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Year: 1872

Disraeli will have positively nothing to
do, if he can he p it. with the Alabama qf-
fair in its present condition He is full of
pluck and vigor this season, quite jubilant
nd confident. He still looks wonderfully
young, despite hisawkward shuffling, stink
ing walk nd his stopped shoulders A few
evenings since | saw him pass along Par
lament street, leaning on two friends
Everybody looked after him. He is much
more remarkable figure in the street than
Gladstone or Bright Let me describe
him as he than showed 4 tall man. with
stopped aud rounded shoulders, peculiarly
shaped head, fast denudine itself of hair,
but with the hair that RETAINS still black
as ever complexion of dull brick dust a
face puckered up like an cid mask OR as if
the wearer of the face was always screwng
up his lips to whistle, an never accom-
plished the feat. A small chin tuft adorns
the countenance, and let me add that the
expression on the countenance is lugubri-
Gus enough to become an artistic and con-
seientlous mute at funeral. A long gray
or white outer coat reaches nearly to the
ankles OF this remarkat lie f.ure {; and be-
meath the coat might be seen trowsers of a
darker gray and very neat boots There
was something of the air ofa decayed and
fading dandy about the entire personage
which. Joined with the odd walk and the
stopped shoulders and the chill gray atmos-
phere OF the early evening. diffused sense
of gloom over the meditative spectator
Was this then the brilliant, eccentric and
dashing man of genius who used to be the
exposure of eyes in Lady Blessington 5
bright salons, who wrote ..Vivian Grey"
and came out as wild Radi al and pro-
claimed that revolution was his forte, and
challenged O'Connell to duel and heard
the chimes ever SO long past midnight with
the elderly gentleman now vegetating at
Year: 1872

The New York Daily Bulletin says: The market for
cotton goods is very firm but dull and stocks remain
unusually Light in first hands at unchanged prices.
Woolens rule dull. Some Of the agents are opening
new styles Of spring cassimeres. Foreign goods con-
tinue very dull Clothing linens are in better request
and firm
Year: 1872

Looking calmly over the whole ground,
she Republican line seems everywhere firm
and unwayerng. The masses who have
little interest in the question of "Who
shall fill the offices ?" stand unmoved and
uuterrified. They desire stability in the
governmental policy, and are not disposed to
be unreasonable in their expectations.
They do not look for angels among politi-
clans, or expect faultless administration
of affairs. Against the captivating formu-
las of theorists their strong sense is proof.
They are the recipients of positive benefits,
and have been protected from threatened
danger. 1t as possible that another leader
might have done better, but the chances are
vastly against finding another one who will
do as well. And so the people are going to
nominate and elect Gen. Grant because
the v believe him safe and honest. Upon
this pt,int, we have no shadow of doubt or
fear. What interests as most is to see the
Republican party put itself in the van of
the nation upon eSery question that affects
the welfare of the people. In this manner
it will secure to itself perm.suence and pow
er, and direct the forces of our unfolding
national life to glorious destiny.
Year: 1872

BOAT LINE TO THE PUMP House.
We are assured that gay water craft has
been fitted up to ply between the city and
the pump-house of the water works, and
other favorite localities up the canal. The
boat will be run by horsepower, and will
start from the foot Of Eighth street, stop
ping at CANDLES Hill to take in passen-
gers. Her first trip will be made Wednes-
day morning about nine o'clock, when
those who attend the memorial exercises at
Hollywood can repair to the grounds by
this pleasant means. The boat will be run
throughout the season if our citizens eS-
tend a reasonable support, which we do
not doubt. The enterprise is under the
immediate control of Major F. A. G..
Handy, who will do all in his power for
the comfort of travellers by his line.
Year: 1872

iSPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE. -


Our contemporaries on both sides, and
ourselves not less than others, may we'll
heed these golden words. Bitterness seems
to us strangely out Of place just now. In
these glorious days of the spring time,
when the earth sheds its early bloom over
our common dead, and the majestic unfold
ing of nature wins us from strife, we may
well aspire to share its camness, and to
partake of that Benefcence which bestows


its gifts freely upon all. As children of q
common Father, as citizens of common
country, our interests are one. The loss
Or gain of the lowest or the highest, is
felt through all the structure of our
society. We cannot afford to wrong the
humblest human being, nor to neglect the
most apparently inconsequential interest.


