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Year: 1871

Princeton, N. j.. during the winter Of
l'76, was the headquarters of Gen. Israel
Putnam, who, with a small corps Of mill
tia. held possession Of the town, while the
British were garrisoned at Brunswick,
distance fifteen or twenty miles eastward.


The relative position of the Colonies
and England at this period is we'll known;
yet there are many little incidents Of an
interesting nature connected with those
times which have never been made public.
and in which. not unfrequently, this brave
American General took an active part
We have something of this kind in view
which we will relate.


One dark, clustering night. near the
close of January, Of the year above.men-
toned. man wrapped in q long. sable
cloak, and closely @ufaed about the face,
came forth from stately mansion on one
of the principal streets in Princeton, and
passed on in an easterly direction toward
Brunswick.


As he hurried forward, hunchbacked
individual crept away from dark nook
from under the wall Of an adjacent build
ing. and followed stealthily after him.
On went the pursued and pursuer, tread
ing the most secluded portions of the town,
until the former reached the front of a
small white cottage, situated few rods
from the road, and which was almost en-
tircly enshrouded with the foliage Of state
" trees, the branches of which intermin-
gled above the roof. 1t was very dark.
and the air was filled with sleet; the lamp
burning in front of the residence revealed
the outlines of the building and trees.


The cloaked man paused a moment and
gazed suspiciously around him, when be
discovered carriage with horses attached
standing not far away. He then opened
the gate, entered the lawn. and moved on
toward the house. with the evident inten-
ton of calling. Let US precede him BY a
few moments.


In small, nicely furnished apartment
"a wing room Of the cottage-sat young
lady of some twenty years Of age. She
was reading from large volume. aided
BY the light Of lamp that stood upon the
before which she was seated.
frhe apartment was filed with refulgent
light, yet the windows we're closely muf-
fed. in order to give the appearance that
the inmates had retired.


The young lady to whom we allude had
sat in that position for the last two hours.
during which time her eyes. apparently.
were fixed in Steady gaze on the open
book, but she had not turned over SIM
gle leaf. It was evident that her mind
wandered, and there were a number Of
spots on the page which appeared to have
been caused by tear drops. Upon close
Year: 1871

Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright,


Flashed the sword of Lee,
Far in front of the deadly fight,
High o'er the brave in the cause of right,
Its stainless sheen, like beacon light,


Led US to victory.
Out of its scabbard, where full long


1t slumbered peacefully
Reused from its rest by the battle song,
Shielding the feeble, shifting the strong,
Guarding the right, avening the wrong


Cleaned the sword of Lee.
Forth from it's scabbard, high in air,


Beneath Virginia's sky
And they who saw it cleaning there
And knew who bore it, knelt to swear,
That where that sword led, they would dar'


To follow and to die.
Out of its scabbard, never hand


Waved sword from stain as free,
Nor purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled for brighter land,
Nor brighter land had a cause so grand,


Nor cause chief like Lee!
Year: 1871

l love to hear merry laugh,


Out ringing wild and free,
AS floats the music of the winds :
Across the sunny sea.
The merry laugh goes hand in hand
With happiness and mirth;
And as the silvery-toned command
Joy nestles round each hearth.
The merry laugh bespeaks heart


With noble feelings warm;
One that will bravely do its part


In sunshine or in storm.
The music of merry laugh


Sets aged hearts aglow;
The smiles gleam DER the wrinkled brow
Like sunset on the snow.
Then let the merry laugh ring out


Upon the balmy air,
And let its gladness put to rout


The bold intruder-Care.
Year: 1871

LABOR.
Let us go FORTH and resolutely dare
With sweat of brow to toll our little day,
And if tear fall on the task of care
In memory of those spring hours passed away,
Brush it not by
Our hearts to God to brother men,
And labor, blessing, prayer, and then
To these sign.-Milnes.
Year: 1871

The SEAT OF PoLITIcAL PowEE.-In
speaking of subjects to come before
Congress at its next session, and among
them the apportionment Of Representa-
tives under the last census, the Lansing
Republican says;


