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Year: 1873

Oh greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,
The vines of the gourd and the rich melon rum
With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms all gold
Like that which DER Ninevehs prophet once grew,
While he waited to know that his warning was true,
And longed for the storm cloud and listened in vain
For the rush of the whirlwnd and red fire-rain.
On the banks of the Xenil the dark Spanish maiden
Comes up with the fruit of the tangled vine laden;
And the Creole of Cuba laughs out to behold
Through orange leaves shining the broad spheres of
Yet with dearer delight from his home in the North
On the fields of his harvest the Yankee looks forth
Where crnokneeks coilng and yellow fruit Shines
And the sun of September mets down on the vines.
All lon Thanksgiving Day. when from East and from


West
From North and from South come the pilgrim and


guest,


When the gray y-haired New Englander sees round his


board


The old broken links of affection restored
When the care wearied man seeks his mother once


more.


And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled


before


What moistens the lip and what brightens the eyea
What calls back the past like the rich Pumpkin pef
Oh l-fuit loved of boyhooa !-the old davs recalling.
When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts


were falling


Glaring out through the dark with candle within J
When we laughed round the corn-heap, with hearts


all in tune


Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like steam,
In pumpkin-shel coach. with two rats for her team
Then thanks for the present ! sweeter better
Fer smoked from oven cireled platter
Falrel hands never wrought at the pastry more fine,
Brighter eyes never watchedo er its baking than thine
And the prayer with my mouth is too full to express
Swells my heart that thy shadow may never be less
That the days of thy lot NAV be heightened below
And the fame of thy worth like pumpkin-vine grow
And thy life be as sweet. and its last sunset sky
Goden-tinted and fair as thine own Pumpkin Pie!
Year: 1873

enough in one place for the nuggets that
will surely enrich us.


We lack in that higher morality which
frowns down venality and elevates and
encourages purity of life, probity of con-
duct and a scrupulous regard for good
and honorable name.


We do not teach our children that
they must, nor how to. earn their own
living, and are too willing to commit
them to life of easy unscrupulousness,
depending on their skill as make-shifts
rather than their solid requirements as
men and women.


We roll about too much like stones
that gather no moss. enriching corpora
tions and speculating capitalists, and
defraudlng ourselves of the profits of
our own industry.


We are devotees of show rather than
substance. and pay homage to the glitter
of a success which is but robe cov-
ering filth. rottenness and corruption
social, commercial and political.


We build too many churches, and cul
tlvate the Christian virtues and spirit
too little


We have too many schools and too
few real teachers.


We are too undived in certain direc.
tions and not enough so in others.


We adhere too closely to what we
ought to depart from, and refuse to take
hold of that to which we ought to cling


In short, we are too much what we
ought not, and not enough what we
ought to be.
Year: 1873

Too many spend money, and too few
earn it.


Too much money is spent wastefully
and needlessly, and too little saved and
made productive and accumulative.


We buy too much abroad that we
ought to produce at home


We buy too much that we do not pay
for cash down-too much of what we
buy being what we do not actually
need.


We are too wasteful, know too little
how to economize, and have too little
disposition to do so.


We are too speculative, unscrupulous
and actually dishonest in our efforts to
make money.


Too many Of US prefer idleness to in
dustry, and too few of us know how to
work and derive pleasure and profit from
our labor.


We spend too much time learning
what is not useful, and too little inform
ing ourselves upon the best methods of
promoting our material prosperity.


We know too much of politics, spend
too mnch time and money as politicians,
and know too little about political econ
omy and the science of stable, econom-
ical, successful public policy.


Our actions are governed too much
by passion. prejudice and partisan feel
ing, and not enough by broad, intelli-
gent, liberal and patriotic conception of
the duties which American citizenship
involves.


We are too superficial aud impatient,
and lack the clear purpose and persist
ent, patient application necessary to
permanent success
We depend too much upon our sharp
ness and "cuteness, and readiness to
take advantage of circumstances. and
not enough upon earnest, honest labor.
| We talk and read too much, and
think and act too little.


