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Year: 1870

the soundest, and his logic the closest, and
the most convincing of all the debaters of
the Jefferson Society


1t is almost misfortune for college boy
to speak with ease and readiness. 1t is so
apt to lead to carelessness in preparation
and an absolute neglect of writing. Such,
however, was not the case with the subject
of this sketch. He was exceeding diligent
in the use of his pen. He thoroughly ap-
preciated the necessity of acquiring the art
Of composition. 1 cannot better illustrate
his notions on this subject, than by making
brief extract from the editors Drawer"
which was written by him whilst he was one
of the editors of the Magazine. Among
much that would well bear republication, he
says: cat period like the present, every
one who has the good of his country at heart
should learn to write. The orators voice is
silenced; the politicians hands are fettered;
the soldiers sword rusts in its scabbard; ;
but the pen is free. When great issues are
at stake, when few years must decide the
fate of this great country, every one should
be prepared to take part in the conflict,
and that conflict must be carried on by the
pen. Our representatives are excluded from
the halls where once Southern eloquence
upheld Southern rights. Our people no
longer meet in great political assemblies to
cast their votes for the high officers of the
land; and mighty as is the power of oratory
in its own field, that field is now so narrowed
that its power is of little avail But the
press is open; its field is widened rather
than contracted; and its power is greater
than it has ever been before The North
and the South are alike open to its powerful
influence, and by it must be spread those
moderate and enlightened principles which
alone can save our country. Iti is your duty
to prepare yourselves for this work, to rem
der yourselves able to express your senti.
ments, and embody your arguments, in such
a manner as to attract the attention of all"


Such were the thoughts that inspired the
energy which he displayed in this depart
ment of intellectual discipline.


1t is with reluctance that leave that por-
ton of the brief life of this poor boy, which
was spent in the classic shades Of. the Uni.
versity of Virginia, in order to follow him
across the wide ocean, whence, in one short
year, he returned to die. 1t is true that
college life is but period of discipline for
the sterner and more real duties which fol-
low; vet it is an entirety work complete
il itself. This was the only work that this
poor young man had time to finish. and most
nobly did he redeem his brief allotment
Whilst l yet linger in memory around this
portion of life so bright, and so full of
hope, and before entering upon that sad
chapter, which, however illuminated by the
light Of Christian faith, must yet be fecked
with shadows of disappointment, and strewn
with the sparkling fragments of once bright
hopes. trust l may be p, loned for quot


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Year: 1870

BY the plan for rebuilding the railroad
bridge, the bridge will be made straight, thus
avoiding the angle that existed in the old
bridge. The approach to the bridge on this
side the river will be little farther north than
af nresent.
Year: 1870

Cannot some effort be made to obtain the
services of Dr. Lees, the great English tenn
perance lecturer, in Augusta, for one evening!
We understand that he is to remain in Port
land for a short time and will hold himself in
readiness to respond to the invitation Of par
ties.
Year: 1870

The fftieth anniversary of the admission of
Maine into the Union was appropriately cele-
brated in Gardiner on Tuesday evening by a
grand dress ball at Johnsons Hall. 1t was
pronounced decidedly the most brilliant and
successful affair that has come of in Gardi-
diner for years. The ladies were dressed with
excellent taste, bringing out magnificent dis
play of tastily arranged toilets. Several were
privileged to be present from this city, and
the enjoyment they received can only be meas
ured by their enthusiastic description of the
affair. Music was furnished by Chandler's
Portland Band, and it is not necessary to say
that it was excellent.
Year: 1870

The Gardiner Journal says that the plans
for the new high school building are in the
hands of the architect to be put into working
shape, and as soon as completed, arrangements
will be made to have the work proceeded with.
Stone for the foundation has been delivered on
the ground, and other materials will be imme-
diately contracted for, and the building COM
menced as soon as the frost is out of the
ground in the spring.
Year: 1870

