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Year: 1872

SO every brewer must be saddled with an ad-
ditional and needless expense in order that the
lucky owners of this invaluable machine shall
make money with the assistance of the Gov
eminent of the United States.


Somebody will ask, Why make fuss about
such little thingf The estimated cost to the
brewers of the whole country is only
s375O,OOO they ought to pay it and collect 1t
from the consumers. This is always the an
swer to any objection to additional and use
less taxation. Decentralization is so complete,
it is difficult for some men to understand that
the levying of an unjust tax is tyranny. But
this is just the tyranny of which we complain.
II is taxation of many for the bepeht OF
privileged few That Leet, pensoner on the
Presidents bounty, might have handsome
income, the merchants of New-York were
taxed capriciOusly, needlessly, and unjustly'
That Jobs may be given to favored eDgrayers,
the postage stamps and revenue stamps OF the
country have been changed again and again.
Whenever the Government has honest oc-
casion to spend one dollar, there are infuen-
tal iobbers ready and able to make it ten
dollars. Easy going optimists say that all Is
we'll; and so the Executive Departments go
On sustaining rings, great and small. Who
ever goes to the wall, We must have our
Leets, cancelers, and useless appendages.
Year: 1872

to it came from the military party, who saw
in it weakening of the influence which the
Government had over every eligible soldier
until his fortieth year. President Grant, it is
said, has seriously offended this party, as well
as the Emperor himself, by his conduct in the
sale of arms to France. The change in the
policy of the Government at Berlin took place
during the absence of Prince Bismarck at
Varzin, and the direct cause was one which
arose within the Department of War. The
unavoidable conclusion then is, that the con-
duct of President Grant during the late war
has been 80 detrimental TO the interests OF
Germans in America that those who return to
their native country without naturalization
are liable to severe penalties for emigration,
and possibly even those who shall have been
naturalized may be subjected to serious annoy
ance,
Year: 1872

capital den Of thieves. But that word, it is
feared might cost Gen. Grant the electoral
vote Of the State; SO it remains unspoken.


We deem this silence mistake, even on the
lowest grounds of expediency. The Moses
crowd threatened to bolt if Grant pronounced
against them but they would never have
dared to make good their menace Had it
been proclaimed that the President would
cOnfne his patronage and favor to the consist
ent champions of Purity and Reform, a ticket
confomed to that standard would have been
nominated and elected, leaving the plunderers
baflled and impOtent. But no effort was made,
no risks incurred, to rescue the State from her
spoilers by the simple expedient of welding
the influence and patronage of the Federal
Executive against them. Had Gen. Grant not
been candidate for reelection, we believe
this would have been otherwise.
Year: 1872

II is the 'turn Of the brewers now to com
plain. Nearly every trade and industry which
can possibly be made to yield revenue to
the sharpers who hang on the Government has
had cause to cry out. This time. the brewers
declare that they will not be blackmailed for
the support of a little ring which has fastened
on the Internal Revenue Bureau. The dealers
in malt liquors are the victims, and new
tangled stamp-caneeler is the instrument by
which an additional tax of S3,75O0OO per
annum is proposed to be wrung from them


1t is nowhere pretended, we believe, that the
tax on malt liquors is not very closely col
lected indeed, the brewers say that it is coll
lected almost to a dollar; but somebody has
invented O tool with which 10 cancel beer
stamps and, naturally enough, he wants to
sell it, So nice little combination has been
fixed up, and by taking in men of influence
the Commissioner has been induced to regard
with favor the neat little instrument. We all
know how this is done; it has been done so
often that the operation is familiar as the
drawing of a tooth. The brewers have no
trouble with their stamps. and nobody even
charges that the cancellation as now made is
not perfect and sufficiently thorough to secure
the Government against loss by fraud. But
the little ring must sell their cancelers /; like
Pindars razors, they were made to sell and
tho Government is tho onIy possible customer.
Year: 1872

