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Year: 1873

The unreconstructed men Who endeav-
ofed to make slavery national under the


constitution Of the United States, and


falling in that attempted the establish


ment Of Southern Confederacy with


slavery as its corner stone, are now the
only advocates Of C@sarism in this coun-
try. As their conduct in 1861 produced


the war with all its sesults-good and


bad-to the country, was the cause OF i'm


mense losses in blood and treasure, and


the substitution OF military 70, civil
rule in many portions Of the republic,
and after the war created. the neces-
sity for stringent laws TO check their
violent conduct and perfect the work
Of reconstruction, SO their conduct


at this time has the same bearing and


deep-seated designs against republican


government. Tie unreconstructed rebels


and their followers-bus few IN numbe,-


are the only men in this country that de-


sire to see our republican form of govern


mens changed to Casarism or the rule of


martial law. Whenever prominen. one


is SO lost to all decency as to speak out his


true sentiments upon this subject he does


not hesitate TO say that he would hail with
joy any movement that would bring back


slavery, not only 70 the blacks, bu. to the
poor white people Of this county. He


would 60 further than this. He would
pledge the Southern States to aid in making
President Grant the embodiment: Of
Casarism in this country; and could they
succeed in alluring him 10 the false STEP


they would doubtless calculate on having
some convenient Brutus o. Booth on
hand to make vacancy in the royal Office,
that some more congenial spirit to them
might fill it. And it is possible they might
settle upon a worse man than JEFF Da.is
to wear the royal diadem.


But these men are reckoning without
their host. President Grant is too great
and too good man to prove faise-if the
enemies Of republicanism could succeed
with his aid in making him The Cesar Of !
this country-to the people who have
twice raised him to tie CHIEF magistracy
Of the republic.
Year: 1873

The brightest newspaper correspondent
lately heard from lives in Pennsylvania
He writes up the trial trip ola new steamer
but he takes the edge off his communication
In saving that he was compelled to decline
a pressing invitation to 60 on the tr'p,
since, if he had accepted, he would not
have returned in time to mail the valuable
descriptive letter. After reading such an
introduction, one has to read his letter with
allowances.
Year: 1873

There are about sixty manufacturers Of
goat morocco in the United States, about
half the number being in Philadelphia The
capacity Of their factories is sufficient to
make about 1900 dozen day, and the aver
age amount Of the morocco business for
1879 was nearly $40, 100000.
Year: 1873

The annual statement of the course Of
the market for the preceding year, will be
laid before our readers on Sunday morn
ing. It has been compiled with great care
by a corps Of the most experienced and
accurate commercial reporters, and may
be relied upon as in all respects trust
worthy. Notwithstanding the complaints
of croaking politicians and unthrifty
idlers, we are glad to assure our readers
that there has been a material increase in
the general volume Of business, and no
disasters of moment have come to careful
houses engaged in legitimate business.
As we expect to print very large edition
we shall be able to fill the orders of our
friends to any desired extent.
Year: 1873

Dr. Derry states that the average time occupied in the process of taking food by the people of Massachusetts does not exceed from twelve to fifteen minutes for each meal. Such haste is injurious to health for many reasons. The pro- cess of digestion begins in the mouth with the action of the teeth, and through the excitement of the salivary glands by the presence of food. Unless saliva is abundantly mingled with the latter, the first act of digestion is ob- structed, and natures plan is changed. This fluid not only lubricates but acts chemically in the mouth, if reasonable time be given it, upon all the starch elements which make up the great bulk of what we eat. When eating in haste, great deal of air is swallowed. Airis, to certain extent, always entangled in the saliva and assists digestion, but when "wads of food succeed each other very rapidly, they seem to act like pistons in the tube leading from the back of the throat, and drive before and between them into the stomach such amounts of air as to distend that organ and impede it's functions. An other effect of eating in this way is that the masses of food imperfectly mixed with saliva, become impacted in the nsophagus, checking it's muscular action, which is obviously intended to propel only one piece at time. This embarrassment is overcome by taking at one gulp as much fluid as the mouth will hold, thus distending the elastic tube and washing the obstructed food into the stomach. All this is unnatural, and can hardly fail to work mischief.
Year: 1873

The following expedient for catching 8 thief was adopted in provincial town in England some thirty years ago i:

 A miller residing near place called Beverly, whose premises had been en- tered for some time previously almost every night, and considerable quanti- ty of grain abstracted, hit upon a very ingenious expedient for the detection of the offender.