With the beautiful spring weather of the
past few days business has on all sides shown
pleasing evidence OF revival The turtles of
Wall street are cooling their sprlghtliest notes,
and the butterflies of Broadway and the west
side avenues are out in the sunshine. Every
brilliant bird Of fashion is making ready her
gayest pumage, aud the elegant shops up
town and down town are all in futter with
eager customers. Nor is this encouraging
change confined to the metropolis. 1t applies
to the trade Of the country at large. From all
quarters we hear of renewed activity and
cheerful anticipatons. The South will come
to the front with her great staples this year
as she has not done since 1861. She
has largely increased and improved her
cotton cultivation, and the whole country will
feel the golden benefit in its exchanges ere
the year he out. Our exports are steadily
and largely gaining on our imports, the differ
ence in the last nine months being over thirty
three millions in our favor as compared with
the same period of the preceding twelve
MONTHS and there is a fine prospect for all our
products. The growth of a sturdy and we'll
equipped immigration is remarkable, and the
'fair lands of the Vest are breaking out all
over with a rash of new towns and villages.
Public Improvement and exploring enterprise
are up and at work like giants refreshed with
wine, and whichever way we turn we are
gladdened by the hum of busy industry.
Now, if our good legislators, national and
local. will only rub their eyes and wake up
for the occasion, what run we may make for
this brave year 1870
Year: 1870

THE POPE LITTLE TOO STUBBORN.-It Is
said that no fewer than three documents Of
protesting character have been submitted to
the Pope, and that the Holy Father has obsti
nately withheld every one of them from the
Council The German bishops and the French
bishops are already in rage. We have not
heard that the Pope has taken any action in
the matter of the protest which we published
few days ago. We do know, however, that
France is somewhat angry because of the mat
tention to Darius letter, and we cannot
doubt that our American Catholics will soon
show some temper if the manly protest Of some
of Americas most honored bishops is disre-
garded, Pope Plus the Ninth will not give any
good proof Of infallibility il he despises the
Catholic sentiment Of free America.
Year: 1870

JERSEY JUsTIoE.-New Jersey has an excel
lent record on the murder question. She does
hang murderers whenever she can catch them
and prove fair case against them. This is
excellent on her part in these days Of slipshod
philanthropy. But, then, Jersey has another
reputation beside that of hanging murderers,
and this is that she cannot say her soul is her
own in the presence of any railroad company.
She will, in other words, positively punish crime
30 long as there is no railroad in the case.
This being known, it cannot be regarded as
surprising that in the case Of the man who
was put off railroad train on bridge at
night and lost his life by falling from the
bridge the jury has just found verdict Of
accidental death, and mildly censured the
company for having passengers put of else
where than at stations. We must not expect
too much from Jersey. She does very well.
80 far as she goes.
Year: 1870

THE GOVERNOR AND THE ARCADE RAIL-
WAY BILL.-We are reminded that, under the
practice of our Governor, bill left for his
approval after the adjournment Of the Legis-
ature, though it does not become law within
ten days unless approved by him, does not
become dead letter in the absence Of his
signature, but may be made law at any time
within the interval to the next Legislature
with his endorsement Of the bill 1t is to be
hoped, however, that within the limit Of ten
days from the adjournment of the Legislature
Governor Hoffman will give the quietus to this
outrageous Arcade job, in order that the rights
Of the city and the people may be vindicated,
and that the present damaging suspense to all
concerned may be ended.
Year: 1870

During the last week the average daily mass
OF advertisements in this journal of all descrip-
tions was about forty-three columns, or some
thing over seven compact pages in small type
q greater average than that of any preceding
week since the issue of our first number.


In q corresponding ratio our daily circula-
ton has been and continues to be steadily and
rapidly increasing.


In it's advertisements and circulation, the
HERALD having been for many years a recog-
nized reflex and index of the prosperity and
expansion of this great commercial and finaD-
cial metropolis and OF its fluctuations in
business affairs, we may submit our enlarging
prosperity of this season as a fair indication of
a general revival of business here and through
out the country.