From the City Hall to Harlem in twenty
five minutes seems now like an impossible
achievement. But it is not, after all, such an
extraordinary undertaking; and the plans of
the steam city railway, underground transit,
as now perfected, promise us this result inside
of two years. The consummation is devontly
wished and waited for by crowded oity-full,
anxious for cheap and quick transit.
Year: 1872

On the second page of this sheet will be
found the essential portions of a strong speech
by Samuel S. Cox, discussing the philosophy
of The rival plans of treating the South, which
may be ftly described as Reconciliation and
Repression.
Year: 1872

When Mr.. Orange Judd took charge Of Hearth and
Home its material prosperity assured. it
seems impossible for anything TO langlish under
that gentleman's energetic hands; and when he
secured DR.. Edward Eggeston as its Editor its liter
airy excellence became equally a matter Of course.
We are glad to see good paper so properous and
prosperous paper good. There is nothing in
it but is worth somebody's reading and the Editors
Novels, which we learn TO be continued arc
among the most successful as well rs unobjection-
able Of Our cotemporary y orks Of fiction.
Year: 1872

Who ever heard Of lovely woman as horse thief
before The Boston newspapers report that Mary
j. Morgan, age 80 with bodneSs perfectly mascu.
line, finding team standing in the street. last Sat
urday, jumped into the wagon and absconded with
the whole turnout She was subsequently arrested
and held for trial. We trust that the law will not
deal the more harshly with her for being of the
softer sex; We hold that q woman has just as much
right TO steal horses as man. There may bo doubts
about the suffrage, but to the horses our mind s
made up.
Year: 1872

very yrtuous Secretary, it appears, is Mr. Bout
well; but he mast be hungry for pufs and plaudih
if he reishes the compliments Of a prominent New
York banker" who is reported in Boston newsps-
per as saying: Il do not believe that throughout
his whole career, in official capacity or other
wise, he has engaged in single questionable trans
action. On the contrary, he has renamed com
paratively poor while his opportunities have offered
him incalculabe wealth" Are we to infer that an
honest man of this kind is in the Grant party
as to attract particular attentIonf And because
Secretary of the Treasury does MT use his official
knowledge to fill his pockets is this reason for pro
claiming him a man of superhuman integrity
Year: 1872

There is an obstinate fatality about the Coliseum
in Boston. The great Gilmore Ball was TO have bees
given last Thursday evening but the festivity has
been postponed because of the insufficient time left
for tightening the roof, which admits water toe
freely for comfort" There never was such struc-
ture before if except its llustrious predecessor
never such building for blowing down and leaking
and having every thing else happen to it. If we
were inclined to exegesis we think that we could
lind some recondte connection between the Coliseum
and the Tower of Babel.
Year: 1872

The entire family Of Mr.. Edward Ar
mold. an opulent and well-known citizen,


who resides near the Harper's Ferry
road, about fifteen miles southwest of
Frederick, were found in their residence
at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon dam
gerously poisoned. The discovery was
made by some neighbors who went to
the house. and rapping at the door, a
small child crawled forward, eviuciug Sc
rious indisposition and the parties passed
In. Mrs Arnold, the mother, being
extremely i'll, died soon afterwards.


There were four other children of va
rious ages. up to fourteen and twenty
years, who we've in an insensible conoi-
ton, unable to converse or tell what hap
pened to them, The young child was
alec unable to impart any satisfactory in
formation. Four physicians had gone to
the house to render their professional ser
vices, but apprehensive that nothing
could be done to save tie lives of the
four older children. There were come
hopes Of saving the youngest one, which
had been able m rely to crawl.


