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, 1869-11-27

IT is an exquisite and beautiful
thing in our nature, that when the
heart is touched aud softened by
some tranquil happiness or affection
ate feeling, the memory of the dead
comes over it most powerfully aud
irresistably 1t would almost seem
as though our better thoughts and
sympathies we're charms, in virtue OF
which the soul is enabled to h5id
some vague and mysterious inter
course with the spirits Of those whom
we dearly loved in life. Alas J how
often and how long may lhesepatieut
angels hover about US watching for
the spell which is SO seldom uttered,
and so soon forgotten.
, 1869-11-27

A GUEST at one of our hotels the
other evening was discovered BY the
proprietor rather tenderly embracing
the chambermaid. The landlord re-
buked him somewhat angrily, and
wanted to know the reason of such
conduct "Simpy obeying the rules
of the house" said the guest, point
ing to a card tackled to the room
door. Don't it read, 'Any neglect
Of servants should be reported at the
Office p l don't want to be reported
at the office for neglect of servants,
do II"
, 1869-11-27

The STEVENS BATTERY.-It has
been discovered that the Stevens
Batserys which il bnildiog under
General McClellan's superintendence
will be 25O feet in length, 80 feet 10
breadth, and will draw 81 feet of
water. It is to be plated with four
inch iron plates, and her decks will
be made entirely of that metal. This
marine monster will carry four guns
of great calibre, which will throw a
solid shot weighing 700 pounds.
She will be completed 10 1871.
, 1869-11-27

A FEW days ago gentleman visiS
ted Wooster, Ohio, looking for a site
on which to build paper mill. AS
soon as his errand was known, the
business men of the place, instead of
raising their rents aud the price of
lots, at once proposed 10 furnish him,
free of cost, a suitable site aud q
steam engine to run his machinery
He accepted the proposition, aud
will erect mill that will cost about
SS5, ,000
, 1869-11-27

A Rev Mr.. Smith. Of Illinois, came
home without his wife, some time
ego, and with tears told his friends
that she had fallen into a brook and
drowned. Since that time i: has
been found that the water is not
deep enough to drown a person, and
the'tereaved husband is in Jail.
, 1869-11-27

EITHER the examinations for ad,
mission to Harvard aud Yale are
yearly becoming more severe, or the
candidates are less carefully fitted
than in former years. Not more
than one third Of the applicants for
admission to either College this year
entered free of conditions.
, 1869-11-27

In the midst Of stormy discus
sion, gentleman rose to settle the
dispute. Waving his hand msjesti-
cally, be began; 'GenllemeD, all /
want IL common sense Exactly,
interrupted another, that is pre-
cisely what you do waot.' ts.I s
, 1869-11-27

A LADY and gentleman admiring
a poplar tree, the latter CALAMITY
remarked, If I add you toit, it will
become populari Better add u.s.
she replied, 'aYa it win become pop
ulOus' He took the hint, and mar
ried her soos after.
, 1869-11-27

A STREET beggar in Portland asks
aims for the purpose ofgettine some
thing to eat, saying that be had
tasted over twenty-four hours, and is
in a'starviug a condition. A benero-
lent individual took him to an ealing
house recently and invited him to
sail in.' The starving man aston.
isbed his would>be benefactor by
calling for a plate of sardines aud
a glass OF wine.
, 1869-11-27

