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Year: 1873

highway OF direct communication with
our harbor on Lake Superior, and with
the North Pacific Railway, of momen-
tous interest and most urgent impor-
tance. Raving completed in good faith
and proper season the railroads from


Portage to Tomah, and from Tonlah to
the st. Croix River, by the expenditure
and judicious application of two thirds
of the land grant of 1856, and having
made an honest effort to construct a
road from st. Croix River to Lake Su-
perior, the last link in this chain of roads
contemplated by that grant, and having
already completed a portion OF the same
and having taken care of the lands and
prevented trespasses upon them and
continued to treat them as still the pro-
perty of the State, and the people of that
section having located and purchased
Government lands at double the usual
Government price in view of the grant
and the building of roads, and having
long and patiently waited for such con-
summation, it would be unjust, illiberal
and unfair to the State to now seek to
divest her here of the title to the re-
naming portion of this grant, even if
Congress has the legal right, which we
deny and If necessary, we insist that
Congress ought to pass a law at once
without hesitation renewing this portion
of the grant to the State, that the title
may be beyond any question and that
the road be speedily completed.


i1esolred, That our State is most ia
vorably situated in respect to water COM
mlnication by lake and river, and facih-
ties for commercial intercourse ought to
be prudently guarded and improved to
the fullest possible extent in order to
afford the speediest and cheapest means
of transportation of products in perma-
Lent competition with railroad carriage.
To this end we congratulate the State
upon the generous assumption by the
general government of the Fox and Wis
consin River improvement that promises
at an early day to connect the MISSISSIPPI
pi river and the great lakes and we
most fully endorse the now well estab-
hshed policy of the present adlninistra-
ton in keeping clear from the unneces-
sary obstruction of the Mississippi river,
and we especially commend that private
enterprise, assisted by Government aid,
which has resulted in the construction
of the Sturgeon Bay canal, that SO ma
terially lessons the distance and obviates
the dangers of our lake navigation.


Resoiued, That the Republican party
will use all reasonable endeavors to so
amend the laws of the State as to make
a permanent fixed salary for all State
officers, and that all fees end perquisites
be paid into the public treasury.
Year: 1873

We are told by the leading Democratic
organ of the State, that There is uoth
ing about Governor Washburn to entitle
hin to a moments consideration, when
the Reformers, Liberals and Anti
Monopolists shall meet to nominate a
candidate fol Governor. That is the
likeliest thing in the world In the Ian
guage of the News, it may be truthfully
said of Governor Washburn, that hi
personal integrity IS about i'm peachment :;
that he is very able and honest man -
therefore, in the language of the News
there is nothing about Governor Wash,
burn to entitle him to moment $
consideration when the Refonners, LIB
erals and Anti -Monopolists shall meet to
nominate candidate for Governor
Year: 1873

Don't DEPEND on FATHER Young
men let US tals to you. You have
trusted alone to the contents of your
fathers purse, or his fair fame, for your
influence or success in business. Think
you that father has attained emineDce
IN bis profession but by unwearied 10.
dastry or that he has amassed fortune
honestly without energy and activity?
You should know that the faculty requi-
site fol the acquiring of fame or fortune
is essential to, nay, inseparable from, the
attainment Of either of these. Suppose
father" has the "rocks" 10 abundance,
if you never earned anything for him, you
have no more business with these rocks
than the gosling has with a tortoise
And If he allows you to medile with
them until you have gained them by
your own industry, he perpetratcs untold
mischief. And if he is lavish Of his cash
toward you, while he is allowing you to
while away your time, you had better


leave him, yes, run away. sooner than be
an imbecile, or something worse, through
so enervating an influence Sooner or
later you must learn to rely on your own
resources, or you will not be anybody.
Year: 1873

