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Year: 1873

The admirable message OF FreSluenJ Grant
which is published this morning, will be read
with unusual interest. because of the impor-
tance of two or three topics that closely con-
Germ the whole country. The document is
somewhat longer than President Grant has
been accustomed to send to Congress; but
the most critical will find it extremely dlni-
cult to indicate where its length could DC io
duced. If it is the purpose Of the ain"A
message of the President to furnish Consre's
and the country with clear and iull aoooun'
of the workings and results OF the '",iou'
departments of the Government W se' 'oi'h
or relations with other governments 10 sug-
gest remedies for existing evils, and to point
out needed reforms. then the communication
which President Grant has just presented to
Congress- must be pronounced model State
paper. If it lacks somewhat OF the graces
of rhetoric and the polish of the scholar, it
has the merit of being unpretentious, and so
clear that the commonest reader can fully un-
derstand it.


At the present time it will hardly be neces-
sary TO allude to the topics treated by the
President; but we cannot forbear to COM
mend to our readers that part of the message
relating to the Virginius affair. No fair mind
ed citizen can doubt but what the honor OF
the country will be zealously guarded 5y Gen.
Grant, nor will he fail to applaud his out.
spoken sentiments respecting the Cuban Off
cials and the outrages they have been COM
mitting against civilization.


His timely suggestions on the currency
question and his earnest advocacy of a return
to specie paymen $, together with the care he
manifests to prevent any further imitation OF
our currency. will meet the approval OF all
classes except SPECTATORS. His suggestion as
to what shall be done to give our currency
elasticity and to prevent financial panics will
demand general attention, while his discus
sion of this important question indicates that
he has given the subject thorough considera-
ton. His demand for economy will meet
with the hearty approval o. the people, and
Is WORTHY of the consideration of Congress.
The amendments to the Constitution which
he suggests will commend themselves to the
people, when it is remembered how much Of
pernicious legislation is hurried tn: ough the
last hours of Congress. and the disgracefu
measures which are frequently attached to
appropriation bills that must be enacted.


The President again calls upon Congress to
give vitality to his efforts to secure reform OF
our civil service by necessary legislation. He
also desires to remove all obstacles to harmony
between .he different sections, by passing a
general measure of amnesty. He also shows
his devotion to the principles Of the Republic
can party by urging the passage of an act to
secure the fullest rights Of citizenship to all
regardless of race.


If Congress will but give the same careful
consideration to the topics noticed in the
message that President Grant shows he has
bestowed upon them, and if that body will
bring to the public service the same earnest
and patriotic purpose that the document in
dicates at every point, it will be worthy OF
the confidence of the country.
Year: 1873

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
CLAIMS AGAINST SOUTHERN RAILROADS
BILL TO COMPROMISE THEM
LIGHT DRAFT sNAG BOATS
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT
BILL TO AMEND CURRENCY ACT
IMPAIRED NATIONAL BANK CAPITAL
FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON
Portion Of FORESTS Library Burned
HIS ORIGINAL SHAKESPEARE RUINED
TIE TORINTHIAN PUTS IN TO COAL
Year: 1873




The leading topic of conversation to-day has been
the probable result of the action Of the authorities
with reference the enforcement of the usury laws
Pending the final issue good many loans have been
called to-day and the currency held off the street
Consequently money has been very stringent, and
ranged on call from and interest this morning to
/. and interest this afternoon, the fair quotation
being to 4 per cent In exceptional instances we
heard of as much 1 per cent being paid until
Monday. OF course these high rates were sub rosa.
and done in such way as to avoid any violation of
the law. The bank statement was a more favorable
affair than last week, and made on rising averages
The specie and legal tender items were increased.
and the loans and deposits reduced to such an ex-
tent that the banks have made gain of 81. .s2O5O0,
being that much better off than last week. although
they are still Socs5OOo below the legal line. The
coin movement of the Treasury for the week lowered
the disbursement of Si.5OOOOO on account Of tho
regular weekly gold sale. and s33 100 on account of
coin interest the bonds redeemed footing up S49eO


The customs receipts for the week were Sa.433.96S
The following are the comparative bank totals :
Year: 1873

