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Year: 1871

Nay, speak no lila kindly word


Can never leave sting behind;
And oh, to breathe each tale we've heard,
Is far beneath noble mind.
For oft a better seed is s0wn


By choosing thus a kinder plan;
For If but little good we know,


Let's speak of all the good we can.
Give me the heart that fain would hide.
Would fain another's faults eiface.
How can il please our human pride
To prove humanity but base?
No, let it reach higher mode,


A nobler estimate of man;
Be earnest in the search of good,


And speak of all the best we can.
Then speak no ill, but intent be


To others feeling as your own!
If you're the first fault to see.


Be not the first to make it known,
For life is but a passing day.


No lips can tell how brief the stay.
Be earnest in the search of good


And speak Of all the good we may.
Year: 1871

GEORGE M. ARNoLD.-Thisg gentleman
halls from North Carolina, and has been Tor
some time in Virginia canvassing in favor of
the Republican party. Mr.. Arnold is a
colorcd man Of Extraordinary ability, and
has made most favorable impression
wherever brought before the public.


His views upon political matters are of
the more moderate character, but he is as
sound as a Spanish dollar upon oil the
great principles of the party. Ills tberali-
ty has won him host of admirers among
the white Republicans of the State, and has
made him no enemies among his own race.


His efforts in behalf of the party entitle
him to the respect and gratitude of Repub-
licans in the State, and we have no doubt
he will return home carrying with him
many kind wishes for his future happi-
ness. We regret his determination TO leave
V'rs mia before the present campaign shall
have been closed; but, what IS our loss
viii be the gain of his native State, for there
are few, North or South, that can afford to
lose the services Of so able and zea'ous a
Republican as he.
Year: 1871

AN INVITATION WHICH WE CANNOT
ACCEPT.-One of the candidates for the
Legislature "a Democrat) asked us this
morning to write an article in favor Of the
election Of Democratic Legislature this
tall. We would do so most checrfully
were we more than an enemy of Virginia
than We are. We would do so it we watt
cd to see Democracy utterly destroyed, for
the people would become so thoroughly dis
gusted with second Democratic Iegisla-
ture, that we feel sure they would wipe
their hands of it ever afterwards.


We don't want TO see Democracy
destroyed, we need and must have a
proper opposition, for without it our par
" would become imbecile. Democracy
being less respectable and more unpopular
than any other party that might grow into
existence, we would hayesit Jest what it is
and nothing else. Were it national, il
might effect us more seriously, but beng
narrow, contracted, and sectional, it cantlo
but little harm beyond its present limited
sphere. Were we less friend to the peo-
pie and more an enemy of Virginia's inter-
est, we would urge the election of o Demo-
cratic legislature. Were we an enemy Of
free schools, of the homestead, of the rights
of the colored people, and in short, were
we hypocrite to the vote we gave in fav-
or of the present constitution, then we
might consent to favor the election
of a Democratic Legislature +; but
until we are all ssthest until we are the
enemy of free government, a traitor to the
Union, an enemy 10 all that is dear to in
dividuals and patriots, we shall oppose with
all our energies the pn,ting Of power into
the hands of the Democratic party. Did
we not agree with the great Democratic
apostle, Blair, that Democracy was failure
and humbug, we might consent TO Fink
our fortunes to it; but having carefully
considered the differences which divide the
two parties, we would at any time rather
drink with our Democratic friend than adj
wise our readers to elect him and his asst,-
ciates TO The Iegislature.
Year: 1871

A SUGGESTION TO THE ''DISPATCI"
IA Gold Metal WdR' R'ed.-We observe
the D,epoich is to award gold medal to
the best drilled military company that may
visit our Fair. We would suggest to it the
procurement of one for our Governor, who,
as he has not failed at any of the lesser
ones, will, of course, not fail to exhibit
himself here next week and as ours is to
be the Fair of the season, where only the
best animals can expect to secure pre-
MUM, the Governor, who is in good cond-
ton for exhibition, will probably be entitled
to one.


