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Year: 1873

The hljudged conservatism Of the Gazette even
gees 70 the length OF opposing Tie City H0apit9l
1t is hard 10 say what measure of improvement
will secure It's support Commercial


The Commercial would have come nearer the
truth had 1t said the Gasetts 'Rpes to the length
Of opposing" the establishment in our CITY Of
another ''alms house" For we leel quite certain
that the result Of the proposed action Of the Ctv
COunsl, If carried out e now Gureshadoved. will
be thA. the people VIII have imposed upoa tAsm an
Institution that will not be % respectable A the
one which one Of the City Fathers, at the last
meeting, characterized with such words Of scorn
and deriSion. Heretofore, We hnd induiFsd the
opinion that our county aims house was an excel
lent institutiOn-one Of the best Of It's kind; and
was not little astOnished to find it referred to in
the council chamber in the language used by the
chairman OF the Hospital Com mittee He GER
tainly nisreprssentsd the house very wrongfully


When the city maintains a better institution, it
viii Be quite time enough to so deDounce the one
It is already interested in.


The GGsette has favored The establishment Of a
hospital through the assistance OF the Wilmington
Hospital Association, chartered by thG Legislature
two or three yean ago. And the city made no
effort 90 establish one itself, until that Association

Petitioned for aid in the donation ,of lot Oi
ground, This was all the city Was asked to do
through any petition, and it Is going quite in ad-
vance Of any demand OF our people in the action
It has taken.


The mere purchase Of house for City AcspI.
tai il q small part Of the expense Of such an e.
tablishment. The city will find its very costly
AFFAIR; nor do We believe it will Ind our "rnAnu-
fActuEsrS" willing TO contribute to its maintain.
anee. The promises that were quoted in the
Council As an evidence Of this, we're not made "a
the Institution to be sstabllshsd hy the city, but
TO .he benevolent efforts Of those who interested
thsmSelTas in ogganizing what ID termed the Hos
pital Association, or Society II the city goes
into this matter, it viii have TO bear the whole
expense and we cannot see that there is a necos
sity for it. We are already taxed to support The
aims houss, and the smallpox ard eholera bospi-
tAi hs latter empty and 1t s useless to add there.
to the Whols cost Of another inStEtuti0n upon Us
Year: 1873

"Dear me ! it wasn't enough for me
to nurse and raise a family of my own,
but now. when I'm old, and expect to
have a little comfort here, it is all the
time Send for mother =" And the dear
old soul growls and grumbles, but dress
es herself as fast as she can, notwith-
standing. After you have trotted her
off and got her safely in your home. and
she flies around, administering rebukes
and remedies by turns, you feel easier.
It's all right now, or soon will be-
Mothers come


In sick ness. no matter who is there,
or how many doctors quarrel over your
case, everything goes wrong, somehow,
till you send for mother.


In trouble, the first thing you think
of is to send for mother.


But this has its ludicrous as we'll as
its touching aspect. The verdant young
couple, to whom baby's extraordinary
grimaces and alarming yawns, which
threaten the dislocation of its chin its
wonderful sleeps, which it accomplishes
with its eyes half open, and no percepti
BILE futter Of breath on its lips, causing
the young mother to imagine it is dead
this time, and to shrek out, ..Send fol
mother T in tones of anguish-this
young couple, in the light of the expert
ence which three or four babies bring
find that they have been ridiculous, and
given mother a good many ..trots" fol
nothing.


Did any one ever send for mother
and she fail to come? Never unless
sickness or the infrmities of age pre-
vented her. AS when, IN your child
hood, those willing feet responded t.
your call, so they still do, and will con.
tinue to do, as long as they are able
And when the summons comes which
none yet disregarded, though it will b
a happy day for her, it viii be YER
dark and sad one for you, when God
too, will send for mother.
Year: 1873

