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Year: 1872

Masonry includes lesson in every part and point of every degree; am aware that the evil consequences of islander are innumer- able, whether by giving false testimony in a public cause, or by injuring our brother by private defamation. This practice is the vilest of all robberies. Injure his property, and you make make him repara- tion; wound his body and the physician may heal the wound; but if his sacred reputation be touched, if his good name be taken away, it can never be restored, but may pursue his offspring after death, may descend to his children's children. and blast their prospect to the latest posterity. Defamation is always wicked; the defa- mer is always despised. What gratifca- | ton can be found in practice which elicts universal contempt? Can it be found in the lusts of evil speaking, and cutting up reputation as with sharp razor? Can any qualification proceed from the practice of 1 private scandal at the expense of another's character and honest fame Does such 8 practice add to the sladerer's peace of mind or importance among his acquaintances does it confer a dignity not to be procured by other more innocent means? a negative answer may be safely given to these in- quirles: and it is rather to be feared that every honest and upright man will regard him with the scrutinizing eye of jealous suspicion, and shun him as public nui- sance. His deeds are baser than those o1 the assassin, in proportion as mans un. sullied fame is dearer to him than life. The assassin kills the body of his enemy, and there the mischief ends: but the slanderel attacks the immortal part of man, and in flicts stab in the hope of blighting his fame forever. None can be safe where islander finds admittance. The virtue. wither round him, and fade and die befor, his baneful touch. His practices are made up of fraud and artful treachery. He dare

 not to bring the open and bold accusation but looks and whispers death. To mis construe motives, to place trifling incident in contemptible points of view to insinu ate by mysterious signs and broken senten ces, that more is meant than meets tn

 ears, are his study and delight They be come, by the force of habit, as necessar

 as the food which affords him nourishment and this for no other purpose than tn selfish aim of depriving his acquaintanc of that estimation from which he can de rive no benefit, and which can scarcely b restored by all the united efforts of charit

 and benevolence; tor evil reports sprea with unaccountable facility, and extend distant parts, where the evidence of thei falsehood will never be heard, and thus th record is handed to posterity in all th decoration of unreputed truth. c.
Year: 1872

Queer Finale of the Hall Trial.


NEW YORK, March 21.-At the opening
Of the court this morning Judge DAILY an
nounced that he was obliged to change his
purpose of deciding the Hall case on Satur-
day, Recorder Hackett having yesterday
decided that the court he is holding is
regular, and that further proceedings on his
(Judge Daly's) part would be void. Moth
ing remained for him to do but discharge
the jury. This Judge DAILY at once did, to
the surprise Of many and the qualification
Of Halls friends, who warmly congratulated
him. The prosecution will not bring the
case into the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
When the jurymen left their seats they
Congratulated the Mayor upon his tempo
rary triumph and expressed their dissatis-
faction that they were not afforded an op-
portunity of recording their conviction that
he was innocent. Hall was deeply affected.


The Geneva Watch SwIndIe.


The Post says! Elias organized the
swindling gift enterprise for the relief or
the Chicago and n. w. Sufferers; each
ticket entities the holder to a reserved seat
at a concert to be given on the 18th of
April and chance in lottery of twenty
thousand prizes.


Fhe Liberals Moving.


NEW YORK, March 21.-The Liberal Re-
publican Committee held its first meeting
this evening and passed resolutions favor
ing a State convention at Albany to send
State delegations to Cincinnati.
Year: 1872

AT an inquest upon the body Of a young
girl, in Burlington, VT, the evidence proved
conclusively that she came to her death by
eating arsenic to beautify her complexion.
She had been in the habit of eating cloves,
pickles, chalk, ETC., for the same purpose,
and having seen in a newspaper that some
ladies in the old country ate arsenic to
Whiten their skin, she took some Of the
poison for that purpose, and with fatal re-
suits.
Year: 1872

A blue surface can be put on gun barrels
nv applying nitric acid and let it eat into
tie iron a little; then the latter W Il be
covered with a thin film of oxide. Clean
the barrel, oil and burnish.' A very pretty
appearance is given to gun barrels by treat
ing them with dilute nitric acid and vinegar,
TO which has been added sulphate of cop
per. The metallic copper is deposited irreg-
ularlv over the iron surface. Wash, oil and
rub well with a hard brush.
Year: 1872

FROM lae chattanooga IlineS.


