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Year: 1871

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Our news columns this morning contain an
interesting letter from the HERALp's special
correspondent in Berlin, furnishing re-
sumo Of the recent debate in the German
Reichstag, during which the Catholic party
made manifest the ground on which it stands
The representatives of every opinion par
ticipated in the discussion which sprang
from the proposition to make some amend
ments to the new constitution. Lay as well
as clerical, Catholic as well as Protestant, and
conservative as well as liberal, took advan-
tage of the debate to ventilate their opinions
on the subjects of religion, reform, liberty and
license. The Catholics, notwth standing that
they made brave, determined fight, and
struggled boldly for such concessions as the
liberty of the press and the right of assem-
blage, which were included in the proposed
amendments to the constitution, were de-
feated by large majority. ''Never," said the
Bishop of Mayence in the course of his argu-
ment, ''vote for laws which are in violation of
the laws of God;" and the observance of this
rule, he contended, would prevent all danger
of rebellion on the part of the clergy. It was
evident, from the tone of the remarks of the
clericals all through, that their great aim,
however, was An attempt to influence the gov
ernment to line of policy which would result
in the acknowledgment of the temporal power
of the Papacy and the restoration to the Pope,
through the aid of Germany, OF his possess
sions; but the opposition was too great and the
advocates of free Church in free
State too numerous for such an accomplish
ment. During the discussion, which through
out was warm and vigorous, the liberals were
unmistakable in their language and forciblc in
their manner Of putting their ideas of pro-
gression before the assemblage. Deputy
Bebel, one of the social democracy party of
Saxony, had SO slight notion that such mea-
sures as q free press and the right of assem-
blage would be engrafted in the new constitu-
ton that he deemed it almost ''superfluous to
discuss the rights OF man unless we are deter
mined in case of need to seize them by force.
We shall never obtain them in Germany if we
don't say, Give them to us or we will take
them!'" And so the debate progressed to the
end From the manner in which il was con-
Quoted, as well as from the sentiments enunci-
ated and the parties engaged in it, we have
been inaugurated which will result favorably
TO religion, liberty and progression throughout
the empire.
Year: 1871

! was told by tho physician that
q Southern climate would improve
my health. and so l went down to
Tennessee and got birth on the
Morning Glory and Johnson
County War-Whoop, as associate
editor. When l went on duty l
found the chief editor sitting tilt
ed back in three legged chair
with his feet on pine table in the
room, and another afflicted chair,
and both were half buried under
newspapers and scraps and sheets
Of manuscript. There was wood
ell box of sand, sprinkled with
cigar stubs and "old soldlers," and
stove with door hanging by its
upper hinge. The chief EDITOR
had long tailed black cloth frock
coat on, and white linen pants -
His boots were small and neatly
blacked. He wore a ruffled shirt,
large seal ring, standing collar
Of obsolete pattern and checker
ed neckerchief with the ends hang.
ing down. Date of costume, about
le4S. He was smoking cigar and
trying to think Of a word. And
in trying to think of a word, and
in paving his hair for it, he had
rumpled it a good deal. He was
scowling tearfully, and l judged
that he was concocting a pa tieular-
ly knotty editorial. He told me to
take the exchanges anil skim ,hro'
them and write up the Spirit ef
the Tenn essee Press" condensing
into the article ail Of their contents
! that seemed OF interest.


l wrote as follows:


! ESPRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS"
"The editors Of the Semi-W eek :
ly Earthquake evidently labor un-.
der misapprehension with reg ard 10
the Bally hack railroad. 1t is not
the intention of the company to
leave Buzzardville off to one side.
On the contrary they consider it
one of the most important points
along the line, and consequently
can have no desire to slight it The
gentleman OF the Earthquake will,
Of course, take pleasure in making
the correction.


