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Year: 1872

II we need higher illustration, not only
of the power of natural objects to adorn
language and crafty taste, but proof
that here we find the highest conceivable
beauty we would at once appeal9to the
Bible. Those most opposed to its teach
ings have acknowledged the beauty Of
its language, and this is due mainly to
the exquisite use of natural objects for
illustration. 1t does, indeed, draw from
every field. But when emotional nature
wss to be appealed to, the reference was
at once to natural objects, and through
out all its books, the stars, the flowers,
the gems, are prominent as Illustrations
of the beauties Of religion and the glo-
ries of the Church.


/ "The wilderness and the solitary
place shall be glad for them, and the
desert shall rejoice and blossom like
the rose"


THE mountains and the hills shall
break forth before you in song, and all
the trees of the field shall clap their
hands. Instead of the thorns shall come
up the fir tree, and instead of the briar
shall come up the myrtle tree"


The power and beauty of the same OBJ
jects appear in the Savior's teachings.
The fig and the olive, the sparrow, and
the lily Of the field, give peculiar force
and beauty to the great truths they were
used to illustrate.


The Bible throughout is remarkable in
this respect 1t is a collection of books
written by authors far removed from
each other in time and place and mental
culture, but the whole nature is exalted
as a revelation of God. Its beauty and
sublimity are appealed to to arouse the
emotions to reach the moral and relig-
ious nature. This element of unity
runs through all the books where refer
ence to nature can be made. One OF
the adaptations of the Bible TO the ma
ture Of man is found in the sublime and
perfect representation of the natural
world, by which nature is ever made TO
proclaim the character and perfection
of God. No language can be written
that so perfectly sets forth the grand and
terrible in nature and its forces as we
hear when God answers Job out of the
whirlwind. No higher appreciation o.
the beautiful, and of God as the author
of beauty, was expressed than when our
Savior said of the lilies of the field 81
say unto you that even Solomon, in all
his glory, was not arrayed like one of
these; and then adds: "If God so
clothed the grass Of the field p-ascrib-
ing the elements of beauty in every leaf
and opening bud to Gods skill and
power.
Year: 1872

NASHVILLE, July 12.-Judge Nelson,
in letter to the Banner, received to
day, declines the nomination of Presi-
Dental Elector of the State at large,
rendered him by the Liberal and Con-
servative Convention in May last. He
says he is thoroughly satisfied with the
action of the Democratic Convention,
at Baltimore, and urges all opponents
of Grant to cordially and cheerfully
unite in the support Of an honest and
capable citizen, whose success in sur
mounting the difficulties of poverty and
Obscurity, and whose entire career Of
fers an ample guarantee that he not
only possesses a high order of ability,
but kind and genial nature, and that
he would endeavor to administer the af-
fairs Of the government with the strict
est integrity as President, not Of party,
but Of a whole Union. A conference OF
the Liberal and Democratic State Exec
utive Committee to harmonic and co
operate IN the selection of an electoral
ticket is proposed.
Year: 1872

Private dispatches from New York,
received at Cincinnati, state that a
man has been discovered in that city,
thought to be Captain Little, of Nash
vile, who mysteriously disappea red
while en- route TO attend the Cincinnati
Convention. The man was suffering
from mental alteration, and tits thought
by some that he had been TO Europe.
Captain Little was last been at Coving-
ton, opposite Cincinnati, and it was
feared be bad met an untimely death.
One or two bodies have been examined
here that were thought at the time to be
ais, but the friends OF Little, who exam
ined them, could not identify them.
Year: 1872

A New York dispatch of yesterday,
says that the Employers Central
Executive Committee continue to hold
daily sessions here, making preparations
previous to forming a combination of all
the employers in the United States to
guard against strikes of the working
men in future. The Eight-H0ur League
Executive Committee assent toallowing
the men to remain at work ten hours,
where they now do so, and let those un-
der the eight-hour system try to main
tain it. The committee win not be
maintained throughout the summer
making preparations for a strike next
year, as all hopes of the eight-hour sys-
tenn becoming general has ne% been
abandoned
Year: 1872

