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Year: 1871

800 BY Puorpx cARr. 1'.
There has something gone wrong,
My brave boy IL appears,
For see your proud struggle


To keep back the tears.
That is right. When you cannot
Give trouble the slip,
Then bear II, still keeping


"a stiff upper lip"
Though you cannot escape


Disappointmen, and care,
The next best thing 10 do


1s to learn how to bear.
II when for life's prizes


You're running your trip,
Get up, start again


Keep a stiff upper lipv'
Let your hands and your conscience
he honest and clean
Scorn TO touch or TO think Of


The thing that is mean
But hold on TO the pure


And the right with firm grip,
And though hard be the task,


keep stiff upper lip -
Through childhood, through minhood,
Through life to the end.
Struggle bravely and stand


BY your colcrs my friend.
Only yield when ycu must


Never give up the ship"
But fight on TO the last


with a sIf upper lip"
Year: 1871

Extract from a private letter, dated
Washington, April oath, 1871, and written
by Senator Cole to resident of Sacra-
mento. 1t will be observed that the senti-
meuts therein expressed are but the senti-
mcnts of every intelligent, thinking mem
Der of the party:


ain selecting candidate you should
get one who can at least call out all the
Republican votes, if he cannot obtain some
from the Democratic side. 1t would be
great folly to nominate one for a close con-
test who cannot poll his opa party vote,
nor get aay from the other side. A man
who is VIGOROUSLY obnoxious to large
number of his own partisans, and has no
compcnsatiug friendships on the other side,
ought not to receive a nomination. 1t is
easy to find candidate who can secure at
least all the votes of his party, and none
other should be thought Of We are not
so strong as to defy public sentiment.
The people are reasonable and can see a
fact if presented to them, and you can
present the facts. To do so is your duty
and the duty of every other true Repub-
lican. | hope you will txlh Se matter
over with our friends--for one objection
able man on ticket l1urts every other
man on it and endaugers the whole. Our
party cannot afford to consult the mere
personal desires of anybody. There is toe
much at stake We don't want to elect
any body in particular--we want votes for
our good cause"
Year: 1871

A ONE and a half story house, centrally located
II and in good repair. Hard and soft water on the
premises. This property will be sold at a bargain if
applied for soon. ENQUIRE at % Cedar ct. iyl4tt
Year: 1871

a LIST of all the vacant tenements in the city,
n with all necessary information in regard to them
can be found at 35l4 Congress st.


n. B. Rents entered on our list Tree OF charge


Mar 10-dtf
Year: 1871

To a limited amount, upon railroad which is well
located for business and has been already largely
distracted with the funds OF ITS stockholders,
not be otherwise than SAFE This security is


ed if the Constructing Company is composed OF men
OF high character, al d OF ample means Tor success
fully carrying through any work thatthe, undertake.
Year: 1871

Ask the man who complains of "wilting down" in tor rld weather what he has done system under the extra strain imposed hs vitality He may tell you that he has tried variety of catharcs purify blood and brighten his spirits Under such treatment course his strength has given way and his energies have become exhausted. What he requires is a restorative not depletant His blood is thn his nerves have lost their natural tension and nature demands to be reno vated and reinforced The within the reach of al For nearly of years, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been building up broken constitutions, bracing and strengthening attenuated frames, and ahording comfort ease, and hope to thousands As Q preventive of the epdemcs which make such havoc with the health of the inhabitants of settlements this famous tonic is certainly without rival Perhaps the principal portion of its world wide fame is attributable to it's astonishing of dyspepsia and all forms of indigestion But these not moiey of its triumphs All the types of bousness yield to its persistent use It is regulating medicine of the highest order and it's effect upon the secretions when irregular most sau tary. L%' # s# E as .I r+s' Tt E

 Imposition of the character is sought to be practced upon the community by vendors who recom- mend under the of bitters fiery compounds of dangerous character which they attempt to substitute for the great national tonc Shun all such nostrums and see that you have the Hostetters Stomach Bters properly authenticated by label name and stamp and sold in bottles only
Year: 1871

There is, we heard an eminent lawyer allege few days since, no marriage le- gal which is celebrated on the Sabbath day. There are, no doubt, twenty thous- and couples in this State alone for whom the marriage ceremony was performed on the Sabbath-many of them in the evening of that day. A note drawn and signed on the Sabbath is illegal, or any other legal agreement between parties. <.

