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Year: 1872

wonderful statue. so impressive IN Its atti-
tude, and eloquent in its silence, the world
has given but one opinion.


1t was not until the year 1850 that this
beautiful piece of Workmanship was exhib-
tied in Woodstock. In letter OF the ar
tist to his cousin. Dr. Thomas Z. Powers,
N speaking of this statue, he expresses
MS pleasure in learning that it had been
exhibited in his native town, and says that
the fact almost realized an oft repeated
dream which occurred to him many times,
md for years, commencing when he was
child residing on the banks of the Quchee
and following him after his removal to
Ohio. and until the time when he began
modelling his statuary.


lie SAYS that he saw in his dreams,
across the river from his fathers house and
in the rear of his uncle house white
female figure, exceedingly beautiful, stand
ing on a pillar or pedestal. 1t did not
seem to possess life, and his boyish fancy
was perplexed with the radiant vision, as
he had never seen anything like it and
had no idea of a statue.


He often attempted to approach it in
the hope of being able to make a more
distinct observation, but the water was
deep and the current rapid, and he was
never able to procure a nearer view than
was afforded him from the west bank of
the river.


Such is the relation by Powers himself,
and such seems to be the origin of the
idea of this unrivaed statue.


As the burning bush to Moses as the
midnight call to the CHILD Samuel so the
prompungs of genius do really seem at
times to have about them something of
the divine The gates of the future are
set ajar, and the individual is permitted
dimly to discern the {" coming event." of
his life as they cast their shadows be-
fore" The preceding relation certainly
eads to such an inference


Powers has now resided in Italy 80
years. and principally at Florence, that
worlds center for the cultivation of his
art. There he has been one of the most
aborious men that have ever wrought in


It. Having made himself fam liar with
the works of the old masters, his genius
has enabled him to reach their excellence
aud, by the invention Of new methods Of
finish in some respects to transcend to them;
so that he is o ounced by the best judges
TO stand first among the sculptOrs of the
age.


Il is superfuous to remark upon the es-
innate of his productions. as held by con-
noisseurs. Among their gathering speci-
mems of his skill are sure to find place.
But it is mortifying fact that this unri-
vailed artist should have been SO little
patrouized by bis own countrymen. There
IS no doubt that his native State, Vermont.
will employ him in furnishing its quota of
statues for the National Capital /; and it is
to be hoped that other States also will
employ his brain aud chlsel in representing
the true and enduring embodiment of the
individuals they shall wish to send down
to the generations to come.-R. d. e. an
Washington Chronicle.
Year: 1872

Charles Sumner, if not there, is said and
believed to sympathize with the convention :;
and what greater name in Massachusetts


W hat one with a stronger hold? And yet
he has not dIssuaded any considerable num-
Der OF his Constituency from their faith in
the party, or it's claims to the confidence of
the people at large. And as in Massachu-
setts, SO elsewhere | think it will be found


that the people will not be turned away
from the Republican organization, and won
over TO a Democratic alliance by great names
or oratory or glittering generalities? L
think they viii detect in this new, inde
pendent movement, through all its specious
promises, a recklessness Of results which will
rtartle them and then compact them. |
think they will see that the work and the
fruits OF the great sacriacial war will be put
IN Jeopardy, and, remembering the dark
days when national dIsmem berment and
anarchy seemed to be upon US, they will
abide IN the organization that brought de-
lverance, and even though they may have
personal objections to its candidates, they
VIII not for that reason desert 1t and its
public policy


But while l say this, if we believe the
Republican party is going to march on to
victory, it behooyes us to take every stumbling
block out of the way, and then not to under
rate the enemy. There is earnest cry for
reform in the air. 1t must be needed. The
party that was originally the organized con
science Of the nation must look forward and
be kept up to the most advanced intelligence
and the purest patriotism. 1t must advocate
and illustrate political morality; otherwise
it cannot live. Its work and character must
be better, dearer, more to US ttan any man
or set of men.