THE ALBANY LOBBY succeeded yesterday in
passing through the Assembly vanderbilts s
delusive scheme for the settlement of the
rapid transit question. The job was effected
under the operation of the previous question
OF course no argument was considered neces-
sary to convince the members of the House.
The lobby despises discussion Yet it is
pretty certain that very few of the members
were not aware that the measure on which
they were voting was not the measure
required by the citizens Of New York. We
shall have, we suppose, to wait until next year
for the passage of an act authorizing the con-
struction OF viaduct railroads by the city. In
the meantime, it is absurd to expect that any
relief to this overcrowded city will be secured
by Vanderbilts short and expensive road
through Fourth avenue
Year: 1872

Trouble Among the Labor Reformcrs.


Trouble seems to be brewing in the camp of
the labor reformers. The New Haven Ne,ss-
which speaks for the workingmen-does not
like the idea of calling the Executive Com
mttee of the national labor party at Cincin-
matt two days before the meeting of the Liberal
Republican Convention, regarding it as "a
piece of political jugglery too transparent to
deceive any one, and the delay of formally
presenting the nomination to the candidates
until after the liberal republicans have NOM
mated is supposed to be another shrewd
move, but that the motive is apparent In
regard to the meeting Of the committee it is
asserted that the State committees of Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut and New York refuse to
have anything to do with it, and that probably
not half dozen Of the committee will be pres
ent outside Of those who are in sympathy with
the liberal republican movement. 1t is stated
that Governor Baker, who received the labor
party nomination for Vice President has for
several weeks been ready to receive formal
visit from the committee and was prepared to
write letter giving his views; but he has
been prevented from declaring himself, al
though it is understood he endorses the labor
platform entire because the committee did not
carry out the instructions given to them by the
Convention and notify him Of his nomination.
Year: 1872

have not had time to produce their proper
fruit, while his errors and defects are imme


diately visible; and the tories have deter


mined to take advantage of existing circum


stances, and make out of them what political
capital they can.


AT an unfortunate time for Mr. Gladstone,


at a most convenient time for Mr. Disraeli, a


hitch has taken place in the proceedings grow


ing out Of the Washington Treaty. Mr.. Dis


raeli has given US no reason to believe that he


is more sound and sensible in his interpreta-


ton of that treaty than is Mr.. Gladstone In


his great Manchester speech we seek in vain


for one glimmer of light If he was hard on


the British Ministry, he was scarcely less hard


on the American people If he could speak of
the bungling policy Of the one, he had some
thing to say of the absence of honor on the
part Of the other. It is not to be denied, how
ever that the Manchester demonstration was
grand success. On his arrival thousands as
sembled to welcome him at the station, and in
spite Of the heavy rain forty thousand persons
attended the reception in the dancing saloon
at the Pomona Gardens. There, enthroned
on q platform, Mr.. Disraeli sat like king
receiving deputations. No wonder the tory
chief felt proud, and it was not without reason
that he described his reception as ''an honor
unparalleled in the life of any public man."
The one great fact which the Manchester demon
stration taught the world was that the tory chief
of Great Britain was not the head of the
house of Cecil or the head Of the house of
Stanley, but the untitled son of descendant
of Abraham. Mr.. Disrael has good cause to
be proud of his position. 1t is position
which no man working from the same begin
nings and by the same means ever won before
In the event of the Gladstone Ministry failing
in bringing about an amicable settlement of
the difficulties between Great Britain and the
United States there can be no doubt that the
force of public opinion would make dissolu-
ton or resignation necessary. If in either
event the tories should succeed to power Mr..
Disraei will again figure as the Prime Minister
Of England. On former occasion, and in the
matter Of q reform bill, Mr.. Disraei was sue
cessful in accomplishing task in which Mr..
Gladstone failed. 1t would not be wonderful
if, in 1872, the author Of ''Conyngsby" and
'Lothair" should win another and even greater
victory. And it would be no small triumph to
the tory party if they, not the wings, should
be successful in bringing this vexed Alabama
question to an amicable and honorable con-
clusion.
Year: 1872

