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F4CTAND FANCY
ASECDOTE OF GARRICK


In the early display OF G arrick' pog
ers at Drury Lane, a tragedy was brought
forward, in which he sustained the princi-
pal character of an aged king. Though
there was nothing particularly brilliant in
the play, it proceeded without opposition
till the fifth act, '-hen the dying monarch
bequeathes his kingdom to his two sons in
this line "And now, between you | be-
queath my crown
A wit in the pit exclaimed: "Ge goda
he's given them half a crown apiece"
The house was Immediately thrown into
a state of convulsion that not another
word of the piece could be heard
WOMAN As MONSTER.
A iiend in human FORM NJ. FIR. DuCuing,
| writing in PAnnes HLtl5tree about ie Club dss
Femmes Ia Sale de n Rsd1uls, has found
| the true reason why woman should not
vote. They are moi human. He say "Wo-
man does not live by her own life she Is
| either daughter, sister, wife or mother.
Consequently, ia the philosophical and
moral sense OF the word, she is 8 DECEASED
being monster, scientifically speaking
q woman. in our hours Of ease,
| What will you do with such Jetige.
THE LOGIC OF EARLY RISING.
"He who would thrive must rise at
| five" So says the proVerb though there
is more rhyme than reason in it; for if
lie who would thrive must rise at five,
it must naturally follow,
| lie who would thrive more must rise at four ;
and it will ensue, as consequence, that
He who would still more thriving be.
Must leave his bed at turn Of three:
| And who this latter would Guido,
| Will rouse him at the stroke Of two.
And, by way of climax 10 it all, it should
be held that
He who would never be outdOne
Must ever rise as soon as one.
But the best illustration would be.
| He who would flourish best of aIl,
| Should never go to bed at all.
A NOVEL ExPEDIEET.
Once upon q time, in one of the South
American Republics, the Minister of War
requested the Minister of the Navy to
place the navy of the Republic, consisting
of one schooner, at the disposal of the
troops, so that they might have transpor-
tation to tbs seat of war the Minister OF
the NAVY sent a courier to where.the
schooner was, with the necessary orders.
The Lord High Admiral wrote back as
follows:
your Excellency-It is impossible.
You must be aware that this is a schooner
of sixty tons. There is not room for three
hundred men on her"
The stern old salt in the navy Office
wrote back:
mpossible-noDseDse. Make room
Heave the tons overheard and bring tn,
soldiers"
r Any way to get them there, go they 60
} them there, was all this brave old sea
horse cared for.
: LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
, Buckle, in his History Of Civilization
l ssys that marriage does not deperd upo
e love, but upon the price Of corn. Il
evident that children have long know
this, and have even measured love as me
IS measure corn, as appears from their c1n
= mon expression: 81 love you two bushe
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crepaneies of the scene, which is alto
gether wild and peculiar. 1t is difficult to
realize that over this same ground once
passed-so slowly, laboriOusly and dan
gerOusly-the ox-trains Of the pioneer
emigrants; and only when this is real
lied are the full value of the Pacific rail-
read, and energy of the builders heartily
appreciated
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NEW ORLEANS.
Withdrawal OF Ihe TrGOEs-COHdGct of
Gen. Rousseau,

"ithuEA al Oh GHS kf6Ob~-sOuuGti Oh
Gen. Rousseau.
New ORLEANS. Nov. All the troops
sent 10 reinforce Gen. Rousseau during the
excitement previous to the election, have
been returned to their commands.
The Republican has leader defending
Gen. Rousseau from attacks Of the Radical
press North. 1t closes by saying that
Justice 20 Gen. Rousseau requires us 10 say
10 our friends that he was honest and true
in his endeavors TO protect life and prevent
a riIg
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E.ENSYLYAN7k.

General GIANT In EOUte I0 Washing
ton.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. = General
Grant arrived here al noon 10 day and was
uresented to large assemblage, but merely
bowed 10 the acknowledgement Of cheers
that greeted his appearance. lie left tJr
Washington st 1880.
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FOREIGN.

Destruction as the Portuguese FNpc.
ditiOn Ira Africa.
LISBON, Nov. Accounts are just re-
oeivsd here announcing the almost COM
plete auuihiIstiOn of the Portuguese eT-
petition in Hszambique, South Africa,
This expedition, which consisted Of about
coo so!dieIs WIKI artillery, etc, was sent
into the interior If that country, when Il
was attacked bv the natives and nearly al
the Eol5iers were killed and their artillery
EMAIL aims and ammunition captured
Barely sky escaped to The seacoast viii
tEeir live.
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rs war g.!. seer aat ES Ssl1fa bin itaiJ gin
~ roqItBag onlarc hahap -


