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Year: 1872

From FALL RIvER-Under date of
Sept. Il correspondent at Fall River
Valley writes us as follows:


Il thought would give you few items
in regard to our valley The farmers are
nearly through their threshing and the
crop averages very well, there was about
double the amount of grain raised thr
season to the crop of last year. Mr. Win
ters is putt ng up large saw and grist
mill at the Big Falls, and will build a
bridge across the river at the same point,
and make road from there to connect
with tn, road to what was known as the
Ballard Bridge, which Winters has pur-
chased Winters has some twenty men in
his employ, working on the race and mill
Nine tons of machinery came in to day
which cost $4,000 below he cost of the
mills, when complete, Winters estimates
at not less than $4,000. You see our
little valley is thri,i ing, most every one is
building and making Improvements as fast
as they can with the present scarcity of
lumber When Winters has his mill in
running order it will help US along"


Such items of local interest are always
accept BILE and add to the interest of a
county paper. We hope to lear from our
correspondent again.
Year: 1872

WATCHED THE SPRING.-This story
cones to us from the Millville country.
In that section a man has a flock of
sheep which are herded by himself and son.
They camp out on the range near spring
and it was not long before the old gentle
man discovered that a huge bear made
daily visits to the spring for water. 1t was
not desirable to encourage visits OF this
character 30 the old gentleman loaded his
tru,tly rife, Al d VIII lie the boy herded the
sheep, took his station to watch the COM
ing of Bruin The afternoon was hot and
sultry but the watch was kept up, aud at
last there was rustic in the bushes. a
shaggy form appeared, the keen eye glanc-
ed along the gllstenlng barrel, flash and
loud report and the leyden messenger had
done its duty. Cautiously stepping around
the interven ,ng bushes to see the effects of
his shot, aud thinking that wounded
bear was not the most agreeable of CON-
panious, he was startled at hearing hi. b Us
voice saying: Father, this plaguey mule
ha> lain down and is trying to drown itself
The lad, meanwhile, was tugging at the
bride to pull the mules head out of the
spring He had came in and led the mule
to water, when the old man, having bear
on the brain, blazed away, the bullet pass
ing through the saddle girth, sending the
animal to the place where all good mules
go. Whether the old man still watches
the spring our informant saytth not
Year: 1872

A LANDMARK GoNE.-The frame build
ing alongside of the proposed new school
house, has been torn down by the Trustees,
to enable the carpenters to put in more
windows for the school rooms. This old
frame is one of the few relics yet left
of early days 1t was used by Bull, Baker
& Co., as a warehouse after the great fire
of 1858, and as high as thirty thousand
dollars worth of goods we're sold and ship
ped from it in single week. Being high
above the ground its timbers are yet in q
good state of preservation. Thus the
march OF improvement goes on.
Year: 1872

HORSE KILLED A six horse wagon,
heavily loaded. was descending the hill
near the Four Mile House on Wednesday
morning, wher the brake gave way letting
the whole weight of the wagon and 5000
pounds OF freight crowd upon the two
wheel horses. The team was soon lost to
control and the horses falling, the heavy
wheels passed over the neck of one, killing
him instantly, while his mate was seriously
injured. The freight was transferred to
another wagon to be forwarded to its des-
tination, and Mr.. Hall, owner of the team
returned to TOW with the crippled horse.
to have him treated.
Year: 1872

Efforts are still being made to establish in
Chicago yard of the beautiful building stone
of Mineral Point, and the prospects of sue
cess are cheering,


Next Monday, at II A. NJ, there is to be a
meeting of parties who take an interest in this
matter, at the Quarry, on the land of the
Mineral Point Mining Company, when it is
hoped something may be done to insure the
success of the enterprise at an early day. All
having the interest of the city at heart are re-
quested to be present. Let those who have
carriages 90 and take the ladies Let those
who have no carriages go on foot. In short,
let there be grand rally of the people at the
quarry, and We are confident something will
be done to inaugurate an enterprise that shall
revive our dropping fortunes. Remember
next Monday at IL O'Clock, A. NJ.
Year: 1872