 Marriage is legal contract, which, if performed out of the legal time, neces- sarily must be void and claiming this, the sons and daughters of a recently de- ceased millionaire mean to contest his will because in that large portion of his estate was willed to the children of their stepmother, who was welded to their father on the Sabbath, in 8 church in the city of Rochester in this State. If the question is to be decided that such marriages are illegal, another long cata- logue of vexatious suits will be brought into our courts by parties similarly re- lated to the one above mentioned. The decision lately rendered by learned Judge of our courts, that marriages of minors are illegal, and divorce for such not necessary in order that they can separate and remarry legally, since it was carired into immediate practice by the parties for whom the decision was rendered, is proving haneful to society. The harm that this decision does to our social system is temporary only, and if the entire marrying population bnt learn of this decision, the future will witness less elopements of young couples, and less number of cases where guile full and designing men entice young ladies from home in order to wed them. That the ceremony of marriage perform ed for minors on any and all days of the week, or for a couple where one is a minor and the other an admit, should be pronounced illegal and non-effective, is strange. But in the face O.. long -practis, ed customs, that Sabbath day weddings are illegal will strike thousands with feel ings akin to 'consternation. With all our laws and codes it is, indeed, strange that those legal enactments which most concern our personal welfare and happi- ness are least known and least under stood by the general public, including our most intelligent people.-NeaO Fork | SOcieLa
Year: 1871

A GREAT many people have asked us of late, How do you keep your horse looking so sleek and glossy ?" We tell them, it's the easiest thing in the world j; give SHERIDAN's CAVALRY CONDITION POWDERS two or three times week.
Year: 1871

THE SAN DOMINGO COMMISSIONERS


REPORT.


WASHINGTON, March 29.-The San
Domingo Commissioners report,
which is nearly finished, will be sub


mitted to the President to-day, and it
| is understood will be sent to Congress
on Thursday. The commissioners, or
at least two of them, contemplated
| spending g couple OF weeks here in
celebrating their report, but the re-
port as pretaced by Wadegives all the
/ tacts as called for by a resolution of
Congress under which the commission
was appointed. Wade is the guest Of
Senator Chandler, and Dr. Howe and
| Prof. White are at Arlington. The
President has invited the Commis-
siouers to dine with him Thursday,
pending the presentation OF their re-
port. The members Of the Commits
sion are disposed to be very reticent
upon the subject Of annexation. One
of the Commissioners said tonight
| that if the country expected the re
port of the Commission to be an argu-
ment in favor Of annexation it would
be disappointed, and that less attpn-
ton is paid to that subject in the re-
port than to any other connected with
the business Of the Commission.


WANTS To CONTROL ENHGRANTs.


The U0rlGs Washington CORE
spOndent says: "The iact is not
generally known that a desperate at
tempt was made at the last session Of
Congress to take the control of emi-
grants now possessed by the State Of
New York, and transfer it to the Gen
eral Government, by making q grand
depot on Governors Island instead of
at Castle Garden. A bill for this pur-
pose was pending in the House Com
merce Committee, where it was care
fully watched, persistently opposed
and finally defeated. A large inter
eat, both political and financial,
worked very hard to get control OF
the system through an act of Con-
gress, and hoped to succeed so that
they could forward emigrsnts over
certain lines of railroad to the South
and West"


A SIGN OF THE TIMES.


The Times Washington correspond
ent telegraphs after il was determined
Summers speech was TO be made, that
Senator Buckingham is said to have
gone TO him and eutreated him to in
ciude in it a paragraph disclaiming
any purpose or feeling of hostility to-
ward the Republican party, so that
his speech could not be used against
the success of the partyin Connecticut
next Monday. Governor Buckingham
fOresaW that unless Sumner drew in
his speech a sharp line between the
party and administration, the effect of
his fierce arraignment would be deep
ly felt in Connecticut. Sumner said
he would take it into consideration,
and, having done so, next day be de-
cIined absolutely to comply with the
request, and it will be noticed that no
such disclaimer appears.
Year: 1871