As for the offices | care not who fill them,
# right principles prevail and there is honest
adm nistratI0n. ln saying that, | speak the
sentiments OF the Republicans of Vermont.
l. IS grief and sorrow to them that per-
sonal ambition and personal differences have
crept into the party and threaten it's unity
They feel that many a seed Of discOrd has
been needlessly sown, and, if they could,
they would pluck up every one.


To this end | trust they will send to the
Philadelphia Convention their wisest and
strongest men, charged to say that Vermont
stands g the cardinal principles of the
Republican faith stands, and forever will
stand, to the equal rights of all, the full
payment Of the national debt, the reduction
of taxatiOn-stands to honesty ana fidelity
10 public Office and the perfect mantenaLce
in every direction of the public rights and
honor and charged still further to say that
Vermont stands to the Republican organiza-
tIon lor success Of these principles, and only
asks of the convention % be held IN the city
Ut brUtherly love, the exercise of the wisdom
which will make the success sure.
Year: 1872

/ Tue EDUcATIoN OF WOMEN Speaking
/ generally, the training and discipline that
are most suitable for the one sex in early
lfe are also the most suitable for the 9TH
er; and the education ami culture that fill


the mind of the man will prove equally


wholesome for the woman. Indeed, all


the arguments which have vet been ad-


vanced in favor of the higher education of


men plead equally strongly in favor of


the higher education of women. In all


the departments of home, intelligence will


adj to woman's usefulness and eff 3iency.


1t will give her thought and forethought,
enable her to anticipate and provide for


the contingencies of life, suggest improved


methods of management, and give her


strength in every way. But while the


mind aud character of women ought to be


cultivated with a view TO their own well


being, they ought at the least to be edu-


Gated with view to the happiness of 9TH


ers. Men themselves cannot be sound in


mind or morals if women be the reverse


and if, as we hold to be the case, the


moral condition of people mainly depends


upon the education of the home, then the


education of women is to be regarded as a


matter of national importance. But while


1t is certain that the character of na-
tion will be elevated by the enlightenment
and refinement of woman, ii is much more
than doubtful whether any advantage Is to
be derived from her entering into compe-
tition with man in the rough work of busi-
ness aud politics. Woman can no more
do mans special work in the world than
do
man bas been withdrawn from her home
lnd family to enter upon other work, the
result has been socially disastrous In
deed, the Efforts Of some of the best phil
anthroplsts have of late years been devot-
ed to Withdrawing women from toiling
alongside of men in coal pits, factories,
nail shops and brick yards There j.,
however, one special department of wo-
mans work demanding the earnest atten-
ton Of all true female reformers, though
it is one which has hitherto been unac-
neglected. We mean the better
and preparation of human
food, the waste of which a. present, for
want of the most ordinary culinary knowl-
edge, Is little short of scandalous If that
man is to be regarded as a benefactor of
his species who makes two stalks of corn
to grow where only one grew before, not
less IS she TO be regarded as public bene-
factor who ECONOMICS and turns to the
best practical account the food products of
human skill and labor. TIE improved use
Of even our existing supply would be
equivalent to an Immediate extension of
the cultigatable acreage of our country,
not to speak of the increase in health,
economy aud domestic comfort. Were our
female reformers to turn their energies in
this direction with effect, they would earn
the gratitude of all households, and be
as among the greatest of all
practical philanthropists.-Sanasel Smiles
Year: 1872

treasured it up-and Heaven has added
nightly to my little store. L put the
dollar bill under the corner, stone of my
new house, for the house has risen from II
and it alone l won't offer to pay you
back, for [ am afraid, be added smilingly
the luck would all 90 from me with it
but I'll tell you what l will do, Mary /
will give money and words of trust and
encouragement to some other poor wretch,
as you gave to me-"


And Squire Partlet never knew what
his wife did with the dollar bill he gave
her to buy new piece of oil-cIoth.
Year: 1872