1t is believed that the tea which was
made for supper on Saturday evening,
which had been purchased at country
store day Or two previous. was the
vehicle through which the poison was
aud a portion of it is in
the hands of chemist, who will submit
it to thorough analysis and determine
the fact whether or not it coutains poison.
No suspicion of foul play exists on any
member of the family, for all were
equally affected by the poison, save MIR.
Arnold. who had left home for Baltimore
with drove of cattle day or two be-
fore the fatal occurrence. He was i'm
mediately summoned home. and is deeply
sorrow stricken by the great calamity
that has befallen his heretofore happy
prospernns Lou.ehuid. The authoritiee
have taken the matter in hand and will
proceed to rigid investigation of all the
facts and circumstances that cluster
around this remarkable and mysterious
case, and if crime there be it will be
brought to light City Paper Of tic
21d
Year: 1872

The bows of the Laplar ders are com,
posed of two pieces of wood glued to-
gether; one Of them of birch. which is
flexible, and the other of the fir of the
marshes, which is stiff, in order that the
bow. when bent, may not break and
and when unbent. it may not bend
When these two pieces are bent, all the
points of contact endeavor to disunite
themselves and to prevent this, the
Laplanders employ the following cement:
They take the skin of the largest rerches
Git is probable that eel skins would
answer the came purpose). and having
dried them moisten them in cold water
until they are so soft that they may be
freed from the scales, which they throw
away. They then put in four or FIVE of
these skins in reindeer's bladder, or
they wrap them up in tn soft bark of
the birch tree. in such manner that water
cannot touch them, and place them. thus
covered. in a po. of boiling water, with
a stone above them to keep them at the
bottom. When they have boiled about
an hour, they take them from the bladder
or bark, and they are then found to be
eoft or viscous. In this state they EN-
ploy them for glueing together the two
pieces of their bows. which they strong
ly compress, and tie up until the glue is
we'll dried. These pieces never after
ward separate.-En.
Year: 1872

Some day the sun will b. shining
On rose trees and poppies in bloom;
And some day the moaning pining


Will stop at the door of the tomb.
Some day the hearts happy fulness
Will yield TO reckonings Of pain;
Some day life's Observation-Disclosures


viii drop from the poor feve.ed brain.
The strife. and the toll, tha defending,


The many at war with the few.
Must all some day have IN ending


The false put away from the true
Some day the dream will be broken,


Some day the veil be rent down,
Some day the bitter words spoken,


When the bright things have faded and
Some day the years will be going


On. on, with new pledges-they must;
And some day the grass will be growing


Der hearts THEN but pitiful dust.
But the sobbIng, the mo ming, and crying,


Or the storm, though it battle and rave,
Ne shall rouse us, so peacefully lying


So far from it a Il in the grave.
And down with all hoping and grieviug,


The loves and the hates passed away;
We shall JOY to k-ow we are leiving


Esrrhs empty possession, SOME DAY.
Year: 1872

A Coop JOKE on A LEGISLATURE
Some mad was came very near playing
a grand joke off on the Alabama legisla-
ture some time ago An exchange says


A bill was introduced in the Alabama
legislature to prohibit the sale Of liquor
within two miles of Zion church, Mont
gomery county. The bill was read twice
aud was on the verge Of passing when
at the last moment it was discovered that
it was negro church just outside the
corporation of the capital city. and of
course the introduction was equivalent to
shutiingoff the supply from the city, as
well as the Legislature. The member in
Producing the bill was not aware of
where the church was located.


1t is perhaps unnecessary to add that
the bill did not reach third reading
The law makers had no notion of being
deprived of their usual per diem Of afla-
tus, while the member who introduced
the bill, when last seen. was hunting for
the man who hao imposed upon him.
Year: 1872

The house in which John Brown was
born is still standing in Torrington. Con
on a hilltop-a brown, wooden farm
house, now tenanted by colored family,
and even the bedroom on the ground
floor, in which be was born is shown to
visitors. and half its door cut off and
carried away for relics of the martyr r
The homestead is "about mile north
west Of the meeting house" and may be
reached from Wolcottville, on the Nan
gatuck Railroad, by drive across the
hills.
Year: 1872

On reasonabIe ttrNs.


