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Year: 1873

To SoFrEw PurrY-A paste of csustio
potassa, made by mixing the caustic alkali or
even carbonate Of potash or soda with equal
parts of freshly burnt qniek-Iime. which ha.
previously been sprinkJed with water, will ba
found oc value to soften putty around window
psnes to be removed when the former has be-
come hard By age
Year: 1873

YESTERDAY in the lower
branch of the Missouri Legis
lature the affidavit OF Gen eral
Doris, one OF the recent as
pirants for the Senatorship
from that State, was presented
and read, 10 which he distinct
ly stated that he had used
money in working for his own
election, and naming two mem
bers to whom he had given
money The House, being
largely Democratic, refused to
consider the accusation, re
fused to have the report of the
Investigating committee re.
committed, that General Dor
ris might be examined, and by
their action plainly showed q
desire that the report as made
by the committee was white
washed affair. Talk about
Democratic honesty and integ
rity! Pshaw!-St0te Journal
1874.
Year: 1873

A DANDURY woman sent h er
boy down street Tor the follow
ing articles: A bar of soap, a
piece of music entitled "Wait-
ing at the Gal e, Love-" three
needles, a feather, bottle OF
hair oil, the New York Weekly,
pound of starch, a mended ear.
ring, halt pound of candy, ten
cents worth Of lime, clothes
line, a basket of shavings and
a paper of ground cinnamon
What the boy brought home
was half pound of candy.
Year: 1873

Sermon.


Look at it in the household
in the process of rearing chill
dren. When children are not,
but are merely the shadow of
things to come, while they yet
lie helpless in the parents
arms, they must be cared for,
and this must go on up to GER
tain point where government
begins. Just as soon as the
child gets large enough, the
teaching of the child to-, take
care of itself begins; he is
taught how to walk, how to use
his hands, and after a little
time, the child, learning some
OF the primary physical truths,
begins to learn moral ard So
cial truths from another child
just ahead of him, while an
other just behind him learns
of him, and the three have to
get along together, and by-and-
by there are five or six, and all
have to live together, apd so
comes the gradual deHelop-
ment of character upon the
footing of selt-restraint, learn
ing TO take care OF self by suf.
fering Tor self, and that is the
theory of punishment ia the
family. Many persons object
to physical punishment for
children, but they might as
we'll revile God for making the
Child suffer pain when it stun,
b,es on a stone. Punishment
is needed sometimes, and
where it is needed use it, and
where it is not needed do not
use it. 1t is purely matter Of
practical skill and wisdom
Use first so much as is neces.
sary 10 accomplish your e nd, so
much al d no more. / have no
doubt that man, say with
great experience in the rear
ing of children, might stop and
reason with the child, and so
dispense with the rod; hut l
should like to know What a
woman ho has 10 work for a
living, who has fourteen chill
dren-I should like to know
what she is going to do about
1t. Great laughter You
that have amplitude Of means
can stop and bloH the bubbles
Of society, bnt for others-don't
be afraid to do what God does!
all creation is whipped by Him,
an ! you need not be afraid to
uce the switch. Men say that
it awakens more bad passion 8
than it cures. Well that is be-
cause you don't whip hard
enough. All slight pinches, all
slapplng of the ears are abom-
nations. You must aim to es-
tablish counter irritation,an
have it so. Those, then, cant
be the points-inSids and out
side at the same time, thor
Oughness in whipping, or nolh
ing-that is the rule.
Year: 1873

immediately upon the adjournment
of the Virginia division Of the Army
of Northern Virginia, there WAS q
meeting of the Southern Historical
Association, General Early presiding,
Colonel Mumford secretary. General
Early stated that Colonel G.. 7. Pickett
had offered the Society Il copy of the
archives sold by him to the United
tatessgOvcrnmcnt.


General Wise made some remarks
explaining plan of history he thought
should be written and favoring the
acceptance of the "archives', to be
used as their deserved.


General Wise also spoke of the bat
tie of Drewry's Bluff, and said if ten
thousand men from the Army of
Northern Virginia had been sent to re-
enforce Beauregard that Butler, in-
stead of being bottled up, would have
been caught and che army under Beau
regard would have crossed over and
fianked Grants left wing, and the
Army of the Potomac would never
have seen the James.