According to the Dubuque Times a
notable discovery was recently made
by some WOrkmeu employed on the
Dubuque and Minnesota railroad,


who, in digging near the base of a
cliff near Eagle Point found a large
square stone In their way. They re
moved it and found a large vault ex-
tending horizontally into the bluffs,
1rOm which a stream of cold air blew
80 violently as to eXtinguish lights
held at the entrance. Five men en-
tered the vault, and first went through
q passage, which was about four feet
wide, and high enough to let one
walk through it by stopping q little.
When the party had proceeded about
fifty feet they found another stone in
their way, behind which was a fight
Of stone steps leading down a distance
Of ten feet, and when this had been
descended, a chamber, twenty-five
feet square by twenty high, and cut
from the solid rock was found. The
floor was hard and smooth, and by
the dim light OF the candles they had


brought the party saw that the walls
were embellished with a multitude Of
characters representing flowers, birds,
trees, ana other natural objects, ali
carved in the solid limestone. On the
south wall was representation Of the
sun, Immediately beneath which was


another OF q man dressed in a


loose flowing robe, stepping


nom a boat and carrying a
dove ia his hand. The roof was
Ornamented with carved stars. ser


pents, and chariOjs, and in the center
OF a floor was a slab which, on re-
mOval, was shown TO be the cover of
a vault which contained a number of
skeletons arranged in a semicircle.
either sitting or standing, In such a
way as showed that they had been
entOmbed with their faces turned
directly toward the southwest. A
vase filed with yellow earth was be-
side each, and also pieces Of animal
matter which may have been placed
there In accordance with the old and
nearly universal notion that the dead
eat. Heads of arrows and perforated
shells were scattered through the
tomb. No gold OF silver ornaments
were discovered, bat there was pearl
fastened to the bones OF one Of the
hands, and also there were remains Of
some textile fabric, and copper imple-
ments of various sorts, probably made
trom the copper Of the mines on Lake
Superior, as evidence is growing day
BY day that these mines were worked
long ago. The skeletons and orna-
ments are, it is understood, to be de-
posted in the hall Of the Iowa Insti-
tute of Science and Art.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, March 29.-The IEi-
5lLng'S financial article says in the
stock department the railway share
list was extremely active and buoy
ant, and prices have established an
advanced position on the line of favor
ties, which, as we have before re-
marked, is not a task Of especial diff
Guilty, under the present condition Of
affairs, since the entire street has be-
come imbued with the spirit OF spec
uiatiOn. The most attractive feature,
Lake Shore, which rose to 104 on the
immense transaction movement, as
gOssips have it, is not representing
the principal pool heretofore manipu-
lating, but being a distinct clique
formed to punish a prominent specu-
lat0r on the short side of the market
for temerity; and it is stated, by
knowing ones, that the willy gentle
man is well posted on the devious
ways of the street, and that he has
covered his short interest a day or two
since. Vanderbilt stocks were dull in
the early dealing, but in the after
noon were suddenly jumped to upward
of two per cent. amid intense excite
ment
Year: 1871

A REGULAR FIGHT The
Pilatka Ella Herald gives the
following account of contest
between a bear and alligator,
which came off near that
place: GA colored man was
fishing close by the scene of


action at the time. When he
heard the roar and below of
both animals he was disposed to
cast away his fishing tackle and
run, but finding that the noise
of tho conflict came no nearer,
he cautiously crept through the


Jungle and there Witnessed the
combat. Bruin and his antago-
mist were in water about eight
cen inches deep; the fight was
long and severe, and it was ter
rible, the man said to see how
they lacerated and tore each
other. The bear resorting to
his peculiar tactics, would en-
fold the alligator in his huge
arms, and over and over they
rolled in the water, until at last
the bear came off victor, leav-
ing his enemy dead" SI @@Es
Year: 1871