Bat the roast beef and plum pudding in
which he az a child indulgeG, has had its
inevitable effect, and be cannot, shall not,
dare not escape it. 1t dogs his literary
footsteps like spectre or warning angel
pointing him to the paths of rectitude and
"Johnsonese" where he ought to plod, but
which in his soul he loathes. Thus it ia
ever with Eoglishmen who want to be
Frenchmen. Plum pudding, naipste, and
esprit are not for one and the same weak
mortal. No Englishman was ever yet
born in France, being at the same time of
pure Gallo blood and the "secoad birth, "
however eficacious in the theological, is
all humbug in the literary world. Ezekiel
Perkins, pure Yankee, brought up a; the
foot of Webster'5 spelling. book, never can
induce in us the belief that be is an Eng
lishman, and has written for the Saturday
Rsrieg and Pail NaH Gazette merely BY
writing his name thus: Ezekia-Perkins,
with a hyphen Blood is stronger than
even red ink. One might better be a
"blameles5 Ethiopian" than what ia known
in The Bowery as fraud" The blood Of
an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is nc
bile, might be stirred and shameI within
him, knowing that be ia transparent
| "fT7Ud /"
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ALABAMA.

MONTGOMERY, Nov. The result in
Aiabama is doubtful, with the chances in
favor of Seymour.
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FITSgI,pIEC OOVRTS


What DO we really know Of history
Can We depend on anything that is related
Of past times? Is il all a myth and a set
of falsehoods, and does the truth lie in
totally different directions TO those which
we have generally supposed? One begins
to suspect as much in the face Of the con-
tinual revolutions which sceptiCal lu-
uuirers are making in the traditions Of
our youth. Some centuries ago, a King Of
France called his history a liar; yet the
sitting process had not gone very far IN
those DAYS. In recent times, the German
historians, and orr English investigator,
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, have made
mincemeat of the early Roman annals, and
other writers have subjected the records Of
other countries to similar process. Doubts,
difficulties and questions, spring up on
every side. Did the Greeks perform such
miracles OF courage and heroism at the pass
of Thermopyle as we have always been
told? Were ROmulus and Remus any
thing like what is reported in the old his
tories Is the story Of the Horatii and
Curiatii true, or only fable? Did Cur
thus leap into the gulf, or was there any
gulf for him to leap into? Did Mutius
| ScayOla burn his right hand? Was the
heroic death Of Regulus Pigment? Was
| Nero really tyrant, or a much-misrepre-
sented ruler7 Did he wsutonly burn
Rome, or wisely rebuild it? Are the ac'
counts of the Silician Vaspers 80 greatly
exaggerated as to the substantially false
| Was Joan of Arc q saint or an imPo5ter
Was there any such person as Pope Juan
Did Bellisarius beg an obolom in the
streets of Constantinople ? Was the Alex
andria Library destroyed by the Caliph
| Omar? Did William Tell have that little
adventure with Gessler, which We al
love to see represented on the stage in Ros
sini's opera and Sheridan Knowles play
Is it ali falsehoOd that we are told con,
corning Hengist and Horsa, Rowena anc
Vertigein? Did Alfred burn the cakes OF
90 disguised into the Danish camp? Wa,
William Rufus killed by an arrow in th'
New Forrest? Was crooked. backed
Richard" at al! like what some historian
have affirmed Was CromwelPs deaC
body hung at Tyburn? And was it after
wards buried ANONYMOUSLY on the site 0
| Red Lion SQUARE?
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MORAL PERCEPTIONS.

"The next exercise was on the mind,
with Abercrombie's Philosophy Of the
Moral Feelings for q text book. The les
soa Of the morning vas in regard 10 sesti-
m0Gy, its CIedibility, direct 1ad circuI1 az
tial evidence.
Upon this they we're all at ses. The
Hindoo ia wanting in al sense Of moral
obligation. His sacred 6o0k-hi5 Bible
teaches him nothing; his priest sets hin
an example in dupIicity. He vii! never
trust his dispute with his neighbor to tie
arbiirament of a judge, for the judge has
ever an open palm for him who will pay
the highest. Testimony IA nothing.
a missionary who was travelling
through the country was obliged one day
/ 10 lie in a stream, his head only above the
/ surface Of the water, to protec; himself
| from the heat Of MONDAY, and while there
| the people Of the neighboring village came
| with their disputes and made him ;hsir
| Judge, accepting his decisions. They have
| perfect confidence in European, but none
/ 10 HindOO Justice. They do no; wish 10
! see natives, no matter how learned they
| may be in the law, put upon the bench.
! But to the lesson:
CHOW would you get at the trulh in
/ court of law" l asked.
I'VE mast make witnesses sse3r upon
what they hold to be most sacred was the
| reply.
| "'What woult that be"
f. Some would swear upon the Shas;5as,
others upon the Ganges.
"'Do the Shastras make men better or
does the Gauges make men morally re-
sponsible? -
NO, sir but, if men believe them to
be sacred, We must swear them on those
things."
Another said that we must judge Of the
credi5ility Of the witness from his previous
character, while the third said that We
must judge by the general appearances OF
the man
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Lord Lytton's new play, The Right
full Heir" just brought out at the London
Iyceum, is pronounced a fiat failure. A
correspondent says of it: ct is long
agony, in five acts, lighted up with little
love, but not enlivened with one bit of hui
NOR. There ia not even smile in the
whole piece. Lord Ly!ton should take
lesson of Mr.. Boucicault, whose best pieces
mingle love, tears and laughter like an
April day. There are some nice poetic
passages, as in the Lady Of Lyons ;" but
the heroine has nothing to do but hug
ging, which, in five acts, gets tireso me
10 a mere spectator. Mr.. Bandmann ENDS
it hard work, aud 80 gets anxious anC
| oyerdoes it-rants, in fact
Forty Canadian girls have been importe'
to work in the Haywood Rubber Factory
at Colchester, Connecticut.
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WmMnGroH, Nov. 7.-CongressiOnal
delegation stands i've Republicans and two
Conservatives.
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j. SIi,soui lately fudge had before
HIN his own application for a divorce.
After hearing testimony enough to satisfy
him, he granted the application.
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MATHEMATICS.