General Early explained that had
10000, or..even 5000 men, been drawn
from the Army of Northern Virginia,
it would have had to begin its retreat
at once; that the entire infantry force
of Lee at Spotsylvania Court House
did not exceed 10000 After some
further remarks on the same subject
from General Wise, the Society ad-
journed to re-nssemhIe ut the call of
the Secretary.


General Dabney Maury announced
that the executive con .mittee would
hold meeting tomorrow morning at
IL o'clock, ut his Office.
Year: 1873

A correspondent IF the ST. Louis
Giobc writes from Washington that
efforts have been made to draw out
Andrew Johnson in reference to the
execution of Mrs. Surratt, hut he de-
clines being interviewed until he can
have an official investigation. IN pri-
vate conversation he protests that he
knew very little about the efforts made
for the unfortunate woman's reprieve
OF Communication. Immediately after
sent to him, but he did not then feel
like extending executive clemency
Subsequently, he says, Preston King
and others interfered to prevent peti-
tons from reaching him and on the
morning of the execution Mr.. King
positively prohibited Mrs. Surratt s
daughter from seeing him on an errand
of mercy 1t will be remembered that
soon after this Mr.. King committed
suicide by drowning in the North
river. johnson feels very sore On this
subject, although he avows his ability
to make a good record for himself
when the subject is officially investi-
gated.


We fail to see how Mr.. Johnson, Or
any other official of the Government
under his administration, connected
with the murder of this poor woman,
can make a good record. Her exccu-
ton was foul blot upon the boasted
civilization of the North, and muir
der which cries to Heaven for retribu-
ton and that rctribution has como in
the shape of guilty conscience,
which will follow every man Of them
to the grave. In the lonely vigiIs of
the night the ghost OF the poor woman
hanging from the gibbet ha,lnts them.
The blood of innocence is Oh their
hands, and they cannot wash it out
Year: 1873

The assessments of Custom House
officers for campaign expenses are
lighter this year than last, But there is
much complaint. The Secretary of
the Treasury seems to have forgotten
about enforcing the civil service rules
III this particular.


The proposition of Japan that for
eign residents shall be subjected to
her laws will not meet with much favor
in face of the fact that the torture of
accused persons is still sanctioned.
Imagine Colfax or Bingham telling
all about Credit Mobilier under the
influence of thumb screw.
Year: 1873

did not want to command working
parties, but to join the artillery and go
into the fights. Beginning with plea
SAINT story on General Early. Major
Stiles said that he had never apollo
giZed, and never meant to apologize ON
earth, and he did not expect to be
called on to apologize in Heaven, for
having been an humble Confederate
soldier. He cane as one from the
ranks to talk to his comrades. He
would have this Society meet squarely
the real issues of the war, and write
the history without any apology to
any.


He thought that our real difficulty
was in the apathy of our friends, and
he would seek to remove this by STIR
ring the soldiers memory and pride,
and kindling anew their enthusiasm
He eloquently refuted the popular idea
that the camp is the school of vice :;
said that he had found it promotive OF
real piety, and wondered that We had
not had more such men as HavelOck,
Hedley, Viekers and Stonewall Jack
son.


He insisted upon the value of the
soldier who was after all at the very
bottom of the life of the State.
He then drew a vivid and touching
picture of the life, the hopes, and the
dreams of the noble soldiers of the
Confederacy, and contrasted it with
the life we lead now. He insisted that
the soldiers ought to come together
and revive the memories of those
heroic days.


He told touching story of the
evacuation of Fredericksburg by the
Twenty-frst Mississippi-of how the
| Captain of the rear-guard Iane Bran
dom, upon recognizing as the captain
OF the leading company of the Massa-
chusetts regiment, who was advancing,


his old chum of Harvard, suffered
himself to be put under arrest rather
than retreat before hina-of how a
rough sergeant rushed back, and at
| the peril of his life snatchel up little
| girl who was playing with the flying
shell-of how that baby was behind
that historic stone-wall nursed tenderly
by the rough men during all of that
| terrible fight-and of how, at the close
of the battle, Sergeant Denham sprang
| to the front with the baby on his
shoulders, called on the Twenty first
! to follow those co1Ors, and carried the
child back to its almost distracted
mother.


