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Year: 1870

1t becomes our painful duty to-day to
record the sudden death of our fellow
citizen, George Glover, one of the early
settlers of our county, who died this
morning little before O. clock, quite
unexpectedly, although he had been in
capacitated for active business by a lin
gering complaint for. long time, and
confined to his bed for over two weeks
The. deceased was AZ years of age last
February. He came here in 1851 as
clerk in his fathers store, and was estab-
lished in business by his brother William
in 1852 At later date he was elected
Sheriff of this county, which Office he
filed to general satisfaction.


He leaves sorrowstricken wife who
has shared his joys and sorrows, in faith
and love for the last fifteen years and a
host of deeply mourning friends and
brothers.


While we drop the sympathetic tear at
the death of our deceased friend, let us
cast around his foibles, whatever they
may have been, the broad mantle of hui
man charity, nor Withhold from his memo
ry the commentator that his virtues
claim at our hands. Perfection on earth
has never been attained; the wisest as
we'll as the best of men, have gone astray
Suffer, then, the apologies Of human ma
ture to plead for him who can no longer
plead for himself; and may we who sur
vive him, be more strongly cemented in
the ties Of union and friendship, that
during the short space allotted to US here
we may wisely and usefully employ our
time; and in the reciprocal intercourse
of kind and friendly acts, mutually pro-
mote the welfare and happiness Of each
other. NsS 4 Fffs


To those of his immediate relatives
and friends, who are most heart -strickel
at the loss We have all sustained, we have
| but little of this worlds consolation to
offer. We can only sincerely, deeply ant
most affectionately sympathize with then
in their affecting bereavement. But VIZ
can say that He who tempers the winc
to the shorn lamb, looks down with inf
mite compassion upon the widow in the
hour of her desoation; and that he VIII,
is All Love will fold his protecting arm
around those who put their trust in Him
| Z. 3. I
Year: 1870

New LAKE MARINE LAw.-The fol-
lowing from the Wisconsin, of yesterday
applies to this port as we'll as to that. 1t
says that by the law which has just gone
into force, regulating clearances from the
Lake ports, all intermediate ports from
Buffalo to Chicago will have no official
record of their receipts and shipments.
A vessel taking clearance from Chicago
to Buffalo or Oswego, may come to Mil
waukee and load with grain or other
freight, and make no report to the custom
house. Vessels clearing from Buffalo tu
Chicago may unload all their cargo with
out report or notice.


1t seems very strange to us that Con
gress should pass law that entirely ig
nores the lake traffic of dozen important
ports Until the blunder can be rectifed
there will be no record OF the lake com
merce Of this port. We had been in the
habit of alluding to the shipments oi
produce from this port with some degree
Of pride, bat that privilege is taken from
US.
Year: 1870

PoIaeE CoURT.-A difficulty occurred
in saloon on the south side On Monday
evening between Christian Brink, and
Adolph Bender, in which knife was
drawn by the former. Before he could
use it, however, Bender gave him a
BENDER laying him out on the floor.
The two fghtists were brought up before
Police Justice Shove yesterday morning,
and Bender fined So and costs. Neither
of the combatants were seriously injured.
Upon the close of the suit before MIR.
Shove, Brink was taken before Justice
zinns and compelled to give bonds for
his good behavior hereafter. Bender is
a member of the German Theatrical
Troupe which recently performed here.
He will probably confne his displays Of
muscle strictly to the stage, while in our
usually peaceable city. hereafter.
Year: 1870

NARROW ESCAPE. A little boy who
was riding on the river on raft, fell in,
last evening, and but for the timely as
sistance of sailor who saw him go
under, would have been drowned. AS it
was, he had very narrow escape. This
should serve as warning to the numer-
Gus boys we have observed indulging in
a similar dang amusement-riding
on a plank or raft
Year: 1870

AT LAsT.-We know our citizens will
be rejoiced to learn that the worst part
Of that awfM sidewalk on the east side
of Sth street, between Commercial and
York, has actually been taken up and is
being replaced by a good substantial
walk. Now, let the work be pushed
forward until all the sidewalks iu the city
are repaired.
Year: 1870

j.. S. RoAD.-We learn from the She
boygan Times that the right of way for
the Lake Shore Road has been secured
from that city south to the Ozaukee
county line, on most favorable terms,
and force Of men will soon be set to
work grading it.
Year: 1870

