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Year: 1872

On Saturday evening the steamer Tiger Lily ran
into the steamer Catlin, on the i've O'Clock trip
from Harlem to High Bridge. After striking the
Catlin she rebounded and got under the ironwork
Of the BRIDGE carrying away the pilot-houss and
breaking the smokestack across near its base, til
IL lay at an angle OF about forty-nve degrees, and
the work Of destruction was completed by tearing
away the rails and framework on the upper deck.
In the alarm and confusion that prevailed,
some of the passengers were on the
point Of jumping overheard, until the steamer
was run to the opposite shore, alongside
OF coal-barge,. where all got hurriedly
to shore as best they could. Fortunately there
were few passengers ON board or the loss Of life
would have been serious, and the circumstances
connected with the case demand the strictest In
vesgaon In the interest Of public safety as there
are not many instances OF more daring reckless
ness and culpable neglect Of duty than was shown
on this occasion. The Tiger Lily has been t0wed
down the river for repairs and the Noses Taylor pus
In her place. As the writer OF this happened 70 Do
on board at the time OF the accident, ne ls dssrouS
that the travelling public should be reminded ol tne
danger they incur by lndul9ing III mice uttto
trip" from Harlem to High Bridge.
Year: 1872

A Sermon by Professor Greene, Of Prince.
tom College, ON the Laborcrs and the
Harvest.


There was quite full and fashionable gathering
at the Presbyterian church at the corner OF Fifth
avenue and Nineteenth street yesterday morning,
to listen to the sermon OF the Rev. DR.. Greene Presl
dent Of Princeton College, on 'The Laborers and
the Harvest.n


Dr.. Greene began by reading the text from Luke,
x, 2 and then read as follows I'm achieving his
work OF redemption and atonement Jesus was
alone. Unaded by man he trod ont the wine press.
He asked no human cooperation In His
work, and, though He asked men to
pray for one another. He asked no
prayers for Himself. Now. sitting on the
right hand Of God in heaven, He calls for men to
pray for their own redemption and to accept the
fruits Of HIS atoning sacrifice. He calls upon men
to work and pray-not ". o-"'-


TO wHTBwAsH THE FENCES
or trim the hedges repair the paths but to reap
the harvest. And what harvesti Not one OF
gllstenIng grain, but q harvest OF human souls,
reaped under the magnificent scheme for human
redempti0n-a harvest which will repay the
Eternal Father for the sacrifice of His only Son,
which will repay the Son Of God for the
cruel bufYetings He met, which will
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upon Himself the bodily form, with ali Of human
misery and all OF human weakness He goes to His
Father and ieigns one with Him on the throne Of
the skies. poor weak man, He asked no assist
ance rom men; but now, when He needs not the
aid OF weak humanity, He calls to them to gather
the fruit OF His labors They not sent in an in
fcrior capacity, with abors OF little Importance nor
are they sent to encounter the trials the obstacles
and sunerings which met Him In the progress Of
the work OF human meli0ratiOn. But they are to
repay the Holy Spirit for the glory OF It's presence
This gathering OF the harvest Is the great event OF
human history, before which the getting Of wealth,
the making OF discoveries and the Increase OF
knowledge are Of comparatively little value.


MEN ARE THE LABORERs
and the only lab0rers In this harvest. To their
fidelity and industry the work has been committed,
and without their action not single sheaf OF grain
can be carried to the st0rehouse. All the schemes
Of God depend upon mems activity and faith, and
they must pray to the Lord OF the harvest aud labor
diligently. No special revelation will be made to
any individual, and II Is the duty OF all to pray and
preach to spread the Gospel. That Gospel viii not
20 through closed doors and into barred places
without you carry IL there.


