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Year: 1873

\ number of young men of this
city who were camping out week
before last, near a lake some forty
miles to the eastward, had written
some letters to their relatives and
friends at home, and entrusted them
to one of the party, who volunteered
to carry them out to the stage road,
several miles distant, to give them
to the driver of the stage, which
reached that point abou: dusk. The
messenger had been gone nearly
half an hour, when he surprised his
comrades by rushing back into
camp, painting from his cxertions
and evidently thoroughly scared


In reply to the numerous questions
which were showered upon him, he
related-after pausing to get breath
that just before he reached the
road a huge bear coolly marched up
to the path in front of him, and sit
ting down upon its launches, growl-
cd and gnashed it's teeth. Having
no weapons, the messenger decided
that discretion was a great deal bet
ter than fighting bear unarmed,
and he turned and ran, the huge
animal numbering after him at 4
clumsy but still rapid pace. Our
hero was a good runner, however,
and outstripped Bruin a short dis
tance from camp. He was just pro-
posing that his friends take their
Year: 1873

The folio wing is brief sketch of
the sermon of the Rev. George L.


Clancy, preached in the Holly Street


Church, Boston. We give it, as
there has been some misundcrstand-


ing about it. His text was from


Psalms cxvi. ll-"I said in my


haste, 'all men arc liars;, and his


subject was "a Plea for Ananias."
After repeating the story of Anani-


rs and calling for the sympathy Of
his hearers, he carried out the very


letter of his text in an elaborate


plea for his defendant. 1t was


fac-simile OF the plan of defense


adopted in the courts and Legisla-


lures in behalf of criminals. The


prudence of Ananias in reserving


par, Of his property for his family,


his wisdom in seeing the evil re-


suits of . communistic society, his


generosity in the gift of half his for


tune to the Church, and lastly the


tenderness of his conscience, in that


when charged with his guilt, he was


50 overcome by his sense Of shame


that he fell down and gave up the


ghost, were all enlarged upon, and


the whole was interspersed with


the sensational and sympathetic


element so commonly used and


with such great influence. Having
consumed half an hour in his plea,
and puzzled his congregation as to
his meaning, he suddenly relieved
all minds of any misapprehension
by saying that the whole defense
had been made by carnal man, not
by himself. He detested it. All
its argument was irrelevant, all its
praise was exaggerated, all its
emotion was insincere, all its effort
was unworthy an honest advocate,
and its conclusion was sheer piece
of dcmoralizing rhetoric, and yet no
argument had been used, no method
resorted to, no feeling professed, no
rhetoric used which had not become
the common and accepted plans for
defense used in courts, Legislatures,
and, as was that day seen, in the
Christian pulpits. He hoped God
would send new Pentacost, which
would sweep the land and rid it of
the deadly miasma which now
brooded upon the people and their
institutions.
Year: 1873

What politics is to 4 man, shop
ping is to a woman. The foresight
and strategy he wastes in cam
paign, she spends IN selecting col
ors and making new suit out Of an
old one. There is no better fun
afoot than to make an errand or SO
at Stewards and see the purchasers.
The goods one gets used to after
seeing them twice OF thrice, the
people never. The handsomcst wo-
men in New York pass daily under
the light of the rotunda. Between
the lace and ribbon counters is 4
better place to study society in its
feminine phases than at an Acade-
nv ball. Mmc. Undevclt and her
Year: 1873

naked human labor; but in Moriah
there is compulsion ofthe features
of Nature herself to the service of
the builder. In actual bulk, the
Great Pyramid is to the Temple
rock as five to nine, if we descend
but as far as the sills of the five
double gates of the Mountain of the
house. If we carry the comparison
down to the level at which the low
est foundation Of the walls is inlaid
in the rock at the angles Of the in
closure, the bulk is three times that
of the Great Pyramid. The cubic
contents Of the mason's work may
not amount to tenth part of that
piled up by Souphis. But the hill
has been honey -combed with cham
bers and galleries; and the dcclin-
ing part to the south covered with
vaults and arches, to which Gizeh
can show no parallel. No merely
artificial structure could have so
successfully resisted the rcsolute
efforts Of the two greatest military
nations Of the ancient world to dc.
stroy its existence and obliterate its
memory. No other monument, long
surviving the era Of Asiatic and
Italian power can ever, like the no.
BILE Sanctuary, mark by its very
ruins, the successive periods of it's
glory and its fall!