We need, especially at this time, judi
cial calmness of mind which weighs care
fully all evidence, and listens without ex-
element or prejudice to all arguments. 1t
is clear enough that we are in great trans
ition. The people are tired and disgusted
with party catch-words and vulgar slang.
Appeals to pride ofparty, caste, and birth
place have lost their power. They want
sharp issues and words that mean some-
thing, and speak of to-day's needs and du-
ties. The sickly sentimentalism of the
past must give way to robust truths, which
can face an age, vital with electric force.-
How worthy of the time it would be, if we
could dismiss every unmanly prejudice and
mean disire to take undue advantage of
each other, and discuss the great questions
before the country upon their essential
merits. How rapidly would the people be
educated into great political truths, if from
every press and rostrum, they listened to
discussions in this becoming temper. And
this, after all, is the one legitimate object
of fpolitical discussion. to enlighten the peo-
pie and enable them to crystalize their best
thought into laws and institutions, for the
good of all. We feel deeply and sincerely
that we have no interest which does not
harmonize with that of our political oppo-
nent.s We see things differently. If wrong,
it is to our certain loss. But we would be
glad to labor earnestly and zealously with
all fair-minded men, of both parties, to
lessen the distance between us, to soften the
asperities of party strife, and to build up
the great interests that we all have in the
progress and prosperity of our State and
country.
Year: 1872

REGIsTRATIoN.-The registration books
additions, and it behooyes all voters to at
tend to the matter at once. The books
will remain open for three days. Those
who have moved from one ward to an
other since last registration must get a
transfer to enable them to vote at the ap
preaching city election. Those who will
become voters prior to the day of election,
and not previously registered, are entitled
to register. The election takes place on
Thursday, May 23.
Year: 1872

A NEW FARM INDUsTRY.-We no.
tice that in some parts of the world they
are demonstrating the ostrich for the sake
of the feathers. We grow sheep for their
wool, and why not raise ostrich feathers 2
Our Agricultural Department got us some
camels some years ago, but without much
profit. There might be more in these birds.
Let us have the ostriches.
Year: 1872

house that night he made her
an offer of bis heart and hand,
which we're accepted.


And so ends our simple
sketch. If there is any moral id
it, young ladies OF ordinary dis
cernmeht will not fail to dis;
cover it. -
Year: 1872

GThe following waif expresses the Ia
mentation of many heart disappointed
in its aspirations.
shall not forget you: the years may


be tender.
But vain are their efforts to soften my


smart.
And the strong hands of Time are too


feeble and slender,
To garland the grave that is made in


my heart.
Your image is ever about me-be:ore


me,
Your voice floats on the wing Of the


wind !;
And the spell of your presence in alb


sence is Ger me,
And the dead of the past in the present


| find.
can not forget you the one boon un-
The boon of your love is the cross that


L bear;
In the midnight Of sorrow vainly have


striven
To crush in my heart the sweet image


hid there.
To Danish the beautiful dreams that are


thronging
The halls of my memory-dreams worse


than vain
For the one drop withheld am thirst


ing and longing,
For the one JOY denied me I'm plning


in pain.
I would not forget YOU live to re-


member
The beautiful hopes that have bloomed


to decay,
And brighter than June gl9ws the bleak


est December,
When peopled with ghosts of the dreams


passed away.
Once loving you truly, love YOU for
| mourn not in weak, idle grief for the


past !;
But the love in my bosom can never,


oh never
Pass out, or another pass in,first or last.
Year: 1872

A QUIoK QUAErER.-A boy worked
hard all day for a quarter, he bought APP
piles took them to town and sold them
in the street for dollar. With this he
bought sheep-the sheep brought
him lamb. and the fleece brought him
another dollar. lie bought another
sheep. The next year he had two sheer,
Two lambs and yearling sheep. The
three feeces he sold for three dollars,
and bought three more sheep. He now
had eight with fair prospect. lie
worked where he found opportunity, for
hay, com and oats, and pasturing for
his sheep. lie took the choicest care
of them and soon had a flock. Their
wool enabled him to buy pasture for
them, aud by the time he was twenty
one he had fair start in life, and all
from the quarter he had earned in one
day.
Year: 1872

