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Year: 1872

The widow of Admiral Dahlgren has
bill before Cungross which has al
ready passed the Senate, and in which
measureof justice is sought. The
Admiral invented q gun which was
used 10 every important naval battle
throughout the war. The gun render
ed invaluable service, but Admiral
Dahlgren has received no reward for
his ingenuity. For eighteen years the
weapon has been iii use, and the family
have never received one cent for it.
Mrs. Dahlgren has nopensioH, and the
public will gladly sec her receive from
the nation what is her just due. The
claim was described last year by Sena-
tor Stockton, when he said:


mrs. Dahlgren simply asks that
the Court OF Claims shall say what her
husbands estate Is entitled to. and to
that request of hers the Committee has
added that the Court of Claims shall
take into consideration the fact that he
was an officer of the United States
Navy; that his time and services and
skill were due to the Navy at the time;
that the means by which he tried his
experiments were at the expense of the
Government, and shall award any
sum which, after that consideration,
may be due to Mrs. Dahlgren."
Year: 1872

My soul, thou art now as a bird in
the shell-in a shell of fesh-which
shortly break and let these 60. This
feeble vessel of ibe body will certainly,
lere long, be split on the rock of death,
and then must thou, its present pilot,
forsake it and swim to the shore of
leternity. Therefore, o everlasting
creaturel see and be sure thou content
not thyself with transitory portion
III ArTOlrs7aith.
Year: 1872

We lo-e half our real joy and privi-
lege, no doubt, because we do not ap-
preciate the personal love of God to US,
we do not recognize his personality in
everything we accept from him. Our
daily experience is Gods word to US. A
mother writes letter to her six child
ren: tits but one letter, yet each child
gets the letter. God does for each one
of US as if there were not another
Reecher.
Year: 1872

heard it, stating the manner in which
she became possessed of the facts, which
were as follows: Many Canoes, who had
been in search Of Norman for the last ten
years, as well as herself, had travelled
through the greater part of Europe, when
passing through Marseilles, he became
weary and stopped at cottage to get
some refreshments, where, relating some
OF his adventures, he mentioned the
name of Norman Burke, when the lady,
who happened TO be the identical jose
phine, requested him to relate all he
knew about her husband. In return
she told him her own true story, which
only served to embitter Many Canoes
still more, who Immediately upon re-
turning to the United States informed
Catherine Of it, and she, with this added
to the wrongs OF an injured mother, had
pursued him ever since. Once in the
meantime she had seen him entering a
hotel in New Orleans, but e'er she could
wreak her vengeance upon him, he had
become aware Of her watehful vigilance
and eluded her grasp. Then more and
more maddened than ever, she had fol-
lowed him till now, and just as she
thought him safe within the walls of a
prison, he had again escaped, and where
should she turn? She knew not.


"You had better remain with us to-
night, dear madam. Take my advice
and give up the pursuit of so heartless a
villain. He will meet his just reward,
depend upon it," said Mrs. Hewitt,
endeavOring to calm the excited woman
before her.


"Never! so help me God, neverl till l
have my revenge Of the wrong done my
child, my beautiful White Star, who,
though an Indian maid, was as dear to
the heart of her mother as the child Of
the pale-face. And can / obtain it no
other way, 1 will plunge this dagger into
his hearth and laughing bitter laugh,
she threw open the door, and before they
were hardly aware Of her intention of
leaving, was gone, none knew where.


poor, poor woman, how 1 pity hern'
exclaimed Mrs. Hewitt, as her husband
closed the door.


"She is indeed worthy Of sympathy"
answered he. ~ fear she may be led to
commit deed for.which she may have
cause TO repent. J do sincerely hope
that rascal may be re-eaptured, not only
that he may be punished, but that she
may be satisfied, for this is all she
asked, though she is determined to he
revenged some way" and taking up the
evening paper, the Colonel endeavored
to direct his thoughts in a different
channel, while Mrs. Hewitt and Sonora
sat at the window enjoying the bright
moonlight as they thought of the future
in hopeful anticipation.
Year: 1872

Now.-lf | We're TO give YOU motto
to go through life with, one that would
stand you for warning and counsel in
any strait in which you might find
yourselves, | would give it in this word,
N0w


