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Year: 1872

We stood in the edge Of the forest,
The friend of my heart and /,
Where the sunset glow OF the naples,
Met the sunset glow OF the sky.
The breath of the coming winter


Came down from the pine-clad hill;
Its shadow crept over the landscape,
And over our hearts its chill
We talked Of our sunny childhood,
Of hopes that long ago
We had watched with the opening blossoms
As lightly come and go.
The dreams of our early morning


Like the dew had passed away;
Our skies of gold and crimson


Had turned to leaden gray.
In the years that lay before us,


Half seen through the distant haze,
The winters grew drearily longer,


And briefer the summer days.
Like breath from the far-otf, Southland,
Came a fragrance faint and sweet,
And behold blue violets nestled


Low down in the grass at our feet.
As brightly they bloomed in their beauty,
AT the close of this autumn day,
AS when they were tenderly folded
In the blossomy arms OF May.
Then one to the other spoke softly:
80 friend, let our grievings cease
Let us take to our hearts with gladDess
This message of light and peace.
Let us lift our ewes to the future


With a steady, trustful gaze,
For violets still are waiting


To bloom in October days"
Year: 1872

No American travelling about, either in Eng
land or OH the Continent of Europe, can fail To
be impressed with the general magntcence ant
elegance of the railway stations as compared
with those in this country, and no traveller WIN
has been hustled in a way-side eatiug-house.
after a fast of ten OF twelve hours, undergoing
the while that peculiar and very rapid digest
ing process caused by the motion Of the train,
can but realize in the keencst sense the supe-
riurity Of foreign railroad arrangements in this
especial particular to any 10 be found at home.


Railroad officials have long known this evil.
and tried in vain to correct the error. The
trouble has been in the ayaricious character OF
mine host, who wateth at the road side seek
Ing whom he may devour, rather than provl-
ding a smoking, hot, varied and generous re-
past for the weary traveer-just such din
ner or supper or breakfast as he charges for,
but does not give you. But it would seem
that country and her internal improvements
must be just so old before the great moving
spirits fully comprehend the evils that exist
aud move to suppress them, and in this order
of things the old Baltimore and Ohio-re-
nowned all over the world for its gorgeous
scenery. its wonderful engineering, the magni-
iicence of its bridges, and the solidity Of Its
road -bed-has been the first TO move.


Like the other officers Of the road controlling
its various departments, manager of hotels
has been appointed, and the company propose
to keep these establishments themselves, not
from a pecuBiary motive-for it is not strictly
rairoading-but SO determined are they TO
break down the impositions practiced upon
travsers that they have selected Mr.. Kingsley,
the famous caterer and restauratesr, for the
position, and in him we guarantee the public
will find all they desire. New stations are
going forward as rapidly as possible, and are
being constructed with that aim to solidity,
elegance aud comfort which characterize the
whole road. model of the many in contem-
plation, we will describe somewhat in detail,
as the public are especially interested. This
Year: 1872

The busne's men of this city resent the oft
repeated cry that Contract Ordinance would
make them object to serving the city as mem
bers of the Council This assertion has been
made often enough Its hollow untruthfulness
is proved by the single facp that out of the
twenty-one gentlemen now in Council, not more
than three or four get the city jobs Six-seveptha
of the members serve without any such persua-
sion of their pockets. The fact is, and it can
not be too often stated that men who go into
Council because they can make money there and
who will stay out of it when they can do 80 no
longer, ought never to be allowed to get there,
at all.
Year: 1872