Grant Not SO DefEant-A Strange Ru-


From the Cincinnati Gazette


WASHINGTON, Dee. 28.-There is no
delegation on the way from Oregon to
contest Williams confirmation. The
Judiciary Committee Of the Senate
have not been in session during the
past week. Only three members have
remainedin the city, and there has con-
sequently been no report agreed upon.
1t is true, however, that individual
members of the committee previous to
adjournment, have made statements
which are regarded as absolutely pre-
cluding favorable action by the Senate
in the matter. While the President
has, since his return, stated that he
didn't intend to withdraw the nomina-
ton, there is good authority for the
assertion that he is not raising, and
does not mean to raise, any Issue what
ever with the Senator'S in regard to the
matter, leaving action in the case Who'll
ly to their judgment.


From the Cincinnati Commercial.


.WAsHINGToN, Dec. 2S--Among the
floating stories which have obtained
credence tonight, is one to the effect
that the President has assured certain
Senators that the Williams nomination
will be withdrawn upon the re-as-
sembling OF Congress. He is said to
have accompanied this assurance with
another, to the effect that he would
send in the name OF the best lawyer in
the country for the place. The friends
of Jerry Black have forthwith made
up their minds that this means that
Grant has concluded to nominate
mir. Black. The last assurance was
not made, it is thought, for the pur-
pose of ailaying any Inflammation of
sensibilities which Mr., Williams may
have sustained on naccount of thestrange
conduct Of the Senate with regard to
his nomination, but as sort of pledge
to the country that that which viii der
feat Williams is the unlawful use that
he made of his contingent fund, not
only for the purchase Of horses and
carriages for his private use, but also
IN other equally unauthorized ways.
His untitness for the place was the first
objection, :and while Senators we're ru-
mfnatlng on this, time was given for
the developments which have called in
question his honesty. The surprise oc-
casioned by these discoveries has been
so great that all other considerations
have been lost sightof. Notwithstand-
ing the rumor above quoted, it is safe
to assume that the President viii per-
sist in advocating Williams claims
even after defeat becomes apparent to
him
Year: 1873

Under the old Law, the person sold out could, il
be had made arrangements to have his property
bought in, designate papers which would conceal
the fact from the public that the sale was to be
made.-EVeyy Erening.


The above Contains q deLberate mistatement
No such thing was ever done nor could it have
bSsn done The law applied to real estate, and
personal property was not required to be adver-
tiSsd in the newspapers. And the Sherifs and ell
the Attorneys we're convsrsant with ths OLD law
The law required the Sheriff to 60 to the defend
ant and request him to designate one paper, and
the Sheriff designated the other paper the law
requiring the advertisement to appear in two pa.
PeTs for the space of two weeks, and the Court
has made it q rule TO set sales aside where it was
proven that the publication had not been properly
made for the full time in hand-bills aud newspa-
pers. The remarks Of the Ecery Erening is
Slander, which that paper makes against officers
debtor and creditors in a manner reckless as it
is discreditable. 1t was impossible for such an
arrangement, as the Brsyy Brening refers 10, to
have been made.


1t il very true that property was not advertised
es fully as it should have been but it does not
follow that the officers were dishonest or that the
Courts permitted creditors to be defrau6ed in the
manner designated by our neighbor.
Year: 1873

NrHETT sIx MILLION BUSHELS OF WHEAT the
Mark Lane Express says, will be required by
England this year from abroad, in consequence
of the failure of the potato crop and shortness OF
the grain crop. This is considered good authority
on the subject, but there may be little trick Of
trade in making the announcement of such an ex-
trAordinary dehc ency at the present time. How
ever, fhe prospect Of foreign demand is good for
Our farmers. Cheap transportation would come
iD very well just pows and Would have beneh-
GiGl effect upon trade generally and the exchanges
As well . upoR farming intarssts Will the raiI-
road companies make freights as low as possible
and tins benefit the whole country IN. Y
Herald.
Year: 1873