We think the agitation Of this subject a
little premature, but to our mind Tennessee
never had better Governor than John c.
Brown, and if he is willing to accept a re-
nomination, we do not think he viii meet
with much opposition.


From the Murfreesboro Monitor.


We fully agree with the Jackson Wig
and Tribune when it says that Gov. Brown
ought TO be reelected. The people are very
generally satisfied with his administration,
and We believe he is still their first choice
for the Office he has so ably filed.
Year: 1872

A GENTLEMAN who has just returned
from Alaska says that the week before Lent
he witnessed in Sitka a carnival such as
could not be seen in any other part Of the
United States. The entire population
marched in procession on the opening day,
and during the remainder of the week no
person appeared on the street unmasked.
In every house jollity and good cheer pre-
vailed, and Russian and Swish, American
and Teuton. INDUCED in masked balls each
evening. The week is kept as a carnival
week each year by the Russians, and they
indulge in amusement to their hearts con-
tent. Notwithstanding the excitement,
there were no quaTels or disorderly conduct
aDDarent.
Year: 1872

LONDON, March, 21.-In the House of
Commons to-day Gladstone in reply to a
question of TOrrens stated that since the
conclusion of the treaty of Washington
correspondence had been going on in regard
to its provisions as they affected Canada,
between the Colonial Secretary and the
GoVernOr-General of the Dominion; that
the correspondence was as yet incomplete
and it would be impossible to produce it at
present,
Year: 1872

About two o'clock this morning a fire
broke out in a tenement on New Jersey
street, in this city, occupied by colored
family, and the father and three children
were burned to death, only two of the fam
ilV eScaninC.
Year: 1872

Prof. Wayne testified that to explode the
boiler last Monday would have required
above six hundred pounds to the inch. His
opinion is that the explosion was the result
Of careleSsness Of the engineer McIvaine.
The manufacturer of the boiler believed it
would have stood five hundred pounds and
attributes the explosion to the generation
of pas
Year: 1872

& steamship designed for thespeciaf work
of laying submarine cables, is TO be built
for a cable manufacturing company in Eng
land. IL will be able to take on board 5000
TO 1000 miles of cable, but will be smaller
than the Great Eastern and will cost much
less 10 run than that great vessel. The diff
ference indeed is such that the new ship is
expected to effect an important saving in
the cost of submarine lines. But what is
to become Of Brunels great masterpiecef
Hitherto the existence of the Great Eastern
at the time when the new industry of cable
laying began, has been looked upon as one
Of the happest providences known in his
tory, and it is very doubtful whether cable
laying would have been so successful with
out it. We shall look with curiosity to the
future of the splendid but not oveg useful
ship.
Year: 1872

There have been three recent judicial
decisions on the question Of woman suf-
frage as founded on the last constitution
al amendments. That of Judge Carter,
of the District of Columbia, has been
extensively published. The second was
by Judge Sharswood of Pennsylvania,
who examined the claims of the woman
suffragists as affected both by the Con-
stitution of the United States and that
of Pennsylvania The third was given
by Judge Jameson of Illinois, who ar
rived at substantially the same constitu-
tional, conclusion as the preceding ju-
rists, but who declared personally that,
on principle, he could see no ground for
refusing to let women vote whenever
a general demand for suffrage is made
by the women themselves" He also
submitted the good advice that, if the
American women wish for full political
rights, ''they ought to wait until they
can effect their entrance there legally
and directly by the door, and not en-
deavor to climb thither some other way,
through passages intended for wholly
different purposes.


The wisdom of this suggestion will
probably be confirmed by the result of
the recent effort of the advocates OF
woman suffrage at Washington. They
had their Convention, they obtained a
hearing by the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, and they are likely to find them
selves just where they were at the be-
ginning. Thus they will ultimately con-
clude to 60 down among the people
where all true uniforms originate, and
except such humble beginnings in each
locality as may be vouchsafed. In this
way if progress is slower than might be
desired, it will prove healthy and much
freer from all danger of missteps and re
action.