FARMERS with whom we have talked
say that although the wheat did not
stand as thick as in some years, it YVES
well filed out and gave good yield =
Harvesting in the western part Of the
county is almost finished.
Year: 1870

THREE or four families from Chicago
are now at the Windiate House, intend


ing to remain in our beautiful city during
the hot weather. They could not have
found more healthy locality in the State.
Year: 1870

MANY of our citizens followed the re-
mains of FIR Geo. Glover to the boat
last Saturday evening, among whom were
numerous ladies, called thither to express
their sympathy With the afflicted wife.
Year: 1870

The press Of the country are very nearly
unanimous in fayor Of letting the income
ta1 expire in accordance with the present
limitation. II is. perhaps, the most olious
to the ta1- 1-payer, and the most inquisitorial
It offers q premium to dishonesty and at
tempts to impose penalty on success
Much effort will be made to retain this ta1
and all others, By the class Of economists
who are anxious to grind the people into
the dust to pay tho principal Of the debt, As
a means of relieving them from the slight
inconvenience Of paying the interest,
The Committee Of Ways and Means
seem to hesitate between the
two demands and incline to continue
the ta1 ut y per cent enlarging the o1emp.
ton to 5000. We do not believe any e1,
emption can be devised which will be Just
or satisfactory. The only gain from the
exemption is to let out sufficient nu,nhe.
Of voters to prevent the outcry which would
nbata the ta1 "a nuisance If il were made
applicable to the whole people, We hope
Congress will simply leave il to die OF itseu
during the present year according to The
terms OF the present act Let it entirel,
alone.
Year: 1870

A young man who, through strong drink,
was led into evil courses, and was recently
convicted of taking old iron from place
where there had been q fire, and on this
was sentenced to the State Prison for two
or three years, has, through all his vicissi-
tudes, had the warm sympathy Of young
girl, who has known him from infancy, and
who does not believe that Re is as guilty as
charged. She believes that, when intoxi-
Gated, he has done bad and reckless things.
She believes that almost all that was done
Of evil, In Paducah, was blamed on Jack,
and this was unjust. The police consider
Jack very bad fellow, but she does not,
and she has so warmly sympathized with
him that she has taken food constantly to
him since be has been in jail, and, on yes
terday morning, they were married. It can
scarcely be that a man is all bad to whoa a
woman clings so devotedly. Our regular
court report of the affair is as follows:


On yesterday, just before the noon ad-
journment of the Circuit Court, Judge
Grassland ordered the jailor to bring Jack
Green into Court, for the purpose of re-
ceiving sentence to the penitentiary for
grand larceny.


Jack came in Court with devil-may- care
sort of manner, well dressed, with clean
shirt on, and white handkerchief sticking
out of his pocket, and putting a cigar. He
is stout young fellow, about twenty one
years old.


Judge Grassland Jack Green, stand
up. At the January term of the Circuit
Court for 1868 you were ir dicted for grand
larceny, and at the January term, 1870,
were put on your trial before jury of your
counrymen; you were defended by able
counsel, and convicted of the charge. Have
you anything to say why sentence should
not be pronounced against you Pr


Jack Nothing to say.


Judge Crossland-"The sentence of the
Court is, that you be returned to the jail
until such time as the Sheriff can transport
you to the Jail or penitentiary house at
Frankfort, and that you there be confined
to hard labor for the term of two years. -
Sheriff, adjourn the Court until 2 o'clock "


Just at the conclusion of the sentence,
two women entered the courtroom. One
of them jacks mother, the other Molly t.
Rogers, his afianced bride. Molly is a
rosy-cheeked looking girl, about IL years
old, rather pretty, and with the same gay
and Indifferent appearance as Jack. She
took her seat by Jack. Esquire G. Bell
then stepped forward, and, in very ap-
propriate ceremony, married Jack and
Molly. After the proper entries OF the
marriage were made by the Clerk, Jack
laughingly said that he must go to his
house, when he was marched off by the
iailor to his cell. Molly bore the separa-
ton with the fortitude Of a heroine, and re-
tired from the courtroom in good order.
Year: 1870

