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Year: 1871

By REV. F. ". FABER.
There's Wilderness in Gods mercy.
Like the Wilderness of the sea;
There's kindness in His justice,
Which is more than liberty.
There is no place where earth's sorrows
Arc more felt than up in heaven;
There is no place where earth's failinps
Have such kindly judgment given.
For the love of God is broader


Than the measure of mans mind;
And the heart of the Eternal


Is most wonderfully kind.
But We make His love too narrow
By false limits of our own;
And We magnify His strictness


With a zeal He will not own.
If our love were but more simple
We should take Him at His word:
And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of our Lord.
Year: 1871

The following advertisement lately APP
peared in the columns of an English con-
temporary 1t will be observed that the
advertiser has a special eye to ''the one
thing needful,' though the reverend gentle
man is in other respects remarkably plausi-
bic: .


"MATRIIoNY.-Dwell on the roman
tic banks Of the River Dart, and within
easy access to the sublime heights of Dart
moor, professional clergyman feels the
solitude of wifeless life, and seeks the
sympathy and aid of lady who is willing
to take his name and the better half of his
home, and the whole of his heart. He is in
stature and comeliness a proper man to
make an offer of marriage. He is not
young, but he is certainly not old, and the
elasticity of his spirits would justify the
assertion that he is likely to hold time al
arms length for many a year to come. Any
lady who possesses in her own right mod
crate independence, and who may be dis
posed to enter into correspondence with the
advertiser, would find that she was treating
with gentleman of honor. He hopes that
no lady who has not a serious intention to
embrace a good offer, and who could not at
the same time bring a reasonable fortune,
will answer this advertisement. As the adj
vertiser is not himself young, he does not
hesitate to say that he shsuld prefer expert
ence rather than frivolous youth in the lady
whom he regarded as worthy Of his affec-
tions. Solid sense and cheerful temper,
together with a reasonable good fortune,
are the elements which he considers to be
essential to promote happy union and a
prosperous welded life. Letters addressed
Joseph H. will be received in confidence
Photographs exchanged"
Year: 1871

faithfully and dconscientiously,yet this amena-
bility to public approval or condemnation, is
calculated in a Republic, to check and deter
Judges from oppression and corruption, and
to keep them within the line of right as far
as they conscienciously can do 50. The
Jury system under the old English law,
when the Judge, ike Jeffreys, was appoint
ed and sustained by the power ofthe crown,
was interposed between the tyranny of the
King and his satellites, and the subjects
and was a wise provision which we would
not entirely do away with, even if the con-
stitutiOnal impediments were removed. Yet
the reasons of the jury system is not the
same in Republican form of government
and if it should become so, there is yet
a saving clause in the Constitution, by which
either party may demand and have jury.
The great economy and facility proposed by
this new bill, for carrying on our court bus
mess is apparent. 1t has been adopted by
other States and works well, and it is to be
hoped that it will become the law of Ten
neSsee. 1t will save thousands of dollars
in taxation and costs, to a people already
sorely burdened, and rebound to the best
interest of State. HARDEMAN.
Year: 1871

To the Editors OF the Union and American:


A few days since there appeared in your
telegraphic columns the following dispatch
from Memphis:


CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.


A number of the leading newspapers of
the State are urging the necessity of Con-
stitutional Convention, and from the public
expressions of a large majority of the citi-
zens of the Western and Eastern portions
of the State, lavoring the same, may be con-
sidered foregone conclusion. Among the
many subjects brought before it, will be the
reduction of taxes, abolition OF various
county offices, bonding the State debt and
redemption of the genuine portion of the
issue of the State Bank of Tennessee mon
ey, both old and new, amounting to nearly
a million and quarter OF dollars. There
is nearly four hundred thousand dollars out,
two and half millions of which of the new
issue was fraudulently issued.


1.-THE reading of this dispatch aStOnished
the public, but it is explained by the follow
ing in your paper of yesterday:


A sTOCK-JOBBING REPORT.


MEMPHIS, Oct. 24.-The story telegraph
ed from here in regard to the demand for a
Constitutional Convention was gotten up in



wish TO ''bear'' the State bonds, and has no
other support. -.