IHoUEsT.- Coroner Winslow's jury, met, last
night, in the room over the Fourth street market
house, for the purpose ofholding an inquest over
the dead infant, found in the lot near Sixth and
Jackson streets Thursday morning DIR. Draper
testified TO examining the child and ascertainhg
that il had not been still born. b. G.. Wells
whose name was on the box In which the child
had been buried, testified TO selling the box 70
some one, recently, but he could not remember
To whom after examining several other Witnesses
the Jury returned verdict that the cl lid "ca1nt
10 its death at the hands OF some person or per
sons unknown TO the jury"
Year: 1873

THB Rooms OF THE WILMINGTON AID AssOcIA-
TON have been closed for few days. The great
number and the many improper applications foT
aid have been such that the managers deemed this
course TO be absolutely necessary. They are d.
sirous OF spending the funds as intended by the
donors. The private contributions have not been
touched, except ior materials to furnish work fur
the industrious and deserving poor. Public notice
will be given when the managers are ready 10 ~
open the rooms. By order OF the Board Of Con
tIol
Year: 1873

iestly wrong, that every one Will admit it in
conversation, but what IS needed, Is, that
every parent and guardian should so be led
to realize it, that the evil may be remedied
where it exists, and avoided in all future
time.


feel more than ever impressed with the
Importance of making our public schools
good aud effectual institutions in training
the young, for out of them must come the
elements to determine all the future of our
country, and upon them must we depend to
develop the minds which are to determine
our destiny. Respectfully submitted,


l. W. GATES,
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided shat Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
nrS
Year: 1873

Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil is the
best thing you ever used for curing pain.
1t is safe and clean to use, and does not
lose its virtues by age or exposure. Try
it for headache and rheumatism Sold by
John Bengston.
Year: 1873

We quote the following passage from MT. Parten's paper in the forthcoming Atlantic for January, printing from ad- vanced sheets.

 It was Jefferson who had taken the lead in destroying the ancient system of tprlmogeniture and entail in Virginia, and one of the first great heirs who suf- fered by the reform was his own son-in- law, Randolph. The father of the young husband, brisk and social old gentleman of the old school, gave alarm ing symptoms of second marriage. A girl in her teens was the object of his choice, upSn whom he proposed to make settlement so lavish as to great ly abridge the inheritance of the young couple, as well as to throw great part of their immediate settlement upon Mr. Jefferson. The letter which he wrote to his daughter on this occasion has been thousand times admired, and will be admired again as often as it is read by 8 person in whose disposition there is anything of magnanimity or tenderness. He told her that Colonel Randolph s marriage was a thing to have expected for, as he was man whose amusements depended upon society he could not live alone. The settlement upon the old mans bride might be neither pru- dent nor just, but he hoped it would not lessen their affection for him.

 eff the lady," he continued, "has anything difficult in her disposition, avoid what is rough, and attach her good qualities to you. Consider what are otherwise as bad stop in your harpsi- chord, and do not touch on it, but make yourself happy with the good ones. Every human being, my dear, must thus be viewed, according to what it is good for; for none of us, no, not one, is perfect and were we to love none who had imperfections, this world would be desert for our love. All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is geod in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad ; but no more think of rejecting them for 1t, than of throwing away piece of music for fiat passage or two. Your situation will require peculiar atten- tlons and respects to both parties. Let no proof be too much for either your patience or acquiescence. Be you, my dear, the link of love, union, and peace for the whole family. The world will give you the more credit for it in pro- portion to the difficulty of the task, and your own happiness will be the greater as you perceive that you promote that of others. Former acquaintance and equality of age will render it the easier for you to cultivate and gain the love of the lady. The mother, too, becomes 8 very necessary object of attention"

 The marriage took place, and the settlements upon the bride were made The young couple, in consequence, were much more curtailed in their re- sources than any one had expected But the daughter of Jefferson remain ed, for thirty-fve years, "the link of love, union, and peace for the whole family ;" one member of which, John Randolph, of Roanoke, estranged as he was from her father, toasted her as the noblest woman in Virginia"
Year: 1873

