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Year: 1872

1t is fair TO presume that the great debate
between MIR. FrOude and Father Burke viii
pass through many phases of replication and
rejoinder before it il finally committed to the
dusty shelyes of historical libraries. Both the
learned gentlemen are in a measure pledged
to continue the discussion TO the bitter end.
II would have been perhaps reasonable enough
for Mr.. Froude at the outset TO insist upon
confning himself to the delivery of his ap-
pointed lectures, leaving anybody TO answer
them who had the ability and inclination
but he took the responsibility of noticing
Father Burke's criticisms upon one point, and
he viii naturally be expected now to give some
attention to the remainder. He has joined
issue with his adversary, and he must bear
the consequences. Nor have .wo any reason to
suppose that Mr.. Froudo Is in tho least reluCt-


ant 10 taSs tbe eu00upteE He is
Year: 1872

IT is said that when the Office of Surveyor Of
the Port. about to be vacated by Mr.. Cornell,
is filed by a new appointment, the President
will be guided by the Civil Service regulations
This NAV create dismay among the politicians
but it will please the people who have begun
to despair of seeing any official appointment or
promotion controlled by any principle but mere
political expediency. Having made such capi-
tai move in the Philadelphia case, the Prcsi-
dent seems inclined to follow mp his advantage
in New-York
Year: 1872

The Liberal Republicans and Democrats in
Ohio, under the leadership of the men at the
heads of their respective organizations, are
taking steps for a union in what they propose
to call the Liberal Party, on the basis OF the
Cincinnati platform, with the addition
of q Revenue Reform plank. This is
only one of the many notable signs
of the great gain made by the last canvass.
The State of Vallandigham and Pugh is thus
one of the first in which after defeat, as
heartily as while striving for victory,
the Democrats reafiTm their adherence to
the principles established by the war
and embodied in the Cincinnati de-
claration. Committed to the perpetual
abolition Of slavery, to the civil rights of the
late slaves, to negro suffrage, and to the sane
tity of the National Debt, who shall say that
the country is not safer, that the national fu-
ture is not brighter, by reason of their pres
ent patriotic attitudef
Year: 1872

and mismanagoment form the staple of his
revelations concerning the interior of the in-
stitution. The story is infinitely worse than
any which THE TRBUNE's special reporter
could secure in his short stay; and unless dis
proved, must produce painful effect
Year: 1872

A guide was sent to reconnoiter.
He stcaIthily approached the camp,
and at a glance saw what had trans
pircd. lie was satisfied what the
result would be, SO he FASTENED back
and informed his friends.


An advance was Immediately or
dered, and it was not long before
three hundred rifles were leveled in
deadly aim at the hearts of the Com
anches, while they were unconscious
of danger. Then came the volley,
followed by II discharge deadly in
its results, The Indians attempted
resistance, but it was a feeble one
aud brief, Many Of their number
escaped by flight, but the dead GOV
cred the ground in every direction


That lesson and the one received
ut the settlement were indeed saluta-
ry ones, and the Comanchcs did not
soon venture to molcsJ the white
man again.


The joy of Jennie was great when
she fouad that her parents aud her
lover We're still alive and the Joy
they experienced ut the recovery Of
their treasure was no less than her
own.
Year: 1872

Old DR.. Cooper, of South Carolina,
used to say to his students: Don't
be afraid of dirt, young gentlemen.
What is dirt? Why, nothing at all
offensive, whom chemically viewed.
Rub u little alkali upon the dirty
grease spot on your coat, and it un-
dergoes n chemical change and be-
comes soap; now rub it with n little
water and it disappears. 1t is neither
grease, soap, water nor dirt. That
is not very odorous pile of dirt
you see yonder; well scatter little
gypsum over it and it is no longer
dirty. Everything like dirt is worthy
Of our notice asstudents otchemlstry.
Analyze it; it will separate into
very clean clements. Dirt makes
corn, corn makes bread and meat,
and that makes very sweet Young
lady, that | saw one of you kissing
Inst night. SO after all, you were klss
ing dirt, particularly it she whltens
her fnce with chalk or fuller's earth
though may say the rubbing such
stuff upon the beautiful skin OF n
Young lady is dirty practice. Pearl
power think is made of bismuth,
nothing but dirt. Lord Palmerston's
fine definition of dirt is matter in
the wrong place. Put it in the
right place aud we cease to think OF
it as dirt.
Year: 1872

No matter how well the tracki IL laid,
No matter how strong the engine Is made,
When you find it Is running ON the down
ward grade,


Put down the brakes
II the demon of drink has entered the soul,
Andhis power Sgetting beyond your control,
And draggleS you on to II terrible goal,


Put down the brakes
Arc you running in debt by living too fast
DO you look back with shame on proitleSs
pass,
And feel that your ruin Is coming at last?


