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Year: 1873

No MAN or woman was over cured Of
love by discovering the falsity Of his or
her lover. The living together for three
long rainy days in the country has done
more to dispel love than all the perfdies
in love that have ever been committed.
Year: 1873

Although the bombast of the past was wea-
TlsOme, it had its virtue in the patriotism by
which it was usually inspired. This virtue
gave It attraction, and there are few of our
elders who have not been thrilled by the diffu-
slve, burning harangue of the stump but to
our ears the wild cry OF the bird OF freedom
has become a disagreeable squawk. After a
while, its voice got into the IhrOats of dema-
ROcues Oftener than those of true men, aud
thus it went out Of fashion. Now, when n
man begins to talk about this great and glori-
Gus country, and her manifest destiny, we
suspect him Of q scheme to obtain land grants
or subVentiOns for steamship llnes-tO extend
the area Of freedom. When he speaks OF the
sufFerings of his community through the want
OF internal improvements, we suspect him OF
q desire to get his hand into the meal-bag
and when he says he Is ready to lay down his
life on the altar of liberty, our suspicious
grow to convictions. II, in addition to this
he inVOkes the name OF his Maker as to the
purity and patriotism of his motives, our mind
Is made up.-Alb0rt Rhodes "SpeechmakiHg
In Congress :" .ScrlJRsr's for january
Year: 1873

How TO RETURN TO SILvER.-Ihe
first attempt made by the treasury to
substitute a metal currency for the pa
ner postal shinplaster was the drawing
IN Of tbe three-cent and then OF the i've
cent paper notes, and issuing in lien
thereof the three-cent and ive'cen'
nickel coin we have to day. 80, let thu
treasury department follow along viii
Year: 1873

When VIM. II. Seward declardd in
speech at Auburn, New York, "There is an
irrepressible conflict in this country between
freedom and slavery, and the day is at hand
when the cotton fields of the South will be
worked by free labor, or the corn fields of
the North be titled by slave hands, it was a
prophetic truth that he uttered. When Ben
Wade, Of Ohio, said in the United States
Senate, "Talk Of peace in this country, when
more enmity exists to-day between the peo-
pie of the North and South than between any
two nations of the world, is futile" it was IL
logical truth. And when we say on this
paper, the ballot will scarcely end the strife
between the monopolies and the people OF
this country, we write down only that which
is as certainly true as was either of these
declarations in their day. The ballot is now
the arbitrator, and the bullet, the sword and
the knife are the court ofappeal. Will the
monopoists, the shoddyites, the rich and
those in power submit TO the decision of the
ballot, if against them? And if against the
people, will they, ought they to surrender
and cover in the face of the eternal chains
Of slavery for them and their posterity ? They
may for while, but it will be only the
smouldering volcano gathering force, which
will again burst forth and deluge our country
with lava of blood The chains of slavery
are CALLING, and among the aboriginal tribes
Of this country no slaves were found, nor will
America ever produce them from European
blood. The last hair that breaks the camel 5
back has not yet been placed on the produc-
ing people Of America.
Year: 1873

PRESIDENT GRANT has written a letter try
ing to give Colfax character Now, we
suggest hat the President obtain an affidavit
OF Mortimer, in the Sacramento Jail. as to
his own good character, as Mortimer is on
the swear.
Year: 1873

FLUNKEyIsM Some Of the funkeys at
Washington have commenced comparing
Grant to Christ, and it is supposed that by
the time he goes to the sea beach this Spring
thl, he will be biz enough fool to commanu
the tide not to flow.
Year: 1873

II a man is a man, it is not the property he can
eat up or wear out or consume Immediately in any
way, that he most enjoys. But it is that which is
most safely secured for those he will leave to
mourn when he dies.
Year: 1873

