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Year: 1871

The country has been afflicted with rumors
innumerable concerning the resignation of the
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary Of State. These
have finally crystallized into statement
which we have to-day from Washington in q
shape 80 authentic and trustworthy that we
are compelled to give it credence.
Year: 1871

We read in one Democratic journal of yes
terday that erery one comedies the election OF
tire Democratic State Ticket" and, turning
to another, we read that, at ono Of the gamb-
ling headquarters uptown.


On tho result Of the election In this State the betting
s quite close, wlers, the Democratic candidate for
Secretary of State selling for small amount over scrb
ner the Republican candidate, the following being an
average Of the pools sold:
Year: 1871

Special correspondence from Wisconsin, pub
lished on our third page, gives additional and
painful details of the great fires which have
lately ravaged the timber regions of the North
West Where all is so horrible, we can expect
to find no new phases of misery and suffering;
but the worst must be known if our people
are to give their aid intelligently.
Year: 1871

Perhaps it is not generally known
bow much pleasanter and more agree
able as well a. efficacious, is poultice
made Of potatoes than one made OF
bread. 1t keeps longer, can be re-
heated several times, and does not wet
the clothing. Peel, boil and mash the
potatoes; inclose in q muslin bag ana
apply to the affected part. To boil
them in hot water has . very soothing
effect, and euchances their virtue. A
poultice made Of boiled beans 10 by
some thought to be better than potatoes
bu, both are worthy OF Q trial
Year: 1871

The various means by which people
profit hy the calamity, or find partial
offset for their losses, are interesting,
Hundred. Of house owners and occu-
pants on streets to which business has
suddenly been forced have made hand
some incomes.hy leasing the whole or
part of their houses for stores or offices.
Rents on few OF the principal streets
like Wabash avenue and West Wash
ington, have increased enormously. One
gentleman, for instance, has moved out
Of his elegant mansion near Peck court
and leased it for $1,000 a year, the
tenant Immediately sub-letting II for q
bank, a restaurant and Office for SIS, 900
Another, worth his quarter OF a
million before the fire, retires with his
family and his pride into the back and
upper portions OF bis large residence
near Twelfth street, and gets an income
OF $500 fer the parlor floor and base,
| ment; a fashionable tailor, who saved
a large share Of his costly stock, and
had a nearly full insurance on the bal


ance, gives up the main hoor OF bis


marble.front residence to his business


taking bis family up stairs and thus
saving a heavy rental, is going on with


a prosperous business. Many lease Z
small portion OF their rented houses FOL


enough to pay their entire rem. and sup
port their families besides, and ont
lucky tenant OF q store on Canal stree


made 10000 one day by Transferring


bis lease TO a firm that must have


location. The number o; genteel fam


lies that are taking q few boarder


"for company" is remarkable, and tn
amount Of money which can be mad
by retrenching expenditures is aston'st
ing Chicago Letter.
Year: 1871

LOCK IyJURED.-A serious accident to
Lock No. | on the Elk River Improve
ment occurred on last Saturday night.
It seems that the foundation on which
the lock rested, a gravel bottom, had
been washing out for some time, and
on Sunday night it yielded to the i'm
mense pressure Of water in the dam
and the upper end OF the lock fell, a
complete ruin. We understand it will
cost about ten thousand dollars in
money and several weeks delay to
repair the damage. But the author
ities OF the Elk River Navigation
Company, have the pluck to look thi;
misfortune squarely in the face
They have gone man'ully to work
and will soon put all to rights
Hov~ier.
Year: 1871

It is a great mistake to set mp our
own standard Of right and wrong,
and judge people accordingly. 1t
is a great mistake to measure the en-
ioyment of others by our own; to
expect uniformity of opinion in this
world; to look for judgement and ex-
perience in youth; to endeavor TO
mould all dispositions alike; not to
yield immaterial trifes; TO look FOR
perfection in our own action; to wor-
ry ourselves and others with what
cannot be remedied: not to alleviate
all that needs alienation as far as
lies in our power; not to make al
Iowances for the infrmities of others
and consider every thing impossible
which we cannot perform; to believe
only what our finite minds can COM
prehend; to expect to understand
every thing. The greatest of all
mistakes is, to live for time when
any moment may launch US into
eternity. ef
Year: 1871




The man who drinks is never, in
the end, 'the man who laughs. -
He is generally the man who weeps
or for whom others must shed bit
ter tears. He is, alas a member of
no particular class of society. You
meet him everywhere, from the
lowest to the highest places of this
world, and always find not only his
own worst enemy, but the uncon-
scious enemy of all who trust in
him.