-c1e - Wv AoA NAo auA WV III
the pair. Sis9i N.t r'fo s-s t1i
A Miss Cutler has been appointed
Superintendent Of Public Ins truotion
in Rochester. Minn.
The thirty.fflh Ohio Volunteer
Infantry will hold reunion at
Hamilton, November 25ih. ~
Robert C. Yates, business part
Der Of The late Gov. Tod ia the coal
trade. died ia Cleveland on the 22d
inst. 8
A question which is at presen.
troubling the oountry--sWhete would
we have been if the ark had been
lostY" .s i,ai
New York jSiryiug to make the
EpgIish tteeple-chsse fashionable,
but, like cricket, it is not likely to
take.
At Mortified College, Minnesota,
a number of students have declined
beginning their studies until the
tbrashiLg season is over
Ifs young lady has a thousand
acres of land, the young men are
apt to conclude that there are sufi-
ceot grounds for attachment.
: The N. Y. Express says that
about twO-thirds of the boys IN that
city who go to school on coming out
light a pipe or a cigsr.
The Fourth Ohio Infantry will
meet at Marion, Ohio, on the 9th
of November, for the purpose of
holding their annual reunion.
California exults in the possess
ion of a copy of the Declaration of
Independence on yellow silk in the
Chinese language.
The Lynn Reporter says that
young girl, only eighteen years of
age, was carried to Deer Island
Hospital recently, suffering from
deliriuu tremens.
10 describing a new hotel Just
opened on7Fifth avenue, New York,
to. be conducted on the European
plan, the Sun says the proprietors
all part their hair in the middle.
Providence was enlivened the
other evening BY the sight of young
women boxing the ears of her lover,
on the street, because he had escorted
another lady home.
PAtsey Morley, an ex,pugilist, fell
one hundred and nine feet iuto a
mine, in Nevada, the other day, and
the local paper thinks it "hardly
possible for him to recover.P
Charles Kingsley says that the
average woman is so much better
educated than the average man, thai
when they are admitted to the suf'
fruge the standard of the voter will
be raised.
The New York World permits It's
correspondents to call the members
of the Grand Army of the Republic
the mea who fought for and saved
the Uniou-'a set Of scalawags'
Fisk doesn't know where be lives.
No more do people know how he
lives. but they will all know bis
residence after a while. He's a mere
whittier for Gould now, but he can't
"cut' Styx.
Edwin A. Teall, editor aud pub-
Usher of the Romeo, Mich, Observer
abscouded one day last week, carry
ing away with him $4,000 of money.
be bad fIched from the citizens of
that town by borrowing aud other
wise.
The preeieus stone, as large as a
lemon, recently found 10 Australia,
has turned out to be a piece of crys.
tallized quartz, and the Albany
Evening Journal congratulates Fisk,
Jr., that the immense diamond on
bis shirt>front is still without a rival.
Tho New York Tribune says of
Mr.. JohUson's defeat; "Au ex-Pres.
ident defeated for Senator, and de-
fested by the kind of people that
seem to be uppermost in Tennessee,
is q sight for gods and men. To be
beaten by Cooper is like being re.
jected by lady who prefers your
valet!" =
IL -
, 1869-11-27

A furiously written epistle was
found posted on The window Of the
San Francisco Bank Of California q
few mornings since. 1t stated that that
the writer was at the head Of 1OV
men sworn 10 amassicree every Chi,
0 amsn and Chinawoman in the city
of San Francisco & 10 miles Round
a bout if they didn't leave within
fifty days.
, 1869-11-27

The whisky business came TO =
dead lock in Kansas City, lhe other
dsy. because the Internal Revenue
Assessors ran out of stamps, and no
barrel couId be opened without one.
A specisl messene y bad to be hent
to Iesyeuworth for & few stamps to
prevent riot.
, 1869-11-27

A man 10 Norwich has. dOmesti-
Gated . lot Of toads, which keep bis
garden free from insects.
, 1869-11-27

NEW GOLD MIEEs.-There Is
great exoisememt in Iuscon, Of rich
2 ssold mines discovered n Sonora
, 1869-11-27


