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Year: 1871

In sermon lately delivered by Henry
Ward Beecher, at Plymouth church,
Brooklyn. on the reformation of the bal
lot, the distinguished preacher urged the
necessity for the men of intelligence, cul-
ture and moral power in society, taking a
more active part in the direction of our
political affairs as the only means by
which thorough reform of the evil,
.h,cn atfilct New York and Brooklyn
:.an be affected. This view of ;he ques-
ion is worthy of earnest. consideration
by the citizens of every school district IN
he United States. In commenting
upon this discourse the New York Herald
.iys:


Repeating. ballntbox stufing and false
counting are indeed terrible crimes, and
may we'll be classed with forgery and
counterfeiting and treason. 1t is the
most fearful kind Of treason. because it Is
a secret enemy. We can meet open and
pronounced traitors ard whip them into
submission to law and lawful authority !;
but those sneaks and sccuDdrels who steal
away our liberties while using the ballots
Of freemen deserve the utmost punish
ment that can be inflicted.


But, as MIR. Beecher declared. our
greatest danger arises from the lndltter-
ence Of the educated and the moral vot-
ers. The higher classes are perpetually
giving tone to the lower, and ifthey show
by their Indifference that the ballot is of
little account. WHY should we wonder at
the ignorant voter, who thinks he can do
as he pleases with it2 If the men of
culture and moral worth had borne wit
ness to the value of the ballot, there
would not have been seen such a mourn
full perversion of it. The minds of our
people must he educated up to the true
worth of the franchise. It must be done
ia the church. in the school and in the
house hold. and The whole community
mast be lifted up to higher level.
Year: 1871




The diversity Of opinion that exists in
the Democratic party with reference to
the nomination of candidate for the
presidency next year. is illustrated by the
tact. that the st. Louis Republican, which
prosed TO allow the sore-heade1 Republi-
cans OF the Sumner aud Sehurz stripe to
make the nomination. and bring to the
support OF the nominee the whole of the
Democratic vote. quotes extensively from
Democratic journals endorsing the sug-
gestion; while another leading journal
brings an equal number of expressions
candemMng the conrse suggested aud de-
cisring that 1t IS cowardly and mean to
abandon the principles OF and
the party orRahization, aud endeavor to
make 1t the tail of Republican kite. =
Still another quotes prominent ex-rebels
wto approve the suspension of the party
machinery and the proposed union with
,lisaffected Republicans, while yet anoth-
er arrays the whole Of the Democratic
press Of the South against the unnatural
and unholy combination When pro
nosition is seriously made, which means
that political party has nothing to pro-
pose, except to get the control of the
patronage Of the government, worth con-
tending for, when it has arrived at q con-
dltlon when, by its own confession, not
patriotism but spoils is the power which
moves it to action. when the lack of faith
which the people have manifested in its
pretenslons have so far affected it's MEM
bers that they too have lost faith in the
ability Of the party to so commend its
utterances or its action to the people as
to gain public confidence. it is not diff
cult to see what the result of the national
contest on which we shall soon enter must
be. To propose to fold it's banners, to
abandon the avowal of its principles and
sileutly sne ak into the camp of an ins;r-
ni6cant number of Republicans. who
from personal motives have arrayed them.
selves against Grants administration, is
the pitiabie position now occupied by
large portion of the Democratic party.
1t is admitted by the highest Democratic
authority that the party cannot survive
another national defeat We think that
the party ought to have died some time
ago as just penalty of its sympathy
with treason and perhaps it is but be-
traying its instincts if in the brief Period
yet allotted to it the party joins the rebels
Of the Republican army. General Grant
has successfully encountered such tactics
befo 70 the result Was the capture Of all
the TO. ces of the enemy.
Year: 1871

The substantial victory that has jus


been won by the Republicans of Wiscon


IN places upon their party new obliga-


ion and imposes new incentives to act


lions. The Republican parts was not or


xaDlzed for the sole purpose of electiug


lew clever roliticians to Office in the state
lor ,n assist in chosing a President Of
,he United States who would bestow the
'atronage of the Federal Government
npon those that elevated him to power


mt it was ordained by the people as a


piece of machinery with which certain


public functions, could be all the better


performed. Under our political system
great national parties seem to be a neces.
sity. and when honesty and economy is
the watchword. they are made to sub
serve the grandest and most important
ends but when party falls under the
control ofcorrupt and unscrupulous men