If we regard not so much the evil
dence ofthc labor devoted to the
work of the Temple as the effect
produced on the mind by its appar-
ent magnitude, we may suggest the
following comparisons: The length
of the eastern wall Of the Sanctuary
is rather more than double that Of
one side oil the Great Pyramid. It's
height, from the foundation on the
rock at the south, and near the
northern angles, was nearly third
of that Of the Egyptian structure.
If to this great height of l52 feet of
solid wall be added the descent of
ia feet to the bed of the Kedron,
and the further ele, alton Of 100
feet attained by the pinnacle Of the
Temple porch, we have total
height of 426 feet, which is only 50
feet less than that of the Great Pyra-
mid. The area of the face of the
eastern wall is more than double
that Of one side of the pyramid
Thus the magnitude Of the Noble
Sanctuary of Jerusalem far exceed
ed that of any other temple in the
world. Two amphitheaters Of the
size of the Coliseum would have
stood within its colossal girdlc, and
left room to spare. The Coliseum
is said to have seated $1,000 spec
tators, and accommodated $4,000
more in its arena and passages.-
For such a number to have been
crammed within its circle, the space
for each person must have been
limited to II inches by 90 inches.
Allowing two cubits each way, or
four square cubits for each wor-
shipperin in the temple, the Sanctuary
would have contained 10000; the
Chel, excluding the Priests Court,
10000 more, and there would yet
have boen room in the Great Court
and the cloisters to make the total
reach to more than 100000.
Year: 1873

1t is uncomfortable aud injurious TO
health to keep in - constant anxiety "t
mind. With souc every thing goes
wrong. both at home and abroad the
nerves become irritable, the temper dis
turbod. the mind sensitive to trillcs. IN
fac, it is soon confirmed habit to con-
tinualy worry and borrow troubles,
making this world u place Of misery
rather than happiness. as designed by tie
Creator. The mind has great power
over the body. In i medical poiul OF
view, as o man thinkelh, 80 is he. II he
wills not to die he can often live. in spite
OF disease; hut if he has ~ attachment
to lile, he will slip away rs easily rs 4
child will fall to sleep. For person TO
think that he ha. a certain disease, and
worry about it, will often produce that
same disease. This occurs, perhaps,
Only when the mind is intensely con-
centrated upon the disease. II has often
been observed that physicians who make
speciality of certain disease are liable
TO die of it themselves. Sometimes in
persons where the mental power i. very
great, they die OF diseases which they
have only in imagination. We have
known person to die OF disease OF the
stomach, as cancer. when from post NOR
tenn examination il was found that they
had no cancer nor any other mortal dis
ease, except in the mind. We have
known II person TO be scasck before
reaching the vessel. Experiment has
shown that 4 man, strong and healthy,
blind folded and slightly pricked in the
arm, and made to believe that he is
bleeding to death, has tainted and died.
1t smely illustrates this principle, that by
their faith men are saved, and by their
laith they die also. Men live by their
souls and not by their bodies which have
no lie of themselves; they are only re.
ceptacles Of liiO-tenements for their
souls, and the will has much TO DO in con.
tinuing the physical occupancy or giving
it up. Therefore don't worry, but keep
the mind in a cheerful, hopeful and quiet
state and we shall live out our allotted
lime, in the full enjoyment of all the
blessings of life. 1t is an old maxim
that contentsd, cheerful mind is con.
tinual feast, and we fully believe it.
There is no path tha. will be more easily
travelled, no road but VIII be lighter, no
shadow on the heart or brain but will lit
sooner in the presence Ct conten,el,
cheerful mind.
Year: 1873

that a thousand boxes Of adulterated green
tea were being sold by auction at the sales
rooms in Minoing lane. He could not OBJ
tain any samples there, but succeeded in
getting them at the bonded warehouses in
Upper Thames street. The tea was sold in
lots of two hundred and Hfty boxes each,
and was described as Extra fine new sea-
sons gunpowder green tea, ex Sarpedon
steamship from Canton.


