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Year: 1871


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MEssRs. EDITORS 1T is a conceded
fact we believe that sheep husbandry i:
the foundation of all good farming
throughout the civilized world. 1t enters
largely into the agriculture of England
where they have reached higher stand
ard than any where else. Wool growing
as a speciality, is making astonishing de-
velopments upon the plains of South
America.


In Australia, portions of Africa and
other tropical and semi tropical countries
carrying civilization and christianity with
it, because it is renunerative and possess
es within itself ameliorating influences
and will be found 1--WE think) the only
thing suited to our exhausted and poverty
stricken condition and other very large
portions of the Southern States. There
is very great difference between raising
sheep for mutton and raising them for
WOOL Either one may .s speciality OF
the two may be combined, the one or the
other predominating, controlled entirely
by surrounding circumstances. Fancy
should never control in these things
For he who lives to fancy never can be
rich. but he who lives to mature rarely
viii be poor.


The considerations that decide between
wool and mutton, and consequently the
kind of sheep to be kert, are so plain
when understood that no one need err in
the least. The native sheep ofthis coun-
try are almost worthless, and. also, of al
most all the other stock kept upon the
farm. Its character tells most shame
full story upon the agriculture of tlis
country. The best policy is to cross our
native stock with thorough bred animals
and continue In that direction. Never
for moment think of breeding back to
the original stock, nor think of establish
ing grade between, that will be better
than the thorough bred, it can not be
Year: 1871




Beautiful girl! have wandered far
| Toward the rising sun and the evening
star;
have roamcd mid the northern waste:
of snow,


And strayed where the soft magnolia,
blow;
But never gazcd on face SO bright
As thine, sweet spirit of young delight
Beautiful girl though art bright and fail
As an angel shape i'm the moonlight air
No shadow rests on thy brow of snow,
Save that of thy tresses drOopmg low.
Loves own dear delight is wandering of
Ger thy gentle lip of carmine soft;
Thy lovely cheek, where the rich rec
glow


or thy warm blood melts through tho
virgiH snow,


So sweetly blending i'm one bright dye,
The woven beauties of earth and sky.
Truth, holy truth, in its freshness dwells
Deep in thy dark eyes shaded wells,
And fancies wild from their clear depths


gleam,


Like shadows of stars from q trembling


stream,


And thy thoughts are dream of Eden's
And thy words are garlands of flowers


bright flowers!
Beautiful girl I've seen thee move,
A floating creature of joy and love.
AS light as q mist on the sunrise gale.
Or the buoyant sway of the bridal veil,
Till almost looked to see thee rise
Like a soaring thought to the free blue


skies,


Or melt away in the thin, blue air,
Like vision of fancy painted there.
Thy low, sweet voice, as it thrillsTround
Seems less a sound than dream of sound;
Softly and mildly its clear notes swell,
Like the spirit-tones of a silver bell,
And the lip whence the fairy music flows
Is to fancy's eye like a speaking rose.
Beautiful, beautiful girl thou art
A vision of JOY to n throbbing heart;
A star sent down from the world of bliss
And all undimmed by the shades of this,
A rainbow pictured by Loves own sun
On the clouds of being, beautiful one!
Beautiful girl, tits a weary year
Since thy voice fell on my ravished ear,
Ills long, long year of light and gloom
Since l gaZed OH thy young cheek s lovely


bloom,


Yet thy gentle tones of music still
Through the hOliest depths of memory


thrill


Like tones Of a fount, or breeze or bird,
In the long gone years of childhood heard
And oft in my dark and lonely moods,
When demon wing over my spirit broods
Thine image seems OH my soul to break
Like the sweet young morn Ger gloomy


lake,


Filling its depths rs the shadows flee,
With beauty and love and melody.
Beautiful girl :! thou art far away,
And L know not where thy steps now


stray;


But oh it's sweet, it is very sweet
In the fairy realms of dreams to greet
Thy cheek of rose, thy brow of pearl,
And thy voice of music, beautiful girl
Year: 1871

81. ucDIilys anu low SplritS.
sometimes many of the above symptoms
attend the disease, and at other times very
few of them; but the liver is generally
the organ most involved. Cure the Liver
Year: 1871