If, among a band of hard work
ing mechanics, you find one who,
on wages others deem sufficient for
decent clothes, tidy rooms and COM
Portable dinners, is always out at
elbows, always at loggerheads with
his landlord, and always complain
ing Of hard times, ten to one ne is
the man who drinks.


If, on the Judges bench you meet
a man who deals unjustly, who
Judges unrighteously. who is face
tious in the presence of misery and
makes crime a jest, and the sentence
of some poor wretch an excuse for
stupid puns and vulgar witticisms,
there, also, you may know the man
who drinks-in his own snug little
room perhaps, not openly, but all
the same, a drunkard.


| If you see a woman worn and pale
and wretched from some unknown
cause, fear in her eye and anxiety in
| her voice, youth gone too eariys and
| her daily duties mere sad burdens
| ten to one her husband is the man
who drinks; for who ever knew that
man to keep his VOW and love and
protect his wife2


TIE Beggar children IN the gut
ters, ignorantand vile and wretched
beyond description, are his of;
spring. The jail opens to let him
in. The gaIows sometimes ends
his life.


The man who drinks is not al
ways an idiot as one might believe
The greatest statesmen have ceased
to be great; the best writer's of ths
world dropped their pens when they
were most useful and brilliant
splendid fellows, whom men ad
Year: 1871




Foolish spending is the father of
poverty. Do not be ashamed OF
work, and of hard work. Work
for the best salaries or wages you
can get, but work for halEprice
rather than be idle. Be your own
master, and do not let society or
fashion swallow up your individu-


ality-hat, coat and boots. Do
not eat up or wear out all that you
earn. Compel your selfish body to
spare something for profits saved.
BE stingy to your own appetite, but
merciful to others neeessities.-
Help others, and ask no help for
yourself. See that you are proud.
Let your pride be of the right kind.
Be too proud to be lazy; too proud


to give up without eonquering eve
ry difficulty; too proud to wear a
coat that yon cannot afford to buys
too proud to be in company that
yon cannot keep mp with in expen-
ses; too proud to lie, or steal or
cheat; too proud to be stingy. r.
Year: 1871




The Antioch Ledger relates the
following, which is not the only
case that might be put on record
by any means: e @


We met one of these objects of
pity last week. He was actually
too poor to take a paper; times
were too hard; hadn't time to read,
DC. We really pitied this man
he looked so poor, and mean and
NANCY generally, that we supposed
him to be one of Gods forgotten,
and dropped into the world with
out the means of getting a hyeli-
hood or the ability TO feed himself.
But later in the day we saw him
hilariously drunk, treating a crowd
each round costing him a dollar
and half It's a strange fact that
men viii refuse to take their home
paper on the plea that times are too
hard, and.yet they will hang them
selves by the chin to a bar and
agin up at an expense Of four OF
five dollars. They can't spend five
dollars a year for paper, but can
invest five hundred in whisky
Such men are poor--poor citizens
too. If the country were filed with
such, it would be bankrupted in a
VeaF
Year: 1871

AT Democratic caucus Of the meta
hers Of the Legislature last Thursday
night, Gen. Blair was declared the choice
Of the Democracy for United States Sen
ntors to gil the place so recently dis
graced by that demasogue, G. d. Drake
The vote Of the caucus stood: Blair
52; Glover l6; Phelps l3; Woodson
10. General Blair was then nominated
by acclamation, and ninety. one votes
were pledged TO his support. Only one
ballot was taken.