From present Appearances, looking at the
growth of the city itself, and of its surround
ing suburban cities and villages on Long
Island, Staten Island, and in New Jersey,
Westchester and Connecticut, and at tho
increasing demands of our advertisers and
subscribers within this radius, and from all
parts of the Union, the Continent and the civil
lied world, we expect soon to be required to
issue daily quadruple HERALD, and to meet
demand which we are prepared to meet
rising from one hundred and fifty thousand tt
two hundred thousand copies every day in tn,
year.
Year: 1870

Another week of valuable time has been
frttered away by Congress. There have been
no public measures of any Importance what
ever discussed or acted upon in either house.
The valuable time of the legislators of the
country has been occupied with nothing more
important than private bills or jobbing land
grants. The only measure Of great public
interest called up at all in the Senate seems
10 have been the bill enforcing the fifteenth
amendment, and it has not progressed beyond
discussion. while ia the House there has not
been even the shadow of any legisla-
ton more important than the removal
of political disabilities from nine Office
seekers in Texas. True, there have been
measures looking to a sweeping amnesty and
to tinkering of the finances introduced, but
they have been merely mentioned and referred
to committees that probably will never report
them again. AS far as the legitimate business
of patriotic, far seeing Congress is con-
cerned the past week is lost one. The
Senate has done nothing whatever, and the
House has passed the time in fning members
for absence-when the whole body might have
been absent with immense gain to the country
generally-and in experimenting on the iron
tariff.


The business that lies before Congress is Of
vast importance, and even its ordinary routine
business, such as appropriation bills and con-
tested election cases, is greatly in arrears.
The two houses have been in session FIVE
months, and should have had their business well
in hand, 80 that an adjournment could be
looked to early in the summer months. As
it is probably the session will be prolonged
until July. No bills reducing the burdens of
taxation have yet been acted upon, and, at the
rate in which the Tariff bill is progressing, it
seems unlikely that any decisive action will be
taken on such bills for some time. The recon
struciion business, although conducted with
the diligence which Congress gives only to
partisan legislation, is still unfinished; no
general amnesty has yet been declared, ST..
Domingo is still unannexed and the income
tax still hangs round the neck of the people.
We beseech Congressman to cease fining abb
sentees, entertaining Legislatures and tinkering
with finances--of which they know nothing
and settle soberly and industriously to work
Year: 1870

Farther and farther the genius of trade,
assisted by the forces of science, pushes its
way onward to the conquest of the world. The
recesses of Africa have been penetrated, the
burning deserts invaded, and the wastes of
Alaska partly settled; but it was reserved for
the present year to give actual form to plan
for the regular navigation Of the White Sea
scheme of company Of merchants resident
at Archangei, on the river Dwina. In old
times, when enterprising Sweden held the en-
tire seacoast of Finland, and was supreme on
the Baltic, Archangel was a fourishing COM
mercial centre. She has since been tempora-
riIy thrown into the shade by the rapid rise of
St. Petersburg, Helsingfors, Taganrog, Kevel,
Odessa, &C.; but her turn is coming round
again. The northern provinces of Russia
are by no means 80 inclement and inhospita-
BILE as most people seem to think. Soil and
climate both are favorable to hardy race,
and if communication with the interior and
southern provinces can only be completed the
governments of Archangel and Vologda par
ticularly might be made both wealthy and
happy regions. AS it is, population is lack
ing, but the extension of railroads and steam
boat lines will soon supply it along with the
regular transmission of provisions and manu-
factured goods.


