MS El II el) c Agitator* =I A ,p 4 •, ,, pAlt mut t - ED:7911.:„- TuEsii.vr; Dk.,dEivri*4 187 s. , . . :C01:::10n .'.wastlipigloipony, -,- , tins IMerr'sirit*ai,l4lOcitti**bg*ii" Distiict OU-this StOiijnplteeof turcloqlii Col : - ;Hail; t 'been Chitl fmsl,- ‘lllsiaelibbothoo4 and, integrity, and lltcrouglily , foing*Avith -fht• duties ol))0,9111i.e. • ‘`" '''• . . Contrary ti33liFitiii4iii . 'eitatoriy t il 01444' iie'isstn'4 pie.:493l4's . a enstoin ';4ll#;,,lmr,tOre4;ltt •, the ;breach than the eh weekpresent: , . gslir friends siith, 'the' tifty:tbird naniber -of the A.Ger:A.TOlt kor,‘Alt3W considerablo3netlnveniente andreost to 6nr .riatvoi,,- atz , '4lll.),iffit's.t . of'oufinteo9ii to give , tn our stibseribti:rherfall worth of their men- ' ad, goetiiing( more. -' The -- AorraTou inat,N.weelt, rtfft4:;*c..lis; for the pitst peer eon= taintli more, rrtltling matter ; believe, than any 'i4thek, paper ever printed. in the' minty. OttrAitideftvel has been; not tOseo - Ito* . witire s 3.tre eoild 'do_ 'without reren tang ti insat iftleilan„fint how _mach we . could tlu intjufztiteteoaraelves and the pormit• Itiltt.-itttereStsiif,,t' r We,tWe seta= 'siintras any ofte,eanbe of the shorteotnings tint] joarnal during- --ill* - tioritll9 that,nrii past,' audlve ' hope and in-, tend that ltyrA shalt 'Witness ita improver:hank in - more ways Than one. 'And so, vvith„ el,Te thanhs array of leaders and supportei,l_WhOM we are glad to:count, 113 friends of "-OM : AOLTATOnlitild its mans-, gers, we tu e n.frotit the past "-labors and 'le-, wlAraq, trials' and ktrilt ophs - of 1872; • and wek.ctne with. , ligi4 hearts, renewed hopes -told strengthend4Oolnt)on't the, adititt - of the 3.CeW Year.: , . May each prove' 'a prosperous and a happy one to each, and all of ue t _ A "Mc* of Disaster. The record of the past week is lurid Oh tl,tute, flood, ,antl:latal disaster in many ptatv of tile. cpuntry.. I:* space 'not penult us to . give the details of these scenes of sufferitig , and'd'enthi can only make brief mention of the most notable ones.' 'The week was ushered in by the destruc; tion by fire of the iron chorbh of the Rev. Ti DeWitt Talmadge; of broOklyn. The ,building was knoWn's,s.the Tabernacle. It was built about two •years-, ago; :having a wooden frathe sheathed within and - Without with corrugated iron, end' portions filled in with brick. The,tira caught in one, of the flues from the furnace, and in less than an hour the largo' building, capable of seating t I lice thousand persons ; was a heap of ruins. - The organ was the one - built fOr the : first 'Boston Jubilee, costing originally $25,000; though it was purchased for the church for about $7,000. The total . loss is estimated at $75,004 • On, Mond4vthere was a large fire in Port land, Oregon,'sdestroying three blocks and svriously injuring'several- firemen; another in - Helena, Ark., burning out fifteen tiler __kbants; another in Mansfield; Ohio, burning a large liotc“in, the night, many of the guests nialdng 'a narrow escape; another in Canaan, N. H., destroying . $50,000 ~1•111 of business property; several of aces tint in Chicago; one in Patterson, .T., n • ariy consuming ihlarge rolling mill, and , one in Boston burning up $75,000 worth ( prop • riy.„ - Nest ay was illuminated by the burning. of Barn im's Museum, Grape Chapel, a large ivory faCtory, intid u printing establishment,' in New York, sweeping away nearly a mill ion and a half dollars.. Most of .Barnum's animals were burned up. But a more terri ble di;sa.ster Wes that which befell a railway trnia on the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburg roadear Prospect Station. While running at a 1 w rate 4,,apeed'on a down grade, the train was throWn from, a trestle bridge about thirty feet high, by the breaking of a wheel of the tender. : • The passenger coalh was crushed by the fall, and immediately took fire , from the overturned. stoves. Before help could be afforded, nineteen of the suf ferers .were either crushed or burned to. death, while a laige number were wounded, and seven are set down as missing. , The det7ila of the affair were simply heart-rend ing The sameidaY a car was thrown from the track by a;bruken rail on the Indiattarr 010, Peru and Chicago Railroad, and twenty parsons were injured, three of them fatally. 