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Year: 1871

Q few months. or, at most, for year or two
and then you shall come TO see me IN my new house
and IN my fine gardens, and we shall never part
more" II they all believe this how much 1t taxes
stand on the shore and watch the stout vessel as
gides with the mist and out OF sight, and then turn
back and say TO each other, "A little while to Oelr
this pain, and then what happiness will bD ours ~
Well II Is Just 10 III life. Tue true Chrisfan feels 1t
to be so.


When Christ gave us the beatitudes lie seems to
me TO have been building the foundation OF tri-
sons OF sef-sacrIhce, His unshaken trust In God,
HIS submission TO another viii tnan HIS 0wn-these
are


STOUT GRANITs BLOCKS


placed upon the foundation AFTER another
until all Is complete except that stone Key
stone, as IL Is rightly caled-without which the
whole structure may fall AT any unusual disturb
ance, but with which the arch must stand lOreyer
ana when lie gave u.s. revealed TO the doctrine OF
immortality, it seems TO me that lie lifted the key
ment OF truth and faith. Before that was done we
wavered but now that 1t has been done there seems
10 De deeper meaning IN the Lords Prayer, and
VIC say Our Fatner as we have never said 1t before.


am reminded OF all tins as think OF the good
man VINO has lately passed away from u.s. HIS life
was perfectly quiet one, rs yours and mine are,
Dul his death had something very beautiful In II.
lie saw the shadow just as in an August day you
see ne log creeping over the land and feel that
In q few minutes 1t win enclose you; without q
ment came some angel would put into his hand the
ROD ana The staf'' upon which to lean. Such Is
the triumphant power OF the Christian. Always con-
sciously I'D his Fathers keeping, he Is willing TO go
Wherever II IS best nc should go, and when death
comes be leaves his bright example and his smile
Dehind, and saying "Lord, my lamp ID trimmed ana
burning walks into She dark without hesitation,
sure that beyond It lies the perfect day.
Year: 1871

Sermon by the Lord Bishop Of Nassau, N. p
Christ's COppnniOn-Sym mpaIhy and SUBJ
stance for The Sufferers from the sen Bore.
Yesterday was q sombre, winter-llke morning
when the bells OF Old Trinity were musically peal
ing but when service in the church had begun the
sun broke through and frightened the dull sky, and
the rays lighting "the dim cathedral aisesn were
tinted with the stained glass through which tney
passed. large congregation was gathered in re-
sponse to the harmonious calling OF the bells. The
beauty OF the service at this church is well known;
the singing OF ITS cnorisers can only be spoken Of
as almost perfect.


Before the sermon DR.. vinton announced that the
Lord Bishop OF Nassau, n. p, would preacn lie
stated that great calamity mad befaen the charge
OF the Lord Bishop and requested that the congre-
CATION would aid the sufferers with


SYMPATHY AND SUBSTANCE.


The Bishop took his text from st. John. XII, 35-
'And Jesus wept," &c. He said:--On two occasions
Is our Lord recorded to have wept-on neither for
himself At the great grief OF the sisters OF Lazarus
over the body OF their brother lie sned tears. lie
knew tnat their grief would soon be checked by the
restoration OF Lazarus 70 life yet lie could not but
sympathize with them IN their sorrow. The
from Ills own sorrows. As regards God
lie learnt obedience from His SORROWS and as re-
hunger was, and therefore, could not send awaya


MULTITUDE BUNGERING.


nc hucW WHht IL was 10 lose u KIND friend, for He
had probably lost Joseph His foster father ana 40
was grief stricken at the sorrow OF Martha ana
Mary From our own experience comes a proper
knowledge oil the visitatons upon others Bnt IhIs
knowledge IS lost through exemptions IRON Qriei or
trouble. when ON bed OF sickness we can sympa.
thze with others slck but as health returns we lose
in great degree, that power OF sympathy we feel
more heartily for the mourner when we have had IN
mourn just before. With our Lord 1t IL not So He
Is ever the same. HIS fount Of sympathy is always


READY TO OVERFLOW.


