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Year: 1872

Col j. W. Forney in his "Anecdotes
of Public Men," published in the Wash
ington Chronicle, relates the following
which occurred while he was Secretary
of the U. S. Senate:


"One day very energetic lady called
on me to take her to the President and
aid her to get private soldier pardoned
who had been sentenced to death for de.
sertion, and was to be shot the very next
morning. We were much pressed in the
Senate, and she had to wait long time
before could accompany her to the
White House. 1t was late in the after
noon when she got there, and yet the
Cabinet was still in session. / sent my
name in to Mr.. Lincoln, and he came out
evidently in profound thought, and full
of some great subject. stated the OBJ.
ject of our CALL and, leaving the lady in
one Of the chambers, returned to
the Senate, which had not yet adjourned.
The case made deep impression on me,
but l forgot it ia the excitement of the
debate and the work of my office, until,
perhaps, near 10 o'clock that night, when
my female friend came rushing into my
room, radiant with delight, with the par
don in her hand 81 have been up there
ever since" she said. "The. Cabinet ad.
journed. and l sat waiting for the Pres-
dent to come out and tell me the fate Of
my poor soldier, whose case l placed in
his hands after you Left but waited i'll
vain-there was no Mr.. Lincoln. So |
thought l would 60 up to the door of his
Cabinet chamber and knock. | did 50,
and as there was no answer, | opened it
and passed in, and there was the worn
President asleep, with his head on the
table resting on his arms, and my boys
pardon signed at his side. l quietly
walked him, blessed him for his good deco,
and came here to tell you the glorious
news. You have helped me to save Ia
human life"


This is the material, if not for solemn
history, at least for those better lesson,
which speak to us, from the lives of the
just and the pure.
Year: 1872

A clerk in dry goods store retired
one night, having for his bcd-felow al
acquaintance dating back to school days
Our informant slept in the next room ad
joining, the door of which was partly
open. In the middle of the night he
says he was awakened from sleep by hear
ing the clerk, in loud voice, exclaim
"How many yards did you say you want
ed, marin? Three yards enough ?" and
tho next thing heard tearing noise, and
the bed-fellow of the clerk shouted out
What in tho deuce are you doing? Yor
have torn my shirt from top to bottom
The poor dreamer imagined himself il
his store waiting on lady customer who
wanted three yards of calico. The shout
of merriment which the event created cal
well be imagined
Year: 1872

How TO SPOIL A GIRL.-Tell her she
is little lady, and must not run; make
her a sun-bonnet yard too deep, to keep
her from tanning. Do not let her play
with her boy cousins, "they are so rude.
Tell her not to speak loud, it is so mascu-
line and that loud laughing is quite un-
genteel. Teach her music, but never
mind her spelling. Give her earrings at
six years of age. Teach her to set her
cap for the beaux at eleven. And after
your pains-taking, if she does not grow a
simpering, unrefecting nobody, that can
not answer love-letter without some
smart old aunt to help her, give her up
she is past all remedy.
Year: 1872

know little narrow house,


By human hands twas made;
1t boasts no architectural form,
But tbs secure against tho storm.
Although It's neither light nor warm
That house tho sexton made,


Tho sexton with his spade.
| know little sleeper there,


A little daughter, laid
Beneath its walls both damp and cold,
Where beauty mingles back with mould
And all around sleep young and old,
In graves the sexton made,


The sexton with his spade
know "house not made with hands,
Eternal and on high"
And through its portal, left ajsr,
l see beautiful, bright star,
Now risen where they are


And from that starlit sky


That light shall never die.
Year: 1872

One Of the mcanest Of all crimes is tn,
robbery of a Savings Bank; and thougl
the law may not be able to hold sucl
slippery and Shiny thieves as those wh(
have pilfered the hard earnings and sma
savings of thousand Of our poor people
the public sentiment should blast theil
names and drive them forth out of every
decent community. The men who viii
rob Savings Bank of the earnings O
poor widows and orphans is as much
worse than an ordinary pickpocket as 4
New York judge is worse than an ordin-
ary knaye,
Year: 1872