'On Wedneslay, - a trail 'on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, while stuck In a snow bank, was run Into by a freight train,. and had two cars telescoped. 'Two men were killed, ,and four or five wounded. This, with. the Williamsport disaster detail ed in our local-columns, , raade up the hor- • tors of Christmas day: . • . The next day . q. large marble warehouse in New York took fills, and wa s damaged to the amount of $156,000; a large tobacco factory in St. ,eouis Was burned, causing a heavy loss on the building and sleek; prop erty valued at .475,000 was consumed itt Carbondale, IIL, and the Boston small pox hospital was destroyed by an - incendiary tire at Pine Isltind. A collision on the Erie Railway near &Cents resulted in the wreck of two Cars and the fatal injury of a pas senger. The paVere storm •of the day re sulted in the losls of the Ship Peruvian on the coast of MaSsachusetts, _with twenty live persons and a valuable cargeOuboard. The t li, , hofe ereil;•,"perlsi!ed, and the wreck • waq cunnplete, the property &stroyed being \ v tied ht $1.000,1)00; ':,:rhb'szi'nul night' the bark li . adosh w ,wreeked'iielOw Om port of Boston, involying. loss .of fives and $250,000 wortb - og propeity t Numerous other marine . ',diStiSt.ers resulting fiorn the, *same storm are' reported.. Early Friday morning anice-gorge in the 3lississippi just above Memphis broke, and the ice came dcrtVnwitit terrific farce, carry. ing oty the do'clts ? sinking ten barges of coal, and wrecking' river steamers at the wharf. The dotruction of 'property was very great, the less iu coal alone .amounting to about $130,00. -A . flre .on"., the :Long Wharf at Bostotqcst . royed the freight ahede with much valuable propetty ..,;Atnieci. in them, And so the year goes out•in disaster. sot fericg and death. , Let' us hope that 1873 will present a less terrible record. OUR 7411/NOTON LEITT4. Wmiliziirrcea, Dee. 24; , 1872. etIIBISTSUS 11F..I.AXA1102i. • 'COrigress hsa iidjontried, and most of the( members have dated sway from the capi ta]. The DeDenrciente, by this ,eXainple of Congress, have:become inorevi less dealer alized, aad.little work Altuatie. eveetltd front . clerks daring the holiday =SO& - Most of the Depart:me/AA have - igitadi-xguiotuned that Christmas,ind iirew Years dap Ysill be given entire, and;dso ' hall days, coraiaw,ge- Ins on the ere4vof chitstiras. The aoyer'e scold weather, •.clitirksporiateg sor;Ye..4 with .flie season, adds:la the !lentoralizatiou, sad. sa Imo flow of thh moist affections , s will , dohbtleas more :smarl's the coarse sof our civil :than the. usual - detslng .into books, "vvirs, sactotitbiO It is sisal that aelstatio;;420901011117 - ici. - . ENO , .;'-i•'W, ,1,,,. , -,,-k, . i . - - ; '-f.,/, , ,: 'tlip bepiirfriikit,iikatik4Oi iniiiii Of Win 4 •>*",e4. , IFW Jilt:n*ol suffer 04 -I * - , - .qt? 3 A , :: 'oeillifo.:Ok - , , th4 - ,Otniti*dr.4li'= - liiititt 0* ifi 17 entra Pc4PiPand,4 6l il'oPimikitt* titiliorT4' c000 166 9f siheli:' 1 1 440. 1 ettt ' llvi*: ,, ' filie - :=4:4, nwiptiertaft.oll odr:l4rgo , :liOldingklB' *:: erif4e, aiia ilo'pe*,i,a,can eVei pass through ie : tressOri - and opl6i,layge buildings with!, Oikvfeellng In sorise ,oloppressionrnpnu the lungs from-iltelnoment leif-Ontering . , - Teu., - tilStionto tiny; reasonable: extent' seems to be n' impossibility in the,nounthoth edifices wch. PP?Ye-,ind,e.4 .iolijPg.. , .o - ,very many. iSit futworkers for theviilitin Weal. ' ' ciyit. mortri Atillllliitil*til'iLES. Morey, Mr. Morey, of Louislanai has7lintrodtfe,ed. anew civil rights bill, "In ‘ "some of the alleged imeetilatitutlorial clauses ikeSsed ..the 'Seratier''bill,." - : colleges,' private and '.eenaeieries established eielesiyely fOr . white, or colored maltitOtied . - enntributiciris, are tot to ba interfered with. • Itreentains alSo tki* numeity, section,- removing all disabilities retained - hitherto by the four; teentiv.amendment,to the ,Pederal Constitik tion: ..11, ig,ill its civil rights features anizt provement on Mr. Sumner's proposition, - brit - will require •consideratile amendment in sonic of its features before it will be like to pitss Congress. . • Vice Pieitdent Colfax hityipg .. 