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Year: 1871

Mr.; EDITOR propose to give
my opinion as to what make s
man happy" Is a man. happy
when he has reached The achlne
of literature and bears a diploma
from a renowned university d?
Well, then, is a man happy when


he has thousands at bis command,
when bis friends bow and worship


him? Is a man happy vixen he


has, cheated his brother, his son,
or bis neighBor, when he sits down
at night, and, thinks and knows


that" he he has made a dollar or
dollars off Of some poor man in


trade or settlement. Melhinks


| hear some one say, man is hap


py when he is rich, nothing to
care for, has a fine house, a large


plantation and has money to loan
at large per cent, just from Is
to 25 per cent. on the dollar, be
lis happy. Alas! he that loans al
Is to 25 per cent. is reaping usury;
his doom is fixed. Yet there are
scores Of such men, but alas! they
are not happy; no, far from it,
May God help them, SO when they
stand before Him at the last day,
that the cry Of usury will not
come up against them: Well,
then, when is man happy, and
what makes him so? Is it when
he rrl,s with an iron will an
cares not fer his people? No, a


man is not yet happy. and all
these things never make lis soul
happy, though they may add to his
comfort. According to my views,
a man is happy when be has the
religion of.the Bible. When God
has pardoned him of his sins,
and has his name written in Heav


en- as the redeemed, he can't de
Imand unlawful interest. He then
can't rule the people Of his own
blood and tongue with an iron
will Of his own, for he remembers
that Gods breath animates living
nature and breaks the arm of the


wicked oppressor and shelters the
oppressed under His balmy wings.
Yes, a man is made happy. when
be comes to die. When he is laid
6n the couch of death, and the
Geld dark mantle of death is to be
Ills pail. Man is happy then when


he can say that he has the reli-
gion Of the New Testament, and
feels that he has kept the faith of


the christian Man can't be hap


py unless he has religion, for then


be has the feelings Unborn that


none but the christian can be hap
py. All else is vanity. Religion


is guide for any and every N IN,
it matters not what his condition


is or may be, for religion is a
wealth for all. For then he knows
the full meaning of the word
heaven. Itis astav to us when
earthly friends have left We
then can go to the God of the
christian and he will make US
happy l would not give religion


for the wealth Of the universe.


Then let us know what makes


man unhappy, and above all let


us know what makes man happy.


Let US say "Deo Gratios;" for all


these things let US be happy.


WANFULL.
Year: 1871

\ correspondent writes foam
exchange, inquiring what is
the best treatment to prevent
the development of bydropho-
bia in dogs and is answered rs
follows: Don't really Know
about the best, but if yO1 VIII
give your dog water enough 1T
is pretty certain he cant haye
the disease. The safest way to
insure him an abundance of this
Indispensable fluid is to anchor
him in about seven feet of water,
so that his his head win be from
eighteen to twenty-five inches
below the surface In thai. way
he can drink. as much as he
wants.r Any surplus that be
may chance to swallow will do
him more good than harm.
Year: 1871

Says the SedaIia (Mo.) Btzoo:
"a negro man residing near Gen,
Minor'sin in Cole county, was shot
and killed by dog, incredible as
such a story may seem. The ne
gro had been out cunning, and on
his return be playfully put the
breech of the gun at the dog, the
dog at the same time biting at the
gun. He caught the hammer in
his teeth and let it fall upon the
cap and discharged both barrels
into the stomach and bowels of
the man. He lived until Satur-
day and died"
Year: 1871

4ts


a foreman of one Of our
factories was aggravated, by
the action of a new hand
who failed to perform his duty
right, although repeatedly ex-
planned to him. He told him
what he thought of men who
did as he was doing; mentioned
the torridlzone, and dipped to
the very roots of the English
language for vigor of express
sion, and quietly withdrew on
being Informed that the anxious
listener was a deaf mute
DranJury Ntcs.
Year: 1871

As the present Legislature will undoubt-
edly make more or less change in our
school law, it is to be hoped that the
change may be for improvement and not
for destruction. Particularly let us hope
that the Legislature will give us free,
permanent, universal school system, in
stead of the lame, halting, temporary
shame-faced make-shift known as the
count? system" under which we now live.
This mis-called System" is simply weak
and cOwardly evasion resorted to by our
last Legislature as means Of quietly
strangling the whole common school sys-
tenn, which it dared not attack openly.


