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Year: 1872

Our Pos1r1oN-It has been suggested
to us by politicians that our political
course wonld prejudice the election of
Judge McFadden; that is, by opposing
the election of Wyckoff, we were Offend
ing his chief supporters, the lawless
class of community who would retaliate
by voting for Garielae. We do not un-
derstand how our support of Judge Nc
Fadden can affect his prospects detri-
mentally, when we have no personal in
terest involved in the contest, and have
no authority to speak for him Or COM
nit him in any way. Our support of
Judge McFadden is entirely independ-
ent and voluntary, based upon no par
ty or personal consideration and con-
trolled by no such motives. We sup
port him upon the same ground that We
support a portion of the Republican
ticket in this county, solely because We
believe the best interests of the public
demand it; because he has been faithful
to every public trust. and is universally
conceded to be honest and capable, and
because his opponent has used the pow
er with which he has heretofore been
entrusted solely for his own selfish pur-
poses, utterly disregardful of the public
interests. We are wiling to make per-
sonal sacrifices in the way of public du-
ty, but we are not prepared to sacrifice
our sense of public decency by any COM
promise with that class of community
who make commerce of their suffrages,
and whose sympathies and support have
heretoforebeen with Mr. Garf4 4lde at ev-
cry previous election. We have no un-
derstanding with any candidate or par
ty, and none are responsible for our
course.
Year: 1872


Written Feb. I, 1872 and read at an Official visit
0 the boys at the Reform School at Cape Elizabeth
We come to you with neeting powers,
You little types of man,
And find your school Is just like ours,
But on smaller plan.
This lower world in which we dwell
Of sunshine and of storm,
The blending of q heaven and he'll,
Was made for our reform.
And every mortal here will ind,
Whatever path he takes,
Though in the school Of yours or mine,
Some bill for his mistakes.
Whatever may be said or sung
Though paid by tears or gold,
The payment for mistakes when young,
Il better than when old.
Year: 1872

New YORK, July 13.-Judge Ingra-
ham, in his charge to the jury in the
Stokes case, to-day, reviewed the evil
dence for the prosecution and defense,
concluding IS follows "If you believe,
when the prisoner fired and inflicted the
mortal wound, he feared great bodily
harm or danger 20 his life, and that there
was danger Of il being accomplished, he
was JUSTIFIED In his act, and you viii find
accordingly. II you do not believe the
act was justifiable, and that il was done
in the sudden heat of passion, and with
out any previous intent 10 kill, or that
the prisoner might have avoided the
conflict by retreating from the danger,
you viii find him guilty Of manslaugh-
ter in the third degree. If you believe
that the wounds inflicted were not
mortal, and that il was the treat
ment which caused death. then YOU
must acquit him; but If you find he was
not justified before the shooting, he
having q premeditated design 10 take
life, whether such design was formed be-
fore or after arriving at the hotel, and
that the wound so given caused the
death of the deceased, then you viii find
the prisoner guilty Of murder in the first
degree" The jury retired at half-past
two In the afternoon and returned at
five O'Clock 10 ask for all of Fisk's cloth
ing, which request was granted. At
seven they were sent for, and there
being no prospect Of their agreeing, the
court took a recess until halfpast ten
this morning. IL is understood that
eight Of the jury are for murder In the
first degree and four for manslaughter in
the third degree
Year: 1872

I
I The unfortunate person, Mike Ma
lowney, who was shot through the head
THURSDAY night, still lives aud fiOurishez.