Who subvert its usefulness and power to
the accomplishment of their mercenary
objects then the quicker it ia disbanded
the better for the country. The terrible
condition of things in New York city,
under the rule of Democratic Tammany,
shows how powerful for evil corrup,
party may become, and the lessons that
may be drawn from those shameful ex-
posures are to be needed by all classes of
men, no matter to what party they be.
long. The Republican party has already
accomplished a great good and it Is still
in its vi.or and purity, and capable of
doing much to benefit the nation and the
race. We look upon it merely as an in
strument to be used 10 secure certain de-
sirable results. just now it is the best
agency we have through which the Gov
ernment of the United States can be ad-
ministered. 1t has the hearty support
and the entire confidence of large ma
jority of the American people. Its past
has been crowded with brilliant achieve
ments, and in the sky of its future the bow
of promise still hangs respIendant and
glorious. IF it is kept pure it will live on.
but If it becomes corrupt and prostitutes
its great privileges and opportunities as
the Democratic party has done, the peo-
pie will overthrow it and commit their
public trusts to safer and more honest
hands.


The Republicans of this State have in-
Cured grave responsibilities and duties
with their last victory. A political can
vass of a few weeks is a mere holiday af-
fair, compared with what follows success
at the polls. The people of Wisconsin
have committed to the hands OF our par
ty the control of the state s affairs for the
next two years They demand of the
state officers and of the Legislature, the
strictest accountability, and the most
economical administration that it is rea-
sonable 10 give. They ask that their tax
alton may be as low as is consistent with
nublic necessity-that the educational
system Of the State shall be encourag ged
and its interests promoted-that the be-
nevolent in stitutions may be made to sub
serve the objects for which they were
founded--that they may be free from the
curse of Special and local Legislation, and
in short. t1at the best and cheapest gov
ernment that is possible may be theirs for
the next two years. Mtttoduhee Senti-
mel
Year: 1871

Under this head the New York Stand
ard takes occasion to make a covert
attack on Mrs. Stanton and Miss An
thony, on account of sympathy alleged
to have been manifested towards Laura
ID. Fair, now under sentence of death for
shooting Mr.. Crittenden, a lawyer of
eminence, who had deserted his wife
and family, and had, for years, given
himself, soul and body, to the woman
who finally avenged not only her own
wrongs, but the wrongs of his wife, by
meteing to him his just reward. 1t is
not our intention to justify Mrs. Fair in
her act, but that Crittenden met fate
he richly deserved no one will deny.


Had Mrs. Crittenden shot both Mrs.
Fair and her recreant and most guilty
husband, the world would have upheld
her We have here to do simply with
the Standard in regard to the article
under the above caption. 1t may per-
haps appear n hard thing for a wOman's
paper to utter; but if the editor of the
Standard We're a woman, and had some
spite towards the ladies against whom il
makes repetition of a slanderous report,
we would account for the presence of that
article in its columns


But what motive the editor of the
Standard could have in giving further
circulation to a matter calculated to cast
a shadow on the proceedings of two
ladies whose conduct and motives have
always been, and now are, above suspic-
ion, we are at n loss to guess. We must
reiterate that that article appears to us
the fruit of longing desire or hope that
the ladies named may have done some
thing censurable, and worthy of wither-
ing rebuke. To throw the shadow of a
doubt on these women is a crime against
all society, as well as against the noble.
fearless women themselves. To utter a
falsehOOd, and then apologize and con-
tradict it, is no compensation to the in
jured party, nor yet to public morality.
which is outraged thereby. To publish
malignant falsehOOd, and qualify il
with feeble, languidly expressed hope
that it may be a mistake, or malicious
misrepresentation of the press, should be
poor consolation to n conscience not
wholly scared by its own lascivious and
free-love doctrines and practices.


We maintain that visit to the pris-
Oner, man or woman, incarcerated for
crime, of whatever character, is always
/ in order with really virtuOus and honor
able women. If Jesus fOrgave the wom-
an taken in adultery, and said to the
| thief on the cross, "TlIis day shalt thou
/ be with me in Paradise" we should like
/ to know what there is, or can be crimi-


nal, or needing any answer or eXplana-


ton in the visit of two respectable, in.


telligent ladies, with worldwide repu.


tatiOn for ability and purity of life, t.
the cell of the vilest creature alive fol


the purpose of coincidence, or any otheI
purpose such women could 20 for?


