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Year: 1871

The writer of the following communi
cation to the New York Times is un-
doubtedly an intelligent exponent Of the
feeling INDUCED in by the entire Irish
Catholic element Of New York; and the
worst thing about his boasts is that they
are true:


After printing so much against the
Roman Catholics, and, more especially
condemning them for suppressing the
Orangemen, suppose you print little
OH the other side You people cry out
and say your liberty is invaded because
we refuse to allow the Orangemen to
parade. DO you consider that the sights
you enjoy you hold only on sufierance
from us? Did we not make the whole
city government OF New York? And
is it not right that we should say what
shall and shall not be done in this
city? Do we not make and unmake
the rulers here? And they must do
our bidding. About this parade of Or
| angemen, we, the Irish majority here,
did not propose to be insuted by the
exhibition of flags and mottoes that
were carried when we were defeated on
the Boyne, and we intimated to our
Mayor Hall whom we made and can
unmake, that he must stop it, and he
has done 80. In thus obeying our
orders he has redeemed himself from
the odium that has hitherto attached to
him by reason of his formerly being a
Know Nothing leader. You Americans
complain of this, but we could elect
Hall tomorrow by fifty thousand ma;
jority.


You may IS we'll understand it first
as last, that we, the Irish citizens, rule
New York. Some of our Irish leaders
have been endeavoring to keep us qui-
ct, and not assert our authority until
we can get more strength, aud then
from controlling New York, VIC can
grasp the reins of the government of the
United States. ask, "when shall We
be stronger?' Have we not the most
absolute control and power over every
officer in this State from the governor
down: Can we not always, by over
fifty thousand majority in this city,
carry the whole State? You Ameri-
cans talk Of putting US down. DO you
remember the way we stopped the
draft in this city: Do you claim that
you conquered Us then? Why we got
everything we started for. Did not the
draft cease? Did we not clean out the
niggers? You talk OF furnishing US.
Who have you punished Of all the
thousands that were OH our side in the
draft fights? l should like to see you
get our man Kelso to arrest any of us,
or our friend Judge Garvin to prefer an
Indictment against us. Garvin has
behaved well, and we propose to elect
him to the Supreme Court bench this
fall. His assistant, Mr.. Sullivan, will
take his place. We can rely on Sulli-
van. He hates you Yankees for locks
ing him up in Fort Lafayette during
the war. Besides he is an Irishman.
Year: 1871

Arguing with an opponent who
is lame, and assuring him that he has
not leg to stand upon.


Telling man with only one eye, i~
an insinuatins way, that you would
like 10 get on his blind side:


Urging ,fiend who stammers not to-
hesitate to express his opinion.


Declaring to Il possessor of false set
that you mean to do it in spite Of his
teeth.


Informing an acquaintance who
never has his glass out of his eye that
yon consider he takes a very shortsight-
ed view Of things.


Telling man that squints that you
are sorry that you cannot see the lnattes
as he sees it.
Year: 1871

One OF the most remarkable fires Is
said to be raging underneath property
of considerable value almost in the cen.
ter of the town Of Sheffield, England.
The scene of this singular occurrence is
Trinity Works, Eyre street, where a
firm carried on the business ofmanufac-
turing cutlery and doing a general mer-
camille business. They let off large
portion of the premises to other persons
in the cutlery trade, and to Mr.. Wilson,
glass grinder also supplying their
tenants with steam power. In connec-
ton with the engine is an immense
boiler, thirty feet in length. For some
time past this boiler has been observed
to be gradually sinking, but this has
not gone on to so serious an extent as to
warrant a careful investigation. The
cause Of the subsistence was discovered
early few mornings since in most
singular manner. Mr.. Holden, the
engineer in charge Of the machinery,
raked his fires as usual on Saturday
evening Q7th), but on examining the
boilers some time afterward he found,
to his astonishmcnt, that the withdraw
al of the burning fuel had not had the
steam. This discovery was the cause of
much bewilderment, and the extraor
dinary generation of steam remained II
mystery. Mr.. Mastin, builder, was
for Il IF
tion made by him and others was that
layer OF shale in connection with a
seam of coal extending beneath the
works, and passing Immediately below
the boiler, was found to he on fire. A
number of men were at once set to work
to remove the burning material, but 1t
was found that the fire was not confined
to that particular spot. The excavators
have been engaged in the cellar below
that portion Of the building rented by
Mr.. Wilson, and the result Of their
labors was that a quantity Of burning
shale was removed. The seam Of coal
and shale extends beyond the works,
passing underneath an adjoining dwell
Iinghouse occupied by Mr.. Holden, the
engineer, and to the cottages on the op
posite side of Eyre street. the inhahit-
ants of which, state that they have
observed peculiar exhalatiun from
their cellars. The fire can only be
overcome by means Of the spade. Its
origin Is at present mystery. 1t must
have been raging for long period,
probably for some years. The boiler, Of
course, cannot be used, and operations
at the mandatory, at which about 400
men are employed, have consequently
been brought to a stand still.
Year: 1871