The ball went straight through the head,


passing In at the back and coming out
at the forehead. About ten ounces OF


brain oozed out after 1t. Mike did not
complain much. Everyone thought he


was dead the moment he fell over, after


receiving the shot, and when everyone
found he was stu living, the confident
expectation was indulged that he would


die In five minutes, but he didn't. he
lived ten minutes and appeared to be


better. 1t was announced that he was
still living an hour after the very fatal
shot. At two O'Clock that night It was
considered q sort OF miracle that he was
still breathing. Finally it became COM
mon TO hear people say that be was
alive, the oddity Of the thing wore out,
and folks began to think 1t might not be
such a wonder after all to see men live
who were shot through the head.
The brain, the heart, and the lungs
ere called the tripod Of life. Many
persons who have been shot In the lungs
have recovered, and il is a matter of
record that ram-rod was shot through
q soldiers head at the battle Of Perry
vile without producing any but a slight
inconvenience. This person was thought
not TO have his brains in the proper
place. 1t was said that If he had been
Shot in the stomach in that way, he
would certainly die. The recovery Of
Mr.. MaIowny cannot be accounted for
on any such hypothesis. He has shown
that his brains were inside his skull,
because ne said he would note for Jack
Doyle. Moreover, yesterday, when he
recovered from his stupOr, a friend
asked him how he felt, he answered,
pretty rough, Pm as hungry as hi;
let me have some milk with a stick in
it." If that is not sound { st Of brains,
what can be. That was the language of
a man of extraordinary good sense and
vigorous understanding. He is type Of
the Democracy. Neither bullets nor
battie-axes, nor fine speeches can kill it.
After every severe trial they come back
naturally to their milk, with stick in
it, and won't have any Tom Foley por-
ridge nor Curry sulphur-water IN theirs.
For ten years and a-halfall the bad men
in the county have been trying to kill
the Democrats. This last diabolical at
tempt, like the others, will prove fall
ure. Nike Malovney says he has brains
enough left to do two reasonable men,
and he viii be strong enough in week
to whip any man in the county. In this
he is like our friend Jack Doyle, who,
though he has not the support of few
renegade, no-account Democrats, has yet
strength enough TO whip any man in the
county.
Year: 1872

In Boston, recently q whole family
of eight persons was found to be pros
trated by typhoid fever with no one
left 10 assist them or even call in aid.
The bottom Of the cellar was found TO
be covered to the depth OF several
inches with slime and filth, out of
which the disease has sprung and well
nigh destroyed the people who let it
breed there.


The highest Office within the gift OF
the Government is the Superintend-
ency of the weather signal station on
Pixies Peak, which is fourteen thous-
and feet above the sea level.
Year: 1872

fARAD1o6 In a N1LOEhH EsSs.


At g sharp turn in the road our
feudal castle became reality in the more
gracious shap of beautiful modern
Italian villa. Here is rustic.work
gate, fanlEed by picturesque vine
covered porter's lodge, and winding
stream bordered by willows, and at tho
end Of a park road, in the very pocket
of romantic glen or bower, handsome
and new enough for show palace on
the Hudson river. Our surprise was
intense, but a glance at bona tide eagles
nest perched half way up on tremend-
GUS rock near the gate convinced us
that this was the "Glen Eyris" of which
we had heard so much, and the house
and grounds those Of General Palmer,
who has chosen this unusual site for q
handsome and hospitable country
Year: 1872

Where no changes of seasons shall ev-
er come to remind US that We are grow
ing old; but where we shall live and
flourish forever and forever in all fresh
ness Of immortal youth. III.
Year: 1872

How IT FEELS TO BE HANGED.-A
Frenchman writing to the Gaul5iS gives
an account of his sensations while hanging
himself, which may be of benefit to per-
sons OF suicidal turn of mind, and who
would like to know what the thing is
like As if preparing to hang up his
coat, he drove nail into the wall, and
therelrom suspended himself by looped
cord, which he fastened about his neck,
and then slowly kicked away his chair.
From the crown OF his head to the soles
of his feet, he felt general mixing up
of the fluids of the body" This was
succeeded by flashing light before his
eyes, and then concentrated as single
focus, and thence rippled into space in
concentric circles. His head seemed COM
pressed in an iron ring needles without
number seems to dart from the end of
his fingers and toes then there was Ii
terrible swapping at the nape of his neck +,
and serpent seemed to wr;ggle down
his spine. His last sensation was one Of
pain at the throat and shoulder blades
He had expected to wake up and find
himself dead, but kind-or unkind-
friends cut him down.
Year: 1872

