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Year: 1872

Trouble is more frequently made
than sent. If every person would
take the world as it is, its joys and
sorrows, and yield at once an humble
reconciliation to what is unavoidable
there would be far more happiness,
and infinitely less misery than there
is. Six thousand years experience
ought to convince mankind that there
are clouds here as we'll as sunshine,
and the man who starts life with the
expectation that everything before
him will be smooth and uninterrupt-
ed, is simply a dreamer who knows
nothing Of the worlds realiues.--
Wealth cannot shield us from dsap-
polntment and atilction, and poverty
is not as heavy on the heart as the
cares brought on by the possession OF
uncounted riches. We cannot keep
death away from our door, no matter
how faithfully we may guard It's por-
tails, nor can we so control the mlud>
and dispositions of others that the
most tender ties and associations are
not at times snapped asunder. Let
rs take matters as they come. and try
to be content. If We are prosperous,
we should rejoice and give God the
praise. If we fail in our enterprises.
and find our plans Of business d"arlpd
and thwarted, let us submit cooIly to
the visitation, and try again, with re
newed hope and effort. There is 10
use lameuting when lamentations will
do no good, or shedding teals when
they only tend to LeiShten our sor-
rows. The grave will soon cover our
troubles, and there is a happy life be-
yond which we can make our own, nc
matter how the world treats US.
Year: 1872

the schools, which are the interests Of
all, they will in time be compelled to
acknowledge the superiority Of our
Free School System, and own it q
power for Immense good in onr midst.


TEACHER.
Year: 1872

The Salisbury Bachelor has donned new
dress and is just as spry and lively as its remain
Ing bachelor editor His good looks seem to have
failed to secure him life partner, but the good
looks Of his paper has won for it many warm
admirers and constant readers.
Year: 1872

The President is now understood to favor the
proposition for the withdrawal Of the claims for
consequential damages, if England shall agree
to the principle that neutral powers shall not
be held responsible for consequential damages
in future wars.
Year: 1872

vesuvius is on bust, again, and apparently
very bad one. The fact is that such volcano
is as bad running sore" on the face of Nature
as Tammany; was on the body polite, and it
cannot be healed up.
Year: 1872

The Green Mountain State holds her cleo
ton next Tuesday, and as the first In which
State ticket was expressly nominated and sup
ported on the Liberal platform, the result will
be regarded with lively interest. The Demo-
cratic vote of Vermont is about twelve thou
sand; we believe the Liberal vote will
considerably exceed twenty thousand. / so,
there can be no reasonable doubt as to the
Presidential contest, since similar result in
other States would give the Liberal Party
about five millions of votes in the Union,
enabling it to choose more than two-thirds of
the Electors.


The Liberals of Vermont have made this
canvass under most discouraging auspices. All
the Federal and State offices are filled with
their active, envenomed foes. Postmasters,
Custom house officers, Internal Revenue ditto,
Senators and Representatives in Congress,
with State functionaries of all grades, are
leagued to crush out the New Departure. Fear
ing majority intolerant and proscriptive, the
weaker brethren succumb to the terrors OF
power, and suppress their convictions that
they may escape bullying. Whatever the
Liberal vote may be, it will fall short by
thousands of the voters who wish well to the
cause, and will heartily rejoice in its success.
But" (they say since we cannot carry the
estate, why subject ourselves to scowls and
courses from the wealthy and powerful to
"no purposei" This sort of trucking will
deprive the Liberal ticket of support to which
it is entitled; and yet we look confidently
for result which will inspirit and assure the
advocates of Reconciliation and Reform from
one end of the Union to the other.
Year: 1872

The narrative of THE TRIBUNE reporter who
was confined in BloOmingdale Insane Asylum
is continued in other columns of this issue of
THE TRIBUNE. ALI candid readers will admit
that the story is told dispassionately. In fact,
so impressed has the writer been with his
instructions to set down nothing he cannot
establish on oath, and to divest himself of any
feeling of prejudice or animOsity toward the
physicians or keepers, that he appears to
err on the other side and to have
lost something of the natural feeling
of sympathy for the helpless creatures his mis-
sion was devised to aid by giving voice to
those whom nature and man combine to ST.
lence as though entombed. In spite of a tame
ness which this conscientious precaution has
given the narrative, it is nevertheless not
wanting in the elements which make 1t alb
sorbing reading. and the combined narratives
form powerful argument in favor OF that
reformation in the legal and medical treat
ment of insanity which must grow out of the
agitation thus begun in this State.