Don't waste your time and your
strength, and your opportunities, by
always meaning to do sOmething-CiO IT,
Only weakness comes of indecision.
Why, some people have SO accustomed
themselves To this way Of dawdling
along from one thing to another, that it
really seems impossible for them to
squarely make up their minds to any
thing. They never quite know what
they mean to do next, and their only
pleasure seems to consist in putting
things off as long as possible, and then
dragging slowly through them, rather
than begin anything else. Don't live n
single hour Of your life without doing
exactly what is 10 be done in it, and
going straight through it, from begin
ming TO end. Work, play, study, what
ever it is, take hold at once and finish it
up squarely and cleanly; and then to the
next thing, without letting any mo-
ments drop out between.


1t is wonderful to see how many hours
these prompt people contrive TO make of
a day; it's rs if they picked up the mo-
ments that the dawdlers lost. Aud if
you ever find youself where you have
many things pressing upon that you
I hardly know how to begin, let me tell
| you n secret: take hold Of the very first
one that comes to hand, and You will
/ find the rest all fall into file and follow
after like n company of well-drilled
soldiers; and though work may be hard
to meet when it charges in n squad, it is
easily vanquished if you can bring ii
into line.


You may have often seen the anecdote
Of the man who was asked how he had
accomplished so much in his life
"My father taught me- was the reply,
''when had anything to DO, 20 90 and
do IT," There is the secret-the magic
word Nor.
Year: 1872

A BRUTE.-A party of exc1rsionists
from Vallejo were returning home,
when they met a wagon containing a
man and his wife, the latter with babe
in her arms. As they met, wheel of
the wagon sunk into q Tut hole, giving q
severe Jolt, which threw the woman and
infant out in the road. Before the car
riage could be stopped both its wheels
passed over the woman, and also her
child, whom she held i'm firm embrace
The Vallejo Chronicle says it is not
known how much they We're injured,
rs the woman's husband would not per
init any OF the exeursionists to dismount
to her assistance, declaring the accident
was all his wife's fault When the two
parties separated the man was uphraid-
ing and abusing his wife for being 50
awkward as to fall from the wagonI II
the man had been holding the baby he
would undoubtedly have thrown it down
to save himself. That woman is entitled
10 divorce.
Year: 1872

EFFICACY OF PRAYER.-A brief but
bold essay recently appeared in the


COnfenDOrdry RCUiclr, on the question


whether the Deity does or does not give
a practical assent 10 the human prayer.
The article throws down one of the most
daring challenges, even in this doubling
generation, and to a people who have
listened to the speculatiOns of such men
as Comte, Herbert Spencer, Tyndall, and
Huxley. This essay is prefaced by a
note from Professor Tyndall, and though
appearing as anonymous, is known to
have been written by man of great
eminence in his own high profession.
The writer suggests plan to obtain an
accurate measure Of the degree in which
prayers for the sick alter the bills OF
morality. He would place in particu-
lar hospital a number Of persons suffer-
inc from diseases which have been
aseertaiDed 10 cause on an average q
certain number Of deaths. All believers
i'm the efficacy of prayer would then be
invited to beseech, during four or five
wears. that the Almighty would specially
interpose on behalf OF those patients. II
the pravers were answered, the death
rate would. of course, be less than in the
hospitals that We're not so highly
favored. and scientific men would detect
the influence Of n spiritual force beyond
their province, and appreciate by none
of their gross tests. The believers in .
special Providence are challenged t6
| fight a battle on the field OF statistics.
Year: 1872

This being the admitted policy Of the
Picaylae, and the confessed inclination Of
the Bee, it is only right and proper that
the argument which they urge in defense
Of their projected alliance with Grant
should be given also. They urge the
Democrats to support the Philadelphia
candidate, because, by so doing, the
State may be saved from the calaclysm Of
horrors with which it is threatened by the
ambitions of Warmoth and the nhachina-
tions Of Pinchback" AS a prologue to
this announcement the Pjcapsae deliber-
ately surrendered the national govern
ment to its fate ''There is no use in our
flying to the rescue of the federal republic,
for that is practically subverted already:
and we would not, if we could, replace it
on its constitutional foundations.