Affairs in Arizona appear to have reached crisis. The Apaches have taken to the war path in force, and with unanimity that be- tokens an organized determination to drive the Americans out of the Territory or exter- mlnate them. Governor Stafford has been compelled to issue call for volunteers as the only means of holding the country. The Apaches are more bloodthirsty than ever. All the alleged treaties appear to have vanished in thin air; the plans for gathering the Ind ians on the reservations are failures and 1t is evident that unless the Government at once furnishes enough troops to whip the savages summarily and effectually the settlers must take up arms in their own defense, or prepare to abandon the Territory. This is the end of the peace policy in Arizona. The cant of Colyer, the prate of old women who had ney- CT seen an Indian, the bad advice of ignorant and predjudiced writers for the press, have at last eliminated, not in the submission, pacifi- cation and civilization of the Apaches, but in the prolongatiOn of an era of martyrdom for the white settlers, and in the final general outbreak of the savages in war of extermi- nation. We have had no doubt from the first that this would be the issue of the mistaken policy adopted in defercnce to the fallacious ideas of the so-caled humanitarians. The the ory was based on entire misconception of the Indian character. They were to be dealt with as reasoning and intelligent beings, amenable to like influences and arguments with those which control civilized peoples They were to be pursuaded of the advanta- ges of settled over a nomadic life, and were to be converted by talk to gentle and peace able agricultursts. The idea was essentially absurd, and it was bound to be failure from its very inception. All respectable author ities have predicted the result that has now occurred, and perhaps at this eleventh hour an effort will be made to retain Arizona to the possession of the United States. The situation is unquestionably very serious, how ever, and further delay and redtapeism may lose us the Territory, or involve a frightful sacrifice of innocent blood.-Sacramento, (Cat.) Record, Sept. 10.
Year: 1872

A Washington special to the Cincinnati
GG-ette says:


The friends of Minister Marsh have been
looking into the grounds of complaints
against him on account of his dispatch con-
tanning severe reelection sagainst the 1tal-
ian government. 1t now appears that Mr..
Marsh took special precautions to have
what he had written kept secret. except
from those having the closest confidence of
the State Department, and to attain this
end transmitted his entire dispatch in the
cipher of the State Department. After it
had been translated for the secretary's Pc
rusal il was allowed by some unexplained
careessness to find its way into the letters
copied for publication in the annual report
of correspondence sent to Congress. Mr..
Marsh's friends are claiming that since he
was only discharging his plain duty in ac-
auainting the secretary with the real con-
dition of affairs, and that on his part every
possible precaution was taken to prevent
the contents of the dispatch from becoming
generally known; that if the Italian govern
ment insists upon his recall it will be only
Just to give him another mission OF equal
rank, and are suggesting Spain.
Year: 1872

The Buffalo Courier learns that be-
tween four and five o'clock on the
morning of the 10th, as q gentleman
was walking between the lower Suspen-
sion Bridge and the Whirlpool OH the
Canada side of the river, he discovered
blood on the edge of the bank. which
excited his suspicion. He returned to
Clifton, and with two young men went
below the bank to find. if possible, the
body of the murdered man. They
found where the body of a man had


fallen on the rocks below, and pieces
of the skull and brains were scattered
in the immediate vicinity. It was evi-
dent that the body had been thrown
into the river, but no clue was left as
to the murderer or his victim. It is
thought from the fresh appearance of
the pieces Of brain and skull found
that the deed was committed the night
BEFORE
Year: 1872

A CONNECTICUT matron is found in
the possession of cake baked thirty
two years ago, at the time Of Harri.
sons election. If that cake could
speak it would doubtless have it, stale
to toll.
Year: 1872




Sr. LOUIS, July Sex. Secretary of
the Navy, Gideon Welles, has written a
letter to o friend in this city which was
published in the Times this morning,
the main points of which are as follows :


