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Year: 1872

COnd1tIOn OF FFIuC6 bIsIHHFCH'


BERLIN, May 10.-Prince Bismarck
has not yet recovered from his indispo-
sition, although his physicians enter
tain hopes that BY totally abstaining
from the active exercise Of his official
duties for time, and by retiring to his
estates in the country, where he may
enjoy undisturbed repose, a complete
restoration to health may be effected
His malady is announced as insomnia
or sleeplessness, induced by excessive
mental and physical exertion to which
the Premier has been subjected in con.
sequence of the arduous duties Of his
office for upwards Of year past.
Year: 1872

In one thing, at least, the managers OF
the Cincinnati conclave have made good
their words. They promised to give the
country a genuine Radical platform and
a brace Of died in-the-wool nominees.
This they have done, and so far as their
candidate Tor President is concerned they
could not have found in the ranks OF
their party one better qualified to fill the
position; for has he not been the HE
long bitter foe of the Democracy Is
he not the father of the Radical party,
snd the incarnation OF all revolutionary
heresies and demoralizing isms-Pollt-
icsl moral and social-with which the
country ia cursed?
Year: 1872

From the Enfaula lAla.) Times


In reply to the question that has been
put TO US already about forty times, as
10 what we think OF the ticket, We have
only this to say: If it is the ticket
that can beat Grant then we are for 1t
with all our might and main.
Year: 1872

The policy Of the South at the pres
,nt moment should be passlve-"a
mastery inactivity" We cannot, of
course, secure the nomination OF such
men as we prefer. We have had no
psrt or lot in the present nominations
and are .in no manner responsible Tor
them. Let us consider the matter
calmly and leisurely, and cast our influ.
rnce and votes as future events will
prove 10 be best for our own interest.
Year: 1872

him and Grant or any other nominee Of
the Philadelphia Convention, we ex.
pect to throw whatever OF influence we
NAV possess in his favor and take the
chances, slender though they may be,
of betrering the condition of the South
and the whole country by his election
as President.
Year: 1872

From the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.l


The enthusiastic responses already
flashed from every quarter OF the
country encourage US TO hope that the
ticket which we hoist this morning Tor
the Presidential contest OF 1872 will be
elected by a majority commensurate
with the magnitude Of the political
revolution it has inaugurated.
Year: 1872

frOHl Tue new OEledhs Doc


1t is very doubtful if Mr.. Greeley
will receive the vote Of his own State.
Blu, it is scarcely doubtful that the
Democratic party will decline to indorse
hin. If the Republican party had
risen to the heighth Of the occasion and
nominated statesman at Cincinnati
worthy OF the support OF the Democrats,
the latter would probably have given
him their support. But as they have
not done so the Democracy will doubt
less consider themselves at liberty to
nominate such a man themselves, and
they will take him from their own
ranks.
Year: 1872

From the Nashville (Tenn.) Union.l


Its election depends solely upon the
action of the Democracy Whatever
they shall conclude is best to be done
for the highest interests Of the country
will be done cheerfully. They vii!
preserve their organization intact and
act as body. With the lights before
US we do not doubt that when In
National Convention assembled they
will take such action as will lead to
the defeat of Grant and the election Of
the ticket presented at Cincinnati.
Year: 1872

We cannot suppose that any respecta-
ble number OF Northern Democrats
really contemplate such tomtoolery as
the nomination of Democratic ticket.
Such a ticket would receive no support
at the South, and every vote cast tor 1t
would inure to the benefit Of Grant and
the re>establishment of extreme Radi-
calism.
Year: 1872

From the Lynchburg, VA Republican,


While it may be advisable to await
he action of the Democratic party,
through their chosen representatives,
We have no hesitancy in expressing the
opinion that, should there be no Demo
crate nominations, wisdom and policy
alike dictate a cordial and enthusiastic
support Of the Cincinnati ticket by the
people OF the South.
Year: 1872

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.l


We are inclined to think that the
Democracy will adopt it, but the situa-
ton is not of that positive kind-the
road before us is not Of that assured
and open description-to render our
action perfectly clear in advance. We
commit the question therefore, to those
whose business il is to determine the ac-
tion OF the Democracy as an organiza-
ton. They must decide it. The Ma
tional Democratic Committee meets in
New York next Wednesday, and it will
and ought to call a National Demo-
cratic Convention. That body will
finally settle the point, and in Ken.
lucky we have nothing to do but wait
upon its action, holding our local organ
izAtjon, in the meantime, well in hand.
Year: 1872

From the Louisville Ledger.