TIE PEOPLE OF GOD
are charged with preaching the Gospel to all ma
ti0ns. They occupy the position OF engineers,
standing between the spirit OF God and the souls
OF men. The engineer does not draw the engine
his strength would not suflce to move the slightest
shaft. but when the engineer opens the valve the
Year: 1872

Thc Sin OF False Pride-Open and Secret
sins-Discourse by Rev. Mr.. Snyder.


yesterday being communion Sabbath In 81.
Marks, In Stuyvesant street. there was no regular
sermon. During the absence OF the pastor, Rev.
DR.. Rylance, the pulpit was occupied by Rev. Mr..
Snyder, rector OF the mission attached 70 the
church. Mr. Snyder took for his text the words OF
the sinstricken publican, "God be merciful to me.
q sinner" After speaking OF the circumstances
under which this prayer was uttered-the retire.
ment TO the temple OF


THE PHARIsEE AND PUBLICAN


10 orer up their prayers to the Lord-the minister
said that they were representative men of their
time. The Pharisee is q wel-known character, He
was celebrated for his zeal for God and his earnest
ness in keeping the law. They were the most re.
lglous as well as the most patriotic OF the people,
The pubcans were the most despsed Of men, ow.
Ing to the peculiar calling In which they generally
engaged. At this time the Roman revenue was
collected In o peculiar manner. A kind Of joint
stock company would purchase from the Roman
government for q stipulated sum the right to col
lect the revenue. They would appoint as their
agents men who went about to collect the tithes
anu nence these TAX gatherers were considered


A DISREPUTABLB CLASS.


The publican was one OF these aQents The
whole system was plan OF organized fraud and
In consequence the publican was universally
despised. These two representative men went up
the prayer OF each. The Pharisee thanks God tnat
he Is SO much better than other men, that he Keeps
the law, that he is not like the publican. lie feels
Him. Not so the publican lie smItes his breast
IN consciousness OF his unw0rthiness and excaims


"0OD BE MERCIFCL TO ME, A SINNERW


We are not aware how the publican came to feel
Year: 1872




Reopening or the Winter season-The


Revelation Made to Paul.


Rev. James n Pullman preached ut the Church
Of the Saviour Fourth Universalist Society, on
Thirtynfth street, between Fifth and Sixth ave.
nues. yesterday morning, on the reopening OF the
church after


THE SUMNER VACATION.


There was very slim attendance Mr.. Pullman
chose for his text Acts xxvi., 19-"Whereupon, o
King, was not dsobedient to the heavenly
vsi0n," referring to Pauls defence before AgrIppa.
II Paul had not been obedient to the heavenly
vision we would have had no Paul enforcing the
heavenly mandates. Most OF US In our life say that
II we only had now and then o heavenly vision, if
the light above the brightness Of the sun were to
illumine our dark pathway as 1t illumined His
blind one, and voice which we could not mistake
as that OF Gods were to come out OF the heavens
tam tans assSs would ssand ana onfS


WAITING ALL OUR LIVES


direct voice OF God will speak to us and direct
1t did Paul. We forget that our little woes and
above as nothing by the side OF the great end for
which He placed us here. We look, as looked not
long ago In the silence OF the night, upon


THE SILENT SKY,


stretched like tent froln one distant horizon to
the other, spangled with gltten stars and think.
ing OF Its five and ten thousand years OF history
and OF the countless prayers that have gone up to
1t; OF the sorrow the woe the gayety, the countless
passions and emotions enacted beneath It, we have
wondered that those silent skies have been silent
still. But the skies have made


H-laH aHF REVELATIONS. t4A


To the astronomer who points his tube toward
their thousand stars and earnestly and patiently
seeks their meaning they make revelations readily.
They only walt to be truly sought. SO 1t Is with
the revelations Of Cod During the season allotted
to quiet and rest just passed, how many OF YOU
amid the
PLEASANT SCENES AND THE PHEASANT COMPANY
about you have felt now and then a longing for
home aud the society that clustered about your
home The thought OF home has made 1t ever pres
ent with you. "rhe heart untravellcd fondly turns
to home.0 How many In business turning for q
few days to that relaxation which they are told
they need, have found a troublesome unrest per.
vading them-a fear that they arc '----'-'
rtr NEGLECTING THEIR BUSINESS,


and that they ought not to take their ease while
their business may be suffering May not these
be the revelations that God intends for you, as He
Intended the more direct revelation on the road to
Damascus for Paul Every day such revelations
are making to each and all Of us, II we could only
comprehend them and receive them Alright. Every
day In this great city of revelations plain
that made to Paul are making to blinded men, no
more benighted than was Saul OF Tarsus, but they
will not read them Alright.
Year: 1872