Whether the population assigned to
each district is increased over the ratio
Of she last decade or not, it will not eff
feet one result. that the West is here
after to have control of Congress. Let
the Great West, with the balance of
power in her hands, use it with moder-
alton, and for the advancement of the
whole nation, ignoring all sectional lines
ani all reference to past action on the
part of the East, and there will be a
cheerful acquiescence everywhere in the
change of the balance of power from
the States that border the Atlantic
Ocean to that portion of the country
tributary to the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi Valley.
Year: 1871

We agree with the JoURNAL that 10
cality has much to do with this nomina-
ton, and though we have not the honor
of personal acquaintance with Mr..
Stockbridgc yet his public record is
such that we can heartily endorse him
as the best available candidate for the
Office of Governor.


We shall never cease to be thankful
to the Republicans of Allegau County
for their unEemitting labors in behalf of
st. Joseph Countys candidate for Rep
resentatiYe, and we shall in return give
their candidate the same hearty support
that they gave ours in the memorable
campaign of 1870.
Year: 1871




The Butterfield Overland Dispatch was


oRt stock company organized for the transportation Of
passengers and freight the Pacific Coast, with cap
tai Of divided into $1,000 shares Of 500 each
The certificates specified that each subject to
the payment s and also "to such may
required TO pay losses damages expenses or liza
bities TO which this Company may be subject in the
prosecution Of its legitimate business" The articles Of
association provided that the Board Of Directors might
that suits should be brought in the OF the Pres
dent. John " Farwen, who had purchased $40 Of the
shares assessed $1,000 after the Company became
bankrupt for the purpose of paying its debts. He re-
fused to the assessment, and T.. p Bray, Presi
dent of the Company brought suit against him TO
it, The referee dismissed the complaint, on the


ground that Incorporated joint stock association is
partnership, and that action could be maintained
der the articles statutes relating to joint stock COM
deAt The Company appealed, and the case was argued
yesterday in the Supreme Court General Term.


For the appellants 1t coDtended that, as between
themselves the shareholders were liable 10 pay all tne
debts of the association, and 1t legitimate for them
TO agree their articles how such contribution should
and its payment enfOrced that the Directors
were trustees of express trust and as such might
maintain this action and that the right to sue By the
President was Ipressly gwen by statute.


1t claimed for the respondent that the suit IN
legal effect was action by all the members OF the firm
against of its members and that such action could
be maintained; that suit IN the name OF the Pres
dent was in legal effect suit by oil the associates lnd
yiduay; that there express trust as regards the
Presdet; that the contract If made at all, was made
with tie of the Association except the defend
ant and they therefore, anybody, are the trustees
Year: 1871

A sly old deacon Wishing TO give his
pastor hint TO put more 5nice into bis
sermons, said to him one day,lw must
get a seat nearer the pulpit, for BY ths
time your words reach my ears, the peo-
pie in front Of me have so taken the pitA
out Of them that they are Is dry 81 dish
water" .2Gueilr1g la3isEI % Of
Year: 1871

+ The symptoms of Liver
Complaint are uneasiness
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken
for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss of
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costiye,, some
*times alternating with lax


d with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable lo's
Of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hay
ing left undone something
which ought to have been


done. Often complaining OF
weakness, debility and low
Sometimes many of
Year: 1871

On Thursday, dreadful accident occurred ut
Midway resulting in the death of q brakeman
on freight train, named John Clark. The train
was just starting when he slipped and fell be-
tween two cars, the wheels passing over and
crushing both legs and one hand in horrible
manner beside inficting severe bruises He
fingered in great agony until six o'clock that
evening, when he expired. The deceased was
worthy young man, and son or step-son of
the watchman of tho bridge at Strawberry
Plains
Year: 1871

The following cash entries, made under the Acts
OF 1854 and lS6j and embracing lots In the town OF
Gold Il have been suspended for want OF proof OF
rrsilepce Section Act OF July I. 1884. requiring
that the applicant shall be actual settler on one
OF the lots embraced In his entry, with substantial
improvements on any additional lot elaimed' Wa
Year: 1871