With what face can Horace Greeley
ask the support of the Democrats? 4? Not
three weeks since he declared he would
support that Republican ticket which
exhibited the best chance OF success,
and that he would support Grant
whom he declares is dishonest and cor
rupt-in preference to the very best
Democrat in the world.
Year: 1872

After the Chief Of Our Finance Bureau u


with q Sharp Stick-Two Motions to


Punish Him for Contempt In Disobey-


Ing the Ma ndatcs OF the Court-Decfsion


Upon One Motion in Allegiance and the
other To he Heard To-day.


There seems to be an effort not to say a positive
determination, in certain circles to prove con.
temptuous disregard by the Comptroller Of the
mandates OF the Supreme Court Judges, and this
fact proven to punish him accordingly A few
days since Judge Fancher, holding Supreme Court,
Chambers, was natly and explicitly asked to COM
init him to prison for alleged failure to comply
with peremptory mandamus OF the Court direct.
ing him to pay the salary OF messenger OF the
Board Of Supervisors Before the Judge has had
sufcient time to arrive at a decision upon this ap-
plication he Is importuned from another source to
place


THE COMPTROLLER IN CONTEMPT.


The latter application came about in this wise.
Several weeks ago, as VIII be remembered, q mo-
ton was made in this Court on behalf OF Commits
sioner Van Mort, OF the Department OF Public
Works, for percmptory mandamus requiring the
Comptroller to deposit In the Chemical National
Bank money to the credit OF the Department or
Public Works. to he used for the payment Of work.
Year: 1872

Appeals from the Court OF Claims


Steamers Chartered by the Governme ent


During the War.


WASHINGTON, Nov. IA, 1872.


No. 22S New Bedford and New York Steam Pro
peller Company VS.. United States-Appeal from
the Court of Claims.-This was a demand for a
balance due under charter party with the United
States and Tor the loss of the steamer Thorn while
in the employ OF the United States The vessel was
agreed that II the vessel should remain in the
service so long that the money paid on
the charter (atter deducting actual cost of
running and repair and net profit OF thirty three
per cent on the appraised va!ue) should be equal in
value to the estimated value OF the vessel, then 1t
shall become the property OF the government with
out further payment, except such sum as was
due Oh account OF the service Of the vessel Eleven
months after the company put in q claim for the
party. The department, however, disalowed the
account rendered, and iOund to be due, under the
agreement for the vessel, only $2s,eo2 80, which
sum was paid and receipted for by the company
The Court below held that whether the govern
ment elected to purchase and did purchase the yes
sci, or whether the vessel lost by the peril Of
the sea-against which the government was to in
sure-thc accruing clause OF the charter party
was equally applicable. 1t was only the balance
due on the price OF the vessel, under the agree
ment, and not the valuation, the company could
claim The appeal claims that unless the earnings
ton to purchase. and the government were not
therefore entitled under the clause. G. II. Hill, for
government; Chipman Durant Peck, for claim
ant.


No. 229. Clyde VS.. United States-Appeal from
the Court OF Claims.-This was claim for services
OF two steamers chartered to the government, one
at the rate OF $500 and the other AZ $3.50 per day.
Subsequently the Quartermaster General issued or.
ders reducing the rate for the former to S175 and
the latter to 5000 per day, and upon closing the
account the department paid that sum, which
was received by claimant and o receipt given In
full for the account. The Court OF Claims held that
this settlement BY receipt in full, accompanied by
the acceptance OF the amount declared to be due
by the department, must be considered q bar to
the action. The appeal claims that the steamers
were demanded Of the government Immediately
upon notice OF reduction OF pay, and that the
department retained them against the will OF the
owners, and that. Tor this reason, the claimant is
entitled to the full amount as originally hxed. In
view OF this TACT II In contended that the receipt
Year: 1872

In the latter case the lnnuence OF the decrease ln
latitude becomes very marked, owing to the trend
OF isogonic lines. The latitude OF Pueblo was de.
at 80 deg. "A min. all these determinations how
ever leaving q slight margin OF possible error OF
about one-half to one minute OF angle.


As II is desirable to correct the magnetic maps
as at present In similar survey ought TO be at
once Instituted along the Union Pacific route, In
order to fully harmonize the magnetlc systems Q!
Canada in which latter section the British govern
ment Is carrying on similar survey as 1t has hcre-
the accessible coasts OF the globe. Almost until now
the magnetic survey OF the interior remains pri-
vate enterprise OF the heads OF the leading govern
mental and lerated scieDtinc Institutions og the
c0untD
Year: 1872

Before Judge Benedict.