By strict attention to business. he hopes to
receive liberal share CT public patron
age Give him a call and inspect HI STYLES
of cutting and workmanship before going
elsewhere.
Year: 1872

K correspondent says: ''If Il GOWN
chewing her cud throws up all she
eats and chews it over again, do not
see where the advantage is IN getting
corn ground at all TO feed ruminatiug
animals" The proof OF that hasty pud-
ding is the eating OF the corn by the
cow. Feed. her on whole corn, and
YOU will find thar even in twice chew
ing she did but Indifferent work, and
that much OF the grain in her food is
passed in whole kernels. Grind her
corn for her, and smaller quantity
will nourish her as we'll. More hogs
can be fattened after animals fed on
whole corn than after the same mum.
ber fed on meal. Lastly, Try the COM
parative experiment, under exactly
the circumstances, and you will satisfy
yourself
Year: 1872

We don't see how any Democrat
can evade the force of the following
logic. Itis letter from Hon. w. w.
Wheaton, of Detroit late chairman Of
the Democratic State Committee of
Michigan, addressed to the Democratic
National Committee, refusing to sup
sort Mr.. Greeley. Mr.. Wheaton says


GENTLEMEN: Those who expect a
Democratic administration from Hor-
ace Greeley must assume him to be
shamefnlly dishonest in politics, which,
il true, should be reason enough for
every Democrat to withhold his vote
from him. He must be recreant and
false to his record and his whole past
life not to disappointment expectations.
As q democrat / have always recog-
nized, and still do recognize, the bind
ing force upon every member of the
party of the action of the regularly
constituted conventions of the party,
so long as such conventions themselves
keep within the party organization ;
but l do not yield to the proposition
that such conventions have any claim
to the obedience or acquiescence of
the members of the party in the de-
liberate eale to their political enemy.
This is what was done ct Baltimore,
and this leaves every Democrat not q
party to the fraud free to act and vote
as he may choose.
Year: 1872

The indications are unmistakable that,
the Democratic masses, in all parts of the
United States sre concentrating on Gree
ley. The greatest unanimity appears to
be in the South, which has long felt the
necessity of the present movement.


In New England the Democracy gen
orally have concluded that Greeley is the
only road to victory.


Pennsylvania and New York, without
one or both of which, the Democracy
can hope nothing, will cast their vote
soidIy for Greeley, at Baltimore.


The Western States, in the main, re-
port a strong Greeley feeling, with a
strong minority against him.


The Baltimore Convention will consist
of six hundred and seventy two members
and only sixty of them are as yet count
ed who will insist on straight Democ-
ratio ticket. The Greeley Democrats be
ing confident that they eau control the
convention are now discussing the ques-
ton whether it will be best to endorse
Greeley directly by name, or to declare by
resolution it expedient at this time tC
make a nomination, and endorse the lead
ing principles of the Cincinnati Reform
The latter view We believe will prevail.
Year: 1872

4 Ballard county Democrat, writing
to the Paduch Tobacco Plant, has this to
say of Judge Crosslands prospects in
Ballard county:


eve have some politics among US oc-
casionally, though we DO not feel as
much interst in it as we should. l
believe democrats generally propose to
vote this time for Greeley to beat Grant,
bnt you must know that we do not con
slider ourselves republicans. We are
still democrats, and will cast pure old
democratic vote for Edward Grassland
for Congress. We suppose Capt Clark
and Col Martin both have friends some-
where, but we are for wing Grassland
an endorsement, and believe every coun
ty in the district should vote for him.
and after he has served his second term.
let Clark. Martin & Co, fight over it. l
( see no reason why Col. Grassland should
be defeated now. He has just entered
on the field of usefulness and has COM
menced his work in earnest to check
radical legislation. | have just read his
great speech on the tariff. aud wish every
man in the district had copy of it. Why
don't you publish It? We might pick the
State over and could not ind man who
would discharge his duties more cheerful
ly as Congressman or serve his constit-
uency more gratefully. La 1861 l gave
him my only boy. and he promised to
stand by him like father during the
terrible war before them. lie kept his
promise, and brought him back to Ken
tucky. Four years they struggled and
fought together, and my son says Gross
land was always his friend--that he shared
his blanket and last dollar with him
often--and did the same by all of his
command that needed it. You know,
Mr.. Editor, that officers as a general
thing, were very unkind to the privates,
and | am glad to make this statement
You know also, that Col. Grassland was
poor in money aud an invalid with a
large family, when the war commenced
and how he left his wife aud children to
fight the battles of the South, and du
ring the entire war did not know whether
his physical condition would bear him
through it. But it did He served four
years 10 the war and should serve four
in Congress. think this nothing but
fair.