We spread ourselves over too great
a surface, and thus fail to dig deep
Year: 1873

BY LOUISA COURTENAY PEACH.
My heart is breaking let me weep,
Sister you plead in vain;
Tlen leave me to my silent grief
cannot smile again.
o, say not am wrong to mourn,
And waste my early bloom;
would l rested quietly


In my lost Edmund's tomb
Can forget the long tried love
OF one SO true and brave 2
care not for the false, cold world
My heart is in his grave.
Yet you can bid me wear a smile,
And mingle with the gay
You say that time my grief will heal:
You know not what you say.
My heart is breaking let me weep,
Sister you plead in vain;
Then leave me to my silent grief
cannot smile again.
Year: 1873

His touching and beautiful desire has
been granted. Let me pass the remain
der Of my days among you; and when
l die. let, me be laid tenderly in the
grave by your loving hands. Such
was the pathetic prayer with which the
venerable John Todd, a year or two ago,
concluded his long ministry at Pitts
field.
Year: 1873

TEA DRNKNa.-on Thursdey evening week,
the 23rd inst. tea drinking will be held at St
Pauls NJ. E. Church under the auspices Of the
sabbath School Association, in aid of the new
chapel in process Of erection beyond 11th street
bridge. The Sabbath school for whose use the
chapel is built is mission school OF st. Paul't
church, and it is earnestly hoped that all the
will be present.
Year: 1873

The New York Herald estimates
that the amount of actual cash
brought into this country by imini-
grants averages one hundred dollars
to every immigrant, and values
every immigrant as laborer at one
thousand dollars. Consequently it
estimates the increase of material
wealth from immigration of last week
alone at the sum of seventeen mill
ions of dollars. The Herald's esti7
mate is entirely within the limits of
reason. The muscle, brain and treas


ure brought to our shores from Eu-
rope are a prize of inestimable, value.
Year: 1873

: PRESERVE THEM.-Many people take
newspapers, but few preserve them,
yet the most interesting reading i'm
aginable, is an old file of newspapers.
1t brings up every age with its bus
tie and every day affairs, and marks
its genius and its spirit more than
the labored description of the histori-
an Who can take up a paper dated
half century ago, without the
thought that almost every name
there printed is now cut upon a
tombstone at the head of an epitaph?
1t is easy to preserve newspapers,
and they will repay the trouble, for,
like that of wine, their value increases
with their years. g
Year: 1873

An organization has been formed


in New York city, by merchants and


others interested in securing cheaper
transportation from that city to the
West, whose object is the construc-
ton of a double track trunk railroad
line, exclusively for freight, to be
owned but not operated by the gen
eral Government, and whereby it
is expected to shorten the time for
the transportation of goods from New
York to Chicago to three days, where
now it takes ten, at greatly reduced
rates.
Year: 1873

The most accommodating man we ever
saw, says the Danbury News, was the cap
tain of steamship which piled between
New York and Port Royal during the war
One day a soldier lost his cap overheard,
and went to the captain about it. The old
gentleman said it was impossible to stop the
vessel to recover it, but he kindly offered to
make a mark on the rail where it went
overheard, and get it when he came back


We saw him make the mark ourselves, and
well remember that in all that motley crowd
there was not a single dry eye.
Year: 1873

The Pennsylvania Constitutional
Convention has adopted what is
known as minority or proportional
representation in the election of
County Commissioners. In Penn
sylvania hereafter there are to be
three County Commissioners elected,
of whom no elector is permitted to
vote for more than two. Then the
highest not elected is to go in by ap-
pointment. This will always give one
party two and the other party one
member of the Board. Both sides
will be properly represented.
Year: 1873

By the recent failure of several of
the rich land owners of Pickaway
county, $4,000 to 10000. acres of the
finest and most desirable lands in
the State are thrown upon the mar
ket. They will probably be divided
up and disposed of in moderate sized
farms, and at prices which will doubt
lose ha low
Year: 1873

The Modocs are to be brought east
of the mountains and scattered among
the Indian tribes in such a manner as
not to break up families, but so that
each family shall be ignorant of the
whereabouts of the others. The In
dian tribes will be made aware of the
fate of the Modocs, that the extermi-
nation of the tribe may serve as q
warning to alleyildisposed red skins.
Year: 1873