Mr.. Brougham's new drama of Atherley
Court" represented at the Union Square Theater
last night, for the first time, and enjoyed by good
audience Further mention of it is necessarily deferred
owing 10 the crowded state of our columns
Year: 1873

During the delivery Of what mnst have been TO the
condemned punishment next To death itself the
silence deep In the Courtroom 20 be oppressive
every face reflected the gloom Stokess features
His brother Horace wept not profusey Saturday
when the blow new and unex pceed. but silently


Stokes himself showed perfectly impassive front al
though many imagined that bus face lAs than
Year: 1873

From a pirate letter from Cameron< ar-
ish we learn that the cotton worm has
made its appearance in that section of
country. and is doing much damage. There
viii not, it is said, be one-ffth of cotton
or cane crop made this year, owing to the
caterpillar and to the heavy rains.
Year: 1873

ExTRAoRDINARY.-Thc low prices Rt which +.
L. Frank sells ladies suits and underwear Of his
Own manufacture is astonishing, as the goods are
made up Of superior quality and in the best style,
and still he sells them cheaper than you can buy
the material and make them. Call at Franks
Emporium, 6ll Market street and save n second
profit
Year: 1873

The society editor who was kicked
out OF \ house in Washington the other
day. took sweet revenge In stating that
the kicker wife appeared at bal at
tired In a lovely pongee skirt made OF
government drawer tor infantry.
Year: 1873

SToRM-We have been favored with
more storm during the past week, and in
dications are that it is not yet ended.
Since our last issue 1.47 inches of rain
and half-an-inch Of snow have fallen.
Year: 1873

At this time, when the winter has really
begun and complaints of hard times, lack
Of work and money come from all sides.
there happens to be one chance to do some
thing To relieve the distress. There is now
lying idle about $4,000 belonging to the
City Park fund. 1t is doing no good, and
ought to be Immediately utilised. If the
park commissioners will put 200 men ct
work improving this valuable property and
pay them ont of this fund, they will be en-
titled to receive the thanks Of hundreds of
people,
Year: 1873

+ There can be no doubt that the Shah's
visit to Europe is already producing its
eject in Persia. 1t is felt that progress will
be the order Of the day on his return, and
all the more enlightened classes are pre-
pared for it No country can be moro tho
roughly undeveloped than Persia u at
present. That great mineral wealth exists
Is beyond question. Coal Of fair quality is
found at Kasvin.
Year: 1873

b


TIE condition and management Of the Yer
mont Asylum for the insane in Brattleboro', al
contained In the report of the legislative invsst


eating committee, are calculated not only
to arouse ,astoDishment and indignation
but to awaken serious reflection as 10 the
necessity Of establishing some system OF inspec-
tion by which State institutions of private corpo-
rations for the relief Of the insane or any Other
class Of funfortnnAtes, cannot abuse their poweFs
without danger Of exposure, A through reform
IN the treatment Of the insane and management
of asylums can never be effected until the best
and the administration Of their affairs is subjected
to vigilent and constant Official examlnation.


The Vermont Asylum is the property Of a pri-
vate corporation, aud the trustees though refusing
to recognize the authority Of the committee Hpl
pointed by the Legislature did not deem 1t proper
to deny them access to the buiIdingsand grounds.
It was found that barbarous punishments were
inflicted upon the inmates. Many Of them were
oonflnsd In underground apartments entirely
unit for human inhabitations. In buildings which
barely had accommodating for three hundred,
four houndred and eighty-dvs persons we're crow.
ded. It was proved also that sane people had
been immured in the place without hope Of escape
One Of these was an aged Presbyterian minister
Rev. Peter B. Shaen, who, while in perfect possess
sion Of his reason, was imprisoned, through the
annuity belonging to him. The committee ex-
pose practices Of the darkest kind which have
bssn Tesnrted to for the purpose Of retaining sane
patients, The subject is one Of general interests,
and deserves that public attention should be fairly
directed to it. Indeed, all public institutions,
whether under State or private direction, whether
benevolent, Feformatory or for punishment, win
not be the worse for close and CONSTANT watching
II is dangerous TO entrust any one with power
byer the helpless whsre the exercise of it, Is not
held in check by scnse Of public WatchfullnesS
Rnd personal responsibility.
Year: 1873