torn in pieces by the angry elements


Alter moving some fifteen minutes lon
ger, suddenly the awful apparition dis
appeared, as if it had been but a vision
of dream.


AS fearful as was the appearance Of
this column of columns, more marvel
Gus, if possible, was its destructive work
upon the earth in its pathway. Not 9
spear of grass not stalk Of corn or
wheat, not a shrub, not a particle oI
green vegetation, was left alive. Had
the fires of heaven descended and fallen
In the pathway Of this tornado, as they
did on Sodon1, the destruction of every


living thing of the vegetable kingdom
could not be more complete. For some
distance in its path the earth was liter
ally plowed up to the depth Of six
inches. In passing over the unbroken
prairie, SO inconceivably rapid must
have been the rotary motion of the
wind Of the tornado, that the earth was
gathered up from the deep roots of the
prairie grass, and the turf, with its bare
roots as clean as if they had been wash
ed, was lifted from the earth and left
strewn in the storms pathway.--
Where the course OF the tornado led
through wheat field, every stalk Of
wheat standing in its path was torn
down and twisted into every conceiva.
ble shape, aud where an csage hedge
lay across its way, for the width Of its
path, the hedge bushes were torn into
shreds.


But the most remarkable phenomena
connected with this tornado il that the
column of wl'irling air must have been
intensely hot, as is shown by the fact
that every spear of grass, stalk of corn
and wheat, every green thing in its
path, were literally dried to crisp. The
prairie grass along the storms track,
which was luxuriantly green before the
tornado passed, was left as brown and
dead as it is found in mid winter. The
leaves Of the hedge where the tornado
passed across in its way, crumbled as do
the dead, dry leaves Of the forest after
tho blasting autumn frost has done its
work. The young corn, which stood in
its way, is as black as if withering fire
had passed through it.


Another feature of this tornado was
that, while its rotary motion must have
been of inconceivabIy great velocity, its
progressive motion was not above the
rate Of six miles an hour. The outlines
Of its pathway were so well defined that
five feet from the outer line of total dos
tuction of vegetation of every kind, not
a vestige of its effects could be seen-
Fortunately, no house stood in the way
of the tornado's line of march. 1t pass
ed between farm house and barn, hut
both escaped. It's onward movement
was SO slow that man or beast, if in
its way, could easily escape. The pro-
gressive motion of a tornado is usually
at the rate of forty to sixty miles per
hour the fact of this one moving at
the rate of only six miles per hour is
most remarkably. The path of tor
nado 10 usually quarter to a half a mile
in width this one was but twenty to
eighty feet in width.
Year: 1871

A sauant has discovered with the
microscope that when we pour milk
into cup of tea the albumen of the
milk and the tannin Of the tea instantly
unite and form leather, or minute tlakes
of the very same compound which is
produced in texture Of the tanned hides,
and which makes it leather AS distingu-
ished from the original skin. He con-
sequently estimates that in the course
of ayear a tea drinker of average cap
acity imbibes enough leather to make i.
pair of shoes.
Year: 1871

The to,ab of Adam how touching it was, here
in land of strangers, far away from home and
friends, and all who cared for me, thus to dis
cover the grave oi hood relation. The un-
erring instinct of nature thrilled its recogniza-
ton. The fountain Of by filial affection was
stirred to its profound depths, and gave way
to tumuIEuous emotions [ leaned against a
pillar and gave way to tears. / deemed it no
shame to have wept over the grave of my poor
dead relative. Let him who would sneer at
my emotion close this volume here, for he will
find little to his taste 10 my journeying through
live to see his child. And I-I-alas l did
not live to see him. Weighed down by sorrow
and disappointment, he died before [ was born
six thousand summers before | was born. But
let us try to bear it with foTtitude. Let US trust
that he is better off where he is.-Mark Ti0aia' s
IanOcents Abroad
Year: 1871