The rumor regarding NJ Catacazzy's treat
ment by the Cars government which has
been going the rounds of the papers Of late,
appears to have been made upon good founda-
ton. The imperial commission appointed TO
investigate the acts of the fallen Minister con-
cluded its labors after hearing his defence.
Strange to say the revelations made by M.
Catacazy did not favorably impress the mem
bers of that body, and he failed to convince
them that he was more sinned against than
SHINING in the United States. The truth is,
Catacazy had bad case, and all his talking
and letter writing could avail him nothing
when judged imparhaiiy By his own country
men. His name, we are informed by our st.
Petersburg correspondent is erased from the
rolls of the Foreign Office and he himself cut
off with a pension of two thousand dollars o
year, with the understanding, moreover that
he must not have anything further to say in
print on the subject of his difficulty with the
American Secretary of State. To be pensioned
off and thus Inundated with an injunction
placed upon his pen is an infiction which
less energetic worker than the little mercurial
ambassador would find it difficult to bear He
looked forward to his defence to vindicate his
course abroad and pave the way to new honors
at home, but his efforts ended in failure. He
cannot even now tell his story to the world save
at the expense of imperial displeasure and the
loss of his pension. This is the worse cut of ALL
If the imperial government desired, it could
not have inflicted more severe punishment
on him. man afflicted with cacosthes scri-
bendi cannot be tortured more than by being
prevented from gratifying his desire to write
Poor Catacazy's fate is sad one, but he has
himself alone to thank for it,
Year: 1872

The BRITISH COUNTER CASE IN PARLIAMENT -
The steamship Cuba which arrived at this port
last night, brought us English mails containing
the full report Of the discussion on the British
counter claims and the Geneva arbitration,
which took place before the Houses of Lords
and Commons on the 18th inst The cable at
the time informed us of the substance of the
debate, which we now publish in detail in
apother page Of this mornings issue. The
leading editorials Of the London Times and
Standard on the day the subject was before
Parliament accompany the report of the
proceedings.
Year: 1872

The Ne,cs sums up the labor reform situation by
declaring that it "looks as if the men who are
attempting to run the labor machine are q lot
OF disappointed politicians out of Office, fgur-
ing some way or other to get in" That
trouble is beginning to show itself in the
ranks OF the labor reform party is evident, but
perhaps ''balm in Gilead' may be found in
the action OF the Cincinnati Convention next
week, and all the sore places be healed over
Year: 1872

BEACHs PNEUMATIC BORE BILL was carried
through the Assembly yesterday on the same
wave of hasty legislation that sent Gilberts
Elevated Railroad bill to the Governor and
rushed through vanderbilt's Fourth avenue
scheme. 1t is now for the Senate to dispose
of
Year: 1872

THE DECAY OF METz. The French inhab-
itants of Metz evidently do not take kindly to
German rule A German census lately taken
shows that the population since the war has
diminished about fifteen thousand. Before
the conflict with Germany Metz had popula-
ton of forty five thousand and a reduction of
that number by one-third makes q very per-
ceptible difference in the prosperity of the city.
1t is not probable that the decrease is going to
stop here. Neither can it be expected that the
gap thus occasioned will be supplied by Ger
man emigration. The German emigrant as
rule, desires more staple home than that
which can be afforded him in the newly ac-
4uired territory, and The United States holds
out more substantial inducements to him to
emigrate than residence on French soil.
Besides, it is not quite so certain that France
will not within few years make an attempt
to reclaim all she has lost in the disastrous
campaigns of 1870 and II.
Year: 1872

In the HERALD of yesterday we printed a
letter from our London correspondent giving
an account Of the fifth meeting of the Interna-
tional Prison Congress-, which was held in the
hall of the Middle Temple Mr.. Daniel
Haines, OF New Jersey, in the chair. The
letter of yesterday was but one of series,
some of which have already appeared in the
HERALD. Our correspondent iii London will
give lis all the details from time to time So
far rs the doings Of this Congress are known
to us we feel justified in saying that no more
important Congress has been held in recent
years. 1t deals with the great sorrow of
modern civilization-our criminal population.
We grow in wealth, We grow in intelligence,
we grow in refinement, but at the same time
that We erect our splendid mansions. build our
Year: 1872




