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Year: 1872

Miles and miles of these building have
been erected, and here again the terrible
severity Of the wind is manifest. Some of
these sheds are literally filled with snow,
which had to be taken out on flat cars.
The smallest cracks were sufficient to let
it drive through in astonishing quantities.
Clinging to the rafters and braces of these
sheds SNOW still remains in great round
cakes, many of them as large as wash-tubs
and as hard as ice. Some of the sheds
were literally filled to the top, and pass
age-way has been cut for trains through
it, leaving perpendicular wall upon each
side, against which the sides of the cars
rub.


These sheds are made with slanting
sides and a roof somewhat like that of a
house. They are thoroughly braced in
side and covered with inch plank. tapping
each other like the weather boards or clap
boards of house. You cannot see cracks
sufficient for snow to get through, but its
presence in such quantities inside is evil
dence that it did. These sheds, costly as
they are, will all have to come down, and
heavy frame work with we'll nigh air.
tight sides and top take their places.-H.
]. R. IN Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1872

This journal is thoroughly identified with the
greatest political necessity of the
ing warfare against all kinds of OfcOrrupOn, whether in
national or local government. For years past the
TIMES has been exposing the demOralzing schemes Of
sefinterested politicians, and its recent warfare upon
the Tammany Democrats has been received with uni
ycrsa approval. 1t has adhered to the pledge given
in its original prospectus. than twenty years ago.
that the public should be truly represented and their
interests faithfully guarded through its columns Its
record has been pure and honorable and the highest
aim of its proprietOrs is to render it and
worthy Of its past histcr and Of the confidence which
the public repose in it. Two out of three of the orig
nal propretor still direct its policy, and guide all
public questions They purpose that the TIMES shall
continue to keep clear of all and unworthy in


uences and cliques and aim to represent the great
body of the public, distinguished from all personal
factions. 1t occupies perfectly independent position
and is free speak the truth all subjects and about
all men. It's greatly increased circulation throughout
the country adds to its power and influence 1t will
tnue to be faithful exponent Of Republican priuci
pies, and advocate with untiring every
which tends to further the welfare of the people,


The utmost care will be devoted to gathering politi
cal news from special sources during the Presidential
canvass, This department Of the paper will be
ally full and trustworthy. Renewed enterprise will be
exhibited in every department Of the paper and large
space will be devoted to reports of speeches made du
rng elections or on other important political occa-
siOnS.


very full summary of news and many general arti-
ces of great interest, are published in the Semi
Weekly editions; and in the Weekly edition there is
an unabridged report of the proceedings at the Farm
ers' Club an excellent summary of political infOrma
ton, and great variety of matter suitable for family
reading.


The NEW YORK TIMES is pre- -eminenily family
paper all Objectionable advertisements being rigidy
excluded and it has constantly increasing circulation
among the most respectable classes Of the community
Year: 1872

The election in New Hampshire comes
off next Tuesday. Last year James A
| Western was elected Governor, as Demo-
crat, by majority of 807 over Pike, Re
publican. The Democratic majority in the
Legislature was 3. . f-.7


This year the Republicans hope to re-
deem the State and the Legislature and
choose Republican United States Sena-
tor. They have way in New Hamp-
shire of knowing before election pretty
well how it will go.


The New York Times explains it thus


The careful canvass made by the Repub-
lican Committee shows cOnclusively that
the Democratic majority will be overcome,
and that on the general ticket the Repub-
licans will have a clear majority of from
800 to 900. This canvassing of the pOpu-
lar vote prior to an election is something
unknown, and perhaps 1mpracticable in
the politics of New York city, but here it
is an old established custom, and easy of
accomplishment. There are few changes
of residence, and the increase of the voting
population being chiefly from young men
reaching maturity, the thorough Organiza-
ton of the party permits it, through its APP
pointed agent in each town and neighbOr-
hood, to make up lists at heaC quarters of
the names of all voters in each locality
both for and against it. These lists have
already been made up this spring, and give
the State to the Republicans by about l POO
majority; but competent judges admit
the preponderance will be less than this,
probably owing to the fact that since
the canvass was made, there has
been a slight increase in the temperance
vote, which will be drawn exclusively
from the Republicans. There are, it is
we'll known, -four general tickets before the
people, being the Republican, Democratic,
Temperance and Labor Reform but the
two latter are scarcely disturbing the ele-
ments, as the first of them is credited with
only about one thousand, and the other
with half that number.


ESTIMATES OF THE VOTE.


The estimates put the total vote of the
State OH Tuesday week at a, 200, being an
increase of about 4, 900 over last year, which
leaves 1850 to be divided between the
Democrats and Republicans. Unless all
present signs prove to be false, the Repub
licans will gel at least 81, 600, but probably
a little over $1,000. In that case, although
the contest will be sufficiently close to
make the counting of the ballots an in
teresting operation, there will be suffi
cient indication of popular feeling to make
the State sure in November for the Rep ub
lican nominee for the Presidency.
Year: 1872

The New York Tobacco Board of Trade pc
tition for permanent tobacco warehouse.
The Yerba Buena Island grant was discussed
without action.