He gave a most thrilling incident of


the heroism with which, at Spotsyl-
vania, man OF the Richmond How


itzers fired and kept back a column of


the enemy when the infantry had all


retreated-of one of the men who


fought his way down the line with his


frying pan-and of a touching scene


of prayer with dying Federal soldier.


He related thrilling incidents OF the
evacuation of Chaffin's farm and the


retreat, which we regret our space will


not allow us to give, and asked if the


world should ever know the true story


of these deeds of heroism.


He closed with an eloquent appeal to


his fellow-soldiers to pay the debt


they owed to martyred comrades, and


pledge that he would seek to do his
own pant.


Major Stiles's address thrilled every


heart he was frequently interrupted


with applause, and was applanded to


the echo as he took his seat.
Year: 1873

General Early cordially recommend
ed the organ of the Society, the .S0ufh-
crn Magazine; made some gallant re-
marks to the ladies'; and announced
that there would be a meeting of the
Society tonight after the adjournment
of the Virginia Division of the Army
of Northern Virginia.
Year: 1873




REV. DIR. HoGE,


as one who, if he did not bear arms,
yet in his appropriate sphere contrib
uted much to keep up the spirits of
the soldiers and help the cause.


DIR. Hoge said that he had been
absent from home, had only to-day
received his invitation, and had come,
not to speak, but simply to express
his deep interest in this Society, and
his Willingness to do all in his power
to promote its interests.


The next best thing to have sue
cCCdCd is to write correct history of
our struggle. He had regarded our
Struggle as only second to the first
Revolution, and not second in true
herolsm and patriotism. If We had no
Washington we had a Lee; and if he
was not sufficient to match the Father
OF his country we could throw into the
scale our Jackson, anc Johnston, and
other living heroes.
Much is now said of good wishes for
this great Union, and in all this he
most heartily concurred. lorocidcd the
States of the South are granted full
with the other States; other
wise all of the prosperity and glory
would be but the gliding Of the crown |
of a despot.
DIR. Hoge then took his seat amid |
loud applause, and General Early next |



MAJOR ROBERT STILES
IS one who was sent to him as lieu
tenant Of engineers, but said that he
Year: 1873

any money can be expected to come in from
produce or other sources the need of it will
further cmbarrass the situation, and ncccssi-
tate the suspension Of other houses.


The gentlemen prominently connected
with the banks which have suspended arc
upnrroliy
Year: 1873

Of all the lecturers whose names are
household words, are there none who will go
through the country and talk face to face
with the people on the stupendous folly of
our sectarian division ?-New York Witness.


Could not the same remark apply with
equal force to the political divisions of the
people? We think the observation of our
esteemed cotemporary is only glttering
generality. No free government can exist
without parties, and no free Church can ex-
ist without divisions founded on doctrine and
principle. They may be troublesome and
abused, but they are safe. We should strive
to keep them free from unnecessary evils,
and let real and practical harmony exist
among those which hold to the Head and
love. the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.


In relation to this subject Mr.. Gladstone,
in recent address, delivered to the students
of Liverpool College, made the following per.
tinent remarks. We think them worthy Of
quotation, and applicable to many glittering
generalities and platitudes we hear and read
on variety and diversity in things not per-
tanning to the substance of doctrine. The
Premier says -" You will hear much to the
effect that the divisions amongst Christians
are such that they render it impossible to
say what Christianity is, and so destroy the
certainty, all certainty, in religion. But if
the divisions of Christians are remarkable,
not less so is the degree of their unity in
the greatest doctrines that they hold. Well
nigh 1900 years, years of more sustained
activity than the world had ever before seen,
have passed away since the great contro-
verses of Christendom, concerning the Deity
and the Person of the Redeemer were, after
long agony, determined As before that
time, in a manner less defined, but ade-
quate for the day, SO ever since that time,
amid all chance and change, it is mere mat
ter of fact to state that more, ay, many
more, than ninety-nine in every hundred
Christians have with one will confessed the
Deity and Incarnation of our Lord as the
cardinal and central truths Of our religion.
Surely there is some comfort here, some
sense of brotherhood, some glory in the
past, some hope for the times that are to
coma "
Year: 1873

Think how the abstraction of the Sabbath
would hopelessIy enslave the working class
es, with whom we are identified. Think of
labor thus going on in one monotonous aud
eternal cycle, limbs forever on the rack, fin
gers forever straining, the brow forever
sweating, the feet forever plodding, the
brain forever throbbing, the shoulders for
ever dropping, and loins forever aching, the
restless mind forever scheming.