Put down the brakes?
Whether for knowledge. for honor or gain,
You are fast wearing out your body aud brain
Till nature no longer can bear the strain,


Put down the brakes!
The human Is weak, since Adams fall,
Beware how you yield to the appetite's call,
&" Be temperate in all things" was practiced
by Paul;


Put down the brakes!
An, n terrible thing Is human life!
It's track with many danger is rife;
Do you seek for the victOr's crown in the
strife?


Put down the brakes!
Year: 1872

Is EVERY pursuit, whatever gives
strength and energy to the mind Of
man, experience teaches to be favor
able to the interest of piety, know
ledge and virtue; in every pursuit,
on the contrary, whatever enfeebles
or limits the power of the mind, the
same experience ever SHOWS to be
hostile to the best interest of human
lie.
Year: 1872

We offer 70 investors the


FIRST MORTGAGE LAND GRANT BONDS


of the


NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.
Attention is called TO the ample real estate security
ON which these Bonds are based, in addition u the
,suaI Guaranty of a first mortgage on the Road ITS
Equipments and Traffic. The Lands OF the Company
thus far sold have realized s. % per acre.
Year: 1872

Immediately after the declaration of
war against Prussia proposals were
made to the Emperor Napoleon, by an
inventor, for 'annihilating" the Prus-
SLAMS on moderate terms. An immense
net of fine wire, "capsble of enveloping
IN entire army corps" with solid can
non balls attached to the corners to
keep 1t steady, was to have been fired
at the foe from monster mortar pro-
vided for that purpose. The wire net
would, according to the intentions of
the inventor, have fallen on the body
of troops marked out for destruction or
capture; when, seeing the enemy en-
tangled in its meshes, the French would
have nothing to do but march up to
them, or, in case Of resistance put them
to death. The rejection of this new
military machine was attributed by the
inventor to "treachery" on the part OF
the chiefs who declined to employ it
Year: 1872

RETURN TO CAMP IN TRIUMPH.


1t was now getting late in the after
noon, aud by unanimous consent it was
concluded that we had better gallon
back to camp before dark, and leave
the larger herd beyond for the next
days sport.


In the best of spirits we now turned
our horses heads toward our camp on
the Red Willow Creek. As we came
within sight of it Just at sundown, We
announced our return and our success
in Indian style, with yells, which were
responded to from camp.


During our absence "Spotted TAIL
with his braves had come in from
Blackwood and camped on the other
side of Red Willow Greek, close to our
own. They will accompany us on our
hunt tomorrow.


PERILs OF THE HUNT-0ENERAL INCL


There was some hard riding during
the day, and the ground was both slip
perry and rough. General Sweetzer and
Mr.: Starlegon, when chasing buffalo,
came into collision, and both went to
the ground together, and their horses
also. Neither was hurt, but Mr.. Star.
Logon lost his pistol and his hat. Sweet
zer had fall all to himself afterwards
galloping down q precipitous place.
The gallant Admiral went over once,
but was soon sailing with even keel
again. Mr. Machin's horse ran away
with him, but Stacked his pace when
he got with the advance party. Col
onel Forsyth's fell on him; but For
syth has had more wonderful escapes
than that.


Lieutenant Hays went scouting on
his own account and could not be found
by the mounted soldiers sent in all di.
rections after him. While we were at
dinner he came in, and was receivedwith
cheers. He had given chase to a band
of elk, and had killed two butfalos on
the trip
Year: 1872

Chaplain Flagg, of the Ninth Regi-
ment, spoke as follows over the body
of James Fisk, Jr., at the funeral IN
Brattieboro, VT, where the murdered
man was buried:


The object of my visit to this village
is not to pronounce studied eulogy
upon the deceased; not to attempt to
cover up his faults not to answer his
many vituperative aspersions. come
here as an officer of the Ninth Regi-
ment to pay a tribute of respect to a
man who has raised the regiment from
a comparative state of insignifcance to
its present proportions. I propose to
do what I can toward the rea-
sonable justification of a man whom
we of the Ninth Regiment all loved
and admired. The outrageous tragedy
has shown how bad the human heart
may be when urged on by revenge and
ambition. Secretly, without fore
thought, and in the enjoyment of the
most remarkable health aud strength,
a man is suddenly stricken down while
his loins arc yet girded for the great
contest of life-he is stricken down
wholly unprepared, and is denied even
the poor privilege of praying on bend
ed knee--a privilege which even the
barbarous Arab confers upon his vic
tim. We are called to of1iciate at the
burial of q very remarkable man.