Owing to the utter arrangement of the teie-


graph system from Chicago, consequent on
the late terrible confagration, the special cor
respondents of the HERALD at that city have
been unable to get more than mere oatline
dispatches through to New York. This
morning we are enabled to present to our
readers q graphic, comprehensive and con-
nected account Of that terrible disaster, from
its inception to the bitter end of destruction,
as Witnessed by ons Of our special correspond
ents stationed in the city during the burning.
1t will be found to convey in series of
vivid pictures what resident felt
at seeing the great town clothed in
the awful majesty Of fra and withering
beneath that lurid raiment until the scenes
from history, of cities laid in ashes, reappear
as hard, stern, living realities of to-day A
fearful showing of mans pride and mans
weakness, of noble bearing in adversely, and
shameful depravity in times of terror, and of
brave human will outleaping the worst that
can inflict, are to be found
Grouped like the good and bad in single
being) in the moving episodes of that fateful
calamity. 1t presents the light OF hope rim
ming the frowning cloud of despair; and 1t
brings to our lips the prayer that the devas-
tated town may rise once more superior to its
ruin, as its noble citizens have risen superior
to their misfortune.
Year: 1871

Two LITTLE GIRLS, bright, intelligent chill
dren, who were left ny their mother in a
boarding school on Forty-sixth street, were
yesterday turned over to the charity Of the
Catholic Pro.ec!ory by the school teacher,
the mother Of the children having failed to
remit. 1t seems to us that this was quite q
summary disposal Of the children. The mother
ought at least TO have been informed OF the
steps about to be taken, as it appears her post
Office address was known. She viii doubtless
hear now through the HERALD Of the disposal
made Of her children, and may take measures
10 reclaim them, but It is much easier to get
into these city asylums than to get out.
Year: 1871

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY IN BELGIUM. -
Among the Belgian workingmen, and par
ticularly among those of Brussels, the Inter-
national Society has taken firm hold. The
leaders of this extensive organization, branches
of which are to be found in every capital of
the European Continent, watch closely the
movements of the various labor and trades
unions. In Brussels the section of the Inter-
national existing In that city had q meeting q
short time ago, at which the progress Of the
labor movement formed one of the prominent
subjects for consideration. The reports from
the various delegates were satisfactory. The
meeting, however, did not adjourn without
urging the necessity Of energy in the formation
Of additional trades unions upon those pre-
sent. Every new organization established
will, of course, be 10 full accord and will
afiliate with the International The move
ment Of the workingmen of Brussels serves
to illustrate the activity Of the working classes
generally at the present time, not only in
Europe but here al home. q M
Year: 1871

JUDGE BARNARD AND THE GRAND jury
Judge Barnard yesterday dismissed the Grand
Jury recently empauelled, and gave notice
that new Grand Jury would be ordered 10
be drawn on Monday next We understand
that Judge Barnard intends to be present


himself at the next drawing, in accordance
with the provision of the law, in order to see
fair play. This is all right There should be
no taint or breath Of suspicion on such an In
quest, and no one can object to any measures
that NAV be adopted to insure an honest panel,
Year: 1871

The life of James Wilson, alias Kentley,
the account of whose execution we publish
upon another page, is in many essential
respects an exact counterpart of that melan-
choly history of French prisoner, by Victor
Hugo, which is usually printed as a sort of
preface to the 'Last Day of Condemned
Man." Like that poor unfortunate, he had
been imprisoned for stealing, and was
so moved by the inhumanity Of the
Warden Of the jail in which he was confined
that he murdered him in ''the holy cause Of
humanity" Like that poor unfortunate, also,
he endeavored to escape the hands of the bang
man by voluntary suicide. We miss many
OF the most affecting touches Of Hugo's pen
the gift of the Sister of Charity, the enforced
separation of the convict from his bosom friend,
and bis previous virtuous record-but the
main facts remain the same. And with the
startling picture Of the Paris novelist before
the eye, we feel constrained to ask ourselves
whether the same dreary tragedy is indeed
possible upon American soil. Can 1t be that
there exists among us criminal class-such
as we know exists in Europe-who feel them
selves cut off from all sympathy with
the community in which they live by
theft and lawlessness, and who there
fore regard themselves as governed by
different laws and guided by a distinct code
OF honor and principle from those which we,
the respectable masses, deem synonymous
with civilization itself? There can be no
doubt that Wilson, or Kentley, was a man Of
exceptional genius and force Of character.
Why, in this free and great republic, was he not
utilized? If we credit in any way his own ac-
count Of the crime for which he suffered the last
penalty Of the law, he was capable Of being