Three persons out of four would rush
right up to the burning individual and
begin to paw with their hands without
any definite aim. 1t is useless to tell
the victim to do this or that, or to call
for water. In fact, it is generally best
not to say. "a word. but to seize blank
ct or any woolen fabric-if none is at
hand take any woolen fabric-if none is
at hand take any woolen material-hold
the corners as far apart as you can,
stretch them out higher than your head,
and running boldly to the person, make
motion of clasping in the arms, most
ly about the shoulder. This instantly
smothers the fire and saves the face.
The next instant throw the person on
the floor. This is an additional safety
to the face and breath, and any remnant
of fame can be put out moro leisurely
The next instant immerse the burnt
part in cold water, and all pain will
cease with the rapidity of lightning.
Next get some flour, remove from the
water, and cover the burnt parts with
an inch in thickness of -four; if possi-
BILE, put the patient in bed. and do all
that is possible to soothe until the ply
slcian arrives. Let the flour remain un-
til it falls off itself, when beautiful
new skin can be found Unless the
burns are deep, no other applications
are needed. The dry -four for burns is
the most reliable remedy ever proposed,
and the information ought to be impart-
ed to all


The principle of its action is, that
like the water, it causes instant and per-
feet relief from pain by totally exclud-
ing the air from the injured parts. Sci
entitfic Americaa
Year: 1873

The bulldog barks on the top of the hill
And the lambs are skipping in glee;
But am sad as the dickens-I am


My gal gave the mitten to me.
All, where will go, and what will dof
/ feel like crazy bum-bee;
By thunder, I'll fight I'll lick any boy
That says the word mitten to me
Pm really mad-be dogged if amt


Iswear will kill any she;
I'll slather and slash-Pll murder that gal
By thunder she shan't mitten me
No, won't do that-Pll spite her-I will
I'll hang myself on q big tree;
And then she will cry-she'll die in remorse
For giving the mitten to me sHa
Year: 1873




mercy brought her to that peaceful spot,
she passed again, and the old church re-
ceived her in its quiet shade.


They carried her to one old monk
where she had many and many a time
sat musing, and laid their burden softly
on the pavement. The light streamed
on it through the colored window
window where the boughs Of the trees
were ever rustling in the summer, and
where the birds sang sweetly all day
long. With every breath of air that
stirred among those branches in the sun
shine, some trembling, changing light
would fall upon her grave.


Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to
dust. Many young hand dropped its
little wreath many stifed sob was
heard, some-and they we're not few
knelt down. All were sincere and truth
full in their sorrow.


The service done, the mourners stood
apart and the villagers closed round to
look into the grave before the pavement
stone should be replaced. One called
to mind how he had seen her sitting on
that very spot, and how her book had
fallen on her lap, and she was gazing
with pensive face upon the sky. An
other told how he had wondered much
that one so delicate as she could be so
bold; how she had never feared to enter
the church alone at night but had loved
to linger there when all was quiet, and
even to climb the tower stair, with no
more light than the moons rays stealing
through the loopholes in the thick old
wall.


A whisper went about among the old
| est there that she had seen and talked
with angels; and when they called to
mind how she had looked and spoken,
and her early death. some thought ii
might be SO indeed. Thus coming to
the grave in little knots and glanciue
down, and giving place to others, and
falling off in whispering groups of three
or four, the church was cleared in time
of all but the sexton and mourning
friends.


They saw the vault covered and ths
stone fixed down. Then when the dusl
of evening had come on, and not soune
disturbed the stiffness of the place
when the bright moon poured in he
light on tomb and monument, on pillar
vale and arch, and most of all (it seem
ed to them) upon her quiet grave-il
that calm time, when all outward thing
| and inward thoughts TEEN with assur
ance Of Immortality, and worldly hope
and fears are humbled,in the dust befor
| them-then, with humble and submis
sive hearts they turned away, and lef
the child with God.


o! 1t is hard to take to heart tn
lesson that such deaths will teach bu
let no man reject it, for it is one tina
all must learn, and is mighty, univel


sal truth. When death strikes dow


the innocent and young, for every fra
gile form from which he lets the pan,
lug spirit free, hundred virtues rist
in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, t


walk the earth and bless it with thei


light. Of every tear that sorrowin
mortals shed on such green graves, som
good is born, some gentler nature comes