Mr.. Fisk was man of positive quail.
ties. He was generous; he was brave.
Such man is often unappreciated by
the generation in which he lives, and
Mr.. Fisk's experience attests the truth
of this axiom. He was not appreciated
by the community in which he lived,
even as Shakespeare was not appre.
ciated until long after his death. Mr..
Fisk was a person of superior combi'
nations. He was man who made 8
deep impression on the world in his
way. The lack of his influence will be
felt tremendously in his separate
sphere. OF the deceascd's faults viii
not speak. Mr.. Fisk was a man o.
strong virtues. and it is not to be won
dered that he also possessed strong
faults. BY comparing the two even the
most prejudiced must allow that his
character is in eqnidipoise.


DR.. Flagg then proceeded to eulogizt
Mr.. Fisk for his virtues, the chief o.
which was benevolence. He told two
or three anecdotes to illustrate the un
usual generosity of his nature.


One poor woman had been discov
cred trying to force her way through
the crowd at the Gaand Central Hotel
and on inquiry it was found that Col
Fisk had kept her and her family from
starvation for the last six months. Hi
greatest monument is the lamentatio1
of the poor. His faith and works con
Joined hath made HIM whole. Another
virtue of his was his self-reliance-
whenever he thought best to carr,
through project he carried it through
without fear or assistance. The rever
ened Doctor closed with an eloquen
application of the text. ''Be ye alst
ready"
Year: 1872

An amusing occurrence took place not
far from the town of Remsen a few DAYS
ago. A well-to-do Welsh farmer resid-
ing lot far from Utica, sturted for q
ride on business, driving q pair Of high
spirited horses. BY some accident the
sleigh was overturned and broken, and
the farmer was dragged along at fear
ful rate of speed for some distance by
becoming entangled in the lines and
the wreck of the sleigh. A friend who
witnessed the accident endeavored to
check the speed of the horses aud re-
lieve the farmer from his dangerous
position. He ran behind as fast as
possible, but did not succeed in doing
much. As soon as the farmer noticed
his friend, he shrieked out: "Please
take notice, friend! I leave my wife
$4,000! No time to make will! -
Such touching evidence of affection
for a wife, underpeculiar circumstances,
is extremely rare and noteworthy. For
tunatcly, the horses were stopped, and
the dutifpl husband was still alive, but
badly bruised. We hope he will live
long enough to increase IN hundred
fold the amount which he was so anx-
ious to secure to his wife, Utica (N.
W Observer.
Year: 1872

Some years ago, when the writer was
reporter upon an eastern paper, 1t de-
volved upon him to write for the same
edition an account of the presentation
OF gold headed cane to the Rev. DIR.
Nudge, the clergyman of the place, and
the description of patent hog-killing
and sausage machine that had Just boen
put in operation at the factory. Now,
what made DR.. Nudge mad was this -
The inconsiderate buccaneer who made
up the forms got the two locals mixed up
in frightful manner, and when we went
to press, something like this was the ap-
palling result:


"Several of DR.. Mudge's friends call
ed upon him yesterday, and after brief
conversation, the unsuspecting hog was
seized by the hind legs and slid along
beam, until he reached the hot-water
tank. He explained the object of their
visit, and presented him with very
handsome gold headed butcher who
grabbed him by the tail, swung him
round, cut his throat from ear to ear, and
in less than minute the carcass was in
the water. Thereupon he came forward
and said there were times when the feel
ings overpowered one, and for that rea-
80, bo mould =, ~ q ttaDo NJ 70 do p,ora h N
thank those around him, for the manner
in which so huge an animal was cut into
so many fragments was simply astonish-
ing. The Doctor concluded his remarks
when the machine seized him, and in
less time than it takes to write, the hog
was cut into fragments and worked up
into delicious sausage. The occasion
will long he remembered by the doctors
friends as one of the most delightful of
their lives. The best pieces can be OBJ
tanned for fifteen cents pound, and we
are sure that those who have sat so long
under his ministry will rejoice that he
has been so handsomely treated"