The calamity which stand in dread of,
and which is, next to the withdrawal of the
divine blessing, the greatest Church can
suffer, is that the rising talent, genius, and
energy of our country may leave the minis
try of the gospel for other professions. GA
scandalous maintenance" Matthew Henry
says, "makes scandalous ministry" And
I will give you another, equally true: "The
poverty of the parsonage will develop itself
in the poverty of the pulpit" I have no
doubt about it. Genteel poverty, to which
some ministers are doomed, is one of the
greatest evils under the sun. To place a
man in circumstances where he is expected
to be generous and hospitable, to open his
hand as wide as his heart to the poor, to give
his family good education, to bring them
up in what is called genteel life, and to deny
him the means of doing SO, is enough, but
for the hope of heaven, to embitter exist
ence. In the dread of debt, in many daily
Notwithstanding, perhaps some old
acquaintance, whom he dare not ask to his
table lest his more prudent wife should frown
upon his extravagance-in harassing fears
of what will become of his wife and children
when his head lies in the grave, man Of
cultivated mind and delicate sensiblities has
trials to bear more painful than the priva.
tions of the poor. 1t is bitter cup, and
my heart bleeds for brethren who have never
told their sorrows, concealing under their
cloak the fox that gnaws at their vitals.


DR.. Guthrie.
Year: 1872

| know ricaa merchant in ST. Petersburg,
who, at his own cost, supported a number Of
native missionaries in India, and gave like a
prince to the cause of God at home. l
asked him one day how he could do it? He
replied, "When served the Devil, I did it
on large scale, and at a princely expense;
and when, by his grace, God called me out
of darkness, 1 resolved Christ should have
more than the Devil had had. But how l
CAP give SO much, you must ask of God, who
enables me to give it. At my conversion, 1
told the Lord his cause should have a part
of all that my business brought me in; and,
every year since made him that promise,
it has brought me in about double that it
did the year before; SO that l can and do
double my gifts in his cause" How true
what Bunyan said !


ga man there was some called him mad


The more he cast away, the more he had"


"There is" said God, "that giveth, and
yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth
more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty. u
God will be debtor to no one. He pays
compound interest for all that by faith is put
into his bank.
Year: 1872

work. Of course, it was in his human
nature that he prayed. AS God it would be
absurd to suppose him praying to himself
But he was perfect man, and as such, like
us he must pray. He still prays. On earth
he prayed in the temple. He has gone into
the temple above to continue his prayer. As
our High Priest he has entere into the
most holy place, within the true tabernacle,
and there "he ever liveth to make interces-
sion for u.s.


His prayers were an index to his heart.
We may look through his petitions deep
down into his heart, and there from the
fountain of his life we see his affections
yelling up, and flowing out in mighty tide
of love toward all his people in all ages Of
the world.


He is our example. He does not ask us
to do what he would not do himself. When
he taught, that "men ought always to pray
and not to faint" he was himself practicing
what he preached to us. If he who knew
no sin found It necessary TO pray, much


IRE Isl necessary iogs us, : saA ap,.,s -
praved creatures, to pray. If it was not
unbecoming in the King of kings to pray,
surely we ought never to be ashamed to
pray.


Finally, if the Saviour taught so much by
precept and example about prayer, and if
the Bible introduces the subject of prayer
so many hundreds of times, and under SO
great variety of forms as it does, prayer
must be a very important agency in the econ
omy of grace. Lord teach us to pray.
Year: 1872

A SOLEMN TRUTH.-Where God refuses
to correct, there God resolves to Destroy
There is no man SO near the edge, so near
the flames, so near hell, as he whom God
will not so much as spend rod upon.
Year: 1872