John w. Blossom, ESQ the
able editor Of the Higginaville
Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of
Freedom, arrived in the city yes--
terday. He is stopping at the Van
Buren House.


ave observe that our cotempo
rary of the Mud Springs Morning
Howl has fallen into the error OF
supposing hat the election of Van
Werter is not an established fact,
but be will have discover ed his mis-
take before this reminder reaches
him, no doubt. He was doubtless
| misled by incomplete election re-
turns.
Year: 1871

At Washington more than in any
other city in the country, are poll
tics studied and discussed most
freely. The study and discussion
OF politics afford bread and butter
TO more than one half Of its citi-
zens. Scarcely does President
become elected and fairly seated
in his Official Chair before specula-
tions are fife respecting to his
chances of being reelected.


TO this rule there has been no
exception with the present incum-
bent, General Grant. His friends
at the first instance were confident
OF his special fitness to control as
the Head Of the Civil as well as the
Military Department, and his Ad-
ministration to them, thus far. has
been entirely satisfactory. Scarce.
ly one who has the interest Of the
Republican party at heart ard
knows the political alphabet, but
appreciate the Importance, both in
moral and political sense, OF
retaining him another four years.
Year: 1871

HOW TO READ WITH PROFIT.


For the sake of those who are
not greatly accustomed to sys-
tematic reading, we make some
suggestions as to the best mode oi
reading so as to gain the highcs,
advantage from the books you pc
ruse.


l. Ascertain the NM of the au-
thor. You will thus know what to
expect from his book, and may
save much time, which might 9th
erwise be spent in looking for what
you could not find. An attentive
reading Of the title page, preface,
and table Of contents will enable
you to Judge pretty accurately what
the author is about Some facts,
too, which float only among INTEL
ligent men, will aid you greatly in
these matters.


e. Read wakefully and attentive
ly, and with a determination to
comprehend throughly the book
you are perusing. Read neither
credulously nor skeptically, but
candidly cndeavoring to go to the
root of the matter if possible
One hour OF such reading is worth
q week of the superficial reading
which is so common.


8. Read with good dictionary
at your elbow, and consult it free.
ly, whenever you meet a word
whose meaning you are not sure
you understand. Webster or Woos-
ter is the best in general use. We
use W ebster. Never pass an i'm
portant word without mastering. in
the work you are reading. In this
way you will soon gain a good
stock Of words for your own use.
while you are learning the meaning
of the hook you are reading.


4. After reading chapter. close
the book aad try to recall, and
state briefly in your own language,
the substance Of the chapter, in
the order which the author pursues.
This is one Of the most profitable
exercises. 1t will show you just
now much you have gained bs
your reading. II You find you can
not do tnis, just read the chapter
agnin. The seconi reading will
probably 60 you some good. The
first reading has been Of little use
to you. if you are unable 10 state
what the main thoughts are.


5. If the book is your ovn-but
not, if it is o borrowed one-you
may mark with a pencil the most
important thoughts, You will thus
remember them more easily, and
can refer to them readily


Adopting these suggestions, yon
will read slowly; but what you
read will be yours. Il wall stir
up your own thoughts, Rni
probably develop your mental pow
er as healthfully as any other dis
cipline you can have. 7-
Year: 1871


Forever the sun is pouring his gold
On hundred worlds that beg nd borrow;
His warmth he squanders on submits cold,
HIS wealth on the homes OF want and sor
row.
To withhold his IA rgeness of p recious light
Is it to bury himself in eternal night.
a To give


Is to live.
The flower shines not 70 itself atall;
Its Joy is the 10y it freely diffnses
or beauty and balm it is prodigal,
And it lives in the lite it sweetly loses.
No choice for the rose but glory or doom,
To exhale or smother, to wither or bloom.


To deny


Is to die.
The seas lend sivery rain to the land,
The land its sapphire streams to the
ocean;
The heart sends blood to the brain of com
mand, -s1z
The brain to the heart its lightning mo.
ton.
And ever and ever,we yield our breath
Till the mirror is dry and images death.


To give
Is to live.
He is dead whose hand is not opened wide
To help the need of human broth her;
He doubles the strength of his Ii le long ride
Who gives his fortunate place to another
And thousand million lives are his
Who carries the world in his synpathies.