SivermAn's party was lfGe IN aqualiiy
and resepbled ysry, much the Alder
gulch, Montana gold. Very little, If
Apyi mioihg would be- done at Ehs Ses,
kaShewan for the remainder Of the sea-
son as the thermometer was ten degrees
below zero when the parry len. sat
~------c>-~-~->-@--r- isiiT
THE LEGEND OF STRAsBURG
CATHEDRAL.-There is aquaint old
tradition, which comes down ~ Us
from ancient times, lettering uodsr
its load of age and replete with the
superstitions of the past, On the
borders of the Alsatia there lies a
great city, dating its foundation far
back to the old Roman days, and
rich 10 those architectural relics Of
the olden time which are ever 50
dear to the antiquary.
"Qreint oGspring Of CENTRAL years, the
town of StrRsburg stands,
Rich in the lore of mighty past, in
legend and in story;
Rich in the highNhearted, honest sons,
counlry's truest glory;
Rich 10 its old Cathedral Church, with
clustering ivy spread, -t
The Santa Croce of the land, where
sleep her noble dead
The story runs thot once 10 every
twelve e-month, on the eve of St.
John, when the quiet burghers of
that ancient city are wrapt in peace.
ful slumber, and when the hour of
midnight clangs out from the loud
tongued bell which hangs in the old
Cathedral tower, that the spirits Of
the stone>masons, by whose hands
the sacred pile was erected, arise
from the tomb and once more revisit
the scene of their former labors. Up
from the gloomy crypt, along the
columned aisles aud vast dim nave,
across the white cleaning marble
Aoor, checkered with ghostly shadows
and stream from pictured oriels, past
the stone carved statues that keep
watch and ward with Their swords
and sceptres, comes the loug train, Of
death>like, night wandering shadows.
Clad in their quaint old medieval
costume, the masters with their com.
passes and rules the craftsmen with
their plumbs, squares and levels !; the
apprentice lads with their heavy
gavels all silently greeting their
companions, old and dear, with time
honored salute and token as of yore.
While the last noie of the deep
mouthed bell is still trembling in the
air, reverberaling from arch to arch
aud dying away amid the frozen
music OF the traceried roof-forth
from the western portal stream the
shadowy throng. Thrice around the
sacred edi6ce winds the waving,
floating train, brave old Erwin him
self leading the way, while far above.
up above the sculptured saints who
look down upon the sleeping city, up
where at the very summit Of the
feathery fairy-like spire, the image
of the Queen. of Heaven stands, there
floats a cold, white-robed female
form, the fair Sabiua, old ErWin's
we'll beloved child, whose fair hands
aided him. in his work. In her
right hand a uallet, in her left a
chisel, she fits among the sculptured
lace work Of the noble spire, like
the Genius of Masonry. With The
first faint blush. Of dawn the vision.
fades, the phantom shapes dissolve,
and the old masons return to their
sepulchres, there to rest until the
next St. Johns eve shall summon
them to earth. 4fn y g. Sfifd
, 1869-11-27
NbrrBERsso.,


sAsKArcHKEak MIxEss-Fron tbs Esa,-
Norihpssi, published ~ Deer. Lodge
City, Montans, we learn that parry Or.
prospeesors. beaded by Mr.. Shpernad,
Feturned 10 Virginia City on the leth ef
October from a prospecting rip nofth>
ward TO The SaskatnheWan minRsa They
report fAvoraoly Of the country, bgt
that the mines, which are 10 British
Ameriea, are worked almost exclusively
by.half, breeds, and ihs Bsiush reused
% sell provisions 10 citizens Of The Uni.
ted States and plsyed hei 'fteeitodl'
game. The distance 70 the mines, vhioh,
are 10 the neighbofhood Of Fort Edmon.
ton, is about 4io miles from Foft Bea>
toni aud the ,Fichest mineral region yet
discovered 10 that country is 200 mlles
from the mouatdln source of The SAakkt
chewan river. The parties nov IN The
mines under The British receive their
goods hon the States over The nortbefu.
route from St~Pppl, .aod eonsequsuuy
goods taken into the mines from Fort
Benton, Montana, can be sold CD eAper
than the British merchants can afford TO
let their goods 60 at, OF account OF TIE
difference in,diGaues7 and cheaper rates
Of freight BY means OF commpnioation.
The party were uovices at mining but
cleared sir dollars per day TO the, man
while they were there. They reported
money plenty AZ The diggings as dho
Blaekfset Indians, and that Aminer wAs
as likely to have as much Of one as. Of
the other. The gold brought back BY
SiNernAn's party was s,fAe IN qualify
and resepbled very. much. the Alder
gulch, Montana gold. Very little, If
apyi mioing would be- done at Hhe Ses>
kaShewan for the remainder Of the sea>
son as the thermometer was ten degreeS
below zero when The party len. eaI
, 1869-11-27
FURNITURB,