Who compose this ''ring Of railroaders," :"
and by what means is its purposes to be ac-
cOmplished?


Can't you give your readers some further
information on this subject? You warn
the Legislature of the existence of rings.
Memphis appears from these dispatches to
be the headquarters of the railroad rings,
the object of which is to ''bear" or put down
Tennessee bonds, so that the railroaders
who owe the State may buy State bonds at
a low rate and pay off their Indebtedness.
As there is but one railroad lead
ing into Memphis which owes the
State, these dispatches would seem to
charge the authorities of that road with
being in that ring of bears" For
one, desire to say that know the officers
of that road, and | am satisfied that they
would be as far from putting Tennessee
bonds down as any men in the State.


If there be such ring as is indicated IN
the second dispatch from Memphis, it must
be a combination for private purposes, at the
expense of the credit and good name of the
State, and | agree with you that such ring
should be watched, and watched closely.


\ FRIEND TO THE STATE.
Year: 1871

THE vaults of all the banks in Chicago
Were fourfsl after the great fire to have been
SO substantially constructed as to preserve
all their contents in good order. Not so
the vaults of the custom-house building.
The Chicago Tribune states that they were
the weakest of the city in resisting the
ferceness of the fire. The greenbacks in
the vaults of the custom-house were burned
up, while the gold was melted. In an old
iron safe outside of the vault was $780,
600 in mutilated bills and fraction
al currency, and this was deemed
unworthy place in the vault. The con-
tents of the safe were not injured. What
is true of the customhouse vault is also true
Of the post office vault. The building was
pronounced fire-proof when erected, but it
turned ont very different, and burned when
once on fire like tinder. The Tribune pro-
nounces the whole building "a fraud of the
most barefaced description, and an ever
lasting disgrace to the country"
Year: 1871

Whether cotton could be grown success
fully in the southern vnleys OF the State of
California has been for a lSng time rather
vexed question among the cultiyators of the
soil on the Pacific Slope Recent expert
ments made by a gentleman in Mercer and
Los Angeles counties seem, however, now
to have settled the matter beyond dispute,
proving that the culture of cotton can be
made highly profitable in the warmer
counties of California. In former years
but few acres have been planted,
but this year one gentleman planted
seventy-five acres. and is now gathering his
crop. The yield of his field this year
amounts to three hundred and seventy
five pounds of ginned cotton per acre, the
cost of producing which is about six cents
per pound. Next year he intends to plant
SOD acres, all cotton, and there is, appar-
emily, no reason Why the pr oduction of this
staple should not be carried on successfully
in certain portions Of California.
Year: 1871

THE adulteratiOn of food is frightful and


growing evil, and it is pleasant to see it
checked in any direction. Our flour, coffee,
tea, sugar, butter and lard, are less trusted
by the people every year. Lard and lard
oil especially, are corrupted by the free ad-
mixture of cotton seed oil. A paragraph in
the New Orleans journals reminds us of this:
asserting that the cotton seed oil presses
have been compelled to stop, the large
s'hOg crop" of last year having brought the
price of lard oil so low that cotton seed oil
is no longer in demand 20 adulterate it.
Until the price of genuine lard oil goes up
again, consumers may hope to obtain it
Year: 1871

Rehabilitation of DepOsed Ministers.


BALTIMORE, Oct. pa resolution con-
demning as unlawful the Albany edition of
the Prayer Book. Laid over.


The committee reported a new canon,
providing the method for the restoration of
deposed clergymen upon promising con-
formity to the doctrine, discipline and wOr-
ship of the Church, provided the cause of
deposition is not crime or immortality. A
similar provision is proposed for ministers
who have abandoned the communion of tie
Church and who may desire to return.
The latter is upon probation of three years
of lay communion. The report was laid
Year: 1871

A fanciful style for requestriennes is ahigh
boot with patent leather buttons and tops of
cOlored French morocco, Ornamented with
inlaid work of different colors stitched with
white. These are made to draw on the
foot like a gentleman's boot, and have a
'sstrong-minded woman" look about them
most fascinating to the soul of female
suffragist. The price of these wO-manish
affairs is S25.
Year: 1871

A contributor to the Independent gives
the following sketchy account of Thomas
Carlyle's study:


" Entering his study you find nothing
in the place where you expected it,
Don Quixot, with all its wind-mills,
mixed up with Doctor Dix on the Sa-
craments, Mark Twain's Jumping
Frog, and Carnoch on the Attributes.
Passing across the. room, you stumble
against the manuscript of his last lee
ture, or you put your foot in piece of
pie that has fallen off the end of the
writing table. You mistake his essay on
the Copernican System for blotting
paper Many of his best books are be-
reft of its binding, and in attempting to
replace the covers, Hudibras gets the
covers that belong to Barnes on the Acts
of the Apostles. An earthquake in
the room would be more apt to improve
than unsettle. There are marks where
the inkstand became unstable, and made
handwriting on the wall that even
Daniel could not have interpreted. If,
some fatal day, the wife or housekeeper
comes in, while the occupant is absent,
to clear up, damage is done that takes
weeks to repair. For many days the
question is: Where are my pens2 Who
has the concordance2 What on earth
has become of the dictionary Where
is the paper-cutter2 Work is impeded,
patience lost, engagements are broken,
because it was not understood that the


study is a part of students life, and
that you might as we'll try to change the
knuckles to the inside of the hand, or
set the eyes in the middle of the fore
head az to make the man of whom we
speak keep his pens on the rack, or his
books off the floor, or the blotting paper
straight in the portfolio. ro


THE studio is part of the mental
development. Do not blame man for
the style of his literary apartments, any
more than you would for the color of
his hair or the shape of his nose. If
Hobbies carry his study with him, and
his pen and ink-horn on the top Of his
cane, so let him carry them. If Lamar
tine can best compose while walking his
park, paper and pencil in hand, so let
him .ramble If Robert Hall thinks
easiest whsn lying fiat on his back, let
him be PROSTATE. If salmasius writes
best surrounded by children, let loose on
him the whole nursery. Do not criticise
Charles Dickens because he threw all
his study windows wide open and the
shades up. 1t may fade the carpets but
it will pour sunshine into the hearts of
a million readers. If Thomas Carlyle
choose to call arodnd an ink-spattered
table Goethe and Schiller and Jean Paul
Frederick Richter, and dissect the shams
of the world with a plain goosequill, so
be it. The horns on an ox's head are
not more certainly part of the OK than
Thomas Carlyle's study and all its APP
pointments are part of Thomas Car
lyle. The gazelle will have soft fur, and
the lion a shaggy hide, and the sanctum
sanctorum is the students cuticle."
Year: 1871

viously taken shelter. He looked up
ward to see whether the branches were
thick enough TO afford the required pro-
lection, and in doing so was struck by
lightning and fell senseless to the earth.
The woman at his side experienced the
shock in her foot, but was not struck
down. Some hours afterward the man
revived, but remembered nothing about
what occurred, save the fact of his look
ing up at the braIches This was his
last act Of consciousness, and he passed
from the conscious to the unconscious
without pain" Professor Tyndall re-
lates thus his own experience: Some
time ago / happened to stand in the
battery of fifteen large Leyden
jars charged beside me; through
some awkwardness on my part |
touched wire leading from the battery
and the discharge went through my body.
Life was absolutely blotted out for a
very sensible interval, without trace
of pain. In second or so conscious
ness returned; | saw myself in the pres
ence Of the audience and the apparatus,
and by the help OF these external ap-
pearances, Immediately concluded that
/ had received the battery discharges.
The intellectual consciousness of my
position was restored with exceeding
rapidity; but not SO the optical con-
sciousness. To prevent the audience
from becoming alarmed, / observed that
it had often been my desire to receive
accidentally such shock, and that my
wish had at length been fulfilled But
while making this remark, the appear
ance which my body presented to myself
was that of number of seperate pieces.
The arms, for example, we're detached
from the trunk and seemed suspended
in the air. In fact, memory and power
of reasoning appeared to be complete
long before the optic nerve was restored
to healthy action. But what | wish
chiefly to dwell upon here is, the abso-
Lutte painlessness of the shock; and there
cannot be doubt that to person struck
dead by lightning the passage from life
to death occurs without consciousness
being in the least degree implicated. 1t
is an abrupt stoppage Of sensation, uu-
accompanied by pang.
Year: 1871

carrying the child to it wrapped in a
blanket, and passing it thrice under the
animals body. If this failed, she made
the patient wear hairy caterpillar il
bag around its neck. These are q few
of the superstitions- of "t the old coun-
try" but the list is by no means ex-
haukted
Year: 1871

THR vIADUCT RAILWAY IN THE sENATE-USEx-


PECTED AMENDMENIS-THE ERIE CLASsIfI-
CATION ACT.