The two narratives now published establish,
beyond any sort of doubt, that greater facili-
ties are offered for getting a sane man into
an Insane Asylum than out of it. The whole
medical profession is at the beck and call of
all who can pay to aid in the commitment.
The sane man, once committed, has only the
medical skill of a single physician to call to
his succor; and that physician is already
prejudiced against him, for divers reasons.
1t is his interest-to put the baser motive
first and dismiss it soonest-to keep the
paying boarder as long as his friends
pay his keeping Then the Endorsement of his
infrmity by two reputable professional breth-
rem leads the Asylum physician to hesitate at
reversing their sworn decision. 1t is not merely
a thing that seems to lack professional courtesy
but delicate one; if mistake be made it is
damaging TO the reputation Of himself or asso-
ciates and in any event is derogatory to
profession in which the members take unusual
pride. Thus prejudiced, it is natural that there
should be hesitation on the part of Asylum
physicians, and disposition to torture q
patients protest of sanity and appeals
for release into evidences of idiocy, con-
frmatoTy Of tho certificate of commitment.
Year: 1872

the Know-Nothing delusion, but constantly OPP
posed and defed it. But we do not forget
that some pure and able men were influenced
by il, who have since done important service
to the country, who have worked with us in
many fields of social and political reform. We
have not declared such an error dshonoring or
disqualifying one. We think this whole business
of the disinterment of dead political utterances
rather trivial. We did not begin it, and would
be glad to see il ended. But this charge having
been made against Mr.. Wilson, he was free to
admit it and avow his changed opinions, or to
take refuge in silence and ignore it. Instead he
seemed struck with fatal short-sightedness,
and began to evade the question by platitudes
intended to deceive, and at last, driven into
corner by accumulating accusations, he shut
his ewes, like baited bull, and fatty denied
what fifty thousand people knew TO be true.
AS well might Gen. Dix deny that he attended
the Philadelphia johnson Convention.


We will not be misrepresented upon this
point. We are not assailing the antecedents
of Mr.. Wilson. We think he committed an
error in joining the KnOw-Nothings, but we
are not here discussing that matter. The
question is one of far greater Importance.
He is candidate for the second office in
dignity in the nation. He is supported by
thousands of men on the ground of his hon
esty and his Christian principle. He assumes
high moral tone whenever he addresses a
public meeting. He pretends to make his
political course purely matter of conscience.
Yet the ugly fact stands against him that,
for the purpose of saving few votes, he
deliberately writes and signs his name
to statement which he knows to be
untrue, and which cloud of reputable
witnesses instantly prove to be untrue. We
record the fact with inexpressible sadness, for
we all lose something in a lapse like this of a
man who has held such exalted position and
possessed so fully the confidence of a great
party. But the facts are before us. To save
a possible loss of votes, he blindly denies in
cdents of public notoriety in his own career.
Is such man fit for e-President---pos-
sibly Presidenti Can any. one who believes
that the first requisites of high station are
honor and conscience vote for such mani
Year: 1872

information on political and economic sub
"iects.n Those who pay are retained; those
who do not pay, good or bad. are to lose
their places. We do not care for tho mere
nol;tical capital to be made out of this. we
nrefer seriously to ask the gentlemen of the
Civil Service Commission whether, as honor
able men, they can continue to profess to the
country that this is the Reform entertainment
10 which they invited us.
Year: 1872

the ward caucuses of both parties, We have here
toforo expressed the opinion that the public in
terests will be best served by 3 liberal use Of the
pencil in scratching their names off. Some
of them are reputable and worthy
citizens. and their names will be
readily recognized BY their neighbors when they
come to the polls. Others are scallawags and
dead-beats OF the lowest order, having no other
interest in the city than to sell their votes to
the highest bidder, while still others are noto-
rious thieves, gamblers, and confidence men.
The experiment Of mixing together National
politics and Municipal Government is stark
failure, productive Of the worst results, afford
ing the best field for the operation Of scoundrels
that could possibly be devised. The only way to
avert grave danger threatening our City Gov
ernment is for the people to vote against every
candidate for the Office Of Alderman who is
without visible means Of support, and who is not
known to Ills neighbors to be an honest man.
Year: 1872