NOTICE.--C. N. .OAKTER COL LECrS
IN all Claims and Demands on the United
States, and % any State, such as Bounty,
Strip or Vouchers, Back Pay, Lost Horses
AID Spoilation Claims, Pensions and In
dian Vouchers. Obtains Patents, Land
"asnnts and Pensions.
oFsIcE-No, 10 cartet's building. 4o;sm
, 1869-11-27

The following Characteristic letter
from Marx Twain was read at 1,
banquet given to the California Pi.'
Oneers 10 New York on tho 18th Of
October;
, 1869-11-27

Tho New York Tribune says of
Mr.. JohUson's defeat; "Au ex-Pres.
ident defeated for Senator, and de-
feated by the kind of people that
seem to be uppermost in Tennessee,
is q sight for gods and men. To be
beaten by Cooper is like being re.
jected by lady who prefers your
valet!" =
New-York tribune., 1869-03-04

foreign manufacturer evades at the average
one-third of the tariff 10y undertaking. his
goods by deceptiye invoices, This is the more
remarkable rs all our non-protectye dutleS
(on Teas, Coffee, &c) are specinc' levieu ny
the pound or bushcl. Every item III tie
Russian Tariff is specific except the single one
of clothing, which is made dd rdIorem, because
it is composed of such diverse materials that
no specific tariff would be equitable. lt must
also be borne in mind that the purchasing
power OF money relatively to other con'nodi-
ties averages twice as great as III the unlted
States, which doubles the rate OF Russian fro-
lection above indicated that our burden Oh
annual interest is four times us great as that Oh
Russia, and the average cost OF production
is enhanced by this item of taxation IN that
proportion; that the balance of Riisslas foreign
trade is largely in her favor, while ours Is, IN
cluding our export Of gold, $6O,0OO,COO per an
mum against us. Russia has no warehouslng
system whereby British importers are invited
to store their goods, the Government loalllng
them the duties, until they choose to throw
them ON her market, in competition with her own
manufacturers or reexpOrt them free OF duty.
The design of the Russian Finance Minister
is announced to be to render the new tariH
highly Protective, but q source OF revenue,
i'm those features in which it was previously aDs0-
lutcly prOhbitOry. But The Times dolorolsly
informs us that "thess reductions convey
"very erroneous impression of the new Russian
tariff, which still remains one of the least
Liberal Ii. G., most ProIeeiiye) in Enrope," and
"four or five times higher on all the principal
groups of merchandise than tlnt of Austria,
{" the most modern Protective tariff of Europe"
The Times euogizes the free-trIde tariff OF
Austria, but neither the rottenness OF the
finances, the decline in the military strength
nor the disorganizaton of industry in Austria,
are nattering testimonials to the success of It's
policy when compared with the results OF
Protection in Prussia, France, and Russia.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-04