ED. ENQUIRER I heard during the late
| tar that the wheat in several sections of the
State was infested with fly Though aware
that by many persons an agricultural fact, when
published, becomes transmuted-by the mere
process OF printing, / suppose-into an un-
truth, or at best, fanciful conjecture, will
venture to advise remedy which | have tried
satisfactorily. It was first suggested to me by
the late j. Addison Cochran, Of Loeb Willow,
augusta county, as remedy-in his hands
perfectly successful one-against Joint worm
ana was Was' On the recommendation of the South
ern Planter, tried and approved for the same
purpose by the late Captain Bootten, of Madi.
son county, very sensible and judicious gen.
tleman. %


At later period I found that it had been
recommended from its own practice by the late
not the present-Wm. NJ. Tate, of Augusta,
who had communicated it to the Farmer Reg
lister, IN. think, its fifth volume. What I
prescribe, under the above sanction, is two
bushels OF air-slacked or water Stacked lime
per acre, s0wn broadcast on a still morning OF
evening


In my own case, affirm that the land lined
with . bushels of lime per acre in the latter
part of November-the wheat soved on the
23d OF September, 1856-was cured Of a very
bad attack of fly which beset it that fall that
the lily came back IN the spring in great and
undlminished numbers, and was discovered too
late to make the application of lime again;
and that the wheat made more apparently than
the average of the whole field of which it was
part !; which field made Is 3O-6Oths bushels
per acre land which, at that time, was newly
taken up for improvement and exempt from fly
except as to twelve acres


The application of one bushel per acre will
do, though two are BETTER for the sake of pro-
per distribution. 1t should be repeated in the
spring if the fly reappears and it will be safer
to do it anyhow.


After 1866 always applied it in the spring
for insurance, as the labor was slight, and the
cost never more than twenty cents per acre.


Since the war | had no fy, and have not
made the application


The seeding. though the hand alone will do
very WELL is best done with tea scoops, as they
are called by the grocers, being of the shape Of
''sugar scoops bat much smaller, made to
hold q double handful. With this implement
man with his whole face and nostrils and
hands well creased and kept so, and sowing
with the wind, can sow With but little ineonve-
nience, two bushels lime per acre, per day.


The moaas operandi, Tor theory, for those
that viii have it, is that the dew forms with
the lime a lye, which, ruanseg Gown the blade
to the stalk, destroys the fly which is thereto
attached.


Be this as it may, the remedy has been
proved a successful one.


FRANK G.. RUFEIs.
Year: 1871

The Golden Age is of the strictest Radical
school, but it justly appreciates the present la
bors of our military President. It says:


He is bent ON securing his renomination.-
Day and night be tolls to this end, The chief
energy of his administration, SO far as it has
energy, is directed toward the accomplishment
of this high ambition, Local officers are ap-
pointed Or removed according as they favor or
disfavor the Presidents plan of perpetuating
himself in power. The Federal Government
is run like monstrous machine whose fires are
fed and whose wheels are turned mainly for the
sake of keeping its chief engineer in place
What other policy is the President pursuin &
save the policy of denomination? He is
fighting it out on this line
Year: 1871


What are the wild waves saying?
Aye what's their story tonight,
As they clamor and brawl mid the breaker
Like an army wild In a fight?
Hol dweller high up in the lighthouse,
Trim we'll your beacons now,
For the sea is crazed with anger.
And frown is on its brow
Trim well your beacoEa tonight then,
And shun the wooing of sleep,
Lest many ship and her cargo
In darkness be lost in the deep.
The maid by the freside pensively
Thinks OF her love on the main:
Thinks of her sailor-boy lover,


Whom she may never see again.
The aged and white haired couple
Have reason to shudder in fright,
AS they list to the surging ocean,
And the angry voices of night.
The storm has passed like the shadow
OF night at break of day.
The waves have finished their battling,
And chant monotonous lay.
They sleep on the oceans BOSOM
They nestle around the piers,
But where er they roam in their grandeur,
They breathe both hopes and fears.
At night when the moon is DER clouded
And the stars refuse to shine,
These waves so bright in the sunlight
Are darkened with many crime.
Ah! waves in your foamy splendor,
Ahl waves with your hoarse wild breath,
Your voice is the same aye and ever,
The voice of life and death.
Year: 1871