The New York Herald has had repor-
tiers interviewing the leading editors and
politicians in the country, to ascertain
their feelings in regard to electing Grant
a third time, comes to the conclusion
that an apathy exists among the people
that would not make a monarchy or an
empire impossible. Some of the parties
interviewed expressed the hope that an
empire would be established. In conclu-
sion 1t says; I'm the South this feeling
Is perhaps more general than in the
North, for the crushed and oppressed
condition of the Southern States under
the present Administration makes the
people of that section anxious to be freed
from the domination of the Republican
party, With an empire established the
ohiiteration of party lines would quickly
follow In the North an empire would
not be welcome, but it is likely it would
De acqulesced in, the money interests of
ta'e years exerting great influence against
frequent political changes and in favor of
strong, centralized Government. On
all hands we see evidences of Casarism.
which impel us to keep up the battle
against looming despotism. /" ....
Year: 1873

A minister in lowe was compelled to
sue for his salary, to. the amount Of $35-
50. Let US hope that it was not his
stipend for whole year; but, however
that may have been, the defense claimed
that there had been. no corresponding
service; non meruit; his preaching WASH t
worth the money. The result of the
trial was not stated; but the gentleman
of the cloth ought to await with very
great interest. If it shall once come to
be established as legal principle that
congregations need not pay their pas
tors more than they fairly earn, there
will speedily be bear movement in the
sermon market.
Year: 1873




AN enterprislng gambling house in
Denver recently hired a rather fresh
young man from tie States to do n lit
tie "capping." He soon spotted n
burly Inan of rustic dress aud manners,
who looked for all the world like an
honest ranchman from down the
Platte, and just dismounted from
wagon load Of potatoes somewhere
round the corner. The capper drew
him Into conversation, and the rustic
dropped on the game ut once, was
Piled with numerous SOCIAL glasses,
and rather gradually and expensively
inveigled Into the lair Of the tiger.
When the Ingenious youth called the
attention Of old King Pharoah himself
to the prize he had in tow, that poten-
tate rndeIy asked him: "What tho
= did you pilot the Chief of Police
In here for?"
Year: 1873

A SCHOLARLY undertaken OF New
York will shortly send to press vol
ums deprccating the manufacture and
use Of nltro-glycerine. Should the
employment OF that explosive agent
become more general, he says, then his
occupations gone. since no remains
are ever found after a nitro-glycerine
blow up.
Year: 1873

- All the petroleum that has been found in the
United States has been in a strip of territory
twenty miles on an average in width, extending
from Canada to Tennessee, parallel with the
edge OF the Allegheny mountain range. Nine.
stenths OF the present production is found in the


pennsylvania oil region, which is about eighty


miles in length.
Year: 1873

We issue the TINES from new quarters this
week. The change was made quite unexpect-
edly, and we part with our old quarters with
some regret, yet we have more room in our
new location, which is compensation. The
trouble of moving was great, but We have, by
extra rxertion, made up the lost time, and
issue to day but little behind the usual hour.
We hive never missed an issue in the six
years of our publishing
Year: 1873

AN lNClDENTIN THE PRIVATE History OF A
DELAWARE FAMILY. The Delaware RepuLH-
c'm prints the following in its last issue
Alany years ago gentleman the son of a
former Governor OF our State) succeeded
IN betrayIng quite pretty AMI respectable
young lady, resident in one of the towns in one
of the lower counties The produce of the
betrayal was baby boy, who ito conceal the
shame incident to the transactiOn) was placed
with farmer, in the neghborhOod The boy
grew up, and bore the name OF the farmer who
raised him. The lady married one Of the
sclons of an old Delaware family. She was, to
use common term, well to do" in other
words was able TO live on her rents aud
interests. When the Toy grew to be about
twelve or fifteen years old, he felt ayearning to
know his mother. He had been informed of
his history. Accordingly he called upon her
hoping to obtain an scknOwledg dgment, private
or public of her relationship But the lady
was III 10 humOr to compromise herself, and
refused to acknowledge the stray waf of her
Illicit love. The boy went away hurt and dis
appointed. At later period he again called
upon her hoping that time had wrought
change in her feelings But the lady still
refused to acknowledged her offspring Pride
OF character Outweighed maternal affection,
although she had no other children, and when
she saw him enter she got up and left the room.
deigning to make this remark: Bless me now
there is this trouble come again" The boy
then left Years flew by and the lady long
since became widow. Her boy became
man. tie moved tc Wilmington and learnt
trade, married and now has family. His
character was always irreproachable, he led the