Yours respectfully,


T n M
Year: 1872

1t is a singular fact that Senator Sum
ner now stands in the same relation to-
wards President Grant as he stood in
towards President johnson; and the in
terest of this repetition of his course is
increased by the fact that, in comparing
Grant with johnson, he makes the
former the worse of the two. The Re
publican party impeached President
johnson for alleged usurpations of pow
er and violations Of the constitution, aud
they came very near deposing him; yet
Mr. Sumner, who warmly supported the
movement against J Johnson, now declares
that President Grant more richly de-
serves to be impeached and deposed than
his predecessor. Ia his late speech in
the Senate, the Massachusetts Senator
says:


SIN exhibiting this autocratic preten-
sion, so revolutionary and unrepublican
In character, l mean to be moderate in
language and keep within the strictesi
bounds. The facts are indisputable, aud
nobody can deny the gross violation oi
the constitution and of internationaI
law with insult to the black republic
the whole case being more reprehensible
as also plainly more unconstitutional ant
more Illegal than anything alleged agains
Andrew Johnson on his impeachment.


This is strong language; if it had beer
spoken by a Democratic Senator, the
Presidents friend would only have
laughed at it; but when it is spoken By
the most eminent Republican Senator
from the most steadfast Republican State
in the Union, they cannot afford to make
light of it. They must either answer il
or take the consequences Of its effect on
the public mind.
Year: 1872

Congress adjourned Monday last, aud
contrary 10 the expectations Of the peo-
pie of the,country-the worst disappoint-
ed Of whom are the Radicals themselves
at that moment the dangerous power
of the President, the power TO suspend
the hallowed writ of hob6ds corpus, ex-
pired by Limitation. A measure forced
at first for partisan purpose, it was
supposed that those who created it would
continue it, but they did not, and there
is no better or more encouraging evi-
dence of the end of Radical disruption
and the return of safe conservatism and
common sense than the result of Mon
day. The Radicals found themselves so
dwindled as to be unable to sustain the
dangerous measures they had inaugural
ed. The Liberal and Democratic ele-
ment found itself strong enough to assert
its power with effect, and did so. though
the struggle was hand to hand and vi
cious one. President Grants chiefest
measure has been defeated, and the fact
pretty plainly indicates that the Radical
party can go no farther. 1t has reached so
near to the end of the rope that there is
only enough left for moose
Year: 1872

Says the Princeton Banaer, "We al
ready have three candidates for Congress
from this district. and how many more
there will be no one is prepared to say.
1t is clear that a convention will have to
be called to settle the matter of candi-
dacy between.these and such other Dem
ocratic gentlemen as may become candi-
dates. The time aud place for holding
said convention will have to be fixed up.
on by the Congressionals Democratic
Committee, composed of the chairmer
of the various county committees. They
should by correspondence or other wise
select the place and appoint the time
As to the place, We beg leave to sugges
Princeton"
Year: 1872

THE STRIKERS AND THEIR FIRST
CHECK.-The eight hour movement
which has attained such unexpected and
sweeping success up to the present seems
in some instances to have been brought
to a stand still in its infringement against
that class of capital which has copious
reserve of money behind it and dull
season before it. This is scarcely other
wise than could be expected.
Year: 1872

Col. Geo. W. Silvertooth authorizes
the announcement that be will support
Greeley in preference to Grant. Our
old friend is true at heart, and we shall
always believe his Bourbonism results
from an over devotion and love for De
mocracy-just such a Bourbon as many
of US would be if there was any promise
Of victory.