Although the dread Asiatc scourge, before
which the bravest heart falters is ravaging at
present districts far removed from us, yet, in
these days OF rapid communication, it be-
hooves the constituted guardians Of the public
health to neglect no precaution against its
setting foot on our shores From the shores
of the Baltic Sea- where the cholera has now
appeared there is considerable emigration
to this country, and the insdious enemy may
at any time be brought over in some of the
dozen steamships that ply between this city
and the Baltic. as was the case with the Frank
lin last summer. The Quarantine officials,
recognizing the full extent of the danger. are
putting forth strenuous exertions to place an
impregnable barricade against the scourge in
the lower bay, so that, if it is brought to our
shores, it will not be permitted to land.
Every vessel arriving from the Baltic will be
rgidly inspected and detained and ar
mngements of the most ample descrip-
ton are being made for the reception
of patients at the West Bank Hospital and on
the hospital ship Illinois. The complaint
which has been made Of the want of sufficient
accommodations at Quarantine will soon he
answered in the completion of new receiving
hospital, above the lower quarantine, capable
of housing nearly two thousand persons The
health authorities in the lower bay are con-
Adent in their ability to arrest any epidemical
disease that may put in an appearance in their
domain, SO that our citizens may rest easy be-
hind such o sanitary breastwoSk. The changed
Year: 1872

MIR. GREELEY says that he did not go with
George N. Sanders to church on Sunday, and
never saw said Sanders in any church, chapel
or conventicle whatever Moral suggested
1t has not been the habit of the aforesaid
Sanders to pay much attention to the ''sound
of the church-going bell"
Year: 1872

condition Of the streets under the nsw brooms
will also go far towards inspiring confidence.
Still it will be well not only to encourage the
authorities in the good work they have begun,
but to urge them constantly to unremitting
vigilance both at Quarantine and in the city,
and to impress upon the minds of the people
of this city the necessity Of aiding the authori-
ties by keeping their houses and persons in
order, and avoiding everything that may tend
towards inviting an epidemic.
Year: 1872

Under the above caption the Clncin-
natl correspondent of the St. Paul Dis
patch contains the subjoined statement,
which we may consider ourselves as
called upon to copy from due regard
to 'the truth Of history"


Everybody is familiar with the story
of the bull pup sent to President Grant,
which be refused to accept because the
express charges were not paid. The
sexual Of the story is, believe, new,
and at all events | will give it at ven
ture as related here by man who
knows" Soon after Grant had refused
the pup, he learned that it was a VAL
liable animal, and greatly regretted he
had not paid the charges (S4.5O) lie
accordingly sent one Of the Dents down
to the express office the next day TO
secure the pup. Judge of his horror
when he learned that colored man
had paid the charges and taken the
pup home. Dent was directed to hunt
the colored man and brother, and see
what he would take for the pup. lie
finally succeeded in finding him, and
the price was set at $95. Alter good
deal of haggling the price was reduced
to $40, and this Grant paid. The pup
is now said TO be worth 5000, but Grant
has never forgiven himself for his rash
ness whereby he squandered thirty-fve
dollars and half. This is an Ger
true tale, and shows the calibre Of our
model President.
Year: 1872

Tobacco grows something like cab
bage, but never saw none of it boiled, /,
although l have eaten boiled cabbage
with vinegar on it, and l have heard
men say that cigars that were given
them on election days were nothing
better than cabbage leaves. Tobacco
stores are mostly kept by wooden
Injuns, who stand at the door and try
to fool little boys by offering them a
burch of cigars which is glued to the
Injun's hands, and is made OF wood also.
Hogs do not like tobacco neither do l..
l tried to smoke a cigar once, and it
made me feel like EPSON salts.
Tobacco was invented by a man named
Walter Raleigh. When the people
first saw him smoking they thought he
was a steamboat, and as they never saw
one they were frightened. My sister
Nancy is a girl. | don't know whether
she likes tobacco or not. There is a
young man named Leroy who comes to
see her He was standing on the steps
one night, and a cigar in his mouth,
and she said, Leroy, the perfume Is
agreeable" But when my brother
Tom lighted his pipe, Nancy said, Get
out Of the house, you horrid creature,
the smell OF tobacco makes me sick.
Year: 1872

family, gave rise to frequent quarrels.
1t is stated that she took this course to
free him from the frequent abuse. She
was lodged in jail here to-day. She
expresses no regret and hopes she will
be hung.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Derrick Dodi writes as follows to the
Washington Capital about the branch rail
road between Baltimore and the Capital:


But about this railroad. Of course l want
it abolished, as every one does. The reck-
less velocity with which the trains are run
between here and Baltimore is absolutely
frightful. I was delighted years ago when
this road was established because l thought
we had got rid of the old rickety and dam
gcrously fast stage coaches, but the speed
they arc beginning to run the trains at now
on this road is worse yet. Now, every one
knows that Baltimore is forty miles from
Washington ifit is an inch, and three days and
half is plenty quick enough for the. trip,
but the managers have already reduced the
schedule time to three days and four hours,
and what with making the engine fires too
hot, and racing with cows along the road,
and all that, the conductors arc even cutting
that time down.


Why, it was only the other day on the
down trip we happened to spy Sims old
mule about two miles out Of town. What
should the reckless wretch of an engineer do
but clap on full steam and race every foot
of the way into the district? We didn't ex-
actly pass the mule, but caught with him
twice, and came into the depot neck and
neck-and which was putting the most, the
mule or the engine, you couldn't have told
to save your life. Now, it was all very ex-
citing, and all that, l know, but I hadn't
purchased an accident ticket, and don't
believe the other four passengers had either.
This is all wrong, Mr.. Editor, all wrong.
And then OH another occasion, [ remcm.
bcr, we came within hairs breadth of hay,
ing very serious accident. The engineer
had gotten off to SNOWFALL chipmunk, and
and the conductor was minding young wild
owls baby for hcr-the result was that the
train happened to get on down grade and
VIC started off at terrific rate, every bit ol
four miles an hour, I should think. We
were Just half mile above Annapolis juno
ton, and the first thing we knew there be-
ING no one to whistle and and wake up the
switch, tender, we were turned off into the
Annapolis road and went down the wrong
track at full speed. Imagine our constcrna
ton when just at this moment we heard th'
whistle, not half mile ahead of us, Of thu
Annapolis up train. We were paralyzee
with terror. Here were two trains approach
ing each other on the same track at thu
dizzy speed above mentioned. Evldentl,
our time had come In few short hour
the engines would meet, and then-destruc
ton With great presence ofmind minis
ter on board organized a prayer-meeting.-
Pale but calm, the doomed band of passen
gers sat, and though with the very SHADOW
of death upon them, raised their voices in
parting hymn.


"Send for tho bagggase-mastcr," said


young man with sad smile.
Year: 1872

" Ndo lohCu.


"Because we are all about to pass in oul
checks"


Everybody wept From the rear platform
We could see the miserable engineer strain:
ing every nerve to catch up, but he had
tight boots on and didn't gain anything to
speak Of.


At this moment ray of hope dawned
upon US. 1 had just finished writing my
will on the back of visiting card when l
observed young lady in the act Of detach-
ing her. hustle. Placing the article-which
was composed Of 800 Capitals and a hair mat
tress-snder her arm, the heroine marched
through the car. We followed her anxious
ly.


She climbed upon the tender and then
over the engine. 1t was very interesting
and thsilling to see her climbing over the
wheels and brass things on the way to the
cowcatcher. 1t reminded me of q country
girl getting over wire fence. But never
mind about that now. Let me soc where l
was. Oh yes-on the cow-catcher. Hold
ing on by the cross-bars with one hand, the
noble maiden tied the hustle on the sharp
PROV with the other.


You can guess the result. In the course
of the afternoon the collision came on. Pro-
tected thus the engine received a gentle
bump and we were saved


I took up collection for the woman on
tho spot I always take up collections on
such occasions. And what's more, [ never
forget to give the object interested some
thing nice out of it, never. There is nothing
mean ABOUT me. I suppose you have noticed
my clothes?