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Year: 1870

Remember this, and you will avoid
many pitfalls. Too many, Esau like,
sell their best hopes Of success for a
mere tTifle Of present qualification,
and destroy the opportunities which
would naturally come to them in their
pathway. The aspirant for riches, the
ambitious for honor, the uneasy seek
er for pleasures, may find their goal,
but never in their truest sense, if pro-
cured through dishonesty, intrigue,
tIeaeherous and unprineipled action,
intercourse and eompanionship with
the gay and festive. Such are in too
much hurry, and their conscience and
sense are sacrificed to this unnatural
feeling Of importance and unrest.---
None should Be satisfied with what
they are, but every effort toward ad-
vaneement in any direction should be
the strong hand Of sound judgment
and right.


IfyOu do not want to meet with dis
appointments, don't be in too much
hurry.


IfyOu want to keep conscience eleai
and be free from sore temptatiOns.
don't be in too much hurry.


If you eOvet the respect Of others
and wish their confidence, don't be
in too much hurry.


If you desire to be considered q man
Of sense and judgment, don't be in too
much hurry.


II you hope for success, for pleasure,
fame and competency, and this at no
sacrifice Of principle, don't be in too
much hurry.


If you do not wish to hate yourself
because Of failure in any attempt to
overdo thing, thereby bringing you
into position before others most IN
comfortable to yourself, don't be in
too much Of a hurry.


And again-if you do not want to
be called a fool, don't be in too much
hurry to be considered a Solomon.
Year: 1870

The Mitrailieur, or machine gun,
sends a large number OF small pro-
jectiles independently and with pre-
cision, to a considerable distance.
Each cartridge has its correspond
ing barrel, the charging and discharg-
ing OF which is direct, and more or
less simple. 1t is obvious that for
rough usage and continuous firing,
it is better that a large number of
rounds should be fired from a consid-
cradle number of barrels so placed as
to support each other and add strength
to the whole machine. The machine
gun consists of a cluster Of barrels,
either bound together or bored out of
the solid, and mounted on the same
principle as an ordinary gun. At a
few hundred yards, indeed, it would
be difficult to distinguish between
these weapons, as far as outward
appearance goes. To the barrel is
attached a massive breach action,
capable of being opened and closed
by g lever. The advantages possessed
by the machine gun over infantry
fire is that il Is never in funk. Bull
lets may rain around, bursting shell
NAV I'LL the air, still the thirty-seven
barrels Of the MItrailIeuse shoot like
one man, and at 500 or 1 goo yards
will pour vOlley after vOlley of deadly
concentrated fire into a circle Of from
ten to twelve feet in diameter. No
boring or fixing of fuses is necessary,
and the whole operation is performed
so rapidly that two steady, cool men
could maintain a fire of ten dis
charges per minute. On the other
hand, the Mitrailleuse could not well
compete with the field gun, and it is
with this weapon it will assuredly be
met. Its bullets would have COM
paratively slight effect at the ranges
at which field artillery projeetiles are
perhaps most effective, while its size
would offer very fair mark to the
gunner.
Year: 1870

The Republican State Convention
Of Ohio adopts a sound plank in its
platform, which we hope to see bOr-
roWed by all the other State Conven-
ton. It is as follows:


Resolved, That the policy Of grant
ing subsidies of public lands to eDr-
pOratiOns and mOnOplies, Is unquali-
fiedly condemned"