To deny
Is to die.
Year: 1871

rally like to como into possession OF lands that


will yield year after year large crops OF
wheat


Over the line from st. Cloud to Pembina
will pass all the traffic Of the Hudsons Bay
Company; and that Company, taking time by


the fore-lock, has already leased docks and


warehouses at Duluth, for the landing and


shipment of their goods the coming year.


This line Will form direct connection between


Chicago and Puget Sound, forming junction
with the main line of the Northern Pacific, a
few miles east of Red River. Over it will


come the. teas Of China and Japan, the silks


and Oriental fabrics and wares already turning
from The old-time routes, and floating to US
through the Golden Gate. With q shortening
of distance over the present route ex-


ceeding five hundred miles of land-car-
riage, with but one mountain summit,
and that of low altitude, the new line is GER


tain to obtain it's full share Of the trans


Continental traffic and travel. The extension
of the line to Pembina will bring Manitoba into


close commercial relations with Minnesota,


and undoubtedly in short time 1t will be
extended by the Canadians to Fort Garry and
the valley of the Saskatchewan, which Is SAID


to equal even, the Red River valley in fer
tlity.


The Company also have contracted for the
construction of line 70 miles long from st.
Cloud to Branard, to be completed in the early
Spring. While doing all this in the North
West they are vigorously at work on the Pa-
cifc slope, where IS mules is under cOnstruc-
ton, and upon which the iron is now being
laid.


Such is the progress making on this great
enterprise that was at Onel time regarded
by many in Ethe community as chimercal.
By the 1st of July 1872, during period OF
two years dating from July, 1870, about 975


miles of railway will have been constructed
by this corporation, which, with that portion
of the St. Paul and Pacific constructed at the
time of its purchase, will make little more


than 200 miles of road in their hands upon


the completion of the contracts.


We have only indicated q few of the results
that are to follow the carrying out OF these


plans. There are others of commercial i'm


portance worthy of the study of our merchants


and apitalists-important and far-reaching


results. 1t is the straightforward dealing OF


the men who have the enterprise in hand,


their energy, perseverance, and integrity OF


character, that have given the public conf
dence in their promises, that have enabled
them TO open so much of the new highway to


the Pacific in so short time, and to take
measures to complete it at an early day.
Year: 1871

Under the new order of things under Acting
Controller Green a very gratifying change is
manifest; instead of closed meetings of the
Board of Apportionment and the Commission
ers of the Sinking Fund.- the public are now
enabled to know something of the proceedings
of these Boards. And in complying with the
public desire for information in regard to the
expenditures under Mr.. Connolly's admins
tration, he is also doing good service in fur
nishing the Committee of Seventy with such
particulars as they desire to enable them to
institute such legal proceedings as they may
think advisable. 1t is to be hoped, however,
that in doing so no interruption may occur of
the labors of the Investigating Committee of
which Mr.. Booth is Chairman, which has al
ready shown itself 80 fully intent ON making
the "thorough and exhaustive examination
nromiscd
Year: 1871

The charge delivered by Judge Barnard
yesterday to the Grand Jury in the Court OF
Oyer and Terminer will possibly be denounced
by cautious critics as a moDstrous example OF
political ingratitude. That the celebrated Erie
Judge should denouncs election frauds, and
threaten the severest penalties against gangs
of dissolute men" who have "banded to-
"gcther either for purposes of maliclousness
cor money! is much as if o maR should
strike his grandmother. But for our part we
have no disposition to quarrel with Judge
Barnard's consistency. There are many careers
which are much the better for little inoOn-
sistency; and if we remind the Democratic
convcrts-Judge Barnard among them-that
they have been accomplices of the rogues
whom they are now helping to prosecute, it is
not to reprOach them for the past, or to
question their sincerity for the time being,
but to remind them that they are on proba-
ton, and that for the present the sentence of
the public is merely suspended. 1t is not
enough for the friends of the Ring to shout
"Stop Thief" after Tweed and Garvey. They
must do something more than that before we
take them into the ranks of the reformers