1t is because OF this we can appeal to Him now
His remembrance or HIS sunerngs Is perfect He
learned sympathy from having taken upon Him onr
nature-not the nature Of any certain man. but OF
humanity. Otherwise his experience would have
been but partial. The ricn man cannot enter fully
into the troubles OF the poor man. because he does
not understand them. il IL impossible for any man
TO fully understand the sorrows OF his fellows
Macaulay tells US that johnson could only under
stand pb bysical sorrow. lie had been


A POyERrY-sTRICKEN AUTHOR


and oft had hungered. lie could therefore pity the
starving, and many hungry person he brought TO
his home and fed. He could not however
get an insight into the cause Of mental
grief We have each some trouble which
we do not tell because none others can
fully understand II. The second time that Jesus
wept at HIS entry into Jerusalem. Then Ills
tears we're sned for sin. lie looked through the ia
Year: 1871

Sg~ The St. Louis Times says, in the
absence of polite Democratic language to
sufficiently express our detestation of the
carpet -bagging fraternity Of the South,
we ask the indulgence Of our readers to
quote the following from a Radical con
temporary--thc Springfield Republican
which seems to do the subject very
nearly justice:


They are doing more harm to the
country to day than the locust or cater
pillar; or any other kindred pest They
arc teaching the less intelligent and dis
criminatng SoutheIners to dcspsc and
hate the Northern people more heartily
than ever; they are debauching the freed
men; they are bringing disgrace upon the
great Republican party and upon the ma
tional government. That their rapacity
is Unsuitable, and that they steal every
penny they can lay their hands on, are
comparatively trivial counts in the in
dictmcnt against them. Yet this constant
plunlcrug is q very serious matter to the
communities which are plundcrcd. |,
means increased indebtedness and heavier
taxation. 1t is just such rascality that is
making the name Of Republican stencil
in the Southern States, and bringing sus
plcion and enmity upon honest immi-
grants And matters will not mend much
so long as needy and greedy adventures
arc appointed to responsible Federal Of
fees, and fellowshipped by Northern Re
publicaus on the floor Of Congress.
Year: 1871

sE- We are pleased to announce that Col
J. NJ. llarrell late OF the Little Rock Gazette
and, all the rhle, general agent for the Nash
Vile Life Insurance Company, is spending
the heated term in our town. The Colonel is
one OF those gentlemen with whom one likes
to touch palms and spend an hour in social
converse. As writer he has few equals in
the State, anu the Gazette must feel his with
drawal therefrom. Politi, llly, we believe he
is a very good republican-at leasS he Is
strong new departure democrat, which l. the
next thing TO II. Practically, he is one OF the
best insurance agents in the State, and repre-
scnts one Of the best companies in the United
States Mountain Echo.


Tho editor Of the Echo is not far from let
ting go his hold of RadicalSm If he and the
Colonel are so near thinking alike. The edi-
tor OF the Echo is most too honest anyhow to
be n good Radical in Arkansas ;and the longer
he lives here the better he will be convinced
that he is in the wrong boat.
Year: 1871

1t used 10 be a fsvorite pastimc with
Republicans during the war to proclaim
the Democratic party dead, beyond the
power Of resurrection These sages OF
Radicalism have changed their tune "
most emphatically within year or two
In proof whereof read the following
specimen brick " confessions from high
Radical authorities;


The Democratic party to-day is strong
er than it ever was in its history. II
means now to win, and do not say that
it cannot win Horace Greeley in Efcds-
burg.


You make light Of the Democracy, but
to day. in the State Of New York, there
is n clean Democratic majority Of ninety
thousand. We never did have the Irish.
and now we are losing all the Germans.
- -Ne,o York Times, Radical.


Grant with his Ku klux bill thinks he
can kill the Democracy. twill take more
men by million than he had at Apo
matox.- .Nsm York S@n, Radical


A great deal has been said about the
dead Democracy Those who think it is
dead surely never read the story of the
resurrection. There will be signs in the
heavens and on the earth in 1872 when
this Democratic party gets its soldiers in
the field - Springfield Mass RepudH-
can, Radical


He is a fool or 4 traitor who expects
to win an easy victory over the Demo
cratic party in 1874, Grant can never do
it with the bayonet.- New York Ere
ming Post, Radicah


They may say what they please, but
those who are the most confident do not
know these Democrats. They are the
most dangerous when they seem the most
whipped. Do not put any faith in them
and do not trust them In retreat they
are treacherods and often fatal Lon
iScRlc Commercial, Radical
Year: 1871