Under the present law, no progress, de-
velopment or improvement in common
schools is possible. It educates the people
to consider education useless and common
schools as beneath the attention of the
State, and not worth the sacrifice required
to maintain them. One county may have
schools and another none, and the man
who sends his children to school this year
knows not whether he can send them an
other year or not. This feeble, uncertain,
puny infant of school system is to be
nursed and made the most of, for no one
can tell whether we shall ever have any
thing better; but it is anything but an
honor to our State.


We need State system-sOmething that
concerns and interests all the people of the
State something that all our citizens can
take pride in, and which our children
can grow up to love and work for. Under
this shambling, half-hearted county sys-
tenn no community can develop its COM
mon schools. There can be no sufficient or
regular supply of teachers; there can be no
proper and sufficient provision of school
houses, libraries Orapparatus. Everything
will be cheap, mean and temporary and
our system" will bear about the same re-
lation to proper common school system
that an Indians wigwam bears to the
capitol. aBs&


Our Legislature, which dared not openly
crush the common schools, 1.-THE colleges
of the poor.n has sought to accomplish the
same end by substituting for our State sys-
tenn, a scheme robbed of all its vitality,
permanence, and power; under whicha few
cities and wealthy counties may spasmodi-
cally carry on their local schools, but
which doonls those counties where our
brave mountaineers struggle with power
ty and rugged nature to perpetuate priva-
ton. Our last Legislature was mongrel
conclave of original rebels and renegade
Union men, who sought by earnest service
to earn the pardon and favor of their rebel
masters. The fate they have met is so well
merited that no tears will be shed on their
behalf. Our present Legislature is mostly
made up of the original simon-pure, un-
adulterated article. Let US hope that they
will have the intelligence to recognize the
fact that they live ia the nineteenth CEN
tury. and manliness enough to do openly
what they propose to do, whether for good
or evil.
Year: 1871

We yesterday heard gentleman tell good
Joke on one of our late State solons Governor
State Asylum for the Insane. and. as usual.
were shown all around the premises After
looking about awhile, the party came to a man
slve growth of ivy on one of the walls of the


building, when member sung out: 20 what


and willYOuch for the fact P''0i''
Year: 1871

any effort even to ascertain whether he had
been summoned. The affidavit of General Gaze
sar contains statement merely cumulative on
the question as to an alib and does not really
conflict with the evidence for the prosecution.
Affirm the judgment.


NELSON TudCp
Year: 1871

here on the succeeding Thursday; but two
days New York mails were received here
yesterday-that of Sunday in the morning,
and that of Monday in the evening. We do
not remember of but one instance pre-
viously where New York mails of Monday
have reached New Orleans before Friday.
If they come through once in few hours
more than three days, the public would
like to know why the mails do not come
through in three days and few hours all
the time. VIII somebody explain!
Year: 1871

The seventeen year locust is now swoop-
ing down on Northern Illinois, arm in arm
with the potato bug, and the latter beast is
said to be biting little girls to death and
committing burglary on tarmhouses.
Year: 1871

This is one of the oldest among the organ
lied institutions, but one very thinly at
tended yesterday, the pupils having gone
home to lunch, and those who did not go
to lunch went to the st. Ann street school,
where an exhibition was in full progress


The following are the names of the teach
ers and the number of pupils:
Year: 1871

This school has experienced a severe loss
in the absence, ON account of severe illness,
of Madame Bigot, the principal But the
exercises which had Oeen tastefully ar
ranged, and were well declaimed, shows the
old proficiency for which the institution is
so well known. The musical selections
showed great cultivation.
Year: 1871

We have always said that the Chinese in this
country would easily adapt themselves to the siua
ton. and would do well enough if they were not
prosecuted The facts prove it. In Massachusetts,,
the Celestial cordwainers 90 to the Methodist meet
ing with edifying regularity. In San Francisco we
are told that there is a Chinese Young Mems Chns-
tian Association with forty members. What better
immigrants can be desired than such as these-hard-
working thrifty mainly sober and moral and peace
keeping, and willing to belong to a Christian Asso-
eationi The selfish American mechanic, who howls
Indignantly about cheap Chinese labor and the
wrong which it does him. if he will keep steadily at
work and join Christian Association. will find HIM
self in a much more comfortable frame of mind.
Year: 1871