The deficiency appropriation bill was again
resumed.
Year: 1872

Will, in from one to twenty minutes afford ease and
comfort and this medicine rapid in stopping paln
be purchased for fifty cents per bottle at almost
every druggists and country merchants store on this
continent, and within one hours distance OF almost
every habitatiOn in the United States.
Year: 1872

with painful sensation ofhav-
ing left undOne something
which ought to have been
done. Often complaining of
weakness, debility, and low
spirits. Sometimes many of
the above symptoms attend
the disease, and at other
times very few of them; bu
e organ most involved. Cure
Year: 1872

We give in this issue of the CHRONICLE
synopsis of the Presidents Message as
read to the two Houses of Congress yester-
day. Like all OF President Grants state
papers it is writtemina plain, straightfor-
ward style, vigorous, sensible and pointed
On all questions legitimate before Congress
Or the people it speaks out boldly and une-
quivocally. He favOrs postal telegraph,
maps out grand system of internal i'm
pronvements to bind the Lakes and the
vice on the Ocean; proposes to carry
American ideas to the far Eastern Empires
of Asia, and asks Congress to aid him in
establishing for the country perma-
Service. He expresses the hope that
the South may be forever rid of law
less bandits, and fayors grand canal to
Join the Ohio and Father of Waters
with the Atlantic at Charleston. This
project, if carried out, would aid largely in
re-naturaliziDg the South, by joining its
commercial interests more directly with the
Central States Of the North.


The message will be read with interest
everywhere, and tie people will take from
it new assurances of the Presidents deter
mined purpose to give us in the future as
i'll the past an honest administration, one
that will tend to re-unite our people into a
homogeneous, prosperous nation.
Year: 1872

SECRETARY BOUTWELL'S REPORT.


The Treasury report says that necessity
exists for q new issue CT national bank
notes.


The Secretary eXOnerateS Assistant
Treasurer Hillhouse from neglect of duty
in the stamp division defalcation in the
Assistant Treasury az New York.


The Secretary again recommends the
passoge of bill to amend and consolidate
the navigation and customs collection laws
of the United States. AS the leading pur-
suits of the country are now stronger than
ever before, in the possession of adequate
capital and a supply of intelligent laborers
there may be moderate reduction from
time to time in the rate of duties as the
diminishing expenses of the Government
shall permit without either alarming at
that or injuring labor.


He says the circulation of the banks
should be fixed and limited and that pow
er to change the volume of paper in circu-
lation within the limits established by law
should remain in the Treasury Depart
ment. A degree of feXibility in the volume
of currency is essential for two reasons.
First, the business of the Department can
not be transacted properly if limit is
made and the power to raise the circula-
tiOn above OF reduce it below that limit is
denied. Secondly, there is q necessity
every autumn for moving the crops with
out delay from the South and West to the
seaboard that they may be in hand for eX-
port and consumption as wanted. The
problem is to find way of increasing the
currency for moving the crop and dimin-
ishng it at once when that work is done.
This is q necessary work and inasmuch
as it can not be confided to the banks the
power should be retained in the Treasury
Department.


Believing that the country is not pre-
pared to sustain the policy of contraction
the Secretary considers the means by
which the value of our currency may be
improved. The basis of policy Of inn
prOvements must be found in a steady re-
fusal to add to the paper in circulation un-
til it is Of the same value essentially as
coin, this being accepted as the settled pur-
pose of the country, there can be no per-
manent increase of the difference between
paper and coin, and an opportunity will
| be given for the influence of natural
causes, tending upOu the whole to a better
| financial condition. All legislation limit
! ed III Its operation to the paper issues OF
the Government, whether bearing interest
or not, and which in its effects shall tend
to diminish the market value of coin, will
be found upon analysis to contain q plan
for contracting the volume of paper curren
cy, and all legislation so limited which
does not contain such a plan will prove in
effectual.