Wilkie Collins, the popular Eng.
ish novelist, will arrive in New York
ina day or two. These Tran-Atlan.
tic story writer's do thriving busi
ness in the lecture field. That was
brilliant idea of Dickens to intro
duce the author and his works by
popular readings therefrom. Authors
used to be satisfied with being lion
lied at supper and champagne par
ties, but they now prefer being lion.
lied at lecture hall at dollar per
head.-There is good deal of solid
satisfaction about the latter mode.
Year: 1873

A little school girl in Danbury has
lately had her dinner stolen. No
clue could be obtained of the thief,
although it was sought with tears.
Finally mild plan was hit upon. A
tempting doughnut with filling Of
cayenne pepper was placed in her
pail, and the result watched. Before
noon a little boy was seen at the
pump, working it in lively manner.
It seemed if he had two hundred pairs
of arms he could have used them.
The fire was put out, however, and
enough of the structure saved to take
across the knee for a few minutes.
Year: 1873

The late Mrs. James Gordon Bennett was
riding in the steam cars on one occasion,
when General Scott entered and took seat
directly behind her. As he appeared to be
unoccupied, the lady handed the General a
copy of the New York Herald, which she
had been reading. Madame, I thank
you, said the General, returning the paper,
81 never read the Herald" The General
had one less newspaper to support him at
the next election.
Year: 1873

A young clerk in Dubuque fan
cy store, who had been requested
by lady customer to send home
spool of thread which she had pur-
chased, hired an express wagon in
which he placed the spool, and so
drove to the lady's residence, where he
deposited the spool in the hall end
wise, like barrel. IT 5
Year: 1873

The Boston Journal is out most en-
phatically against the nomination OF
Butler for Governor. It concludes
an article on the subject by saying
that che will fail of a nomination
simply because the great mass of the
Republicans do not believe in him, dc
not want him, and do not mean to
have him"
Year: 1873

Mansfield Tracy Walworth was
thrown into the society of his step
sisters, after his fathers marriage to
the widow of Col Hardin, and with
out the idea occurring to their seniors
that they would ever dream of being
anything nearer to one another than
brother and sister. Mrs. Walworth
was strict Catholic, and the marriage
between the young people would have
been extremely distasteful to her,
since, in the views of the church, this
relationship by her new marriage was
such as to forbid the forming Of clos
er ties; but the young people knew
nothing of these ecclesiastical regula.
tions, and cared little for aught save
themselves, and SO grew to love each
other strongly, so deeply, indeed, that
the passion after a while obscured
their reason. Then they secretly
pighted their troth to each other,
and took up the relation of man and
wife. A few brief months of wild
happiness followed. AS was inevita-
bic, the secret exposed itselfwhen the
betrothed wife was evidently about to
become mother. Then a scene of
recrimination followed. The young
couple made the excuse that they had
promised themselves to each other,
and recognized one another by solemn
words of agreement between them
selves as man and wife, and that this
agreement according to civil law, was
marriage. There was then but one
resource left, and that was to make
the best of an unhappy passion, and
unite them by formal ceremony of the
church. To this cheerful assent was
given, and it. was accordingly. done.





The marriage that had become ne
cessity was formally solemnized, and
three months after, Frank FL. Wal
worth was bor1i.a AS might be ex-
pected, when the passion cooled the
couple looked upon each other with
changed eyes, and each came to think
that their choice would have been
different had they not been thrown
together in a common household.
Hence it happened that they quarrel
ed and finally separated. Each was
jealous of the other, and each despis
ed the other for youthful weakness
and indiscretion. Letters passed
between them, containing recrimina-
tions, and some of their strange mis-
sives came into the possession of the
young parricide. Taunts upon his
mother angered him, and there is rea-
son to believe that he totally misun-
derstood the reflections made on the
subject of his own illegitimacy. He
thought his father reflected on his
mothers chastity after marriage.
Fired with false chivalry, he did not
stop to question his mother, and the
mother had naturally concelled her
weakness from her son.. It was
enough for him that slur had been
cast upon, her name and his own.
He took his fathers life, and thereby
published his mothers early frailty to
the world. Her best friends lament
this more than the murder for which
her son is imprisoned.