After such a miserable admission as
this, it was only proper that the paper
which made it should descend to the lower
level Of self-abasement by proposing to
conspire for personal advantage with the
very parties that it says have subverted its
general liberties. This is about equal to
the position Of the demagogue who pro-
posed to 60 with the Customhouse faction
because it promised to give to the Bour
bons one-haf Of the State Offices pro-
vided it was allowed to elect Grant and
take the other lalf.


If the delegates to the Democratic State
Convention are capable of being influenced
by such an argument as this one that the
Pjcaycne has addressed to them, they are
self-convicted Of being incompetent to ad-
minister our public affairs; for they admit
at the outset that they are not pilots but
merely wreckers. If the nation can not be
saved and restored by the Democracy,
what right has it to be chattering to and
bothering the men who are engaged in the
Year: 1872

The New York World, with its editorial
heart as cold as marble steadily set against
Republican principles, is doing its. eccen-
tric best to defeat the Liberal Republican
movement inaugurated by the people at
Cincinnati. It is one of the few Demo-
cratic papers that continues, in the Ian
guage Of the Bible, to ''Kick against the
pricks."


The World, in its worldly soarings, is
again tempted to ignore the lessons Of the
past that have SO irrevocably decreed the
death of the Democratic party. 1t still re-
fuses to accept as final the repeated ver-
diets Of the people since 1860, proclaim
ing the non-existence, for any good pur-
pose, of the Democratic party. A we'll
directed perseverance is correctly esteem
ed virtue; but to persevere in forcing
upon the people the rules Of party that
has become extinct because it has no set
tied opinion in common with the people,
and therefore receives no life from them,
is a malignant crime. In this the World
is not even what it processes to be-Dem-
ocratic-for it fails to respect the voice of
the people


The World has recently made the ter
giversation Of Mr.. Ferry, the recently
elected United States Senator from Con-
necticut by a combination of the friends
of the Liberal Republican movement in
the Legislature Of that State, a cause for
making a scandalous attack on Mr.. Gree
lev. We are aware that political tricksters
are generally capable Of doing any species
of meanness to accomplish their political
ends, but would be sorry to learn that a
man should have reached the exalted posi-
ton of a United States Senator by pre-
tending to be a Liberal Republican, and
ere the fact had been generally circulated
among the American people proclaimed
himself a shameless liar and deceiver IN
| denouncing the chief standard-bearer OF
the great Cincinnati reform movement.
If Mr.. Ferry is an honest and sincere
Liberal Republican, we are satisfied he
has not attempted to set up his judgment
against the assembled wisdom in the Gin
cinnati convention.


Ii Mr.. Ferrys heart is really with the
people and the great reform movement in
Year: 1872

An unsuccessful effort was made in
the Legislature before the last to give IL He
printing of the journals of that body to
the Picayuae, as they were given to Car
ter's paper in Cameron, and about dozen
other papers, at a cost to the State of over
one hundred thousand dollars. Governor
Warmoth could not veto these transae-
tions, as he would have done, because the
work was paid for out of contingent funds
that the House and Senate had exclusive
control over. In the session before that q
law was lobbied through giving the Bse
the right to print all the legal sales in the
parish of Orleans in French. Governor
Warmoth did squelch that little swindle,
and he has never been forgiven. Now,
with less yigilant officer in the executive
department, the Picayltne and Bee ma
both WIN their game. These are better
arguments than the unsupported charges
which these papers bring against the Coy
ernor. The parties, interested in the IN
successful speculations to which we haTe
adverted, may deny that they had any ih-
terest in, or knowledge of the benefits tn BIT
the Legislature attempted to heap upon
them, but as they credit nobody else fpr
honesty of expression, they cannot cor 1h-
plain if the public measures them by the ir
own yard sticks.
Year: 1872

In 1868 the Bourbon Democrats, being
the same stupid set that now demand a
straight Democratic ticket, refused to take
part in the elections because the sam he
were illegal, unconstitutional, and wouI ID
amount to nothing They nolo admit tn at
they had no sense then.


For four years after 1868 the same BoEr-
bons, being the identical set of stupids
that committed the above folly, and WI 10
insist on a straight Democratic ticket to-
day. refused to acknowledge the colordd
people as citizens, which was as if they
denied that there was any sun during the
same space Of time. They noog adm it
that they wanted sense in this, for what
they denied they now admit.