At Archangel the Dwina river is four miles
in width and fourteen feet in depth at low tide
and there is clear track for steamers of
moderate size and burden from that point
down to the White Sea, thence to the Frozen
Ocean and around North Cape to the nume-
rous and thriving seaport towns on the Norwe-
gian coast This is the route suggested by
the new company, who propose to run three
steamers regularly during the six months
when navigation in those latitudes is
free. A capital of one hundred thou
sand roubles, or about sixty-fve thou
sand dollars, has been subscribed for the
construction and equipment of three small
steamers, which will begin their traffic so soon
as the railroad northward from Viatka to the
Dwina, now in rapid progress, shall have been
completed. The only aid asked for from the
government is about six thousand five hundred
dollars per annum, with certain postal and
trading facilities, and all that is required will
be cheerfully granted. That trade and travel
will be immensely increased by this facility,
and Archangel once more be made busy and
opulent mart, cannot be doubted. There are
score of active towns along the stated route,
and some of them have for hundreds of years
held the rank of sea ports. All that they have
hitherto needed has been an outlet, and now
that it is about to be supplied to them we shall
soon see the glow Of modern business life shin
ing there like new aurora at the far North.
dispatches from Archangel," --latest from
the North Cape" ssNews from the borders Of
Year: 1870

Renowned in song and story, May Day has
come to us from our English ancestors full of
pleasing thoughts and bright hopes. But May
Day in New York is matter of far greater
moment than it ever can be in Merrie England
or in our own rural districts. On this day
Gotham lays aside all poetry and becomes de-
cidedly practical. Childhood is banished; no
May Queen calls her willing subjects around
her feet upon the greensward; no merry carol
of joyous youths and maidens breaks upon the
ear. Such nonsense is banished from Manhat-
tan, and our people give themselves up unre-
servedly to the more engrossing task of seek
ing new abiding places for their household
gods. New York's May Day offerings partake
Of her peoples pleasures. The 'wreck Of
matter" is fearful in the extreme, and
would prove ruinous anywhere but in this
metropolis Moving Day is peculiarly New
York institution, and no amount of reasoning
can divest our citizens Of the absurd notion
that dwelling houses can be inhabited by
family but single year. Happily, for once,
we shall miss May Days usual turmoil, even
at the risk Of infringing the statutes. This
year our nomads have two days ia which to
make their journeyings, and tomorrow night
will see the city again quiet and recovering from
its annual family disturbance. One thing is
noticeable-for the first time in many years
there has been no rise in rents, but, on the
contrary, for the better class of dwellings,
prices have receded. This is pleasant fact
for the majority to consider, and it is to be
hoped that before another season the rents OF
houses occupied by the laboring classes may
inset with corresponding reduction.
Year: 1870

A GooD THING AFTER ALL-The success
of Gould and Fisk in keeping the Erie road
detached from the Central monopoly; for we
can now understand that with both our great
State lines in the hands Of one concern there
would hardly be foot Of ground on this island
that the city could hold or that any citizen
could call his own. In the division and
competition of thess great railway powers,
until Congress shall take hold of them. lies
the safety Of the people.
Year: 1870

arcade railway in London has just exempli-
fed the beauties of such structures. The arch
above gave way and buried in the ruins all who
were in the tunnel at the time. Imagine such
an arch the whole length Of Broadway caviug
in for mile and dumping the Broadway on
top into the Broadway beneath, and killing .
thousand people at crash Is it improbable
Do we put up such structures more subStan-
TALLY here than they do In Englanda
Year: 1870

man troops He also announces that, though the
French Government should persist in the forcible
expulsion of Germans from France, no measures of
retaliation will be adopted by him, as 1t would be
unfair to punish men for belonging to country
cursed with Bonaparte for its sovereign


The King adds Frenchmen in Germany need
not be uneasy They shall, in common with all man
kind, be convinced that Germany moves at the head
of civilization
Year: 1870

on the Paris and Strasbourg Railway this morning.
They were attacked and driven off, and their COM
mander was taken prisoner. To-day our cavalry
made brilliant reconnaissance in the direction of
the River Med. The enemy's couriers and small
bodies of cavalry penetrate far into the country but
the main body of their amy is not making any for
ward movement.
Year: 1870

White Pine is no longer interesting. They
have got SO .ha. they actually try people in
court, and only give them ten years impris
onmsnt for murder; which is very dull bust
ness, compared with hanging at sight for
petit larceny
Year: 1870