AS yet no caucus has been called in this
city, to nominate candidates to be voted for
next Tuesday The Democrats having a
clear majority in the city should have the
courage to nominate first, but it seems they
have not. We hope something may be done
to scoop out the Tammanyites, but have no
plan to propose which is likely to accomplish
the desired result except to nominate good
men, and bring out every voter In the city if
possible.
Year: 1872

HoING.-lhe popular clothing man, Henry
Gundeltngcr, is packing his stock and next
Tuesday will go to Chicago, and there prose
cute the same business on a larger scale. A
host OF friends regret his departure, and wish
him great prosperity in his new home. Those
wishing any goods in his line can get good
bargains by calling tomorrow or next day.
Year: 1872

10 HoRsEMkN'-We are prepared with
good plates and other requisite material
to print Horse and Jack Posters, in the
best style, on short notice, and at AS low
prices as any Office in the West. tf
Year: 1872

EVERY town in this Assembly District has
reihohihated the present incumbent for chair
man OF the board and most of the present
town officers for the respective positions they
now hold
Year: 1872

Men and women make their own
beauty or their own ugliness. Lord
Lytton speaks in one of his novels of q
man who was uglier than he had any
business to be; and, if he could but
read it, every human being carries his
life in his face, and is goodlooking or
the reverse as that life has been good or
evil. On our features the fine ehisel
of thought and emotion are eternally
at work. Beauty is not the monopoly
of blooming young men and of white
and pink maidens. Theirs Is slow
growing beauty which only comes to
perfection in old age. Grace belongs
to no period of life, and goodness I'M
proves the longer it exists. l have
seen sweeter smiles from liz of seven
ty than upon lip of seventeen. There
is the beauty Of youth and the beauty
of holiness beauty much more sell
dom met and more frequently found
in the arm chair by the fire, with grand
children around its knee, than in the
ballroom or promenade. Husband and
wife, who have fought the world side
by side, who have made common stock
of joy or sorrow, and age together are
not unfrequently found curiOusly alike
in personal appearance, and in pitch and
tone of yoice-iust as twin pebbles on
the beach, exposed the same tidal
influences, are each others second self.
He has gained a feminine something,
which brings his manhood into full re-
lief. She has gained a masculine some
thing which acts as a foil to her
womanhoOd.
Year: 1872

Old DIR. Cooper, of South Carolina,
used to say to his students: "Don't be
afraid of dirt, young gentlemen. What
is dirt? Why, nothing at all offensive,
when mechanically viewed. Rub lit
tie alkali upon the dirty grease spot on
your coat, and it undergoes chemical
change and becomes soap; now rub it
with little water and it disappears. 1t
is neither grease, soap, water nor dirt.
This is not very odorus pile of dirt
you see yonder; well, scatter little
gypsum over it and it is no longer dirty,
Everything like dirt is worth our no
tiee as students of chemistry. Analyze
It; it will separate into very clean ele-
ments. Dirt makes corn, corn makes
bread and meat, and that makes a yery
sweet young lady that l saw one of Won
kissing the other night. So after all
you were kissing dirt particularly If
she whitened her face with chalk or full
ler's earth; though l may say that rub
bing such stuff on the beautiful skin of
q young lady is dirty practice. Pearl
powder l think is made of bismuth.
nothing but dirt. Lord Palmerstone's
fine definition of dirt is "matter in the
wrong place." Put it in the right place
and we cease to think of 1t as dirt.
Year: 1872

In the morning of life We paint, with
the brush of fancy, our beautiful idea
of the future lying out before us. A
picture of cloudless skies and brilliant
sunshine; of flower-strewn paths and
tropic bloom. A picture where joy,
and love, and friendship, and fame,
stand, holding out their beautiful offer
ings and we the centre figure of the
whole. But how different the pictures
painted each day of life by the brush of
the pitiless real, Not one picture, but
many, for the scenes are ever shift
ing. The skies are clouded, and the
sunshine faded. The flowers are with
cred, and hide the thorns no longer.
Sorrow steps in where joy had stood;
hate takes the place of love;
friendship, that We had painted with u
beautiful face, takes on the hideous
look of treachery. At the evening Of
life We gaze ut the pictures in thegallery
ofmemory, and comparing the one that
fancy painted with those stamped upon
our hearts by the stern realities of life,
we wonder where fancy got its beauti-
ful false eolorings.
Year: 1872