As one travels in the wine districts of
France on frosty nights, he is half suf-
focated by the dense smoke which fills
the air and overhangs the whole coun-
try. Upon inquiry he finds that this
smoke arises from casks of tar, and that
it is designed to protect the vineyards
from frost by creation of artificial
clouds. 1t is said that the same expert
ment has been tried in Maryland for the
protection of fruit trees, with consider
able success. 1t seems pity to resort
to processes for fruit protection which
destroy the beauty of the landscape, de-
file the air, and add to the gloom of life.
Any one who has been in great manu-
featuring districts will recall the thick
and smoky atmosphere with n shudder,
and what shall we do when not only
large towns but vineyards and gardens
are also overhung with leaden pail ?
But if there is profit in smoke, it will
certainly be made, and the old adage
about :. all ending in smoke" will lose a
part of it's force.
Year: 1873

EVERY man has . right to interpret
his own name, and to say how it ought
to be pronounced. Many persons have
been in quandary in regard to how the
name of the English statesman Disraeli
should be spoken. Some pronounce it
Disraeei, others Disrahli, other Dizrel'
ly (the accent on the first syllable),
others pronounce it Disrayli (the ac-
cent on the second syllable). In the
course of recent speech the owner of
the name had to repeat it, when quoting
the letter which he wrote to the Queen,
he pronounced it Disray-li, the accent
being on the second syllable.
Year: 1873

INDUSTRY. prolongs life. 1t
is the friend of virtue, and Incidence
the handmade of vice. The active are
seldom criminal but the most of those
who yield to guilty encroachments might
trace their lapse from rectitude to habits
of idleness, which, leaving the heart
vacant, gave full opportunity for the
evil passions and desires of our nature
to exert their power A state of ease is
at best but neutral state of being, alike
distant from positive happiness and posi-
tive misery. But it is the source of
misery. and, as such, is Stunned by
the philosophy of living pleasantly.
Year: 1873

he had entered within the vale. There
were tears on many cheeks when they
rose, and subdued tone ran even
in the "good nights" of the merry
children.


Then all drew up about the fire, and
told over the tales of other days.
William told how he had hoed ont n
pretty hard row i'll the new place where
he had sought to establish himself
as Il physician. But after due wait
ing, the first physician came at last,
and the second. and SO on, until now
he was the old physician of the place,
with two young men in the office with
me"


Dominic Ned otherwise Rev. Edward
Lent detailed some of the "Shady
Side" experience of his first charge.
but they We're pleasantly relieved
by the many Sunny Side incidents
his wife took care to suggest as he went
along.


george ana haiPh cohiPareo laiih
notes, and altogether the evening
passed on as only such gatherings by
such hearth stone ever can. 1t is
only such training that can produce
such results.


If you wish your boy and girl to
grow up useful, honorable, and happy,
teach them faithfully =" to hoe out their
Year: 1873

THE Terrebone Banner draws this
picture of Louisiana poverty: "This
parish is SO poor that no one will trust
it for three-foot plank to stop up the


holes made in the Jail by the last in
mates. Our Jail would not hold an am
bilious snail more than ten minutes at
the longest time. The stove-pipe used
for the court house remains at the tin
shop-the cause, no money to pay up.
Who's to blame? That's the question. u
Year: 1873

An English paper gives an account of
n pig that was lost on screw steamer in
the port of New Orleans. 1t was pre-
sumed that the pig found its way on
shore the day the steamer landed,
though no tidings were heard of him
by sailors who went in search of the
fugitive. The vessel lay for five weeks
in port, during which time her supply
of coal was increased. When three
weeks out, on the return trip from Liv-
erpool, and exactly eight weeks from
the time of his mysterious disappear
ance, the pig was discovered alive in the
coal room, where he had had nothing
but coal to subsist upon. He was not
in very good condition, and was tolera-
bly, thirsty, but by n change of diet he
improved very fast, and at the time the
vessel arrived in Liverpool was as live
ly as if he had enjoyed the run of a
clover pasture.
Year: 1873