TRUE--A few friends will 60 and
bury us; affection will rear stone and
plant few flowers over our grave, in .
brief period a little hillock will DO
smoothed down aud the stone will fall,
and neither friend or stranger will 10
concerned TO ask which one Of the for.
gotten millions of the earth were buried
there. Every vestige that we ever
loved upon the earth will he vanished
away. All the little memorials Of our
remembrance-tb lock Of hair encseed
in gold, or the portrait that hung in oar
dwelling, will cease to have the slightest
interest to any living being.
Year: 1872

A CORNER IN WIvEs.-''COrners are
not confined to Wall Street, New York,
or to State Street. Boston. Neither
are they made wholly by dealers in stocks
and bonds. The Zulus of South Africa
do not need missionary to teach them
to be shrewd. Though a strong and
robust people, they have a decided
weakness for womankind. They have
as many wives as they have means to
purchase, and, unlike many civilized
countries, they buy not with gold, or
houses, or estates, but with cows. Twen-
ty, thirty, fifty or ! hundred cows are
given for wife, according as the girl
is young and beautiful or otherwise.
One bold Zulu operator with large capi-
tai once bought up all the young and
desirable girls in the market of the whole
region, and compelled all who wanted
to buy to pay him most exhorbitant
prices for wives. OF course t,ere wa,
much distress, and this disastrous state
of things attracted the attention Of their
government, and the recurrence OF it
was prevented by law which fixes the
legal price of a wife to be only ten co IS.
No man can collect more than this by
law. He may receive fifty if he will,
but he can force no one pay more than
ten.


The snow birds have made their ap-
pearance in large numbers, and are
blithe and gay, rejoicing at the near ap-
proach of wintry weather. Look out
for snow.


The original manuscript Of the Decla-
r4t;ol of independence is rapidly fading
away. Already nearly all the signatures
are entirely effaced and the rest cannot
last much longer without something is
done to restore the writing.


A rather trying but certain remedy
for sleeplessness at night, Is to jump out
Of bed in your night clothes, and walk
or your tip toes until thoroughly tired
and cooled of.


The late Mr.. Seward left IN estate
valued at 100000
Year: 1872

sooner or later the storms shall beat


Over my slumbers from head to feet;
Sooner or later the winds shall rave
In the long grass above my grave.
shall not heed them where 1 lie,


Nothing their sound shall signify;
Nothing the headstone fret Of rain;


Nothing to me the dark days pain.
Sooner or later the sun shall shine
With tender warmth on that mound Of


mine;


Sooner or later in summer air,
Clover and violets blossom there.
I shall not feel in that deeP-laid Fest
The sheetiug light fall over my breast,
Nor even note in those hidden hours
The wind-blown breath Of the tossing


flowers.


Sooner or later the stainless SHOWS
Shall add their hush to my mute repose,
Sooner or later shall slant and shin
And heap my bed with their dazzling drift.
Chill through that frozen pail shall seem,
It's touch no colder can make the dream
That wrecks not the sweet and sacred dread,
Shrou ling the city Of the dead.
Sooner or later the bee shall ceme
And I'LL the noon with its golden hum;
Sooner or later on half poised wing
The bluebirps warble about me ring.
Ring and chirrup and whistle with gleo,
Nothing his music means to me;
None Of these beautiful things shall know
How soundly their lover sleeps below.
Sooner or later far out in the night
The stars shall over me wing their iight;
Sooner or later my darkling dews
Catch the white sparks in their silert ooze.
Never ray shall part the gloom
That wraps me round in the kindly tomb;
Peace shall beperfect for my lip and brew
Sooner or later-Oh, why not now?
Year: 1872