Think of the beauty it would efface, the
merry heartedness it would extinguisb, of
the giant strength it would tame, of the
resources of nature it would crush, of the
sickness it would bring, of the projects it
would wreck, of the grOans it would extort,
of the lives it would immediate, and of the
cheerless graves it would prematurely dig.
See them toiling and moiling, sweating and
fretting, grinding and hewihg, weaving and
spinning, sewing and gathering, moving and
repairing, raising and building digging and
planting, striving and struggling-in the
garden and in the field, in the granary and
the barn, in the factory and in the mill, in
the warehouse and in the shop, on the noun
tain and in the ditch, on the roadside and in
the wood, in the city and in the country, out
at sea and on the shore, in the day Of bright
ness and of gloom. What picture would
this world present if we had no Sabbath!
Year: 1873

Not they alone who from the bitter strife
Come forth victorious. yielding willingly
That which they deem most precious, even hte'
COnieat TO suffer all things Christ, for Thee
Not they alone whose feet so firmly trOd
The pathway en6iog in rock, sword and fame,
Forseeiog death, yet faithful to their Lord,
Enduring Tor His sake the pain and shame.
Not they alone have won the martyrs palm.
Not only from their lips proceed the eternal psalm.
For earth hath martyrs now, sanity throng,
Each day unnoteed do we pass them by;
Mid busy crowds they calmly move along,
Bearing hidden cross, how patiently!
Not theirs the sudden anguish, swift and keen,
Their hearts are worn and wasted With smallcsres,
With daily grieis and thrusts from foes unseen,
Troubles and trials that take them unaWares;
Theirs is lingering silent martyrdom,
They weep through weary years. and long for rest to
come.


They weep, but murmur not it is Gods will
And ihey have learned TO bend their own TO His,
Simply erdar,rg, knowing that each i'll
Is but the herald Of some future bliss;
Striving and suffering yet so silently
They know it least who seem to know them best
Fatbtcl aud true through o adversity,
They work and waii until God gives them rest;
These surely share wi those Of bygone days,
The palm branch and the crown, and swell their
song Of praise.


The Rock
Year: 1873

We MUST be Gods messengers in one way
or another. We may help to bear burdens
or we may impose them. We may cheer
and comfort those about US or We may be a
hindrance and heaviness, that through bear
ing with us they may learn the lessons of a
patience and sweetness and self.sacrifce,
thus improving the opportunity which we
have lost.
Year: 1873

rup Second Branch OF Council last
.venjng adopted resolution authorizing
,be Committee on the Fire Department
n contract ior tho erection Of Fire
Alarm Telegraph, at a cost not exceeding
,GMO. Our recollection is that q year
Sr two ago this same thing was offered to
Council for 5000. II there Is any req.
ann for this increase Of price, what Is 1t I?
We cannot help thinking that q fire alarm
telegraph is not the thing most needed for
the extinguishment Of fires in this city.
Our observation for years has been that
lelsys in getting the engines to fires have
never or very rarely been due to an ina
bllI,y to find out where the fire was, but
d causes wholly Independent Of the means
Of giving the alarm. The alarm telegraph
would have its advantages, no doubt, II
properly employed; but would it not be
better 10 expcnd that sum in so increasing
the efficiency Of the Department that the
engines could be got in motion and on the
ground promptly after the locality of the
IRE has been ascertained. This scheme
has been pressed on tho attention Of coun-
Gil with persistency which had 1t been
employed in adding TO the efficiency Of
the Fire Department would by this time
have made 1t one Of the best in the coun-
try. There may be no job in this thing.
We do not say-for we do not know
that there is. We only express the hope
that the First Branch before concurring
with the second will consider carefully
whether this Is the thing first and most
needed, or whether the same sum would
not accomplish more II expended on the
Department in other directions, also why
$1,000 is now added to the price asked
three or four years ago.
Year: 1873