In the meantime while the East il
working out the theory of woman suf
frage, the West is giving an importan
contribution to its practice. Utah, i
is true, has adopted the principle, bu
the status of that territory mocker,
of theocracy-has been so anamalous il
all respects that very little is to b
learned from its experience. But il
Wyoming Territory woman suffrag
has been fairly engrafted on the stocl
of our ordinary institutions What tn
fruit is, it is probably yet too early t
say; but a recent correspondent give
an interesting account of the ripenini
process. He speaks of a female judge
who, among other prisoners at the ban
was called upon to pass sentence upo
her own husband for drunkenness. Sh
Year: 1872

So sudden and deadly was the aim
that not more than half a dozen remain
ed in their saddles, who wheeled their
horses and fed as quick as possible. Van
Dyke had intentionally aimed at the
horse Of Classen, and he fell with his ri
der. To secure Classen was the work of
moment


"Now, lads, bring out the rope and
throw it over that willow branch. We
have alarmed the enemy and they will
be down upon u.s.


Mercy mercy p cried Classen.
All in vain. The moose was slipped
over his head, they strung him up, and
there he was left until he was corpse.
The burning Of the "Willows" had been
avenged
Year: 1872

When sadly the life-light is fading


Away from my world-weary eyes,
And death with its misty form shading
The world from my view doth arise
Will some loving form bend above me-
Some one that my heart holds most DEAR
Will those that l now love then love me
And weep as they follow my bier?
Around me are now sweetly beaming
Bright eyes like pure fountains Of love;
In their soul-thrilling depths / see cleaning
Light pure as the sunbeams above
Those bright love-lit eyes that in gladness
Beam on me so tenderly now,
VIII they tear-bedewed droop in sadness
When death darkly shadows my brow?
And tn lips that have tenderly kissed me-
The sweet, rosy lips have kissed
VIII they murmur in sadness 1--WE miss thee,
Yes, dear one, thy presence is missed?'
Around me, IN life's sunny hours,


Are hands that my own love to press,
viii they scatter above me sweet flowers
When mine can return no caress?
When at the home circle their number
In scenes that I've loved gather round,
Will they think Of me as l slumber
Beneath my low grass-covered mound
AS they think Of the past and remember
The lost one that loved them SO well,-
OF the love that she gave, true and TENDER
Will the heart sadly echo farewell?


"A. L. NJ.
Year: 1872

The political situation in France is
uncertain, because so much depends up
on the life of one old man. But that in


Spain is, perhaps, hardly less doubtful.
The coming of the King has not proved
to be the return of peace, and it would
not be surprising to hear of fresh trouble
at any moment General Prim had
combined three tendencies in one party,
and the united vote of that party elect
ed the King. But when Prim was kill
ed there was no leader strong and skillful
enough to hold the party together, and
it virtually separated into three divis-
Year: 1872

One day recently a dog belonging
to a gentleman in Lynn, was observ-
ed by his master to be approaching
him with something in his mouth,
which he laid upon the ground and
endeavored to attract attention to
the same. The gentleman, thinking
it to be bit of leather or some ar
ticle which the dog was playing with,
took no notice of it, and passed on.
The animal repeated his movements,
and again laid the parcel at the feet
of his master, who was induced to
pick it up, when, to his astonishment'
he found it to be his own pocket
book, which he had dropped without
perceiving the loss. The sagacious
dog had found and safely restored
his owners money.
Year: 1872

Come listen to me for while my lad;
Come listen to me for spell;


Let that terrible drum ---e
For moment be dumb,
For your uncle is going to tell


What befell
youth who loved liquor too well.
A clever young man was he my lad
And with beauty uncomOnly blest.
Free with brandy and wine


He began to decline,
And behaved like person possessed;


protest
That the temperance plan is the best.
One evening he went to the tavern my lad,
He went to the tavern one night


And drinking too much


Rum, brandy and such,
The chap got exceedingly tight


And was quite
What you would entitle "fright."
The fellow fell into slumber my lad;
'Tis a terrible slumber he takes;


He trembles with fear
And acts very queer;
My eyes, how he shivers and shakes


When he wakes
And raves about horrid great snakes
'Tis warning to you and to me my lad,
practical caution to ALL


Though no one can see


The vipers but he,-
To hear the poor lunatic bawl,


How they crawl
All over.the floor and the wall ~
Next morning he took TO his bed my lad,
Next morning he took to his bed,