A few months ago James Burns shot


and killed John Halloran at a drinking


house called "The Gotham" in the


Bowery, New York. He was arrested


and indicted for murder in the first de-


gree. On the trial, in July last, he was


acquitted on the ground of insanity, his


counsel having urged that his reason


had been dethroned by excessive indul-


gence in alcoholic stimulants. He was


at once committed by the Court of Gen.


eral Sessions to the State Lunatic Asyl-


um at Utica, where he has since been


confined till last week, when his coun-


sci, ON petition stating that she was


not confined on the sentence or judg-


ment of a competent court" procured


writ of habeas corpus, on which


Burns was returned to New York and


brought before Judge Leonard on Sat-


urday. Here counsel demanded his dis
charge on the ground Of his present
sanity. On Monday Judge Leonard de-


cided that the writ was improperly


granted and promptly remanded the
slayer of Halloran to that confinement
which the Court of General Session, q
competent tribunal, had consigned him. E.
1t is to be hoped that this eminently
proper and judicious ruling may have q
tendency to curtail the use Of the in
sanity dodge as convenient lOophole
by which Il murderer may avoid the
halter. No more dangerous practice
can prevail than that which may hold
the commission of any crime to arise
from mental alteration, and the perpe-
traitor, therefore, be absolved from NOR
al responsibility,


In this case we have the prisoner so
insane in July that he is not to be pun
ished for killing fellow man, and two
months later it is claimed to be hard
ship to him and wrong by the COM
munity that he be subjected to the re-
straints of confinement in an asylum.
Men who shoot are obnoxious in any
and men who, on trial for
murder, take the insane horn of the di-
lemma in preference to that which
points to the gallows, need not COM
plain at such gentle restriction as the
walls of the State institution at Utica
present. For several years the preva-
lance of insanity among persons charged
with serious crimes has been frightful.
The mental malady appears apt to at
tack any one who wishes another's
death or injury. Lax notions of the
legal definition of insanity and the nat
ural reluctance of jurymen to render
verdict i'm capital cases tends to give
lawyers the power to save the life of
even the most hardened and willful
murderer.


Should the adjudged insane taker of
life be set free as soon as he has ex-
the prisoners cell for the asyl-
I'm there would be almost an entire abb
,ence of danger to those who chose to
be insane to execute criminal design.
If the doctrine urged by the counsel
for Burns should be admitted it would
be better that the State be saved the
trouble Of sending an insane murderer
20 the institution. He might be at once
yet at liberty. Possibly, then, his fren-
~ might lead him to slay one or more
If the jurors, in which case that fact
would add to the certainty of being
morally irresponsible. Under Judge
Leonard's decision insanity will not
present such glowing charms as it would
iad he set Bnrns free to repeat his Per-
,icious pistol practice at pleasure.
Year: 1872

Total debt August l, 1s7s.-..- a,2a7, ,O99, ,sss q


The aggregate interest at these rates
is $l03,773,O93 a year, which gives an
average of little less than425 per cent.
per annum on the entire debt. So much
for the statement that ''the rest of the
debt ," 1. e., all except the 100000, 900
refunded at per cent, bears 6per cent
interest. 1t is matter of surprise that
any journal setting the slightest value
on its reputation for accuracy should
commit itself to a statement probably
at variance with facts that are so well
known to the entire public.