We wait for an answer also. w,


would like to know when the writer q


that article became possessed of TN


immaculate virtue that SCOTS AT svmDa
thy with the fallen, and whether sIIcI


virtue would not be more seemIv If
little less Ostentatious.-ReU
Year: 1871

Madame Jeanette Power, one of the
most eminent feminine naturalists of the
day, has recently deceased in France.
She was known as the discoverer of the
secret of the manner i'm which the shell
OF the nautilus is formed, and her exper-
iments upon the subject are among the
most curious of the age. 1t is to Mad
anne Power that we owe, likewise, the
invention of the aquarium. She was
much esteemed in the scientific world. n
member of most Of the European acadia
mics Of science, and held grade of hiph
distinction at the Academy of Brussels
and, withal, so truly feminine anc
simple-hearted that all this honor ant
glory was freely given.
Year: 1871

THE OLD-FASHIONED MOTHER
Thank God some of us have an old
fashioned mother. Not woman of the
period, enambled and painted, with her
great chignOn, her curls and hustle;
whose white, jeweled hands never have
felt the clasp of baby fingers; but dear,
old-fashioned, sweet-vOiced mother, with
eyes in whose clear depths the lOve-light
shone, and brown hair, threaded with
silver, lying smooth upon her faded
cheek. Those dear hands, worn with
toll, gently guided our tOttering steps in
childhood, and smOOthed our pillow in
sickness; even reaching out to us in
yearning tenderness, when her sweet
spirit was baptized in the pearly spray OF
the river.


Blessed is the memory Of an Old-fash-
iOned mother. 1t floats to Us now, like
the beautiful perfume of some woodland
blossom. The music of other voices
may be lost, but the enhancing memory
of hers will echo in our souls forever.
Other faces will fade away and be for
gotten, but hers will shine on until the
light from heavens portals shall glorify
our own. When in the fitful pauses Of
busy life our feet wander back to the old
homestead, and, crossing the well-wOrn
threshold, stand once more in the low,
quaint room, so hallowed by her pres
ence, how the feeling of childish inno-
cence and dependence comes over us, and
we kneel down in the molten sunshine.
streaming through the western window
just where long years ago we knelt by
our mother knee, lisping "Our Father.H
How many times when the tempter lures
us on has the memory of those sacred
hours, that mothers words, her faith
and prayers, saved US from plunging
into the deep abyss of sin! Years have
filled great drifts between her and Us,
but they have not hidden from our sight
the glory of her pure, unselfish love-
Selected
Year: 1871

Hon. ALBERT HAGAN.-The Woman
Suffragists of this State will not be
ilkely to forget that at the very outset
IN Mrs. Van Valkenberg's registration
suit, Judge Hagan made a free offer of
his services to conduct that suit, and did
the same ably. Failing to gain favor
able verdict in the District Court, he
promptly offered, gratuitiOusly, to plead
the ease before the Supreme Court of this
State Ito which the plaintiff had decided
to carry it,. This generous courtesy on
the part of Judge Hagan makes it easy


and possible to bring the question OF
woman right to vote under the l4th and
] 18th amendments TO the Constitution to


a speedy trial. 1t will be argued at the
| October term of the Court, and we shall


await the result with great interest.
Year: 1871

THE Philadelphia Dispatch tells the story
OF young woman who became so fascinated
with an older lady, her former Teacher, as for
her to give up everything, including home,
parents and friend. In early life, when this
girl was the pupil of her friend, she became so
attached to her as to be unhappy when out OF
her presence. The girl was afterwards sent
to school in another place, but became SO dis
Year: 1871

The license ordinance for 1872, now under
revisement in the Department Of Assess
ments. will be called up for final adoption
at the first regular meeting Of the City
Council in December. AL complaints must
be presented to the Administrator before
that time.
Year: 1871

Verdi's famous "Rigoletto' was sung last
night, for the first time this season, before
| q moderately full house. There is some
thing darkly horrible in the plot of this
opera. yet it abOunds with brilliant and ex-
quisite music, and is considered among the
best works of the gifted author.