~Hil. the valOrus leader of the "Couyen-
tionists." lately. and the gallant Gauldng.
his ablest coadjutor. gracefully yield to the
voice of the majority. Duul,tn, on the 9th
er hand, is less maGnanimous IN yielding up
that dangerous pride OF opinion, % which
We have alluded, and, IN iHct seems fully
persuaded that there are no honest men IN
the democratic and conservative party of the
state except those who, Tor the time being.
coincide with him, even on question Of par
IS policy. When you have thought over II
more seriously, You will surely agree that
the horizon extends even beyond here your
vision reaches. The greatest of all the Nir-
tues, you remember. lis CHARITY. Little
Rsek Gazette, 22d.


Dunham Is, perhaps, less magnanimous,'
than the other gentlemen who scquesed so
readily In the action of the committee, tor
the reason that he believed more sincerely,
that the will and wishes of the people were
not expressed by the action of the Commit
tee assembled in not calling State Conven-
ton this Fall. The GcseHe ha. never known
the Press to be captious, or to hold back when
the will of the masses is expressed through a
Convention, or the representatives Of the
people in any manner. We had but one de
sire to accomplish in being present at the
meeting on the 10th, and that was for the
campaign about to be entered upon, should
start off on the fright foot" and that the eff
forts there made should command the conf
dsnce and active support OF all liberal mind
ed men of the State.


1t was the province of the Central Commit
tee. to have seen and known that 1t would
be almost impossible to get together TWO
conventions next Spring and Summer-atter
the fist of Aprl-the busiest season in the
year, and 1t was duty obligatory upon
them as competent advisers, to have remind
ed the people of this fact and to have recon-
mcnded a remedy. We believed them and
still believe, that as it was necessary to hold
tleo Conventions before the next Presidential
election, that one of them should have been
ordered for this Fall, and one for next Sum
mer. We feel sure that it would better suit
the convenience of the agricultural and as
well, all other interests Of the State. The
Delegates to the National Convention could
have been appointed this Fall and any other
business deemed necessary, enacted. We
confess, We yielded reluctantly to the decis-
lon Of the Committee, but, nevertheless, enter
earnestly into the organization of our forces,
under the programme Of the committee.
Year: 1871

From the Uestern Methodist of Mem
phis, we clip the following from DR.. Nc
Ferrin, secretary Of the board OF mis-
sions of the NJ T.. Church, south. We
commend this appeal to our southern
Methodist friends throughout the State ;


Rev. AND DEAR BRETHREN:-4ou did
the past year more for the cause oil mis-
sions, than was done the year previous
May we expect an increase this year over
the last | do not mean in contributions
to pay the old missionary debt, but IN
raising funds for general missionary pur
poses. The old debt is nearly all pro-
yded fer and will trouble us no more II
brethren will faithfully redeem their
pledges, and meet what has been assessed
to each conference. But mean to plead
for the cause Omissions on the plan now
projected by the church. The conference
sessions will soon be here, and what Is
done must be done quickly Now, dear
brethren, do not come, or send your
preachers and lay delegates to the CON
ferenccs, without handsome missionary
collections. The board, acting in con
cert with the bishops, have made arrange
ments to greatly enlarge the WORK the en-
suing year, and if the collections fail to
come up, the hest laid plans will be de-
feated. A glorious future opens before
the church the men are ready, now wait
ing, to be sent to new fields; they are
ready to 90 to China, to South America,
to Mexico, to the Indians, to the from
tiers in the far wes.-anyu here, SO that
the gospel may be preached to the poor,
and souls saved. All that is lacking for
a very large increase in our missionary
work is the money to pay the expenses
Of those who are willing to sacrifice all
for the kingdom of Heavens sake.