The Detroit merchants have united in an
agreement TO make change" hereafter in
silver. Many dealers in New York are do
ing likewise. We will be back to specie
payment before we are aware of it.
Year: 1870

Gen. Quarles, Gen. Brown, Gen. Bate,
and perhaps other distinguished citizens
of the State, are prospecting in reference
TO the Gubernatorial nomination next No
vember. These are all worthy citizens,
and are doubtless eminently fitted for the
position to which they would aspire.
We have but one objection to them, and
that applies equally to all of them. They
are all from Middle Tennessee. We have
Just as good men for Governor in West
Tennessee as are to be found in other
portions of the State, and other things be-
ing equal, we should prefer some of our
citizens But already we see indications
that East and Middle Tennessee will COM
bine in this as they have in regard of
other matters, and that there is little
chance for any gentleman, however
worthy, if he happen to hail from this
end of the State. 1t is for that precise
reason that we would now urge simple
Justice for West Tennesseeans. We ex-
peCt to support with all our might who
ever shall be the nominee of the Demo
cratic party; but that fact shall not deter
US from demanding simple justice for al
Democratic aspirants to positions from
this division of the State.
Year: 1870

Lndy's view OF the subject.
We think the best, way we can accom-
plish the object desired in the accompany
ing letter from lady friend is to publ sh
it In full We believe what she says about
the sanitary advantages Of this amusement
and endorse her views:


NASHVILLE, June 2S.-I see il stated in
your paper that cur Legislaturs IS passing
a law 10 impose tax on Skating Rinis,
Just as though they were theatres NOF,
as one of the many ladies who have besa
patronizing the rink since its establishment
here, take the liberty Of writing to sou
and asking you that you viii use your in
huence IN calling the attention of the
members OF the Legislature to the benefits
of this new mode of exe1cise and enteH-
tainment for ladies. Instead Of taxing
such place, l am sure that the gentlemen
in ihe Legislature would, if they knew The
benefits Of such exercise, az / do from nv
own experience and that of other membsza
Of my family, feel much more Ike voting q
premium or diploma TO the proprietOrs of
the rink.


There is no one who las ever travelled
in the North but has heard disparaging re-
marks made about the sppsarauoe Of lsdlss
Of the South We aye told that the lad as
Of England and of ths North are robust In
appearance with rosy complexion This Is
because they take active exercise IL walt
ing and skatiRg. Tho ladies OF the South
are sad to he slllow aud far more feel la
than their Northern SISTERS. I must con-
fess that there is too much truth in thiS.
The ladies Of the South DO nos take enough
exercise. feel this myself But we now
have presented to US a means Of exercise
which is sufficiently fascinating to draw rs
from our lstless ways and induce rs TO 90
that which our health has long since DE-
manded. Ii may be permitted 1 can bit
think that this amusement is not only
benefit TO the present generation but to-
prosperity. It does seem very strange 10
me that our Legislature, which ought 10
be doing everything to promote whatev,r
is beneficial to the health of the women Il
the-State, should turn aside to tax sk8tm
rinks


did not intend to say SO much, but We
feel SO much on the subject that ccui
write all night about il.


With sincere respect,
Year: 1870

From the CarroIIton [Miss.l Conservative.


We had heard it stated several times
that MIR. Sam. Bryan, who, heretofore,
had been bsrefaced ON the top of his
head, had, by the use of coal oil, grown q
thick coating of hair on the aforesaid bsld
head. We saw Mr.. 3. on Monday last,
and upon examination found the state
ment to be correct. Mr.. Bryan informed
US that the way he found out this new
property of coal oil was simply this:
He had large boil on the bald place on
his head which gave him much pain, and
in the absence of anything else, he rubbed
coal oil on it. He says it relieved the
pain almost instantly, so he continued to
rub on the oil until the boil was entirely
well, when, TO his surprise, he found a
thin coating of hair coming out over the
bald place. He continued the use OF the
oil for month or two, and now has q
heavy coat of hai- on his head. This ls
no humbug, but the simple truth, and we
advise our bald-headed friends to try the
experiment.