We have before expressed our prefer
ence for Gen. Blair, and this action Of
the caucus meets onr hearty concurrence.
The feeling OF the Democracy was so
decidedly in favor of the General that
We oplnc others who did not participate
in the caucus will give him their support
when the General Assembly come to
elect a Senator
Year: 1871

Ever since tie convening of the Leg
isla'urc the leaders of the Radical party
have been trying to heal the breach made
in the party during the last campaign
but the factions are 10th to come to
gether. A caucus of liberal republicans
was held at Jefferson, on the 1lth inst,
for the purpose of inaugurating some
plan by which to unite the two wings OF
the party. Some of the members we're
of opinion that the best thing to be done
in the present emergency was for the lib.
erals TO join the Democrats in selecting a
senator, and resolutions to that effec,
were offered. but subsequently withdrawn,
1t being evident that they would be laid
on the table. The foregoing facts indi
cate that the leaders Of the Republican
party are not as proficient in the healing
art as they are in making breaches.
Year: 1871

a delegation from the Virginia legis-
lature waited on President Grant last
Monday to urge a more liberal distribu-
ton Of executive patronage through the
South, and particularly Virginia. They
stated that this was almost the only effect.
i've means now left with which to stem
the growing tide of Democratic popular.
ity, aud that unless swecpieg change
was made among the Office holders in
their state by the appointment to position
of men of local influence, the electo raj
votes of both Virginia and West Virginia
would certainly be thrown against the
administration. The President heard the
delegation with great attention and
assured them that he would take imme
diate steps to follow out their advice.
Year: 1871

A committee Of both houses Of Con.
gress favorable to woman suffrage have
assured the female suffrage committee
that the present congress will pass an act
declaring the right of women to vote
under the Fourteen and Fifteen amend
ments, il they can present petiti.ion
signed by ten thonsund women.
Year: 1871

Bayard Taylor said man who once
tasted printers ink can never recover
from the intoxication. This is the rea.
son that those who systematically adver
tise never consent to abandon the use OF
printers ink until they retro upon the
fortune acquired by its influence.
Year: 1871

We refer to a somewhat remarkable case
tried yesterday in the Court of General Ses-
sions by Judge Bedford. 1t was that of James
H. Brady, alias Morrison, who had been
indicted for burglary. In the course of the
trial counsel for the prisoner suggested that
the prosecuting officer was urging on the
charge evidently under the pressure of some
ssinfuence" and with an earnest desire to
secure conviction. To this the prosecuting
officer replied that no less than one hundred
persons had sought to bring political infhl-
ence" to bear upon him to obtain the discharge
of the accused.


Such an attempt was simply scandalous,
and the fearless manner in which the prose-
cutting officer discharged his duty, coupled
with the conviction of the prisoner, who was
sent to jail for five years, must prove stern
rebuke to political rowdies and teach them
that courts of justice have more sacred obli-
CATION to fulfil than to throw the mantle of their
protection over well known violators of the law.
Well, indeed, might Judge Bedford exclaim
in sentencing Brady, that sit is burning
shame which casts dark stain uDon the fair
Year: 1871

An extraordinary degree of interest prevails
days election in New Hampshire. In addition
to the Governor, the State ticket and the
Legislature, three members of Congress are to
be chosen, and to hold their ground the re-
publicans must carry them all. But, though
they are hopeful, they have their misgivings
and the democrats have their expectations
In addition to the two regular parties the
labor reformers and the temperance reformers
have each State ticket in the field. The
labor reformers will probably weaken the
democrats to some extent. while the tempe
rance reformers will reduce the republican
poll.