A lady from any we'll regulated house. hold, does not feel comfortable when seated at the table of a friend or simple acquaintance, as the case may be, and requested to "help herself and be at home," she had thousand times rather "be at home" than to reach over the table for this and that in place of being helped. It does not increase her appe- tite at all to have the maiden cut bread from the loaf as it is wanted with the knife she is eating with, nor to see each member of the family cut from the but ter with their individual knives, first drawing them through their mouths to make them clean @ or to have the pie cut with an eating knife and passed around, each taking a piece upon g greasy plate and perhaps one half filled with meat, potatoes, cabbage, etc.

 l might enumerate any number of such indelicacies, far too often practiced but will not take up space to do so, but wish to simply add a suggestion as to the remedy. A family to appear well to others must be so systematized in it's regulations that there is harmony at all times in action if not in words. Culti- vation is not necessarily dependent upon capital, for even the most humble in circumstances can have admirable harm ony in their home affairs. Seventy-five cents will supply table with an elegant silver plated butter knife, and every pantry is supplied with suficient cutlery to afford an extra knife for the bread, meat, pie, and with sufficient table ware to afford each clean plate for pie, a cup for boiled eggs, etc. The bread can be as we'll cut in the pantry and brought to the table properly sliced as to be passed out as required the pie can as well be served on small, clean plates from the pantry as in the manner above mentioned.

 Now some nay say that this method is more trouble than profit, and not nec- essary to practice when only the family is together. I do not propose to argue the question at all, but will add if not practiced when the family is together it will never be. The members of ones family should be the dearest object of earth, and sons and daughters should be taught those rules in social life which will enable them to stand above ridicule and command respect, and every one is at liberty to adopt them, for they are free. said, however, that I would not urge the question and l l won't, ---OhiO Farmer
Year: 1873

Mattresses afflicted with bungling Bridgets and saucy Abigails will be in terestea in hearing that the people of Montreal have been discussing the uni versal servant nuisance, with an eye to the ameloration of the condition of both employers and employed. The meeting was called by number of the most prominent Protestant clergymen of the city, who Invited the "masters and mistresses to come together for a free interchange of opinion on the vexed question. The ladies turned out in force, but the discussion seems to have been failure, so far as they were concerned, since they permitted the parsons to monopolize the talking. A number of theories were advanced by these gentlemen to account for the mod ern differences between mistress and maid, the most ingenious of which was that of reverend gentleman from the East Indies, who thought all the diff cuaties were due to the want of knowl- edge of the patriarchal ago." clinching his argument with the assertion that Abraham and his servants had no trou- ble. This point did not make much impression on the audience, who evi- dently were not prepared for return to antediluvian simplicity. Dr. Cord ner, the Unitarian preacher of Montreal, replied that, until recently, an agent had been stationed in that city who gave good girls twenty dollars to pay their expenses to the United States, which was not the case in patriarchal times. He did not hope for much help from Abraham, nor from study of his housekeeping. The secret of all the trouble, he said, lies in the fact that so- ciey is changing. The lower classes have now so many more avenues of labor thrown open to them than formerly, at once less arduous, less menial, and more remunerative in character, that they are attracted from domestic service. Here Dr. Cordner struck directly at the root of the matter; and his remarks are no less pertinent when applied to the United States than to Canada. Men and women will not remain content in menial positions if they can obtain in- dependent employment at equal rates of pay. If our servants are to be retained, their labor must be made lighter o1 their wages increased. The other al formative is for society to do its own work.
Year: 1873

A New York paper says that since the memorable storm of sleet and snow i1 the Winter of 1866, we remember none so violent, ln many respects so terrible as that which began Thursday morning, short time after two o'clock. The sky an hour before had almost been cloud less and the cold intense. By daylight not onl y was everything buried inches deep, but so heavy had been the fall od snow and so constantly was it increasing that it was only with extra difficulty that way could be forced through the streets even by snow-ploughs. The snow fell faster and faster, and the wind rose high CT and higher every moment, until at noon travel was almost completely stop ped, and only .stray stage or solitary car drawn by thrice the ordinary num- The city looked like the city of the dead. Business was wen-nigh entirely sus- pended.