/ The DAILY News of the following Tues.
day gives particulars of the panic by which
sixteen persons perished in Liverpool on
Jan. 90: Another holocaust of victims to
kunreasonlng and unfounded panic was of.
kfered up, 1t says, sat Liverpool on Sunday
might The story of the catastrophe by


which sixteen persons lost their lives at TIE
doors of place of worship is but a repeti-


ton, IN nearly all its details, of the story


of the madness of fear. A vast conpreoa-


ton had been gathered together by the


preaching of the Passionist Fathers in the


koman Catholic Chapel of st. Joseph. in


Grosvonor street, Rosehill. which is


st the centre of one of the poorest and


most populous parts OF the great seaport


The service was the concluding one of a


very successful series, and such multitu0es


had crowded to it, that after the chapel was


filled the school-room under it was occD-
pied and crammed, and supplementary
service was improvised. While the two
services were quietly proceeding, drunk


en- man forced his way into the school
loom and called out to the preacher, 4 have
heard you long enough Some little dis
turbance WAS created, and some wretched
Idiot shouted Fire Meanwhile several
persons amidst the larger congregation
overhead had just lighted some wax can
dies they had taken with them for the
preachers blessing, and an unusual glare
had thus been thrown upon the chapel
windows, which probably confirmed in the
minds of the people outside the sus-
picion which the cry of fire had
raised. The cries were repeated, a
panic seized the schoolroom congregation


and they made rush for the street. The
people who crowded the staircase and the
aorthern gallery of the chapel heard the
alarm, and believing the school-room to be
on fire they rushed toward the street But
the only passages of egress for the two ex-
cited crowds led across the same landing,
and on this point they met and blocked
each other. The staircase leading to the
chapel became choked with a dense mass
OF struggling people, of whom sixteen We're
killed, and large number wounded. The
panic seems to have communicated itself
to the whole crowd outside the chapel, but
to have been allayed within by the heroic
exertions of the priests, who continued the
chapel service to the end, and thus retained
the greater part of the people in their seats
till the crush was over. Great as the cat
astrophe is, it would have been indefinitely
greater had not this wise course been fol-
lowed. The great congregation was kept
together by the presence of mind of the
officiating clergy, and 1000 people were
thus enabled, after the panic was over, to
go quietly and safely to their homes.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER SHADowED ALTAR.-The, popu-
lar author, Ned Bunthne no less famous
as temperance orator than writer-is at
present writing for that great story and
sketch paper, the New YORK WEEKLY,
thrilling story of real life entitled The
Swallowed Altar" This is a story which
cannot fail to deeply interest not only all
who are already married, but all who con-
template marriage. Every young man,
every young woman, every old man, every
child, in fact, who is capable of sober
thought, will find food for re Election in the
mysteries and incidents which hang around
The Shadowed Altar" We advise our
readers to peruse it without fail.
Year: 1870

"A cave was recently found IN Alton,
Ill, which has been fitted up as receipt
acle for stolen goods The sides OF the cave
were lined with plank, and the key was
found in possession OF one Thomas Sykes.
The marshal of-the city set the place on
fire.
Year: 1870

DANIEL WEBSTER Yrote-"The longer live
the more highly do [ estimate the Christian
sabbath, and the more grateful do feel to-
ward those who impress its Importance on
the community.n
Year: 1870

THE New York World says Senator Sumner opposes the enlargement of the West Point Military Academy, on the ground that the Academy lis not conclusive to loyalty Perhaps not to the negro. Summers idol.
Year: 1870

COLORADO Territory is out of debt, and has money in her pocket. When shall we be able to say the same of our Territoryl But for Mccormick and his poor friends, her head would today be above water.
Year: 1870

$50 the newspaper publications of the United
Estates laws and treaties will be continued" Is
the announcement of the result of the Senate
debate yesterday on the proposition to dispense
with that style of advertising. 1t was an
economy we had hoped to see adopted, for
there is no more warton waste of the public
money than the publication of the laws in the
papers of small circulation which are content
TO take advertisements at Government rates.
1t was subsequently decided that only the
more important laws and treaties should
be published, in papers selected by
the Secretary of State. This does
not mend the matter at all. 1t is only clever
way the Senate has of appearing at once eco
nomical to the public and generous to the
papers. If economy should result from 1t
through the indeffondenee and faithfulness OF
any Secretary of State, and certain editors
be thereby offended the responsibility Will not
lie with the Senate, and doubtless that is just
what the Senate intended.
Year: 1870

are two answers to this doctrine. First, inn
port duties may be at the expense of the pro-
ducer; they must be 80 to the extent that
well-fostered home industry cOmpetes with
foreign goods in our market. Second, if the
charge so much enhanced the price to the con-
sumer, he is by his protected labor enabled
easily and proftably to meet the cost