1t Is said that the directors of some
of our eastern railroads look askance
on the western plan OF refusing free
passess. There may be q reason for
that A president Of road in Con-
necticut recently received requests
from two gentlemen to be elected as
directors, it being supposed that his in
fiuence would secure that object. One
was an ex-jndge ofa respectable court ;
he was very old, very wealthy. The
other was minister Of the gospel, also
very wealthy, and supposed to be of
high character. Both ofthe applicants
stated, without compunction, that their
principal motive was the desire for
free travelling, which they supposed 10
be one of the perquisites Of the posi-
tion. Here are samples from state and
chnrch of the extent to which people,
able to pay their own way, hunger af-
ter the free enjoyment OF the property
of others. It would be cruel to give
the names of these aspirants for the
profit and honor of deadheadism, but
1t would be no more than just.-NeW


Fork Times.
Year: 1873

The government has ordered thor
ough investigation into the matter oi
the massacre Of defenseless Modocs
when they were disarmed prisoners -
This is right, and the white men who,
though having the benefit of a civilized
education who foil upon these defense.
less savages and cruelty butchered
them, II It be possible to identity them
should swing from the same gallows
with the guilty Modocs.
Year: 1873

A good many OF our exchanges are
already denouncing the postal card
system. 1t seems to US they are blow
ing hot and cold in very brief space
Of time. We think we had better give
them a decent trial before we pro.
nounce against them.
Year: 1873

Now that the ministers OF the city
are away during vacation, we feel at
liberty to give the partilu lars of very
amnsin. aud laughable incident which
occurred some time last week on the
Illinois Central Railrosg west of Du-
bnque, the principle actors being a
conductor and a Clergyman residingin
Dubuque.


The train of cars on which the incl
dent occurred was coming along at the
rate Of about twenty miles an hour
Some fifty miles west of that point,
when the conductor came into one OF
the passenger coaches, he took a seat
by the side of a sober looking individ-
ual, with whom he soon fell to CONVEX
sing. The conductor very soon dis
covered that his fellow comrade was a
minister and he politely listened 10
quite an extensive and earnest sermon.


The minister seeing that his auditor
was inclined to pay more than usual
attention and manifest very earnest
heed to his advice and instructions, be
at once felt call TO make special and
earnest appeal to the gentlemanly con-
ductor, which also he did in the most
earnest and pathetic language, which
seemed to affect the auditor.


The conductor, who had not spoken
for some minutes, now looked up, and
with troubled countenance said -
"My friend, / will tell you the truth
! am in deep trouble, and know not
how to avoid the danger that seems
pending with such imminence."


Here the minister said: "That's
right, my dear sir. Go on, open your
heart to me. Tell me all of your
trouble and all will be WE'LL


"Well. sir" replied the conductor,
II will explain to you the nature OF
my trouble" Then lowering his voice
o. though to avoid being overheard, he
said 81 am conductor on this train
We are now running at the top Of our
speed. We are a half hour behind
time, and il we increase our speed the
engine must bust her boiler. Scarcely
quarter of a mile behind us is anoth-
er train, which Is also behind time, but
beings much faster train than this iii
We do not increase our speed she will
telescope our train. This, then, is my
trouble. 1t is only o question whether
We shall be telescoped or increase our
rate of speed and certainly explode the
engines boiler. Which shall we do?
is the question"


The minister sprang from his seat,
and throwing up his hands in the most
frantic manner, fairly yelled, "BUsT
HER BorLERi For GoD's SAKE RUST
HER BoILERV


The conductor vanished from the
car, and the minister, believing that
his last moments were drawing nigh,
fell upon his knees, and had just began
to say his prayer when the locomotive
whistled down brakes, and the train
gradually and quietly rolled up to the
station and came to a full stop. The
minister got Off the cars, and was not
inclined to resume his journey until
the Joke. was explained.


The Dubuque Telegraph is response
bic for the wicked story.
Year: 1873

Ben Butler has plenty of brass per-
severance and ability, but in his WOO
ing Massachusetts, Republicans for tho
Goverorship he has scented entirely
the wrong game. 1t is q happy thing
for the reputation of the people of that
old Commonwealth that it is so. The
man who could vote sixty times In the
Chareston Convention for JEFF Davis,
may have sufficient of mulishness in
his composition to try to do most any
thing, but II Is wonder that his sense
don't direct him not to attempt to inn
pose himself upon the people Of the
old Bay State. o