BeeCher says:-f'If YOU have no


need of looking unto Jcsus,it is be
cause you are withous aspiration;


II Is because you are degraded;
ft Il because You 90 not understand
either your present conditioner che
dangers which fail upon YOU in con-
sequence of il; il is because you
have not touch or taste of the di-
vine nature in your souls. He who
has no occasion 10 look unto Jesus
is degraded and vRlgar-for vulgar
ity docs not mcau poor Clothes
Nulgarity means 4 poor soul. a
mean soul in broadcloth is vulgar.
A mean man who has a crown on, is
vulgar; and pauper with kings
soul in him is royal lie who can
live in this life and say, .Husks are
good enough for me, and the pigs
that l associate with, and that are
my companions, are good enough
for me; l have no need of looking
unto Jesus woo be that man. Woe
be to him whose heart does not ring
out every day, in every time Of
need, Look unto Jesus look unto
Jesus Woe be to the man who
has no time Of conscious need"
Year: 1872

L saw a man to-day who speaks
four languages-New York, Boston,
HObOken and English. He is very
than Bill Gilbert's
powder. 1t is said that Bill Gflbert's
powder had grains as big as buckle
berry, and that a man might wade
through the bad place six weeks
with a bag full of il on his back
with perfect safety. This man who
is meaner than Bill Gilbert's pow
der, has been promising for two
years to take his family this summer
to a watering place, and one day
last week, after they had been two
weeks packing their trunks, he
hitched up his team and drove them
down to the pump.
Year: 1872

sending him to the United States Sen
ate; but it is very probable that his
candidacy would be the signal for a
grand rally to the McEnery ticket
throughout the State and consequent
division of the conservative strength
in many of the parishes. This will be
the grave question to be decided by
the approaching convention. Ifwisely
disposed of, the Liberal party will
sweep the State like whirlwind, car
rying everything before it. Otherwise
the result will be a division of the
Conservative vote and the probable
triumph of the ultra Radical party
and four years more of corruption and
misrule.


The formation of the balance of the
ticket will not be difficult. 1t is un-
derstood that Mr.. Pinchback will de-
cline any nomination for a State Office,
and will be satisfied with the candi-
dacy.,for Congress, State at large, which
will no doubt be eheerflllly conceded
to him.


We look forward to the action of
the August convention with much So
licitude, and hope that the delegations
will be composed of calm and thought
full men who viii solve the only prob
lesl which remains to give a triumph
ant victory to the Liberal party.
Year: 1872

The development of the political
situation i'm this State during the past
few weeks has been favorable to the
Liberal movement, which has now
assumed proportions which give it the
front rank, in numbers and intelli-
gence, among all parties in opposition
to extreme Radicalism. The endorse
ment of Greeley and Brown at Balti-
more, which is confidently expected,
will add to its strength and the en-
thusiasm of its supporters in the State,
and give it an impetus which will be
irresistible and force the absorption
by it of all ether conservative parties
i'm the State.


While this is true as far as mere po-
litical development is concerned, yet
there remains a delicate duty to be
performed at the approaching conven-
tion of 5th August, which, if not wise
.ly done, may impair the strength and
unity of the Liberal movement, and
thus reduce it to the level of a mere
faction, dividing the conservative vote
of the State and assisting the Demo-
cratic and Reform parties i'll opening
the way for the triumph of the Baton
Rouge Radical ticket and the detested
principles and policy of the party
supporting it. This delicate duty is
the nomination of an acceptable State
ticket, combining the strongest and
best men of the two elements from
which the Liberals will draw their
strength, and preserving at the same
time that just equilibrium between
them which will command the appr0
bation of both.