The Secretary, without proceeding to the
discussion of the general subject of resun-
ing specie payments. thinks all will have
been gained that is of value, when the
treasury shall be prepared to pay the de-
nand notes OF the Government in coin,
and the banks shall be prepared to pay
their notes either in coin or legal tender
notes, and then our good fortune will clear
ly appear in this, that our paper currency
is not exclusively of National Rank notes,
nor exclusively of United States notes.
Year: 1872

NR Ross having declined, Mr. Joseph
Gundry was rendered by the Coancil the
the position of City Treasurer, and he
also refused TO serve. Thus we are left
without Treasurer, and the books will
be handed over to the Sheriff, provided
he can give the required bonds. There
is really no necessity for this state of af-
FAIRS, as Brother Peck signified his will
nSness to accept he office, and proiIcred
security OF the very best quality, to wit;
The publisher of the TRIBUNE Every
body knows that Peck is capable of
filling the ohce creditably. and that we
are good for the amount of the bond
Perhaps the Council will he able to ex.
plain its action to the satisfaction Of the
people
Year: 1872

Er a sensibIe writer says that moth-
ers make great mistake when they has
ten to feed an infart every time it cries,
and begs leave to suppose case. Sup
pose srown.up fellow wakes up in the
night and has the ooh, my" so hard
that ho is obliged to roar with pain
Just as an infant does. What is to be
done? Why, rouse up Sally and Jane,
and all the kitchen help, and cook him
some oysters, or a srloin steak and fried
potatoes, and make him eat The alb.
surdity is plain enough. And if absurd
III the treatment Of adults, why is it any
less so in that of infants?
Year: 1872

The NEW CATHOLIC CnuRcH.-This ediiice
Is fast approaching to completion, and VIII
make fine and cred.table appearance when
finished, and VIC congratulate our Catholic
friends in the success, and the cordially they
have met from our citizens generally, i'll their
efforts to establish and build up church
here. BY the close Of March the church will
receive It's finishing touch and on Easter Will
be dedicated to worship. The Church is in
deb,ed, greatly, to the industry and zeal of
MIR. NJ. LYNCH and Mr.. Z. MAY, for this
neat and tidy House of Worship for the peo-
pie Of the Catholic faith a minister will, az
ter the dedication, be Installed over the little
flock, and around which We expect to see
gathered in few years, a congregation equal
in number to any in the place.
Year: 1872

We wish to cali the attention of ALL in
dsbted to this office, that the present Janua-
~ we wish to settle with all-those that we
are owing and those owing US. We have some
accounts Of long standing on our books, that
are perfectly good. but through thoughtless-
ness and inattention they have not been set
tied. From the collection of many small ac-
counts due us. we shall be able to pay large
ones; and we trust that no one, showing their
iudebtsdness, will hesitate to come forward
and Pay Up.
Year: 1872

By the dispatches in last evenings pa


pers We get the following:


PHILADELPHIA, October S-A full vote


is being polled in this city. The election
is progressing very quietly under the new
law that all taverns shall be closed. The


United States Marshal has 800 special
officers on duty, distributed among the
wards where trouble is likely to occur.
Up to noon no serious trouble was re-
ported. In the Sixth Ward, the strong
est Democratic ward in the city, the hour
ly announcement of votes cast shows that
more Republican votes have already been
cast than is usually polled during whole
day.


CINCINNATI, October S.-The election
is quietly proceeding throughout the city
A very large vote is being polled. I'm
usual precaution is taken by the Mayor
in the Sixth Ward, the scene of last
nights disturbance, to mhintain the
peace. An IrishEan who WAS swearing
vengeance against the colored people,
was arrested to-day, and on being taken
to the stationhouse was relieved of a pis-
tol and cartridges which he had in his
pocket. Aside from this there has been
little use tor the details of police which
have been provided to guard against
trouble in this ward where the colored
people largely reside. The indications
are that the day VIII pass without serious
disturbance.
Year: 1872

A writer from Dresden, in the Chicago Inter- Ocean, says that the forced service in the army is the main cause of the great emigration, and so great has it been this season-over S0,000-that soldiers have been detailed to gather the crops, and dwellings, are absolutely not to be found, muslin and frame tents being thrown up in Berlin to accom- modate the incoming population, who are giving up their little homes with the firm intention, as soon as they can get passage, of finding others in country where they imagine no want exists. In Germany the child of but Q few years of age IS set to labor, either in carrying the universal korb (basket), suited to their size, upon their back, dragging their wagons through the streets, or working in the field. The korb holds about one and half bushels, and it is girls or women always who carry them, either unloading coal boats, for which they receive five pfenings for two full baskets (about one and quarter cents), or bringing them to market filled with produce, and many times have I seen Q full-laden one placed upon the rounded back of an old woman by a burly man, who walked by her side laughing and talking while she toiled along with her heavy load.

 Women almost invariably make the mortar and carry it to the builders. They drag about the streets coal or other mat ter in wagons holding nearly ton, upon one side of the tongue themselves with strap over the shoulder, and upon the other dog. They dig and blow in the fields, at times harnessed with an OK. They break the coal in pieces and carry it up to the houses and assist in saving wood, which is done on 8 standard three feet high, one at either end of the saw, while the man splits it ready for them to deliver.