The time has long since passed
when railroads could be regarded as
an infant" or uncertain enterprise,
which needed bOlstering, cushioning,
or nursing at public expense. On the
contrary, they are the most imperiOus
and aggrandizing Of the mOneyed in
stitutiOns of the country, and the one
most prone to influence Legislaturers
by corrupt means to extend them
privileges which are in conflict with
the Interests of the masses Of the peO-
pie. There have, doubtless, been in
stances where grants Of land or loans
of credit have caused the building Of
railroads q few years earlier than they
would otherwise have been built, and
so have opened up new territories to
settlement and production. In such
cases these rOads have been given the
indispensable means OF producing
wealth, a share Of which they are
permitted to monopoliLe. They have
given value to the lands which have
been granted them. But Of late the
projects of road building are mere in
eidents to a gigantic plan for monopO-
LIKING land enough for several States,
and holding it out of market until IL
has risen in value, thus impending
the settlement which the grant was
designed to hasten. The full measure
of evils of this symtem must be more
plainly felt as the regions in which
these grants have been made come 10
be settle up. Then the cry viii come
up from hundreds Of thousands Of
settlers looking for hOmesteads, or for
lands whose price bears some relation
to the profit they can make by ealti-
waiting it, that the entire availableu
cultivated lands Of the nation has
been surrendered to a few grasping
mOnopolies. Such q disposition OF
our public lands will then be seen to
have robbed the people Of every dol
lar that has been given to the mono
poles, and to have been q hindrance
rather than an aid to the development
Of the country. Let every cOnven-
ton in the land adopt such plain and
pointed resolutions on this question
that the next Congress will assemble
fully instructed, and will not dare to
grant a single acre on any pretence.
Let the land be reserved for those
who viii till it.
Year: 1870

GIRDLED TRREs.-It is said upon
good authority that when a tree has
been girdled during the winter by
mice and rabbits, it may be saved by
cutting away the edge of the wound
in the spring, till fresh and healthy
bark is seen; then peel off strips
from a limb of the tree, butting them
so as to fit the gap exactly, the ends
of the strips pressing against the
fresh edge OF the bark. Confine by
q bandage, and when circulation is
active, the sap will pass through the
the bark thus grated on. Another
experiment has been made, some
thing after the same manner, which
has proven very satisfactory. Instead
of using bark, five or six scions, as
large round as q pipe stem, and long
enough to reach over the girdled
place, are grated into the tree. First
notch, then spring the shoots orscions
into these notches, and fasten the
ends with wax. The principle is that
the scions grow rapidly, and spread
over the girdled surface.
Year: 1870

E. A. Pollard says in reference to
JEFF. Davis: "If Mr.. Jefferson Davis
was q man Of sense he might see how
Ear be was ruined and despised in the
South and if he was a man of any
dignity, sooner than have returned to
land which stands the living and
FeprOachful witness of his folly and
degradation, and he calling public at
tention to himself, as he Is doing to-
day, he would prefer to have died in
the coolest embraces Of a foreign eoun-
try, the narrowest home Of exile. Can
he not now realize that his career is
finished, absolutely finished on the
face Of this earth 2n
Year: 1870

A gentle Quaker had two horses, q
very good one and a very poor one.
When seen riding the latter it turned
out that his better half had taken the
good one. what, said a sneering
bachelor, how comes it that you let
your wife ride the better horse 2"
The only reply was, Friend, when
thee be married, thee'l know"
Year: 1870

A AGerman statistical writer remarks
that the invention of the sewing ma
chine has enabled one woman to sew
as much as a hundred could sew by
hand a hundred years ago; but, he
continues, one woman now demands
as much clothing as a hundred did a
century ago, so that matters are not
much changed after all.
Year: 1870

Louis Napoleon, though he enters
upon war most disastrously, and en-
countered q Bull Run at the outstart,


may gather comfort from the words OF
Frederick the Great There is q
god of war; the issue Of battles is
written in the stars. I have won bat
ties that had already given up for
lost, and have been beaten when VIC
tory was already nearly in my gasp." "
Year: 1870

The Portland Advertiser says that curious
case occur ed in Flytburg, on Wednesday
last. Two COWS came together on the banks
of the beautiful Saco. They hooked and
pushed and twisted until they got their horns
locked, when one of them Went over the bank
and broke her neck, and of course dragged
the other too both going into the water, the
living one only to be held down hy the dead
one till drowned.
Year: 1870

The young democracy, led by Blor
Bradbury, have met with failure in theii
attempt to establish party of their own
Their defeat comes from source where
it might have been expected, but which II
appears they were so sanguine of success
as to overlook. The few sore-head
republicans that endorsed the movement
found themselves alone when the test
came. Their name was not 'Leglon,
nor, indeed, had it anypotency against the
republican organization in the State,
which never stood frmer than at this day.
The New York Tribune publishes the fol-
lowing.


