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Year: 1871

There is a great difference in men.
Some are as true hearted unsuspic-


ous as newfoundland dogs; Others
are like rat terriers, always nosing
around under the impression that
there is something going on that
they don't understand. Some are
noble ahd generous; others perfect
" mean and contemplate. Some
are modest; others are over-run with
vanity and egotism. Some are IN
variabIy kind and considerate; 9TH
ers 90 about with their eyes shut
in utter ignorance Of the trouble
they are giving by their careless
ness. Some slow and steady and to
be depended upon; others, quite
brilliant and unreliable. Some
have a test for detail and attend to
all the minutie of a subject while
others care only for great principles
and require thing to be gigantic
before it arrests their attention.
Men of genius are always uncom-
Portable to live with. Absorbed in
one subject, they ignore trifes, and
triHes make up the comfort or dis
comfort Of lifes
Year: 1871

The address of Prof. Cope on the Evolution
of Organic Types, printed in this number of
THE TRIBUNE, will, perhaps, fail to attract
the interest of unscientitic readers, but it
seems to be one of the most important papers
yet presented to the learned Association
whose proceedings at Indianapolis we have
so fully recorded. Briefly, Prof. Cope accepts
the Darwinian theory of variation and natural
selection; but he objects, list, that while the
observations and reasoning of Darwin justify
us in assuming the derivation of one species
from another, they do not prove that genera
separated by important structural differences
have been evolved in the same way and,
secondly that while the principle of natural
selection accounts for the preservation of
"the fttest,n and the elimination of the
weak, it leaves the origin OF the fit
test entirely untouched. Prof. Cope be-
lieves that the improved theories of e%olu-
ton can he established in another way
namely, by showing an identity between the
young and incompletely developed individuals
of the higher types and the adults of the in
ferior ones. The process by which from this
starting point he arrives at the theory that
the variation of species is the result of
acceleration or retarddtOn of growth, is too
elaborate to be traced ont here, and we
must refer our readers for an explanation
to the address itself. We can only say
that he furnishes an ingenious contribu-
ton to the arguments in support of Dar-
wins Fundamental hypothesis, and that he has
probably set text for great deal of scien-
tifc discussion.


Darwin accounted for the "origin of the
"iittest" by assuming constant tendency to
variation in nature, otherwise there could have
been no material for the exercise of selection.
Prof. Cope refers the change to the process of
acceleration of growth, and accounts for this
by various influences acting upon the growth
force-namely, physical and chemical causes,
use and effort. Touching the last, he in
dulges in a curious speculation: suppose
"there were no part or organ to use. Such
"must have been the condition of every ami
"ma prior to the appearance of an addi-
"tional digit or limb .. | am disposed
"to believe that the growth force may
"be by the volitiOn Of the animal rs readily de-
"termned TO a locality where an executive
organ does not exist, as to thc first segment
Year: 1871

Gen. Buffers reconnaissance at Springfield
has drawn the fire of the whole line. 1t has
shown the opposition he is likely to encounter
from the Republicans of New-England, but
we shall be disappointed in the sentiment OF
the Massachusetts, people if it prove to have
done him any good. The General is reported
to have once said that he never knew really
comfortable life until he lost the last shred OF
his reputation and he seems to be now acting
upon the principle that he cannot make
really vigorous and unembaTassed campaign
until he has sacrificed the last of his possible
friends, and secured the embittered hostility OF
all the most prominent leaders of the party to
which be processes allegiance. We have spoken
elsewhere of the theories of political economy
which formed the text of this extraordinary
discourse. Apart from these it seems to have
consisted of financial statements which the
Boston papers have completely refuted, and
personal attacks to which Mr.. Sanborn and
Gen. Hawley reply with vigor worthy OF
Gen. Butler himself.
Year: 1871

The examination in the famous poisoning
case at Columbus has ended, as every one has
recently foresecn that it must end, in the hon
orabe discharge of the accused lady Not a
suspicious circumstance has been brought
home to her. One or two witnesses who
testified to trivial incidents supposed to ind-
cate that she had no love for her first hus-
band have been discredited by their own be-
bayior on the stand. Mrs. COlburn is repre-
scntcd to have been an afiectionate and faith
ful wife, trusted by her husband to the
very hour of his death; while the
instigators of the prosecution bear, whether
Justly or not, an unenyiabe reputation. Add
TO all this that four years were allowed to
pass after the death of Buffenbarger before the
charge of poisoning was made, although the
prosecutor Thompson, declares that he knew
from the first that the old man was murdered
and finally that the family physician testifes
distinctly that the death was caused
by consumption, and was not attended by any
of the symptoms of aISenical pOisoning-and
we have an array of facts in Mrs. Colburs
favor which only the most direct evidence
could have overcome.


But there is a mystery in the case which has
still TO be unravcled. -Four years after the
death of this old man arsenic is discovered


in his stomach and liver. 1t had never
been administered incidentally, and it
is pretty clear that it had not been
given as poison. How did it get
there The theory of the defense was that it
had been Injected into the body after death
for the purpose of laying the foundation of
the present trial. 1t is conceivable that this
might easily have been done before burial, and
on that suppostion we have only TO account
for the fact that whoever devised this devil
ish scheme waited so long before taking the
next step. But if Maley Thompson was the
man, it is easy to understand why he
should not have found it convenient just then
to bring himself prominently before the
public. There was no insuperable difficulty,
however, in opening the grave at any time.
True, We are told that no evidences OF dis
turbance were discovered but the lapse of a
few weeks or months would have obliterated
all marks of the exhumation.


We presume that Mr.. and Mrs. Colbum
VIII take further steps w solve tho
Year: 1871

The Tammany organs denounce the exposure
of the financial operations of the Ring as an
attack upon the credit of the city. In other
words, these journals believe it is our duty to
conceal tho operations of the Controller, lest
knowing them, capitalists should hesitate to
lend us money. Can there be palmer confes-
sion of fraud or a more open exhortation to
dishonesty If our credit is injured, 1t Is by
the men who add $3O,OOOOOO year to our
debt. and then refuse to tell us what becomes
of the money.
Year: 1871

The Boston Natural History Society has received
present of specimen Of the Sucking Fish EceRe's
RemOJG) which, read with interest, fastens itself
to the keel of ship and thus delays its progress
Spectators have amused themselves by finding in
the lower animals types of mankind. We have our
selves noticed a kind of Sucking Fish on two legs
which is IN the habit of attaching itself TO the mu-
nicipal ship, and making it sail in highly unsatls-
factory manner, while at the same time, growing
fat in most mysterious way. We don't say that
Mr.. Tweed for instance is Echeaeis Reniora for
that might be libelous, but We do say that ne is
very odd fish
Year: 1871

One II. S. McCellum noisy Democrat, formerly
the editor of a Democratic paper III Syracuse ana
now the editor of The Utica Patriot Temperance
paper. has managed to get himself appointed on the
New-York State Temperance Committee, on 'he
Grand Lodge of Good Templars Committee ana on
the Committee of the Grand Division OF the Sons
of Temperance of Eastern Newly mk to consider the
question of organizing Temperance party IN 'hlS
State So far as we know the Temperance men are


unwilling to trust the management OF the cause III
his hands and very few if any. desire to organize
potical Temperance party.
Year: 1871

the men who professed to approve them. His
examination, and that of Senator Sherman,
into the financial schemes of the Democratic
party will set before the thinking people OF
Ohio in their true light the monstrous falla-
cies with which the leaders of that party have
endeavored to beguile them. Gen. Noyes's
speech is that of a sensible man speaking to
sanSihle man
Year: 1871

:" or cell of such an organ already commenced,
''and that, therefore, effort is in the order on
time the first factor in acceleration." Which
of you by taking thought, said our Lord, can
add one cubit unto his stature But II the
new theory of volitional acceleration of growth
is sound, it is quite possible that man has
only to keep on wishing for two noses, and
in the course of generations the second nose
will begin to sprOut.
Year: 1871

That uneasy adventurer, Don Carlos, has
got as far as Bayonne on his way back to the
Spanish frontier, and his adherents, it is said.
are at loss what to do about it, The wisest
thing they can do is to forswear Don Carlos
and all his works, as they are very likely to
do if he continue to push his hare-brained
schemes to reach the throne of Spain.
Year: 1871

A year ago The World was one Of the most
earnest assailants of the robberies of the Tam
many Ring. To-day it is foremost in defend
ing them. The Ring threatens to institute
suit for the possession of the land upon which


The Times Office is built The World office
stands upon the same property. Is there any
connection between this significant fact and
The Worlds extraordinary change Of policy 7
Year: 1871

REV. Z. l. Cuyler says: Cannot
ministers Of Christ agree TO preach more
frequently and more earnestly against
drunkenness and the dangers Of the cup :.
From many pulpits this whole subject
is practically excluded. The drunkard
is rarely prayed for; the young not warn
ed against this ensnaring device of the
devil; the law of God against drunken
ness Is substantially ignored! And yet
it is undcnlablc that the bottle is sending
more souls TO predition than all the inf
del tongues and pens in the land. We
utter no railing against our brethren who
ignore this stupendous moral evil but
we would not choose to have Il son of ours
trained up under such n ministry"
Year: 1871

1T affords ME much pleasure to hear testllno-
ny as to the efficacy Of your Crystal Discovery.
Some years since, while in lndin, l suffered from
a severe fever peculiar to the country. On my
recovering, patch of hair on the left side of my
head became perfectly white, without at ali at-
tecting the remainder TO remove this unSighty
appearance, l had recourse to various prepara-
tons both in Europe and in this country but
they all had one great detcct-thcy dyed the
hair black. Now, with your Crystal Discovery,
| can get the desired shade-the natural color OF
my hair being dark brown. consider your
Discovery the best preparation know Of
Year: 1871

Familiarity about things connected with my
family, and was much entertained by his talk.
If he told his name / have forgotten II, and he
lived in Xenia.


believe now that somebody sent him to find
out whether / had heard anything of the two let
ters and to tell anything said. Somebody, who
was willing to believe such thief, made a long
story out of what he told him, and published It,
Every one knows what use the Stomses and
their friend Bloss made of it. They tried to
drive me to publish their confidential letters
and, when l would not, they did 1t. William
Stems said he had kept no copy of his, but pub
lished what he could recollect of 1t, and Bloss
published Horace's from recollection after hear
ing it read.


Before l close will correct other falsehoods
that have been spoken, saying that have been
setting up the Offices here. This is all can
remember doing; wrote letter recommending
Mr.. Stephenson for the Custom House, and
tried all could to get the Post Office for Fred
Mayer. / do not remember of hearing of
Weitzel or Pullan until after they were made
Collectors, and never wanted Shaw for Asses
sor. All did about the Supervisors office was
when Wright Clark sent for me
to help him turn out Weitzel and Pulan and
put John Hooker and James Sands in their
place. Then / blew up the whole plot that
Stoms and Sands and that set had laid to get
hold of the revenue offices. l think l did some
good then in stopping the whisky and tobacco
ring from starting again. do not remember
ever to have said anything about any of the
other offices. The only thing about the offices
here that | ever thought the President did
for me was to leave Stoms in the
office johnson gave him, and he has turned
out so bad that / conclude to give no more
recommendations. / find that good men do not
come for them, and mean ones do one or two
of that kind have lately. think the papers
nearly 80 years old, only because / am the
Presidents father, nor that all of them put
together can cause him to honor his father and
mother less in the future than he has in the
past, even as God has commanded him.


- j. 4. GRANT.


Covinoton March On 1871
Year: 1871

WOMAN was toasted III the following style
at the recent anniversary meeting of the Rich
mond Light Infantry Blues: "Wonan-pure
as snow fake that falls upon the cold peaks
OF the Bactrian Alps; beautiful as the houri
that buthes herself IN the crystal fountain of
the Moslem paradise; graceful as the peri
ahoat on her shell skitf over the calm waters
of the dark blue sea; vain, worse than vain,
the warming to guard the heart when intellect
flashes from her bright eye, and the light of
the soul is breathed like music upon her face -
Year: 1871

A Naples letter in the Boston Adver-


tiser has the following account of the


eruption of Yesuvius:


Lacking all else, we can still amuse


ourselves with Vesuvius. After months
of small threatcnings, and many opinions
from Professor Palmieri, our old volcano
has been true to its average of the past
thirty years, and has begun its new erup-
ton just at the expiration of two-year
period since the ending of the last pre-
ceding one. As yet, there is nothing
magnificent in the sight or destructive
in the action of the mountain; but Pal
mieri, who was right in predicting this
new outbreak, which he deduced from
the unsettled state of the crater and from
the cessation of the severe Calabrain
earthquakes-all of which he attributes
to one and the same subterranean
cause-7-is confident that the present
is but the beginning of an eruption which,
if not one of the greatest, will at least be
ofvery considerable consequence. Now
the lava does not proceed from the sum
NIT of the mountain, but from a small
crater which has been formed near the
top on the north side, and which may be
distinctly observed from the city as
sort of bulge on the hitherto regular
slope. The smoke is constant and pro-
fuse, and dense black mass of it also
issues at short intervals from the great
crater, in which the lava has been
steadily rising The stream of lava
is about fifty or eighty feet wide,
and is making its way quite slowly
into the rugged and uncultivated hol-
low between Vesuvius and Mount Som
ma. In clear day, when the wind is
light, the two columns of smoke are
beautiful to see-one dark and compact,
the other whitened and difiused by the
steamy vapors which are mingled with
it; one rising to a great hight scarcely
altered in form and color, the other
melting into clouds and wreaths at the
slightest breeze and catching a score Of
radiant hues as it vanishes away. BY
night the whole track is visible from
Naples; not in its entire breadth, how
ever, and therefore presenting simply
the appearance of glowing outline to
one side of the cone, over which some
times low bank of ruddy, vaporous
clouds may be seen palpating in the |
heat; the crater itself is as vast burn
ing coal, from which on some nights
flames and blazing fragments have
been seen to shoot upwards, but such |
energy is rare. The Neapolitan
resident almost turns up his nose at such |
an apology of eruption as this; but even
this is violent enough to convey to the
visitor a clear idea of the forces at work
and the nature of their action. There is
the sluggish, molten mass, creeping with
groanings and rumblings, with hissings
and settings, from its fiery, fuming
source; there is the scorching heat that
withers while the crawling lave is yet
distant; there the hideous, contorted, in
frangible coils, blackening as they cool;
and there the same evidence of helpless
ness to contend with the might of an ap-
proach at once so insidious and irresist-
BILE.
Year: 1871

"A music teacher once wrote that the
art Of playing the violin requires the
incest perception and the most sense OF
any art in the known world. Whereupon
a Western editor comments thus: The
artofpubhshinga newspaper and making
Il pay, and at the same time making il
please everybody, beats 6ddlin' higher
than a kite.
Year: 1871

General Bourbaki is said to be CAPT
tai swordsman, and is so dextrous with
his weapon that when it is sharp enough
he can perform the feat of cutting silk
in twain by turn Of his
wrist, an exploit which, according to
Sir Walter Scott, Saladin performed after
King Richard | had failed to accomplish
with all his strength of arm. la1a
Year: 1871

boiling, handful of salt was thrown in. and
twice week double handful of ashes. At
night this is cmptied into barrels, and two or
three pailfuls Of water stirred in through it.
This stood until it became slightly soured.
and then fed three times a day as regularly
as my own bell rang, and in quantity so as
each and all would have enough, and some
little, not much, left. They were killed al
intervals, but were fed about the same length
of time as my neighbor's Seven of them
went over three hundred, and the average
Of the rest was two hundred and thirty
pounds. There was no measurement of corn
by either of US, but We estimated that the
number of bushels fed by each was about
the same. We were both satisfied Of the
great economy of boiled food, dry pens, good
shelter and regular feeding over raw food,
rough ard tumble.
Year: 1871

An ENGINEER Of RESOURCES The Bethle-
hem (Pa.) Times says that the g." oldest
locomotive engineer in the United States is
Barney Butz, who now runs an engine on the
Lebanon branch Of the Reading Railroad
Barney was born in Conygham, Lueerne
county Pennsylvania, and went on the Beaver
Meadow Railroad about the year 1885 or 1886
In 1897 he was running an engine from Parry
vile to Weatherly, the planes being then in
operation. The cars were drawn up the planes
by stationary engine, and were then drawn
into the Beaver Meadow mines by 4 locamo-
tive. \ good story is told of Barney S readi-
ness in case Of an emergency One day his
engine would not make steam well, and he
was likely TO be Overtaken by a passenger
train before be could reach the turnout


Seing good sized poker along the track he
Jumped from his engine-tho tram was
moving very slow seized the pig. cut his
throat, and stuffed him into the furnace.
The fat of the pig WAS better than kindling
wood, and in a very short time Barney had
steam up and was out of danger"
Year: 1871

go question caused so much iscord in
the Republican party last winter, many
leading members Of the party held q con-
ference, and recommended that when the
proper time comes Mr.. Samuel +. Miller,
of Iowa, one of the associate justices Of
the United States Supreme Court, be
presented for the Republican candidate
for President.


In consequence Of the death of one Of
the Democratic state senators elect in New
Hampshire, the question as to who will be
declared Governor when the Legislature
meets, is in doubt. The senate is q tie
and in the house Of representatives the
labor reformers hold the balance Of pow
err Mr.. Weston, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor, bad plurality Of
votes in the election, but he may be
cheated out Of the seat just as Governor
English has been 10 Connecticut.


The great woman speech, last week, in
New York, WIS made BY Mrs. Victoria G.
Woodruff, who said that If the very next
Congress does not withdraw every obstacle
to the most ample exercise Of the franchise
By woman, ave shall proceed to call
another convention expressly to frame
new constitution and t. erect new gov
eminent, complete in al its parts, and to
take measures 10 maintain il as effectually
as men do theirs. We mean treason we
mean secession and on Il thousand times
grander scale than Wa. that Of the South.
We are plotting revolution we will over
throw this bogus republic, and plant
government Of righteousness in it, stead"
Year: 1871

THE San Domingo scheme will form a
prominent issue in the approaching cam
paign in Ohio. The Cleveland Herald
says; "The truth may as we'll be told. We
believe that two-thirds of the Republicans
in the State of Ohio are opposed to the
San Domingo scheme. To run the cam
psign in Ohio on this issue, would be to
insure defeat. The nomination Of u can
ddste around whom hangs even suspi-
cion of connection with 1t, would imperil
the success of the party. Whether Mr.
Wade is or is not pressed in the interest Of
the administration, or is connected with
the San Domingo business, the existing
suspicion of such connection would make
his nomination unfortunate for the Re-
publican cause in this State
Year: 1871

of 1776. We will not succeed unit
the financial power of the North i
completely broken, and this can occur
only at the end of long and blood.
war. Many of our people think it will
soon be over, that perhaps a singl'
campaign and one great battle will
end it. This is fatal error, ant
must be corrected, or we are doomed
Above all, Virginians must prepar,
fer the worst. Our country is of wide
extent and great natural resources
but the conflict will be mainly in Vir
ginia. She will become the Flander:
of America before the war is over, anG
her people must be prepared for this
IF they resolve at once to dedicate
their lives, and all they possess, tc
the cause of constitutional government
and Southern Independence, and to
suffer without yielding as no other
people have been called upon to suffer
in modern times, we shall, with the
blessing of God, succeed in the ends
but when it will end no man can fore
tell. wish 1 could take any man,
woman, and child in the State now,





This is almost literally his language,
though many of the positions taken by
him were elaborated and enforced
with the greatest earnestness. His
views made most profound impress
ion on me at that time, and, as he de-
signed, were afterward repeated when
ever the opportunity occurred. He
talked in this way to many others
One corroborative anecdote / recall.
Colonel T. S. Flourncy, once lead
ing Whig member of Congress from
Virginia, and the opponent of Henry
A. Wise in 1855 Tor Governor, had
been a Union member of the Secession
Convention, but when the State went
out he was one of the first to raise a
regiment of cavalry for the field, which
was mustered into the service early in
1861. A gallant son of Colonel F.,
who was afterward shot in battle, was
captain Of a splendid company of
young fellows, well mounted; but the
Governor, having only called for in
fantry, did not accept them, much to
their disappointment. Thereupon
they prevailed on Col. Flournoy, who
was in the convention, to see Gen.
Lee, and appeal to him to use his in
fluence with Gov. Letcher to accept
the company as cavalry, or they would
dismount and go in as infantry.-
Gen. Lee listened to him attentively,
and when he heard all the facts, he
replied: "Col. Flournoy, tell your
son to go home and drill his men tho
roughly, and not to become impatient.
They will have the opportunity to see
service to their content, and the time
will come when they will be far more
anxious to get out of the army than
they now are to get in" His predic-
ton proved to be literally true.


J. D. lMBoDEN.