MIR. Dumestre, we were glad to find, had
fully recovered from his slight indisposition
and sang the role of Rigoletto with great
success. This character is a favOrite one Of
Dumestre. giving him splendid opportu-
nifty to display his truly great dramatic
powers.


We have seldom heard anything more
thrilling than his rendition of Rsgoletto, and
the applause bestowed on him was well de-
served.


MIR. Blum seemed to be more at home be-
fore his audience than on the night of his
debut. He sang very sweetly, and. though
the voice is somewhat light vet it had a
pure, fresh quality that will make him a
favOrite with discriminating people.


Mr.. Coulon as Sparufucilc, the villain of
the play, acted and sang the part WELL 1t
is always pleasant to see an artist exercise
care and attention in detail, even in a minor
part. This Mr.. COulon seems disposed
to do.


Madame Durand made beautiful Gilda,
and sang with great success the difficult
music Of that role, adding to its effective
ness by her spirited and graceful acting.
She was in good voice. and won the hearty
applause of the audience by her true and
perfect vOcalizatiOn in the second aet


Though it was the first appearance of Miss
GOethals, the cOntraltO Of the troupe, the
character of IM0deline is subordinate one,
and we prefer waiting until we shall have
heard her in something else before express
ing an opinion upon her voice.


Tonight she sings in "Trovat0re," to-
gether with Levielli. Delabranche and Du-
mestre. We shall look for crowded house,
Year: 1871

NEW YORK. Oct. 90. 1871,
TO THE EDITOR or THE HERALD:-


The Reception Committee Of the Grand Duke arc
very anxious to have everything 60 OF well, ami
they request the merchants the line OF the pro.
cession to hang out their nags and bunting ANA 10
make grand display for their commttees) sake.
and they viii get tie credit for 1t; and while on this
subject who is to pay the bands OF music for the
d nerent regiments that are intended to parade 10
please the Reception committee, that has oil TO
say Are the poor soldiers to put their hands in
their pockets to pay for the music, AMI to lose q
half or whole DAYS work-and you know that in
these hard times time Ia money TO q poor man
carrying musket' am private In the Eleventh
regiment and object 10 DC obliged 10 give cent
towards paying for music for the glorincation OF \
lew rich men self.appointed TO receive Duke Alexis


PRIVATE,


Eleventh Regiment N, q, A n, X,
Year: 1871

THE Odd Fellows of this place have
engaged the excellent hostess of the
Planters House to prepare the dinner
for their celebration on the 26th instant
This is wise on the part of the Committee
of Arrangement. The we'll established
reputation Of the Planters House insures
this part of the celebration, in advance,
as success. The Planters House is all
right-it never fails.
Year: 1871

THE numerous candidates for the
Legislature will address the people OF
this county, at the court house, Monday
next. Now that they have the ground
we'll broken, wouldn't it be a good idea
to ''singIe out" or reduce their number
Year: 1871

THE will of God is a path leading
straight TO God. The will of man,
which once ran parallel with il, is
now another path, not only different
from it, but, in our present state, de
rectly contrary to it: it leads from
God. IL, therefore, we walk in the
one, we must necessarily quit the
other. We cannot walk I'm both. In
deed, a man of faint heart and feeble
hands may 60 in two ways, one after
the other; but he cannot walk in two
ways at the same time-fOllOw his
own will, and follow the will of God;
he must choose the one, or the other;
denying Gods will to follow his own,
OF denying himself to follow the will
of God.
Year: 1871

1t is doubtful if the invention Of the
sewing machine has helped those who
sew for a living 10 any great extent.
Some of the lace men have a rascally
way of dealing with their collar
hands. If, for instance, they wish to
get up new style they give the first
to some nimble- fingered but not sharp
witted operator, and tell her that they
will set the price when the work Is
done. The result is the more the poor
woman does of them the less she Will
get per dozen, and 80 all hands are
forced down to the lowest penny for
their labor.
Year: 1871

Hungry Alas, am SO crnei hungry!


A wicked hunger, Lord, ] sadly fear;
A hunger Of which thousands fAint and perish


Yet men forever count its object dear.
Passisg IL o'u my lips will not confess t.


The hearts sincere eoafession must rive:
Repentance In the world heals not wrong doing
Il mast be woven In the life We live.
Thou didst not make me great, OF good, or noble
A little, very little placs have I,
A work 50 petty that grow to hate H.