And he never got up


To dine OF to sup
Though properly physicked and bled;


And read
Next day the poor fellow was dead
You've heard of the snake in the grass, my lad
OF the viper concealed in the grass


But now you must know


Mans deadliest foe
Is snake Of different class;


Alas
'Tis the viper that turks in the glass
A warning to you and to me, my lad,
very imperative call;
OF liquor keep clear,


Don't drink even beer,
If you'd shun all occasion to fall;


If at ALL
Pray take it uncommonly small.
And if you are partial to snakes my lad,
"a passion think very low,)


Don't enter to see 'em


The Devils Museum!
'Tis very much better to go,


(That'S SOD
And visit regular show.
Year: 1872

lN-GRowING NAu.s-Some people
are much troubled with the edges of
the nail Of a toe cutting into the flesh.
The cause Is, pressure on the nail,
which is strong and round, so that
the edges are driven directly down
wards. Take bit of broken win
dow-glass, and scrape the arch Of the
nail till it is so thin and weak that it
cannot resist the pressure, and, as a
natural consequence, it will fatten
and become wider.
Year: 1872

met the ordeal with the integrity of
Brutus, and it is said that the husband,
since the expiration of his term of pun
ishment, has become model of domestic
docility and decorum. The first exer-
else of suffrage by the newly enfranchised
occurred in the primary meetings for
the nomination of delegate to Congress,
for which a Judge and Marshal were
the chief competitors. The excitement
was intense, and it was the general opin-
ion that the presence of woman alone
prevented free fght-a point in their
favor. The Judge had the majority of
their votes and succeeded, although every
woman, with single exception, voted
the same as her husband-which encour-
ages those who have had dread of do
mestic dissensien as a result of the pro-
posed reform. In a city election between
temperance and whiskey candidate,
the latter had the support of a certain
class of women, but was defeated by the
vote Of the temperance ladies. A case
of women serving as jurors is given, in
which the anxiety of the fair jurors
children and families, during weeks
seclusion of the mother under the sher-
ifs charge, is depicted more touchingly
than any other of the incidents of the
trial. Only one instance has yet been
afforded of woman in the Territory run
ming for an elective Office. She was
poor but respectable widow, and yet
says the writer: Several ladies, wives
of well-to-do business men, used their ut
most exertions to secure the nomination
over her head in female caucus at
which she was nominated. Fooled in
this by their own sex, they helped elect
man put up against her by men of the
party to which her husband had be-
longed." So much for facts or statement;
let every one suspend judgment Or
draw conclusions, as he OF. she thinks
best.
Year: 1872

The San Diego Union shows that Judge Porter (and wife) arrived at that place on the 10th instant; and the way-bill of the stage line shows that E. c. Jacobs, early this week, reached Florence on his way to Camp Grant as Indian Agent at that place ; the first named gentleman relieves the Territory of one of the worst Judges q. Reavis) that ever afflicted any peo- pie, and the second of an Indian Agent whose association probably was most conspicuous in debasing the degraded Apaches, and disastrous to the hard working farmers and the common prosperity of all.

 Our readers will bear witness that THE CITIZEN has heretofore referred to Reavis and Whitman in unmistake- able language. The liveliest imagina- ton could not describe their public careers in sufficiently damning style, and hence we have never attempted the task, but simply recited from time to time some of the deviltry of each.

 A prominent citizen has sworn that he considered Reavis and associates a "greater curse to this Territory than "all the Apaches in it;' and by Whitman's refusal to meet and at tempt to refute public charges of an almost infamous character made against himself, especially as all op- portunity was afforded him to do so before a court composed of men. as the sequel proved, who sympathized with him to the extent of putting themselves on the records of the na- tion in the attitude of moral pol troons, if not perjurers, he must stand as low as MT. Hellings and the com- munity in general hold Reavis, Rowell and their confederates. AS we said a couple of weeks ago, no effort of ours can add to Whitman's disgrace, and he is deprived of power to further degrade the Apaches and injure the struggling settlers of Arizona and as there Is even reason to hope that by this time Reavis is writhing in his own well-earned contempt in private life, we will now mainly dismiss both from further consideration. Our con- plete justification for paying them so much attention, is found in the fact that both held public positions of great power and used them to injure instead of benefit the public. As public nuisances, this journal had to assist in their abatement.
Year: 1872