A careful examination of the samples re-
suited in finding forty to forty.three per
cent. of iron filings and nineteen per cent.
of silica i'm the form OF fine sand The
sand had been added to the leaves before
curling toincrease their weight The leaves
had also been thickly covered with green
pigment. DIR. LETHEBY stated TO the city
commission that large quantity OF un-
sound tea, which had been saved from the
cargo Of the ship Lalla Rookh, vessel
wrecked on the Devonshire coast in March
1873, was offered for sale on the 18th Of
April. After the wreck, the wet tea was
brought TO London, rcdried, and repacked
in old tea chests bought for the purpose.
II was then stored in bonded warehouse.
All the samples of this tea were made up Of
Dulllu ltdNtSs IL WIS ulltlly uhht Aoi hh-
man consumption. IL is now proposed in
London TO give the medical health officer
or nuisance inspector of the district power
to enter bonded warehouses to inspect
articles of food or drink stored there, and
! if necessary to take samples.


II is generally admitted that pure green
tea is almost unknown in this country.
Would IL not he well for our local authors
ties or the Board of Health to institute an
inquiry like this one which has been of so
much benefit in London 1t is not too
much to say that hundreds of lives might
bc saved by checking the sale of unsound
tea. The tea trade will always be very
profitable; and there is no reason why
either importers or retail dealers should
seek TO enhance their profits by virtually
poisoning the consumers.
Year: 1873

cepted by tho merchants as their present
cheapest resort; the only relief they can ex-
pect in the future must come from the total
disruption of the whole Ring.


We know little of the newly-appOinted
Harbor Masters confirmed by tho Legisla-
ture. The complaint lately heard in South
street is that they represent the politicians at
Albany, not the shipping merchants of New
York and that if they do not come to prey
upon the merchants, as their predecessors
have done, they are at least, ignorant of the
peculiar duties of their offices. We do not, of
course, hold untried officials responsible for
what now exists we hope to credit them with
something of relief but we are satisfied that
they cannot, even if they would, accomplish
thorough reform under the present wharf
regulations. We are not sure we could suggest
wherein these should have radical altera-
ton, but we are certain there are many old
and experienced merchants and ship-captains
in SOuth-st. who could devise better plan
of collecting wharfage The wharves should be
conducted for the benefit of commerce, not for
it's taxation to attract, not to drive away the
finest source of the city's greatest wealth We
hope the Legislature will not abandon the
reform it began year ago. We are happily
well rid of the Quarantine thieves. Do not
stop now until merchants rejoice also in the
downfall of the Wharf Pirates.
Year: 1873

Lately commenting on the result of last


years efforts to reform the General Order,
Quarantine, and Harbor Master Rings out of
existence, we were led into the error Of stating
that our merchants had been relieved of the
eTactions of the latter. We are now assured,
after full investigation of the subject, that
these abuses have increased, and that more
thorough investigation and summary action
than that of last year is demanded.
The old fraudulent alliance Of Tow
boat Companies with the Harbor Masters,
which we exposed last year, still evades
the law, and cOmpels merchants to pay three
and four times over the legal fees for berth
age and towage of their vessels. Only few
OF the strongest firms are able to resist the
peculiar means which Lthe Ring employs
TO enforce this illicit taxation, end even
these succeed only by show or by
threats of violence. One merchant of stand
Ing and prominence, who gives his name as
warrant for the statement, is forced to instruct
his captains to protect his vessels with arms
against the official pirates of the wharfs
Other firms less determined and powerful pay
the penalty Of resistance to exactiOns in the
heavy expenses consequent upon the cOmpul-
sorry moving of half-l0aded vessels from docks
near their place of business to remote wharfs
To- which cartage rates are heavy. Hnmiliating
submission TO the oyercharges seems 10 be ac-
Year: 1873

and Conference Committee has compromised
on eight This is an odd way of arriving at a
satisfactory conclusion az to the number OF
vessels with which the navy shall be re-
enforced 1t is not determined on questions
of public necessity, but by general average
of opinion. The responsibility for the con-
struction of the ships is, after all, to be left
with the Navy Department; but, as several of
them are TO be built in private yards, we may
hope to get off without any very serious
blunders. being committed.
Year: 1873