Counsel for ''patent pavement contractor yes
terday applied for an injunction to restrain the
Board of City Works from entering into contract
to lay pavement on Henry street, which the con-
tractor says infringes on his patent Corporation
Counsel De Witt said that pavement OF exactly
that description was laid in the Bowery New
York, thirty years ago. Mr.. De Witt also claimed
that there could be no patent in the form OF a
stone, and II there could be the Board had not got
the form called for in the patent.


1t was cOntended in opposition that the contrac-
tor had large amount invested In his patent for
just such pavement as the Board intended to lay
on Henry street. and he would sustain heavy
pecuniary loss If the Board were not restrained.


Decision reserved.
Year: 1872

This an is highly spoken of, aud commeR-
ds itself strongly TO the judgment Or
the old gentleman may bind her ankles 10
an anvil and upset her out of 8 boat 1t


would be needless 70 point out the advan-
tages of this plan. Finally, if he is too
tender-hearted or aft 4ctionate TO adopt any
of the foregoing methods, let him lay her
properly hloroFormed-beneath the up
turned root Of mighty oak, and severing
the trunk, let back the mountain of
earth into its appointed place With so
great q variety Of methods from which to
chose. this anxious old gentleman ought
not to be very long in solving the problem
tn which he has set his intelleot.-GS San
Francisco gS-Letter.
Year: 1872

AT the former Jubilee it was expected
the >ingin. OF the chorus would be heard
all over Boston. This time Sanguine indi-
yidualS propheSied that all the surround
in4 towns would have their ears filled with
music. But all have been disappointed
The Boston Journal says that the actual
vocal result confirms the theory that the
whole vOiQmn OF choral roar reaches as far
A. the most penetrating sound within it and
no tarther-just a if 4 thousand archer>,
drawn up in line, We're to discharge their
arrows. none of them would reach further
than that of the best archer among them.
ard he could send his at no greater distance
in concert than ii he pulled his bow all by
himself. The principal is no means novel,
but All immense Boston delusion to the
effect that the chorus would be heard half
way to Worchester and Cohasset Beach.
is dissipated.
Year: 1872

A well known preacher. being seen
in the streets of New York in Sha-
ker garb. was asked by friend, What
in the world sent you into that COM
munity! The reply was, Three good
meals day and plenty of warm cloth
ing are not to be sneezed at"
Year: 1872

y week or two since a citizen of Gar
diner had lame foot, and went to the
agency and got some liquor to bathe it
in. After he had bathed his foot he
thought he would jus. test it little
SO he stuck his foot over the fire, and it
didn't get any better pretty fast. He
said he put his foot into seven different
pals of water and it made each of them
boil, but he hasn't papers to prove it.
Year: 1872

There was wedding. too, at st Jude's
church one happy evening, aud the gray
headed old man arose and gave his
daughter away to me.


She is just the sweetest little wife in
ChriSendom, and we have 50 worked
matters that when we go to her home
the supper table fairly gfoans with the
weight of delicious eatables. 50 much
for persistence
Year: 1872

for vote them down always. You have less taxes to
pay and cheaper valuation to pay them on. Economy
is everything you have high opinion of the fu-
ture of the town you need not do anythngsto realize
it. town with future can build ITSELF Split up
into little cliques Get up all kinds of impracticabie
conditions Find fault with everybody but yourself
Resolve to held on to these notions and ways till
somebody builds you railroad and makes you pres
ent Of it Perhaps they will do it.
Year: 1872

HOW TO PUILD 4 TOWN on PUGET SOUND


Expect other people to feel more interest In the well


fare of the town than its citizens do. If any OF the
citizens begin to work for the public welfare choke
him off. He is only trying to grind an ak. Alter
keeping the inhabitants perfectly quiet for sufficient
time if an outsider should take any interest in mat
ters take it for granted that he is trying to sell out
the town. Ii he to buy property ask him three
prices If he offers to help the place on conditions
reject the conditions once. To accept them might
benefit the town too suddenly and inure things. If
subscriptions of land asked for do not give them


Somebody else would them then, and there's
nothing like owning land and waiting for somebody
else 10 noprove il free Of cost If bonds are called
Year: 1872

Copies Of Testimony 10 be Sent for.