Mr.. johnson began his career rs Provisional
Governor by initiating Moses; as Yice-Presl-
dent by initiating Bacchus; as President by
initiating Ancient Pistol, who never breathed
out more OF more harmless threatenings and
slaughter. Moses, Bacchus, and Ancient Pistol
have now all lost favor in his Excellencys
eyes. He appears before the curtain TINS morn
ing for the last time, and does 1t III the clothes
of George Washington Like many another In
different performer, however, he cannot shake
off his late characters sufficiently to enter into
the spirit of the present one; and so we find
ourselves constantly at q loss to determine
whether it is Moses, or Bacchus, or Ancient
Pistol who is masquerading before us in the
court costume of the Father of his Country.
Mr.. johnson has got tired of sending fruit
less messages to Congress, so he discharges
this one at the unofending heads of the peo-
ple, who certainly never did him any harm
excepting to refuse to vote for him. lie IN
forms them that he has lost faith IN appeals TO
the country against the encrOachments OF
Congress-which is not to be wondered at
considering the luck he has had with his
appeals, from the days of the Philadelphia
Convention down. He has made up his mind
that the war was SIupenuOuS anu uCPlOi"p4O
mistake-which explains his constant acting as
if he thought the other side in it had won
He is desirous of burying all hostile
feelings in the grave of the past-but
he has thought better of his fiercely-
announced determination to fill that grave
also with the bodies of great many
traitors. He tells us that he has refused kingly
powers-which we take to be coy hint to
Spain that he only needs a little cOaxing. Be
fore setting out for that new field of renown'
he leaves with us his pocket copy of the Con
stitution, and the flag with thirty-six stars. He
warns us how easily we may lose our liberties
to tyrannical Congress-by pointing us to the
solemn and startling fact that, in spite of his
protestations, we elected the Congress and
wouldn't elect him. Naturally and fttingly he
thereupon closes by terrible story of the
deeds this Congress has done, and call upon
the tOngue-tied ardon-brokers TO tell at whose
hands he has received any bribe. Exit party
by the name of Johnson.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-04
amnstmmts. &c.

RooTY's THEATRR TwentY-third-st., between tlLtn I
I'D SsbGvss This Evening IL" Romeo and Juliet h' M
BOsth- - - The
v,aseh SPY " and "Thv wept Of the Wshtouwsh' MIC N
BRooKIYN ACADEMY or MUSIC.-IhS Evening aV
s-Itisn Opera: "Fsust" Mss Louisa kellogg -
RpouGUAM's THEATER, Twenty-f0urth-st. = ms
psnirg - Jenuv lind" Irish stew ana focANON
Nrs Jsanls Eimbsl and Mr. Joho Brougham
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN, Twenty hird-st.,
corner Foarbsye-Dsy and Benng-Seeond winter EamMuon OF
Piciures aud sculpture
NEw-YoRK Circus Fourteenth-st.-Ihis Evening
a. ,t7-Disrny Of Athletic skill The Brothers RSare and Nee
Roland, Surkusy. ETC. =, -
NnIo's GARDHN-Ths Evening at s." The Forty
Thieves: or Striking OIL Family Jars" Lydia Ihonpson' bure'l
Troupe.
OLYMPIC THEATER - This Evening at S[vi - ne Ilo
Second oums Of "HumPty Duupty" Mr G. L. foI hHe
SAN FRANcrsCO MINsTREIs, No. 5Sj Broadway-
This Eyeuus--" The Siege Of The Blondes
THE TAMMANY.-Tammany Hall. Fourteenth-S'-
This Evening at 7l-VaneiieS 20
WAIIACE's THEArER. - This Evening aI o.
Much Ado about Nothing" Mr. Lester "a@eh
WAyERIEY TnEATER, No. 40 Broadway lhiS
Rvrbing H." Lscrra BOrga, VI u n AAI''S wv W ~
Ths Bisc Holt Burleslus Troupe.
WoODs MUSEUM AND METROPOLITAN IHEATEER ~ AT y:
Rro,Jwsf and Tbirttrst-Aanee At ooeE: lIon ana we
Nnrlaerh Troupe This RveBnS a. t-Ihe cket az
M ,d Mrs Poreuoe Throughout The Dsyh Engts ana FoO
Comhh stioB Grsud Menagee Of Living Wild A"mAS
New-York tribune., 1869-03-04
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New-York tribune., 1869-03-04