In 1870 the same Bourbons, being as
stupid in their ambition to carry the State
as they are to-day, rallied to elect a
straight Democratic ticket while the r
publican party was partially divided, and
were beaten as badly as they were in 1863
They pretended that all the white voters
would support their ticket, and in this
they failed, for ten thousand white me n
voted for the Republicans, and twenty
thousand conservatives refused to go to
the polls. Their folly, then, is apparent
in their presumption as it is in their con-
duct.
Year: 1872

What was foretold of the PicGyane has
come to pass, that it favored an alliance
with General Grant. What the prophets
predict of the Bee is, that it will support
an alliance in the same quarter. They
have used the same arguments for months
and they are bound in the same direction,
the one impelled by selfshness, and the
other by stupidity. These two elements
drift together as naturally as water seeks
its level. All around us are the multi
piled evidences that bad men succeed by
manipulating weak ones.


Yesterday the Picayuae deliberately as
sumed the position that the State could
only be saved from Warmoth by going
with Grant. The Bee will do the same
thing in good time This is what we have
expected, for since they have both admit
ted that the Democrats were too weak to
succeed in a direct contest, because such
a conflict would inevitably reunite the
Republican party, they have committed
themselves to the necessity Of combina-
ton of some sort; and they gave unmis-
taxable signs of partiality for union with
the Customhouse faction rather than with
the Republican party, as represented by
Governor Warmoth and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Pinchbaek.
Year: 1872

work Of salvation? If the nation is to be
cut from its constitutional moorings, how
is the State to be anchored to liberty and
safety? If we have descended to mere
matter Of trading for few local officers,
what use have we for Republicans or
Democrats in the premises? Why not
draw straws for all that there is in sight
and then lie down and perish? Away
with such baseness and treachery
Year: 1872

In noticing General Frank Pargoud's
declination of a Democratic nomination on
for Governor, the Bee declares him to de
a distinguished citizen" We inform tt le
Bee that General Pargoud is Warmoth
ofice-holder-t he has actually accepted IA
a highly responsible appointment from his
excellency. Hireling, minion, tool an d
thief is the sort of epithet to fling at IL he
General. A correction and explanation is
desirable.
Year: 1872

Shorthand is one of the greatest advan-
tages person can possess, as it is always
source of livelihood Any one who is a
good photographer can easily make from
ten to fifty dollars 9, day. Stability and
patience will master anything and short
hand is no more dihicdlt to learn than any
thing else. 1t is an interesting study, and
once in the theory the student becomes in
love with his work. Instructions given at
the office of the REPUBLICAN. See adver
tisement.
Year: 1872

We have been favored with compliment
ary tickets for the grand fair to be held on
the third instant at the corner Of Liberty
and Gasquet streets, for the benefit Of the
Central Church. From what we hear, we
Judge that this fair will prove a most enjoy
able occasion, while the purpose for which
1t is got up is most cOmmendable.
Year: 1872

The Citizens Guard uttered, and the
Pjcaytne repeated, statement chat Coy
ernor Warmoth made a speech to the Re-
publican convention to. the effect that he
did not desire that body to accept his
preference for the Presidency, that he de-
sired them to eschew national politics, ett.
This is a falsehood out of whole cloth.
Governor Warmoih made no speech to the
convention, nor has he made public DE-
clamations Of any character since the or
ganization Of the Fourth District Liberal
Republican Club, two weeks ago. But
whatever sentiments he has expressed At
all have been unwayering opposition to
Grant and unhinching support of Gree
ley and Brown. Will the Picayune-We
do not expect fair-play from the Guard =
make a proper correction?
Year: 1872

The concert given last night in Odd Eel
lows Hall was for the benefit of the Infant
Orphan Asylum, and was attended by some
Of our best people. The airs sung were
popular, the music good, the singers in ex-
.cellent voice and the audience an apprecia-
five one
Year: 1872