The election in North Carolina is TO take
place next Thursday. As the earliest trial of
strength during the campaign it arouses ex-
traordinary interest all through the country;
vet it is not to be fair and square contest
between the Liberal and Radical parties. The
rival tickets were nominated and the State
issues made up before the Liberal and Dem
ocratic alliance took shape. The Republicans
met in Convention at Raleigh, on the nth of
April, and renomnated for Governor Mr.. T. r.
Caldwell. The Conservatives met at Green's
boro, on the 1st of May, and nominated
a straight Democratic ticket headed by
A. S. MerTimon. The Liberal Repub-
lcans held no Convention, and are not
represented on the anh-AdministratiOn
ticket, their support of which has consequently
perhaps been less hearty than it would have
been had it been made up later and with due
regard to their claims. 1t is a good ticket, and
many of the Liberals will probably vote for
il: but there is no question that a great num-
ber of Republicans who intend to support
Greeley and Brown in November will adhere
to Gov. Caldwell on the local issue. They see
in the State Summer campaign nothing but
an issue between Republicanism and Democ-
racv. while on the Presidential question they
understand that the contest is to be fought
on much broader grounds and under very diff
ferent conditions. Hence the result next
Thursday will not be a measure of the
strength of the new party; for the new party,
properly speaking, is not IN the field. Our
friends are conducting the campaign nobly;
they are opposing the most enormous expen-
diture of Federal money, influence, intimida-
ton, and patronage, and they have we'll
founded hopes of victory; but even if they
should be defeated now they know that when
they rally in November, under the banner Of
the new alliance, they can easily sweep the
State.


On the other hand defeat of the Grant
partv now would be equivalent to a total rout.
They have everything in their favor in North
Carolina. Our side has not yet organized
There are various circumstances which give
the Administration an exceptionally strong
hold over the negroes There is no part of
the Union where intimidation is so easy as
il is in North Carolina, or where little
money will buy so many votes COOred
colonists from South Carolina have been
brought across the border in great numbers,
and it is almost impossible to detect them
Members of the Cabinet, and even the Grant
candidate for Vice-President, have been
stumping the State A crowd of special
deputy nlarshals have gone into the interior
counties to overawe doubtful voters with war
rants for Ku-Klux arrests. In word, the
Administration has expended its whole strength
in North Carolina, well knowing that If 1t
cannot carry that State it cannot carry any
thing. Victory there will leave Grants
chances about what they are at present,
neither much better nor much worse; but de-
feat will be irretrievable. If Grant is beaten
Oh Thursday we may consider the Preslden-
Year: 1872

persons who have instigated and contaminated
it. A fugitive from Spain mayIIbe seized IN
New York or San Francisco by Mr. Uriarte,
provided he can make the work an object to
willing detectives, robbed, incarcerated or
taken out Of the country, at the will Of the
Spanish officials. Because, under Mr.. Fish's
ruling, he cannot even look into the matter
unless the Spanish Minister brings it to his
notice. The President agrees with Mr.. Fish,
and so that is tho end Of the matter.


Now Pereda may OF may not be guilty OF
stealing from the Spanish Government. He
has never been tried anywhere; and, until
tried he must be presumed to be innocent.
But the question of his guilt has nothing to
do with the case. His kidnapping and the
subsequent proceedings were as destitute OF
shadow of law as the hanging of an alleged
horse by an Arkansas mob. Urlarte had
no right to order the arrest or detention of
Pereda by the detective Lees and Chief
Crowley. The United States Courts were
open to him, and if there was no recourse
there he had none in the courts at all, for
we have no extradition treaty with Spain.
Refugees from Cuban persecution are as liable
to Uriarte's edicts in this city as they are IN
San Francisco and our admirably managed
State Department has established the rule
that United States authorities can take no
notice of the proceedings unless they are
brought to its notice by the officials most
interested in hushing up the affair. If there
be any fine-spun theories of law which make
it possible that such an outrage as that per-
petrated in San Francisco can be repeated at
will, they should be understood Even
reputed thief has right TO trial by jury.
We cannot afford TO let foreign governments
arrest and carry off their fugitive subjects in
the United States without due process of law,
although our Secretary of State may think 1t
is all right.
Year: 1872