Judge Barnard, whose worst enemies never
said he was fool, is shrewd enough to see
exactly what we do require. "The time has
"arrived," no says, "when these things Ii. e,
election fraudsl must be put down, or re-
publican government must fall" and he
promises that his court shall exert it's utmost
powers to break up the Infamous system by
which the Ring has kept itself in place. 1t
would he rash to conjecture what the powers
of Judge Barnard's court may turn out to be.
His promise of yesterday will not be for
gotten when the time comes to redeem it, and
if he shall seem to be sincere. in his profess
sons of reformation we shall not look too
closely into his motives, but shall thank him
heartily for whatever good he may do.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Tweed has been 30 long accustomed to
hold our rights in contempt that he no longer
hesitates to strike at our personal liberties.
He has for 80 many years bought and re-
tanned political influence with the people, g
money that in his recklcssness he has VEN
tured to barter at least one mans freedom
for power. 1t lis mOnstrOus and almost beyond
belief, but nevertheless it is true that William
NJ. Tweed is using his influence to
aid the emigrant robber, Charles Moore,
whose vilanies we have repeatedly
exposed, to escape the punishment
he 80 richly merits. He has agreed with ex-
Alderman Moore, brother of the emigrant
thief, that the rascal shall not be prosecuted
provided the influence of the ex-Alderman as
a First Ward politician is used in the Ring ln-
terest hereafter In order to carry out this
Infamous bargain, not only is the thief to be
let 90 unwhpped Of justice, but his innocent
victim, who has remained here as witness,
has been thrust into prison, and now lies
there helpless while the robbers go free on
bail.


The shameful story, true, as we are assured,
in every particular, is detailed at length In
another column. Anton Kornach, the victim
of this robbery and conspiracy, in which VIM
NJ. Tweed IS leagued with the lowest and most
desperate of thieves is a poor Prussian, a
stranger and friendless in this city. For four
years he labored hard in the far West, deny
ing himself every luxury and many comforts
that he might save enough money to bring his
aged parents to this country. Robbed
by Moore, detained as witness while
the thief was let loose on bail, he was lately
forcibly taken, by order of District Attorney
Garvin, from the Hospital on Wards Island,
where he was living as charge of the Com
missioners of Emigration, kept in station
house twenty-four hours and there intimi-
dated, subsequently insulted with offers to
compromise his suit, and finally thrust into
the cells of the House of Detention, where ac-
cess to him of all concerned in his welfare is
denied by the District Attorney. And here he
must remain until he consents to compromise
and let the villain who robbed him es-
cane. This is case which should
awaken sympathy for the poor victim
and arouse indignation against the men who
have robbed him of money and liberty also.
His case is one of public concern, for the pros
ecution and conviction of Moore, who robbed
him, are demanded by the public safety and
morality. 1t is a case well worthy the atten-
ton of the Committee of Seventy and the
LAWYERS retained by it. Let this infamous con-
spiracy be broken up, and those who take part
in it punished
Year: 1871

The conviction of the editor of the Rappel
of Paris, by court-martial, for publishing
false news, will strike the average Republican
mind as being excessively unrepublican.
False news" in France means that sort of
political intelligence which the authorities be-
lieve calculated to disturb their own peace of
mind. So the editor of the Rappel who may
have printed statement of real factor what
appeared to be fact--in his paper, Is caught
up admoni shed and fined, just as he would
have been in the palmy days of the late En-
pire. The French Republic may not be desti-
tute of Republicans, but it certainly has less
Republicanism in its management of the press
than the German Empire, where there is much
larger liberty to the Fourth Estate than IN
France.
Year: 1871

The statement in a San Francisco dispatch
that the Superintendent of the Branch Mint
in that city has been compelled by pressure
from Washington to make many changes in
his employees, in the interest of the Admins
tration, is hardly reasonable. At least, we
prefer not to believe that the President has
authorized any such misuse of bis authority,
though it is possible that some of his super
serviceable followers, chagrined at the GOODNESS
which was manifested toward the present Ad-
minstratiOn during the late active Republican
canvass in California, may have been swift
to make representations to the effect that the
changes in the Branch Mint are only part of
a system of quiet revenge. We choose, how
ever, to believe that a President who has no
policy to enforce against the will of the people,
and who believes in Civil Service Reform, will
not descend to these small tactics.
Year: 1871