In recent issue of French comic newspa-
per there is very amusing cut satirizlng the
precocity of the youth of the period. Leaning
up against the door of ballroom, a lad scarce
ly in his teens, languidly deprecates the ardor
of an old gentleman who urges him to dance.
What at my age ?" he says.
Year: 1871

SUICIDE TO ESCAPE BURNING.-As illustra-
ting the ferceness of the flames in the recent
burning of Peshtgo, Wisconsin, and the terror
into which the people were thrown by their ap-
proach, one or two facts are given 1t only
took about fifteen minutes time to envelop in
flames the three hundred houses in the place.
As the torrent of fire approached there seemed
to be no escape from it except by some speedier
death, and many shot themselves to avoid per-
ishing in the flames. One case is recorded in
which German cut the throats of bis wife
and three children, as well as his own, prefer
ring this death for himself and them to the
lingering torture of fire
Year: 1871

The season for fires in churches is at hand,
aud we wish to remind sections, deacons and
church officers generally, that an important
condition of acceptable worship is comfortable
heat and oxygen. A man may have great
deal of grace, but il be has not oxygen enough
in church, he will go to sleep under the best
sermon. And if the church is cold. or be is
made to sit in draft, he will take cold or pneu-
monia, and receive no benefit from the sermon
Proper warmth, ventilation without drafts on
the worshippers, should be the chief article of
every sections creed, aud we commend the fol-
lowing, which we find in an exchange:


There is more religion in having church at
the proper temperature. at the right time, than
may appear at first sight It is a difficult task
for man to think very seriously about the fu-
ture state, when he is sitting in church about
half frozen or for mother to listen to preach
ing when her children are shivering and crying
with the cold.


Too much dry furnace heat is just as bad


Fredericksburg Nesos.
Year: 1871

tender my thanks to all my friends and pa
irons who have stood by me SO continually and
well for the past five years. I tell them now
that I am started again and will deal with them
as fairly and as literally as ever. Come one
come all, and give me trial again.
Year: 1871

SWEET CoNsoLArIoN.-A short time since
man living in Georgetown, condidered re-
spectacle and of good standing, was tempted
by the circulars OF the profersed dealers in
counterfeit money In New York to forward
S25 to them for quantity of the stuff. He
received in reply a package, but of course it
only contained sawdust, the rascals being too
sharp to make criminals of themselves. He
then wrote letter to the Special Agent of the
Post Office Department in New York asking
his assistance in getting back his money.
The reply was as follows:


OFFICE OF SPECIAL AGENT OF THE Posr)


OFFICE DEPARTMENT, NEW YORK


Posi- OFFICE, March 80, 1871.


Sir:I have your letter OF the 10Th enclosing
ten cents and asking me to assist YOU in re.
covering $25 which you have paid ON an
Z. y. ID. express package of what you suppos-
ed to be counterfeit money, which yhu had


ordered from Thomas A. Walker of 81 John
| street, New York, and with which you un-
douptedly intended to cheat and defraud your
| neighbors. not only refuse to give you the


least assistance in the matter, but am sorry
you nave bought your experience so cheaply,
and sincerely wish that instead of $25 YOU had
been swindled out of every cent You possess In
tne same manner. hope you will continue
TO send all the money these rascals ask from
you, and that when at last you are driven TO
stealing funds for the purchase of counterfeit
money you will be caught In the act and he
sent to the State Prison, where you evidently
belong. return thi ten cents and advise you


to invest 10 cheap copy OF Ten Command
ments and study the one which refers 10 steal
| ing. j. GAYLOR.
Special Agent P. o. Debt
Year: 1871

From the syracuse IN. W Courier Oct. 25.l


The action of the Legislature III offering 100000
ana cheap on the canals Is calling out many COM
petitors and a large number of pans have already
Many or them must necessity fail OF meeting the
required object, while there may be several, and.
G su pc nc hcse pa1s ali Tea are o
genlous while some apply power IN manner very
singular il not altogether new. One thing seems to
be clear and tlis.si that ere long navigation the
canals will be wholly propelled by steam, ana that,
100, IN such manner as not only to quicken trans.
pOrtatlon but cheapen 1reights.