Dnring the forenoon oil yesterday the workmen
employed IN excavaiing the vacant lot On Grove
street. near the OF South Eighth, Jersey City,
dug up a portion OF human skull and several
homes. The SKULL which was That OF an adult, was
very thick, and, TO all appearance, had been sawed
across by souc medical practitioner Coroner Burns
took charge OF the remains. There was some little
excitement over the matter at rst In the neghbor-
hood, but It Is not al all likely that any light VIII be
thrown on this latest Vi Jersey mysteries.
Year: 1871

a reporter of the New York Herald
reports some remarks made by General
Sherman as part Of an q interview - with
that officer just prior to his departure for
Europe on the frigate Wabash When
asked about the administration policy in
the South, the General said


i don't care to speak plainly on these
matters. 1t is not in my line of duty
think, however, that when the war was
ended, warfare against our brethren of
the South should have ceased The ne
groes are well disposed and kindly
people, but they are not, as class post
ed in the science of government; they
are apt to make mistakes and behave
rashly But have no doubt whatever
that everything will turn out all right 10
the end The Union men in the South
were never a very hne class of people,
and some down there now would be bet
ter out of il, but their presence IN the
late insurrechonary States affords no
proper excuse for acts Of lawlessness. +"


F" Then, General, you do not approve
of the repressive acts of the Federal
Government ?"


/ think mistake has been made
They are not all rascals in the South
The majority Of the people are the best
citizens of the Republic. The young
men that followed the retreating Confed
crates Tito Texas, the men of the army
of Virginia and the lads of the West
who leaned toward the South were capi
tai fellows, though mistaken. These, in
my opinion, should have been appointed
TO position under the Government as
Marshals, Postmasters, Internal Reve
nue Collectors and to other Federal and
State Offices, instead Of being driven into
| really believe that these
young men represented the South, and
that they were ready TO cry 'peccavi and
support the Government | am sorry
they were not treated properly. But it
will be all right in the end "
Year: 1871

We have received from General Fran
els A Walker, Superintendent Of the
Census, advanced sheets Of the tables
devoted to the blind, deaf and dumb,
insane and iiiotio population OF the
Uajed States From The statistics thus
furnished it tsppesrs that the total. number
Of such uutoriunafes is as follows:
Year: 1871

We have heretofore published the interpretation of our extradition treaty as given by the Supreme Government of Mexico, and pronounced 1t as very bad, and that 1t could but engender more slaughter of our citizens, for it practically said that any citizen of Mexico might proceed into U. s ter ritory and rob and assassinate whom he pleased, and return and receive the protection of his government - in plainer terms still, it was an official invitation to citizens of Mexico to rob and murder Americans on American soil with safety assured in advance.

 Ever since, more or less of our peo- pie have been slain by Mexican ban dits, and latterly within period of 30 days, six were so murdered, and five of them in most barbarous manner. It is apparent to all here, that this terrible slaughter must grow better or worse. There is no use to say to men while seeing their neighbors butchered by the whole. family, that our own government accepts as defensible the Mexican interpretation of the treaty, mad hence they must abstain from re- sistance of any kind. Simply because national exposition of law declares 1t to be inefficient to prevent or even restrain human butchery, will not forever satisfy those who are any day liable to be killed. In spite of everything except cure of the evil, terrible retaliation will follow. There are those who believe that Governor Pesqueira, of Sonora, Is anxious to step the fendish slaughter of our peo- pie by his own, but that he cannot use official power to do so in the face of his Supreme Governments prohibi- tion; yet we think he will in some eff fective way cooperate with our citizens and officials in their endeavors to stop a system of murder which he must know will otherwise soon be applied against as well as by his people. The massacre of the Baker family, as elsewhere detailed, will again forcibly bring the subject to his attention. Prominent Mexican citizens of Tue son will by petition represent to him that some measures to suppress such atrocities must be taken regularly or irregularly, and we still trust he may help to avert the most shocking calamities. No mere words will lon ger answer the demand of our people. Right action must be taken and that without much delay.
Year: 1871

The eastern press has taken up the stream of truths flowing from the West about old Colyer-a person we have noticed therefore and the des- pised wretch is getting heavier floods of what he terms abuse by the eastern journals then he ever did hereaway. A late number of The New York Times refers to the value of his. life and honesty of his public service in these words:

 This fatal peaceful" policy has cost the country lives that compare, in more than one instance, favorably with MT. Colyer's. It is difficult to discover to what quality MT. Colyer is indebted for the distinction of being selected to bring the savages within the pale of civilization. Those who know him best, know that his public services have always been eminently profitable to himself, but they are not so sure that they have been at all beneficial to his country.