1t is feared, however, by the republicans
generally that the removal of Mr.. Sumner
from the United States Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations may fall like o wet
blanket upon the party in this days work
in New Hampshire; and here, we apprehend,
there is some real danger. This Sumner
affair will be apt to chill, for the time, the en-
thusiasm of those granitic radicals who have
been accustomed to look upon the rebuke





Massachusetts, Senator as the great apostle of
republican principles, while, on the other hand,
the democrats will be encouraged to extra
exertions. Should the republicans lose the
State the result will be felt in every fibre of
the party throughout the country as threaten
ing general breakup on the squabbles be-
tween its disaffected leaders and the admins
tration but, should this Sumner affair fail to
make any real impression upon New Hamp-
shire, then Mr.. Sumner, from his foolish course
of hostility to General Grant, may be regarded
as "a dead cock in the pit" New Hampshire,
however, is closely divided State, and
little leaven of discord may leaven the whole
lump and make a baking of sour bread for the
republicans. But we shall know all about it
before tomorrow morning.
Year: 1871

In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Fenton ad-
vocated his bill regulating the Custom House
service In speech of considerable length,
in which he gave some instructive figures
relative to frauds in the collection of
customs, the settlement of smuggling cases
under judgment and the irregularities in
the general order and carting business.
His bill proposes additional guards against
abuses in these matters and suggests general
reorganization of the Custom House depart
ment. The Custom House system undoubtedly
needs many changes and corrections, but the
combined wisdom Of our Senate can never
render it so absolutely perfect that disap-
pointed men will not pick out flaws in its
administration. The adjournment resolution
of Mr.. Dawes, providing for final adjourn
ment tomorrow, was passed again in the
House, but, as the joint committee charged
with shaping bill for the better protection Of
loyalists in the South have agreed upon one
which is sure to excite considerable debate
and to arouse the fiercest opposition on the
part of the democrats and conservatives in
both houses, it is not probable that the Senate
will concur. The republicans are determined
to pass the bill, and it will take not only time
but very delicate finessing, especially in the
House.
Year: 1871

sectarian ApproprIations-Thc Herald Right


The relations existing between the Church


and the State were pretty well defined yester-
day by some of the leading Methodist minis
ters of this city. The excitement created
few weeks ago by the offer and subsequent
acceptance by the Baptist Home for the Aged
OF grant of land by the city touched every


Protestant denomination in tender spot, and
for the past two weeks the Methodist
Preachers Association of New York
have had the matter of grant of
twelve lots of land In the upper part
of the city to their UNCONVENTIONAL Old Ladies'
Home under discussion. The subject grew in
Importance the more it was thought over, and
yesterday the entire session was devoted to it.


Among the ministers who took part in the
debate were Rev. Drs. Curry, Crooks (both
editors), Crawford, Cattelle and Ferris, and
Messrs. Willis and Smith and others The
resolutions on which the debate was based
were originally introduced by DR.. Ferris.
But the meeting was not prepared at the time
either to accept or reject them. 1t appointed
committee to prepare such resolutions as
might reflect the conflicting views of the mem
bers; but when this committee presented its
report last week the same conflict of opinion
appeared even among themselves, but the
institution to which the grant had been
made had the best Of the arguments.
The matter then went over until yesterday,
and any one who will carefully read the report
in another column will see that the principle
which the HERALD alone week ago insisted
was right and good was declared by those
gentleuen to be so, and all their opposition
was based on ''propriety" and ''expediency."
They found it rather hard thing to knock
down a principle which has been acknowledged
in this country from the foundation of our
government. 1t is rather late in the day now
for any religious denomination to contend
against an actual or quasi union Of Church and
State for the promotion Of wise, benevolent
and Christian ends, and the preachers very
sensibly did not attempt it. The Church is,
with us, part of the State, and the State
part of the Church, and our republican insti-
tutions could not long exist under any
other relations and as such part of one
another their obligations must be mutually
recognized. The State may provide the home
for its poor, but the Church must give it that
which shall make home happy and beautiful;
and, as DR.. Curry so admirably expressed it,


the Church, to fulfil this higher duty, must
perform the grosser duties also. After all, as
we read the discussion VIC can see only oppo-
stion to the Roman Catholic Church as the
principal plank in the opposition to seetarian
appropriations by the city or State. The
principle itself is acknowledged to be good
enough, but its application is the ugly feature