The Gloucester Advertiser says: not
long since on a perfectly clear calm day
with clear sky. about fifty vessels were
seen lying at anchor in one of our harbors
on account of coming storm predicted
by the weather bureau. How many
lives were saved by this prediction it is
impossible to say, but one such occur
ence alone is sufficient to justify all the
expense the Government has incurred
in establishing and maintaining the ser.
vice. 1t has been clearly shown that il
we had cable communicating with the
Island of St. Thomas and a signal station
there, We would have known of the cy
clones recent visit to the Florida coasts
three days in advance of its coming,
and most of the vessels which encounter
ed it wonld have taken refuge in some
harbor. The service. as it is already
organized, is of incalcuiable advantage
to farmers and seafarers,
Year: 1872

george w Curtis


The good old tinesl Now a days the
dress ofa fashionable women costs one,
two, or three thousand dollars. Such
extraVaeance as this Is sapping social
mortals TO their center. cry you? Softly
softly! look at Queen Elizabeth dying
and leaving behind her three thousend
dresses and solemn proclamation
against extravaganza in Dress Social
immortality Of the present day? look at
the elder time. even iE the reign of
Queen Anna. through the eyes of Thack-
cray or the revolving satires of Dean
Swift. rr


Political corruption ofthe present day?
Look a century back and see a British
King buying his Parliament by the
scores. Look at the sneer expressed
half century ago in France ought to
have plenty of honor, for she has bought
half Of England s." Look at Sir Robert
Warpole openly bribing his supporters.


Open your morning paper and read
the denunciation bursting upon the head
Of the Chief Magistrate of the nation as
political trickster and schemer for
power, and then turn back Is years ago
and read the criticism of Philadelphia
paper, the aurora, on the retirement of
Washington as blessing and a cause for
congratulation styling him q despot and
a condemner OF the rights which the Col
onies had just bought with their heart S
blood. Read this then read your morn
ing paper with more tranquility, and
think that all Washington patriotism
and care for tie peoples good may not
all have gone out Of his successors, even
though the paper does say SO. The past
was a good time, the present is a better,
and, believe me the future will be the
best Of all. How much better is it to
believe with Darwin, that we began as
brutes and came so for towards angels,
than to believe we began as gods and
have fallen so far towards devils. L
always thought it better and wiser and
sweeter to look with the eyes Of love at the
beast in our childhood ry-books. and
recognise thereiu prince, than that the
princes in the company of Ulysses
should change uuder the wand of Circe
into goats and swine. Better an ape
yesterday and an angel to day than a god
yesterday and a boor to-day.


''Better fifty years of Europe,


Than a cycle of Cathay p'. 81.
Year: 1872




Horace Greeley and Gratz Brown.


The mountains labored and brought
forth political Hermaphrodite-
head protective tariff, the body egoism,
the feet free trade. We can only con-
graduate the Republican party to this
happy delivery; for, as Long John Went
worth said at that Convention, this
movement must look to the Democratic
party for nine-tenths Of its support and
it will certainly be some time after 1872
before any respectable number Of Demo-
Gratis can be induced to cast such vote.
On the contrary it is quite plain. that the
aim and game Of the Democrats-divide
to conquer-has been successful SO tar as
momentarily to divide the Republicans
they will now nominate their own candi-
date, hoping to elect Democrat against
two Republican candidates. But here
they will certainly fail the so called lib
eral element in the Republican ranks is
vanishing most rapidly, and Greeley
himself has declared, that if the choice
should be between two Republican and
one Democratic candidate, he would vote
for the strongest Of the two Republicans;
that. be himself is not the strongest,
he must be already convinced of, for even
his nomination has been fraud in the
Liberal Convention, and if his whole po-
iitical life has not been /, lie, he will soon
withdraw entirely as candidate for the
Presidency.
Year: 1872




General GRAFT was called to the Office
which he now holds, not through any
solicitations of his own, or management
of political friends, but by wish of the
voters throughout the North. Is there
any evidence that the great body of in.
telligent citizens regret their choice, and
are disposed to put some other man in
his place? That there has been much
fault found; that many thoughtful men
have severly criticised the real or sup
posed deficiencies of his administration,
that many able newspapers have contest
ed tn wisdom Of re-electing General
Grant is true. But is there any evidence
that he has lost the confidence of the
great body of Republican voters through.
out the North? Or that, taken as a
whole. they are dissatisfied with the re-
suit of the past three years? 1t is our
belief that when the people come to the
very business of selecting the candidate
for the next Presidential term, the more
they reflect upon it the more they will
be inclined to renominate and elect Gen
eral Graut.