his book successful and profitable. The uniyer-
sal interest in the subject Of his biography, and
the confidence that he is possessed Of peculiar
facilities and sufficient ability for telling the
story Of Dickens life, are enough to enable
him to attain all that he can de-
sire in the publication of his book. No
vindication of Dickens private life from his pen
could increase the admiration Of the public or
the pleasure found in his books. Mrs. Dickens,
whether blameworthy or not, has led quiet,
unaffected life, and her troubles are not public
property. Mr. Forster did not resist similar
temptation in writing the life Of Landor, the
poet, and it is to be feared that he will not re-
frain now. II he would deign, however, to learn
lesson from q woman, he might recall the
circumstance that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
did far more harm to herself in her mistaken
raid upon Byron, under the cover Of justiica-
tion Of Lady Byron, than to the object OF her
attack
Year: 1872

Where is the coming man who will be the first
to adapt Light traction engine to the Gmoothly
paved streets of Chicago? It should be light,
strong, with wide tread wheels moving its pis-
tons silently, and winning its way by utility, do
cility, and strength, in which steam
has never deceived the human family, when
once on the track. It can be done and there is
no city in the world which offers q better area
for its entire and easy triumph. The old cry Of
frightening horses need not now keep back in
vention from the use Of steam on common roads.
Necessity is the mother Of invention. Let the
first boon Of the present emergency be q steam
road wagon. And when the horses come back
to their work they will speedily get used to all
innovations. Posterity will, perhaps, wonder,
after all, how we came to depend so exclusively
upon the muscles OF the horse as bearer Of the
burdens of community.
Year: 1872

Ninety thousand barrels OF pork, instead Of
the ten Thousand OF fifteen Thousand usually on
hand at this time Of the year, are now cornered
in this city, by mainly single firm, who have
drained not only this market, but, reversing the
ordinary currents Of the business. have i'm
ported sixty Thousand barrels from other points.
In consequence of these operations it is said
there has been scarcelya transaction in the pro-
vision trade for three months, and pork-packers
hesitate in face Of such stock to manufacture
any additional messpork for the market.
Year: 1872

The Horse Railway Companies Of the North
and South Sides have obtained the consent Of
the Common Council to run dummy-engines on
their tracks for fifteen days or less, at the pleas
ure Of the Council-any increase Of fare being
expressly forbidden. Within an hour after per-
mission was given a train was running on the
track Of the Chicago City Railway Company.
Both Companies will hare dummies at work to-
dau
Year: 1872

Young men need no longer complain Of want
Of employment A large opening exists in the
business of hauling wagons and the delivery Of
packages. Liberal wages can be earned from
now until the close Of the H;pporhinorhea. by
a,l- young man who will get truck, wheel
barrow or light vehicle to move packages.
Year: 1872

It lis to be hoped that the present emergen-
CT, which has induced the Michigan Southern
Railroad Company to run dummy train from
it's depot to Forty-third street, will suggest
to the management the public necessity for
regular trains OF the same kind. Two or
three trips in the morning, and the same
number in the afternoon and evening, from
the Van Buren, street depot to Forty-third
street, would accommodate hundreds of
people living on State street, Michigan and
Wabash avenues, and the streets west of the
Michigan Southern tracks, who have now no pub
lie means Of going to and from their homes.
Such trains would also draw many others from
the overcrowded cars and stages, who would
dents along the lake shore avail themselves OF
the Hyde Park trains
Year: 1872

It is the duty Of every man in Chicago to go to
the polls and vote. Nomatter What his spoliticsmay
be- he owes it to society," and law. and order to go
TO the polls, and express his choice and his opin-
5ons by his vote. It is only By full vote that
there can be any fair choice OF government. a
Year: 1872

Damages to the amount Of a million dollars
are claimed in suit brought against the Union
Pacific, by the Kansas Pacific Railroad, on
account Of discrimination against it in the trans
portation of freight and passengers.
Year: 1872