 The means of ingress was by putting finger through hole in the door, which uplifted the latch. On the night in question the miller set large fox trap, and hung it inside the door, so that the thief would be obliged to touch the spring in opening the door.

 Having taken this precaution, he left it for the night, and on going the fol- lowing morning his expectations were realized, by finding fellow suspended from the door by his finger! The miller, after severely admonishing the thief for his crime, and taking into consideration the sufferings the poor wretch had undergone, gave him the choice of abid- ing by the law, or receive good horse whipping.

 It is needless to add, that he perfer- red the latter alternative, which the miller administered, with the full power of 8 stalwart man.
Year: 1873

The spawning season of oysters, says Pierre Blot, commences in May, or rather with the warm weather, and closes with August, or when the cold nights cool the water. Oysters are sold all the year round, and some fishermen and oyster dealers pretend that they are just as good in summer as in fall or win ter, because, as they say, those sold during the summer are moved about in such way as to prevent them from spawning. It is sometimes possible to interfere with the laws of nature, if not entirely, at least partially, as in the case with oysters; but the effect produced by the prevention of their spawning does not make them retain their full degree of excellence and wholesome ness.

 Although oysters have no head, and consequently are deprived of the senses of sight, hearing, and smelling, they are very sensitive when touched with any thing sharp, such as pin or the point of knife, or by merely letting drop of vinegar or lemon juice fall on their edges, when one shell is removed, and you readily notice the shrinking movement of the part that is touched. In spite of their unsightly and uninvi- ting appearance, few persons eschew that most delicious bivalve. On the contrary, they seem to be universally relished, either raw or cooked. They agree with every one, whether well or sick, and are excellent for dyspeptlcs and consumptives, taken raw.

 It is very wrong to lose the juice that is in the shell when opening oysters. This juice is palatable and healthful. To eat on the half shell, the oyster should be served on the concave shell instead of the fiat one, thus retaining most of the juice; and it is not necessa- " to drop them in water, as 1t is custo- mary when opened for stewing, etc.; if properly washed and then carefully opened, there would be enough of their own juice for any purpose.

 Oysters, like Holsters, are unwhole- some food if eaten raw or cooked when dead. Like Holsters, they live long time after being taken out of water, if not killed by heat or frost, but they de- cay quickly when dead. Keeping them in water after being opened prevents 1 quick decomposition, as 1t keeps them from contact with the air.

 The American oyster is much larger than the European, and at least as good. Europeans who pronounce it inferior to their own are as much in the wrong as Americans who pronounce the European the inferior.

 It is more question of habit than of taste. We generally prefer what we have been used to eat when young (how- ever poor it may bel to better things the taste of which is new to us. John Chi | naman prefers a mouse to an oyster and Chilians eat any species of agouti, but never touch the splendid oysters that are found along their shores.
Year: 1873

The report of the West Point Board of Visitors directs attention to a fact which ought not be lost sight of. It is that out of 134 appointees for the posi- tion of cadet examined during the year, forty-nine, or rather more than one third, were rejected on the literary ex- animation. The Board attributes this rather surprising result to want of thoroughness in the primary education of the United States, and very properly urges it upon the attention of the school boards, superintendents, and teachers. The preliminary examination of candi- dates for admission to the Military Academy is of the most elementary kind, and it shows the existence of very serious defects in the educational system, on which the country spends so much, that thirty-fve per cent. of the young men selected for cadets should be so glaringly deficient in the simple rudiments of knowledge.
Year: 1873