The statement that the Administra-
ton cannot now borrow at less than 6
per cent. is equally unwarranted. 1t is
that the negotiation of the new loan,
with the proceeds of which the present
6 per cent. bonds were to be taken up,
was temporarily interrupted, owing to
our difficulties with Great Britain; but
these are now substantially settled, and
the approaching end of the arbitration
at Geneva will soon remove the last yes
tige of the distrust to which the Ala
bama trouble gave rise. The circum-
stances will then be as favorable as
could be wished for throwing our new
bonds again into the market; and with
the bright prospect of prolonged peace
and increasing material prosperity
which is now before us, we have the
best reasons for believing that the loan
will be rapidly taken. This expectation
is so confidently entertained by the Off
GERS of the Treasury Department that
an effort will undoubtedly be made
within three or four months to put not
only the new 3 per cents, but also the
AZ per cent. bonds, upon the market.


The power of the Government to bor-
row small fraction over per cent.
even in this country, where the rates of
interest are in general much higher
than in Europe, is sufficiently indicated
by the prices of our present bonds in
the New York market. Thus on Au-
gust 10 the Ten-forty ) per cents sold in
New York at rate so slightly below
par in gold as to yield to investors only
a small fraction over 5L per cent. on
their actual cost, and during the last six
months of 1871 the same bonds sold at
an average rate which would yield only
a trifle over 5ls per cent, (more exactly
5 IA 100). The critical character of
our relations with Great Britain caused
a slight depression in the price, during
the spring and early summer, but the
tendency is now again upward as to
price, involving a corresponding fall in
the realized rate of interest.


And aprOpOs of our future financial
prospects it Is not too much to say that
they will grow brighter and brighter as
the chances of the Tri6une's candidate
for the Presidency are seen to grow
smaller. The mere possibility of his
election is doubtless equivalent to two
or three per cent. off the price of our
bonds, tor the capitalists and business
men of the country are afraid of his f.
nancial vagaries, while the creditors of
the Government, or those who might
become such, are still more afraid of
the forces that stand behind him, ready,
if occasion should favor them, to de-
mand the reputation of That national
debt which they cannot forget was con-
tracted for their own subjugation.
Year: 1872

The Democratic party Of West Viz
ginia have adopted the wise and discreet
course Of leaving the selection Of a
Presidential candidate entirely 10 the
Baltimore Convention. That IS the
true policy for the South. II we DO
that they cannot blame us as they did
in '6S. when it was said the influence OF
the South at the New York Convention
was fatal to the nominations. They
cannot Say that we have gone from one
extreme 10 the other-trom Frank Blair
to Horace Greeley-and been equally
unfortunate in our choice.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote c"nhubhl
hanniness. Indeed, without these the journey
th rough life becomes q weary pilgrimage, tho
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness oi
annthnr is hlirhtnd with our own.
Year: 1872

The Governor of our State has recon-
mended to the Legislature, that Congress be
memorialized against efforts to secure leg
islation, in approval of the illegal setting
aside of the U. S. injunction in the matter
of the cut through Minnesota Point. This
is we'll Let the matter remain in the courts
where it belongs. Neither cabinet officers
nor the Congress of the United States,
should connive directly or indirectly, at the
overthrowing of a decree ola United States
Court, by parties who imagine that great
wealth and influence justify them in over
riding legal procedures 1t is a matter in
which the whole country is interested.
Year: 1872




THE ARG UIfEN7,S -4ND THE FAC con-


CERNING THE DULUTH ILLEGAL CUT.


The argument brought up to prove that
the illegal cut through Minnesota Point
should be let alone, would be dignied if it
were styled bosh.


Here 1T is: tThe water runs in through
the cut from the Lake to the Bay. tmust
90 out by the ST. Louis Entry. Therefore
it will add to the volume and dredging
force of the current there, and benefit said
Entry"


The dredging force of this arrangement,
during the ten months it has been on trial,
will be appreciated when we state the fact
that an examination made late this winter,
reveals about three feet less depth of water
in the Entry than the ordinary measure
ment was wont to show, (namely feet 10
inches as opposed to the usual J or 10 feet


On the other hand compare the Superior
argument with the facts. Here is the ar
cument: "There was head of water in
the Duluth end of the Bay before the cut.
This was proved by the current of the St
Louis running over four miles further south
to find the Lake level. The Lake level at
Duluth connected by so short a cut with
that head of water would certainly induce
an outward current, diminishing the ST.
Louis force and volume in its usual channel
so much that the Entry would fll up, and
freeze up, while the Duluth cut would re-
main deep and unfrozen as the Entry for
merly did" AND SUCH ARE THE FACTS
To-DAY., "But does not the Lake flow IN
at the cut ?" says the special pleader for
this theft of a river. Certainly it does
sometimes. lust as the Lake used to flow IN
at tie Entry under the pressure OF the
northeaster heaping- g-of-thewate until 1t
overhowed the Duluth Point sidewalks,
but it ran out again at the rate of SIX miles
an hour Just as is the case in the artificial
and illegal Entry at Duluth!