Every lover of independent and able Jour
nalism will hear with regret of the misfortune
which last night fell upon all New-England
in the destruction by fire of The Springfield
Republican office. OF course there are no
flames which can destroy its energy, its abii-
ity and spirit, and its consequent popularity.
1t is indispensable among thoughtful New
England people, and therefore no amount or
quality of fire can prevail against it. But
such an ordeal is a hard one for many rea-
sons, and we offer to our friends of The Re
publican our hearty sympathy in their loss and
annoyance.


And now it seems they are not likely to
need it! Later dispatches say The Republican
building may be saved, though walls of adj
joining buildings destroyed by the fire are
now falling on it.
Year: 1873

An official journal of St. Petersburg gives
Great Britain the sound advice. to take no
more notice of the progress of Russia in Cen
trail Asia then she does of the growing strength
of the United States in America. The analogy
is a good one if it is intended TO show the
lnexpediency of an attempt, on the part of
Great Britain, TO check the commercial pros
perity of her neighbor for the reason that her
own commerce may thereby suffer.
Year: 1873

Senator Caldweh's case is closed at last. He
has made sorry defense so far as testimony
is concerned. Something formidable in the
way of an argument is promised, however !;
and it is possible that his counsel may yet
make ont something in favor of the defendant.
Even Mr.. Caldwelrs own statement which was
the only general denial offered, was not sworn
to he decided to submit it on his honor as a
Senator. We regret to say that the honor OF
a Senator does not rate high in the market
this year.
Year: 1873

The Senate was asked, yesterday, to con-
slider the subject of the irregularities of the
mails in this city. While the Senate is about
it, it would be good thing to inquire why it
takes longer to deliver letter posted at a
pillar-box, and intended for city delivery,
than it does to fetch and deliver letter from
Boston.
Year: 1873

Having wrested several days with the
Louisiana election returns, the Senate Com
mittee investigating the case have taken the
Returning Boards in hand. The evidence dis
closed yesterday is discouraging and be-
wilderng to those who want to see justice
done. So far as we have already pointed
out, the main difficulty seems to be that the
board which had the returns was illegal, and
the legal board did not have any returns.
How the problem can be solved without bring
ing the law and the returns together it Is
impossible to see.
Year: 1873

In another column there will be found in
teresting details of the proceedings by which
American waters are to be abundantly sup
piled with salmon. There has been series
of mishaps and difficulties hitherto in carrying
out this project, but it has at length been
largely facilitated by a piece of generous
iberality on the part of a piscicultural estab-
lishment in Europe. The eggs which have
lust arrived are found in better condition than
was at first feared. A large addition to our
national wealth is a certain consequence of
the success of these operations, which reflect
great credit on the skill and energy of the
scientific gentlemen who have had them in
charge.
Year: 1873

Most people will be surprised to learn that
the Union Pacific Railroad is technically unfn-
ished. At least, Mr.. Horace F. Clark, in his
argument before Congress Committee, yes
terday, took that view of the case; and his
statement that portion of the Company's
land grant had been withheld by the Interior
Department justiies the assertion. Though
the road may be unfinished, it has finished
the reputation and fortune of many men.
Year: 1873

The defeat of Senator Sherman's bill post
pOnes indefinitely the day of resuning specie
payments combination of interests seems
to have been formed against the measure, and
we are once more assured that, nOtwitbstand-
ing their clamOr for resumption, there are
many public men who really desire nothing of
the sort This is a miserable conclusion TO
the long debate on the subject. Shall our
promises TO pay be forever dishonOredf
Year: 1873

For good or evil the press. Of the


country wields a mighty power. It


shapes and controls public sentiment


by q silent influence always at work.