At this great political crisis we DO not see
how any Southern who has the restoration TO some
thing ke liberty and prosperity of his section at heart
neglect least at the coming elections The
Ne,c- Orleans Picarne prints timely appeal to alb
sentees 1t complains of the absence from the State
of Louisiana Of large number Of her voters, and begs
them TO return home promptly and prepare TO VOTE
We repubsh this appeal for the benefit Of those con-
cerned who happen 10 be in New-York and who arc
more likely to THE TRIBUNE than The Peoytne That
journal well SAYS:


The most important duty before you is that Of voting
and OF inducing your feOwcizeDs TO vote. Business
can sacrificed TO this great purpose and the man who
would weigh pleasure in the scale with voting Is
guilty of great double wrODg-he sacrihces himself
and he sacrCes those who earnestly engaged IN the
great cause OF redemption from ruin and oppression
Voters come back
Year: 1872

1t has been frequently charged that the
Federal ring In this State is managing the elections In
the and that it has made corrupt comb
nation with the old Tammany Ring OF which Tweed was
the head to carry NewYork City for Grant The Neo-
York Times itself bOasted that this scheme woud suo
ceed although heretofore denying that any bargain had
been made. Yesterday. however, 1t admitted ID very
clear language that the combination entered into by
Mayor Hall, whom 1t has frequently denounced as a
thief and John l. Davenport, United States Commits
supervisor OF Elections was of tho most sat
saotory Character II any ono doubts that this political
intrigue TO carry New York Grant by fraud has been
consummated between the Federal and old Municipal
Ring here is The Yee York TimeSS own admission OF
the fact:


United States Commissioner Davenport had an inter-
view with Mayor Han yesterday relative TO the opera
tion OF the United states and Stae election IN TINS CITY
in November. The conference is understood TO nave
been harmonious and mutually satisfactory.
Year: 1872

Ambitious of telling the most prOdigious
roorback of the season. The Missouri Democrat delivers
itself of the following to wit that in 1870 Mr. Greeley
was present at informal caucus of Republicans IN
Washington which it agreed that the Republican
ticket in 1872 should be Grant and Greeley; that Mr.
Greeley was satisfied with this psn and that Mr. Cofax
wrote one Of his later letters of withdrawal in con-
sequence Of his own consent thereunto; that Mr.
Greeley soon after went to Texas, where he was re-
ceved with so much enthusiasm that his return he
demanded the first place the ticket The story lacks
finish and might be improved by little more personal
abuse ln the genuine AdministratiOn vein.
Year: 1872

posed and shrewd to cunning. with largo love OF
appreciation the spring OF his great ambition able as
Journalist, vigorous ne a writer always in sympathy
with liberal principles; no koeps oven course,
and often states his friends by crotohet tho moro dan
gerous because sincere.


This s moro valuable testimony because oxtortod un
willingly by tho mere force OF personal character. We
most suppose that the speaker equally under the
coercion of his convictions when he described Grant
"inarhcuate silent. inert" few such bursts OF
candOr as this and speaker the opinion of Grants
Olon, would be but little better than dislOYal.
Year: 1872

In introducing this BURGLAR-PROOFS Safe
to the American public, the Manufacturers
offer Safe, not burglar-pro0f merely in name
defy all the efforts of the most accomplished
burglars for longer period of time than they
can ever have to operate ON a safe.


There is no other safe in the market which
ny means of the most approved appliances
may not be opened by skilled burglars in from
SIX to ten hours of uninterrupted attack


The DREADNAUGHT SAFE, it is admit
ted by scientific and practical men, will resist
Tor al time the uninterrupted attack of skilled
burglars, provided with the most modern an
pllances which can be carried or introduced
into any Bank, Vault or Counting Room as no
equal power can be brought TO bear in any
such place as to overcome the strength and
combination of the material used and the
mode OF construction.


POWDER or NITRO-GLYCERINE cannot
be introduced into il. WEDGES cannot he
employed to open it. The Oxy-hydrogen Blow
pipe only opens the way to new and insur-
mountable difficulties before which the boldest
burglars would shrink in despair. Drills, even
th04gh diamond pointed, cannot penetrate its
walls 1t Is impossible to drive in a bolt so as
10 make an aperture for introducing explosives
US no Dolt IN the safe passes entirely through
the walls, and no bolt penetrates through the
outer shell The position of the bolts their
construction, size, and the way they are in
serted, all combine to add to the difficulty
ana perpleXity of the burglar who attempts to
open the Safe.