Another reckless and luck.ess street car pas
senger jumped from the front platform into
eternity yesterday. The amazing stupidity
that rnns the risk of such a perilOus leap is
only narsIleIed by the kindred stupidity that
oonrts combustion by holding kerosene can
over half-kindled fire. The latter phase of
folly is doubtless quite beyond the reach of
any legal preventive, but something can, and
something should be done speedily to check
these front platform" slaughters. 1t is not
the drunken and the careless only that pay
the penalty but tho most active are at the
mercy of a chance misstep or loose paving
stone, and more than one valuable life has
been sacrificed in this mantrap during the
past fortnight. The remedy lies wholly in the
hands of the railway managers, and if they
will not voluntarily fence in their front plat
forms, or, better still. reduce them to mere
standing places for drivers, they should be
compelled by ordinance to make the needed
change without further delay.
Year: 1871

Leather at az small profit as though
there were no duty upon it-and this,
we cannot doubt, is the fact. Abolish the
Tariff tomorrow and some Leather would
doubtless flow in from abroad; but our vast
supply of cheap tanning material countervails
the European advantage of cheap labor, so
that we shall always make most of the Leather
we consume, Tariff or no Tariff And its price,
like that of Corn, or Lime, or Charcoal, Is
fixed by considerations of cost-of supply and
demand-scarcely affected by the Tariff.


What the repeal of the Tariff would do for
the Leather business is simply this-it would
gradually transfer our great Tanneries to the
hemlock forests and lumber-camps of the Can
adas, run them by Canadian labor, and send
the Shoe bosses for their raw material to Mon
treal and Ottawa instead of New-YOrk. That
may not be very bad thing to do by-and-by,
when another million acres of our still super
abundant hemlocks have given place to dairy
and sheep-farms, and when Canada shall have
become part of the Union. For the present,
IL must wait,
Year: 1871

THE MAGNANIMITY OF THE REPUBLIC.


The frankness of Mr. Tbiers seems well
adapted to the political situation in France.
The deranged condition of the country has
stimulated the speculative spirit of the people,
and the theOrizing Sieyes has many SUCCESSORS,
intent on driving France again into the mael-
strom of experimental legislation. The Execu-
tive combats this tendency by meeting with
his logical skill and candOr the several ques-
tions calculated to disturb the public mnd.


MANY are anxious to have the Assembly
form at once a Republican constitution, but
Mr.. Theirs declares that he prefers to have
the Republic commend itself by lts acts rather
than depend upon the formal and perhaps
constrained approval Of the National Assembly
He il saneune that if the new institutions
receive a fair trial they will become inter-
twined with the social and political life OF the
people and become permanent. Conscious that
he will not betray the high trust conilded IN
him. he assures his hearers that he will resign
the Office he received rather than consent to
any recreancy on the part OF the nations
representatives. He declares that the "attempt
"to maintain French Republic has never
"succeeded i'm the hands of Republicans" and
appeals to the MOnarchists on the one hand
and the ardent Republicans on the other to
have confidence in the future of a government
which owes its existence to their combined
efforts and mutual CONCESSIONS.


The debate on the repeal of the laws when
excluded the BOurbOns from France also
demonstrated the importance OF that freedom
of discussion which democratic institutions
stimulate and foster Finding the Assembly
disposed in favor of repeal, he quoted the
prophetic words which he had used when
former Republic acting contrary to his ADVICE
allowed the return of the BOnapartes. Mon
"seigneur,r he said to Louis Napoleon, you
care in France in spite of my efforts to keep
"you out the imprudent people who have
"invited you over do not know what they are
"dong-you will probably be their MASTER:
" you shall never be mine" The rgld course
which only grave misgiyings and the peculiar
character of the people caused him to SANCTION
then, he would now follow i'll regard to House
whose friend he is proud to call himself. But
finding the Assembly disposed to reverse the
act of prescription, and having received the
assurance that the Orleans princes would not
insist on sitting in the Assembly, he yielded,
and the Republic, after that eventtul session,
has a better chance of perpetuity than ever
before. We have seen too often in Europe
the liberalism of princes vanish in moment
before the temptation of crown. We have
seen the democrats of yesterday become the
courtiers of to-day, where thrift may follow
fawning. 1t would be unsafe to predict that
we shall not see the same thing in France
before long But whatever the result may be,
the magnanimity and the innate justice of
this protest against the old policy of dynastic
prescriptions and suspicious will always inure
to the credit of the Republic.
Year: 1871

