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Year: 1872

A correspondent sends us the follow
ing: Corned brains and corned feet are
offensive to thecommuhitya as well hurt
full to the individuals. Many however
totter along our streets without grog
shops aid, or high heeled shoes. Modes
of cure are numerous, and feet doctors
make a living by their Inventions
Cutting with a knife is dangerous, as
it cannot be so carefully guided, and
often provokes the evil it would des-
troy. Outward applications ofen fail,
because the hard flesh is only softened
and not removed. 1t is only hindered
in its pressure for time. ..a -


Here is tried remedy: Go to your
hardware merchant and purchase rat
tail flea fine one, as long as such an
imal's. tail. He will understand and
hand you the article. Wherever there
may be callosities on your body rub
them down, only stopping when the
under flesh becomes sensitive. line
cessary continue this frequently until
a healthy state of the place affected
commences. If you see fit to promote
more rapidly the growth of flesh, rub
with oil. But remove the latter before
filing, as the drier the surface the more
operative the file. No other applica-
tion is necessary, except when the cal
losity is removed and the cuticle is
sound underneath, reduce what may
remain of the corn with the finger nail.
What are called Japanese files" are
sold for the same purpose, but they
are rough and injurious, at least infe-
rior to the common rat-tailf file. '.-,i.


Certiticate-The writer has used the
! file more than one year, and removed,
every bit of hard flesh on.face, foot and.
hand. He has now no pain in walking.
Year: 1872

posterity will be sure to clear him OF
them. Taney could not, at such a


crisis, hope to escape. Not he, but the


Constitution was on trial-the Consti-


tuition, declared by Marshall to be a


superior, paramount law, unchanged
BILE by ordinary means. The time had


come when it was to be changed, be-
cause it's provisions, framed in an ear
lier day of narrower thought and ex-


perience, had ceased to express the con-
victions and purposes of the people,
Neither ordinary means, nor the extra
ordinary methods of amendment pro-
vided by the instrument itself, were a.
vailable. The supreme remedy of civil
war was close at hand.


It is relief to turn from this public


prosecution to the private life and char
acter of the Chief Justice, as sketched


in this volume. His simplicity and
high honor impressed every one who
came into relations with him. The
great men who had been his political
enemies in early life sought reconcilia-


ton and asked counsel of him in his


later years. The few charming letters
that are given bear witness to the ten
derness of his affections and the gentle
authority of his social influence. His
religion was that quiet and constant


force in life of which the Roman Cath
olic faith often offers such beautiful
examples, and his charity in act and
speech the ready expression of an hon.
est, generous nature. AS a strong,
calm and pure man, filling blameless-
ly the highest station in the most trou-


bled period of the national life, Chief
Justice Taney will always remain one
Of the most venerable and interesting
figures in the history of the country.
Year: 1872

His Judicial and Personal Character.


From the Nations Review of Tyler's Life of
Roger B. Taney.l


Taney alone of the public men liv-
ing at the outbreak of the late war saw
all the phases of that long quarrel
which planted discord at the very birth
of union. From the Massachusetts
declaration Of tlse fig - secet1.e, up
on the purchase of Louisiana Terrific
ry, and the assertion by Josiah Quincy
of the duty to do so, at the admission
of that State eight years later, through
the times of the Hartford convention,
accused by Adams of conspiring to
dissolve the Union, through nullifca-
ton and the compromises of 1920 and
1850, through the suspension of the
right to petition and the Kansas and
Nebraska Acts, down to John Browns
raid and the fall of Sumter, he knew
all the elements in that widening strife,
and the chief political actors on both
sides who fomented it. The story of
it's progress is told by his biographer
in the language of the South, with
blame only for the North. It is not
within the purpose or limits of this
paper to point out his inaccuracies of
statement, especially with regard to
the fairness and general acceptance of
the compromise Of 1850. At last, af-
ter Taney had presided in the Supreme
Court for twenty years, growing in the
respect and confidence of the nation,
the duel of the sections took the shape
of a constitutional question before that
tribunal, and the issue whether Con-
gress could exclude slavery from the
Territories was presented in the famous
Dred Scott case. The decision that it
could not, given by six judges out of
eight was delivered by the Chief JUS
tice in an elaborate opinion. 1t is out
of place here to consider the merits of
that controversy. But two points in
the subsequent history of the decision,
on which the biographer dwells at
length, cannot be passed over if justice
is to be done to the memory of Taney.
In the necessary review of the condi-
ton of the African race, at the time
our Government was formed, Taney
stated, as historical fact, that through
out the civilized world negroes ewere
regarded as so inferior, that they had
no rights which the white man was
bound to respect" These are the very
words of his decision, and some iudg-
ment may be fonmed as to the temper
of the times, when it is remembered
that they were seized upon by parti-
sans, falsified into an utterance of his
own present views upon the rights of
the blacks, and published throug gh the
world and believed by thousands as
such. A graver charge against Taney,
and as false one, was uttered on the
occasion of that decision by no less a
person than Mr.. Seward, on the floor
of the Senate-the charge Of corrupt
arrangement between President Bu-
chanan and the judges Of the Supreme
Court to get up a mock trial on the
Dred Scott case, for q political pur-
pose. The biographer shows conclu-
sively, by correspondence with the
Judges and by comparison of dates,
that there neither existed nor could
have been supposed to exist a shadow
of truth in the story.


Such accusations, indeed, though
Year: 1872

The following characteristic edito-
rial article appeared in the Tribune
just after the late election:


"CRUMBs OF CoMFoRT.-There has
been no time, until now, within the last
twelve years, when the Tribune was
not supposed to keep, for the benefit
of the idle and incapable, sort of Fed
eral employment agency, established to
get places under Government for those
who were indisposed to work for their
living. Any man who had ever voted
the Republican ticket believed that it
was the duty and the privilege Of the
editor of this paper to get him place
in the custom-house. Every red-nosed
politician who had cheated at the eau
Gus and fought at the polls looked to
the editor of the Tribune to secure his
appointment as gauger, or as army
Year: 1872

in the New York Jewish Times of last
week mention is made Of the return OF
Prof Gratz, and Messrs Levy, Polzin


and Gottschalk from Palestine. Their
report is set down by the Times as an
additional argument against the folly
Of encouraging the emigration Of the
Jews to country which has no other
claim than that Of venerable monu-
ment of the past There are now, it
appears, about sixteen thousand Jews
living ia Palestine, aud their average
state of culture, is much below that Of
their fellow religionsts in Europe They
have no visible means OF support. spend
their time in idleness, praying and in
Talmnd reading, and in foolish pining
aud signing on the ruins of the temple,
elfing out miserable existence by the
charity Of the Jews in Europe, America
and Australia" Curioudy enough the
memorial Of this visit by Prof. Gratz
and his companions also suggest the
general elimination from all Jewish
prayer.booIs Of the portions referring
to the hopes of Israel in the restitution
Of the Holy Land to the possession of
Israel, and the rebuilding of the Temple
by Divine Providence. The Times
considers it mot only a folly but
crime to feed the sickly Imagination of
poor, Ignorant people by the hallucina-
tions, as if one spot on earth had
greater value in the eyes of God, and
prayers sent up to heaven from a certain
locality find sooner hearing from the
throne divine"
Year: 1872

From the Lockport IN. " Union.l


Professor Cunning, during a recent


course of geological lectures, spoke as
| follows about Niagara Falls and its his


tory:


Ten years age, he said he stood on


Prospect Point and looked searchingly
at the American fall. Within few days
he had stood there again, but what he
1 saw did not answer to the image his


mind had carried for ten years. The
rim of the precipice is more indented


Here aid there a mass of rock has
fallen, le,ving a notch, the beginnings of
little horseshoe. The great horseshoe
itself had changed At the point of
deepest water and deepest green the
curve is deeply notched Any observer
whose knowledge of the falls covers only
few years will see that they are re-
ceding.


The recession has been very slow, the
speaker thought not more than six
inches year. AT the present rate of
recession it would have taken $4,000
years to cut channel from Lewiston to
the present site of the horseshoe. The
speaker drew a section Of the river bank
from Lewiston upwards and showed the
seven groups of strata come TO the sur
face between Lewiston and the falls.
lThe rate of recession would depend on
the character of the rock at the base Of
the falls. At the whirlpool very hard,
hnty sandstone appears on the waters
edge Through this the fall would cut
its way slowly, Here for ages tie cata'I
raot was almost stationary


Above the new suspension bridge the
Clinton group dips to the water s edge
These rocks are compact, and here the
falls made another halt; 10000 years are
not enough We can only approximate
but perhaps 10000 would be closer
approximation to the age of the channel
than $4,000 years. ~


This is not all We find an old river
bed filed with drift between the whirl-
pool and st. David's. Perhaps 100000
years for the entire history of the fall
would not be above the demand We
think of this as long, and our wonder is
that the falls are so old. But be who
looks with geologic eye thinks Of the
time as short, aud that the falls are SO
young. The upper lakes are old. 1t
was dry land long before the Allegheny
Mountains were lifted up. The river
which drains il should be old; and yet
the Niagara, perhaps, is only 100000
years old How shall we account for
The drainage of the lakes through SO
many millions of years not registered in
the channels of Niagara?


The speaker drew a section Of the |
upper lakes, and showed that the Mag
ara river at the head Of the rapids is
only thirty feet higher than the face of
Lake Michigan. A barrier more than
thirty feet higher across the Niagara
pleaieau would throw the waters of Lake
Erie back on Lake Michigan, and the
drainage would be through the Missis-
sippi TO the Gulf Of Mexico. Western
biologists have found an old river chan
mel from the lake to the Illinois, and the
speaker drew sections Of a great barrier
which once stretched across the plateau
The old river bed in Illinois and the
broken bridge across the Niagara plateau
account for the extreme youth of the
falls.
Year: 1872

1t is an old idea that games are an
index TO the age which plays them.
Buckle argues that Druidism was not
the terrible faith it was said to have
been, because its ceremonies largely
consisted Of dances, songs and outdoor
sports. 1t is noteworthy that our amuse-
ments to-day are nearly all of a sed-
entary and intellectual nature, in
stead of being active and physi-
cal Base ball, like horse-racing,
has largely fallen into the hands OF
gamblers. Skating is no more, and
croquet drags out sickly existence
Rowing and riding and walking have
never had a strong hold on the popular
mind Instead of all these, we find
only games intended to testthe intellect,
to teach history or morality, to produce
quckness of repartee and thought
While this is gratifying as sign OF
greatly needed intellectual progress, it
is mourniul as an indication of physi-
cal decay. In America strong mind
in a strong body is an anomaly.
Year: 1872

We ahall send cheering news to our friend in
The County and State in our large weekly edition
tomorrow. When they learn how handsomely
we have carried Wilmington for the Democratic
Mayor, and see to what All extent We have been
aided by the Liberal Republicans" who refused
to vote the Radical ticket on Tuesday, and who,
10 doubt, will vote our whole State ticket headed
by Greeley and Brown. in November, our Demo
cratic friends in every county and school district
will I've cheered on to more lively work. Let them
form clubs and organize thoroughly and great
victory awaits us. Let the Democracy Of New
Castle county especially awake to their duty. Let
Us have no negro Jurors and negro constables SO
long as We can avoid 1t. Not because We have
sny dislike to the innocent negro but because II
errng or unfortunate white men must be arrested
and punished, We prefer that they shall not fall
under the authority Of negroes; but be arrested
and tried by 'their peers"
Year: 1872

The Commercial takes up the cudsel and ap-
plies It to certain members OF its party. 1t says
Dougherty was ..beateA by the deliberate blow d
voters protesting to belong to his own party" 1t
compares the vote of the two parties cast for In.
spectors in the wards and says shat the city gives
q Republican majority Of 2l2."


That il = sad state for party to b in. II is
proof Of the dissatisfaction that exists and shows
that the number Of Radicals who are wanting In
confidence in those who control the party must be
yery large But the Commercial stops in it, sx-
animation too soon-it might have went further,
and We think have showed that over two hundred
who went to the polls and voted fer the inspectors
refused to vote for the Radical nominees for mem
bsn Of Council


We are convinced that these votsrs wished the
Democrats to triumph on this part of the ticket as
we'll - IN tie election of Mayor. 1t is very rare
thing to witness such discrimination on the part
Of voters and it proves that there is class OF men
in the Radical ranks who are too intelligent and
have too much regard for the public good to be
held by the mere qualification Of party triumph
when they know they will b required To pay fol
it in dollars and csnta in the shape Of an increase
Of the already harrassing taxes.
Year: 1872

We place at the head Of our columns this day the
ticket formed by our Democratic friends in Su sex
County on Tuesday 1t ISL good ticket and Will
be elected by a large majority. The people In
Sussex will not. for long time. be willing to al
low party feeling to put them under the feet OF Il
negro race, whe would be sure to become the toois
Of willy "carpet baggers
Year: 1872

Few people know, aud thousands do not know


that by acting glass fruit jar on u folded tows
thoroughly soaked in cold water, the fruit eau
poured iu boiling hot, with no more danger
breaking than with tin can.
Year: 1872

t1VeSs


CFrom tho Washington StAr.)


Briet mention has been made In the
Star Of the report OF Mr.. Edward CLARK,
architect Of the Capitol, in response to q
resolution introduced into the House at
the close OF the last session Of Congress BY
Gen. Butler, asking that plans might be
submitted for the improvement Of the
hall OF the House Of Representatives. The
following is the report In full:


Having examined the hall of Represen.
tatives with a view to cnlarging and ex.
tending its sides to the outer wall of the
building, as contemplated in the House
resolutions passed June l, 1879, l have the
honor TO state that there are great din.
culties In tho way Of thus enl9rging this
hall, as the roof Is supported by the walls
which enclose 1t. TO take either the
north or the south wall away would In.
volvc the construction of new rafters OF
greater span than those now used. In
consequence Of the large amount OF labor
in accomplishing this result, am of the
opinion that 1t Is impracticable, owing TO
the shOrtness Of the time during which il
must be done. A result might be gained
equivalent, 80 far as relates 10 light and
air, and also adding greater area to
the floor by abollshing the gallery at the
south and taking out the wall which
separate the hall from the corridor back
TO the Speakers chair. This would
carry the floor out to the wall which now
separates the corridor from the Speakers
room, which wall might be pierced with
doorways at the floor and by windows at
the upper story. l am OF the opinion,
however, that the glare Of light thus oh.
tanned would be q source Of ANNOYANCE, !,
as has proved to be the case in the Su.
prCmG Court room, where 1t Is found nee.
essary to drape the windows and to de.
pend mainly on the openings In the cell.
ing for light Besides, II windows
should be made accessible 10 the Hall,
opening or shutting the same would
do away with all reliable control OF
the heating, and would moreover seri.
ously affect the acoustics Of the room, as
it is well known that where lattera! ven.
tillatiOn Is present sound Is conducted
in the direction Of the currents OF the
air. There are two ways OF getting room
for the increased number Of members
without making any extensive alterations
in the hall. First, the walls under tho
galleries might be taken away, support.
ing the galleries by columns or piers,
which would add the space now occupied
by the cloak rooms to the floor oil the
hall. Second, by obtaining smaller desks
and rearranging them. 1t should be borne
in mind that the more the hall Is extend.
ed the more difficult it will be for o
speaker to be heard from back seat. |
am clearly OF the opinion that the most
satisfactory way to get increased accom-.
modations, and the least expensive. is to
let the hall remain at its present dimen.
sions and to obtain new desks Of smaller
size, which might be arranged on the
floor in manner to save considerable
space.
Year: 1872

CURE FOR CoRNs.-Those who consld.
er sound feet a luxury, and who suffer
from cOrns, hard, soft or festcred, would
do well to try tho following, which is
taken from the Journal Of Chemittry:


"Soak the feet well in warm water,
then with sharp instrument pare of as
much ol the corn US can be done without
pain, and bind up the part with piece OF
linen or muslin, thoroughly saturated
with sperm oil, or, what Is better, the oil
which floats on tho surface OF herring or
mlckerel. After three or four days the
dressing may DO removed by scraping,
when tho new skin will bo found Of a
soft and healthy texture, and less liable
to the formation Of new corn than be-
fore We have this receipt from asource
which we cannot well doubt, and publish
1t for the benefit of many readers"
Year: 1872

A child bears knocks which are fatal
in old age. This is owing the skull
bel thin, uniform in texture and
elastic, in childhood and to the brain
being of corresponding structure. The
brain at this age is soft to a degree that
would be unnatural in mature years.
This resiliency of the skull, and yield
ing quality of the brain, explain how
the child is unipjured by blows which
would be attended with fatal convul-
sions in after life. But there is also a
provisions in adults for moderating the
effects of such accidents. In proper
ton as the brain acquires tirmness dur
ing growth, gradual change takes
place in the structure of the bones tf
the head, the protecting Uranium is not
simply strengthened, it is not merely
thick cncd, the Hat bones which sur
round the brain are split into layers,
an external and internal one. Those
layers have each different density,
and a softer substance than either is
interposed between them, the effect OF
which is TO interrupt that vibration
| which would otherwise ring around the
| skull, and reach every molecuie of the
brain.--Ihreaoloaicai Jounal.
Year: 1872

A more thoroughly disgrstcd set of
men could not easily be found than the
eXpcditionists who recently returned TO
San Francisco from Arizona, whittier
they had gone in quest of the diamond
fields, descriptions of which have been
published in every newspaper in the
country. The telegraph announces that
they declare the whole diamond ex-
element to be u fraud" From this il
may be inferred that they have f,iled
to find the mines, and they come back
with heavy hearts and light pock cts.
If the experience of these persons had
the effect of deterrng others from start
ing Oft on similar missions, there would
be no reason for regret; but, uniortu
nately, there is no likelihood that it is
going to have any such result. The
mania for rapidly acquiring fortunes is
too strongly developed to be speedily
checked. Boxes full of diamonds of
the purest water have q magical infiu.
ence upon the average mind. The very
thought of being able to put hands upon
similar gems, and thus realize millions
of dollars, becomes irl 'tible; the
dreamer takes up his carpet bag and his
spare cash, and resolves to 80 in quest
of fortune. If men were to do this k ind
of thing who could afford to lose capital
without being reduced to the condition
of beggars, it might not be SO bad; but,
unluckily, it nearly always occurs that
the greatest sufferers are those who have
the least ability to bear losses. Ii is
quite evident that something ought to
be done toward making an example of
the men who perpetratc frauds of this
nature. AS long rs they are permitted
to enjoy an immunity from prosccu-
ton, they will continue to hatch more
schemes of Il similar nature, and to
spring them upon the country when
least expected.
Year: 1872

The Joo2'al Of the Franklin Mstit.tc
gives these five hints regarding the use
of Il g"inds one: |. Do not waste the
stone by running it in water; but if so,
do not allow it to stand in water when
not in use, as this will cause soft
place. >. Wet the stone by dropping
water on it from u pot suspended above
the stone, and stop off the water when
not in use. 3. DO not allow the stone
to get out of order, and keep it perfectly
round by the use of gaspipe or a hacker.
l.. Clean off all greasy tools before sharp
ening, us grease or oil destroys the grit.
.. O; ;sclve-whon you get a stone that
suits your purpose, send Il sample Of the
grit to the dealer to select by; half
ounce sample is enough.
Year: 1872

The Office of salt as an agent in the
culture of the soil is to make the earth
moist and cool. Hence its eflectis is more
clearly seen on light, sandy soils. On
wet, heavy clays and in damp season
it will do no perceptible good. The pro-
portion to apply is about one pound per
rod, or about one hundred and sixty
pounds per acre. This is the substance
of the Gardeners Monthy's reply to a
correspondent on the subject.
Year: 1872

tenant This fact has produced, and Is producing; s'


legitimate fruit n a general and widespread dssatisis
ton Men OF Independence and honor Will no longer
consent TO the Chandler and Ferry collar remain
In the party and slaves these men dotate or
their own and their friends nterests"


The friends Of tho cavalry general, w. w.
Averell. authorize a contradiction Of the statement
going the rounds Of the press that he will support Grant
In the present canvass Hc has been warm advocate
OF the election OF Horace Greeley since his nomination.
believing that his success will bring union and peace ana
end VI the war. Cen Averell Ia one OF the prime
movers In the social and patriotic reunion OF the 0Cos
and soldiers OF the Federal and Confederate armies now
progressing 10 satisfactorily.


The Liberal Republicans and Democrats OF
Vermont have each called State Conventions TO meet at
Burlington. Wednesday, July a. These Conventions are
70 nominate Presidential electors and full state
ticket and it IL expected that Joint nominations will he
made. There s much dissatisfaction among the Grant
Republicans with the candidacy Of Julius Converse for
Governor. He is aged man, far past the prime OF


life and unfit for the Office for which he has been named
MANY Of the disiectod Republicans will join the Liberal
movement claiming that COnyerse's nomination was the
result OF n trick They promise 10 make tae canvass
very difficult one for his ticket