 Lest our pity become aroused for the miserable man, we will but add to the above that when it is under stood that all his public services |" have been of the humane, civilizing and especially charitable kind (where- in others gave the cash,) then the exact baseness of the man may be rightly appreciated. The great Times might as we'll have said plainly, as it did by implication, that the christian (!) Colyer is a public plunderer.

 1 ' fro,, TIoo ~
Year: 1871

The Republicans Washington special
says that it is stated by persons who are in
the movement, but who object to their
names being used 10 print that confer.
ence of leading Democrats in Congress
was actually held two or three evenings
since in the private parlors Of hotel
with two or three anti.Grant Rcpubli-
cans, who are at work organizing an on
position patty to coalesce with the Dem.
ocracy to prevent Grants reelection. All
that resulted at the meeting was an uni.
versal aquescencc in resolution de
clariug in favor Of the one term princ-
pie for the presidency. The anti Grant
Republicans expressly declared that they
desired to leave the Demmcratc party
free from all coalition, yet to leave it
prepared to act with vigor and wisdom at
tho proper time. In the meantime the
one term party will soon be ready, it is
assured, to develop its line of battle


All it is proposed that the Democrats
shall do as an iudepant organization, is
to support the one term principle, and
declare for it in caucus or convention.
Year: 1871

it is q powerful arraignment of the admin I.
,s,ration party and policy as q perversion
Of republican ideas, and high treason to
republican principles 1t ought to be
carefully read, for it cannot fail to have
much effect on the controversies Of tho
dav
Year: 1871




The reform movement in Germany in mat
ters religious, and of which DR.. Dol1ger is
regarded as the head, though quiet and unde-
monstrative, is still full Of life. The cor
respondence which has appeared in the
HERALD on two successive Sundays cor
respoudence which has given us more insight
into the actual movement than anything
which has yet been published-shows that the
movement, which means opposition to the de-
crees of the Vatican Council, is pregnant with
powerful vitality. DR.. Dollinger, DR.. Fried
richs and those who act with them are deter
mined not to be put down. Then, again, Ger
many, North and South, is so much in
sympathy with the new movement chat those
who look for a new Reformation are full of
hope. and those who cling TO Rome and the
Pope are full of despair.


We are not of those who make too much of
religious disaffection in Germany. Germany
is the native home of thought DsaffectiOn
in matters religious is as natural to the Ger
man as to drink lager or to smoke a cigar
The great Reformation of the sixteenth Gen.
tury was especially German work. 1t is true,
and all men must admit it, that the Monk of
Wittenberg shook the world; but it is not the
less true that since Luther's days we have
been waiting for great reformer. During
the last three hundred years Europe has seen
and felt many revolutions but the religious
landmarks which were sharply drawn before
Luther died have not been seriously disturbed.
Many attempts have been made, but all have
failed. Febronus and Hermes and Ronge
have each in his day made a sensation and en-
couraged the belief that out Of Germany was
TO come another monk who should shake the
world but to none Of these has Germany
been responsive. The time was not yet; and
the would-be reformers one and all have
labored in vain and spent their strength for
namght. 1t is not unnatural that many should
ask whether this new movement is to prove
equally weak and equally worthless, and
whether Germany, in spite Of all her strength,
must not wait for her second Luther.