+. TILLMAN, Sole Agent


For California and Pacific Coast


Jan2o-3m 3lS Battery St., San Francisco
Year: 1872

made from the Native Roots and Herbs of
California, free from all Alcoholic Stimulants.
They are the Great Blood Purifier and
A Life Giving Principle, n perfect Req
ovator and lnvigoratOr of the System, carry
ing off all poisonous matter and restoring he
blood to II healthy condition. No person can
take these Bitters according to direction and
remain long unWell
Year: 1872

DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO TEE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED To THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
Year: 1872

OF THE TRINITY JOURNALi
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL
OF THE TRINITY JOURNALi
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL!
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL


OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL
OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL


OF THE TRINITY JOURNAL
Year: 1872

FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTSw wbeth.
er in Young or old, married or single, at the
dawn of wOmanhood or at the turn of lie
these Tonic Bitters have no equal.


p8- SEND FOR A CIRCULAR. -6a


They are "a Gentle Purgative as
well as u Tonic, possessing also the pecu-
liar merit of acting as powerful agent in re-
lieving Congestion or Inflammation of the
Liver, and all the Visceral Organs.
Year: 1872

OF TRINITY COUNTY /!
OF TRINITY COUNTY I!
OF TRINITY COUNTY,
OF TRINITY COUNTY!
OF TRINITY COUNTY,
OF TRINITY COUNTY
OF TRINITY COUNTY,
OF TRINITY COUNTY !
OF TRINITY COUNTY !
OF TRINITY COUNTY !
OF TRINITY COUNTY!
OF TRINITY COUNTY!
Year: 1872

A SYRACUSE genius has discovered a
method by which water-wheel can be
run without water. For water he sub
stitutes small iron balls. which run in
to the buckets OF the wheel, and being
discharged below into a recepticle pro-
vided for the purpose, are carried up
by an elevator, propelled by the wheel
to do service so long as the turning OF
the wheel is desired.
Year: 1872

much talked of inconsistency, in pretending
TO be party of progress, while
fostering the animosties of yesterday, and
while projecting the outworn hatreds of the
past into an endless succession of to-morrOws.
To profess benevolence and yet be unforgiv-
ing. to chatter Of the rights of man and
deny them to whole people, to prose about
the blessings of good government and refuse
to great States the most moderate republican
management-tnis is, indeed, an inconsistency
from which the Renominationists might
well call upon the Lord to deliver
them They scolded the South while
it refused to accept the situation, while 1t
shook its head at the Constitutional Amend
ments while it refused to be comforted or TO
admit the possibility Of reconstruction upon
the old foundation. The South has grown
wiser, but our dear consistent Renominatonlsts
are no better pleased. They look upon the sur
renders and the sacrifices of the really recon-
structed as so many personal injuries, and de-
mand that there shall be no peace, because
peace is not likely to be profitable to the
party! If this be consistency, the sooner we
all become inconsistent the better!
Year: 1872

IF there is any one, outside Of the Civil
Service Board, who has the dove-llke candor
to believe that Gen. Grant wants the Office
holders to do their duty and let politics alone,
we commend the attention of such trusting
souls to one or two patent facts. One clerk OF
q Department has been detailed to write a
new life of the General. Several have been
detailed to work in the Grant Committee
Rooms in Washington. -Four employees OF the
Government have just been sent 10 North Caro-
lima to superintend the distribution OF docu-
ments.


We have not complained so much as many
of our cOtempOraries of the continued absence
of the President from the Capital, for it Is
likely that the less he NEEDLES with the Gov
ernment the better. Nor have the different
phandering members of the Cabinet shown
such preGminent faculties of administration as
to lead us to suppose their presence would
add very much to the efficiency of their clerks
But there is such thing as decent
regard for popular superstitions, and
even this seems leaving the Cabinet
of Gen. Grant. A Secretary Of the
Treasury giving the Summer to the stump is
not reputable spectacle, nor one calculated to
reassure the national creditors or the tax-pay-
ers. An officer having in charge the seals of
the treasury, presiding over a department
which collects from the capital, the toll and
the productive resources of the people nearly
$4O0,OO0,0O0 annually, would seem to have
work enough on his hands to excuse him
from electioneering Mr.. Boutwell, finds the
duty of taking care of the debt, the tariff, tax
alton and the currency so trivial that he
rushes into the campaign to find occupation.
Those who know something of the caliber of
Mr.. Boutwell,, and as much of the subjects re-
quiring his official action, are forced to the
conclusion that a proper discharge of the
duties of his Office would leave him no
energy land no leisure to be devoted to
other things. There are some timid gentle
men in Wall-st. who pretend to fear that Mr..
Greeley will not appoint frst-rate Secretary
of the Treasury. We earnestly hope he Will
not appoint man of such devouring activity
and bcundlesS capacity that ne shall feel
called upon both to administer his department
and reelect his chief.
Year: 1872