The condition of some of the more important
public business at the hour of going to press
is MS follows: The Army Reduction bill las
Just passed, the National Bank bill is likely
to fall the House and Senate Conference
managers failing to agree. An effort i'
to be made to get through the Whisky and To-
bacco sections from the general Tax bill. The
Indian Appropriation bill seems likely to fail,
the House Managers in the Conference Com
mittee firmly and wisely maintaining their
ground against the large items for doubtful
treaty stipulations. The Deficiency, MiScella-
neous and Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Appropriation bills are in the hands of Confer
ence Committees, and may be reported at any
hour. Very little has been done during the
greater part of the night session, aud much
time has been lost throughout the past
eighteen hours on unimportant measures
Congress is likely to adjourn with little to
boast of, save that it has killed great many
unwise schemes has passed bills for reducing
the Army and strengthening the Public Credit
has taken the last step toward guaranteeing
Impartial Suffrage, and has voted quito Us
many appropriations as are needed
New-York tribune., 1869-03-04

The Neo- Haren Register is trying to prove
Jefferson tho father OF Democracy lhey soy
ait is a wise child that knows It's own ia'her
Democracy was always wise. But now Tue se'' ~.
,orld onsp his ewes 10 see Fernando Wood and John
Morr,,ey olaspug his knees and calling him father
The Hon. De Witt C. Senter, Speaker OF ."o
Senate OF Tennessee, was duly installed IoVerno y
s,a,o "a ,ha successor of the Hon william g. Brownlo"'
ON the a5h ult Mr. senter delivered brief inausu'A
address, in which ho paid handsome tribute 10 1o''
Brownlow and said his best efforts would be deVo'Su ~
the service OF tho stats 10y pronotingihd pfesoNne
peace order enforcement Of the laws, security "i n
and property In all parts OF the State alike MI
G.. Nelson OF Washington County has been eee''a
dent OF the Senate In place Of Mr. sentcr Tue LoN"
ture voted TO adjourn Monday, March l.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-04

for fifteen years in the Albany Penitentary);
that Alvah Blaisdell, lately convicted of the
grossest whisky frauds, is promised pardouj
that McIAren, another whisky convict,
is likewise warranted in anticipating
Executive clemency; that Garniss Z. Ba-
ker, convicted of making false entries
in the books Of the Tradesmen's National
Bank, is in the same category; and that the
last of the assassination conspirators are pretty
sure to have their free papers sent them to-
day, adorned with the autograph Of the man
they helped to make President. These, of
course, are only the more prominent cases. 1t
will take week or two for the reporters to
master the work of Mr. JOhnsOn's giant mind
yesterday on this important public interest.
New-York tribune., 1869-03-04

the snirit of Cromwell When the treason OF
President Johnson led our friends to feel
thot il might become necessary to seek a sue
cessor by the process Of impeachment
two Republican Senator's were deemed
fitted for the Office. In calmer llnes
we have little doubt that the Presidency OF the
Senate would have fallen upon Mr. Fessenden
of Maine; but the danger ahead, the necessity
of n perfect assurance OF fealty to extreme
Radicalism, our bitter experience with the
recreant Johnson, controlled the Judgment OF
n disappointed and troubled party, and led to
the selection of Mr.. Wade. This compliment
shows the real value of the man to the Ke-
publican party. He will not be remembered as
the President of the Senate de was not q
parliamentarian, nor n loglcian, nor skilleu
in refining phrases and constituting odd points
of law. He was simply bold and blum
" Ben Waden from first to last Grave Sen
otors have sometimes been restless under his
rude decisions, but they felt that if disaster
came. and the safety of the Republican party
should rest upon him, as its President lie
would be as true as the rocks of bis natVe
Massachusetts. '|.r ...' 90,
And now that he goes from us, retirement
must be welcome to one OF his years anu
labors. We wish him peace and happiness, the
rest that must be sweet after so mnch unrest,
the love, the confidence, and the admiration OF
his people. 1t will be many years before
we have a truer Senator than old Ben Wade''
With Characteristic zeal ho tells us that
upon leaving his position as Senator he VIII
give his best efforts to accomplish the ratinca-
ton of tbe Suffrage Amendment by Ohio. lie
can crown a life of integrity and honor by no
nobler effort Long may it be before it comes
to him to pass from his career of noble ana
intrepid service TO the rewards of higher
and purer life