The i7orth German Gazette, in discussing the
present crisis in the relations of Church and
answering the assertion Of the Fulda Conference
Memorialists that they we're resolved to render
the Emperor the things that are the Emperor'a,
and to God the things that are Gods. 1t says
that the Memorialsts forget that it will not
what things are the Emperor's. 1T is for the
State Legislature to decide that question, and
every citizen may learn from the laws Of the
land what things are the Emperor's." This is a
very definite, and at the same time peculiarly
German way Of settling one side Of the Memo
ria1ists' proposition and relieve them OF any 1e-
sponsibility in the premises. After the Emperor
has settled what belongs to him. if there is any
thing left, they can take it for granted it be-
longs to God
Year: 1872

full and discriminating vote will give us COM
petent and honest City and County Government.
Even if no more we're involved, that result alone
..r.Iu to induce every citizen to vote.
Year: 1872

Do you eat brown sugar because il
is cheaper? If you do, buy a micro
scope and examine a lump of the next
you take home. "AstOnishment,"
the word won't half express the feel
ings you will have at the result. Least
you may not get the microscope, allow
us to describe what you can see. I'm
der a powerful glass there will be seen
myriads of horrible monsters as large
as beetles, and having the appearance
of crabs, Four dreadful legs, with
elaw-pinchers at the ends CT them,
jointed in four parts as with armOr,
and bristling with sharp-pointed
spears, are in front of the monster,
and his head has q long pyramidal
form in two joints, with five finger
tips at the terminus where the mouth
should be. The bOdy is oval shaped,
and marked almost exactly like that
of a crab, only upon the rims of an
inner circle upon the back there are
twelve more of those long, sharp
spears, with two at the talk and four
snake-like teneacula, exceedingly fine
in the articulation, and no doubt in
tended, like puss' whiskers, to be feel
ers, to warn the animal of danger.
The reverse side shows the ugliness Of
the beast even more than the diverse;
but il also shows the wOnderous
mechanical genius of the maker of it.
Each limb is padded with mass of
muscle at the base Of 1t, which gives
the impression OF immense power,
and over the muscle there is a case of
armor through which it shows. These
creatures are eager, restive and raw
enous; always falling foul Of each
other, or attacking great Jumps of
sugar, as large in reality as q mathe-
matical point A spoonful of this raw
coarse sugar was dissolved in about
three times the quantity Of water,
when, as with a conjurer's rod, ami
malcules sprang to the surface and
foated there. swimming about and up
and down, like the beasts that wriggle
in soft water tubs, and finally turn
into mosquitoes. They can be seen
with the naked eye, but not in their
entire hideousness. 1t has been
proved that in every pound Of unre-
fined, raw sugar, there are one hun
dred thousand Of these Rcari.
Year: 1872

know not what shall befaI me, God


hangs mist DER my eyes;
And SO each step in my onward path


He makes new scenes TO rise,
And every JOY He sends me comes as


strange and sweet surprise.
see not a step before me. as tread on


another year,
But the past is stin in Gods keeping, the


future his mercy shall clear;
And what looks dark in the distance may


brighten as draw near.
For perhaps the dreaded future has less


bitter than / think:
The Lord may sweeten the waters before


stoop to drink;
Or II Marah must be Marah, He will stand


beside its brink.


my feet.
some gin OF such rare blessedness,


some joy so strangely sweet;
That my lips shall only tremble with the


thanks they cannot speak.
Oh, restful. blissful ignorance! 'Tis blessed
1t keeps me so still in those arms which
And bushes m my soul to rest in the bosom


that loves me soi
So go on, not knowing; would not i'll


might;
would rather walk in the dark with


God than go alone in the light;
would rather walk with Him by faith


than walk alone by sight.
Ny heart shrInks back from trials which


the future may disclose,
Yet never had a sorrow but what the dear


Lord choose;
So 1 send the coming tear back with the.


whispered word, "He knows"
Year: 1872

Woman are naturally good eeono-
miSts. They are apt at understanding
how to make limited means go as far
as possible. The man and the wife
are united in the desire to get rich;
the man is likely to think more about
earning money, the wife will attach
more importance to saving it.


Almost every American earns mon
ey enough to be well off, and in times
to be rich. 1.-THE does not become so,
it is, in many cases, because he has
no wife, or because he does not take
her into his cOunsels. He is full OF
enterprise and makes an income, and
if he does not prosper, it is often be-
cause he does not hold on to it. His
wife, very likely, has the faculty of
conversation which he lacks, and if
he has the shIewdness to enlist her in
his plans, he may find his fortune
made.