PORTLAND Me-, July 20. The chamber
lain movement" as the attempt Of few IN
dividuals to get that gentleman to consent
to be voted for against Mr.. Perham
was called has come to sudden and rather
disastrous end. a letter addressed to him,
embodying the views | have already written
you about, although pressed hard in this
community and in the East, failed to get a
respectable number of signatures, and the
abandonment of the scheme is now an
nounced. 1t is not believed that the Govern
or would have become party to the PROJECT
in any ordinary event. This falls heavily on
certain Republicans who hoped to float their
own personal ventures upon the supposed
ocean of the popularity of the movement, and
whose little barks are now left hung on the
rock of despair: while the snowy bearded and
traditional Democracy, who were beaten off
from making nomination at the Convention,
by assurances that there would be new leayen
in their loaf if they set it away till the August
heats, are loud in their companings, and
ask with dersive bitterness "Where are the
victories that you promised us?' And so
the Convention at Bangor on the 10th prox-
imo will be substantially funereal con-
course and while it mGy not be of great can
sequence what they do, let me predict that
Gen. Chas. W. Roberts will be nominated
TIE juveniles can go for him violently, be-
cause he is a soldier and is young while the
ancients had their hearts softened toward
him because he opposed adjournment and de-
nounced the Chamberlain diversion.


There may be "a question whether
Charley" would care about taking the
nomination under present circumstances.
The honor of being shelyed and embalm-
ed by the side of the detunct candidates OF
the democratic party for the last fifteen
wears cannot be very aliuring to his youth
tul imagination and may cause some hes
itation on his part to be led 10 the sacritiey.
Year: 1870

The Chronicle says the new depot grounds
at Pennington village were visited in mys-
tcrious manner last Thursday night which our
readers will remember was very dark.
large amount of earth was removed some es-
innate it at fifty carloads, and dug about a
foot below the grade-seven or eight feet in
depth Nj. Clark's entire gang was employed
two or three hours next morning carting away
the pile thrown up. Broken pieces OF board,
which had the appearance of having been un-
derground long time, and parts of skeleton
are reported to have been found. The point
of the excavation was formerly the cellar of
an old tavern, all traces of which have long
since passed away. Many are the conject-
ures, but no one can offer probable solution
of this curious proceeding.
Year: 1870

1t is understood that Gen. Thorn of the L.
S. Engineers will presently have force OF
men blow out the distractions in Hurl Gate,
between Bath and Boothbay and so widen
the channel that the strength of the current
will be lessened and the passage made more
secure. This will he done under the appro-
priation of $4,000. made by the last Con-
gress. and the Times says twill be n welcome
Improvement TO that much travelled thorough
fare.


Seaman are advised that in compliance
with a recent act Of Congress, and by order of
the Secretary of the Treasury, hereafter Hos
pital money will be collected at the rate of
40 cents per month, instead of 20 as hereto
fore. The law takes effect from Aug. lst.
Year: 1870

The Gardiner Home journal says that at
the quarterly session of the Grand Division of
the Sons of Temperance held in Bangor last
week, there was good attendance and good
spiri, manifested. The members were well
satisfied with the nomination of Mr.. Perham.
The report of the Grand Officers showed a
gain from last quarter and healthy state OF
he Order. limitations Tor the quarter had
averaged nine to each division.
Year: 1870

THAT HORRIBLE AFFAR.-Now and then
an incident comes up that gives such fright
full glimpse of the darker side of city life as the
lightning gives Of some frightful region Of pit
falls and precipices and indescribable terrors..
Such is the incident of the two found in the
area way in Bleecker street at daylight on Mon
day morning. They were drunken companions
of the night before-a man and woman.
They had reeled through the streets, following
debauch from one arena of s'delight" to another,
and so had reeled down an open area way,
and there they were quiet for hours, and when
they were found the man was dead and the
woman was sound in drunken sleep on the
dead body of her comrade. Fortunately such
cases Of intensified contrast between the plea
sure sought and the death found are rare ever
here.
Year: 1870

