next Legislature, wish to mention w.
II billiard, Esq, as one who would make a
firstrate Representative. Mr.. Dllard is
well known as a gentleman of fine practi-
cal sense, sterling integrity and well ac-
auainted with the wants and wishes OF the
people. He is one Of the most efficient
working-members of the Board OF Alder
men, and he is every way well qualified to
discharge satisfactorily the duties OF Rep
resentative. CITIZEN,
Year: 1872

THE EXTREME OF MEANNEss.


They are very strict in the man
agement of their schools in Bos-
ton. The School Board recently
refused to permit teachers to be
absent from their charge for the
purpose of singing in Mr.. Gill
more's Jubilee chorus, even
though substitutes should be pro-
vided. The Traveller says that "a
strong feeling of opposition to the
Jubilee was developed in the
Board" Opposition to the Jubilee.
Why, we thought that every man,
woman boy, girl, babe and suckl-
ing in Boston was ready to lay
down life itself in behalf of the
Jubilee, should such immOlation
be necessary to the success of the
festival! And here are School
Committeeman actually opposing
it. It's a bother.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1872

Whether the Louisville Convention shall or
.hou NOT he able IN find two Democrats above
the grade of Brick Pomeroy and MosDy 10
accent its nominations, it will not be possible
for the Grant managers to evade the re-
snonsibilty of their bantling. Blanton Dun
can. who was Whig and then Know
Nothing, so long as he was anybody, Is SIM
ply their tool They printed envelopes,
franked and directed nine-tenths oil all
the circulars sent out to drum up
volunteers for this Convention. They induced
an Assistant Postmaster-General to urge his
subordinate postmasters to find Democrats Ill
their respective localities who would receive
and act upon these circulars. They furnished
the money on which several score OF dead
beats have been sent to Louisville In their
interest. They have put up this job for their
own profit. hoping thereby to divert votes
enough from the Liberal candidates to let
Grant slip in by plurality. The President
who had three-fOurths of the Electors in 1868
is now reduced to this desperate extremity.


The Two-term managers thus betray their
consciousness that the people are against them.
All the Liberals ask is square issue and an
unconstrained vote honestly counted. But
those who believe that "one good term de-
serves another (whence it follows that two
good terms deserve two more, and so on In
definitely practically confess that they must
divide their opponents or be beaten. AS be-
tween Grant and Greeley they see that the
people have already decided against Grant ;
but if they can induce quarter OF million
or so who prefer Greeley to throw away their
votes, they may still hope. Hence their Louis
Vile Convention, of which they defray the
cost and must bear the responsibility.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Lyman Tremain declares that in his
opinion the present contest is the same one
which has been raging since the beginning of
the Rebellion, between loyalty and treason.
He must be a little puzzled to decide on which
side he is running, as his chief on the ticket
was a member Of Buchanan's Cabinet and
Johnson's party, and he was himself very
pretty specimen of a spouting Rebel.
Year: 1872

against the Japanese claim to tribute. AT
present the chances of the success of such an
expedition seem very slight, especially as China
threatens to join with Corea in resisting the
invasion.
Year: 1872

We seem to be in a cycle of accidents by
sea. The steamer Narragansett came near
sharing the fate of the Metis and Bienville on
Saturday night. She came into collision with
an unknown schooner in the Sound and
escaped by reversing her engines in time.
Year: 1872

Liberals of Vermont! bear in mind that
though minority in your own State, you are
in full accord with majority in the Union,
and that every vote you cast tomorrow,
though it should not elect single candidate,
will tell powerfully on the canvass in other
States. Twenty thousand votes for your State
ticket is your quota of Five Millions of votes
in the whole country, and that would insure
the choice of two-thirds of the Electors by the
friends of Greeley and Brown. Bring out
those Twenty Thousand votes
Year: 1872

We have a piece of gratuitOus but valuable
advice for our Grant friends. When gentle
man of mature years and eminent position
leaves his post in Europe and comes home i'll
the midst of an exciting canvass in his own
State without informing anybody of his inten-
tions, it is fair to presume that he means to
keep them to himself until he is ready to de-
clare them. An ounce of tact would convince
the impatient souls to whom this word is ad-
dressed that sending a General to Europe to
worry him, dispatching the most genial pub
Usher now living TO New-York HarbOr to buzz
him. haunting his sick room with committee
men, delicately insinuating that purse is
preparing for him, are not measures well cal
culated to capture so independent and spirited
| gentleman as the Hon. Andrew G. Curtin
He is slowly recovering from his illness
When he is ready he viii doubtless inform
his fellow-citizens of his views and intentions
in the present posture of affairs. Until that
time, no one has right to speak for him,
and if any men sell him short they will have
trouble in the delivery.
Year: 1872

If the horrible story which reaches us from
Colorado turns out to be true, it will furnish
another terrible proof of the utter failure OF
the Indian policy of the Administration. The
chief Little Raven, who is said to have COM
mapded the attack upon the wagon train of
Fort Lyon and to have shared in the murder
of the drivers, is one of the savages who were
so lately petted and filed with mixed meta
phors by their "Great Father" at Washing
tom Amid all the horror of the story there is
one incident which casts grotesque light
over the whole; the Government escort was
nine miles behind the wagons and came up
in time to see the victorious savages disap'
pear over a hilltop with shouts of triumph
and derisiOn.