In the destroyer's steps there spring u


bright creations that defy his powel


and his dark path becomes way {
light to heaven.-Oid Curiosity ,Sho1
Year: 1873

A LONG BRANCH BELLE.-There is
now, it is said. in one of the principal
hotels at the Branch, lady so careful
Of her complexion, which is said to be
remarkable in many respects, that she
never leaves her room during the day,
and has all her meals brought to her.
She remains in a darkened room ali day
long. gloomy and deso,ate, fearing that
the sun. shining through, may freckle
her fair face, or turn it into a healthy
brown. What pleasure has she, pray,
at the Branch Every night she comes
out radiantly beautiful, the gas-light
giving soft glow to her fair cheek and
sparkle to her eye. She has spent
time at the toilet, you may be sure, and
she moves grandly about among the
crowds in the corridors, in the parlors,
and on the piazza for half an hour
then what /? She goes to her room and
stays there for another twenty -four hours.
Long Branch Letter.
Year: 1873

PERSIAN LAws.-All the Persian laws
like those Of every Mohammedan coun-
try, are supposed to be based upon the
precepts of the Koran, and though the
power of the Shah is practically abso-
Lutte, in theory it is only in SO far as it
is not opposed to the accepted doctrines
of the Mohammedan religion, as ex-
pounded in the sacred book of the Proph-
ct, in his oral commentaries and sayings
and in the Interpretation given to them
by the High Priest. Hence the enormous
authority and influence of the Persian
and Turkish clergy. The Shah is re-
garded as the Vice Regent and repre-
sentative of the Prophet upon earth /;
and it is in this semi-sacred capacity
that he claims implicit ooedience by di-
vine right from the faithful Under
him the executive government is at pres
ent carried on by the mockery of Min
istry, who are mere creatures of the
Shah's breath and who have no indepen-
dent will of their own neither would
they dare to express it if they had one.
They may be raised to honor or degrad-
ed to infamy at any moment, and surely
one of the most undesirable positions in
this slippery world is that of Persian
master.
Year: 1873

The mystery of the Goodrich murder
in New York has after some three
months of investigation and search been
cleared up by the arrest and confession
of the murderess. Her real name is Min
ME Waltham, her alias Kate Stoddard
1t is the old story Of criminal love and
mans heartlessness. She says that she
has been livings with Goodrich; that she
loved him, but that he had determined
te cast her off, and would not hearken to
her pleadings to be saved from that
fate, and in desperation she killed him.


Nothing is yet known of the history
of the connection of these two persons
how far blame attaches to both, yet
one cannot but pity the woman in spite
of the crime. There is a vast number
of wrongs similar to the one which led
to this crime, and it is not surprisir g
that they somtimes result thus trag-
icaly. This however is no excuse for
the crime, but in some sense modifes
its animus: yet people should understand
that when they consent, no matter from
what motive. to transgress the moral
code or the laws of the land they enter
upon rerilous course of which they
can not see the end, and which, the
probabilities are, will lead TO moral ruin
and perhaps capital crime.
Year: 1873

The great question that agitates the
intestines of the Democratic party is
whether it will stand the better chance
to come into power by pronouncing itseii
dead, or by declaring itself quick The
patriotic leaders Of the party are ready
to pronounce it either dead or alive when
fully persuaded Ia their own mind which
will be best for its restoration. This
question divides the party. and expends
It's Pickering energies SO far as we
have observed, the division in their views
is about even. About one half o f the force
of expression is positive in the affirmation
that the only way to restore tie Demo-
cratic party to life is to proclaim it dead
and buried The other half afiirr1s as
positively that if it shall thus be pro-
nounced dead and buried there will be
no hope OF resuscitation - Cincinnati
Gazette.


BETWEEN The Carlists and the Inter-
nationals the Spanish republic seems
likely to be egectually crushed In sew.
eral provinces the Internationals have
risen in instruction, and appear to be
masters of the situation The 6;Slo-aIty
and insuboIdination Of tie army renders
the Government at Madrid powerless to
suppress the insurgents, and altogether
Spain appears to be drifting into a
condition of complete anarchy.
Year: 1873