THO Piers and Wharves-The New Dock


There Is probably no commission created
by the City Charter more important than that
Of docks, which has just organized and, we pre-
sumo, is ready to enter at once upon Its
duties. The condition of our wharves and
piers has been for years standing disgrace
to the city. The meanest maritime town in all
the world has moro accommodations for ship
ping, according to its capacity, than this great
seaport, which possesses more facilities than
any other city on either Continent We look
now to the new commission to construct docks
adequate to the wants of the metropolis, and we
have some reason to hope for this result from
the character of the men SO wisely selected by
the Mayor. They all have an intimate know
ledge Of the business requirements of the port
in its relation to foreign commerce. They
comprehend exactly the evil of our present
system of piers and wbarves and the necessity
of total reform. Such men as Wilson G.
Hunt, John T. Agnew, Hugh Smith, William
Wood and Richard M. Henry are not likely to
make any mistakes and the public can fully
trust them with the critical and arduous duties
entrusted to them


These gentlemen have to begin at the begin
ming, and give us girdle of iron or stone
docks clear round from the Battery on both
rivers The wooden structures erected a
quarter of century ago have melted away into
pestiferous nuisance. They stand to-day as
monumental warning that nothing Of
that kind will suit the present times.
We want piers that will not require
patching from day to day, but some
thing that will endure for all time, like the
fame of the metropolis itself. No doubt the
new commissioners understand this, and, in
the performance Of their duty, they will be
guided thereby. Havre and Liverpool, with
less opportunity than we possess, have con-
structed magnificent docks, the wonder and
ornament of those cities. We should have
stone piers running out into our rivers, with
fine warehouses on each side, every pier
forming commodious street. The piers
should be built on arches, leaving q free
passage for the tide underneath, and thus
offering no obstruction to the proper sewer
age of the city. This plan would lead to
many improvements in neighboring streets
in the erection of splendid warehouses, and
would enhance the value of property greatly
in the vicinity of the river front. None of
these points, we presume, will be overlooked
by the intelligent gentlemen who compose
the Dock Commission. They will observe
that these improvements are essential to the
growing magnitude Of the city.
Year: 1870

MURDER IN SALT LAKE CITY.-Captain W.
r. Strong, Deputy United States Marshal, was
shot and killed in Salt Lake City on Monday
by desperate, whom he was about to arrest.
We do not believe that any significance attaches
to the murder beyond what would attach to It
under any circumstance bat, situated just as
the Mormons are, all such disorderly proceed
ings in their midst are particularly unfortunate.
People in Congress and out may adduce
moral from them not at all healthy to Nor
monism.
Year: 1870

The Railroad Question-PaciGc Railroad


Two Pacific Railroad cases are before the
courts on points more or less directly involv-
ing the relative powers of the national and
State governments in the control of railroad
companies-a fact which seems to point the
way to a collision Of authorities that must
sooner or later become inevitable. In one
case Pacific railroad corporation sought to
avoid the taxation Of State through which
1t passed on the ground that it was body
existing under national law only, and that its
property was in certain sense the property
of the nation because it was pledged to the
nation by mortgage for the payment Of debt