A good paper Is like pure air-it i'm


parts health and purity wherever it


goes. A bad paper is like the nox-


ioas gas that steals unnoticed from


the earth carrying its pestiIential


poison to corrupt and destroy whole
communities. Yet good men are 10


be found who permit bad papers to
enter their household to poison the
minds of their children. The seeds
OF depravity are scattered BY the evil
hand, and NO effort is made TO pre-


vent it. Parents may not approve
the sentiments uttered by these pa
pers, but many appear insensible to
their bad effects, and neglect to apply
the correction. While they are care
full to provide for the physical growth
Of their children, they negIect their
moral training. They provide fresh
air and wholesome food for the body,
yet allow the mind to feed upon the
poisonous elements of eorrupting
literature. l'


This shouldb be stopped at once
The paper that contains immoral SEN
timents should be as Carefully exelu-
ded from the family circle as If it
came from the pest-house, stamped
with certain contagion and death. A
rigid exclusion Of these organs Of
wickedness from the decent families
in our land, would eonfine them
within limits where their influence
would soon be lost. They might still
tend to encourage vice, but their pow
er TO corrupt and destroy would be
gone forever. Every good citizen
should have ut least one family pa
per. It should be chosen from among
the many as q friend would be, or
daily companion. Its tone should be
elevated its sentiments pure its
integrity unquestiOned. With such
q silent companion in your family,
you can feel confident that good I'M
pressions are being formed in the
minds of your children. These i'm
pressions may not be noticed ia DAY,
Or year, but insensibly they will
mould the character that is to lead to
the youth through the temptations
Ol early manhood protect and ad-
vance him through active life, and
sustain him in honorable old age.
Year: 1873

A subscriber to the Lyons On. W
Republican, who cut off his patronage
because the paper did not suit his
views and was surprised that the pa
per was published Notwithstanding,
was thus addressed by the editor:


=" It is pretty close work for a while,
we confess but by omitting to put
sugar in our tea. and by buying a
cheaper grade of paper collars, and
reversing them for the second and
third time, We managed to rub along
until new subscriber came and took
the place Of our respected, iisgusted
friend-and then Richard was him
self again. Nothing but rigid econo
my will carry one safely over such a
calamity as the loss of subscriber u
Year: 1873

have often noticed classification
of the inmates of our insane asylums,
showing that there are more farmers
in the list than Of any other calling /;
and these statements are often tcllJw-
ed by learned physiologiealand phi
losophieal dissertation upon the eaus-
es which produce such results, at
tempting to prove that agricultural
pursuits are more injurious, physfc-
ally and mentally, than any other
calling. Now, l dissent entirely from
any such conclusion and viii suggest
thar the mystery can be explained BY
the same answer that solved the sheep
conundrum: Why do white sheep
eat more than black ones ?'' Answer
Because there are more of them.
Year: 1873

The death in that city of the oldest
robin on record Is announced by a
Troy newspaper. He was taken from
the nest in June, 1851, and so was
nearly sixteen years DID, For ten
years he sang ceaselessly from NOR
ming until evening. Then mis- pipe
began to show signs Of being put out.
For four years he has had no feathers
on his head or neck, and for one year
he has been totally blind.
Year: 1873

Much of the ditching that has recently been done around the plaza, by order of the village council, is by many property owners declared a nuisance. The time may come when the ditches will answer good purpose. They ought, however, to be bridged or "scOoped out" in way that would make them passable for vehicles, and pedestrians Why not fix all the crossings like the one in front of the Dianna saloon
Year: 1873

We have no news from the country cast of Prescott, but feel safe in stating that the new road to Apache is completed. General Crook went over most of it several weeks ago. in an ambulance.
Year: 1873

The country will appreciate the early ac-
ton of the Republican members of the House
to repeal the disgraceful salary act of the last
Congress. 1t is hoped that both houses will
act promptly in the matter both as an act Of
justice demanded by the intelligence of the
nation, and as measure that will secure the
Republican members the renewed confidence
OF the people. Congress may as well make up
its mind that, except in the districts of New
YORK and Philadelphia where majorlties are
purchased, no member who votes to retain
the present measure will again have the op-
portunity o; misrepresenting the people of
any state of the north, in the next National
Legislature. There is an additional reason
for the repeal of the salary act in the fact that
large reduction has already taken place in
the wages of all classes of laborers, and there
IS no reason why the salaries of Congressman
should be made an exception in the general
shrinkage of values.