life OF a sober, honest, upright citizen. Still feel
ing yearnlng to make the acquaintance OF his
mother he determined to visit the town where
she lived, to see it she would yet acknowledge
hIm. But pride still Outweighed maternal
love. She still refused 10 recognize or have
anything to say to him, and h. came home sick
and disappointed. OF course the lady is now
old
Year: 1873

An interesting contribution to science has
recently been made by the Meteorological De-
partment at London upon the meteorology
of the Antarctic. This investigation is mainly
designed to furnish the basis of organization
for any expedition that may be sent to the
southern seas for observing the transit of
Venus in 1874, the best view point for which
is known to be within the Antarctic circle
The exploration of these antipodal regions is
unquestionably the most promising now in re-
serve for the geographer and the scientist
Since the year 1910, when the three national
expeditions French, under d. Urville; the
American, under Wilkes, and the English,
under Ross-penetrated and partially discov-
cred this South Polar world, Antarctic research
has slumbered, although the results OF the
three great voyages were richly remunerative.
1t was reserved for Ross, who had few years
previously seen-what no mortal eye had before
seen--the magnetic needle in directly ver-
teal position at the north magnetic pole, to
witness the same magnetic wonder at the
south magnetic pole, and thus to furnish the
world, what would otherwise have been i'm
possible, a correct chart of the magnetic lines
over the whole habitable globe. The intrepid
navigator, after spending three summers in
the south seas, returned, however, leaving un-
solved the great problem whether the South
Pole is surrounded by an icy ocean or a great
continent; and this problem still continues to
engage universal interest


e -,
arctic survey is the determination and correct
charting Of the vast iceberg currents by which,
over an area of 100000 square miles, the
navies and merchant vessels of all nations
are, from lack of information, annually i'm
perilled and often beset. From Australia
to New York and Liverpool the run of home
ward bound ships is necessarily on high
southern attitudes, because, to avoid facing the
fierce westerly gales and to use them by cam
vas, they must pass Cape Horn. So powerful
and continuous are these gales that a stanch
vessel, guarding against ice, may make an
average steamship speed; but the ice is the
terror Of navigation, and the present ice
charts, made from old and fragmentary
exploration, are felt to be untrustworthy.


But besides the practical issues involved in
new Antarctic surveys there is the great ques-
ton to be settled whether the South Polar
region is covered by land or water. II land
mass of vast dimensions encircles the South
Pole completely it might offer in the Antarctic
summer peculiar facilities for attaining the
highest southern latitude and thus solving the
old problem. In 1640 Admiral d Urville sighted
an iceberg off the Cape of Good Hope thir-
teen miles long and Of great height and the
enormous ice drifts from the far south-said to
be sufficient in size and number to stud the
Continent Of Asia-indicate immense Antarctic
watersheds as the receptacles for the glaciers
out of which these ice islands are made,
and from which, by their accumulated weight,
they are launched seaward. The present state
of our knowledge Of these regions is not such
as TO warrant any satisfactory statement ns to
;he oxiain- and source Of lhe Mighty Antarctic
Year: 1873