passing into the room occupied hy The
second class we found them reciting in Al
gebra-one of their number at the black
board demonstrating q problem. This
class was composed Of Toys from twelve to
sixteen years Of age, one or two perhaps
being older. As test Of their ability 10
apply their knowledge OF mathematics 10
practical life, inquired how, if they were
building a house, they would ascertain
mathemalicaiIy the length Of the raiters Of
the roof. The answer was given quickly
and correctly. The Hindoes excel n
mathematics, and command high salaries
as clerks and accountants. Many who
have obtained an education in this school
are having a salary Of twelve hundred dol
lars per annum. This ia the stimulus 10
the natiye mind, and there is no need Gov
of urging parents to seEd their boys to the
mission schools, which are preferred to
those established by The government, not
withstanding the mlagnEries make the
Bible a text. book, sndsteach the doctrines.
ofthe Christian religion IS laid down in the
calechisms Of the Westminster diYines.
"Besides having the care Of the seilool,
Rev. Mr.. Walsh deVOtes his time o
preaching, TO preparing books for the pres,
and editing paper and managing -prihi-
ing Office. The mission has been u snc-
| Cezsfnl one"
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GEORGIA.
yOyyTn CAROLINA.

AUGUSTA, Ga, Nov. ESTIMATED
Democratic msiority 10000.
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The statue Of Washington in Rich
mond, Va, is very shaky, and the people
fear It will tumble down.
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COMFORT AND NAVIETE.

Englishmen sometimes glorify roast beef
and plum pudding at the expense of
Freachmen, by saying the French Ian
gurge has no word for comfort" and has
been obliged to take the Eogtish word
The heavy English, however, has no word
equivalent to the French aairste, which
makes the two languages at quits at least
This weary ro1nd of life furnishes a more
amusing spectacle than an Englishman-
one Of ''my countrymen"-a true.born
BritOn, who assumes French vivacity, like
Matthew Arnold, for instance. 1t agoni-
yes him, it goes to his heart that he ia az
Englishman. He illustrates the German
song:
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STATISTICS OF IRISH PRIsOEs.-in the
year 1867, the number Of persons, exclud-
ing debtors, confined in The prisons of Ire
lard was 30OO7, being three per cent.
greater than in 1868. The number of
males committed was 1888, nearly s per
cent. more than in 1866; females, Il, ia,
nearly per cent. fewer. But the daily
average Of these criminal prisoners was
slightly less than in 1866. The 3O.O67
commitments included 6645 drunkardP,
34lS males, 1927 females; and there were in
the year 1924 persons sent to Bridewells
for this otfense-5477 mlles and 2O41 fe-
males. The returns showing the state OF
education on commitments in 1867, ex-
hibit a considerable increase in the num-
Der able to read and write; in 1866 it
was only al per cent, Of the males and II
ofthe females, but in 1907 it included 40
per cent. Of the males and l9 of the ie-
males. The commitment Of Juveniles not
more than l6 years old, and who were
1861 in number, show an increase of nearly
20 per cent. over 1866.
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HISDOO COslIOGONY .