Among the many plans submitted is one which we
understand has already been successful IN Bel
IN nat pa ~ o1at BY means o. wire
wheel attached to the side of the boat-this wheel
being turned by an ed engine IN the boat For !ns
Of some fifty or sixty horse power, ana brought to
Buffalo IN this State, where number OF capitalists
had boat constructed under the supervision OF one
OF their number, Captain Baldwin. This boat has
ton now Is to proceed TO Troy. Where Il s to be
tested by means OF cable SIX miles long. This
It il claimed is strong enough for tho nnrpose


The boat-which 10y the way, is appropriately
named the Governor Cllnton,-left Buffalo on Sun
and hall detention reached this city yesterday at
a quarter-past four. She was light however, not
by Screw, there being no cable, of course, m the
canal. Our reporter paid her a visit and found q
neat little craft with rudder at each end, so as to
run either way without turning, the screw Is in.
tended to be used only in turning bends in the
canal, should the plan succeed An examination OF


the engine showed It to be one or peculiar construc


tion, but comprising great deaf OF utility within n
very small space. This engine is connected by a
shalt to an immense wheel on the left siqc OF the


boat over which the cable s to run in groove be.
ing held in its place by smaller wheels and running
at the bow aud stern OF the boat over other
Claimed Thar this steamer will Tow from fifteen to
twenty heavily loaded boats at the rate OF least
three miles an hour, and consume only eight or
ten tons or coal IN running from Buffalo TO Albany
The idea Is TO have these boats stationed at in.
tervals along the canal and each one tow all the
boats which run over that section, thus avoiding
the necessity OF passing each other.


A serious accident was met with between Weeds
port and Jordan where q collision occurred be-
tween the Governor Clinton and another boat
Captain Baldwin was standing on tho bow OF the
the force OF the conclusion, when 1t was caught
between the two boats and literally crushed thu
bones protrudng and making iJ necessary to am


putate. The Captain was left al Weedsport aud tnS
| boat came on 10 tGIs city,
Year: 1871

An inquest was yesterday held by Coroner Herr
man on the body OF De:tmer Bellmer the young
German, twenty-five years of age, who committed
suicide ut 202 Greenwich street, as previously re-
ported In the HRRALD. Deceased had been In poor
health for some time, ana fearing recovery impos-
sbe, resolved TO die. Accordingly ne quietly pro-
ceeded TO the roof provided with q loaded pistol and
leather strap. One end or the latter he fastened to
iron rod used to support Sign and then adjusted
the other end around his neck. The rod was not
sufficiently high from the roof for Bellmer TO stis-
pend himself ana to make sure work he placed the
mzzle OF the pistol TO his head and discharged it.
AS he te his weight tlghtened the strap around his
neck and produced straugulatt0n
Year: 1871

There are some men who tell US
they can't join US, they are friends
they say, yet they cannot join
they never drink any whisky and
cant see the good they can DO by
being with us. s'-,i


Now, friends, study.,oH tbe..mat-
ter! Do you know of no ono that
you could influence? do you know
Of no fallen brother that you could
bring from the dark depths OF
drul kenness and place him on a
level with yourself We think
you do, for every man has his in
fluence, and probably by your


joining you would become inter
.ested in "the cause" and save =
dozen men. Come up now and give
us your hand don stand Dack
and wait for some body else to do
the Saving part" we want you,
we need your help.


Don't say you will wait awhile;
come now and help us ont, NON is
the time. We have fought long
enough without you; if some good
and intelligent citizens don't help
we can't go very fast You all
know that we have had a haTd
time since we commenced, yet we
still "hammer away;" come OH and
help us.
Year: 1871

Your smile is the sunshine Ia ut


lights US on the rugged pathway
through life. Your voice is Ike


music from the angels of para
disc, and your ,cord is lar. You
say come, and we come; you say
go, and We go. You influence the
world-without you none of Us
would wish to live a day. Yes,
ladies, you are the guardians of
mans welfare-your tender hearts
would see all creation in the lap
of happiness. You know Of nausht
that you could do to make US hap
py that you would not do Ytu
give us your smiles-we hear your
voice-we see your sweet form
and are happy.


But there are some things that
you could do for US that probably
you have not thought Of Bring
your graces to battle with Us in
he ''great cause of Temperance"
Help US to save the million Of poor
mankind that are every
lay drinking their precious lives
lway. Give them your smiles,
words, frowns and tears, in a
'erfect voHey, and we think You
an make them submit. Come
'ver and help us-we need you-.a