stirred by good impulses to deeds of heroism;


and his past career, with its eight hundred


burglaries proves that in a certain order Of
intellect he had but few superiors. He was
altogether too good man 10 be wasted in the
sinks of crime. 1t may doubtless be said that
certain wrong ng-headedness-whatP Poe chris
tened the innate parverseness of human ma
ture-was the true cause of his ruin. But we
cannot help thinking that something is still


amss in our body polite, and that Wilson,


or Kentley, was a victim of our as yet imper-


feet social system. After all, as Sydney Smith


said, "the worst use to which you can put


man is to hang him" aA
Year: 1871

LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES TO THE
REsCUE.-The representatives of the most
important OF our life insurance COM
panies in this city met on Thursday
at the Offices Of the Equitable Life In
surance Society. A resolution to profYer aid
to the sufferers in Chicago was cordially and
unanimously adopted, and committee was
appointed to receive contributions from the
different life corporations and to dispense them
in accordance with the sense Of the meeting.
This is q polite as well as charitable
movement on the part of these institutions,
for 1t is well known that disease and pesti-
lence follow In the wake Of such suffering as
has been created by the late terrible con-
faaration. In the allevation Of this distress
the life companies are interested In no small
degree.
Year: 1871

CHICAGO is already itself again. The thrifty
survivors of the fire are putting up new
houses, and balf page of one Of toe news
papers there is filled with advertisements Of
s.removals"-the genial and cheerful term
which these people apply to the change OF
location necessitated by their being burned
OUT The magnificent business tact Of Chicago
Is fully eoualled by magnificent mettle.
Year: 1871

On the 27sh day of July, being on
a visit to tho mountain districts of
this State, we stopped for dinner at
the house of friend and found q
large disa of sweet potatoes, rich,
JUICY and well-havored, OH the table.
1t being an unusual time of year for
this sueoulent vegetable, we inquired
whether they wore old or now, and
could scarcely believe our host that
they wero one year old until he told
US Of his methed Of keeping them.
Ho has Il dry cellar, and in the STUN.
mer months prepares large quantity
Of sand, by having il thoroughly dried
and put away for use. He digs his
potatoes after the first frost, however
slight 1t may be, and takes them i'm
mcdiately to his cellar after sopera-
ting the out and broken onos from the
others. A layer of sand few inohes
in thickness is put in tho bottom of the
cellar, then layer Of potatoes o foot
in thickness. Sand is thrown on. this
layer, till all the interstices arc filed
up and it rests FIVE inches thick on tho
upper surface Then come alternate
layers of potatoes and sand in regular
order until the cellar is filed. A
vacant place should be left on the
side Of the cellar 80 that the po-
tatoes may bo taken out without
bursting them. Care should be taken
never to tramp on them, as the least
bruise may induce some one to rot,
which by heating will communicate
the rot to the whole layer. Freezes
should be guarded, against by throw
ing something over tho top of tho Gel.
lar in very cold weather. .-Nashville
Union and American.
Year: 1871

the massacre which has just taken place, and
able bodied men are everywhere gesticulating
and declaring that this state of things must
finish. However, no one seems inclined to bell
the cat, and the National Guards of the First
ACCOMPLISHMENT allow the scum of Belle
vile and Montmartre to invade and hold
ment thatI beheld isolated soldiers and National
Guards returning home from the Rue de la Paix
and passing through the streets unmolested by
the crowd. man of the line, as he passed
where was standing, was quietly inserting his
finger in the muzzle of his Cbassepot by way of
cleaning it. The people ask: Where is the Gov
eminent, and are they to be massacred? One
citizen felt much aggrieved that the insurgents
had not summoned the procession to disperse in
the usual manner-three rolls of the drum, and
a minute between each roll
Year: 1871

Man Covered US Forty Feet Deep In n


A correspondent of the PatJsburg (MoO
Register writes from Grundy county, of that
State recently as follows