When he was originally selected, it
WAS without any disguises or false pre-
lenses On his part. His education lad
been for the army, and his great achieve
ments were military. Every one knew
that he had been without experience in
political affairs. Indeed that fact Weighed
with many.-They had the impressio on
that better president could be made
out of candidate who was unhackneyed
in politics, and who should bring to the
office good sense aud -impartiality, not
warped or bIased by the intrigues of
party politicians.


If, when Grant assumed the reigns of
government, he was under the delu>ion
that politics had nothing to do with gov
| erning, that a man without experience in
civil administration was more likely to be
skillful and honest, than one who had
been educated to the conduct of public
affairs he only erred as teEs of thousands
erred. And if, in the early period of his
administration, he attempted to carry or
the government by a cabinet staff. as he
would conduct an army in the field, be
| only did what he was expected to do
TIE result of the experiment was what
mig hit have been toretold He was no
q Cromwel But the faults of Grant.
early selection of advisors arose from al
attempt to fulfill public expectation, ans


bring into his counsel men not much


versed iE politics. Yet. in spite of the


vice of this principle of selection, hi


cabinet has been in the main excellent


The department cf state does not suffe
in contrast with the more snowy, but no
more wise, adm; ;nistratiou of Seward


The treasury has nothing to fear in


comparison with the great treasurer un


der Mr.. Lincoln. There will not be tw,


such war secretaries as Mr.. Stanton il


the same age, but, happily, peace ha


required other service than. that which


has rendered Stanton name forever il


lustrious, and the department has beel


wisely readjusted to the gauge of peace
Year: 1872

TEA AND CoFFEE FREg-There will
be general feeling of relief in the bill
to make tea and coffee free after July l.
The House. yesterday, agreed very
promptly to the Senate amendment. and
so this measure. which has been hanging
incomplete over the heads of importers
and dealers for months, is at last definite
iy settled. The impression that this Is
about all the tariff legislation possible at
this session appears to be strengthened,
Year: 1872

who is in our judgment, the only man
in the great Republican party, that can
with perfect safety be nominated to the
Presidency for the next term; as the
country, thriving under his excellent ad-
ministration. has had unboundcd eviden-
ces of his efficiency and fitness, and the
rapid diminution of the national debt
and the prosperous general condition of
public affairs of the country testify un-
controvertively to his unerring wisdom m
and sound Judgment.
Year: 1872

What is the cause of the 'epi- demic" The newspapers are discuss ing the cause now. Some of them attribute it to atmospherical influences, s, and these are doubtless right: for none but a general cause could produce such auniversal pre- valence among the horses from Canada to Georgia. One of the New York papers thinks it has discovered the origin of the dis order, in the concurrence of remarkably low barometer and low hygrometer on the l4tn of October. The weight and the dampness or dryness of the air may possi- bly, have something to do with the trouble, but that the state of the air on the 14th Of October did not cause the disease is proved by the fact1that the disease had already be gun, week before that time, That the real cause is atmospheric, seems also to be proved. Else why could the disease break out, almost simultaneously with it's appear ances, in Hartford for instrnce, on Block IsIand, place far out at sea, where no horse has teen conveyed from the main land for months? Can anybody answer that question?
Year: 1872