We were good deal disappointed
with the result at Cincinnati. 1t would
have been difficult to find a more disa
greeable and Objectionable candidate to
three.fourths of the men who must vote
for him, if lie is to be elected, than
Horace Greeley But while l have for
life time been opposed TO Horace
Greeley on most subjects, / think him
infinitely preferable to Grant. The
question is not personal one, and
ought not to be so considered. The
Republican party has performed its
mission Its organization Is kept up
and prolonged, not to promote essential
principles, not for the interests of the
country, but to subserve the selfish pur-
pose of few individuals who have
their own ends to accomplish. A change
is absolutely necessary. We must get
rid of Grants Grantisn and the hateful
policy which for several years has been
pursued, or our federative system of the
United States will be entirely subverted.
Let the government become consoiida
ted, and disruption will soon follow.
We shall be broken into sections and
warning factions Grant has evidently
no comprehension of our governmen
tai system, nor does he care much fol
it. To command and obey are his idea;
of government He knows nothing oi
constitution restraints. The place ht
occupies he considers his right--a per
quisite he has earned Now, we mus
get rid of this man and his evil sur
roundings. Greeley is not the instru
ment that I would have selected, bu
hi, ELECTION would be an advance ant
Improvement on the present state o.
things. A crooked stick may me made
available to beat a mad dog if it wa.
necessary. We should dismiss minor
differences and concentrate on one can
didate. If we cannot have onr frs
choice let us have the best we can get
If we can elect q new chef magistrate
we can elect a new and better Congress
We shall rescue the government from
military rule. Some of the extremt
and impracticable free traders, sc they
call themselves, propose a new ticket
This, if it can do anything will ait
Grant and the existing evil. Why tall
OF free trade and revenue when the gov
eminent itself is in peril ?


l am for rescuing the government ant
preserving free institutions before con
tending on mere matters of expediency
Grant has not one single qualification
for chief magistrate. Greeley has some
Grant has some vulgar cunning and i
extremely selfish and avaricious. Gree
ley has intellect and generous and pat
riotic instincts. If he is elected he vii
have new and different Congress, ant
all Presidents are more or less infuen
ced by their friends.
Year: 1872

| her ana the door, and, liking my eyes


upon hers, said:


"Madame, my name is johnson: I anu
q member OF the detective police OF New


York" Her cheek pacd, and she seem
ed agitated. ''Do you know this trink-
p l continued, displaying the glitter
! ing opal earring.


On seeing it she uttered a piercing
scream and dropped senSeiess to the
floor.


The OLD coachman heard her cries and
rushed into the room. He stopped when
he saw me, and demanded my business,
| told him I was . detective, and draw
ing the old knife from my vest pocket, l
said stornIy: ,


"James Baker, this is your knife, and
with it young Henry Delavan was mur-
dered in New York.


He uttered low curse, and, his eyes
blazing with fury, he drew a long bowie
knife and rushed towards me. was
prepared.


Not so fast" said I, and the six
eyes of my revolver looked into his
face. "Another step towards me and
| you are dead man Drop that knife


He hesiiated a moment, and then,
seeing that l was in earnest, he drop
/ ped the knife and said, II did not do
it,"


walked to the window, still cover
ing him with my revolver, and sprang
Inn t,.},,, I,
ed by the entrance Of two policemen.
ordered them TO secure the man and
then turned my attention to the young
lady who was just recovering from her
swoon. She was burning with fever
and her eyes had an unmistakable look
Of delilium. The intense excitement
had caused an attack of brain fever
| From the coachman's confession and
other circumstances, the following facts
leaked out: Some time previous to the
tragedy Henry Delavan had made q
somewhat lengthy visit to Chicago,
wher che frequently meet Miss D'Alem.
bert Being man Of elegant personal
appearance and agreeable manners, the
impusive young lady became desperate
ly enanored with him, but as he was
engaged to an estima5le young lady in
New York, the passion was not recip.
rOcated She discovered the fact of his
engagement, and with an inconsistency
characteristic of her French blood,
hated him more intensely than she had
ever loved him. She determined to re.
venge herself, and endeavored to bribe
the old coachman TO murder him. He
would not agree to this, but in view Of
a reward he promised to help her
They took the evening train for New
York, and she knowing which wav be
would pass in going home from the
house of his betrOthed, they hid in an
alley running across one of the princi-
4 pal streets. Baker had the knife open
in his fand, but when about midnight
they heard his steps, and she recogni-
zed him in the dim moonlight, the old
man dropped the knife and recoiled.--
She seized it, and as he advanced rush
ed upon him and struck the fatal blow.
The death stricken man did not even
utter groan. but clutched wildly at the
air, and his fingers closed upon one of
her ear rings, and bis fall tore it from
her ear. They fled precipitately, and
took the next train for Chicago.