A singular and tragical affair occurred here
on the 9TH inst, to which was an eye witness
in part. A Mr.. John Andrews, popular and
well to- do farmer in the neighborhood. had dug
well some forty feet deep, and had walled it
up about fifteen feet deep, when it was dis
covered that the wall was about to cave in. Mr..
Andrews gathered up an armful of short boards,
and Went down pole ladder fastened to the
side the well to lay them across the wall, so
as to prevent the dirt, as it fell, from filling up
that part of the well walled up. He had not
more than reached the bottom, it was
thought, before the well cavcd in,
The alarm was given and the neigh
bors gathered, but all believing him dead, they
returned to their homes, to make arrangements
to come the next day and dig him out Mrs.
Andrews and Two grown daughters and several
smaller children refused to leave the spot but
sat on a log near the well crying, until late in
the evening, when all at once they saw Mr..
Andrews emerging from the well, covered with
clay, and coming towards them! The children
all ran, screaming to the house, bolted the doors
and fastened the windows believing it to be
their fathers ghost. But Mrs. Andrews ran to
meet him, screaming at the top of her voice,
'Oh John! Oh Johu is that you? is that
you?" When she reached him she fell fainting
at his feet.


1t seems that when he got to the bottom Of
the well, he looked up and saw the top giving
way, and believing he had not time to make his
escape, ne slipped under the boards which he
had laid across the WELL when the whole thing
fell in upon him. All hope at first gave way,
and he was about to let himself drop into the
water below and end Mt once his miserable feel
ings. But feeling above, he found the clay easily
crumbed, and hope revived. The pole ladder,
it seems, was still standing and getting hold of
it with one hand, he with the other scratched
away for life, the dirt falling into the water
below as he dragged his body slowly upwards
1t seems he did not suffer much in breathing, as
fresh air came down the pole, around which the
dirt was loosely packed. In the incredible time
of seven hours he scratched hole some forty
feet long, through which he made his escape
This is one of the narrowest hair breadth escapes
from q terrible death on record.
Year: 1871

allthe injuries which result from it. We are sick
of paying two-thirds of cur taxes for the benefit
of the vendors of poison" The petition is as
follows, and it may be stated that there is talk
of similar law for Ohio


To the House and Senate of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania-The prayer of your
petitioners, citizens of the county of Luzerne,
showeth:-That it is admitted by all wise legis-
lators that the use and traffic in Intoxicating
liquors is highly dangerous to the interests of
the community, and no legislation has as yet
succeeded in restraining these evils as to
prevent them from existing and increasing; and
that there is portion of our fellow citizens
who contend that your honorable bodies have
no right in any way to prohibit such use aud
sale. but are bound to provide. by a license law,
facilities and accommodations for such use and
sale. We, your petitioners. not here question
ing that right, nor asking for the repeal or pro-
hibtion of it, do respectfully pray you to pass
law for this county, If not for the whole State,
on the following basis:-


/. That all who wish to sell Intoxicating
liquors shall make known on a certain day
their intention of doing so to the judges of
the court.


?. That, on paying, pro rata, their proportion
of all the criminal, police, and pauper ex-
penses of the county, to be estimated i'm a law
ful manner, and giving bond, with good secu-
Tily, to pay any other damage that may arise
in consequence of the sale and use of said
liquors. fairly proven, and that would not
have occurred without said sale and use,
they be permitted to sell and use, as now
allowed by law.


g. That the county expenses, as above shall
be paid out of the money paid by these appii-
cants; and that the injuries, properly established
shall be collected out of the bond given for that
purpose, the individuals thus injured being re-
quired only to prove the injury as resulting
from the use and traffic, to obtain judgment
against the bond fund, and this judgment to be
executed, pro rata, on the giyers of the bonds
Any person selling liquor without complying
with these conditions, or any person violating
the laws already existing on this subject, shall
be fined not less than $50 nor more than $780,
and imprisoned for not less than one year in
the county Jail. One half of the fine to 20 to
the prosecutor, the other half to the liquor
fund.
Year: 1871

There is a section in the laws of this State
which reads as follows:-'That every person
who shall unlawfully and feloniously steal, take
and carry away any newspaper or periodical
from the place where the same may be left for
any other person or persons, corporation or
corporations, shall be deemed guilty of larceny
and punished accordingly"


In the recent case before Justice Banyon a
boy was charged with stealing the Republican
from in front of house. Although the charge
was proven fully, the Justice discharged the
prisoner for the following erudite and all-sufi-
cient reasou:-


The Justice remarked that the case was intri-
cate. In the course of his official career he had
not learned that the taking away of a news
paper from the front of a house amounted TO
larceny. If the paper was put in the house or
hall way, then il might be larceny. The com
plainant must in future have the paper placed
within the house, or he could have no jurisdic-
tion in the matter.