ALBANY, March 27.-The special order In the
Assembly this evening the Viaduct Railroad BILL
The debate showed three things very plainly: First:
That the Tammany Ring are confident that they aone
are to build the road Second That Mr. Weed OF Clinton
has revoted from the position which he has hitherto oc-
cupied OF understrapper to the Tammany Ring Third
That the Viaduc Road is to be carried through by lib
eral expenditure Of money. Tom Fields with character


stic eontery told Mr. Weed that he was only building
houses for other people 10 live tn meaning that Repub
cans could be Lad in sufficient numbers to make the n
independent OF Weed and all ihe Democrats whom he
may be able to carry with him. 1he spcaSeI "So
informed the House that New-York was determii'eu
to have this bill and to have it in it's present shape Mr.
Weed offered amendments but such as arc indispen
sable II any private capital at all is 10 be secured for the
road He pointed out the injustice OF giving the power
20 elect directors for five years into the hands OF persons
who might not have invested dollar in the work. and
moved that the organization be not perfected until s9
100000 OF stock had been taken in addition TO
the subscription of 100000 required Of the city the
Ring were evidently quite uDprepared to face this oppo
stion ana had 20 ve tne idea of srnrng fhe pil
70 a third reading until they should have time 10 nx
things There is also strong opposition to the section
which permits the Supervisors Of Westchester and other
counties to bond those counties in favor OF the road


The speaker in the OF his very injudcious re-
marks gave out that the road instead Of running east OF
Thrdave as stated in the bill, is TO connect and make
use Of the Harlem tracks the Fourth-ave II is now
settled thing that this Vaduct Road is 10 be one OF the
most profitable jobs for the corruponiss OF the Legsa-
tnre as well as for Tanmany that has yet fallen into
their hands.


There will be two reports from the Railroad Committee
on Mr. Goodrchs bill TO repeal the Classification act
The majority report in favor OF Fisk and Could s com
peted but things have not yet been SO as to insure
It's favorable reception. Some OF the Democrats are
afraid 10 vote for the Erie Ring and that Ring is there
fore under the necessity OF recruiting its forces from the
small squad Of Republican cOrruptionists who are
ALWAYS ready to prostitute themselves TO Tweed or FISK
or ANYBODY else who will put $50 note in their vest
pockets These vuures win probably have an oppoTtu-
nifty OF Lighting on a carcass tomorrow
Year: 1871

A bill win be introduced in the Federal Par
Lament for the incorporation Of Asace and Lorraine
OF the Emperor. 1t provides that
the Constitution will be enforced the law OF
the land from the LIST Of January, 1873 No mention is
made Of ceding portion of the acquired territory 10
Bavaria
Year: 1871

"The American Has Precedence Because


He Lis q Sovereign and You Arc Sub


ject."


These were the words, according to our
Paris correspondent, of Napoleon III. to q
French nobleman Of high rank when deciding
the question of precedence at one of the court
balls at the Tuileries between this nobleman
and an American citizen. There is q great
deal of significance in what the Emperor said
as showing the honor Of being an American
citizen and the position our countrymen may
hold abroad if they be of the right stamp. The
misfortune is that many who 60 to Europe
make themselves ridiculous through ignora mt
pretence and shoddy display. They are too
apt to ape the cockneyism of pretending and
vulgar Englisbmen. A citizen Of old Rome,
in the heighth Of It's glory, had not more rea-
son to be proud Of his position than an Ameri-
can has of his citizenship. What suggestive
lesson is there, too, in the words of Napoleon
to the downtrodden masses of Europe! How
proud Americans ought to be Of their BIRTH
right and the glorious republican institutions
Of their country!
Year: 1871