1t is altogether a question of whose OK is
gored. One thing, however, is demonstrated
by this discussion, namely, that the HERALD
alone of all the city papers, secular and
religious, took the true view of the question.
Year: 1871

fame OF the city for notorious burglar and
thief to be able to command such influence" F"
II the sentence be rigidly carried out Brady
cannot for the next five years at least, exer-
else any more of this influence; and if one or
more of his political friends get into trouble,
say for burglary, we hope sincerely that they
will be tried in the Court of General Sessions,
where the claims of justice and respect for the
law are stronger and higher than the combined
forces Of political ruffianism.
Year: 1871

A GENTLEMAN.--No man Is a gentleman
Who, without provocation, would maltreat
.the hunblsettof his species; nor has any
man occasion for pride Of ungentlemanli.
ness, whose manhood has nothing in 1t Of
religion. TO treat without cause, the beg
gar with inciviitty, is breech Of etiquette
for which no accomplishment of dress or
address can ever make amends. Show us
the man who desires to make every person
with whom he comes In contact happy,
whose greatest solicitude Is never to give OF.
fense to any one, and we will show you q
gentleman, by nature and by practice,
though he may never have worn broad.
cloth coat, nor heard Of lexicon.
Year: 1871

ConwsTAIKs.-Hay will be scarce this
winter, and we ought to take.extra care In
curing and preserving our corn-stalks. Half
the corn-stalks, even In sections where
farmers pretend to think great deal Of
them, are rendered entirely worthless for
want Of attention In curing and stacking.
Farmers know how this should be done,
but do not sufficiently realize Its Importance.
In this case, as in 50 many others, they need
exhorboration rather than preccpt. The
point Is to cure the stalks as rapidly as pos
sible, and to draw them In as soon as the
sap Is so much reduced that they will not
ferment injurously In the stack or barn. In
this case, as with hay, the water or sap that
Is In the stalks Is not halfso likely to cause
mould as a little water on the outside Of the
stalks from dew or rain.
Year: 1871

To the Editor Of the Press:


see by the papers that the people Of
Bridgton have built an elegant and expensive
church with bell and organ, for which they
are entitled to much credit, and like the
Scribes and Pharisees denounced by the Saw
Jour, they must pay large "tithes," and like
them, am sorry to say they neglect the
weigh:ier matters of the law" which reads,
Exodus 20 IS and 10, ask days shalt thou Ia
Dor and do all thy work but the seventh day
is the Sabbath OF the Lord thy God; in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor
thy daughter, thy man serudnt, nor thy paid
servant, nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that
is within thy gates"


We too have neat but plain chnrch, and
when on our way to or from 1t on the Sab
bath, a. this season, it is no uncommon thing
to meet two or three six horse teams belong
ing to Bridgton, loaded with merchandise for
the factories and stores, on their way to or
from Portland, or to hear them drive by the
church in service time. These are about all
the teams regularly on the road ON Sunday


Inc traffic between Portland and Boston Is
stopped on Sunday and why should it not be
between Portland and Bridgton? 1t is contra
ry to the State as well as to the Divine law.
1t is hard matter for the Sunday school
teachers to impress upon the chdren's minds
the importance OF keeping the Sabbath with
the road filled with noisy teams about their
every day business and no effort made by
those in authority to stop it nor word said
publicly against it. The business men land
there are none more enterprising in the coun-
try own and employ these teams and build
the churches. This should be done but leave
the other undone. WINDHAM.
Year: 1871

On Saturday afternoon well dressed and highly
respectable looking woman tainted ON board OF one
Of fthe Wall street ferryboats. Every effort was
made to revive her. but 1t was found impossible to
DO SO. and she was removed to the Long Island
College Hospital where she still remains In anlun-
conscious state. She had sixty dollars In her pos
session. but nothing which would lead TO ber tden,
tlty.
Year: 1871

Gov. GEARY, Of Pennsylvania, re-
Gently made a rather contradictory
speech on the occasion of serenade.
He declared he was not candidate for
the presidency, and could not be drag
ged out, and that his ambition was to
retire to the shades Of private life. But
if his fellow citizens insist on dragging
him out, he will come, and do the best
he can. Good Geary. But the in
dications are that he will be allowed to
reach the goal Of his ambition, at least
so far as the presidency is concerned.