The LAST DAY OF REG1srRAr1oN-T To-day
is the last day of registration under our pres
ent exacting election law. No citizen can vote
in the approaching election unless his name is
duly registered this year, and the registration
closes finally to-day. Important questions are
to be decided in this contest, although there is
On evident indifference on the part of the
people, and the duty of the elective franchise
threatens to be seriously neglected The
judges, the State Legislature, the annexation
question-all these are to be settled by the re-
suit at the polls next month, and every good
citizen should feel it to be his duty to register
and to vote. 1t is to be hoped that all who
have neglected that duty will avail themselves
of the last opportunity to get their names on
the list to-day.
Year: 1873

SUNSHINE IN Borr1Es.-We do not know
which being does the most harm to the good
fellowship of society, the man in the gutter
or the prohibitionist. Both are equally OPP
posed to the liberal culture of the grape and
the healthful consumption of wine-the one
from his habitual use of the Installations of
grain, in the form of whiskey and rum, in
lieu of the ''liquid velvet" described by
HERALD correspondent this morning, and
the other, the dyspeptic, dogmatic Puritan,
from a fear that few drops of divine
nourishment would destroy the peace of his
kingdom on earth Americans, on the wine
question, follow thus the extremes of fiery in
diligence and total abstinence, which leave
them no third party on our soil.
Year: 1873

They ARE RESOLVED To Snow THEIR
SrnESoTH.-The Liberal Republican Execu-
tive Committee Of this State, at a recent meet
ing, adopted measures to bring out tho full
strength OF the party in our coming November
election. And why not, after what this third
party ACCOMPLISHED in thu late Ohio election ?
Year: 1873

We have received from ID. NJ. Hollings-
worth, ESQ, tickets for the lottery for the
fine buggy which he has so generously don
ated for the benefit of the family of the
lamented Captain Joseph Fry. We hope to
be able to return to him the equivalent for
each of those tickets and for many others.
The sale of tickets will close ON the twenty-
third instant. SO that the proceeds may. in
accordance with the happy thought of Mr.


Hollingsworth, be handed to the recipients
as Christmas gift. This most excellent
way of increasing fund to be devoted to
SO noble purpose shoald be responded to
by erybcdy. The additional advantage
of the contribution to the charity, of the
chance to obtain Holingsworth buggy for
dollar, is not to be despised. Tickets may
be obtained at the counting room of the
REPUBLICAN until the twenty-third instant.
Year: 1873

BALTIMORE, December 5.-There is not
the slightest foundation for the dispatch
sent from Trenton that freight train ran
off the track on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, nine miles from this city, smash,
worth of property and delaying trains be-
tween New York and Washington last
night.


The officers of the company state there
was no accident or delay Of any kind yes
Year: 1873

The Radical press continues to make
structures upon The Legislature.for having
done but little, and unfortunately few
Democratic Journals have taken up the cry,
and repeat the very ISLANDERS which our po
ltieal enemies have put upon foot to injur,
the party. These papers will see their error
in time, and repent in sackcloth and ashes
They have given food to an enemy while ,
band Of patriotic men in the Legislator,
have been working their mightiest to st,
curo good for the people. The fruits oi
this labor IS rapidly coming to maturity
Many good and necessary measures hav,
passed the Legislature, and Of late they ar,
beginning to come thick and fast. Let
those who complain stop but moment anS
think and they will not only see that the,
are telling falsehoods suggested by theii
enemies. buf that they ara doing their bes
TO ruin the(paltv.
Year: 1873

Governor DAVIS, in his veto message, says
, there is nearly three hundred thousand dol
lars Of the available school fund in the
Treasury. What a blessing this amount
would be to those who need it, and to
whom it belongs. Why is it that this large
amount Of money must be withheld from
the needy teachers, when their salaries are
due theml He says that there is some
thing very supicious. about it. and truly
there is something very suspicious about
the veto. Docs he intend to handle the
money to his profit now, and keep it for use
in the next canvassl
Year: 1873