 The peasantry are uncouth in their appearance, and rough in their manner, paying little attention to the graces of life, and yet have delight in flowers and music, which has no lack of food in this land of beautiful art. Their diet is simple, consisting mainly of black bread, made sour purposely, sausage, and coffee or beer. Fresh meat they have but seldom, and the workman seems to thrive on his lump of bread and cheese and potatoes, which he eats at least five times day, and washes down with the beer made at home. brewery beer being too expensive for his daily use. They have, after all their harvests, feast, to which all neighbors resort, gayly dancing the evening away. In one of our country walks we innocent ly walked into stable where the women, as usual, were threshing, and the men idling about, as it was not their work. A fine was demanded from us as from others for the entertainment which was to follow. Just now the potatoes are all gathered and merry -makings are fill ing the country round. Their pleasures are simple, but their life is hard, with no prospect of change, and America, the heaven for women and children, and field of future prosperity for men, is longed for, and every exertion made to reach it.
Year: 1872

A irst-rate story is told of very prom, inent man, who lived in Detroit forty years ago, and who at that time owned more steamboat stock than any man in the Western country, besides other wealth to large amount.

 Like many of the pioneers who acquired great riches; he was very ignorant in all that books taught, but his learning is more like wisdom, and, in common with many who have lived and passed away but left their mark behind them, he knew what tree would make shingles by locking at it.

 He had, at the time of our story, just completed a splendid new warehouse al Buffalo, and wanting a suitable clerk to take charge of it, he advertised for one ir the papers. The next morning early, q candidate for the position presented him. self, rather too fashy young man ir appearance, but the following conversa- tion occurred:

 Young man, when you make mistake in any of your books, how do you correct it9"

 The young man explained, in a very profuss manner, how he should proceed to make it all right.

 "A good way, no doubt, to do it, re- piled the old man, "but I shan't want you"

 Very soon another aspirant put in an appearance. A similar question was asked him, and in long and eloquent manner he pointed out the remedy in all such cases.

 All the reply was: "Young man, shan't want you"

 Some three or four others dropped in during the day, and to each one the same question was put, and they all had some smart way of covering up errors in their books,

 The old gentleman was entirely ignor- ant himself of the art of bookkeeping, but he had wisdom in all things, which is more. than a match for learning.

 Just at the close of the day plainly dressed man with bright eye and brisk step called for the situation.

 "Take 8 seat, sir" said the old gentle man, "I want to ask you one question. When you make false entry on your books, how do you go to work to correct it9"

 Turning upon his questioner cold, sharp look, the young man replied "l don't make that kind of mistakes, sir"

 "Ah my dear sir, you are just the man have been looking for all day." and in g few moments after, the man who corrected his blunders by not making them, was in- stalled in the office.
Year: 1872

A pensivo young man in Wisconsin
seated himself beneath his girls window,
and in dulcet strains told her to Come,
love. come And she coined. Leaning
out Of the window to ascertain who WAS
serenading her. she lost her balance, and
fell on her lovers head, knocking music.
love, breath, and pretty much everything
else out of him. besides fearfully smash.
ing four dollar and and half hat over
his eyes. The young man said he didn't
think she would come in such hurry.
Year: 1872

1t would hardly be correct TO call the
reproductive principle in Nature tn e
female principle, and yet when Nature has
advanced so far in the plant or the animal
as to call for division into sexes, 1t will
hardly be denied that the female is in
more intimate communion with this lead
ing object than the male. The female
must necessarily be the most favored of
Nature. At the commencement of the Ill
vision the female will be first provided for,
and in the great struggle for life, all other
things being equal, the chances will be
largely in her favor. In plants the divis-
ion into sexes is not made apparent until
the Towering period arrives. Some are
hermaphrodites, that is, they have stamens
and pistis in the same flowers. Others
are dimcious, or have the male flowers
wholly on one plant, and the females on
another. But it is seldom known, prior
to Towering, which Is the male plant or
which is the female. Still the peculiar
sexual principle in some cases, no doubt,
pervades the whole plant, and exists long
anterior to Towering, for a male or female
plant once known will generally always
remain so. Cuttings taken from either
will be pretty sure to reproduce the same
sexual flowers again, though not always;
for the female silver maple viii not untre-
quently put forth branches with male
flowers. Still as a general thing, sex Is
not determined in plants until near the
Towering time; and is, as has been said,
never known until the flowers have actual
ly opened In those plants which bear
male aud female flowers separate on the
same plant, it is then seen that the male
flowers only appear on the weakest branch
es or branchlets This is best illustrated
by pine or spruce tree. The female
flower is that which ultimately becomes
the pine cone. The male flowers gather
in small clusters, and are those which pro-
duce the dust (pollen) in early spring. The
female flowers or cones only appear at the
ends Of the healthiest branches. As the
tree grows, of course the branches now at
the ends in time become the interior, and
are then shaded by those which 90 beyond
them. Shade always tends to lessen the
vitality of a growing branch and here we
see that branches once strong and bearing