"O0e OF them gave, at my requss, 81.
did 10. 6eileve 4 sad thai ihe world vas
ronnd, that it reYOlved around the sun,
that the planets were kept in motion under
The Law Of g-lvitation. Their ideas Of dis
lance and magnitude are limited. Thee
never have traveled-nevgr have been
away from their native civ. The full
moon to them Is no larger than dinner
plate. The ninety-fVe millions Of space
between Us and the sun Is an Incompetent
sibls distance, bat they could conceive OF
the solar system, Of balls Ehirlirg in space
around a central orb.
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and half" The statistical lover does not
now say, as he used to: Amanda, I love
thee-but Amanda, provisions are cheap.
There is TO telling what fine novels and
plays a man thoroughly imbued with this
idea might produce, and particularly would
he give u good songs. How imaginative
would be one like this:
The heart bowed down with price Of beef.
10 weakest hopes will cling.
With the melancholy refrain:
For beefsteak is the only friend.
That grief can call its oW-Own.
A fine tenore might do wonderful execu.
ton with this.
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF THE srxFs
DR.. Davy says that the average tenn
perature OF women is between 81 and 971
degrees, and that of men is between 80 and
973 degrees. This is probably the reason
why men, in love affair, have to do most
OF the counting, as women are naturally
colder than men, and need the infusion Of
what female novelists call "male fire" A
heat Is now considered only a mode of
motion, SO emotion must be considered onIy
mode OF heat, and love must be measured
with thermometer. DR.. Holmes savs g.
Allen bloods develope strange currents
when they How near each other, with only
the film that separates lip and cheek be-
tween them" This is caused by an average
difference OF two degrees of heat. As SCI
ence advances the world becomes less and
less iit to live IN. Christians and cabbages.
truths aud turnips, love and lollypopa, are
measured with the same measuring rod.
The world is no longer what Hamlet
thought tia temple-but an analytical
chemists laboratory, filled with the putrid
remains of dissected beautiful things. Nav
the devil fig away with scieuce-one song
of Heine's is worth it ALL This is said not
to philosophers. but to men whose average
temperature is between SO and 99l degrees.
THE BISHOP OF coRK's jokes.
Bishops are not generally of a iocoss
character; the usual qualities teud in other
directions. Perhaps this is the reason
that when they try to be witty they are not
always fortunate. One of the most inyet-
crate punsters of this class and degree of
success Is Dr.: Gregg, the Bishop of Cork.
OIe Of his jokes has traversed the globe as
an evidence Of episcopal keennes5, delicacy
and pathological knowledge. It was when
" punning"-shalI we call it SON the
meaning Of ]. F. Maguire's name, that he
called him ga son ola b" Another
nearly as good, andlevelled also at politi-
cal opponent, was got of" recently in
Dublin. Lecturing to a number of young
men on what they might see in their city,
he spoke of sermons from stones" and
then told them that there was one stone
from which they could never hear anything
good, and that was from Gladstone. One
hardly knows which to wonder at most,
the stupidity of the joke or the ingenuity
with which twas introduced in a lecture
from which its absence would never be felt.
Perhaps there is some excuse for the old
man in the fact which he announced, that
the SHOWS of seventy winters are on his
head. But neither age nor the episcopacy
excuses license in needlessly insulting
political opponents or want of point in
jokes
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LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

Buckle, in his History Of Civilization,
Gays that marriage does not deperd upon
love, but upon the price Of corn. II is
evident that children have long known
this, and have even measured love as men
measure corn, as appears from their CON-
mon expression: 81 love you two bushels
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NEW YORK.

One of fhe CurIOsitIes of the Times
A Radical Committee ON Election
Frauds.
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I FOCAL. ITEMS.
aAyIRDAal ilis ~ ING, ia sEpT. 1s, 1859
: "a, &, Tern Tern Nominations.
ssTO TnFvoTERs OF onANeEpuao

esTO THE VOTERS OF oRANeEBuRa
Atm meeting Of tho Democracy of Orange
ourg tor ithes purpose of making municipal
eominations, held on Saturday, the 9th inst,
emo following resolutions were adopted,
Resoloea That tho Intendant and Wardcns
OF Orangeburgt whose term of Office III about
20 expire aud the late Town Marshall deserve
she cordial approval of their felow-citizens
for the zealand efficiency which has distin-
guished their administration of the affairs of
ths Corppration, and we tender to them q
hearty hssswell- DONE,
Resolbea, That in the Orangcburg Munioi-
pal Administration, tho Democracy are of opin-
on,thatsthe following should be announced as
ehe policy of the party.
hsslA rigid economy in the administration Of
ToYnrafairs li$f { if
2t TAU strict attention to the health of tho
town, and the care Of the Streets, and the pre-
servation Of law and order ir the Corporate
limits, ~,
s.isA liberal spirit in regard to Town pro
gress. and q proper encouragement Of all insti-
tutions for tho public benefit
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ia;KI.IO;ii The Crops.

We understand that the oaterpilarfis produ-
DING fearful ravagds in somoi parts of tho Dis
triot. Some Of the finest Cotton. crops have
been reduced to ono-half. Cannot somo plan
'tas, inform US Of the best means of destroying
ahsse invading ar,nies7