'deOlined to take the editorial 'elhair of th e New York- Tribune, the whole' arrangement aptieara to have gone beet, like the old woman's soap, to - fir. It is now reported •that Mr. Orton, the mnnager who has had ehayie ot the ne gotiations, bile effected a•sale of one-half the stock, or fifty shares, to Whitelaw Reid, at $500 ; 000. nobody believes in these enor• 'mous•figures actually 'passing hands; and if Whiten* . 'Mid i -who is said to have sold his four shares' at 410;0011 each, has bought this elephant at sna a pilee, he _sadly to be pitied. Right- 'years , ago Mr. -Reid was a poor' young :man scribbling for.esbtence like other,Washington correspondents here; and hence be must buy, if at nil, on Credit. With 480,00 legal• interest er annum to pay, he Would be weicome Wiwi? the nom inal owneribip of theleaks or bulkwhich now threatens to, go doWn the - bleaker% before any storm of the nii i ddic page overtakes it. ; .Snfar as the Reoublican p a rty _ is concerned, it is a matter . of eon• - ; gratulation that Mr:-Colfax was too shrewd to be taken in by the financial trick , whiCh was attempted ,to be 'sprung upon him,— These operators wanted his. spare cash, and still to control a majority' of the stock, or to sell it at five times its true "value. The stain , that hangs • upon the skirts . of the Tribune would always make it, feared and suspected, and the Administration. is much better off without the professed aid of any such - doubtful and unprincipled adjunct.— As niatters noiv:l3tand, the old subscribers will be transferred in great part to 'tile local or provincial press, and to such' metropoli tan sheets as - are sound in principle :and in practice. Good-bye, lost and fallenfriendl " If 'forever, still forever fare thee well!" Akattempt is being made to hitch :Utah to the bill admitting Colorado, in order to secure .friends of the latter in sufficient number to gain the admission...of theformer with a Constitution tolerating n01)701117. The scheme will, probably fail, as. Colcando will knock in vain for admissiodif she has to carry Utah onlier back. • Many of the be ier class of Democratic papera indorse the action bf President Grant in sustaining the action of the Federal Court of Louisiana_ and the pro tem. administra tion of Lieut. Governor Pinchbeck. The bitter-enders, hoWever, continue to howl their partisan feelings, as usual, being inca pable - of reasoning on any question that can be distorted into 'a phase of politics. A Letter from the est. • . ROCK Isl,Alirr, lil., D e. 14, 18'72. Dining the past few week your corres pondent has been , a nomad, although his home and heart have remained in the beau tiful valley of Cowanesque, in whose quiet ihadola linger many of his dearest recol leetionk• When his eyes looked last upon its scenes, the hillsides were putting on their autumn garments of crimson and gold, and the green of the meadows was fading with the early frosts of coming winter.— A night's -ride and the lightning express placed me hundreds of miles away ; by the early sunlight of the succeeding morning I was looking out into the busy bustling streets of 'the peat metropolis, In an era .when we transport our bodies by steam and our thoughts by the lightning, and ,are building great cities where are aggregated such masses and variations of htunttnity, a traveler, zigzagging here and there upon the railroads, , rambling in the streets of the town, eating his meat at hotels, and finding lids companionship at public pleas, soon gathers a full portfolio of sketches and fa iiidents that