A young man went to call upon
a fair enslaver up town the other
evening, and on his way stepped
into a drugstore to purchase a
small bottle of liquid glue which
he placed in his coat tail pocket.
He spent delightful evening, sit
ting on the sofa and whispering
sweet vows of love while the per-
fumed light stole through the
mists of alabastfr lamps, and eve
ry air was heavy with his sighs.
About half past ten o'clock the
heavy father descended from the
sitting room and closed the par
lar shutters with a slam. Our
young friend justly concluded
that this was an intimation of the
parental desire to move on-so he
attempted to Iise.s Alas! the
cork had come out OF the glue bot
tie, and the contents had been
silently at work all the evening
fastening him to the sofa. The
impatient father suggested that
his child should leave the room,
SO he could cut the seat from the
young mans trowsers; but they
wers new pair, and the young
man objected. Blowing him loose
with nitro-glycerine, complete
withdrawal from his pants, and
transportation of the entire sofa
down the street with him were
spccessiveIy suggested and rejec.
ted. At last the parent, as mad
as anything, went out and got a
butcher knife and cut away q
square foot of the sofa cover, and
the fond lover frisked home with
q hair cloth patct hopelessly at


tached to his pants. There il
Ia few sofa in the parlor now
But, when the young mans rela


tions want to know why he didn''


take a summer trip, he says hi'


pocket was picked Of fifty dollar!


the other day, and be could not Of


ora II. ,srizsrl 1aa sqoi: flia z7-r1ilS
Year: 1871

Past six O'Clock in the morning,


And Bessie is still sound asleep;
OF this wonderful, rosy dawning


She's had not so much as peep.
The birds meath her window are wild,
With their efforts to waken the world;
They think 'tis an indolent child


Under the coverlid curled. .
For they have been up since the dawn


With rosy touch painted the east,
And from hillside, meadow and lawn,
Have gathered their morning feast; III
Have poured out the joy of their hearts


In many sweet roundelay t
And now they are lonely for BeSsie,


And are calling her out to her play.
"Wake up, little Bessie .' they cry,
r ''And spring from your soft, dOwny nest
The sun is far up in the sky. 4 ~.


The fresh air out here is the best.
At the very first gEmmer of light g.
That tipped the gray hills far away,
We sung gOod-by to the night,


And welcome the fair, rosy day.
1--WE focked to your window in crowds,


And tapped with our beaks on the pane ;
We gave you q grand matinee,


Then back to our home few sgain
We bathed in the brook meath the hill,


And dressed all our feathers with care,
We are back to your window, and still


Find you sleeping so lazily there.
"The robin is picking his berry,


The woodpecker taps at the tree,
The thrush on the bough Of the cherry


Calls loudly for you and for me
Then wake, little girl, in the morning,


When the flowers are all bathing in dew;
When the wonderful beauty belonging


To young life, is fresh, bright and new.
Year: 1871

The Des Moines Qowa) &ates-
man gives the following details
of a recent divorce case in that
city: ''Not many months ago
one of our citizens, having con-
.ceiYed the idea that he and his
wife were not such affinities
as they ought to be, induced
her to take her child and 90 to
visit her father and mother, who
resided in Ohio. Once there
she was persuaded to remain


by her husband, who wrote to
her in the meantime that he had
no money to send her sufficient
to pay her fare back to DeE
Moines. Finally she procured.
the necessary funds from her
father andreturned to her former
home this week to find that her
husband had obtained divorce
from her during her absence,
and, of course, without notice
to her. She. is now working as
a servant in the family of the
lawyer who procured the bill
for her husband. 1t appears
that her. husband is possessed
of considerable means, and that
he produced evidence in court
to prove that she had run away
to California with another man.
The Statesman says it suppress
es the name OF the parties, for
obvious reasons, but the facts
substantially as related" s.
Year: 1871

An eccentric minister in a large
parish had seventeen couples to
marry at once in a grand common
service at church. In the course
of the weddings he asked one of
the men to pledge himself to the
wrong woman. The man natural
ly protested, but was told, ''Hold
your tongue! 1 will marry you
all now and here; you can sort
yourselves going home"
Year: 1871

The preliminary proceedings in
a Michigan divorce case are thus
chronicled:-Ths wife chopped a
good wagon to pieces, entirely
running it, split open $50 sap
troughs and burned up 10000
shingles which her husband had
made. The latter, not to be out
done. smashed up a stove and took
off a trunk which the wife claims
had money in it, and she has now
got him into Jail on a charge of


larceny, and is monarch of all she
surveys, which, at present, isn't
much. N
Year: 1871

A couple of FIRE eaters, one
from each of the Carohnas, North
and South, met at Augusta to
fight a duel the other day, but, as
the Mayor had them bound over
to keep the pence in the sum OF
$500 each, and as they were not
mad enough to fight at such an
enormous expense as that, they
put up their deadly weapons and
went back home. If the Com.
missioner Of Internal Revenue
would order a two hundred dol
lar stamp to be put on every d1el.
there would be fewer Of thdm
than there are. NiA lh3ii9T
Year: 1871