TAXING CoLD.-If a cold settles on the outer covering of the lungs it becomes pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs, or lung fever, which in many cases carries the strongest man to his grave within week. If Q cold falls upon the inner coverin g of the lungs, it is pleurisy, with it's knife-like pains and its slow recoveries. If cold settles in the joints, there is rheumatism ill it's various forms Infammatory rheuma. tism of the heart, which in an instant some times snaps the cord of life with no friend ly warning. It is of the utmost practical importance then in the wintry weather, to know not so much how to cure cold as how to avoid it. Colds always come from one cause, some part or the whole of the body being colder than natural for . time. If man will keep his feet warm always and never allow himself to be chill ed, he will never take cola in lifetime, and this can only be accomplished by due care in warm clothing and the avoidance of drafts and undue exposure. While multi tudes of colds come from cold feet, prehaps the majority arise from cooling off too quickly after becoming little warmer than natural from exercise or work, or from con- finement to warm apartment. Woods HousekeE9 Magazine
Year: 1872

A CIANDEsTINE MARRIAGE.-Our socia circles were considerably shocked, recently over the clandestine marriage of a young lady in high life, to nearly an utter stranger. The lady became acquainted with her suitor while travelling during the sum- mer, and he immediately sought her hand. The father, however, desired the young gentleman to show some credentials as to character before he would consent to the marriage. This the young man failed to do, but it is believed secretly met the lady at various times, and finally persuaded her to elope with him. The lady left home with the avowed intention of making some purchases on Main street, and nothing was again heard of her until evening, when a boy appeared at her parents residence with au envelope. This when opened was found to contain a marriage certificate, the marriage having been performed some hours previous. The happy pair are sup posed to have left for New York.-Pough- ksepsie Neaos.
Year: 1872

Cornwall.

 Every thing is quiet. Since the election the arguments in the store have ceased, and the deacon, the doctor and the postmaster are satisfied, and the rest may as well be-. Our quiet neighborhood was very much ag- itated few weeks ago, by the appearance of strange object which pat in its appear ance one morning early. Some thought it was a western grain car, but their minds were greatly relieved by learning that it was "photogriphy car, and we expect soon to see the youth and beauty of Corn wall with their store cloths on, flocking to see the man who transfers their profiles to paper and tin......A barn belonging to Thomas O'Donnel was bur ned one night last week. Loss about one thousand dollars. There was between four and five hundred dollars insurance. O'Donnal was hard working man and he has the sympathy of the entire town, this being the second barn he has lost by fire within three years...... The horse disease has at last reached here, Black Billy has got it bad and several more are beginning to have it......The conferance room has diminished in size until it has nearly shrunk away. They intend building it at Cornwall Bridge anc wheel it up on a wheelbarrow. X. '. z.
Year: 1872

The last style out is beef peddler draw

 ing his wagon with oxen. The Cornwall

 Bridge Iron Go. are now dependent on oxen to do their work around their fur mace. Warren people awoke one eve ming last week to hear concert. Organ and vocal music, musicians from New York land other parts of the country. I, was grand affair as was stated by good iudge.......Two young colored men broke into Orrin Cables house, taking an accor- deon, flute &c. Musical instruments being the principal attraction, they prob. ably are going to start band. They were captured on Sharon Mountain, plead guilty and have gone to Litchfield tc await the grand finale which will probably result in furnishing them with winters job. O.
Year: 1872

REVENUE DECISION. Internal Reve- nue Bureau has decided that when molas- ses is used in the manufacture of beer, it is held to be substitute for malt, and conse- quently the manufacturer of such beer is to be held liable to the special tax of brewer, although the beer may be root or other small beer, and therefore not itself taxable.
Year: 1872

I The newspaper is just as necessary to fit a man for his true position in life as food or raiment. Show us ragged, bare footed boy, rather than an ignorent one.