ST.. LOUIS, March G.-The Democrats
special from Topeka, KS, says Senator
Caldwell did not state iao;s in the Senate
when he said the Legislature had refused
10 order copy Of the testimony Of the
investigating committee TO he sent 10 the
Vice President on account Of the report
OF the committee on the House concur.
rent resolution, unanimously adopted,
directing the Secretary OF State TO send
q copy TO each OF the Kansas Senators
and 10 the Vice President to lay before The
Senate. Three days after the Senate took
up the resolution and struck out that
portion requiring the testimony TO be sent
to the Vice President. The House
refused 10 concur in this and the
Senate refused Ia reccdc. The
House then, thinking the Senate would do
nothing, passed the resolutions of its own,
and directed the Speaker OF the House 10
send the testimony direct to the Vice
President. When the Senate found that
the testimony was TO be sent independent
Of its own action, It rcccded from its
amendment and passed the concurrent
resolution in its original form. When


this action became known 10 the House,
that body rcscindcd lis action directing
the Speaker TO send the testimony, as it


preferred it should go as the action


Of both houses. In its last hours
the Senate rcconsiderel its action. In
fact the motion to reconsider was car
ried. The resolution is said to havc been
stolen, but there is copy Of it in exist
encc, and it is possible the fear Of conse-
qucnccs may lave overcome the desire to
make money, and that the resolution and
testimony may go. No certified copy has
yet been made 10 the Secretary OF State
however, by the clerk OF either House.
the testimony will not be printed till the
last of March, and it is the printed copy
that Is to be sent. II may be as well 10
state that some intimate fIiends of the
Governor, soy il the journals do not show
a true statement Of the proceedings of the


Legislature, an extra session will be called
Year: 1872

The Pittsburgh Gazette has just en-:
larged and put on new dress, with a
change OF head. While the Gazette Is al.
ways flrst.class in respect to enterprise
and the ability of its editorial conduct, it
is now more attractive and newsy in typo
graphical appearance than ever. 1t would
be hard to say now how the Gazette as it
lies before us could be improved.
Year: 1872

PRoF. BRA1NERD, of Washington City,
in an article that we copy from tho
Chronicle, tells us what is ultimately TO
become Of tho earth. 1t Is not q cheerful
prospect for posterity, but this generation
need borrow no trouble. The globe will
doubtless last our time out and then sev.
eral years.
Year: 1872

The Grant and Wilson men formed club
here on Saturday evening last. The County
Coroner led off, the list Of members served as
jurors Judge Hale summed up the case and the
verdict was very sick but not quite dead. Judge
Hale talked two hours and five minutes, confined
most Of the time to Grants financial rut Judge
Hale is an able speaker but the was so bad
that he made humating failure, and Mitchell,
who followed told them that wp' what was the
matter
Year: 1872

New INDUsTRY.-B reference to new adver-
tisement in another column, it will be seen that
W. Hathaway and M. SWEET have opened cooper
shop and wine cask factory at Ophir, in this
county where everything in that line required
by the public, and especially our vine cultursts
and wine manufacturers, can be supplied at the
shortest notice, This is an important and much
needed enterprise i'll this section of the State and
should be literally patronized by the whole pub
lic We direct the special attention of our readers
to the card in another column, and bespeak for
the new enterprise liberal and substantial sup
port
Year: 1872

There is a dreadful ambition to he


'genteel." We keep up appearances
too often at the expense of honesty; /;
and though we are not rich, we
must seem to be So. We must be
"resI.cCtable." though only in the
meanest sense-iu mere vulgar out
ward show. We have not courage
u go patiently onward in the con
dition Of life which it has pleased
God TO call us, hut must need live
in some fashionable state To which
we ridicu.Ously please To cali oar
selves, an 10 CRAFTY the vanity of
that unsubstantial, gcnteel world Of
which we form a part. There Is a
constant struggle and pressure for
front seats in the social amphithea-
tire, in the midst of which all noble,
selfdenying resolve Is trOdden
down, and many fine natures are in
cvitablv crashed TO death. What
waste, what misery, what bankrupt
cV, come from all this ambition 10
dazzle others with IA glare of appa
rent worldly success we need not de
scribe. The mischievous results
show themselves in q Thousand
ways-in the rank frauds commit
ted by men who dare tn be dishon
est. but do not dare TO seem poor;
and in the desperate dashes st for
tuLe, in which the pity Is not so
much for Il ose who fail as for the
hundreds Of innocent families who
are SO involved In their ruin.
Year: 1872

A correspondent Of an exchange
says: l assert what | believe to be
a fact, that the Southern field pea is
better for the South than clover.
both as a manurial agent and IS
provender for stock. In making
this assertion | do not wish to be
understood as attempting to discour
age the cultivation OF clover
would advise all persons who have
the soil or facilities for growing it to
do so. But it is because / believe
comparatively few have these facIli-
tics, aud because ! know that peas
can be grown successfully on all
farms. that l recommend the cult
vation Of the latter above that ofthe
former.