The correspondent says: This
story is freely canvassed by all the
residents of Saratoga, where the mar
rage caused great scandal at the
time. 1t accords with what 1 know
about the history of the Walworth
family. -
Year: 1873

A lady dealer in hair goods down east
heads her advertisement in the local news
paper with this travesty of DR.. Watts:
"How vain are all things here below


How false and yet how fairl


But if for false things you will go,


Invest at once in hair!"
Year: 1873

A number of ladies in Nashville have
signed an agreement to abstain from
all outward adornment on Sundays,
wearing only the plainest sort of ap-
parel. Ruin is thus threatened to
the millinery business, there being
no place left in which to display the
last sweet thing in bonnets.
Year: 1873

The system of competitive exam
nations gets bad setback at West
Point this year. A majority of the
appointments were on the compe
titive plan, which we have SO often
denounced as a compound of hum
buggery in itself and demagoguery ir
the Congressman who put it in prac
tice. And yet the ratio of incompe
tents, under the preliminary examin
alton at West Point, is greater thar
ever. Several of the boys who won
the momentary triumph, under the
false competition at home, have been
rejected, as unable to pass the simple
ordeal of the professors at the Point
- st. Louis Democrat.
Year: 1873

An English lady of family and for
tune, about thirty years Of age, has
bestowed her heart and hand upon
a youth of seventeen whose zoccupa-
ton has hitherto been attending the
'leader of an omnibus and attach
ing drags to the wheels of carriages.
The lady was district visitor and
happening to call upon the lads
mother, who was an invalid, she was
SO struck with his devotion, that she
thought it would be a good thing to
have in the family.
Year: 1873

The attempted initiation of the
Graphic balloon yesterday seem to
have been failure and the ascension
is postponed until to-day. This disas-
ter at the Threshold will give fresh
force to the jeers and doubtings of the
lncredulous.
Year: 1873

A NEGRO member OF Mississippi: leg
islature is in jail for stealing q hog
His friends say ne really didn't want
the hog, but felt that as Radical lead,
er he must steal something, and could
find nothing else to steal.-LomsriA,
CUrgrisr. Journal
Year: 1873

objections to himf Are not the grave charges
which we make against him sufiiclent ground Tor
his remova9 They are all sustained by docu-
mentary proof II they are not enough nothing


We trust that no hesitation or delay on your part
in removing this incompetent and culpable Comp
troler may cause any OF us TO regret the not unm-
portant part which we acted in re-eecting you, In
ton and under circumstances peculiarly honora-
BILE to you.


Remember, sir, the long trial Of your immediate
predecessor on an indictment for nonleasance anu
for similar indictment appear to US TO exist
against Comptroller Andrew ii. Green; and, II the
documents in his own Office are TO be rehed on we
think they are supported by more tncontrovert-
lble evidence. We expect, sir, that you Will remove
him.


At the conclusion OF Mr. Foley's reading Mr..
Washington r. Nichols addressed His Honor at
some length and in forcibe language on the subject
at issue.


Mayor Havemeyer listened to the charges against
the custodian OF the city finances very patiently
and attentivey, and informed the committee that
he st ali times respected the wishes of the public
especially when represented by ali influential body
OF men. He would carefully look into the charges
preferred against Mr.. Green and give the subject
the fullest investigation.


During the interview between the committee
and the Mayor the Comptroller appeared at the
Mayors once, approaching through the private
door. His Honor motioned him into mis- private
ONCE but the Comptroller did not wait but left
Immediately.


During the afternoon His Honor stated to
HERALD reporter that he would Thoroughly nvest-
gate the charges made, and likewise act on them II
proven. In answer to the question whether he
had power TO remove the Comptroller, the Mayor
lngs the Governor, and the Mayor have perfect
right and full authority TO DO so.
Year: 1873

The DECISIVE MUsKRATs.-The beavers and
muskrats have begun their usual attempt to mis-
lead us about the winter. Those mendacious an
the rural editors, and whenepe they begin early
in the season to fix mp their residences for win
ter, the editors at once decide that we shall have
severely cold weather. Time and again have these
wicked beavers and unprrincipled mnskrats
wlfnl falsifiers by the mildness of the following
winter. With like frequency have they delnded
people into the belief that mild winter was at
hand, but in point of the winter proved rxcrp
tionally cold. This fall they have commenced
unusually early to convince us that we are to
haze an arctic winter; but we know them too
well, 2nd decline in any circumstance to put the
slightest CONFIDENCE in them.-N. 7. Graphic.
Year: 1873