Our special correspondent at Yokohama fur
nishes some additional information relating to
the progress of civilization in Japan. The
abolition of the hereditary privileges of the
clans is of great moment to the country, and
will have an important influence upon its fu-
ture welfare. Three clans, only, have changed
their status from feudal retainers to peasants
or agriculturists, but the fact that these have
taken this step is one of great significance, as
it indicates a transition of large mass of
the people from idleness to industry; and it
is also a sign that the aristOcratic privileges
and the unthrift of warlike people are about
10 DaSs away.
Year: 1871

It iS impossible TO predict with any certainty
the result of the legal fOray upon the polyga-
mons heads of the Mormon Church, but the
proceedings 90 far are quite regular, and just
what we should have expected long ago. To
Brigham Young, arrested upon an indictment
for adultery, we now have added Bishop
Wells, the Mormon Mayor of Salt Lake City
and a high funCtionary in the Church of Latter
Day Saints. The indictments are modest In
their charges, Young being credited with only
sixteen wives and Wells with only one super
6uOus companion Of his joys and sorroWs,
while 1t is notorious that both have many
more. We have no information as to the
number Of MOrmons indicted, but it is obvious
Eat the arrest aud tIial Of large number
Year: 1871

She wears no jewel upon hand or brow


No badge by which she may be known OF men,
But though she walk in plain attire now,


She is the daughter of king; ana Wheh
Her father calls her at his throne to wait,
She will be clothed as doth betit her state.
Her father sent her in his land to dwell,


Giving to her a work that must be done;
And since the king loves all his people well,


Therefore she, too, cares for them, every one;
Thus when she stoops to lift from want and sin,
The brighter shines her royalty therein.
She walks erect through dangers manifold,


While many sink and fall on either hand;
She breads not Summers heat nor Winters cold.


For both are subject to the kings command;
She need not be afraid of anything,
Because she is a daughter of the king.
Even when the angel comes that men call Death,


And name with terror, it appals not her;
She turns to look on him with quickened breath


Thinking it is the royal messenger,
Her heart rejoices that her father calls
Her back to live within the palace walls.
For though the land she lwells in is most fair,


Set round with streams, n picture in 4 frame,
Yet often in her heart deep longings are


For that imperial palace whence she came.
Not perfect quite seems any earthly thing.
Because she is daughter Of the king.
Year: 1871

AN AWFUL Frog STORY. A man named
SoutLworth living in Warren, Pennsylvania
has lust elected from his stomach frog
which had been living there for fifteen years !,
Mr. Southworth has had Il great deal of
trouble with that frog. 1t used to begin to
croak at the most unreasonable hours. When
Southworth would go to church, for Instance,
the frog would remain quiet until the congrc-
ga,ion engaged in quiet prayer, and then it
would set up such a terrific howl that the sex
TON would rush in and collar Southworth and
drag him out TO quiet down in the graveyard
sometimes the frog would give nocturnal
serenade after Southworth was fast asleep
in bed, and then Southworth would rise as
mad ns any thing, and seize stomach pump
and trytO draw the trogup Butthe subtle rcn-
tile had had that trick played onittoo often dur-
ing those fifteen years, and he always Skinned
up the tube piece, ont OF the draueht. and
waited until Southworth exhausted himself.
Southworth never fooled that frog a great
deal. And when frogs were in season,
Southworth used to fish for that one with a
fy; but it always refused to rise, and the fly
buzzed around SO in Southworth's alimentary
canal that it nearly tickled Southworth tC
death. So Southworth had to wait until the
other day, when the frog thought it would
come up and 60 and see friend; and when
it did come, Southworth killed it with fork
He says the frog used to eat twice as much
as he did but we have been thinking it over,
and it seems to us the statement must be ex-
aggerated somehow.