Over thirty years ago Oakes Ames
used tobacco and snuff. Finding it ex-
pensive and Objectionable to his family


he made bargain with Mr.. Andrews,
one OF his fathers head men, that
neither should chew tobacco again. 1t
was agreed that the one who took chew
of plug or cayendish first should forfeit
to the other five dollars. Weeks went
on, and Oakes, though furnishing for
his "navy plug" kept the bargain.
He used to carry half plug around in
his vest pocket, and when he came near
William Andrews he would take out the
delicious morsel, hold it up and say,
"Ah William, how do you like that ?
Isn't it beautiful 2" But William stood
firm to the bargain, determined that if
either of them should break it and for
felt the five dollars it should be Oakes.


One day Oakes came up to William
and said, "Bill, L can't stand it no
longer. Now I've cut this piece of plug
in two pieces. You take one, and | will
take the other Mt the same time then
neither will first break the agreement "
So they both saved their five dollars, and
each placed the tobacco where it would
do the most good York Hcrald.
Year: 1873

REPAIR TooLs.-By all means see to
it that every pillow is in order for the
spring work. Also the harness and
everything pertaining to your team or
tools. Shame on the farmer who drives
mp to the shop on a nice spring day with
old, rusty, dull, rickety plows for re-
pairs, when the shop is crowded full of
such farmers. How many such plows
have been seen, upon which the chickens
have perched the blessed winter, dug
out of some fence corner, rotten and
to be sharpened at the shop, secured by
plowing the road side, cursed by the
plowman, broken at stump, thrown
into a fence corner, and replaced by
other new ones to be treated in like
manner.
Year: 1873

OLD GRoUTY thinks the world is dis
posed to magnify the Importance of
small things, and insists that the poets,
who fill the youthful mind with talk
about great oaks growing from little
acorns, are absurd. In the first place
he says that only very small oak can
grow from little acorn anyway, and if
ever it gets large it has to leave the
acorn and get its living like any other
tree. The acorn doesn't deserve half
the credit that the oak does, for while
it may occasionally give slight start to
an oak, the oak establishes in life thou
sands of acorns.
Year: 1873

The youngest son stood with his fair
bride upon the threshold of the old
farm house. He was the last of four
brave boys who had gone forth from that
humble roof to work their way up man
fully to place of honor and usefulness
in the world. Perhaps there was little
dimness in the old mans eye, and may
be q little tremor in his voice, as he
spoke the farewell words. But he took
from the old side-cupboard his parting
gift !; a bright, new hoe, and as he placed
it in the hands of the youth, the accom-
panying admonition sounded cheerily on
his ear, Hoe out your row.


1t was fourth time similar pre-
sentation had beenmade in the old home
stead.


Everybody will find his row to hoe
- i'll this world, George, and sometimes it
is mighty tough one; but it is only
towards that shirk it. Whatsoever thy
hands find to do, do it with all thy
might, and never forget to look up"


The old man wrung the hand of his
son, and stopped down to kiss the cheek
of his fair, new daughter while mother
busted herself with the dozen "last
things" which every one but mother
forgets.


The lingering farewells were all said at
last, and the old coach rolled away with
the two hopeful, sunny hearts just enter
ing life's bright and beautiful summer.


The old homestead seemed deserted
and dreary as last years nest. The
aged pair sat down by their own hearth
stone alone, as when they began life to-
gether.


How these old walls had rung to the
sound of childhood's mirth, and child
hoods steps, and in later years had
echoed with the tread of manly feet.
Now they must live more in the buried
past.


But to George and Ellen life seemed
all one bright future, with rainbows of
hope arching all their plans and pro-
jects.


Their Western home was a humble
one, and plenty of work for willing hands
within it. The young farmers chief
capital was his strong arm and stout
heart, and the sound working day prin-
ciples he had been taught from child,
hood. Sometimes he grew discouraged
at the prospect of paying for the place
he worked, but he was sure to meet with
hearty encouragement and words OF
parting gift of his father, as it stood OF
the mantle in the family room, was as
good as a sermon any day. There il
stood, ever ready to give encouragement
or admonition, as the case might be
Strangers might think it a strange, curl
GUS ornament for chimney-piece, bu
it was soon regarded as one of the house
hold treasures. Dust or rust was never
suffered to mar its brig ghtness.