II R. B. Taylor, in applying for a change of
venue in the Cobb libel case, naie affidavit that
the prejudice was so strong against him in Wy
andotte that he did not believe be could have
Justice done him. If the prejudice is strong
against him that he cannot get justice in law, in
the name of common sense, what does he expect
ts gain by rnnning for the Legslaturei
Year: 1873

70" Henry A. Wise wants to be Governor of
Virginia once more, and has expressed himself
willing even to bo the Republican candidate
The lion and lamb story sounds nicely, but when
the Republicans nominate for Governor the man
who hung old John Brown, it will be notch
ahead of the millennium.
Year: 1873

pertinent question FROM the Des Noines Qo-
way Republican:


The new party is known in its makeup to
consist OF sorehead Republicans and the refuse
OF the Democratic party. Can any one tell us
how reform could cone from such elements
until they are hrst regenerafedf 1t is conqn-
drum that can't be guessed
Year: 1873

" Barney o'DriseoH is working like bea-
yer throughout the District; and if he is not
elected, it will not be his fault Work is pow
er in an election campaign; and many man,
with strong majority to back him. has slipped
mp because his opponent out worked him..


Ho Stout;


Stir
Year: 1873

tv-Persops leaving the city for the summer, and
w,shinS to have the DAILY COMMERCIAL sent to
them. will please send us their address. where the
p,per ia desired for iesa than one month the postage
i'd best be prepaid at this ONCE. By prepayment
Of postage by stamps regularity Of delivery will be
tnou red.
Year: 1873

The Toledo Blade very fOrcibly says: All OBJ
servers of current events must be somewhat sur
prised at the fact that the Western banks have suf-
tered less from the monetary crisis than those of
the East. Ordinarily, such r.sult would not be
expected, and few years ago it could not have
been possible. The cause of this comparative ease


the Western money market exists in the fact
that the balance OF trade is in favor of the West
that is, the West is sending to market produce
amounting in value to vastly more than her pur-
chases from Eastern merchants and manufacturers.
In view of the difficulties and expense attending
the transportation of grain from the West last
winter, the farmers have made extra efforts this
year to market their surplus produce prior to the
close OF navigation The result has been unusual
activity in forwarding grains since the list of Au
gust. The quality of wheat forwarded has been
just about double that shipped during the cores
pondlng period last year. On the 9th ult. the
visible supply of wheat was 106SS, ,609 while at the
same date in 1872 it was but 5,34 72O little more
than one half To purchase this grain from the
Western farmers there mas been sent to Chicago
daily, since the first of August from 81 OO9 COO to
s., ,O0O, 600 of currency.


The farmers into whose pockets this money has
gone, in small sums, generally out of debt
and comparatively few of them keep bank accounts.
The result is, the great bulk of this money has
been practically absorbed by Western farmers, and
is held by them for use as they may need in pur-
chasing more land, stock, ETC., and is outside of
the channels of currency circulation. We have
only referred to the amount of currency daily sent
to Chicago but the reader will. of course, under
stand that all Western grain markets have been
similarly supplied, and that the currency thus
forwarded has been, to large extent thrown tenn
porarily ont of circulation and beyond the reach
OF. Eastern banks. Much of it must thus remain
for some months, and but little of it can be ex-
pected to return Immediately. Heretofore, the
grain of the West has moved forward in smaller
bulk, the whole year being used in getting it into
market; the West has been in debt, ana the
money forwarded has speedily returned to the
great commercial centers, where it has been abund
ant; but now it is different. Circumstances have
induced the farmers to push their produce into
market at the earliest possible moment, and in
stead OF keeping the grain in their barns to be
shipped during the winter and spring, they are
keeping the money in their pockets for use as
their wants may dictate. A little reflection will
show that in this manner the great bulk Of the
vast amount of currency sent to the Wes: for the
purchase of produce remains there, and cannot re-
sonably be expected to return except through
very slow process.