THE independent press $50 called from
having nothing to hang toy represent the
Republican party as guilty of all the acts
of the Credit Mobilier and back pay Con-
gress. We believe, however, that that
Congress was composed OF Republicans
and (what tor want of better name we
suppose We must calD Democrats, and
considering their comparative number,
the guilt was very evenly divided between
them We have yet to hear of Repub-
lican paper of the least weight or eonse-
quence, which has attempted to white
wash it, though we may admit that some
of them have shown more willingness
than the evidence will warrant, to believe
IN the Innocence of certain once loved
and honored individuals accused of par
ticipation in the same. This being the
case, it occurs to Us that the blame ests
upon certain rings and cliqucs and not
upon the Republican party. To coniound
the Republican party with these rings
and cliques is the chronic mistake of the
independent" and the cause of all
their failures. The Republican party is
the American people The cliques and
rings prey upon it only by sufferance, as
a flea sucks the blood of giant When
ever We, the people. get ready, we shall
make short work of them, and the one
thing which more than anything else
tends to delay that happy consummation,
Is the longing, lingering look'' cast by
the Independents" towards the ashes of
slavery and secession, and our natural
fear that some more noxious rermin may
yet be picked out of these obscene car
casses.
Year: 1873

THE La Crosse Democrat calls attention
to the fact that 1.-The first man in the
Northwest that advised the farmers to
combine for their own protection against
the corporations and monopolists, was
Mr.. Carpenter. This was the burthen
of Mr.. Carpenter address before the
State Agricultural Society at Madison
several years ago, and of his speech to
the members of the Rock County Agri-
cultural Society the next year, and froze
Rock County to him for Senator. No
public man In the West has SO strong a
presumption on this movement of the
farmers as Matt FL. Carpenter.
Year: 1873




We believe it would not require the fingers
of both hands to count the commercial and
manufacturing undertakings which our Gov
ernmeDt has conducted at profit. 1t would
need more than a column OF fine print to
enumerate those which have netted a loss. If
Rothschild Vanderbilt or Stewart should con-
duct his business after the fashion OF the
United States, bankruptcy would close his
doors within a twelvemonth, unless indeed his
alarmed friends took out writ dc lunatico
These statements, we are aware, are mere
truisms An American would no more think
of contradicting them than he would the
axioms of Euclid. Nevertheless, we are threat
ened by new outbreak of mania, for doing
business which private citizens could do much
better. This time it is canal building that
Uncle Samuel has on his brain. And, as we
suggested yesterday, 1t is not at all probable
that the three canals proposed will constitute
the last ditch. The new 1oodgates they open
to drain the Treasury will not be closed with
their completion.


Before the expenditure OK the first sixty
millions is authorized-and we think it prob
able that the prominence given these schemes
in the Presidents message had reference to
some foreknowledge of the strength they de-
yeloped on Monday in the HOuse-the public
should be thoroughly familiarized with their
bearings. There are certain matters about
which popular sentiment has been so clearly ex-
pressed that even Congressman can perceive it.
There is not cOrporars guard of them that
would dare to vote to-day for bill giving
large Government aid to railroad. Their
constituents cannot be touched by arguments
in that direction. No talk about the interests
of commerce, the development of the country,
the conveyance of the wheat crop, moves them
a whit. No more land grabs or Credit Mobi-
liers for them. But if not railroads, why canals
II there is so little prospect Of profit in these
canal enterprises that no capitalists come for
ward to attempt them either as a whole or
with some Government assistance, If, in short,
there is no expectation of getting back princi-
pal or interest Gu the Investment which the
United States must wholly bear, is not the
scheme little more wild 1--WE use mild a1-
jective) than even Union Pacific mortgages


We offer these suggestions not because we
would not gladly see every facility afforded to
the farmers Of the West for marketing their
grain, lumber and provisions. But at least
two of these schemes appear to us TO have
about as much merit as Gen. Buffers Dutch
Gan Canal. That had been talked of for q
century as desirable Improvement II
took an army TO construct it, and
when finished it wouldn't float gun
Year: 1873

powerful speech in favor Of tho measure.
Among the majority of the Peninsular men,
bers there are scarcely two opinions about the
prOpriety of abolition. Among those VINO
made speeches in favor of the project We
find the names of Martos and Becerra, the
Democrats; CASTELAR, among the Republicans; {;
the Marquis of SardOal among the most senslDiy
conservative of the aristOcracy. LII the nhn
vote of confidence, there were but five Senators
and but thirteen Deputies who chose to put
their names on record against this benencent
and inevitable measure. 1t is true that
hundred and seventy nOblemen met 10
protest against it, but there is nothing alarm
ing about this. The only energy left among
the blue blOOded aristOcracy of Spain is that
of protest, and their unavailing complaints
form the invariable accompaniment OF the
march of progress. A desperate effort has been
made to food the Chamber with petitions against
Emancipation emanating from those engaged
in the West India trade; but the unsolicited
petitons in its favor are Overwhelmingly In
the majority. 1t remains to be seen whether
the maadroit handling of recent diplomatic
correspondence in this country will nullify all
these favorable conditions and cause reac-
ton against the Ministry. II it should prove
otherwise we shall have no reason to plume
ourselves on our superiority either TO the
Spanish Government or the Spanish people In
the matter of tact or temper.
Year: 1873