shocking story, which comes to US from Baltl-
more illustrates forcibly the little regard in which
human life is held in this country. A young woman
moving restlessly about the track of the Philadel
phia Railroad was shot at and killed by party of
men, whose excuse for the murder was that they
thought her a man dressed wOmans clothes who
had been stealing poultry. AS it turned out, the
poor woman is supposed to be an escaped lunatic,
and not chicken-thief. But suppose she bad been
engaged in the heinous crime of stealing poultry,
had she even then no right to life and defensef Is
chicken stealing great an ofense against human
ity that the robber must be shot down wherever
foundi Behold, are not two sparrows sold for
farthngf" Even in the days when the poor were
sold in Maryland. they brought better price than
poultry.
Year: 1871

1t appears from the argument of Mr. South
mayd in the Erie case, before Judge Blatch-
ford, that Mr.. James Fisk, jr, at one time felt
his power over the Legislature to be so abso-
lute. that he boasted that if he had mind to
ne could change the title of our city to Fisk
vile. To what happy chance are we indebted
that he never made up what he is pleased TO
sall his mind we know not, but let us not fail
TO be thankful for all mercies. Mr.. Fisk and
his fellow plunderers of the Erie are just now
learning the unpleasant truth that the New
York Legislature is not the only authority In
the land, and that there are courts which Erle
is not rich enough to bribe into granting
favorable delays or pronouncing corrupt decl-
einna
Year: 1871

The Post Office Department should know of won
derful dog in Virginia which carries letters twice
week between two points, sixteen miles apart. His
owner secures the letters to his collar commands him
to go, and he goeth The Post -MasterGeneral has o
good many subordinate officers especially in the trans
portaton service, who do not seem to comprehend
that to get letter or newspaper to its destination in
the shortest possible time is the bounden duty of
a government which Is sharp enough to secure its
pay i'll advance for the work, and which claims also
a monopoly of the business Buy the Virginian dog,
Mr. u NJ O.
Year: 1871

The resignation of the Cabinet of Spain
loes not appear likely to amount to much
after all, though all the Ministers have per-
sisted in relnquishing their portfolios The
attitude of the unfriendly majority OF the
Cortes is so threatening that no other course
seems to be left to the Cabinet We have no
intimation of the personnel of the new Cabi-
net, the formation of which was reported to
have been intrusted to Serrano, except that
all of the present members but Moret Demo
craft and Gorilla (PrOgresista) will ultimately
be retained. This would not be any special
concession to the uneasy element in the Cortes,
unless the question of the management OF the
finances enters more largely into the dlssatis-
faction than we have been informed.
Year: 1871

NJ. Gambetta, after refusing to acknowledge
the authority of the French Assembly, has
finally decided to accept candidatre for
seat in that unconstitutional body from one
of the districts of Paris. Gambetta's objection
TO the Assembly was that it had ceased to
have any lawful existence after it had con-
rluded terms of peace with the Germans. 1t
is not possible that the exMinister Of War is
in the same condition with a gentleman who
once represented West Virginia in the United
States Senate, and who was so confident of
the unconstitutiOnality of the creation of his
State that he would have resigned his seat
had he not found his salary so convenient.
Year: 1871

The Democrats do not yet have smooth sail
ing in the New Hampshire Legislature. Not
only does Judge Smith in the Senate refuse to
lend himself to any purely partisan schemes,
but in the House the Labor RefOrmers insist
upon eating the oysters and leaving the Demo
Gratis with the shells. The said Reformers,
Twelve in number, now claim both the Treas
1rer and Secretary of State, whereas by the
original bargain they were to have the filling
Of only one of these Offices. Interesting events
are expected this week as the Outgrowth of
.his misunderstanding.
Year: 1871