The Dispatch knows to what class OF
animals the Governor most properly be-
longs, and has the time to procure an APP
propriate figure head and motto. Let the
ears be of proper length and there will be
no objections to the appearance of the
rest
Year: 1871

THE STATE FAIR AND ADVERTISING.
The State Fair will bring to Richmond next
week thousands of people from all parts of
Virginia and adjoining States. They will
come here for the double purpose of seeing
the sights and transacting business. Retail
merchants viii surely avail themselves of
the opportunity to lay in their fall stocks of
goods, and almost every visitor VII want
something to be found in the stores Of our
merchants.


The customers will be here by thous-
ands, and they WI also have thousands Of
dollars to lay outingoods. 1t only remains
for such of our business men who wish to
make the most Of the occasion to lay the
proper information before thepublic through
Che columns of the newspapers.


We suggest the STATE JOURNAL as the
best advertising medium in the city. We
have determined to receive advertisements
during The fair week at greatly reduced
rates, and invite our business men to send
in their fayors. The various editions of our
paper are already large, but will be UNI
usually so during far week, so that adyer-
tisements in our columns will meet the eyes
Of the many thousands who will throng the
city.
Year: 1871

Our friend, the Whig, is extremely pug
nacious this MOI aing, because, as il
charges, the people of the North are d's-
posed to "snub'' the people of the South
in every way possible. Now all this would
be well enough, and its indis nation would
partake somewhat of righteousness, but for
the acknowledgment that the tine aocs
when the Southern people treated those oil
the North in the same way.


Did the Wing ever read the Ok and Boil
story? We presume it has, therefore we
will not repeat it.


Did it ever hear "What's sauce for the
Goose is sauce for The Gander?" We
imagine it has, but it don't like being the
Gander bit.


1t objects to their failure to copy from
Southern newspapers. This charge is a
true one, but why should they do it?
With few exceptions, and those confined to
Republican papers, Southern journals are
filed with ISLANDERS and abuse Of the North,
and her people, and except to show the ami
mus, there is no reason to imagine abuse
of themselves, would be acceptable to Their
readers.


Long since, the masses Of the North
have learned the unkind feeling towards
themselves, as evinced in every Democratic
paper IN the South, and there is no longer
a necessity, even as matter of news, for
copying from our leading papers matter
already furnished to them.


Northern people world l''se occasionally
to see something from our papers inviting
them to bring hhe'r capital and enterprise
among us, but n its stead they find a pre-
ference always expressed for foreign immi-
grafton and capital. Forcis s.icrs with capi-
tai are satisfied to remain in the Old World, /,
or if they elect to try the New, they prefer
the prosperous North to the indolent and
fast decaying South Foreigners without
capital are of but little service to Virginia,
or Virginia to them, for they can always
find in the great West more profitable
field and more conger'al association.


The section thus supercilously snub-
bed," snubs itself. These thirteen great
States though their intelligent white men
say they are opposed to the government and
its present policies, and if the intelligence
had its choice it would be glad to sever its
connection altogether. But it may be
truly said our people are the hardest to
please that cyst on the earth. If they are
let alone, they cry 6 snubbed," if any thing
is said Of them and their States, they say
the "cussed'' Yankee is interfering with
our business, and so on, and so on.


OF one thing we may be sure, and that
is, that the Northern people, who are the
power of tbs government, have exhausted
their patience trying to conciliate the people
of the South. They have fed us on sugar
and candies as long as there was hope of
our ceasing to bawl, and if they have de-
ternined to let us severely alone, we have
none to blame but ourselves. They want
and intend to make us pay taxes, (our por-
ton, and if we wont come in and see the
show after paying our money, why we can
stay out, but the show must 90 on, as there
is a crowd inside that have paid their
money, and taken their choice Oh The in
side
Year: 1871

was much touched says correspond.
ent writing for the ruins of Peshtigo with
the story of Joseph Lasue. He was a
farmer In the Bush, with a wife and
five children. They had fought to the
last, and left only when the flames flash