The more we know of the details of the
recent movement in the Spanish Cortes for
the abolition of Slavery in Porto Rico, the
more deeply must we regret the entirely un-
necessary question of fact which has arisen
between the United States and Spain by the
indiscret0n of our State Department, which is
likely to result in strengthening the hands of
the pro-Slavery opposition and embarrassing
the Ministry in its wise and humane plan of
reforms. Several weeks ago, when the first
intimati0n of the purpose of the I0rIiila Gov
ernment was given, THE TRIBUNE bespoke for
the Ministry the confidence which is due to
sincere and earnest effort. We have no Occa-
sion to change our judgment in this regard.
We consider that the Spanish Government
as body, and the high minded and
liberal statesmen who compose it, individ-
ually. are kheartiIy enlisted in Gthe cause of
Emancipation, and that the moment is exceed
inely ill-chosen for the United States TO annoy
or paralyze them by any over Jealous dictation.
1t is no answer to this, to point TO the pro-
fessons and promises made by former Minis
tries which remain unfulflled. Spain has never
had Ministry so liberal and so enlightened
os the present For the first time since the
revolution of September, there is Cabinet in
power which takes the principles of that
revolution seriously, which is not hampered by
the old political traditions which made Prim
and his friends less frankly liberal than they
would otherwise have been, nor by that pagan
contempt for democracy and progress which
has distinguished the Liberal Union during
recent years. Zorrilla, Martos, Echegaray,
Beranger, Montero Rios, Becerra, and M0squera
are all men whom the old school of Spanish
politicians would have despised as too naively
honest for craftsmanship.


Besides, the circumstances of the case favor
the plan of Emancipation. The people Of
Porto Rico themselves recognize the fact that
the institution has ceased to pay, and they
begin to be strongly In favor of a proceeding
by which they shall not only perform high
religious and moral duty, but also do a good
thing for themselves and the country. Seven
deputies representing the Island in the Cortcs
demand the abolition Of Slavery. and one of
them. Senior Lwbra, made an eloquent and
Year: 1873

boat, IL this proved an insuperaDle diin-
Guilty on tie lower James River, what would
bo the case above Richmond, up in the noun
tains where that river rises, about 1000 feet
above sea level9 What hope would there be
for the other ditch in the mountains of
Gcorgiaf There are engineers who are ready
to give estimates, and who do actually in
dorse the practicablity of tunnel under
the British Channel. But capital does not
hasten thither. We imagine it would equally
shun either of these schemes, which involve,
among other items, tunnels through noun
tains. Nothing on earth is impossible to en-
gineering. But the only instance of canal
through tunnel in a mountain that is as yet
of record, is the one described by Sindbad the
Sailor. How far the Niagara Ship Canal, which
is to defect our commerce to the St Lawrence
River, will be superseded before it is built by
the enlargement of the Welland Canal, is a
question that ought to be asked about the
third of these ventures.


While we write, information comes that four
or five additional canal schemes are looming
up in Congress. This is the natural result OF
encouragement to the brood. proposition
is on foot to log-roll them in an omnibus bill.
The accepted phrase which explains such
movement is "anxiety to fairly adjust the
claims of the different States" Claims for
soothl Every one of these schemes might,
from local point of view, be regarded as an
attempt to divert commerce from New-Iork.
1t could be easily demonstrated that the Ene
Canal could be converted into first-class
ship canal that would give all required relief
/ IL linn nE nan
diture than would be needed to tunnel The
Blue Ridge for canal boats. And our State by
noble enterprise has demonstrated the nat
ural current of trade, so that this could not
prove losing speculation. But we should
blush for shame if Congressman from New
York asked such charity soup from the public
table. Nor need we be in haste to hu the
plates of the others.