But what, in the name of all the FreeTrade
authorities. can be said in defense of taxes laid
directly and plumply upon Coffee, Spices,
and other foreign goods which we cannot pro-
dnce. and whose price in our markets we have
no power to reduce by competing commodities
of our ownf We should be neither surprised
nor distressed if Congress accepts the bill
offered on Monday, with Pig and Scrap Iron
struck out. The principles of Protection require
tho admission of all foreign goods free of
duty which do not displace home production.
Nothing but the exigencies of the revenue,
produced by war or its resulting national debt,
can Justify q Protectionist in taxing tropical
products imported for consumption in temper
ate climate. The feeling is simply anti-Amerl-
can. 1t has the unwisdOm or wickedness OF
rebellion against the country's welfare in it.
1t is neither republican, democratic, nor even
aristOcratic All these sentiments alike repudl-
ate it. 1t is only and merely anti-American.
Protection looks to Free Trade as its aim and
end. 1t pursues this object by first making
home trade, through home industry, free; and,
securing this point, it moves forward as fast
and as far toward universal Free Trade as minis
ters to, and cOmpOrts with, the well-being OF
home. 1t was the heavily protective Tariff OF
1923 that in 1882 gave us our first free Coffee,
and a hundred other commodities, especially
of the tropics, which our own soil cannot
yield; and we never shall have these goods
free again till the Protective system sets them
free
Year: 1870

THE PRESIDENT And THE FENIANS.


The Neutrality laws give authority to the
President of the United States to call upon
the land and naval forces, if he sees fit, in
order to prevent the departure of hostile ex-
peditiOns fitted out within our territory against
a nation with which we are at peace. We say
the laws give authority to the President to do
this, but they do not impose it upon him as
duty. The most enthusiastic friends of the
Fenans must rejoice, however, that he has
chosen to interfere in the present instance.
Whatever hope the sanguiDe may have enter
tanned of the conquest of Ireland by way OF
Vermont of the ability of the Fenians to cap
ture Canada, to hold it if captured, or to make
any use of it if they held it, has been dissi-
pated by the burlesque battle of Franklin. An
army moving two or three hundred miles to
the field of battle, and then dispensing at the
appearance of an officer of the law, as
parcel of truant boys might run
away from policeman fre-eating general
swearing when he crossed the Canadian Rubi
con that he never would come back except
as a conqueror or corpse, and then being
hustled off the CORY field by a couple of
trumpery marshals and driven to Jail through





tacles to blast the expectations of even the
most credulous of the children of Erin. When
the commander was thus shamefully carried
out the back door, the troops went away to
vail their faces, and the battle vanished like a
collapsed bubble. The enormous absurdity,
however, of the whole transaction must not
blind us to its more serious aspects. Even a
Fenian war is an awful evil. 1t means untold
suffering and loss not only for the soldiers on
both sides, but for the innocent inhabitants of
the frontier whose lives are periled, and
whose property is swept away by these sense
less raids.


The President, therefore, is morally if no,
legally bound to stop such expeditions- first
for the sake of the Fenian rank and flle ther
selves, who are wasting life and rdoney IN nre
posterous undertakings, and, secondly, for III,
sake of the country people, who are really tn,
chief sufferers by can.paign such as that now
menacing the frontier. Common sense, how
ever, seems to suggest that the arrests cannot
be made too soon. Hundreds of recruits leave
the cities for the Fenian army every day
and - would be kinder TO arrest then
at the start than to wait till the fight.
ing has actually begun. Their movements
| are open and their purposes are undisgnised
If they are permitted TO Concentrate we NAV
find it impossible to stop them, but any of the
detachments which are now separately march
ing upon the Dominion could be faced about
and sent home by company from Governors
Island and platoon of police. But for the
singular accident of Gen. O'Neils being such
very limp person, Marshal Fosters coup de
theatre on Wednesday would hardly have sue
ceeded. There was no good reason why the
General should let himself he arrested unless
he wanted to, and there was no reason why
the army should go to pieces as soon as it lost
him, precious as the presence of so sagacious
and plucky a commander must have been. 1t
Year: 1870