Mad Well about 9 o'clock that
morning the Office had been abandoned
by every man but the advertising clerk.
and be assembled to the roof and robed
himself in boiler iron, so that he could
watch the venerable clergyman tearing
round there in the street with his coDgre'
CATION, all wearing the panoply of wal
and carrying butcher knives and things
The next day we explained and apollo
gizej, but the Doctor stopped his sub
scription and began to take the rival pa
per.
Year: 1872

the bear rushes down the cliff, and if the
walrus still lives. he hammers away with
the same rock till the beast is dead.


Bear-hunting is one of the most exeit-
ing scenes of the polar regions. A la ge
she-bear, with a four-months-old cub,
was attacked first by the dogs, which she
caught up and flung, first one and then
another to great distance. During the
struggle, the cub was wounded with a
pistol-ball At once the mother placed
the cub between her hind legs, and shov-
ing it along, sought fight; but, wound
ed herself, she faced about, rose upon
her hind legs and bade defiance 10 her
pursuers. Wounded again, she fell dead
and the cub mounted the dead body OF
its mother, and continued the fight till
captured.


Since the days of Job, there has been
no such patience as is now displayed by
the Esquimaux, when in winter he is
hunting the seal. Having ascertained
where the seal is gnawing beneath the
ice for breathing-hole, the hunter per-
forates the spot with slender bone rod
with a point at one end and a knob al
at the other, which is moved by the seal
in coming to the surface. This may oc-
cupy twenty-four hours. The hunter
then builds wall ofsnow, four feet high
to shelter him from the wind. Seating
himself behind it, he places by his side
his spear and lines. He must preserve
the utmost silence, that he may hear the
seal at work and not cause fright to the
animal. He even binds his knees to
gether with throng to prevent the rust
ling of his clothes. And there he sit
for twenty-four hours waiting the coming
of the seal to the surface, when he eau
tiously rises with spear in hand, and the
long-sought for seal is his.-Rev. Dr.
Ne,cman IN Methodist.
Year: 1872

A dentist was recently saved from
drowning by laborer, and from the
depths of grateful heart exclaimed
Noble, brave, gallant man how shall I
reward you? Only come to my house,
and l will cheerfully pull out every tooth
you have got in your head and not charge
you a sixpence."
Year: 1872

Here is a bit Of philosophy worth


reading. It is an exposure Of q
very common deluaion. It's a coed
rendering Of an old idea.


Two things ought to ba strong
II impressed upon young people Of
our country. The insecurity Of
riches, even when acquired, and
heir unsatisfying character. There
g no fallacy SO universally hzrish-
eI as the notion that wealth II sure
Iy . means Of happiness. The care
Of large pr perty Is one Of tho most
burdeusome If earth's trusts. The
only material COED that comes
from any estate is TO be made out
Of q moderate income far more
easily than q large one, and with
fewer attendant disadvantages.
Few thoughtful men would under
20 the entire stewardship Of a large
state on a positive bargain tha,
hey should receive 10 more for
-ak.ng care ofitthau ordinary falls
nto the lap Of the owner. The
scramble after wealth is due 70
wrong estimate Of good hen it i
gained
Year: 1872

An honest blacksmith was once
grossly insulted, and detamed.-
Friends advised him to seek re-
dress by law, but to all he replied,
No, | will go to my forge, and in
six months l shall have worked out
such character and name as all
the judges and lawyers could never
give me- He was right. It is by
honest labor, manly courage, and a
conscience void of offense, that we
assert true dignity, and prove our
honesty and responsibility.
Year: 1872

Did you ever eat a ripe orange
No doubt a vast majority Of our
readers will say yes, and consider
the question rather silly one
Yet we doubt if one in five tLous
and has ever eaten a ripe orange
that Is, one that ripened en- the tree
and was not plucked until ready
for use. The oranges of commerce
are pluoked before maturity in or
der to give time for ripening of the
tree and prevent decay. The eat
ers of such fruit have no concep.
ton of the lusciousness of the or
ange after nature has been allowed
to perfect work upon it. It is. be-
yond comparison, the prince Of
fruits.
Year: 1872