It is generally conceded that the


first place on the ticket is due to q
Republican-and that Gov. Warmoth
is the choice of his party friends for
that position cannot be doubted.
Yet, while he would command a
larger vote from those Liberals who
come from the Republican side, it Is a
grave question whether this gain
would not be lost by the falling off in
the vote from the Democratic side,
the people having been persistently
educated to look upon him as the
"arch enemy" of the State and the
author of their woes. There is a grow
ing disposition to accept him as the
candidate for Governor, the prejudiees
of many being overcome with the
prospect of 'tgetting ridh Of him by
Year: 1872

consequences which might otherwise
result from the bad faith or irrational
prejudices of the Democratic leaders.
They do not believe that the people
will permit the State to be sacrificed
at the dictation of men who have
shown themselves utterly incompe-
tent to understand the necessities of
the times, and incapable of achieving
anything but defeat.


The Liberal party appeals to all cit
izens who are opposed to Grants adj
ministration; to all who are sincerely
in favor of Greeley and Brown; to
all who wish to defeat the machina-
tions of the corrupt and wicked fac
ton represented by the Baton Rouge
ticket. Their convention, TO be held
on the fifth of August. will represent
a vast majority of the Liberal and
Democratic voters of the State, and
their ticket will be supported by an
array of numerical force, backed by
an amount of moral influence, which
will reduce the Democratic Bolt to
insignificant proportions. The people
understand that in this election the
State must go either for the Liberal
or for the Custom House party. The
success of the one insures our vote for
Greeley and Brown, and will give us
that practical reform in State affairs
which we SO much need. The success
of the other, with Mr.. Kellogg as Gov
ernOr, and reversion of the execu-
tive Office to the notorious G. C.. An
tome, will entail ON us a perpetuation
OF corrupt and yenal legislation and
all the horrors of a government re-
mitted to the hands of the ignorant,
the vicious and the degraded. For
any useful purpose the present Demo-
cratic organization is. powerless. 1t
repels rather than attracts popular
sympathy. 1t appeals only to a name
which has become an empty word +; to
memories which recall the divisions
and resentments of IL bitter past; to
prejudiees and passions which are the
legacy of an era of strife and blood
to issues which have been settled, and
to controversies which are closed.


The Liberal party turns from the
past to the future it seeks to heal the
wounds which years of sectional hate
and angry conflict have inflicted ON
the country; it strives to release the
people from the CALLING fetters of party
tyranny, and to combine in one great
movement all the opposition to the
corrupt and despotic government at
Washington and to the equally cor
rupt and despotic faction which rep
resents the national administration in
this State.


Representing a great popular move
ment and q great popular impulse, it
yields to the dictipn of no cliques and
is subservient to no Individual. 1t in
vites to its councils all who sympa-
thize with its effort to redeem the
State and to cooperate in the re-
dcmption of the nation. 1t is essen
TALLY party OF principle and tolera-
tion, and its action will be influenced
solely by the intelligent public opin-
ion to which it owes its origin, and in
which alone it confides. 1t Itappeals to
the common sense, the yirtue and the
judgment of the people; and to this
appeal the responses are SO general
and so emphatic that it has no longer
any fear of the result.


By order OF the State Central Com
mittee. d. b. PENN, President,


A. HERO, yr., Secretary.
Year: 1872

The editor of the Boston Herald
says we spoke of him as Sackass.
We have no recollection of ever hav-
ing done any thing of the sorts but if
we did, it was a wholly unPsemedi-
tated unkindness to the jahkass.-
Couriey-sJoaraai.
Year: 1872

The cadets ut West Point are said
to be under greater restrictions this
year than ever, and consequently their
lady friends are miserable. Gen. Ru-
ger, the Superintendent, is a very sen
sible and practical man, believing
that military discipline and Irritation
do not go well together.
Year: 1872

In an article on a recent fair in
that city, the editor of a Macoh paper
SAYS brother editor took a valuable
premium, but an nnkind Policeman
made him put it right back vi aere he
took it from.
Year: 1872

May we not forgive the heart OF .
woman for the despairing regret with
which it chngs to the days when she
was beloved, when her existence wa
50 essential to that of another, that its
every instant was protected by his
arms What isolation must succeed
that delicious time Happy they
whom the sacred link of marriage
gently leads from love to friendship.
without one cruel moment having torn
their hearts -~ t'ofiuhc.