GOVERNOR ORR is sound, sensible South.
ern democrat Of the conservative stripe.
A HERALD reporter had an interview with
him yesterday, and he expressed the most
reasonable views on the Ku Klux and
Southern political questions that we
have yet heard from Southern politicians
of eminence. He said Of course there
were Ku Klux in his State, wild young
fellows from the rebel army, but that
Wade Hampton and other leading men there
could recall them from their midnight maraud-
Ing with a word If they would. But they feel
sore over their own disfranchsement, and do
not care TO do 1t. South Carolina has thirty
thousand more negroes than whites, and, he
said, would always 60 republican, unless the
white democrats learn enough to accept the
situation and uhee&s the negro out Of bis
vote
Year: 1871

THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA is
said by the provincial press to have deter
mined to sign the Treaty of Washington with
out awaiting any consultation with Parliament,
and according to the tenor of one despatch
we would infer that he has already signed it.
The Queen Of England, of course, will sign
1t also at her pleasure, and SO Of all the
nations interested in this matter; our own is
the only one where the Chief Executive awaits
the decision Of any representative body of the
people. Some matter of pride, this, for us
who glory in the sovereignty of the people !;
but after the way in which the Senate worked
at the treaty we cannot say that this pariicu-
lar instance redounded much to our glory.
Year: 1871

The comptroller OF the currency at Wash
tngtOn says that he Is satisfied that none Of
the national banks Of New York were impli-
Gated or suspected Of being implicated in the
late lookup in money in this city.
Year: 1871

"A. SeesseI & Son
FINAL
Clearing Sale
ENTIRE STOCK
Still Further Rsducsd |
WE OFFER THIS WEEK
BARGAINS


EXTRAORDINARY
Every piece of Goods


IN THE
RETAIL DEPARTMENT
MARKED STlEILOWER
We CALL SPECIAL AITEMTIOK


TO OUR
VELVET and


OPERA CLOAKS
MARKED AT FIRST COST |
Remember cur Lottery!


EVERY IS WORTH OF
D R Y GOODS


ENTITIES THE




PURCHASER 70 A TICKET,
Year: 1871

IF you ever watched an icicle as il
formed, you would have noticed how
it froze, one single drop at time, un-
til it was foot long or more. If the
water vas clean, the icicle remained,
and sparkled in the sun; but if the
water was slightly muddy, the icicle
looked foul, and its rare beauty was
spoiled.


Just so our characters are formed.
One little thought or feeling at time
adds its influence. If every though
be pure and right, the soul will be
bright and lovely, and will sparkle
with happiness; but if there be many
thoughts or feelings impure and wrong,
the mind will be soiled, the character
depraved and darkened, and there will
be final deformity and wretchedness
How lmportanT, tneu, CnuJ We snUuIu
be on our guard against every evil i'm
pulse and desire, and hear not to the
voice of the wicked"
Year: 1871

The Elmira Gazette is responsible
for the truth of the following:


Young men who 60 to see girls have
adopted new way Of obtaining kisses.
They assert, on authority Of scientific
writer's that the conclusion produced
by kiss will cause the fame eli a gas
Jet to flicker, and easily induce the girl
to experiment in the interest of science,
The first kis or two the parties watch
the flame TO sec il flicker if it wants to.
Year: 1871

the constructions Something over


Thirty has placed upon Just Thir-


ty's article are forced, and was


done in order that he might de-


velop the only idea that there is


in his letter for | can see butone,
and that is that the Baptists are
numerically, the strong party here
that Baptist sentiment predomiS
mates Eere. Well, what if they
do; the salvation Of. the world
does not depend upon any, one,
church. The Baptistsi are doing
great good, and will continue to do
great good. So do others, as. was
recently demcnstrated..i But Some
thing over Thirty's idea that any
particular sects Predominates here,
or that any particular people here
are contending for the faith once
delivered to the saints, is an as
sumption subject I to controversy,
but will not be contradicted by
your subscriber. The letters of


Just Thirty and Of Something
over Thirty are almost universal.
ly condemned--letters that tend
to rend asunder the harmonious
feeling Of a community. and it is
to be hoped that we will have no.
more Of them, for they will do
this community q vast deal Of


harm. And we hope this will be
the end. Yours, QUlD NUNC. \