SIMPLE CURE FOB WAKEFULNEss.-We
are often asked, says the Silence Of Health,
for prescription for preternaturally
wakeful persons The "high pressure"
principles of which many of our bust
ness men work their brains and abuse
their bodies. begets an irritable condi-
ton of the nerves, and morbid state
of mind, very antagonistic to quiet and
refreshing Sleep Such persons will Of
ten go to bed weary and exhausted, but
cannot sleep or sleeep dreamily or fit
fully or lie awake for hours, unable to
sleep at all. We have tried many expe-
d1ents to induce sleep with more or less
success, and have read many recipes
which proved better in theory than in
practice. The very best method We
have yet discovered is that of counting.
Breathe deeply and slowly (without any
straining effort) and. with every expira-
ton count one, two, three, etc., up to
hundred. Some persons will be asleep
before they can count fifty in this man
ner. Others will count ten, twenty, or
thirty and then forget themselves and
cease counting. In such cases always
commence again at one. Very few per-
sons count one hundred and find them
selves awake ; but should this happen
.a,,zok xt.o l1co ,,vk;1 o,,roJ


How TO GET RID OF SUPERFLUoUs
FLEsH.-Not long ago gentlemen of
threescore, who had hardly ever been
sick in his life, thought he was too
fleshy and began to Bantamize. He
succeeded famously, and boasted to his
friends that he had got rid Of ten
pounds in a few weeks. A little later
he was attacked with painful and
dangerous malady, from which he has
been suffering more than q year. If
man can sleep seundly, has good ap-
petite, with no unpleasant remindess
after meals, the bodily habits being reg
ular every day, he had better leave him.
self alone, whether he is as big as
hogshead or as thin and dry as fence
rail-. Several cases of Bright's disease
have been reported by medical men Of
reputation as direct result of practi-
cling Bantam's plan for getting lean.
The very best and safest way to get rid
of.fat is to work it of. This may be
aided by eating food which contalnes
large amount Of nitrogen, and small
amount Of carbon. Nitrogen food is
that which gives strength, power to
work, a. lean meats; carbonaceous foods
IRE those which make fat, such as
Year: 1872

THE SEWING MACHINE is one of the
greatest improvements of the age, and at this
day and age of the world every family must
and will have one. This fact appears to be
perfectly understood by all Sewing Machine
Companies, consequently every company is
making every effort in their power to put
their machines forward, and to make sales as
rapidly as possible. They employ every per-
son they can get, and three-fourths of those
employed are not fit for the business, conse-
quently the country is now overrun with men
and boys representing themselves as Sewing
Machine Agents, and everyone claimingto have
the best machine, when, in fact, they know
nothing about machines, consequently the
business has become a nuisance-it is over
done and overrun with unprincipled agents,
and almost every farmer breads to see one
stop at his gate.


But to lay all prejudice aside, the New Will
son is the only First-class Machine in America
that is sold at a reasonable price; price withs
in the reach of every family. The New VIII
son stands to-day at the head as being the best,
the simplest, the easiest to manage, the most
durable, and by far the cheapest. The Wilson
now costs $500 more to manufacture than any
other machine in America, and is sold for
$500 less than any other frst-class machine.
This simply because it is not in the "Com-
bination." This machine is sold for Just what
it is worth, while all others are sold from
S25.OO to 5000 more than they are worth.


The undersigned has been selling the VIII
son for one year at his Grocery and Crockery
Store in Fremont, and has sold Five Hundred
Machines, and nearly all have been sold in
sandusky County, and have never yet had
an agent out soliciting sales or boring the peo-
pie to,buy. Every machine has been ordered.
This, I think, Is the largest sale that has ever
been made in the county. This fact OF itself
is certainly sufficient evidence that the ma
chine is a good one. All other companies have
drummed and bored the people nearly to
death to sell their machines, and in very many
instances people have bought simply to get nd
of the agent Now, we claim that the proper
way, and the only way, to buy a machine, is to
go town and see and try all the machines and
select for yourself machine in the same
way that you buy a dress, OF a set Of dishes,
OF a dollars worth Of sugar. There are now
some six OF eight different kinds of Sewing
Machines represented in this city, try them
all, select for yourself, and do not be hum
bugged by agents, and nine out of every ten
viii buy the Wilson p CLOSE
Year: 1872

There is no town in Northern Ohio that has
healthier or steadier growth than Fremont Man
utactures are receiving particular attention.
Building is rapidly going on. The great trouble
now is to obtain the mechanics to do the wJrk:
Year: 1872

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.-P at a
distance desiring information from this point, can
address me. If the subject does not require much
investigation few postage stamps will be suf6-
eient remuneration.