Ellen, it is no use trying" sale
George, one evening, quite despond
ingly, as he turned away from some fig
ures he had been making on scrap O.
paper, 81 can't make out the payment
this week, and I may as well give it up.


Ellen looked up cheerfully from hel
work and nodded toward the mantel


" | have hoed and hoed, but this row
is too much for me. The wool will pa,
the next installment, and the crops tn,
next, but where this fifty dollars is t.
come from, that I need in addition t,
what l can make out, is more than 1 ca,
see."


"Sellthe COW, George" advised Ellen
"You We're offered sixty dollars for her
you know"


"But what can we do for butter, an
for cream in our coffee, and all that p
Year: 1873

1t will be said that tobacco soothes
and cheers the weary toiler, and solaces
the overworked brain. Such may be its
momentary effects, but the sequel can
not be ignored All such expedients are
fallacious. When a certain amount of
brain work or hand-work has been per-
formed, nature must have space in which
to recuperate All devices for escaping
from this necessity will fail. 1t is bad
policy to set the house ON fire to warm
our hands by the blaze. Let it, then,
be clearly understood that the temporary
excitement produced by tobacco is
gained by the destruction of vital force,
and that it contains absolutely nothing
which can be of use to the tissues of the
body. Tobacco adds no potential
strength to the human frame. 1t may
spur weary brain or feeble arm to un-
work is destructive, not constructive.
1t cannot add one molecule to the plasm
out of which our bodies are daily built
up. On the contrary, it exerts upon it
most deleterious influence. 1t does
not supply, but diminishes, vital force.
1t has been denied that tobacco leads to
organic disease, but the evidence is
very strong the other way, and it would
be very remarkable if continual func-
tional arrangement did not ultimately
lead to chronic arrangement of the or
gans. That it causes functional dis
turbance, no one dreams of denying
indeed. it has been remarked that no
habitual smoker can be truly said to
nave dny's perfect health.
Year: 1873

Az wet as a tish--as dry bone,
As live as a bird-as dead as stone;
As plump as partridge-as poor as a rat,
As strong as horse--as weak as a cat;
As hard flint--as soft as a mole,
As white as n lily--as black a coal;
As plain pikestaff-as rough az II bear,
As tight as a drum-as free as the air
As heavy as lead--as light as a feather,
As certain az time--uncertain weather;
As hot as an oven-as cool az frog,
AS gay as a lark--as sick a dog;
As slow AZ tortoise-as swift as the wind,
As true as the gospel-as false mankind;
As thin as a herring-as fat as a pig,
As proud as a peacock--as blithe as gig;
AS savage as tiger mild as dove,
As stiff poker-as limp as glove;
As blind az a bat--as deaf q post,
As cool a cucumber-as warm as IA toast;
As fiat as a founder--as round as ball,
As blunt as u hammer--as sharp AZ an awl
As red ferret-as safe as the stocks,
Az bold as n thicf--as sly as a fox;
As straight as arrow--as crooked as bow,
As yellow satfron-as black as sloe;
As brittle glass-as tough as a gristle,
As neat as my na-as clean a whistle;
As good as a feast--as bad as a witch,
As light as day--as dark as pitch;


As brisk as a bee-as dull as an ass,
As full as a tick-as solid as brass;


As lean as IA greyhound-as rich as Jew,
And ten thousand SMILES equally new.
Year: 1873

The Sacramento Beet Sugar Company
have adopted novel mode of getting rid Of
the army worms among theil beets, and at
the same time turning the worms themselve;
to account. They have already put three
hundred turkeys gobbling up the worms,
and intend to turn from two to three hun.
dree more in the field in few days. They
have been compelled to purchase the tur-
keys this season, but intend to enlarge Oh
extend their business in the future by rails
ing their own turkeys. The company are
of the opinion that diversity of crops is
advisable, at least for the present emergency
and are in hopes that by the introduction
of the turkeys their sugar crop will be con-
siderably increased, and at the same time
that they may realize some profit from thu
turkeys themselves DAILY Record