INTERESTING DEcIsIoNs.-In the SUI
preme Court of the United States, in a case
from Wisconsin, the court gave it as its
opinion that railroads arc public highways,
no matter whether they are built and oper-
ated by the State or private corporations; !;
and that the building of railroads is there
fore a matter of public concern, to aid
which it is just as Constitutional to levy a
tax as for the building of wagon road or
any other public work, and the collection of
these taxes cannot be resisted by authority
of article five of amendments to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, which provides
that private property shall not be taken for
public use without just compensation.
Another decision of the same tribunal the
same day, was that common carriers cannot
be required to know the contents of pack
ages not particularly described by the ship
pers. This suit was against an express
company in whose charge there had been a
box of nitro-glycerine when it exploded
and ruined building. OF course the ex-
press company had no damages to pay.
Year: 1873

Present indications are that we are to
have a general Indian warfare, and vigor-
Gus and decided one is the best thing which
can happen TO secure frontier protection.
The Indians, If once thoroughly convinced
that they are powerless, would mend their
ways, and become moro willing converts to
civilization.
Year: 1873

At the present price Of money ten or fif-
teen thousand dollars per month could be
made out Of the $500, 600 available school
fund which Governor Davis is so anxious
TO hold on to for as Tonga time as possible.
Year: 1873

There is something Every suspicious .
about the veto Of the b;g providing for the
payment of teachers. Wonder if the Gov.
ernor is afraid to have a call made upon
the treasury for the $500, 600 available
school fund, which ought to be there.
Year: 1873

Reflect that sound mind and body are tho
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness. Indeed, without these. the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage the
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness of
anh4hnr ia hlinhtnd with 0ur own.
Year: 1873

END OF A CAREER OF CRME.-On Thursday
May 10th, Charles j. Flynn, more commonly
known as Charles Mortimer. paid the extreme
penalty Of the law for the brutal murder of Mrs
Mary Gibson in Sacramento. The circumstances
Of the crime Of the most fiendish nature; the
object was money, supposed to be in deceased's
possession. Carrie Spencer. an abandoned wo-
man, who WAS living with Mortimer at the time
was supposed TO be an associate with the muir
derer in the commission Of the atrocious deed
The unfortunate man left his written history
behind him, which shows him to have been of
an abandoned nature from boyhood; one rather
preferring evil than the contrary. Previous to
his death Mortimer displayed many indications
of insanity, but after close examination by COM
petent physicians, was pronounced sane. He
declined to speak or recognize any one. and even
refused to look at his brother, who came from
Massachusetts to visit him. Either he was pos
sessed of the most extraordinary nerve, or his
mind was deranged. However the case may be-
he is now beyond the judgment of men. and has
made his appearance before higher tribunal
than is known on earth.
Year: 1873

GENERAL PAEz DEAD.-Ex Governor Paez. Of
Venezuela, died in New York city on the 10th
instant and was buried from his residence in
that city. His history has been an eventful one,
embracing the most important revolution which
has occurred in South America during long
period The hero of many battles, and the in
augurRtor of Independence and liberty in his
own country. finds fitting resting place on the
soil where liberty first had a being His remains
were followed to the grave yonly a small con-
course of people but these were friends, in the
true sense Of the word, and, more honor was
paid him through their presence than could have
been rendered by thousands who go to fill the
ranks, as fashionable mourners.
Year: 1873

CHEF JUSTICE CHAsE-rhe remains Of that
great spirit has been laid In the dust. and mil.
Hons are left TO mourn over his untimely fate
The honors of earthly burial were accorded to
him in great measure, the corpse being fol-
lowed TO the grave by several Of the most emf.
nent men now living The great men of onr
nation seem to be rapidly passing away, and
shortly we shall have none left Of those who
have formed the glory of our country for years
left among ms. Who shall take the places left
vacant by their demise' Have we any among
us who can so well and faithfully perform the
duties lately devolyihg upon the dead Chief JUS
ticei 1t Is to be hoped that iitting successor
may be appointed one that will not detract from
the dignity so ably maintained by the noble
spirit now gone forever.