Out of the refuse of the streets which Con-
tractor Brown has left to simmer beneath the
Summer sun has sprung a grain Of conscience
to agitate the official heart. We should be
happy to learn that the Commissioners who
supervise his doings have at last discovered
what everybody else has long known, and
ceased to certify that work neglected has not
only been done but properly done. We are
forced, however, to admit that only the Board
of Police has been moved to action in the
matter But, if the order now given is fully
obeyed, Browns ways in the future will be
likely to be more seemly. He is to be watched
and weekly reports of his neglects are to be
made We are little curious to see whether
the Tammany Street-Cleaning Commissioners
will go on paying him his money with these
proofs before them that he has not earned it.
Year: 1870

We have no doubt, as Mr.. Lynch yesterday
charged that the Clyde shipbuilders have had
hand in opposing the adoption of the bill 10
revive American Navigation and Commerce.
But there is no need that Western members
generally, whose opposition on other and more
honest grounds is clearly understood, should
Indignantly repel the charge as false and
"insulting." Mr.. Lynch did not refer to them,
and the public cOmprehends clearly enough
that they were not meant. The public
also understand who were meant Everybody
knows that the Western opposition is on strictly
sectional grounds. The interior does MT want
to be taxed, directly or indirectly, for the BEN
eft, near or remote, of the sea-cOast. AS the
interest to be revived is a national one, such
sectional opposition does not appear the most
statesmanlike, but there is little doubt of its
honesty. Clyde shipbuilders know well enough
that there was no need to employ mOney-if
money could be employed-in that quarter
Western opposition was already assured with
out cost.


1t is not clear that the bill is dead, al
though Mr.. Lynch yesterday proposed to lay it
aside. The House refused to lay it on the
table by vote of 1O5 Yeas to 81 Nays, and it
again comes up to-day, doubtless for final dis
nnsitiOn
Year: 1870

When Gov. Hoffman signed the Erie Direc-
tory bill he signed his own resignation to
claim upon the confidence of honest men.
There were still, perhaps, lawyers who I'M
agined that he meant to enforce hon
estly and in the spirit of the
act the provision by means of which
it was possible to bring Judges from other
parts of the State to NewYork to sit in the
General Term for the review of cases of ap-
peal from our Ring Judiciary. Even these must
now be undeceved The Governor puts in
a pitiful plea of inability to make an ar
rangement mutually satisfactory to the Judges
and himself. He has succeeded in max
ing one perfectly unsatisfactory to the
public, whom it was his business to serve
and satisfy. He had an opportunity to
do something toward purifying the corrupt
Judiciary of the City Of New-York; some
thing toward giving chance for justice
or appeal in cases where it was
fagrantly denied at the original trial.
He has refused the opportunity. 1t will not
change the estimate of his character enter
tanned by those who know him. it may make
it a little palmer to those who have hitherto
hesitated to think as i'll of him as occasion
seemed to demand
Year: 1870

The seat of war on the Canadian border is
transferred from the scene of inglorious fail
ure at Franklin to the west side of Lake
Champlain. The forces of Gen. O'Neil have
been scattered in every direction, and now
beg their way homeward. Their arms, sold to
the country people, have been seized and gath
cred up by the Government troops, of whom
two companies preserve the peace on
the border at Franklin. Further west,
Gen. Gleason, with 1000 men, is four
miles across the border at Trout River
a short distance northeast of Malone, and
has intrenched his position to await, instead
of moving forward in search of, an enemy.
What is to be the result of this inactiOn is
not difficult to imagine. The failure of
Gleason may not prove as absurd as that of
O'Neil, but it seems certain to be as complete.
ReGnforcements hurry forward to Malone only
to augment the inevitable disaster-not to
prevent it. 1t was evidently the design of
Gen. O'Neil to seize the two railroads to
Montreal. What the plan now is cannot be
conjectured from the reported movements.