The Hon. John Morrissey thus salutes the
public through The Sdratogidn


SIR: The report is going the rounds Of the newspapers
that my house is open to ladies to gamble in desire TO
contradict the story atly through your columns. have
lived in Saratoga nine years. and lady has gam
bled, nor will gamble, in my house. BY request
ladies have been admitted 10 look the house and
niture the comment ii has occasioned far and near
prompts TO decline any further visits from them.
Furthermore, my house is intended for visitors not resi-
dents of Saratoga Very respectfully JOHN MoRRIssEY


If the ex-COngressman had cOndescended
to explain rhy ladies are not to be allowed
to gamble i'm his house, as they are in all
kindred establishments in Europe, and Why
residents of the springy emporium may not
illustrate one of the many ways in which fools
and their money are parted as freely as though
they lived in New-York or Boston and only
lodged in Saratoga, his card would have
afforded more satisfaction to the contemplative
mind. As it is, we are moved by it to remark
that, until the Honorable gentleman shall see
fit TO announce that the laws of the State are
DO more to be continually and ostentatOusly
broken therein for his personal profit, he may
wisely abstain from parading his house" in
Year: 1871

confidence in it's inherent peacefulness and
Justice. Having properly punished the great
eat criminal and aw-breaker of the age, there
is little danger that it will assume the same
dishonored character. Those who attempt TO
keep on foot the oppressive armaments' ana
the racking suspicious of hollow truce, do
not do justice to the demands of the age or
the true temper of the German mind.
Year: 1871

The failure of the two Bishops who have
heard the evidence in the Lanahan trial to
agree with the decision of the Book Committee
restores Dr.. Lanahan to the position of Assist
ant Book Agent This action will doubtless
further the inquiries into the actual condition
of the finances and management of the Con-
Germ which seem necessary, and to which the
laity of the Church, who support it, are GER
tainly entitled.
Year: 1871

appointment we will never give IL up."
II was plain from all this, coupled With
the fierce and derisive tones in which
aliusioD to the government was made,
that the present attitude il "pretense
OF submission" There will be no or
ganized resistance, but the Mormon
leaders are recklessly forcing the people
into position where, eventually every
man must be regarded as criminal and
exposed to penealty Of law. The mill
tary authorities however, believe that The
surest guarantee Of quietness in the fu-
ture is the maintenance in the Territory
of much larger force.
Year: 1871

-OH w tSlIIIIIIISlVI DtItISU


The same and at the very place
where the policeman caught Ginx fifteen
years before, as he held the little cause
ut all the trouble over the rolling food
Year: 1871

Every farmer should contrive in every


possible way to increase the amount Of


his fertilizing material from year to


year. The following, we believe in some


respects, the most valuable reeipein ex-


istence for an artificial fertilizer for all


the cereal grains and root crops:


With one barrel Of pure, finely ground


bone, mix barrel of good wood ashes;


during the mixing add, gradually, about


three pailfuls of water. The heap may


he made upon the floor Of an o1t-build-
ing, or upon the baru floor; and, by the


use of a hoe, the bone and ashes must be
thoroughly blended together. The water
added is just sufficient to libetkte the
caustic alkalies, potash aud soda; ahd
these react upon the gelatine of the bone
kind If soap, and fitting 1t for plant food:
In this way the most valuable constitu=
ents Of bone can be Immediately iiiads
available, and the addition of potash and
soda aids in the formation OF fertilizer
of inestimable value. The water added
is not sufficient to make pasty mess,
difficult to dry, but is enough to libsratS
the strong alkalies from the ashes. This
preparation is so clearly convenient and
useful, every farmer should prepare as
much as possible for his crops during
the coming season. A little placed in a
hill OF corn will work wonders. 1t is
excellent for gard n vegetables, and fot
all kinds Of roots. 1t must be used in
small quantities, or in about the SAND
way as the 20 called super pbosphates.
A barrel of tLis mixture is worth two Of
any OF the commercial fertilizers, and
the cost will be about half as much.. II
the bone meal and ashes are very dry,
four pailfuls of water may be required;
but care must be exercised not to have 10
inconveniently moist. 1t will be ready
for use in week after il is made. Pure;
raw, finely grohnd bono and the best Of
be employCd.-DcitEs Fdrm
Journal.