A place so small that have longsd to die.
Can be satisfied to live my noiseless living


Forever in this quiet, workful wayi
Will Thy sweet grace uphold me in the trial


OF filing but this corner all my day3
Shall forever be denied the speaking


A single word in our grand, battling life?
Must nv lips dumbly wait, while other voices


Ring out triumphant in the worldwide strife
thought loved Thee, Blessed, Blessed Saviour


Until gathered courage to behold
Ny hearts recesses, and saw there the passions


BY which my springs Of action were controlled
And, Lord, love Thee not with halfthe longint
feel for this poor thing denied to me,
Forgive, forgivel I see Thy wondrous beauty
Yet am bosnd,-my soul is hard to free.
will arise and 90 unto my Father


Lord, give me grace to speak il in Thy name
This is my hearts Short yet disgraceful record
The thing that have longed for so is Fame
Year: 1871

First Floor East School and Dress Suits.
and Little Lads Clothes
Second Floor-Larger-size Goods and Rslf-
Price Lots.
Upper Floors-Reserve Stock and Extra Fine
Goods.


NOTE Esgn These and all our Goods are
not bought from Wholesale Houses, but are
OF our own Manufacture many of them
made in our own building, under our own
eye and supervi>ion-of materials carefully
examined and Sponged and made only for
our Regular Retail Trade so that Custom
ers can take them with the utmost conf
dence.
Year: 1871

Only few months ago, couple coming to
the parson brought with them another pair
whose nuptials had some time before been
celebrated in the parsonage After the cer-
emony was concluded, the older ones stopped
to talk for moment. Its near two years
since we stood up here said the husband.
Ay; and how fares it with your" inquired
the parson. 'Oh, very well; first rate =
they both answered in the same breath And
then the wife, gently We've had great com
fort come to us Of late, sir--a little girl and
it isn't hard to be content with such treas
ure in the house. And then he looked at
her, and she at him, both SO glad and proud
and the happy tears came into their eyes
How could the parson help crying with them
Indeed he did not try to help it.


1t is a brave, grand thing that you are do.
ing young men and women You who are
content to 60 to the parson, and begin thus il
a quiet sober way the journey of life togeth
er. No cards; no carriages no silver plate
no bridal tour no bank account no house
to live in absolutely nothing but faith, hope
and love That is endowment enough In
stead of waiting till your lives are soured and
spoiled by vanity and vice, you are starting
out resolved to brave the perils and face the
storms and bear the burdens Of life together
1t is the right way to begin. You escape {
thousand dangers that you would encounter
and you harvest thousand joys that yor
would miss, if you waited, as too many Of yeul
brethren and sisters wait, till you could begir
with stylish wedding The parson is PROUD
of your courage aud faith and if he wer'
only good enough to make his blessing avai
you anything, he would say to every one you


"The Lord bless you and keep you


"The Lord make his face to shine upon yoy
and be gracious unto you


"The Lord lift up his countenance unto yor
and give you peace l"-Rer Washington
GLADDEN.
Year: 1871

There is nothing which goes as far towards
placing the young people beyond the reach of
poverty as economy in the management Of
household affairs. II matters not whether
a man furnishes little or much for his family,


if there is a continual leakage in his kitchen


or parlor it runs away, he knows not how,
and that demon, Waste, cries, More !" like
the horseeech's daughter, until he that pro-
yided has no more to give 1t is the hus-
bands place to bring into the house, and it is
the duty Of the wife to see that none goes
wrongfully out of it. A man gets wife to
look after his affairs, aud assist him in his
journey through life to educate and prepare
their children for a proper station in life,
and not to dissipate his property. The hus-
bands interests should be the wile's care, and
her greatest ambition to carry her no farther
than his welfare or happiness, together with
that Of her children This should be her sole
aim, and the theatre of her exploits in the boz
som Of her family, where she may do as much
towards making a fortune as he can in a
counting-house or Workshop. 1t is not the
money earned that makes a man wealthy--it
is what he saves from his earnings. Self
qualification, in dress, or in appetite, or more
company than his purse can well entertain,
are equally pernicious The first adds vanity
to extravaganza, the second fastens doctors
bill to a long butchers account, and the lat
ter brings intemperanee, the worst Of all evils.