The lecture season win be opened on Thursday
evening very auspiciously by the delivery OF q
lecture by the Rev. Father Burke. The subject is
popular and attractive to O very large number Of
OF the Age" The lecture will be delivered in the
Academy or Music. - lNl .o p " Ieo ihit
Year: 1872

a 1.-THE of the despOtism that we are row


experiencing. Blackmailing has become as


common as negro witnesses here. Every
man who owns any property Is expecting a


visit from deputy marshal, and we are


collecting evidence to fasten it upon some


of the villains. They arrest men without


warrants, and if the lawyer of a prisoner


asks to see the warrant, he is told that or


deTs have been issued not to show any one
the warrants. And, what is worse, if the


marshals find out any witness who


can prove the prisoner innocent, they


Immediately arrest him for the same ofense,


so that he cannot testify. Most Of the Ku-
Klux outrages were committed at night,
when all good people were in bed; and in
the case of married man, his lcife only
could know his innocence, but we learn
that the wife's evidence is ruled out. We
have two such cases, of two of our most re-
spectacle men. The fact is, cannot give
you even faint idea of our condition. The
country people are afraid to come into town,
and all who have been active Democrats
have left, not because they are guilty of any
crime, but to escape being thrown into
prison with gang Of negro criminals or
witnesses. No one is permitted to see the
even wives, mothers or sis
tiers. The soldiers act like gentlemen to
the prisoners. 1t is the Marshals who act
so inhumanly. The other day two of them
went into lady's bedroom, while she was
at dinner, and searched every drawer and
nook In the room; and most respectable
old Lady, Mrs. Dawhins, was compelled TO
get from her bed and dress before Hammett
and the soldiers he had with him. could
tell you much more, but l sicken.
Year: 1872

A bevy of Schenectady girls have agreed
to let their waists expand, and, as conSe-
quence, corsets there are slow Ofsale. They
discard hoop-skirts also, and dress so as to
display much ankle-all Of which is :ensi-
bic.


A married lady in Connecticut recently
fell into river and would have been drown
ed except that her cries attracted the atten-
ton of her husband, who mistaking her in
the dark for another woman, worked like
a beaver to get her ont.


A lady witness in q st. Louis court: ''Give
me the least grain of truth for basis and /
can ruin the character of any woman in the
world.p Let gossips ponder this remark and
they gill be brought TO realization Of its
truth. "


Ladies who have just returned from
abroad report that large paniers have gone
entirely out of fashion, and oyerskirts are
made short and plain. They also report
tre latest style of dressing the hair is in a.
simple coil at the back, and the front hai
smoothed over the forehead and put back
plainly behind the ears.
Year: 1872

less apprehensive and the calmer they grew:
Having once banished hope, tranquility seemed
to descend upon them as substitute, and at
terward, if free from physical pain, there was
unrufled peace. If encouraged to believe
that they might get we'll, or if they had ia
vorable turn, the old anxiety, with something
of the former apprehension, reappeared-pro.
wing that the mental disquietude was born of
their expectation of life, not of their fear of
death. Thus was established clear analogy
between mental and spiritual anguish under the
same circumstances. As 70 have seen, they
who are badly hurt, or seriously i'll, experience
suffering in going back to life, while the down.
ward path to death, both for the body and
soul, is paved with smoothness and serenity.
Year: 1872