ed clean over their building. Lasure
carried his three-Year old boy, and Lis
wife babe. All kept together, with
the flames striking them at every step,
for 30 rods. The wife could go no farth-
er, and dropped with her stifed babe in
her arms. The father had now to drop
his little three-year old, who was picked
up in turn by the elder boy of thirteen.
The brave boy carried the little fellow
for nearly quarter of mile, when both
sank down together. Little Floy, nine
years old, and their only girl, stood it
the smartest of all, and kept ahead of
her father for half mile, cheering him
on with brave words, when all the rest
had persisted. She had now to pass over
burning grass, when her dress was en-
veloped in flames. ''Oh, if I could Only
have saved that girl p said the grief
choked father, and his story was ended.
A young lad, next neighbor to Lasure,
who was saved, had much to tell of little
Floy. She vas the smartest scholar at
school She read fnelysin the 9Th read
or, and could spell down all the scholars
She was small of size, exceedingly bright,
beautiful, active and sweet tempered.
ALI the living in Sugar Bush will remem-
ber long and speak tenderly of the little
heroine.
Year: 1871

Colonel Montgomery was shot III a
duel about dog; Colonel Ramsey in one
about servant; Mr.. Featherstone In
one about a recruit Sterne's father in
one about goose /; and another gentle
man in one about an acre of anchoyies
one officer was challenged for merely
asking his opponent to enjoy the second
goblet and another was compelled to
fight about pinch of snuff General
Barry was challenged by Captain Smith
for declining wine at dinner on a steam
boat, although the General had pleaded
as an excuse that wine invariably made
him sick; and Lieutenant Cowther lost
his life in duel because he was refused
admittance to club of pigeon shooters.
In 1777 duel occurred in New York
city, between Lieutenant Featherstone-
haugh, of the 10th, and Captain McPher-
son, of the 42d British regiment, in re-
gard to the manner of eating an ear of
corn, one contending that the best eat
ing was from the cob and the other that
the grain should be cut off from the cob
before eating. Lieutenant Featherstone-
haugh lost his right arm, the ball from
his antagonists pistol shattering the
limb dreadfully, so much so that it had
to be amputated. Graham, Major Noah's
assistant editor on the National Advocate,
lost his life in 1927, at the duelling
ground at Hohoken, with Barton, the
son -in-law of Edward Livingston, in q
simple dispute about "'what was trumps"
in game of cards.
Year: 1871

The concentration of power in stroke
of lightning, acting through an incon-
ceivably small interval of time, may per-


haps be realized after examining its work
of destruction, yet its inductive action
on the earth's surface is not less wonder
full. Prof A. NJ. Mayer made an ex-
pertinent, some time since, which de-
monstrated the extent of this action.
He connected the wire of galvanometer
with the water pipes of Baltimore, Nd,
and Joined the other end of the coil to a
gas-pipe of Louise in the southwestern
part of the city. Thus a vast metallic
system of electric nerves stretched three
miles towards the northwest, to the
reservoir, and about as many miles to
the east and southeast, over the city.
A thunderstorm was raging at the time
in the north, at so great distance that
only the illuminations of the clouds told
when a fash occurred Yet whenever
that fash took place, the needle of the
galvanometer was instantly detected
through ten or twenty degrees. So
nearly simultaneous were the two occur
rences that no difference in the instant
of their manifestation could be detected.
Shutting himself up in dark room
containing the galvanometer, he signaled,
when the needle moved, TO an observer
of the storm, who also gave signal
whenever a flash occurred and the ex-
change of signals was always found to
be simultaneous. 1t was aseertained on
the following day that the storm was
more than twelve miles distant, thus
showing that over 500 square miles of
earth's surface was effected at each fash
of the lightning. b..
Year: 1871

The Everglades are Just submerged


prairie, and they exhibit the manner III
which the great Western prairies were
formed. Drain the Everglades, lit could


be DONE and the present islands would


be hills. Submerge a prairie, and Its
hills would become islands. No tree is
found ON the Everglades, because they
are constantly covered with water; no
trees are found on the prairies, because
they were long covered with water


