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Year: 1872

The Philadelphia Price Current says
that, the Western distillers have in
vented new way of manufacturing
whisky, by means of which peculiar
strength and fodor are impaired to the
product, highly injurious to the health
of consumers, and certainly not cred
liable to those engaged in the sale.
Neither the Ioxious ingredients them
selves nor the process of manufacture
is kaown to many outside the ring.
but sufficient has leaked out to show
the character of the men and the bust
ness. Sulphlric acid is blended with
the mash, or applied directly to the
product of the stills, which imparts a
disagreeable odor to the whisky; and
so powerful is its effect upon it that it
corrades and. .eats up the inside of the
barrel in which the foul compound is
kept.


Another feature of this rotgut, sold
under the name of whisky, is that it
canpot be extracted by process of dis
tillation, re- -distillatiOn or rectifcation.
This fact has caused its presence to be
traced in high wines purchased from
the West by respectable distillers
here, and prompt them to shut down
on the nefarious traffic as injurious to
life and the best interests of the trade.
By experiment, it has been tested that
if small piece of iron or copper is
inserted into q barrel of whisky adul-
terated with this acid, the entire mass
viii be instantly blackened; and if
left in for short time will evolve q
large quantity of acetate of copper
verdigris. Such compound cannot
fail to prove farfully injurious to the
public health, if brought into general
use and we are glad to perceive that
combined effort is contemplated by
the trade to prevent this. If this be not
sufficient, the consequences are suffi-
GENTLY serious to call for some legisla-
tive enactment by which the sale. of
this poisonous stuff shall be prohibit
ed under the severest penalties. d"
Year: 1872

We confess an allegiance to ami
versaries, even of the poorest and
flimsiest sort we are thankful for
feasts or fasts, or any kind of memor-
ial or prophetic meaning which makes
landmark on the common road,
turns some of the dull rank and file of
ordinary days into kings and
priests of Time. We are glad
of even this old tatterdemalioE


queen of love and lovers, St.
Valentines day, when she comes
along, though her garments are as
shabby and vulgar as need be for any
sovereign out of business. We are
sorry that the old habits and customs
of the day have degenerated
into the hideous and costly tok-


ems of the Stiffness of educated boys
and girls, or the hideous and cheap
tokens of the vileness of the young
people of another class which will to-
day burden our penny postmen.
There never was a holiday that had
not its birth at first in some high sug-
gestive meaning, and, laugh as we
may at their vapidity, it would be
well for us if we could bring back Val
entines, or May Days, or Mistletoes,
or any of the devices of our forefath-
ers for giving utterance and' adorn-
ment to love-simple, innocent hu-
man love. Better still, if we could
keep in mind that there is such a
thing that under the great moving
forces of politics, OF fraud, or crime,
.or expediency, there is another force,
more powerful than all, at work jim
every home and fireside, the love of
man for woman and woman for man.
Next to religion, it is the power which
keeps mans nature sweet, and en-
mobiles it; it is the religion of many
men, and by no means the worst they
might have. As for women, we know
that it is now the fashionable philoso-
ply among them to decry its influence;
we only point to their most proml-
nent leaders to prove that after you
have given to woman place, exer-
else for all her talents, money and
fame, it depends after all solely on the
fact whether she has been capable OF
pure love or not for some one man,
Year: 1872

Some close observer of our social
relations having looked about among
his married female acquaintanees,
ventures to give the following list,
with an attempt to indicate the rea-
sons which influence too many to
marry -


Number one has married for home;
she got tired of working in q factory
or teaching school she thought mar
ried life on earth was but moonlight
walks, buggy rides, new bonnets, and
nothing to do.


Well, she got tired of her home;
whether or not she got tired of incum-
brances, this deponent sayetll not,
inasmuch as this deponent docs not
positively know.


Number two marlies because she
had seven young sisters and her papa
narrow income. Perhaps she would
have better consulted her own inter
est by taking in light washing on 60
ing out by the day to work.


Number three married because Mrs.
sounded better than Miss. She was
twenty -nine years and eleven months
old, and another, month would have
transformed her into a regular old
maid. Think how awful that would
have been.


Number four married because she
wanted somebody to pay her bills.
Her husband married for precisely the
same reason so they are both lament
ing at leisure.


Number FIVE married because Fam
ny White had q nice. husband, and
she was not going to be left behind.
Pity she couldn't get married as well
as other folks.


Number six married because she
was poor and wanted riches. She
never counted on all other things that
were inseparable from riches.
Number seven married because she
would ike to travel. But Mr.. Num-,
Der Seven changed her mind after
ward, and all the travelling she has
done has been between the well and
the back kitchen door.
Number eight married out of spite,
because her first love had taken to
himself a second love. This piece of
retaliation might have done her good
at the time, but in the long run num-
Der eight found it did not pay.
Number nine married because she
loved her husband with all her heart
and soul. And size loves him still,
and will prbbably continue to love
him, and is the happiest wife in the
world-so she says.


We haye the right motive at last


-one which is above all others.
Year: 1872

NEWSPAPER MEN.-There is no
class of people who do so much good,
or work so, hard, as newspaper men.
They publish good papers, and they
strain every nerve to do it, but the
populace do not consider this, or the
fact that newspapers are fair index
of their own intelligence and enter
prise. Some papers put up with all
sorts of expedients to get along, when
there are scores of influential men
who are greatly benefited by the pa
pers who do nothing to sustain them.
They might speak a good word for
them, get their friends to subscibe for
them, sustain them with their adver-
tising patronage, and thus remunerate
the hard-working newspaper men.
Every citizen ought to be animated
by sufficient pride, if by no other
motive, to sustain good papers, and
thus see them worthy representatives
of the people.
Year: 1872

for his profanity. There were now
five en- the other side and six on ours,
when the teacher of the other school
took the foorEand we saw that there
was blood in his eye the moment he
said :" we Will now proceed to spell
Bible proper hames.n


This exercise soon thinned our
ranks. Four pf the enemy and one of
ours went down at one shot, on "Neb-
uchailnezzar.n sour girl" let go of
our hand and wilted on q Pharaoh
before we coul I'D inform her whetherit
commenced with For 2, and finally
we keeled over on the simple word
Isaac, and the champion was a small
boy of ten Years, who was named
after the soa of Abraham, and the
onlylword which he could spell was
that with which he had won the day.


But the sorrows and troubles of our
youthful days never lasted long, and
we had soon forgotten our defeat, in
the happiness of having the rosy
checked girl all to Ourself in the back
end of the sleigh, and with three buff
falo-robes that we had stolen to con-
ceal our faces, and render mintellig-
ible the whispered words of sympathy
and affection that we poured in under
the g kiss-meE quick" hood that COW
cred her curls. Two mittens held our
four hands, and the few strong pepper
Minis drops HAT we had been boarding
up for the occasion, were dull and
tasteless compared to the condensed
extrpct of sweetness that we daringly
snatched from her lips when crossing
the bridge ON our way home. She
said she had /" forgotten that there
were so many bridges on that road,n
while we-Well, gentle reader, you
canIot have forgotten how the old
thing worked in those days before the
war; -Iftusrgle Herald.
Year: 1872

REAnING IN RAILWAY CARs.~-Most.
If not all who read on railroads. are
sensible of weight and weariness about
the eyes. This sensation is accounted
for on high medical authority by the
fact that the exact distance between
the eyes and the paper can not be
maintained. The conclusion and os-
cillation of the train disturb the pow
ers of vision, and any variation, how
ever slight, is met by an effort at ac-
commodation on the part of the eyes.
The constant exercise of so delicate
an organ of course produces fatigue,
and if the practice of railroad reading
is persisted in must result in perma-
nent injury. Added to this difficulty
is bad or shifting light. The safe and
prudent mode is to read little, if any.
The deliberate finishing of volumes
in cars is highly detrimental,
Year: 1872

A man who cheats in small meas
ure is measureless rogue. If he
gives short measure in wheat then he
is rogue in grain. If in whiskey
then he is a rogue in spirit. If he
gives bad title to land, then he is a
rogue indeed. And if he cheats when
ever he can, he is indeed, in spirit, in
grain, a measureless scoundrel.
Year: 1872

ANDovER, SEPT. IL, 1872.


rainy day yesterday detained us here,
and we were very glad to be in such good
quarters, and so beautiful place, which, like
Goldsmith's ''Sweet Auburn might well be
called the 'loveliest village of the plain"


We went to visit the emery mandatory,
so called, although the powder here prepared,
we are told, Is not emery, but similar in Its
qualities, and quite as useful for many pur-
poses. 1t was once analyzed by DIR. Hayes
OF Boston, and found to contain 90 parts in a
hundred Of silica. 1t was discovered in dig
ging well in the vicinity. The mineral bed
or deposit is of considerable extent, running
or twenty feet beneath the surface of the soil.
Il is a fine powder of blush drab color
when dry. shaft has been sunk which is
about ten feet in diameter, and the mineral
was at first raised in buckets by steam en-
gine. The bottom of the shaft seemed to fill
up as fast as the mineral was taken out, prob
ably from lateral pressure, the powder being
loo Sc like quicksand. The workmen becom.
ing afraid to risk themselves in the shaft the
powder was subsequently, pumped up, dried
IN the sun, and then shoveled into bin pre-
pared for the purpose. The building occu-
pied by the machinery is on side hill, and 10
three or four stories high in the rear. The
only process required after procuring the
mineral, is to sift it, which is done by steam
1t is then put into casks and sent to market
Five tons have been sent at a time to Boston
to be used in the manufacture of emery soap,
said to be the best soap to remove stains from
the hand. The superintendent thinks money
may be made out of the business, but thus
far it has not been very profitable. The prin-
cipal proprietor has several other irons in the
fire, and cannot give personal attention to
this manufacture. In fact, it is yet but an
experiment. The finest powder Is excellent
for cleaning silver, and it is used to clean
knives and to polish machinery. 1t resem.
bes the powder called Tpoli, which is man.
utsctured in Ohio.


This morning the wind has changed to the
northwest, the fog is lifting and the clouds
are breaking away. Every thing indicates
favorable day for the prosecution of our jour
ney. The soil in this region is very different
from that on the Kennebec After a rain
the roads are about as hard and smooth as
before, aud it is only occasionally that we
find mud puddle, and then it is not troub-
lesome one. We have scarcely seen any in
dications of frost on this excursion. The
temperature is mild, and rather too warm at
times, than too cold. Even in the evening it
is pleasant to sit without a fire. A rainy day
is rather dull here, as it would be any where.
But with the help of few newspapers, one
or two books, and good deal of cheerful con.
versation. we have found it very passable.


SENIOR.
Year: 1872

no power. the police. the State Courts and
nearly all the State authorities being insym-
pathy with Governor Warmoth. If Governor
Warmoth should now be driven from power it
will be by the same instrumentality originally
used 10 install him in power. There seems to
be retributive justice in this as we'll as in the
action of Warmoth towards those who be-
slowed arbitrary powers upon him for their
own purposes. But the prospect seems to be
that Governor Warmoth will not yield. and
from the character of the man we are only too
apprehensive that at any moment. by coun-
ter coup ON his part. collision between the
federal troops and the State authorities may
be precipitated.


We have been for some days looking
for q violent outbreak of this kind in Ver-
saiIles, for France is the land of sud
ments. But although the Frenchmen have
had far better cause for trouble than have
the people of New Orleans. they have sue
ceeded in preserving law and order and in
carrying on their government peacefully and
decently. 1t has been reserved for the me-
tropolis of the South to emulate Paris in her
worst days aud to bring discredit upon repub-
lican government The whole affair is o dis
graceful scramble between two ambitious
politicians, SO greedy for power rs to be reck-
less what disgrace they nfict upon the coun-
try, what misfortunes they bring upon the
people, in their effort to secure success. Our
special Washington dispatches state that Presi-
II
indecent conflict and avows his determi-
nation not to suffer the interference of the
United States troops unless itbecomes matter
of necessity to maintain the law and protect
the people. The country will applaud the
President for this determination. The error
that has been committed by the Kellogg party
has been in placing federal bayonets round
the State Capitol and seizing forcibly upon the
State government Governor Warmoth is
known to be a reckless and unscrupulous man.
and he would have found no sympathy on the
part of the people of the United States
in his bold attempt to usurp authority or to
stretch the laws to his own purposes. But the
example set by the men who have thus hastily
invoked the violent interference Of federal
troops is full Of danger and repugnant to the
principles of free government The actors in
the drama evince their sense of the unpopular
character of their course in their efforts to
cover up the fact that it was the State
House they seized-the halls Of legisla-
tion and the Executive Chamber they in
vaded with armed troops Senator Kel-
logg, in his interview with our special cor
respondent last night, was evidently anxious to
avoid responsibility for the revolutionary coup.
The best thing President Grant can do is to
give positive orders to General Emory to
stand neutral between the parties and to leave
them to fight out the battle they have pro-
voked among themselves. As the President
says, it is a disgraceful scramble, and federal
interference for one party or the other will
only make the disgrace deeper.
Year: 1872

The WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP GUATE-
MALA.-The circumstances which preceded,
attended and followed from the fatal wreck Of
the steamship Guatemala are specially re-
ported in our columns to-day by letter from
Panama. They will be all strictly investi-
gated officially here in New York. The pub
lie will understand some of the many very
serious points which will be presented to the
Court after perusal of the HERALD narrative
of disaster
Year: 1872

The ABOLITION OF ASSESSORS AND ASSISTANT
ASSESSORS of Internal Revenue as provided for
in the bill introduced by the Chairman of the
Committee OF Ways and Means and passed
by the House yesterday will please
everybody but the otfice-holders them
selves The reduction Of the internal revenue
taxes will make this not only possible, but
nccessitous. The revenue collection will be
attended to by the collectors and deputy col
leciors, and il is to be hoped chat before long
a number Of even these pet specimens may be
spared to earn their living along with the less
fortuasAe assessors.
Year: 1872

The MIFFLrN RAILROAD DISASTER The fatal
railroad disaster on the Pennsylvania Central
road. near Miflin, appears to have been
simply au unqualified murder. The train
that was run into, although an express, was
half an hour behind time. The train which
ran into it was half an hour ahead of time
Thus the two trains, which ought to have
been one hour apart, by criminal careless
ness or recklessness in each, were brought
together and smashed up and the unfortunate
passengers were smashed up with them Mr.
w. w. Dantz, who was killed, was door
keeper Of the House of Representatives. His
wife and child, it will be remembered, were
also among the slaughtered. The men who
were executed in Brooklyn and Washington
yesterday were not more cruel than the persons
in charge of these two trains. Indeed, the
former took single lives; the crrelessness of
rhe latter cost several, and stood chance of
taking many more. Yet, probably, this rail-
road butchery will, as usual be suffered to
pass quickly out of memory, and the guilty
parties will escape unpunished.
Year: 1872

The Administration victory in Penn
sylvania is followed by wholesale ar
rests of leading Administration parti-
sans for bribery and fraud. These
charges and arrests throw food Of
light upon the way the Administration
victory in the Pennsylvania election
was achieved, and the agents by whom
it was achieved. The government Off
cials are the fellows who did the despi-
cable work. Under Grant it is the duty
of government Official not only to
work for the re election Of the presi-
dent, but to use vile and unlawful
means to effect the object. It is in
evidence that over 65, 600 fraudulent
votes were cast.
Year: 1872

THE smallpox is raging in wash
ington and other cities again and,
from present indications, unless sue
cessful sanitary measures are adopted,
this loathsome scourge viii likely play
sad havoe in most Of the crowded cit
les during the winter months. It is
beginning to shoE an ominous and a
fearful front.
Year: 1872

4 circular has been received at the
Democratic headquarters addressed to
the merchants Of n. York by the mer
chants Of the South. II asks them, as
they value the prosperity OF the South
erD States, TO dowhat lies in their power
to defeat the reelection Of President
Gram. They claim that four more
years Of carpet bag rule will fix upon
them a commercial paralysis Ia sup
porting Horace Greeley, they say they
give every possible evidence Of their
desire for reconciliation and peace, that
four more years of Grant at the South
means probably "A war races, certainly
re enthronement of carpet bagging.
and tbey express the hope that if the
commercial men Of the North value
the revival of the industry Of the
South, they Will unite in saving its
people from impending calamity.
These circulars have been sent from
every portion of the South, especially
the cotton States
Year: 1872

We rejoice at the evidences that are
exhibited in all parts Of the Union Of
determination on the part of the
Democrats and Liberals to wage a more
vigorous canvass than ever, between
now and the day Of the Presidential
Year: 1872

Josh Billings says it is a statistical
fact that the wicked wurk harder tn reach
he'll than tue righteous du tn get tu hea-
ven.


One can't have every thing, as the man
said when he was down with the small
pox and cholera, and the yellow fever
came into the neighborhood.


AS no man can tell where shoe pinch
es better than he who wears it, so no
man can tell woman's disposition bet
ter than he who hath welded her.
Year: 1872

An UNwELCoME GUEST-A sensation
was created one morning last week in
the lobby OF the Southern Hotel by the
appearance Of II leopard from the mena.
gerie of circus. 1t was under the
charge OF llertlnger, the lion-tamer, but
he seemed for a while to have lost his
influence over it. The leopard got his
back up at something, and alter crossing
the threshold of the main entrance and
proceeding as far as the cigar stand,
would bulge no further. lie finally
strel ched his ponderous body at 1ull
length in front of the stand. The clerk
behind the cigar counter was at first
badly frightened, but soon mustered sui
ticient courage TO take peep at his
strange visitor. The latter apparently
resented this exhibition OF curiosity and
gathered himself up for spring, from
which, however he was restrained by his
keeper, bat not. until his tore paws
struck the cigars piled in boxes on the
counter, causing them to tumble about
in as lively "a manner as if the leopard
had been full empowered revenue col
lector. The leopard was then led
through the rotunda, path being quick
ly cleared for him by the frightened bell
boys aud bystanders. AT the bar it
leaped upon the counter and remained
PROSTATE while Hertinger consumed a
small sensation of soft-shell crabs aud
ice. Then the two departed in per-
fectly nonchalent manner, as il they had
been ordinary guests of the establish
ment-iSt. Louis Democrat.
Year: 1872

to haul in his horns. A few days
ago he issued his protective NANTES.
to, which We publish to-day, and yes
terday he announced that he is not
to be denied the luxury Of fighting
the Democracy next summer and
fall, by the denomination OF General
Grant. In other words, he will pur.
sue the same course IN this case that
he always has pursued in times past
IT Chicago Jonrnal


Here is the manifesto" referred to
by the Journal:


"The Tribune is likely to oppose
the boilers, since they are almost Ger.
tain to make hostility to protection
one Of the planks of their platform
and that the Tribune can never abide
no matter who may be the rival can
didates for President. Now tha,
emancipation is a fixed fact, lmpar
tial suffrage nearly so, and universal
amnesty inevitable, there IS no re
naming national issue which is halt
so important in the view of the zrib
uns as that OF protection Is. tree
trade. We have no shadow OF doubt
that the overthrow OF protection
would be speedily followed (as IL
lsl6-20, and again in lS33-7) by a
sweeping industrial collapse and
commercial bankruptcy, which would
carry hunger and distress into the
homes of millions of our countrymen
To such calamity the Tribune can.
not contribute. even rassively, for
any conceivable consideration"