FURNISH GooD READING.-One of the
pleasantest and noblest duties of the head of
the family is to furnish its members with good
reading. In times which are past it was con-
sidered enough to clothe and feed and shelter
a family. This was the sum Of parental duty.
But lately it has been discovered that wives
and children have minds, so that it becomes
necessary to educate the children and furnish
reading for the whole household. 1t has been
found out that the mind wants food as we'll as
the body, and that it wants to be sheltered
from the pitiless storms of error and vice by
the guarding and friendly roof of intelligence
and virtue. An ignorant family in our day
is an antiquated institution. 1t smells of the
musty past. 1t is dark spot which the light
of the modern sun Of intelligence has not
reached. Let good reading 60 into home,
and the very atmosphere of that home grad
ually but surely changes. The boys begin to
grow ambitious, to talk about men, books, the
past and the future. The girls begin to feel
a new life opening before them in knowledge,
duty and love. They see new fields of useful
ness and pleasure. And so the family changes,
and out from its number will grow intelligent
men and women, to fill honorable places, and
be useful members of society," Let the torch
of intelligence be lit in every household. Let
the old and the young vie with each other in
introducing new and useful topics of investi-
CATION, and in cherishing love of reading,
study and improvement
Year: 1872

HOMEMADE CANDY.-Use a new tin ba-
sin put into it four tablespoons of water,
one pound of good coffee sugar, one teaspoon
full of good cream tartar boil, stirring con-
stantly to avoid burning. After it begins to
have soapy appearance try it often by drop
ping little in cold water, and if done it will
at once become brittle. Butter an earthen
dish and pour the hot candy into it, that it
may cool just enough to handle. Flavor to
taste with the oil of peppermint, winter-green,
sassafras or lemon. Two drops of oil will
flavor it strong. For variety, divide into three
or four part, and flavor differently by touch
ing one kind of oil to each. Work in the
hand, at once; the more it is pulled the
winter it will get.
Year: 1872

slonless diving helmets.


He raised me to my feet, when violent
struggle ensued. But he was my master; l
was powerless with my hands bound 80; he
forced me back against all upright support,
and lashed me to it.


l felt sense of relief for knew that, al
though he had cut my signal rope, my staying
down long after he had assembled would alarm
the men in our boat, and some means would
have to be taken to free me. There were one
or two men among the crew who could dive
little, and there we're two spare dresses on the
island, in case of accidents.


But had miscalculated my enemy's malice
You may have observed, in divers helmet,
two little brass discs, perforated like the rose
of watering pot. One Of these is constant
ly in use, allowing the superAuous or vitiated
air to escape. The second is for use in case
of the other being clogged or damaged: Both
are so arranged that on being turned halt
round they are closed, and shut in the air,
whereupon the diver becomes so buoyant that
he rises at once to the surface.


Bleggs came up to me, made mocking bow
as if to take farewell, and then closed both
the escape valves of my helmet. All the
horror Of my situation flashed on me. He
intended to murder me. With every stroke
of the air-pump would come greater pres
sure of air, which by its increasing weight
would kill me after the most awful tortures.
Before I had recovered from the shock
Bleggs had disappeared, and already the
strokes of the air.pump seemed to beat on my
brain like sledge-hammers. writhed and
twisted and tore at my fastenipgs with the
strength of a desperate, and the fury of mad
man. The agony became intense. All of a
sudden I felt that I held some substance in
my hand. 1t was the knife had picked up.
I had instinctively gripped it hard, even in
my struggle with Bleggs. But it was closed.
Still the pressure increased; l felt as if my
| head would burst my eyeballs seemed filled
Year: 1872

sibility of an Independent journalist
Col Martin is himself journalist, or for
the past 3 or years has been somehow
connected with journal, and it IS there
fore, the more strange, that he should
desire to stir up strife with his own pro
fession. We state it as a matter of de
Tense of ourself, and as precartion to
the public, that Col. Martin, has been
unfortunate with his contemporaries. He
has had bitter personal quarrels through
his paper, with Col. Jno C. Noble, the
old editor of the Paducah Herald, with
the present editors of the Paducah Ne1os
aud one or two correspondents of that
paper aud also with the editor of the
Paducah Tobacco Plant Our object is
not to say, whether he was right or wrong
ia these personal contentious, but mere
ly to cite the public to the facts, that
they may see, that he IS not now in an
entirely new role.