In continental Europe, Ok-keep-
ing is a part of the education of well
taught farmers daughters, and the
wife presides over the finances of the
establishment. With US wOman's
aptitude in the promotion of material
prosperity is too little thought Of; and
a woman, who, as girl, was untaught
in respect to judiciOus economy, makes
an expensive wife. Her husband per-
haps keeps her in ignorance of his
finances puIpOsely. If he is prosper
Gus, she becomes accustomed TO plen-
ty of money, and ill-prepared for re-
verses. If he is not proposed, she
has to bear the pinching of poverty
without knowing how to help him
avoid the pressure.


Marriage would be easier and hap
pier if young women were taught the
principles of accOunt-keeping, and
systematic habits in respect to finan-
ces and if the young husband would
take his wife intO his confidence, and
make the income and outgO, and the
accumulation of the first few thou
sand of dollars, a matter Of common
interest. An American girl of aver
age intelligence and good sense can
make the fortuneOf q man whose love
she enjoys, and who will give her for
the purpose a full share in the respOn--
sible control Of the income Of the
household. She will not generally be
able to enter into his business plans,
but if she knows his wages, salary or
current profits and his personal eX-
penses, and can thus fOresee what the
household has to rely on, she will
charaeteristically be ready ''tO cut
the coat according to the cloth" and
will usually be more scrupulOus than
he, to lay aside something every sea-
son rs the beginning of their fortune.
Year: 1872

Two principles govern the moral
and intellectual world. One is per-
petual Progress, the other the neces-
sary limitations to that Progress. If
the former alone prevailed, there
would be nothing steadfast and dura
BILE on Earth, and the whole of social
Life would be the sport of Winds and
Waves. If the latter had exclusive
sway, or even if it obtained a mis-
chievous preponderaney, everything
would petrify and rot. The best ages
of the world are always those in which
these two principles are the most
equally balanced. In such ages,
every enlightened man ought to adopt
both principles into his Mind and
Conduct, and with one hand develop
what he can, with the other restrain
and uphold what he Ou0ht.-Genz.
Year: 1872

SADNESS. is a mysterious
feeling that frequently passes a cloud
over the spirit. 1t comes upon the
soul in the busy hustle OF life, in the
social circle, in the calm and silent
retreat of solitude. It's power is alike
supreme over the weak and the iron
hearted. At one time it is caused by
a single thought across the mind
Agsln; sound will be booming across
the ocean of memory, and solemn as
the death-knell, overshadOwing all
the bright hopes and sunny feelings
of the heart. Who can describe it,
and vet who has not felt its bewilder-
ing influence? Still 1T is a delicious
sort of sorrow, and, like a cloud dim
ming the sunshine of the river,
although casting a mOmentary shade
of gloom, 1t enhances the beauty Of
returning brightness.
Year: 1872

Sometimes Father TaylOr's mirth-
fulness led him to use expressions
that seem out Of place when repeated
in cold blood, and especially when
printed. A Nc. Snow not being very
warm in his talk the old father grOans
out, 80 Lord melt the Snow" A
cOlOred brother, who was speaking
ardently, drew out of him the re-
spOnse: 'There is rain in that cloud. s"
A man by the name of Wood, who
was not noted for his warmth in his
talks, drew from Father Taylor the
brief prayer, 20 Lord set fire to that
WOOd.n An old German saying he
no more doubted his acceptance with
God than that the sun shOne at noon
day on a clOudless sky, the old vete-
ran eXclaims, Bring your Harvard
learned ones to this man, and let them
learn true theology" At a SPRING
field conference, there had been a
warm discussion on the prOpriety of
publishing in "the Minutes" the
names of the donors to the missionary
fund, together with the amount con-
tributed by each. Father Taylor had
made one of his characteristic, poin-
ted speeches upon Ostentatious Civ
ing closing with the junction, LET
not thy right hand know what thy
left hand dOeth." In reply, it was
urged by Dr. Butler that iC would be
in opposition neither to the spirit nor
the letter of scripture to publish the
names of these donors; citing, as an
illustration in proof of this position,
that Christ himself had made lauda-
tory mention of the poor widow who
had cast two mites into the treasury.
Father Taylor, half rising add lean
ing forward, with a shrill voice, not
loud, but perfectly audible in every
part of the house, called out, twill
DIR. Butler please give US The name of
that poor widow ?n