 The suffering which the storm has caused among the class who depend up- on days precarious earnings for the following nights shelter is simply ter about the streets, blinded by the driv- ing snow and frostbitten by the intense cold, unable to perform their ordinary laoor during the day and unable to sleep on deor-steps and in alleys at night, whither they had been accustomed to resort when other and less comfort1ess lodgings failed them. The sailors on the pilot-boats in the harbor and along the coast were scarcely better off Worn out with the days watching, the driving snow and violent wind rendered sleep impossible, and caution demanded a vigilance which wsaried nature almost failed to supply.

 Elsewhere than in New York the vio- fence of the storm has been universally felt. .. It's effects have been felt from Maine to Illinois, from Canada. to Ala bama. The telegraph brings news from every quarter of trains snow-bound, mails delayed, and travel wholly inter- rupted. In Buffalo the wind has been so violent as to drive the water from the Niagara River and leave the city helpless In the event of fires, and its industries suffering as it is. In South Carolina such storm has not been known for years. In Canada, near the border, the cold is intense. The St. Lawrence Riv- CT is frozen over, and teams of all kinds are crossing on the ice. Some of the Railroads were so completely b1ockaded that trains ceased to run. On other roads in this State, and farther East and West, the process of " doubling up" has been resorted to, but every train is behind time and travel and transporta- tion practically at an end for day or two.
Year: 1873

A great deal of the hcentiousness of aristocratic families, writes an English correspondent, arises from the false po- sition in which the young lords are placed during all the earlier parts of their lives, while waiting to enter on their estates and occupation. They must be idle. It is unconventional for them to engage in any business or pro- fession. Just in the proportion that they are clever and vigorous, there is a probability that their powers will run to waste or be spent upon improper ex- elements.

 l have in mind, as write, young lord of Q good deal of wit and force, who for some time kept the neighbor- hood in which he lived in 8 perfect scandal by his behavior. He was in the habit of playing the coarsest practical jokes on everybody, and when he had nothing else to do would go around a village after midnight ringing the door bells. He was very strong young man physically, and on one occasion, when he was passing gentleman's house, he stopped to speak with the hostler. Ob- serving that the hostler was strong fellow, the idea struck him that he would like to have pugilistic encounter with him. My dear fellow" said the lord, "I should like to have fight with you. I think I can lick you" "I dunno Q you be-" answered the hostler, but you must be the best man in these parts if ye can lick me-" "Very well, ]" says the lord, sslet us gs at it, and if you can lick me I'll give you s5."

 And at it, there in the stable yard, they went for half an hour, at the end of which his lordship was fairly used up. The hostler had to take him home in wagon, and was in much consterna- tion and agony when he found that the pulpy mass he was conveying had to be cenfded to weeping relations at neigh boring castle. However, his lordship recovered slowly, and no sooner was he able to do anything than he sent the hostler who had punished him, not five pounds, but fifty. Well, afker that his 1ordship got into various scrapes and was brought up in the police court sev- eeal times: But suddenly by the death of Lord W, in Ireland, he came into the occupation of immense Irish estates, and had the reputation of being one of the most faithful, excellent, and philan- thropie noblemen that has ever lived in that country.

 So soon as he had something to do he became man. It is rather drou cir cumstance that when he came into pos session he sent for the hostler who had thrashed him, and gave him high po- sitioR on his estates. Not long ago this eccentric nobleman had his neck broken by the fall of his horse, and he was deeply lamented by the poor of his neighborhood.