will bear rehersal and suggest pbAsant comments. A few notes' of this kind, that perhaps will be of readable in terest, f mayAcenalonally send for the Ant- TATOR Whilo 4/ D0079 road." If a traveler merely 4414 Along with the natural tide of daily events, bisexpertences, aside from an occasional adventure, w#ll mainly with commonplace incidents ; but if he will peer into the many little nooks and niches that May be found all along the thoroughfares of life,l4l will discover many curious interesting *Adige in art, liter-' MUM and bumanelts.rd6ter. Each of these has its gvnius; but how 'kitten we find tli;Lem in these sequested spots that, the -world knows little of and cures less abqut. Mey. are Jostled aside by the greed of Commeree, and live in an ideal t-phere of their own, peopled with their, awn ,creations. .Many of these obscure 'Souls sra highly 'iifted, and their researches and attainments are often remarkably interesting and instructive, yet ifiey live on unapkreciated by-the money geti ing world, arid their brain-toil is all in vai”. vish that we wore more appreciative of efforts of true genius, whereViir it J0i,.!.,.. - cf,tseett striving to work out its Ideals, r.l; ricer in' music, poetry or art. It is eol , .. on4able enough in its way that our American life id so =practical in its greatest efforts and its highest ambitions culminate in niontunents builded to mark the growth of its business industrie s _; hut if we had a lit tle more thmtinee _in our history, an old eagle now • and, then : upon our domains, more. cherished . isidmaxlm of heroic deeds nod )egendary fame brought down froM the centuries, more mementosof great geniuses 'Nilo have; bequeat . bed us treasura of art and poetry, and more 44eets to stir the' poetic , kelinitti*nd finer sentiments otsnur nature: we could find greateretijOyMenis lu:aearuh ltig out the elltaiic lietdities of our laid, and more' teereatfon and food for higher autl bow culture. 'lVe utey indeed get vatie inspiratlim from Natare, zany of her sublimest.w'orks and lovliest scenery are lwithin our`own - confines ; but she 10 not cklding full dress receptions at this season, nd .her summer trystlurplaces are -bkak itii !the frosty breath of Whiter. Hence e rityActcheSwill bemainly of tldngsvvithin-- hrteruo:4o,44 91 Awn: end mansions; hearts amt hoirtes. —4O 'Ff,ov Itave - come back and ironi'mAMAe, Prs: Ecrit - op. slew' days before the great fire the I 4411' to'do *Nribiltspieseiarvalecti,'Obitiigo;iiid4 TnITIDNE TRICKERY CAPITAL ITEMS ON THE ROAD. ' ;Y. EMS ' , lmka , g 4l frel*.o(4 l l t 4,lY-*4 O , lOl4 A*A r : : 1 3,0 4 4yrtekiiiO4:0 1 i,,Oe'''resV V ,,Kfr 4 -;1::- ' ,, 77t,'1 4." - i .l : 41-- f t , : qtYci: ~ , 4e',.W i l; :t-' ..- " .' 9 1 ,.. :, ~7. ,^Q:1( iq..hg& ,'''. 4 ;o' , 2;;fi r n,il7`i„l . . tlt.4 V .I.e 11 t" 1 -tc" " 4 •!,tl'f'-1' i '''' , - ,:fe::. 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DRUC+O4II7I. . . . . ~ ' • . . . , AI M% fiicilitLes for buying and hanilling Lterge quentlUesof amide eziablea thew to "offer !thlaust eg t• loweetlobblng prices. •In our retail depariment GOodi are: *old it a small advance ~ o re)_i•boi • • /"( AI A large stock of . ~.. ~• • • - I'ITER - 1 . 41116,‘ • - s: GLASS, ALL SIZES, &NOM AND D01114.S TRICK,' PAINTS ALL X.LNIM AND C440/18, . VABNISWES AND VAILNISII BRUSHES. A FULL STOUR. . I STONB, Transfer Ornaments, thtripixtra Pepekis, and Brushes for Carriage. and Cutter Orrhatni 4 full llne of-all clams of Goya mipertalning to otir tgiolute tßiit lan. 1.1849 RG. FALL AND WINTER GO PRY itQlr-QQX). *alma) of sou Esaants GROCERIES :IN ,',A*N.pAwc, CROCKERY NOT 130CWriviSil s*, '''T'-4Mitia:sitoesiciiga:Sit-VXM ,OO . 2 i MO ~~:LL A ME A - • 0 . 4 - , f x - 'oe me tbe =Mg . MESSI r r WHOLESALE ATID'EttTAII, RIIOIIB ISLIND - 1 . 1- . grisim 1./ Li A. rr 0 COME: STING Is the place to buy your to MID:MOUS tG liatlatign. iiii 12121 411 goodivs**l4. litefff I, I= ~~'~= MEE IVISI /. 7 .?..,; - - -g -: ::I;:,'f- ~ . „ -1....) X: 3 'XM.IPLC:S3E , OE Cie 1 ~ 1 l =I II 4.' CM I~