Mr. C. S. Carpenter is the person who made an
affidavit that he had seen positive declaration IN
favor of the payment of pensions to Rebel soldiers
in a letter from Horace Greeley; that he read the
letter several times over and perfectly positive
that this was its true purpor and intent and who
next wrote over his signature that he was not at all
clear in his recollection about it, that on
the whole probably he had formed his
opnon from what other people told him
about the alleged letter rather than from
what he saw himself, and that until further notice
he withdrew the statements in his affidavit! Since
then. we believe he has turned two more
somersaults and the last we heard of him he was
writing a personal letter to Mr.. Greeley, demanding
of that gentleman an autograph answer to tell
whether what Mr.. Carpenter had sworn to was true,
or whether Mr. Carpenters retractiOn of what
he had sworn to was true,-the answer to be
promptly forwarded in time for his next issue,
and nothing snort of specific state
ment TO be accepted. This foolish person
makes q mistake He has no business with Mr. Gree
lev; but he has with the District Attorney. The
trouble with him is a matter of perjury. Either he


lied in his affidavit he lied in his retraction; and
he is altogether the most wonderful person ever
heard of in this or any country for proposing to sus
pend the operation of his affidavit until the man he
sandered decides for him the locality of the lie This
is a mess Of your own making, young man. You got
into it yourself Now get out!
Year: 1872

journal was enthusiastic in Barnard's praise
in September and bitterly denunciatory in the
following February This is true, but Ihe
Times is so consistently inconsistent that its
Incorporate praise and its injudicious vituper-
alton must both be lightly accepted, and we
trust that the Senate will permit neither to
Influence its decision.
Year: 1872

From every quarter we get information that the
President of the United States and those under him
in authority are actually swamping the mails
with tuns upon tuns of franked electioneering
documents. A gentleman IN Connecticut writes
that he saw great bundle of Grant and Wilson
speeches. which had been sent under the frank OF
H. Ii. Starkweather NJ. c., to a country Postmaster,
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE being written thereon, which
some may regard as request and others rs the ukase
of the Post-Ofce Department Thus the mails are
used by the Ofice-holders party for its own pur-
poses and this poor severely-axed people is forced
to foot the bills. II appears TO us that the only way
to counteract this little game is to that the peo-
pie have plenty of Liberal reading. We furnish
some of the most necessary documents at an eX-
tremely low rate and indeed, there is no lack OF
ammunition of the kind, if the local Committees
will apply for it in the proper quarter If the other
side can afford TO circulate documents, the Liberal
party can surely afford to follow the example. But
they should remember, that of all documents, we'll
established newspapers, local and general, far
the best See that your doubtful neighbor has some
honest and independent newspaper; first. that one
published in his county, if such one be
sible, then the best metropolitan journal
Year: 1872

In London letter to THE TRIBUNE, printed
to-day, will be found a summary of the points
discussed and decided by the late international
Congress for the Prevention and Repression
of Crime. The synopsis of the propositions
will probably hereafter form basis for codes
of regulations relating to criminal treatment,
and so deserves attention. Where so many
cognate themes were debated, it is unreason-
able to find fault with omissions but it does
seem grave oversight that two such impor-
tapt questions relating to crime as the death
penalty and intemperance should have escaped
discussion.
Year: 1872

Notwithstanding the assertion which is not alto
gether without foundation, that modern legislation
has done much to protect the property, real, per-
sonal, and mixed of married women, a case ocCa-
sonally occurs which suggests the inquiry whether
we are living in modern or middle agei Mrs.
Prodgers for instance London woman is separ-
ated from her husband Somebody left her legacy
of E6,OOO and she sued to have the legacy given up
to her. But her husband opposed her and succeeded
in getting the 10000 for himself Prodgers does e
support his wife or live with her or there might DO
some for this robbery under the OF law
SO long women thus unmistakably swindieu'
they will continue to ask for all sorts Of privileges
which might or might not be good for them