The Duluth argument totally fails, and
appears but as a simple-in fact uery sim
pie" begging of the question:" that, as
evidence, would be thrown out in any court
Of law, unless it can prove that a current is
dlacdys running In from the Lake, and the
St. Louis Entry deeper and more free from
Ice in consequence, than ever before. But
the FACTS are just the reverse!
Year: 1872

Whatever slight diversities of opinion
may obtain among gentlemen who are
largely interested in this place, all must feel
and acknowledge that nothing is to be
gained by negative work at this late day.
We hail with pleasure all tokens of a dis
position to final and lasting compromise
measures on large and liberal basis, wor-
thy of our splendid advantages, and pros
poets.


With railway work so we'll advanced as
now, one united and sustained effort on the
part Of our chief property owners during
the summer of 1872, will not only benefit
them immensely in pecuniary point OF
view, but make them the benefactors of the
whole Northwest, by SO developing this Key
of the position at the west end of Lake Su-
perior, that capital seeking investment in
this region will be free from the uncertain
ties of the past, and decide as it desires In
favor of Superior without longer delay.


SO close up the columns, gentlemen pro-
prietors. Agree at once to back your own
welfare, and stand shoulder to shoulder in
the campaign of 1872. The railway era is
fully upon us, and this is the golden year
in which to gather the harvest you have
waited for so long, as well as benefit the
wide area that will at once become popu-
lous and thriving, on the development of
Superior and her railway system.
Year: 1872

There is great significance in the promi
nence which Mr.. Cooke gives to certain
fact concerning the village at the north
end of the Bay of Superior. That fact is
that the place in question is situated at the
acostera extremity Of Lake Superior. That
is the entire stock in trade of Mr.. Cookies
town. Put the same place anywhere else,
and it would attract as little attention as the
settlement lately made Tin the papers at
leastI on the cast shore of Hudson's Bay.


If the idea were not firmly fixed in the
popular mind that harbors at the western
extremity of Lake Superior are of the high
est commercial value, what less than mad
ness would be thought the enormous ex-
pense already incurred by Duluth in fitting
up the shallow north end of Superior Bay,
and little corner Of the open Lake as a
harbor? Is the grand natural harbor in
front of Superior less valuable to the COM
merce of the future? VIII it not be far
more valuable?


The comparison can be readily carried
further. Look at the question of COM
mereial site at the western extremity of the
great Lake. If its Importance justifies
grading the lake slope Of the north shore
range to found a city, how much more it
will call for the building up of the broad
Superior plateau ''between the rivers and
the ranges and facing the lenqth of the
Bay and the breadth Of the Lake, as the
Port of the Future should.


Compare notes between Duluth and SUI
perior on the question of railroad ap-
proaches. If it will pay to run trains to a
port at the western extremity Of Lake Su-
perior over such steep, serpentine track as
that from the Dales to Duluth, will it not
pay handsomely to come in on the easy
grade, and long graceful curve of a railway
on the Divide, to the City and Harbor of
Superior? The truth is there is no proper
comparison between the places, and the
immense expenditures which the Duluth
interest has put forth, only teach US the
unparalleled value, for the commercial pur-
poses of the near future, that attaches to
such city site and harbor basin, as Supe-
rior possesses.


Our wealthy property owners are ava
kening to some slight appreciation of its
worth, and with tithe of Jay Cookies ad-
vertising ingenuity, OF the hundredth part
of his expenditures, they could make of
Superior in one years time, Port in which
the capitalists of the nation would vie to
invest.