We cannot answer these questions def
nitely. But we cannot close our eyes to the
fact that there are indications Of religious life
among the German Catholics which, TO say
the least are dangerous to the continued
supremacy of Rome. DIR. Dollinger has, in
spite of his opposition to Rome and the pre-
tensions of the Papacy, been elected Rector
Magpificus of the University of Munich.
Whatever else this may prove it at least
proves this that the professors OF the greatest
Catholic University in Germany are in favor
of the new departure of which Dolinger is the
prime mover. Dr. Friedrichs, young man,
is, w our correspondence has shown, even more
Year: 1871

The expected Carlist rising in Spain is not
likely to assume o formidable nature, nor is it,
perhaps intended for aught else than a noisy
demonstration. Don Carlos and his adherents
have from time to time thought fit to remind
the world of their existence by such periodi-
cal outbursts, which have Of late years in
variably come to nothing. These demonstra-
tions served the double purpose of replenish-
ing an exhausted exchequer and of keeping
alive. or at least in Pickering state, the
spirit of the party. No enterprise of this
kind can have a chance of success if an
nounccd beforehand by grand flourish of
sound, as the Carlists seemed to have done in
the present instance Such has been the case
with the Cuban and Fenan fillibustering
schemes which for like reasons were always
fOredoomed to failure.


The French government, moreover, will GER
tainly not permit armed bands to violate its
frontiers for the purpose Of attacking neigh
boring friendly power. The Spanish govern
ment seems TO attach but little Importance to
this reported Carlist attempt, else it would
not have issued general amnesty-as it did
few days ago-for all political offences Nor
would the greater part of the Spanish people
be the gamer by the success Of the reaction
ary Carlist party. The liberal policy and
measures of economy recently introduced by
Sehor Zorrilla tend 10 give a solid basis to the
government of King Amadeus, and no such
attempt as that premedtated by the Carsts
is likely to upset it.


A GEN OF BRAUTY-The beautiful flower
garden which they have made of st. Pauls
churchyard. Right al the very busiest point
of Broadway, with IFS endless streams Of
foot passengers, carriages, omribuses, street
cars, carts and drays this churchyard, trans
formed into garden of flowers, recalls the
words of the Prophet Isaiah: ''The wilder
ness and the solitary place shall be glad for
them; and the desert shall rejoice and
blossom as the rose" II is refreshing little
picture, grateful to the eyes Of the living, and
we cannot and would not dismiss the idea that
such tender remembrances must be grateful to
the souls of those whose earthly remains are
thus covered with the emblems OF beauty from
dust and ashes aud the resurrection from the
grave.
Year: 1871

THE EASTERN CONFERENCE seems to have
alarmed the different Powers Of Europe; for,
according to the Prussian Cross Gazette, the
German government was to issue circular
on the subject to its representatives abroad,
but has now abandoned that intention, declar-
ing. however its readiness to give ''reassuring
explanations where disquietude is expressed.
No great Power is likely to undergo the
humiliation of appearing alarmed, and thus
the German government will be spared the
explanations which it, perhaps, did not inten
to make and would now prefer to avoid.
Year: 1871

GENERAL HANCOCK IN THE SoUTH.-The
West Virginia Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs have for some years past been the
summer headquarters of the Southern politi-
republican party. At those headquarters
now, we are informed, General Hancock is the
favorite of nearly all the Southern democratic
magnates, old departure or new departure,
and this gives the General a powerful lift for
the democratic nomination.
Year: 1871

THE WIDOWS ART.-Speaking
Of the liability of English states
men of rcpntc to marry widows,
and the happy relations incident
to these matches, the New York
World makes this fine point;


We decline to entertain for a
moment the hypothesis that tho
skill which is so often displayed
BY a lady was acquired at the cx-
pense Of her first spouse, on which
she experimental as on q eorpss
uile until lie became a corpus cold.
Far more probable is it that the
first was made even moro happy
than the second-so happy that
flesh and blood could not stand it
and that, being wa.ned by this
experience, the widow who "e-
comes wife gives to her second
husband only just that amount of
bliss that is good for him, and no
moro.
Year: 1871

And as she ran bllthcly away,
Mr.. Parrham sank back in his
chair firmly convinced that he
was the most miserable Of men, in
that he had made his eligible mat
rimonial offcr-'too late