By reference to our second page it will
be seen that the Democratic Executive
Committee Of the State is called to meet
at Nashville on Wednesday the nine
teenth instant. The Committee has
important business before it, and it is
earnestly hoped all the members
viii be present. BY a resolution of the
State Convention, this Committee is
empowered to make a nomination for
Congressman for the State at large, and
to select a second Elector for the State
at large. To fill the former position it
Is generally understood the Committee
viii defer TO a State Convention to be
held at So early day in Nashville, and
for the latter it is to be hoped they VIII
make a selection that will add to the
efficient and able delegation already Sc
lected TO represent the State at Balti-
more,
Year: 1872

ST. LOUIS, June 20.-The Narrow
Gauge Railroad Convention continued
Its session to-day, and still further dis
cussed, both in a general and specific
way, the merits of the narrow-gauge
and its eminent fitness for those sections
Of the country which are sparsely set
tied and least able to bear the expense
of broad-gauge roads. An immense
amount of information respecting rail-
roads generally has been brought out,
and great interest excited in regard to
the subject.


Resolutions were adopted providing
for Central Committee of thirteen, to
whom all applications for information
should be made, when statistics bearing
on the subject will be forwarded. Said
committee TO have authority to call the
narrOw-gauge advocates into convention
at any time they may think proper, and
TO take such action as they may deem
advisable to advance the general inter
ests of the narrow gauge movement.


Resolutions We're also adopted recon-
mending grand central narrow-gauge
line from tide water to the interior OF
the country TO give the narrow-gauge
roads now being constructed in the Mis-
sissippi valley continuous connection to
the seaboard, and cordially indorsing the
project known as the Washington, Gin
cinnad and st. Louis railroad, and
pledging said project all possible aid.


The committee appointed for the pur-
pose Of preparing report ON the subject
of narrow-g gauge roads having not quite
completed their labors, the report was
not given to the press. The convention
adjourned sine die this evening.
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, June 20.-The Times this
morning publishes an interview with
Senator Logan, at his home in this city,
with regard to his views on the present po-
litical situation. In answer to a question
of the reporter as to whether he had not
been for long time favOrably disposed
toward the Liberal movement, the Gen
eral gave an emphatic reply in the neg
ative, adding that he could not imagine
how such an impression got abroad
that he had never said one word in IA
vOr of that movement, and never, for a
moment, entertained a notion of join
ing it. In reply to the question, if he
was not opposed TO Grant, said he had
sometimes criticised him, just as he
would any man with whom he differed.
He always intended to vote for the Phil
adeiphia nominee, and should do so
now, though, perhaps, some other man
would have suited him as well. He
thought Grant could be reelected by a
larger majority than he received before,
and that Illinois would give fifty thou
sand majority for him; asserting in this
connection, that at least One-half Of the
Democrats in Southern Illinois will vote
for him. Logan also declared his inten-
ton to take as active part in the cam
paign as his health will permit.
Year: 1872

are no Democrats in Congress in favor of Ad-
ans, and that in his opinion it is quite certain
the Democratic National Convention would
nominate another ticket if Adams shall be
chosen at Cincinnati. Although the time ana
place for holding the Democratic National Con-
vention are not formally fixed, it is understood
the fourth day of July will be the time and St
Louis the nlacp
Year: 1872

Porte Crayon relates that when a nun,I
of Professor Morse, and by accident not
enabled to pay his tuition at the nroner
time, it came out that Morse was so near
starvation that he acknowledged not to
have eaten for twenty-four hours. Our
"Chawles Augustuses' do not go hungry
because they haven't the means to pay.
They will take board with some poor wild
oW first
Year: 1872

The barometer will continue falling north and west
Of the Ohio Valley and the lowest will probably
eastwardly the upper lakes accompanied by brisk
and high Winds which will extend to the lower lakes
on Thursday. Cloudy and threatening weather with
probably rain will prevail Thursday from the Mis-
souri, and Ohio Valleys to the upper lakes and extend
to the lower lakes Clear and pleasant weather will
generally prevail over the east and middle Atlantic
and Southern States on Thursday.