The St. Louis street lamps have
the name Of the street on the top,
and all man has to do to find ont
what street he is on Oisto climb
on the top of a house They are
much handler than the old kind,
for people who live in attics.: !
Year: 1871

The Board Of Steamboat Inspectors who
have been in session at Washington for the
past week, under the auspicious of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, have perfected the
revision of the rules and regulations for
steamb boat navigation upon our waters. The
rules for the government of pilots of steam
boats navigating the rivers which flow into
the waters of the Gulf are the same as those
adopted under the steamboat act of August
1852, with few exceptions aud additions.
The following has been substituted for
Rule s:


When steamers are running in the same
direction, and the pilot of the boat which
Is Astern shall decree to pass either side OF
the boat he shall give the signal as in Rule
|, anu the pilot of the boat ahead shall an
swer by the same signal, or, if he prefer to
keep on his course, he shall make the ne
cosssry signals, and the boat wishing to pass
must govern herself accordingly; but the
bost ahead shall in no case attempt 20 cross
her bow or crowd upon her course.


In Rule 10, third section, the last line has
been stricken out before the word "sbeam." ="
The new rules are as follows:


RULE l8.-SteAm ferry boats with two
cnlmneys shall in all cases carry the same
signal as passenger steamers.


RULE l9.-Ali other steamers, ferry or
otherwise, having bat one chemuey, shall
have brackets fastened securely to each side
of the same, so as TO carry green and red
Aghts, the same as passenger steamer.


RULE 20 When q license Of pilot is
suspended or revoked, he shall not 40. as
s'eersmau, nor take any part in the nsviga-
uon Of any steamer during the time for
which his license shall have been revoked.


These rules will be of interest to ell living
So ID. valley of the Mississippi. They have
been approved by the Secretary of tee
Treasury and viii be officially promulgated
In short time
Year: 1871

Lsuppose if all the children
Who have lived through ages long
We're collected and inspected


They would make wondrous throng
Oh, the babble of the Babell


Oh. the futter Of the fuss
To begin With Cain and Abel.


And to finish up with u.s.
Think of all the mon and women


Who are now and who have been.
Every nation since creation


That this world of ours has seen;
And of all of them, not any
\ But was once baby small;
While of children, oh, how many


Never have grown up at all
Some have never laughed or spoken,


Never used their rosy feet;
Some have even flown to heaven


Ere they knew that earth was sweet;
And indeed wonder whether,


If reckon ey'ry birth,
And bring such flock together,


There is room for them on earth
Little happy Christian children.
Little savage children too,
In all stages Of all ages


That our planet ever knew
Little princes and princesses,


Little beggars wan and faint
Some in very handsome dresses,


Naked some bedaubed with paint.
Only think of the confusion


Such a motley crowd would make;
And the clatter of their chatter,


And the things that they would break.
Oh, the babble of the Babel


Oh, the futter of the fuss
To begin with Cain and Abel


And to finish off with us.
Year: 1871

II public official do worthy action,
praise it; if an unworthy one, let the GEN.
sure fall; but do not assume that an OPP
ponent in politics is incapable of merito-
rious motive or action. We do not pro-
pose to unqualifiedly praise every political
friepd, or unqualifiedly censure every po-
litical enemy To dc so would be to ac-
knowledge our inability to Judge between
right and wrong, and a determination not
to do justice. The chief curse of the South
is the extreme partisanship of a portion of
the press, whose conductors dare not tell
the truth about the misdeeds of those of
their own peculiar faith, who evidently
deem it their political and moral duty to
studiously misrepresent all not wholly of
their own way of thinking or acting. They
are damaging the South far more than any
of our political enemies. For without their
aid the latter would be powerless to prose-
cute their schemes. It Is the duty of the
press to do justice between all men and al
parties. When it fails in this it mistakes
its mission, and deserves contempt as its
chief freward.-MeD1phis AUaLonohe.
Year: 1871

We leave this important subject, with
out further comment, to the thoughtful
who viii naturally inquire what princi-
pies promote and what retard the growth
Of the country.
POPULATION OF EAST TENNESSEE by


COUNTIES.