In another case a man suing for an alleged
debt called upon the Territorial Court Of
Wyoming to appoint receiver for the Union
Pacific Railroad Company. In the first case
1t has been decided in the United States
Supreme Court that the railroad company
must pay the State taxes. In the second
case the Territorial government was disposed
to assume the doubtful power it was called
upon to exercise; but here Congress is likely
to step in, for the Senate has already passed q
bill annulling the Territorial law under which
the Court assumed jurisdiction, and the House
will doubtless coincide with it in its Judgment
of the propriety of this assertion of its exclu-
sive right to control that corporation. Here,
then, is the point where Congress and the
State governments will make an issue in
regard to the control of railroads. Although
1t may be thought that in the constitution
there is abundant warrant for Congress to
assume complete authority, yet because the
usage has been to leave this to the States, and
because it would be clamored against as q
revolutionary interference with property
rights, Congress will be slow to do 1t, and
only some great necessity will ever urge it
to this point. But in the districts not yet
subject to State government 1t is different.
There Congress is supreme, and Territorial
governments cannot be permitted to stand in
its way. On the grand theatre between the
Pacific and the Mississippi, in the yet
unsettled empires Of that region, 1t will be


shown how great is the advantage Of having
all the thousands OF miles of railroad subject


to the same law-making power; and the


States that grow up there will grow with this


fact included as an organic one in their struc-


ture, and they will yet give law to the Older


States, requiring them to follow their example
Year: 1870

A HINT FOR HELL GATE.-Blossom Rock,
an obstruction in the harbor of San Francisco,
has been removed by the excavation Of a cham
Der inside of it, by filing said chamber with
powder, and by scattering the rock into ten
thousand fragments, and making good chan
mel from single explosion. Why not try
some such experiment with the rocks of He'll
Cote2
Year: 1870

tatives In Congress to give their votes for
cheap and good telegraphic intercommunica-
ton between all parts Of the country by sup
porting the Postal Telegraph bill. Nothing
less was to be expected from the clear heads
Of the people who make new States.
Year: 1870




Proposed RcpubIioan Caucus.


The Decoration bill. declaring the s0th Of
May q public holiday for the decoration OF
soldiers graves, came up In the Senate yester-
day, and after some very sound debate was re-
ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
The bill to grant Mrs. Lincoln pension also
came up and was laid aside without action.
bill granting $4,000 from the funds Of ths
Freedmen's Bureau for the benefit OF Wilber-
force University, an institution for the educa-
tion Of colored youth to be teachers, was dis
cussed and Mr.. Trumbull made the point that
It Disseminated among the pupils on account
of race and color. The bill was finally laid
aside.


In the House bill was introduced to admit
Georgia to representation. A resolution to
adjourn on the 4th of July was adopted.
Mr.. Jenckes Civil Service bill was then re-
ported from committee. It is the old bill, and
provides substantially for competitive exam
nations for all appointments in the civil SER
vice. A lively debate ensued and disclosed
at least one old fogy radical in the House who
has not yet recovered from his dread Of rebels,
'whose hands are dripping with loyal blood"
He was afraid some of them, or at least some
democrat would prove competent to pass an
examination for assistant assessor or Consul
to Honolulu or some other lucrative office,
and get in through Mr.. Jenckes bill. The
debate was quite lively until the morning hour
expired, and the bill went over The House
then took up the Tariff bill and discussed iron
as far as it went, after which the subject was
varied by the discussion of Bessemer steel.
Senator Morton is getting up q call for a
caucus of the republican members of the two
houses of Congress to devise means Of smooth
ing over personal jealousies among members,
harmonizing differences of opinion as to impor-
tant questions and arranging policy on which
to carry the fall elections in favor Of the
administration. The call is timely, for the
need Of the republican party is great. If they
desire to remove all useless obstacles in the
way Of success we would advise them to delay
no longer in legislation-to dispose iu one way
or another Of the Funding bill, the Georgia
bill, the Tariff bill and the other important
matters that are engaging attention, and
adjourn. They have a good chance yet to
secure capital for themselves by settling these
points promptly
Year: 1870

A VoTE OF CONFIDENCE IN GENERAL
GRANT. The vote by which Congress refused
to require anything at the hands Of the
administration in regard to the Alabama claims
does not mean that Congress is satisfied with
the subject as it stands, or that the country
does not desire some definite settlement of
that great subject. 1t means, on the contrary,
that Congress and the country have ample
faith that the case may be left in the hands OF
General Grant s'without instructions"