With this we dismiss the snbjeet con
seious of having given it more space than
its importance demands.


AT MOSCOW.


The candidates addressed the people
at Moscow, on Tuesday. There was not
large audience present. On this Oe
casion We met a number Of the best ad-
vised men of Hickman county, who free
y and voluntarily stated, that Grassland
Nould not miss vote in the whole length
ana breadth of that section. This is
certainly the sentiment Of that section
now.
Year: 1872

ENGLAND is now enjoying the success
OF the postal telegraph system The
increase Of messages is said 70 have beeu
tremendous II is thought thar this sys
tenn vii! in a great measure supersede
the postal service IN that country.
Year: 1872

SIR: The approaching Presidential
campaign is one Of special interest to
you. All the opposing elements Of the
great Republican party will concentrate
their strength and make their last des
perate effort to defeat the re election Of
Gen Grant


The uuion aud organization of our
forces is sure guarantee Of the COM
plefe triumph Of the Republican party.
Therefore, relying upon your uuswerv
ing fidelity to the Republican party
you are respectfully requested to make
a donation to aid in delraying the ex-
pen-es of the campaign.


You will please fill up the blanks,
stating the amount you will donate. and
return this circular at once to the Chair
man of the State Central Committee.


AND w. DENISoN,


No e Z Cav street
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, September l0.-The jury
in the case Of Christian Rafferty,, the
murderer of a policeman, after deliber.
-ating twenty minutes, brought in YER
dict Of guilty and that he shall suffer
death. The court room was crowded,
and some sympathy for the prisoner
was manifested, while among his ruff
fan friends decided disapproval OF the
verdict was shown. There was an aP-
prehension that an attempt might be
made to rescue him, but strong force
of police guarded MIN to his cell.


Reward Withdrawn.


Mayor Medill has Withdrawn the
offer of a reward for the arrest Of the
SLAYER of Callahan, on Sunday after
noon, being now under the impression
that he was the aggressor and that the
unknown man merely defended himself.
Year: 1872

This little sentence should be writ
ten on every heart-stamped on eve
ry memory. 1t should be the gold
en- rule practiced, not only in every
household, but all through the
world. BY helping one another we
not only remove thorns from the
pathway and anxiety from the mind,
but we feel a sense of pleasure in
our hearts, knowing that we are do
ing n duty TO fellow creature.


A helping hand or an encouraging
word is 10 loss To US, yet it is a ben
eft to others. Who has not felt the
power of a little sentence? Who
has not needed the encouragement
and id of kind friendl How
soothing, when perplexed with some
task that is both mysterious and
burdensome, TO feel a gentle hand
on the shoulder, and to hear a kind
voice whispering, "do not feel dis
couraged, 1 sec your troubles, let me
help you" What strength is in
spired, hope created, what sweet
gratitude is felt, and great difficulty
dissolves as dew beneath the sun
shine. Yes, let us help one another,
by endeavoring to strengthen and
encourage the weak, and lifting the
burden of care from the weary and
oppressed, that life may glide
smoothly on, and the fount OF bitter
ness yield sweet waters; and he
whose willing hand is ever ready to
aid us will reward our humble en-
deavors, and every good deed will
be as ''bread upon the waters, to re-
turn after many days." If not to US,
at least to those we love.
Year: 1872

Buckingham, of the Concordia
Empire is not afraid to speak out in
meeting:


Who pioneers, helps to build up
towns aud cities, and makes town
proprietors rich? The newspaper
man, of course.


Who is always ready to aid some
fool to Office, and receive nothing
therefor? The newspaper man, to be
sure.


We have demonstrated to some
extent, the fact that a newspaper
man can take care of himself. We
believe the laborer is worthy of the
hire. We publish a paper for pay,
and care not who knows it. We
have often heard it said the news
paper man can "poke along" with.
| out pay-that he should expect to-
That rule does not work in this of
| flee. We slash ''dead beat' from
/ our books so readily as we would
drive a skunk from our hencOop.
When the craft stands up for what
is right and just, they will get what
is due them and not before.