 His head will cover his feet ln after life if he is well supplied with newspapers. Show us the child that is eager for news papers. He will make the man of mark in after life if you gratify that desire for knowledge. Other things being eqnal, il is 8 rule that never fails. Give the chil- dren newspapers.
Year: 1872

One of the most remarkable instances of literary productivity is that of John Oak man, an English engraver, who wrote for two guineas work of two volumes; and such was his rapidity that he could produce one week, and actually performed that feat for eighteen consecutive months.
Year: 1872

A train on the Boston and Providence Railroad, while running at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, was stopped on Saturday morning by the application of the Westinghouse air brakes in going 14o feet, and within ten feet of 8 woman who was walking toward the train and re- fused to heed the warning whistle. The same engineer saved the life of little child, short time since, by the same meth od- In neither instance were the cars stop ped so suddenly as to alarm the passengers, or even to lead them to suppose that any 1 thing was the matter.
Year: 1872

The Rev. Edmurd Darrow of Waterford, placed qnite large sum of money beneath his pillow. In the morning when he rose, he sought for the money but found it not. This disturbed him. He imagined that corner of the curtain to one of the bed room windows had been pulled aside so that the movement of the occupants could be watched by the burglar, and the money had been stolen. He sent for detective, and everybody was looking for tracks, when the lady of the house made more minute examination of the pillow and found the money in the pillow case, where the clergyman had placed it. And there was great joy.
Year: 1872

The occupants of the room over tue late Professor Hadiey's study were once inter rupted, while boxing and rolling dun bells over the floor, by gentle tap at the door After the customary "come in," the door was slowly opened by the old professor who said, with smile, in his peculiar halt ing way, ''Young gentlemen, would be pleased to see you in my room at any time, but I would rather have you come in through the door than the ceiling"
Year: 1872

At Petaluma, Italy, Q committee of five ladies was appointed to determine who was the handsomest man in the audience and award the prize. After careful tour oi inspection through the aisles lovely editor was singled out by majority of the com mittee. Give us his name.
Year: 1872

A XOkBAAOgfs VI v1841l3 xs-<Anu Nv


comes one Gardner Ksllogg-aname not
unknown 70 the court dockets associated
with fraudulent devices, and q person
.st unfamiliar to the gambling resorts
of this city-and certifes through his
personal organ TINT the statement which
We published in relation to the under
standing upon which the name of David
Higgins was presented to the Republ-
can Convention, was malicious lie. "
The vituperate epithet we do not pro-
pose to challenge; it is tho vernacular of
the class with whom he associates-the
language Of the "ring, ""rat pit" and the


"gaming hells," to indicate diff. ences
of opinion. When this fellow attempts
to raise an issue of veracity with any
gentleman in this community upon his
own unsupported testimony, he will -
signally fail as he has heretofore in his
essays at the manly game Of poker, or
in his attempts to defraud his honest
creditors by covering up his property.
With Gardner Kellogg personally We
can hays no controversy; it is with Gard
ner Kellogg the candidate for . respon-
sible official position. and the assumed
dictator of nominations of others, with
whom we propose to deal. We never
stated that either the editor or publisher
Of the Inteligencer was an agreeing party
to the i" understanding that the NOM
ination of Higgins would secure the
support of that paper to the Republican
ticket, because we had no proof of the
fact but we have the most unimpeach-
able testimony. including that of some
of the candidates upon the Republican
ticket, that this same Kellogg did urge
the nomination upon that express
ground. We do not choose to insult
these gentlemen by publicly citing them
to vindicate their character for truth and
veractity in opposition to the statement
Of Gardner Kellogg. or believe that our
ewn vindication requires it. Kellogg
may have had no moro authority for
pledging the support Of the Intelligencer
upon the conditions named. than he had
to tender the nomination first to An
drews and then to Higgins. AZ be said
he did but when he has the effrontery
to say that the question Of the support
of the Intelligencer. or any other paper.
was never thought Of" he impeaches
his own veracity to so many witnesses
as to render his whole statement un-
worthy of credit or consideration and
the sudden change of the editor from an
opposer to supporter Of the "oficial
ring of which Gardner Kellogg is the
center, would seem to indicate that our
otherwise harmless squib touched gall
ed place. at is only the wounded
bird that fiutters." We can assure Mr..
Kellogg and his clan that We are not to
be diverted from discussion Of his Of
fetal acts by personal vituperation.