Now, we beg you to make efforts to
bring up large collections Induce each
member Of the church to give as God has
prospercd him and when all shall help,
the work will be done and no one hurt
VIII the presiding elders see to this i'm
portant interest OF the church? We ash
every preacher, travelling and local, tC
help. We pray every official member
and all the Sunday schools, to come tc
our aid. Let each, let all do theiI duty
and God will bless the effort, and the gos
pei Of the kingdom will be preached tc
thousands who are now without the
means OF grace. Go to day, my brother
and work in the vineyard Of the Lord
tomorrow may be too late for you,


J. B. MCFERRIN.
Year: 1871

IL The St Louis Times says, Judging from
the tone of the Republican press of Pcnnsrl-
vania, the Radicals in that State are disposed
to give up the battle before the Democratic
skirmishes have been deployed The Hunt
ington Globe, whose editor isa member Of the
State Central committee, eonfesses the weak
ness of the party, and says;


We want Andy Curtin TO come home
from Russia. He is the only man TO rally the
people and save the State from going over TO
the Democracy. The hearts ofthe people are
not with Cameron, or any OF his dogs
Year: 1871

A HINT TO CoNsuMrTIvEs A physi-
clan of no little experience says he has
known several consumptive patients cur
ed by observing the following rule: Live
temperately, avoid spurious liquors, wear
flannel next the skin. and take every
morning half pint Of new milk. mixed
with wine glassful of expressed juice
Of green hoarhound.
Year: 1871

We copy from the Little Rock Gazette, for
the information of tax payers, in the West
srn part Of the State, the following list, show
ing the dates Of the expiration Of the time
allowed by law for the redemption of lands
forfeited for none payment of taxes Of lsGs:
Year: 1871

Ey One lady kept an account and
found that muslin dress for which she
had paid thirty cents yard had at the
end Of the season cost her in the wash
ing and ironing of it sixty three dollars
Year: 1871

Developments have recently been made,
at the Gwin mine in Lower Rich Guich,
unparalleled in the history Of quartz opera
tions in this State. A strata OF rock has
been discovered in the main shaft at the
denth of four hundred feet, that for rich
ness eclipses anything of which we ever
heard or read. The strangest feature 10
the development is, however, that the rock
recently discovered SO closely resembles the
slate of which the walls of the lead are
composed, that it has eretofore been taken
out and thrown away with other debris
from the mine. The strata mentioned
lies next to the foot wall aud is about a
foot in width and thickness. In color and
formation it so nearly resembles slate that
1t requires a close examination to distin-
guish the two from each other be
inclination of the "streak" differs slightly
from that of the shaft. Commencing at
a point near the surface it crosses the lat
ter, diagonally, leaving the shaft at the
4O0-foot level By "dfifting" short dis
tance on the lead, however, from the 500
foot level, the strata will undoubtedly be
struck again. BY the merest accident in
the world it was discovered that this siu-
gular deposit, instead of being slate, was
simply mass of sulphurets, carrying free
gold in abundance. A portion of the rock
was brought to this town and critically
assayed by DR.. James Hepburn. Two and
one half ounces yielded one hundred and
sixty six grains Of gold or, in other words,
At the rate Of s53. lao per ton The rock
assayed was not selected "specin en-" 1t
was broken from chunk at least foot
square and is considered fair test of the
richness Of the whole strata The proprie
tors of the mine are sanguine that they
will take 100000 out of the recently dis
covered "streak," between the 500 foot
level and the surface. In fact, 81 onld
this strata prove to be one of the perman-
ent component parts of the lead, as it un-
doubtedly will. there is no calculating the
amount of gold that will be taken from it.
IF ore of equal richness has ever before
been found there is no record of it. The
Gwin mine must now certainly be classed
as the most valuable in the State, and
further than chat, in less then year it
will boast more extensive machinery than
any other lead upon this coast. We shalt
await further developments, ia reference
to the newly discovered strata, with impa-
tience.-Calavcra Chronicle.
Year: 1871

A young man ir Oroville, worried 50
long between Blonde and Brunette, that
he became engaged to both. Brunette
finally caught him one evening talking
velvet to Blonde. He will be out in about
six weeks. He says his horse run into
tree top with him.-Butte Record.
Year: 1871

TIE Trinity Journal is one of our most
welcome ex hanges, and we don't wish it
any bad luck. But, if that Presidential
ticket 1t has been flying for the past year
should happen to get "into pi," we wouldn't
set it up again.
Year: 1871

RAIN-The first rain of the season fell
on Friday afternoon, and has laid the dust
till travelling is good t. what it was before
that. We see by our exchanges that the
rain was general
Year: 1871