If this be justice, then Dogberry ought TO take
precedence of Blackstone. - Chicago Rspl6-
LiCQn,
Year: 1871

Way-rronDIe anticipated


Special Dispatches 10 The BUening Telegraph


HARRISBURG, Jan. 26.-Since the visit of the
Catholic clergymen to the Governor ia the inte-
rest of John Hanlon, the murderer of little Mary
Mohrmann, there have been no further efforts
to secure a respite. While some look upon this
quietness as a sure indication that his friends
are perfectly satisfied that he is the guilty man,
others conceive that 1t foreshadows further
trouble. This latter class are of the opinion that
the counsel for the condemned man will take
advantage of the special act passed at the last
session. allowing writ of error to be filed in the
Supreme Court, in order that the testimony as
well as the law might be reviewed in cases
of murder In the first degree. This
became a law hastily, and was intended TO apply
especially to the case of DR.. Paul Schoeppe.
The matter VAS never thoroughly sifted and in
drafting 1t no limit as to time when the writ
should be presented was Incorporated. This is
where the further trouble in the case of Haulon
is anticipated II is known that no very deter
mined effort has as yet been made to carry the
matter to the SupremeS Court under the act of
1870 and it is believed that some notoriety is to
be acquired by presenting the writ while Hau-
Ion is on the scafold. 1t would certainly be q
dramatic scene; and who is there more anxious
for such an event than those who have been
moving, so TO speak, heaven ana earGn IN an
endeavor to acquit this murderer of
a little girl five years of age? Hanlou, It is as.
serted has declared that he would not be hung
at the time fixed by the Governor, and this, it
is thought, means that the public is to be sud
denly taken by surprise by some such move
ment as the above. All this could be obviated
by q repeal of the act of 1870 before Wednesday
next, and the understanding at present seems
to be that the bill which is now in the House
committee will be brought out and acted upon
without delay.


A Case of IA Contested Seat Abandoned.
The case of the contested seat in the Arm
strong district has been abandoned, and the
committee will submit a report to that effect Tin
few days. The committee were officially noti-
fed of the abandonment last evening by the
counsel of Mr.. Steele, the contestant.
7he Philadelphia and Camden Bridge and
Ferry company.


The bill proposing to incorporate bridge and
ferry company between Philadelphia and Cam
den, via Windmill Island, has been reported
from the committee and will receive action on
Tuesday next. The friends of the measure claim
that it is only carrying out the provisions of an
act passed in 1920 and assert that it is the only
practicable manner of preventing any Interrupt
tion in the communication between the two
cities.
Year: 1871

BAGGAGE SMAsHING.-A revengeful traveller on
q certain railroad in this State, packed carpet
bag full of revovers and gave it to gentlemanly
baggage smasher, who had ruined three or four
trunks for him already. The smasher flung the
bag up against the wall savagely, and then threw
1t on the floor and stamped upon it, and jumped
up aud down upon it as usual. At about the
fourth jump firing began along the whole line.
Forty-six revolvers went off in rapid succession,
distributing bullets around the car with disgust
ing carelessness, hitting the legs of the smasher,
who was shot in six places before he could get
out of the car. He rode upon the platform dur
ing the whole of the trip, and when he did enter
the car, he encased his legs in a stovepipe, and
ran an iron-clad snow pow in front of him to
push the baggage out with. He smashes, per-
haps, fewer carpet-bags now than be did in the


past-much fewer and he is filled with horror.
The only boon he Graves is that he may be pres
ent when the carpet-bag owner calls with his


check. He says there will be conflict which


will make the European war appear ridiculous.
Year: 1871

FoRTITUDE.-A Chicago man got into row
and had quantity of his lungs shot out and his
ear bit off, besides receiving couple of stabs in
the ribs and broken arm in addition to which
his left eye was put out of joint, and hurricane
deck was put on his head after his teeth had
been knocked out and his hair pulled, and bis
throat cut yet he refuses to expose his assailant
saying it is mere trife. He says if they think
he is hurt much, they ought to look at the other
fellow.