A judge in Shanghai has been giving some useful hints on the prevalent de- sire to get rich too fast. A correspon- dent writing from that place tells of 8 criminal case which has there been cre- ating some excitement on account of it's novelty, though we should perhaps not be disposed to regard it in the same light here. He says: "A gentleman holding position of trust made use of moneys not belonging to him, and was tempted so to act by unsuccessful spec ulatlons and extravaganza in living. The Chief Judge, in passing sentence, took advantage of the opportunity to read wholesome lesson to the commu- nity, and his remarks are we'll worth re- beating to large sphere of society. He said: You are the self-made vic- tim of passion which seems to be seizing on society at large, and which, like disease, spares neither age nor sex, the single or the married, the rich or the poor-the passion for getting rich by one or more strokes of luck-by a process which is as much open to the fool as to the wise man, to the knave as to the honest man. It appears as If, in these times, men had but one faith, one hope, one object in ife-wealth. Responsibility, contentment with what we have, the happiness of our family, honor, are all sacrificed to this one god of the age we live in. Everything is to be sacrifced-not only our own pros poets, the prospects of those dearest to us, the prospects of our wives and chil- dfen, to the great mania of getting rich and this "wealth " is not that which is the result of patient industry, uprightness in dealings, and legitimate trade, but the "wealth of the gambling table, These words of Sir Edmund Hornby's are like shower of pearls, and it is to be hoped that the effect will not be lost"
Year: 1873

The trawl net is very simple contriv- ance when it is we'll understood and, by your leeve, I will try and make it's construction plain to you. Imagine an ordinary seine, looped up at the cor ners. Funnel shape, or rather in the form of cone sliced in two, the mouth of the apparatus is kept open on one side by 8 pole some ten or twelve feet long, called the trawl beam,'' which floats uppermost when the net is down, while the lower side is weighted with thick heavy piece of hawser styled the "ground rope," around which the meshes of the net are woven. A bri- dle or martingale unites the two ends of the trawl beam. To this is attached adouble sheaved block, through which runs hundred and fifty fathom rope, capable of bearing heavy strain, and in hauling in which great nicety must be observed, as the slightest hitch or defection will cause the beam to turn the wrong way, when the net gets on her back,"' as the fisher folk say, all your catch being simply turned out into the "vasty deep," and your case resulting in that of "love's labor lost. "-Beloravia.
Year: 1873

At recent burning of hotel in Prairie du Chien. Wis, it is reported that s'several of the servant girls leaped from the third story window into the arms of Captain Hobbs" Some of the male boarders tried to attract Hobbs attention, but they finally had to crawl down the lightning rod
Year: 1873

CRIsTADoRo's EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE stands unrivaled and alone It's merits have been so universally acknowledged that it would be supererogation to descant on them any further-nothing can beat it.-Com.
Year: 1873

The following good illustration of the manner in which advertising pays lately occurred in our experience. One of our patrons, who makes paper ma. chinery, had card in the Journal, the time of insertion on which had expired.

 A bill was sent for the same, with re- quest to know whether the advertise ment should be continued. After quite long delay, 8 reply in the affirmative was received, which came almost on the day of publication, so that the card barely escaped being left out in the succeeding number of the paper. A short time later one of eur large mill owners, wishing to buy some machinery like that made by the firm in question, looked through the Journal, and having his attention attracted by their card, wrote at once, and gave them an order, adding that if this was filled satisfac- torily he would in @ short time largely increase it. But for the fact that re- newal of the advertisement came just at that time, other parties would doubtless have obtained these orders, the profits on which amounted to far more than the cost of the card for whole year. It is not necessary to mention the names of the parties concerned, though we are quite willing to do so, if it is desired, but the incident is one among hun dreds which show the value of continu- ous advertising. Journal.
Year: 1873

The Penobscot Indians are among the few relics of the red men in New England. They maintain their distinc- tive traits and appearance, and although their reservation is surrounded by will lages of white men and thriving farm communities, they make very little pro- gross in civilization. They are grad ually melting away. For many years they have occupied small island in the Penobscot river, twelve miles above Bangor, where they are visited during the summer by many curious travellers. In the warm season parties of them cite cities sand and villages for many days, making and selling baskets, slippers and small fancy articles of wood, in which they are expert. But they never apply themselves regularly to agricul- ture or numbering, which are 50 univer- sally the occupations of the people in their neighborhood. Some of them have exhibited considerable ingenuity and ability in various ways. The Soc calexis and Swassian families have long been known throughout the State as the shown some shrewdness in their nego- b1ubACAS dU mug u5Utt, WAOLO UuO OIADuA delegate has about the same functions as territorial delegate to Congress- The legislature, we believe, still con. tinues its annual appropriation to the tribe.

 Although these Indians are idle and dissolute in business affairs, they have given remarkable evidence of energy and industry in the amusements in which they indulge. They are expert and exceedingly ambitious to gain ap- plause in the use of the birch canoe. Many of them have learned the games of the whites. For many years one of them used to spend much of his time in Bangor playing checkers, and there were few who could outplay him. He was cool and unavoidable, never quar- reled or complained when beaten, and often won by what is known in war as "bull-dog tenacity" and stoical indiffer- ence to the applause or disapproval of the spectators.

 The day is not far distant when the Penobscots will be known only in story. The days when Molly Molasses and the Joes and the Sochbesins used to go about the streets of Bangor with their small wares and their jokes, will live in the memory of many when there shall be no Penobscot tribe. Although it is apparently the destiny of the red man to die out before the march of the white man, in this case it may be truly said that rum is their most formidable ene- my, for the Penobscots are the most systematic violators of the Maine law.
Year: 1873

The way to make easy times is as clear as daylight.

 Let every man or woman who owes money pay it at once, if it is possible.

 Be willing to make sacrifice in order to meet promptly all your engagements.

 Stop grumbling at the faults or mis- takes of others, and attend faithfully to your own affairs.

 Deal fairly, leniently, and cheerfully with all persons who owe you or are in pecuniary trouble.

 If you are out of debt, thank the Lord and then go around among your friends, and enemies too, if you have them, and render them all the assis- tance in your power.

 Don't hoard your money but loan it or use it to relieve the needy, on the same principle as you would give bread to the needy in day of famine.

 Do what you can in every way to re- ieve pecuniary distress, to check the current of financial endorsements and restore public confidence.

 If you are bank officer or director, don't be cross minute. Smile, as @ Christian duty, from morning till night. Give an encouraging word, if possible, to all, and by all means strain every nerve to help all who need it.
Year: 1873

The plan adopted in Philadelphia for the relief of the poor is as follows: Each ward forms 8 Branch Relief Association under control of an official board; the precinctSfef the ward are divided into :" blocks, for each of which is appoint ed by the board committee of two gentlemen of established character to solicit donations of money, goods, cast off clothing, bedding, etc.; and two ladies, whose business it is to visit every house and examine strictly into cases requiring relief. All donations are sent to a central room or hall, and receipts given to the contributors. No order for relief is honored unless signed by one of the visiting committee. All transactions of the association, so far as they relate to delivery of relief, must be regarded as strictly confden- tial. The goods received are cut out into suitable garments and given to wo- men out of employment to make up at fair wages; afterward they are given away, or sold at the price of the mate- rial to those who can afford to buy. Commenting on the above an exchange says: We Americans are as generous a people as any other, but we ought to take a lesson of the Germans, who thor oughly understand the workings of beneficial societies, and the Quakers and Jews, among whom, so comprehen- sive is their cautious benevolence, a pauper is never found.

 A practice of the Friends recommends itself strongly just now. At every Quarterly Meeting each member is re- quired to state whether his assets will more than cover his liabilities. If not, he is excluded from membership until he has shown himself, by paying his debts, according to their notions an honest man again. If this homely, downright rule of the good Quakers could obtain in all churches, such pan ics as the present would be impossible. But as we cannot borrow their wisdom of prevention, let us try their wisdom of cure in their scheme of charity.
Year: 1873

Thou art mine, thou hast given thy word;

 Close, close in my arms thou art clinging;

 Alone formy ear thou art singing A song which no stranger hath heard; But afar from me yet, like bird, Thy soul in some region unstirred,

 On it's mystical circle is winging. Thou art mine, have made thee mine own

 Henceforth we are mingled forever

 But in vain, all in vain, I endeavor- Though round thee my garlands are thrown, And thou yieldest thy lips and thy zone To master the spell that alone ,..s. .,. My hold on thy being can sever. Thou art mine, thou hast come unto me!

 But thy soul, when strive to be near it.

 The innermost fold of thy spirit Is as far from my grasp, is as free, As the stars from the mountain tops be, isz- AS the pearl in the depths of the sea .,...s

 From the portionless ring that would wear it
Year: 1873

One of the things you read of recent ly occurred in Wilmington, Del. A man was detected hurrying away from a butchers stall with steak which he had stolen under his coat. A police man followed him to his home, and peeping through the window, saw him give the steak to his children, who de- voured it raw. Upon report of this being made to the butcher, his bosom so glowed with benevolent sympathy, that instead of prosecuting, he sent the starving family large basket of meat and little cash to buy wood to cook it.
Year: 1873

WORK DEMANDED.--A mass meeting of working men was held at Tammany Hall, New York, to demand work for the unemployed laborers and mechanics on the public works of this city. There were about 800 present, and it was in- sisted that work by the city should be given the poor.
Year: 1873

If two Jumps Of ice be pressed together,
they will be welded at their points Of con-
tact. Faraday having communicated this
observation to Tyndall, the latter took q
hollow steel cylinder, put In some snow,
which he compressed with piston fitting
tight, and thus obtained a cylinder of
transparent ice. In the same way two
pieces Of solid ice, If subjected to pressure
In mold Of any shape, will come out in
that precise form. Professor William
Thompson explains this by saying that
by pressure the points in contact lique-
fled, that the water thus produced has
rendered latent portion of the caloric of
the surrounding Ice, whereby the tenn
perature falls below zero; and that, con-
sequently, as soon as the pressure ceases,
this water freezes again. Both NJ. Helm
hOlz and Professor Tyndall accept this
explanation; only the latter finds 1t so
far insufficient that 1t does not take into
account the air contained in the water.
Professor Helmholz replies that the
non-conducting property of ice Is an
objection to the supposition that the
caloric set at liberty by pressure can
spread into the ice, and that great obscu-
rity still prevails on the question.
He also describes the following expert
ment of his: Having put lump Of ice In
hot water, he submerged it by pressing It
down with another piece of ice. Notwith-
standing the all but infinitesimal pressure
exercised, the two Jumps instantly froze
together. Again, it is well known that
two floating bodies wetted with water
will attract each other. Now, II they be
Jumps of ice swimming on hot water, they
will join and coalesce at once. When the
bridge thus formed has melted away,
they will again separate, then meet and
freeze together again, and so on, as long
as there Is any Ice left. He concludes
with mentioning an experiment made by
NJ. Duppa, the upshot of which is that
ice may be pressed into any shape-that
Of statuette, for instance q plaster cast
may then be taken of 1t; and when the
ice has melted away inside, there remains
a hollow mold into which any metal may
be poured.-Seientife Amsriean.
Year: 1873

You never know the latent talent in q
washstand TIL you try to move one.
Just to look at It, one would think It
could be moved with all the crockery on
it.; but when you pick it up the wash
bowl and pitcher waltz around, 80 that
you are obliged to set them down to
prevent fracture. Then the Crawer
comes out and spills everything you have
lost in three months all over the floor,
and wien you get on that side to keep
the drawer In, the doors fly open and
bark your shins. When you get to the
and you get the skin knocked of from
three knuckles on one hand but that
makes youjust mad enough to finish the
job in twenty-three secOLds-and the
wash-stand. The safest way is to Fire
man on fair salary, and charge him for
breakage-Uties Herald.