The San joaquin Yelley argus of
July 8th relates the annexed startling
incident; Zone night last week, Mr..
Haskell, one ofthe new settlers on Dry
Creek, short time after retiring for
the night, heard o setting hen making
a noise as if disturbed by some wild an
imsl, upon which he got up and went
to the coop to see what was matter
The moon was shining brightly, ena-
bling him to see any object thGj were


uncovered, and perceiving nothing
that he thought would cause the hen
and her young chickens to make such
a noise, he run his hand in the coop
and feft under the hen among the eggs
and Matching chickens to endeavor to
find out what was the matter, when he
grasped in his fingers a huge rattle
snake. He threw down the reptile and
called to his wife, when the snake ran
back into the coop and coiled himself
around the hen and her brood, contil-
uing his repast upon young chickens.


The lady, learning the condition of af-
fairs; ran to kthe house and returned
with the fire-shovel and tongs, with
which weapons the snake was soon dis
patched and drawn from the COOP
When killed the snake still had q
chicken in mis- mouth, which he had
not been able to swallow, which ac-
counts for his not biting while being
drawn out of the coop by Haskell with
his naked hand. The snake is repre-
rented to have been about three feet
and a half in length, and an extraord-
inafilY large one. - .lE ti
Year: 1871

THE FIRE ALARM MONDAY NIGnr- Where
II aCdS Turned In 0nH Who Did N.-Men-
tion was made i'll the Dispatch of yesterday
of the first alarm of fire, which was turned
in at Box No. II, corner Of Sd and Duval
streets, at o'clock on Monday night. A
reporter of this paper went within q short
distance Of the alarm box, and was there
Informed by the chief Of tho department
that it was caused by the burning of shed
near 10y. At III 30 O'Clock Il second alarm
was turned in ut the same place, and the
department were soon upon the ground /;
but this time it turned out to be false, and
Il short Time afterwards McsSrs. JAS. Epps
and Burnett Whcclcy were arrested on the
formal charge Of giving false alarms OF fire
within the city, trespasSing on public prop
erty, and creating Il disturbance through
out the entire city. Yesterday morning


the parties appeared before Justice White,
but owing to the absence OF witnesses tor
the defence the cases were continued until
this morning ut 10 O'Clock.


We do not charge these parties with hav-
| Ing been gully OF 50 grave in offence, not
only cndanyering the health OF the tircmcn,
who were called out twice ut night for no
cause on earth, but also suljectinY the
machines to serious injury from wear and


tear, besides disturbing the peace Of our
quiet city. But it was done by some one,
and with malicious intent, too, else the
second alarm would not have been given;


for surely they would have been satisfied
with their sport after the first run. 1t is
to be hoped that the guilty parties will he
brought to Justice White, and that he will
punish them so severely that The act will
never be repeated in this city.
Year: 1871

4 MAN IN NBw YORK ATTEMPTS TO
ToIsoN LIS WIFE IN R1CnMoND.-On Sun
day DIR. j. Knox, Of this city, was
called to sec a lady suffering, as she
supposed, from cholera morbus. On
inquiring into her case he found that her
child, about four years old, had symptoms
Of q similar Understanding and purg-
ins-and also a servant woman on the
lot. Further investigation revealed the
fact that they had oil eaten of somo
raisins which had been sent from New
York by colored man to his wife, who
had formerly been cook in the family, but
who was now living elsewhere. 1t seems
that that the man had had some difficulty
with his wife, and had left her and gone to
New York, and was there living with ano-
thcr woman who had joined him from this
city. On some pretcncc, however, he


had sent his wife u box containing
some dry goods. anl with them


a bundle of raisins, Of which his wife and


child Of hers ate, and were made sick like


The others above mentioned. The fact that


every person who had eaten OF the raisins
had had All attack of vomiting and purgiDg


naturally suggested Il suspicion Of poison,
and Dr.. Knox took the raisins remaining
and had them tested, when there was found


in them arsenic III large quantity. We are
reliably informed that the man was at one
time in the penitentiary for some crime. 1t
behoOyes the officers Of the law to look af-
ter such villain.
Year: 1871

The report read by Rev. Geo. D. Taylor
at tho recent meeting Of the Albcmarle
Baptist Association contains statistics Of
such deep interest to the general Christian
public that we hive been strongly solicited
TO publish It in full. We omit only q single
page OF il: