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Year: 1872

It is not to be fashionable hereafter to exhibit
bridal presents.


A grocer recently had a pound Of sugar re-
turned, with note stating that it contained
too much sand for table use, and not enough
for building purposes


General Crook having received information
OF General Howards mission to the Indians OF
the Pacific coast, has suspended his campaign
against the Apaches in Arizona.
Year: 1872

The reply Of Earl Granville to Secretary
Fish will not be received in Washington until
the close OF this week. All that is officially
known about it is that sit is very long" 1t can
not be very witty, then.
Year: 1872

Keep unaltered for any length Of time are portable
cleanly, convenient and always effective. A triA
will convince those who have never used them Of
the usefulness, handiness. economy, and prompt
energy OF this indispensable medical agent.
fresh supply Just received by


e. BklNGHURST h Co.,


Corner Sixth and Market Streets
Year: 1872

REPEAL OF THE TEA AND COFFEE DUTY


From the N. Y. Heraldl


The Senate Of the United States has declared
in favor Of repeating the duty on tea and coffee.
This will not only greatly reduce the cost OF
these necessary articles, but will insure the sale
Of purer articles. The millionaire who buys the
best in the market, regardless Of expense, will
care nothing for this repeal, but it will be
boon to the laboring man and to all the poorer
classes.


SEND SHERIDAN TO THE RIO aRANDE


[From the N. Y Herad.l


At the same time General Grant may, in the
performance of the ministerial functions OF his
Office, do something the moral effect OF which
will be equal to a victory, Let him send Sheri-
dan to the Rio Grande. He has perfect right
to do this, just as much as to send him to Chi
cago or st. Paul. The moral effect Of Sheridan's
presence at Matamoras, with a regiment or two
as brigade Of observation" will be equal to the
movement of an army six months from now
Year: 1872




at the Democratic stand


SPEECH OF MARTIN T. MMAHON
GENTLEMEN: The most curious, perhaps OF all the
curious events which have grown out Of the Cincinnati
Convention, is the sudden interest and tender nav
almost afectionate, solictude which the friends
OF the present Administration feel for the welfare and
fate of the Democratic party They greatly troubled
lest the Democratic party may not maintain its integ
ry and its organization, and all the good things which
are 20 be accomplished by unanimity in Bal
tmore As one OF the rank and file OF the Democratic
party seeking and desiring no Office or benefit from the
party, can assure them tney may make their minds
its Integrity its honor and its organization, by nOminat
ing, indOrsng, and eecng Horace Greeley for Presi-
applause.l


The reason that these gentlemen assign 20 us that
should not take that course II that Horace Greeley
the past bitterest and most implaccable enemy
he he had at least the merit Of being loyal and
frank enemy. fCheeIs.l II like crab
We might perhaps 70 back INTO these Issues OF pact
Year: 1872

1t is often amusing to note with what
facility hostile political opinion comes to
harmonic with popular sentiment. II
only needs to be known that a majority Of
the people favor a certain measure, when
the antagonism Of aspiring individuals
and even journals appreciably subsidies.
This truth is being noticeably illustrated
Just now in our community. Those Of our
Democratic friends who were going to die
in the "last ditch" before they would
surrender one jot or title of their partisan
theories, even staid and sober journals
like the Picayne and Bee, are now begin
ming to admire the frank and generous
philosophy of Greeley, and think it more
than likely they. may be brought to the
support of the Cincinnati nominees.


Now, we hold that this comes Of the
force of popular sentiment. The people
are rarely in error. They judge dispas-
sionately and decide correctly. They felt
an assurance from the beginning that the
principles of the Cincinnati convention
were in harmony with the public neces-
sites. If not enthusiastic at first, the
calm, deliberate approval that-was mani
tested soon assumed the feeling which
resembles popular delight The condition
Of public affairs was such that the plat
form Of the convention was suitable alike
to State and national politics It meant
reform wherever abuses were to be cor
rected. How, then, could State and ma
tional politics be separated. It meant to
enlist, and did engage, the allegiance Of
every man who had the good of the peo-
pie and the prosperity Of the country at
heart.


So with US; the ragged elements which
had drifted into partisan rifts-which
whirled about in ceaseless but ainlless con-
fusion-begun to turn to this great prin-
ciple Of unity and reform as the needle
turns to the magnet Once its attractive
Year: 1872

IObal. 1l5o


It then grudgingly comedies that Penn
sylvania is quite likely to go for Mr..
Greeley; and in case both New York and
Pennsylvania are added to the one hun
dred and thirty-eight votes Of the States
that went Democratic in 1868, and are
now conceded to Mr. Greeley, be will
have enough to make him President with
ont looking to Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Missouri, and other States that are sure to
vote for the Liberal Republican ticket
Besides, the organ is very seriously at
fault in attempting to convey the idea
that the Republican party has not lost
ground ; very seriously lost ground with
the people since the election Of President
Grant. That it has done this has been
clearly demonstrated in Missouri, Ten
nessee, Virginia, and other States whose
people have combined to put down radi-
calism and the corruptions and dangerous
tendencies of Grants administration. The
people are now combining in every State
of the Union for this purpose. The Lib
eral Republican movement is not only
backed up by the Democratic heart and
strength Of the country, but it has been
set in motion and is sustained by the
great body Of the people that rallied
under the banner of the Republican party
when that party commanded the respect

and confidence of the masses-the great
majority of the American people that IN
der the constitution has the right to rule,
and whose government is bound to respect
the lawful rights of all parties. The Re
publican party, championed by Grant in
the coming Presidential contest, has got
to fight the combined forces that are rally
ing under the Reform banner, and they
embrace men of all parties Democrats,
Republicans, etc.-who favor reform, and
if the Washington Republican will only
take another careful review Of the entire
political field, and do so without the use
Of Grants glasses, it will discover the
chances are decidedly in favor of Greeley
and Browns election next November.
Year: 1872

I


| Horace Greeley skillfully probes the
sores that Grantism has fixed upon the
body-politic, when he says that subject
to our constitutional obligation to main
tain the equal rights of all citizens, our
policy should aim at local self government,
and not at eentralization; that the civil
authority should be supreme over the mill
tary; that the writ Of habeas corpus should
be jealously upheld as the safeguard ofper-
sonal freedom; that the individual citizen
should enjoy the largest liberty consistent
with public order; and that there shall be
no federal subversion of the internal
poIity Of the several States and NUM-
cipalities; but that such shall be left free
to inforce the rights and promote the we'll
being Of its inhabitants, by such means as
the judgment Of its own people shall pre-
scribe.


Under the rule Of Grantism the very re-
verse of this most wholesome policy has
been observed. The equal rights of all
citizens have steadily been denied; local
seF-government has been seriously inter
fered with by the arch minions of an am
bilious and unscrupulous President of the
central government, the tendency Of whose
administration is to make the military au-
thority supreme over the civil and to
complete this part of the work the execu-
tive and legislative branches of the govern
mentor a majority thereof-have con-
spired to strike down the writ of habeas
corpus, the great safeguard of the liberty
Of the citizen Wher Mr.. Greeley in his
letter accepting the nomination of the Gin
cinnati convention, referred to what should
be our policy he very adroitly disclosed
what had been the policy Of President
Grants administration; and it is so artisti-
cally done as to leave no just cause of com
plant from any source, not even from the
authors Of the evils hinted at, and that are
sought to be entailed upon. our country by
the present administration


No one knows the disorders brought
upon the country by Mr.. Grant better
than Mr.. Greeley, and for this reason the
people viii make him the counry's physi-
clan by making him President. Then the
disorders Of the country will be rapidly
healed, and our people Will return to the
true paths Of glory that will be again
opened to them under the guidance of a
President who viii not only preach but
practice the scriptural doctrine of peace
and good will among men. The govern
ment viii then be administered as in the
primitive days Of the country, and virtue,
intelligence and modest merit will not be
thrust in the background to make way for
the vicious, corrupt and brazen-faced per-
sons who have been too often promoted to
public station-not through the viii of
the people, but through the will of
President who had friends to reward as
well as enemies to punish, and basely
used the appointing power belonging to his
Office as a personal right.
Year: 1872

mated at Baltimore, what are the chances
Of his election 2"


The aforesaid Grant organ. too i'm
patient to wait until some well-informed,
unbiased person has answered its ques-
ton truthfully and intelHgently pro-
cesds at once to give an answer itself; one
that it would have the country receive as
correct because it makes the chances good
for the reelection of Grant, and the con-
sequent defeat Of Greeley. This very fair
Grant organ then proceeds to say it has
yet to hear from the first State where.
| Greeley has made the slightest headway in
dividing the Republican party This is
said with a gusto that would indicate that
the aforesaid organ is in dead earnest in
all it says about division Of the Repub-
lican party. And we have not the least
doubt but that the organ could prove just
as satisfactorily that there is no division in
the Republican party, providing it is per-
mjtted to define what is the Republican
party, as it can demonstrate correctly the
certain chances Of Mr.. Chants reelection.
If the sixty thousand ofice-holders under
President Grant constitute the Republican
party, then the organ is correct in saying
it has yet to hear from the first State where
Greeley has made the slightest headway in
dividing the Republican party. The Office
holders are unit for Grant They are
undoubtedly a unit for him just at
this time; but good wide margin
must be left for them to retreat on when it
becomes more safely apparent that Greeley
is making headway in the direction Of the
White House. The organ, after. asserting
in a reckless manner that Greeley has
failed i'll the East, IN the South and every
other section of the Union, very magnani-
mously admits that he may have a victory
in New York, though it regards it by no
means certain. The most that Greeley can
possibly do, according to the organ, is to
carry the States that were carried at the
last general election by the Democracy.
And the organ sumsathem up as follows:
Year: 1872

The busy finger Of the national ezecu-
tive was plainly visible yesterday in the
political pie at Baton Rouge. For some
reason, sufficient with Grant, he has pre-
ferred Mr.. William Pitt Kellogg as the
candidate for Governor Of this State, and
all his subservient officials were working
with might and main yesterday to carry
out the will Of the master. The means
employed were similar to those used in
the Calling gun convention last August
These were, primary possession of the
place Of meeting, the selection Of a com
mittee on credentials who had previously
been selected and instructed, and barefacsd
cheating in the business of passing on the
credentials.


Our dispatches show that all the arts Of
cunning were practced yesterday, and
that the Billings men threaten to bolt in
Year: 1872

consequence. The nomination Of Kellogg
under the circumstances viii therefore
surprise no one. He was Grants choice.
He had earned the position by the bad
eminence he acquired in his attempts to
saddle the enforcement bill in an aggra-
waited form upon this State until after the
next election. If he is content with the
empty honor Of a nomination at the hands
of the men who attended the convention,
we certainly ought to be, as he is proba-
bly, the easiest man to beat that they
could have selected.
Year: 1872

The Nation, in speaking Of the troubles in
the Methodist Book Concern, thinks that in
churches there is a predominant feeling Of
grief for scandal" rather than anxiety for
ruth. and that the ideal church for most
people is not one of unquestiOnable purity,
lint one of undisturbed serenity.
Year: 1872

A legal squabble is going on in Phhadel-
,bia over the estate of a millionaire, who
is supposed to have died intestate, partly
bscause his wife never allowed him to have
a will Of his own, and partly because 1t
didn't occur to him that any one with such
large means was likely to come to his ena
Year: 1872

Would you have the chance of wealth be-
ing su ddenly showered upon you, at time,
TOO. when you stand sadly in need OF itf
just try ticket in the Louisiana State Lot
terry. Money is frequently invested in this
way to great advantage.
Year: 1872

This is the very indiscreet way in which
the Philadelphia Press speaks of pet ad-
ministration scheme: The enforcement olll
has failed, and we are not sorry The
measure itself was Of doubtful propriety,
and the means that were taken TO pass It
HecidedlY wrong.N
Year: 1872

A lady, in writing about the behavior Of
the clerks, says that "every young man
who is called to wait upon young ladies
should bear in mind that under a very
modest garb and an unassuming manner
NAV be hidden the sword that can take his
head off"
Year: 1872

The stockholders of the Louisiana State
Lottery Company are notified that the
stock books viii be closed on the thirtieth
instant, and remain closed until after the
dividend is declared.
Year: 1872

DR.. DOremus used to say that if he were
challenged to fight duel he would suggest
10 his opponent that both should take
poison, and then sit down and play poker
for the exclusive use Of the stomach pump.
Year: 1872

There is said to be remarkable increase
in the number Of sufferers from paralysis in
San Francisco, which is attributed to mental
anxiety, caused by speculation, or the de-
sire to obtain wealth rapidly.
Year: 1872

We would cali the particular attention Of the
Mercantile and Business Community 70 this De.
partment Of our Establishment, IS we have made
to it extensive additions in the very
NEWEST STYLES
Year: 1872

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New YoRK, Feb "a.
A special Berlin dispatch says that Germany is
again arming. Two army corps have received
orders to hold themselves in readiness to move
Immediately when directed


The reason is the great universal activity now
prevailing among the French politicians and the
consequent apprehension on the part of Germa-
ny of possible change in the form Of French
Government.


Prussia reserves to herself the right to judge
whether any new government would be likely,
from inclination or capacityto discharge the OBJ
legations of the treaty of peace, and should
Germany decide either point in the affirmative,
new invasion would follow
Year: 1872

the United Orleans. The bill passed
both houses, but was vetoed by tbs
Governor, and the money then re-
turned. These and other facts equal
ly pertinent have been reported to
Washington, but General Casey has
not been removed, while his opponent
General Longstreet, spoken of as the
only honest man there, has sent in
his resignation.


The first attempt at bribery that
was brought to the notice of the COM
mittee was by several banking houses,
who belonged to the better class of
sOciety-to the old Southern and
Democratic families. They boughtup
the members of the Legislature.
When they had once received money
,they were eager for more, and there
after nothing could pass that was not
bought through the Legislature. Two
sets of delegates have been chosen to
the Philadelphia convention, one by
the Warmoth faction, the other by
Carter men, each claiming to be le-
gally elected by majority Of all the
utIcSdboS.


The committee are about equally
divided, the chairman and two mem
bers thinking the Warmoth party are
the least TO blame. 1t is not probable
that a majority of the committee can
unite in any complete report, but we
may expect to find from all these re-
ports what is the truth in regard to
each of the three parties.


A pretty good story was told to the
committee by the Carter faction.
After they were turned out of the
United States vessel by order of the
Secretary of the Treasury, they went
to Il small log cabin just over the Mis-
sissippi line, where they were beyond
reach of the sergeant-at-arms. The
cabin was small, and the rooms limited.
The lady proprietor apologized, and
said she should be obliged to put
large parties into the same room.
The blackies of the party said she
need not trouble herself about them,
as they had been obliged to sleep with
the white members for two weeks in
the small cabin of the revenue cutter,
and were, therefore, used to it.
Year: 1872

Coop LANGUAGE.-Young people
should acquire the habit of correct
speaking and writing, and abandon
as early as possible any use of slang
phrases. The longer you put this off
the more difficult the requirement of
correct language will be; and if the
golden age. of youth, the proper sea-
son for the acquisition of language, be
passed in it's abuse, the unfortunate
victim will most probably be doomed
to talk slang for life. You have merely
TO use the language which you read,
instead of the slang which You hear,
to form case in agreement with the
best speakers and poets in the country.
Year: 1872

No newspaper, shiftlessly and ire
gularly mailed to it's readers, no mat
ter how laboriously edited nor how
neatly printed, can succeed. This is
one of the facts we have learned in the
matter of printing. Nothing in all our
newspaper experience is more firmly
established in our Judgment. eve
stop the press" and tive postpone
publication to announce" are danger
ous excuses, if thereby the subcriber
will fail of finding his paper at his
door or at the post-office at the reg
ular and usual time. No matter what
has happened in the world of news, OF
in the printing office, the subcliber il
remorseless in wanting his paper when


he expects it and when it is due. II
is astonishing what mediocrity passes
for good paper, if it only be in a
pleasant garb and served with scru.
pulous regularity. We can count uI
papers, editorialE, that are positively
stupid, yet they are eminently success


ful because they have these saving
virtues of neatness and punctuality


Now, we do not advocate stupid pa


pers but if the choice were given n
| TO go to press on time with a stupi,
paper, or lose the mails and have th,
latest news and the best article eve


inserted in paper, we'd say go t.


press on time. Newspaper Reporte,
Year: 1872

Q


From the New York Evening Post.


WAs1nNGToN, March l4.-Many in
uuiries are made about the testimony
taken by the committee sent to New
Orleans to investigate the troubles
there. | learn that there We're rich
things unearthed, not particularly
flattering to either of the different
parties. The evidence is voluminous,
and we fear will not see the light un-
til it is too late to be of any service.
We understand there was conclusive
evidence of attempts at bribery on
every side. A sum was raised to de-
fray the expenses of one bill before
the Legislature to which it is still as
serted General Casey contributed sew
eral thousand dollars, and another
government officer an equal amount,
and in order to protect the money il
was deposited in the treasury office OF
Year: 1872

1t is related of Frederick the Great,
of Prussia that in going through the
reception room of his palace at Sans
Souci he encountered a workman who
busted himself to get ON top of lad
der to take down a clock from the
wall, but, owing to the smoothness of
the marble floor, the ladder could not
be kept firm. What art thou doing
here, mon amir" inquired the King.
g am matchmaker" answered the
workman, and / have received or
ders from the superintendent Of the
palace to repair this clock; l have
been trying to take it down, but can
not succeed, as the ladder does not
stand firm.n Ascend the ladder"
said the King, "and l will hold it
while you are at work" This done,
the workman departed with the clock.
On the following morning the King
was informed that the clock of the re-
ception room had been stolen. No
sooner had his Majesty heard this
when he found, to his chagrin, that in
stead, as he believed, of assisting a
matchmaker, he had been made the
dupe of thief. The King at once
issued an order saying. Let him
run; I have been an accomplice to
the theft."-ChristiGn Union.
Year: 1872

The Boston Transcript says: "The
man who governs France is much in
the situation of the sailor who caught
a tiger under tub. If he don't sit
down on him all the time as hard as he
can the tiger will lift the tub and be
out and at him. Ii he finds the tub
lifting on one side a shade, and sits
more on that side TO stop it, the beast
beneath discovers a letting up on the
opposite side of the tub and has his
nose out there instanter. Would not
the man on top sometimes like to take
turns with somebody in governing
France, so that he might sleep now
and then out of reach aud sound of the
tiger 7"
Year: 1872

THE AMERICAN VESUYIUs.-The
news that Mount Hood, in Oregon, is
throwing out dense column of smoke
and threatening an active volcanic
eruption, surprises most Eastern rea
ders, who know the mountain only as
they have seen its snowy crest in the
background of Bierstadt's canvass.
Mount Hood is one of the several
peaks of the Cascade Mountains
known as the Sierra Nevada in Cali
fornia) every one of which is an ex-
tinct volcano-rnless the present
manifestation of life makes the word
"extinct inappropriate. The other
important peaks are Mount jefferson,
the Three Sisters, and Mount Pitt,
ranging in height from ten to eleven
thousand feet the height of Mount
Hood is about thirteen thousand feet.
There are Indian traditions which in
dicate an eruption of Mount Hood,
but there exists no other evidence on
the subject except that of scientific
observation. The natural desire of
every American citizen is that if
Mount Hood is about to return to ac-
tive life as a volcano, it will do SO on
scale worthy of the nation which
has arisen around it since the last
eruption. The eyes of a great peo-
pie are upon it, and if it shows proper
spirit, Mount Hood may become a
nations pride.-Erchange.
Year: 1872

A facetious individual, not many
miles from Danbury, sought to " draw
his wife outn by pretending to be
found dead with an empty laudanum
phial by his side. And that lady was
good deal shocked at first, but hav-
ing read that needle introduced into
the human flesh would indicate on it's
surface whether that flesh was dead,
and being woman of eminent prac-
ticability, she at once armed herself
with polished instrument of nearly
two inches growth, and, with throb-
bing heart and bated breath, intro
duced good share of its length into
the deceased. What the surface of
the needle really indicated was not
learned, as he took it with him as he
passed through the sash.--Erehange.