Did you never c-tch a glimpse
Of yourself unexpectedly in a look
ing z as, ana think a. first il was
& strange approaching ? And did
you never get = sudden view of
your own personality by means of
psychic accident such as that? a
friend of mine, who Is as uUcon-
ceited IS any man l know, told me
that be once saw his own character
that way, and it brought tears to
his eyes. Il was only for an in
stant--a fash Of lightning in
dark nisht-but he was confident
it made q better man of HIM. It
gave him frmer faith in his friends.
It manifested what there was in
him that it was possible for them
to love. 1t made him happy and
humble He knew that those
about him did not see all; but ho
strovo ever after to be true to that
gracious vision OF himself.
Year: 1872

genius, though You expected and
would have received its unlimited
exertions L now demand 10000
francs to efface it, but if you re-
fuse, it remains there as a remin-
iscence of this little joke


Yernet was inexorabIe. Roths-
child could never bling himself to
draw up so large check, even to
undraw such a picture, and he went
out Of the world leaving behind
him the equivooaI memento.
Year: 1872

That FIVE hundred dollars tax
upon leaf tobacco is something
that the producer and small dealer
ought to keep in mind IN making
up an opinion as to how they will
vote in the Presidential election
next November.
Year: 1872

In trembling accents a young
lover of Mobile, Ala, put to his
sweetheart the important question
of his life, but she replied with the
utmost calmness and a sweet sigh
of resignation, "Anything to beat
Grant. dear"
Year: 1872

Never write letter with a pen
ell, as you can never tell when
trivial note may beceme a matter
of great importance. Through the
illegibility of hasty pencil note
an Illinoisan lost a case at law, in
volving SO 600,
Year: 1872

mouthed rascals whose strong animal passions
lend a little palliation to their vices. Like
Tweed he would fain be q barroom favOrite, and
he courted the admiration Of the mob by the
boldness with which he paraded his contempt
for other peoples opinion. He was more dan
gerous than Cardozo, not because he was moro
wicked, but because ho was more reckless and
passionate.


Fisk was the one picturesque figure in this
dirty company. Yindictiye, cruel, sensual, and
crafty he was as vile as the worst Of them /;
but he covered his dirty character with such
SNOWY drapery, lie robbed with so much humor,
he spent his stolen money with such magnifl-
cence he laughed so loud and reveled so long
and delied the constables so brayely, that he
seemed like gorgeous rObber chief fresh from
the Minerva press, and all the underbred and
half-forme thieves of New-Yo were burn
ing to copy his example, while all the loose
women in America watched for the throwing
of his handkerchief. He cared very little for
politics but Tweed bought him with rail-
road bill, ard in doing so brought into poll
ties certain relnements of debauchery to which
the grogshops were entire strangers


Mr.. James O'Bren was not one of the Tweed
Ring at the last; but that was only because
he rated bis services too high, and MIR. Tweed
preferred to get along without him. He Is a
pattern of the sleek demagogue, who fiatters
and cajoles, and turns dirty pennies here and
there, and deceives the simple while the bolder
rogues are buying the corrupt He is almost
the only ole of the class of professional cor
ruptionists whose followers really believe in
him, and who has accompanied his operations
against the public treasury by professions OF
honesty and reform.


Now what has the movement for political
publication done with these six representative
men7 Tweed has gwen bail, and put his
property out of his hands, and protracted his
defense against the law till men have begun
to doubt whtther he ever can be tried at all.
Connolly aft.r little while in Jail has escaped
with all his lundef except the amount OF his
bail-bond. Clrdozo has resigned and retired
to the enjoyment of his money, with no bar
to his reelection at some future day. Barnard
is still to be tried. Fisk alone has fallen, not
by the law but by the hand of one OF his own
comrades And Mr.. James O'I}rien, who is
morally perhaps the smallest of the party, has
been taken into favor by The Times and the
Custom-hou@ and Mr.. Tom Murphy, and is
going to be a friend Of Gen. Grant, and to
get his little claim through tho Legislature as
soon as Grant is reelected. Not a very en-
couraging survey of years work, to be sure.
But we have the consolation of knowing that
in Tweed's case at any rate the prosecution Is
in dead earnest, and with Charles OConor and
Samuel j. Tilden to push it on, the head cul-
prit may yet be brought to condign punish
ment, and encouragement may be found to
pursue the rest.