A surprising report comes from Japan to
the effect that the MikadO is going to Europe.
Since the Empire entered upon its path Of
progress, it has become nation of surprises
but few of its examples of advancement have
been so marked as this. No spiritual or tenn
poral chief ruler of Japan has yet gone out
side the boundaries of his Empire. If the
Mikado goes, however, he will take with him
to the new nations of Europe an imperial title
which was old when their oldest thrones were
founded
Year: 1872

If there is one thing which we want settled it is
the -ScrpentSnake Question. IL was fero-
ciously discussed when we were bOy-so is it now
we are man, and so perhaps it will be when we are
no more. 1t ought TO be settled now, when the
great Prof Corbin declares that he lately three
(3 Sea Serpents. One of them was " enormous -
big enough in fact. TO compel an alteration in the
course of the yessel-say 1000 yards long; his tail
was fan-shaped; he resembled a cobra; his head
was like a bulls his eyes were large and glowing;
his head was surmOunted by a horny crest; he swan
with incredible velocity lashing Z" the sea into
foam like breakers dashing over jagged rocks"
Perhaps he knew that the Professor was looking at
him through spy-glass from the quarterback, and
cut I'D these antics in order to good report
Of his agility He must indeed have presented
most extraordinary not TO say rayishng spectacle ;
for says Prof Corbin, saw his overlapping scales
open and shut with every arch of his sinuous back,
coored like a rainbow" Who can believe that this
magnificent creature was nothing but horse
mackerelf
Year: 1872

New-Jersey has certainly very direct way of
dealing with offenders. Witness the fate of the
Jersey City Police Commissioners, convicted
of conspiracy to defraud the city. The Chief
and Commissioners were sentenced to pay a
fine; the State Attorney General next steps in,
at the request of the Governor, and declares that
as their crime is infamous it inevitably in
wolves forfeiture of office; to cOnspire to
cheat in one who holds Office is plainly a
crime against the duty of Office. So the
criminals must go out. What would become
of great many poor relatives if such prin-
ciple of law were only enforced in the Ma
tional Government
Year: 1872

Our Geneva correspondence gives all that
can be said by one of the most acute lawyers
and accomplished diplOmatists now in attend
ance upon the Tribunal, in favor of the
ruling out of the indirect claims. 1t is
only when we see a clever attempt to
defend it that we fully comprehend the
extent of this disgraceful mismanagement.
The State Department and its agents are now
reduced to chuckling over the fact that they
made their own case so bad the Tribunal was
forced to throw it out And this they seem
to think a good joke on the Tribunal.
Year: 1872

put about by the clothes question: as connected
with the diplomatic service, the average Ameri-
can will be pleased to know that Great Britain
has grievance of that sort. The British
Charge d'Affaires at YedO, new man and
naturally crotchety, refuses to squat in the
presence of the Mikado. AS a true-born
BritOn, he will not meet the Emperor unless
he is allowed to stand up erect. We had sup
posed that this ancient form of homage had
been dispensed with in Japan; but as long as
it has not, it will be an interesting question
whether the British Government will sustain
Mr.. Watsonin his perpendicular position, or
tell him to conquer his prejudices and squat
Year: 1872

The Count of Valmaseda takes leave of the
ever faithful, Island in a proclamation which
is thoroughly his own, being bOmbastlc,
skulking and brutal. He regrets he cannot
remain long enough to claim the proud title
of Pacifcator, but says that his successor will
have an easy time in gaining it. The insur-
rection is killed, he says and cannot
be more than four or five months dying.
Now, if it lasts longer than this
term, His Excellency will pull his mustaches
and swear at the incapacity which prolongs the
war. He will GO to Spain to receive warm
welcome and new honors. Yet less guilty
thieves than he are wearing zebra jackets at
Sing Sing, and less brutal murderers are wait
ing In irons the hour of their hanging.
Year: 1872