Time will come when this vast plain will
be clear of water, and then we shall have
large surface, like the prairies, clear
OF trees, and fitted for cultivation by
man. In these little Everglade islands
the palm hourishes, and also the orange
and every other tree of Florida. The
caster-oil plant grows up to be large
tree of several years life. The arrow
root and sweet-potato patches merely re-
quire that stirring of the ground neces-
sary in removing the full-grown roots to
cause the younger ones to grow and keep
on growing. 1t is really not necessary
to plant more than once. 1t is a lazy
mans paradise. No wonder the Indians
were unwilling to move to the West it
was not the graves of their fathers they
we're unwilling to leave, it was their
potato and pumpkin patches. Their
pumpkin is small, round and sweet they
cut 1t open, put in raccoon or opossum,
cover it with ashes and bake it in the
fire. The hunters think it a superb
dish. Another plan is to take a fish Just
off the hook, and without scaling or
cleaning, wrap it up in green leaves and
bake it in the same way. Hunters use a
wet newspaper. It is done when, if you
tear a piece of the wrapping, the skin
and scales come off with it. You tear
off skin and wrapping from one side, and
eat the flesh, turn it over and eat the
other, and throw bones and inside away.


Indians in small numbers are still
found near the Everglades. They do
not like the whites, are not sociable, but
there is talisman that will move them
out of stoicism into cordiality, there is
a sesame that will open an Indians
heart and mouth, and that is whisky.
They are the only savages who have
never invented an intoxicating liquor of
their own. Their only idea of civiliza-
ton is to get drunk. Ride into their
own country, put up with Chief, give
him whisky and promise him more, and
he and his are at your service SO long as
your whisky lasts.
Year: 1871

A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. "A curious and
somewhat startling accident occurred IN
BrooklyD,N Y An ordinary range boiler
burst and the hot water very badly scald-
ed lady and several children who we're
in the kitchen. On examination the
boiler was found to be very thin.
Plumbers have been in the habit of re-
presenting that this class of boilers, or.
more properly speaking, hot water reser-
voirs might collapse from defective
supply of water, but could not explode
"a theory under which thousands Of
families have rested in confiding security.
The present instance is fatal to this
notion of the constitution of range boil
ers, and it is to be hoped that 1t will be
carefully investigated. Nothing would
add more to the discomfort of the average
American household than a lurking
suspicion concerning the safety of its
kitchen, especially if the suspicion should
gain access to the minds of the already
unreliable cook and laundress.
Year: 1871

He loves not well whose love is bold


l would not have thee come too nigh
The SUMS gold woula not seem pure gold


Unless the sun were in. the sky =
To take him thence and chain him near
Would make his beauty disappear.
He keeps his state-do thou keep thine,


And shine upon me from afar
So shall bask in light divine, br4


That falls from Loves own guiding star
So shall thy erninence be high,


and so my passion shall not die.
But all my life shall reach its hands


OF lofty longing toward thy face,
And be as one who speeehless stands


In rapture at some perfect grace.
My love, my hope, my al shall be
To look to heaven and lookto thee,
Thine ewes shall be the heavenly lights;


Thy voice shall be the summer breeze,
What time it sways, on mOonlit nights,


The murmuring tops Of leafy trees;
And | will touch thy beauteous form
In June's red roses, rich and warm. f,
But thou thyself shalt not come down


From that pure region far above =,
But keep thy throne and wear thy crown,
Queen OF my heart and queen Of love =
A monarch in thy realm complete,
And I monarch-at-thY feet az
Year: 1871

A NOVEL GARDEN.-The young King
of Bavaria has an immense garden on
the roof of his palace at Munich which
is said to rival the celebrated hanging
gardens of Sepiramis. In the center OF
it there is a lake with fishes and swans
swimming in it, and this is surrounded
by woods in which there are various
animals and birds, and also rock-work
and grottoes. The rocks had to be hol-
lowed out before transporting them to
the roof, the better to enable the build
ing to bear their weight. There Is in
the center of the garden sort of tent or
pavilion of great magnifcence, which no
one but the King ever enters. The
apartments under the palace roof were
formerly occupied by the ladies of honor,
but they have been converted into
stables, because too much time was re-
quired to hoist horses to the roof when
ever the King wished to ride or drive
through this fairy-ike resort.
Year: 1871