The young lady is still living, ra
wing maniac in the insane asylum, and
The ancient coachman is serving his life
term in the State Prison.
Year: 1872

all he had to get anything for
his family to live on. l sent
him to the Provost MarshaPs
q do not remember who he
was), and. in a few days Brick
took his notorious exit from
Gen. Printiss's lines, which
closed the scene Of the cotton
matter; but the old man Pike
never got his money, so he told
me since l moved to this State
He is still living, and if any
wish to know all about the
matter they can find out by
addressing him at Clarendon,
Monroe county, Arkansas, and
what he says l will vouch for;
and if any of those Southern
people think Brick is their
friend for anything but their
money 1 think they are badly
mistaken, as his speculations
in cotton and medicine while
he was a Captain in the army
of the United States showed to
officers like myself who had
not the sense to speculate.


A CITIZEN.
Year: 1872

A painter being asked to es-
innate the cost of painting a
certain house, drew forth a
pencil and paper and made
the following calculation: ga
naught is a naught; three into
five twice you can't; I'll paint
your house for fifty dollars"
Year: 1872

excellent and characteristic
private letter from General
Lee to his son Custis, the orig
inal of which was found
among the papers which we're
purloined from Arlington
House. 1t is interesting, and
although written many years
ago, will well repay perusal.


Arlington House, April 5, 1852.


My Dear Son-I am just in
the act of leaving home for
New Mexico. My fine old
regiment has been ordered to
that distant region, and 1 must
hasten to see that they are all
properly taken care of. l have
but little to add in reply to
your letters of March Goth, 9th
and 29th. Your letters breathe
a spirit of frankness. They
have given myself and your
mother great pleasure. You
must study to be frank with
the world; frankness is the
child of honesty and courage.
Say what you mean to do on
every occasion, and take it for
granted you meant to do right.
If a friend asks a favor YOU
should grant it ifit is reasona-
BILE; if not, tell him plainly
why you cannot; you will
wrong him aud you will wrong
yourself by equivocation of
any kind. Never do a wrong
thing to make a friend or to
keep one; the man who re-
quires you to do so is dearly
purchased at a sacrifice. Deal
kindly but firmly with your
classmates; you will find it the
policy that wears best. Above
all do not appear to others
what you are not. If you
have any fault to find with any
one tell him, not others of what
yon complain; there is no
more dangerous experiment
than that of undertaking to
be one thing before a mans
face and another behind his
back. We should live, act and
say nothing to the injury of any
one. 1t is not only best as a
matter of principle, but it is
the path to peace and honor.
In regard to duty, let me, in
conclusion of this hasty letter,
inform you that nearly one
hundred years ago there was a
day of remarkable gloom and
darkness, still known as the
dark day, a day when the
light of the sun was slowly ex-
tinguished as if by an eclipse.
Tie Legislatures of Connect
cnt was in session and as its
members saw the unexpected
and unaccountable darkness
coming on they shared in the
general awe and terror. II
was supposed by many that
the last day-the day ofjudge-
ment--had come. Some one,
i'm the CONSERVATION of the
hour moved an adjournment
Then there arose an old Puri
tan legislator, Davenport San
ford, who said that if the las
day had come he desired to bt
found at his place doing hi!