ALTHOUGH as vet there has been no manifesto
t'on OF the presence Of cnolera anywhere in the
country, it is well that all necessary precautions
should be taken to guard against its com No
through its usuh avenues Of approach-to wit
immigration from abroad These precautions We
are glad to observe, have been taken by the health
officer Of the port OF New York With the same
care shown in other ports where immigrants usu-
ally lans, we may reasonably hope to be spared
visit from tins scourge, the especially as our
foreign news, up to this time, is silent upon its
appearance this season anywhere abroad Even
from Persia, its selected home, sore afflicted - it
10 by famine, the concomitsnr OF the plague, have
We 40 far heard nothing Of the ravagss Of the
ch holera.
Year: 1872

T, ba. not been many years aoce the politicians
of the present day who form the Radical party
w-re in the habit of referring to the organization
with which they were then connected as contain
ing all the decency and the intelligence" OF the
country. And gentlemen who figured at the
Radical meeting OIL Saturday night were heard to
cay there were many white men who ought MOI
to he allowed to vote and that suffrage should be
cur'ailei.


Then they Dire ,dei the vote OF the poor foreign
or who had been invited to this country as an
ss-vum from oppression. Ra.iicalism then under
another name sought to rule the country by ap'
psan. to mems prejudces and rule for the purpose
of oppresslny their fellow men who we're 80 un-
fortunate as to be born abroad.


The same Radical spirit now seeks the votes OF
the most degraded and ignorant people to aid them
to rule, that they may oppress their fellows born
in our own country. 1t may not be the intention
of the rank or file of the Radical party to ally
them selves with the negroes of the country for
tn purpose o: gaming power to cypress and de-
gra lie their poor white brethren OF the Southern
Staes Bat this is the result. and the leaders Of
the r ,lcal party know that Vt VIII be so ana
therefore intend IT shall be effected The shame
less scene of Saturday night IN the wilmington
Institute had this aim.


White men who were there seated promiscu-
ousy with negro men and negro women, could
not help feeling that tney were debasing them
selves, and uniting in cause calculated to effect
Il resul, which viii be injurious if successful.


The election OF Gen. Grant and the continuance
of the Southern States under the control Of ne
gro governments is an aim dear to Radcalism.
But that thus should crop out in Wilmington SO
torcibly Is a little surprising.


To be sure the most prominent Of the negro
orators who were advertised to speak the Inst,-
tu'e were not there. There names were used,
however, to secure crowd and it succeeded in
doing so, to the disgust and annoyance Of the
most respectable portion OF the mel who co-ope-
rated with the Republican party during the war
Year: 1872

Reflect that a sound mind and body arc the
most necessary requisites to promote connublsl
happiness. Indeed, without these, the journey
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind


becomes sbadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
Year: 1872

crvr1Ey AND Brown MEETING.-The friends
# reform and an able and honest government


r; he seen elsewhere in our columns, held a


n,.,ino here on Saturday evening last. After
aha formation of a Greeley and Brown club,
Hon John Yule, Of Michigan Bluff, an old line
psnublican, though suffering from sickness,
smoke to an outdoor meeting on the plaza for
raorv two hours. The telling points and home
+bruets of Mr. Yules speech were too many to
ba referred to in this notice. He provedt91every
intelligent mind that Grant and his officials had
aorarted from the doctrines and honesty of the
old party, and are bastard and libel on the very
name of Republicanism; that the administration
of Grant has sunk into the hands Of venal ana
corrupt ring that stops at no tyranny or rascal
ity to make money and keep power; that the old
issues between the Republican and Democratic
narties died with the institution of slavery that
tbe Cincinnati and Baltimore platform furnished
tbe only basis upon which great, honest and
patriotic party could be formed, which will cor
rect and remove all the evils that now afilct the
American people; that the character of Greeley
and Brown furnished a guarantee that peace,
fraternal fellowship, economy, honesty and
nrosperity would pervade the whole length and
breadth of the Union after their election, OF
which there was now no doubt The remarks of
Mr. Yule were frequently and heartily applauded
Mr. Yule is now the Greeley and Brown elector
for this district, and will canvass it with telling
effect.