The old red cent is rapidly passing
away ont of the United States currency,
and it will not be long before it will only
be known in memory and numismatic
collections. Its history is. a matter of
sufficient interest for preservation. The
cent was first proposed by Robert Morris


the great financier of the revolution, and
was named by Jefferson two years af-
ter. 1t began to make its appearance
from the mint in 1892. 1t bore the head of
Washington on one side and thirteen
links ON the other. The French reYo-
lution soon created a rage for French
ideas, which put on the cent, instead of
the head of Washington, the head of the
Goddess of Liberty-a French Liberty,
with flowing locks. The chain on the
reverse was replaced by the olive wreath
of peace. But the French Liberty was
short lived, and so was her portrait on
the cent. The next head or figure sue
ceeding this-the staid classic dame with
fillet around her hair--came into fashion
about thirty or forty years ago, and her
finely chiseled Greclan features have
been but slightly altered in the lapse of
time 1890
Year: 1871

The CoMET.-Encke's great comet,
which makes tour to the region of the
sun once in about three years and at
quarter, is now on its way thither, and
will reach the perihilion some time in
January. twill very soon come within
the ken of the astronomers, but persons
who have only their eyes to see with will
not have the pleasure of beholding the
erTatic visitor 1t sc rounds the sun at
a distance, of thirty-two million miles
and then darts off into space, and before
il. turns to come back reaches a point of
three hundred and thirty-seyen million
miles from that luminary. This comet
is an object of especial interest to schol-
ars, owing to the fact that the period of its
revolution is gradually diminishing.
This is supposed to prove that the re-
gioas of space are filed with a material
either capable Of retarding the motion
Of solid bodies, the ultimate effect of
which viii be to destroy the centrifugal
force of the planets and allow them grad
ually and imperceptibly to glide into the
sun. 1t will take a long time for the
earth to reach that destination, but
Encke's comet periodically reminds us
that such is its final doom.
Year: 1871

ONLY THEN.-Only when a mistress
knows how to cook dinner can she
truly be mistress in her own house.
She who can at once put her own train
ed hand TO the machine in any spot
where a hand is needed, never comes to
be the slave of servants.
Year: 1871

HENS IN PLACE OF Docs. There is
hardly a family that does not throw
away enough table scraps to keep at
least dozen hens +; and many that keep
a nuisance in the shape of dog, that
does no good, but costs more than a
dozen good hens. One dog in neigh
borhood is generally greater trouble to
the neighbors than a flock of hens would
be; for if hens are well feed at home,
they viii rarely go away. But who
ever saw a dog that was not pest, run
ming across the newly made garden; and
sticking his nose into everything. Kill
off ours and give the food to the hens, and
you viii find pleasure as well as profit
in so doing. We wish there was tax of
500 on every dog kept in the country.
These that are of value as watch dogs,
could be retained, while the host of
snarling, dirty ours would give place to
some more useful and less troublesome
pet.
Year: 1871

How THEY FIXED HM.-AIbany start
ed peculiar kind of relief fund few
days since. and the receipt of which
is likely to afford any thing but satisfae-
ton to the recipient. 1t appears that a
gentleman was requested to contribute
something to the Chicago fund At
first he called the fund swindle and
then gave ten dollars. The exclamation
was merelya h0sty one, and the gentle-
man evidently belongs to that class of
persons who always grIImble, although
possessed of the kindest intentions. But
mark his punishment. His hard criti-
cism was made public by an evening
journal, and penny contributions were
called for to reimburse him in his un-
willing outlay. The result was that
pennies came pouring in from all parts
of the city, county and state. As soon
as the thousandth penny was received
the whole sum was put up in package
and sent to the gentleman's office.
Worse punishment is rarely inflicted for
a hasty word.