The field pea can he grown sue
cessfully in every section, and on
almost all soils throughout the
South. Glover cannot. Peas are
easier sown, are surer to gvrminate,
grow faster, and afford more protec
ton to the land at the right time
than clover Two crops eau be
grown yearly on the same land in
every Southern State; the seed re-
quired to plant a given area costs
less; it is as good a fertilizer as
clover. and makes as good winter
provendcr when properly cured. Be
sides the seed peas when gathered
either green or dry, make an excel
lent article of foud for stock, aaJ
even Tor man. 1t is unsurpassed
for fattcning hogs; unsurpassed as a
green manure: and, TO crown all, il
will grow on all. sorts OF soil, and
won't be long about it anywhere.
Year: 1872

5aylv and gayly rang the gay music,
me { Lllthe' merry music OF harp and oI
The mad, merry music, that set us a
dancing
TIL over the midnight came stealing


the morn.
Down the great hall went waving the


banners,
Waving and waving their rcd, white


and blue,
As the sweet summer winds came blow


ing and blowing
From the city's great gardens asleep in


the dew
Under the nags, as they nOated and


fozted,
Under the arches and arches Of aowers.
We two and We two fcated and hoated
Into the mystical midnight hours.
And just az the dawn came stealing and


stealing
rhe last OF those wild Weber waItzes


began.
can hear the soft notes now appealing


and pleading,
And catch the faint scent OF theaan-


dal-wOod fan
That lay in your hand, your hand on


my shoulder,
As down the great hall, away and


away,
All under the Gags and under the arch
We danced and we danced till the dawn


Of the day.
But why should dream Ger this drea-


~ old ledger,
IA this cOunIug-room down ia this


dreary old street.
OF that night or that morning, just there


at the dawning,
When our hearts beat in time to our


fast-fying feet?
What is it that brings me that scene Of


enchantment,
SO fragrant and fresh from out the dead


years,
rhal just for a momenl I'd swear that


the music
OF Weber's wild waltzes was still IN my


ears2
What Is it, indeed, in this dusty old al


ley,
That brings me that night or that morn


ing in June?
What Is it, indeed ?--I laugh to confess


it
hand organ grinding a creak old


tunel
But somewhere or other caught in the


measure
That waltz of Won Weber's, and back it


all came,
That night or chat morning, just there


At the dawning,
When I danced the last dance with my


first and last flame.
Ny first and my last! but who would


believe me
T, down in this dusty old alley to-day,
Twixt the talk about cotton, the mar


kets, and money,
should suddenly turn in some mo-


ment and say
That one memory only had left me


lonely
And gray-bcarded bachelor, dreaming
of Junes,
Where the nights and the mornings,
from the dusk to the dawnings,
5eemrd set to the music of Weber's wild
tunes!


-Nora Perry in June "Galary."
Year: 1872

What constitutes true lovelinessF
Not the polished brow, nor show
and parade Of fashionable life. A
woman may have all the outward
mark of beauty, and yet not possess
a lovely character. 1t IS the heart.
where meekuess, truth, affection,
humility are found, where we seek
for .oveliness nor do we look IN
vain. The woman who can soothe
the aching heart, smooth the wrink-
lea brow. alleviate the anguish of
the mind, ana pour the balm of con
ISOLATION in wounded breast, pos
sesses in an eminent degree, trne
loneliness of character 1t IS such
a character that blesses with
warmth and sunshine, anu maketh
earth to resemble the paradise OF
God.
Year: 1872

The young women are not the
only ones making fools OF them
selves over the Dolly Warden fu-
rOre. Itis now stated that the NEST
fashionable BARRIERS put the dolly
Warden" touch on the heads OF the
exquisite young men who are
able 70 afford a chair dress everv
time they so out To an evening pa
". The style consists IN pasting
the hair down lower on thu forehead.
and making a regular 'Mose" soap
lock IN front of each ear. The wear
ers look sweet enough TO kick.