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Which was received and the resolution adopted
On motion, the report was ordered published in
the minutes and that portion OF said report rela-
tive to refusal of the policeman to make an arrest
was referred to Committee on Police.
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The ordinance entitled "An ordinance to con-
struot a sewer in William street, from Madison
avenue to Catharine street, which had been read
twice and adopted on its first and second reading
at meeting of the City Council held April 81 1862
and ordered to be published two weeks in the
Union County Herald, taken mp.
Annexed TO this ordinance was an affidavit made
by one of the publishers of the Union County Her
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Augtssaan Ages.

From The Saturday Reuieto.
Under what kind of political circumstances
does genius most flourish? ? This is very
old question, and it is question which will
never allow of any one trenchant answer.
There are so many different kinds and de-
grees of genius, there are so many different
ways of thinking as to what genius is, that no
one general rule can be laid down about it. A
great poet and a great discoverer in physical
science are alike men of genius, but their
genius is so unlike in kind that we cannot
safely infer that the state of things which is
the most likely to produce the one is also the
most likely to produce the other. Again,
there are many different kinds of poetry, each
alike allowing the display of genius, but of
which one seems most likely to flourish in one
state of society and another in another. And
then how do we estimate genius? BY positive
or by relative results? Take, for instance,
the case of inventions. Which really shows
the greater genius, the man who brings a
thing to the highest possible point of perfec-
ton, or the man who, long before, had been
strictly the inventor of the first rude form of
the thing? The first rude kind of boat, for
example, seems ludicrously clumsy beside
the latest improvements in navigation. Yet
one may be tempted to say that no author OF
any later improvement in navigation showed
so much of daring and original genius as the
man who first set any kind of boat atioat on
the water. The one was strictly an inventor;
the other simply worked ON the inventions
of another. But, again, two answers might
be made to this kind of argument II might
be said, with some plausibility, that the
chances are that the inherent genius of the
two men was kindred and equal, and thst
each, in the circumstances OF the other, would
have done what the other did. Or again,
it may be said that most likely there
never was any invention in the strictest sense
of all; that the earliest stages OF any art are
Just as much matters of gradual development
as the latest, and that in the earliest stages
there is much more room for accident than in
the latest. Still, with all this, it is hard not
TO allow a good deal OF inventive genius to
the first beginners of the very Simplest thing.
If Argo was the first ship, great honor is due
to nphys and his brother Argonauts. And at
any rate the first man who ever got on the
back Of horse must have been a bold man
and decided genius in his own line. End
less questions of this kind may be raised, and
endless answers mey be found for them, ll
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cerning an individual of her acquaintance
who, making n call under precisely
parallel circumstances, and being then
in the best health and spirits, expired in forty
eight hours afterwards. The visitor, rendered
not altogether comfortable, perhaps, by this and
other precedonts, inquiries very affectionately
after Mr.. Rakestraw, but by so doing brings
about no change ofsubject; for Mr.. Il. s name is
inseparably connected with his complaints, and
his complaints are inseparably connected with
Mrs. Rakcstraw's; and when these are done
with, Mrs. Brown, who has been biding her time,
cuts in with the chronic disorder-a subject upon
which the amiablc old lady never leaves off
speaking until she is left alone, and very often
not then.
But Mr. Rakestraw comes home to dinner
He is received by Mrs Rakestraw and Mrs.
Brown. who. on bis remarltinS
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that he thinks his feet are damp turn pale as
ashes, and drag him up stairs, imploring him to
have them rubbed directly with dry coarse
towel. Rubbed they are, one by Mrs. Rake
straw, one by Mrs Brown until the friction
causes Mr.. Rakestraw to make horrible faces,
and looks as if he had been smelling very pow
erfully of onions; when they desst, and the pa
tient provided for his better security with thick
worsted stockings and list slippers is borne
down stairs to dinner. Now, the dinner is
good one, the dppetites of the diners being not
at all delicate. Both Mr.. and Mrs. r. eat a re-
markably good dinner, and even the afflicted
Mrs. Brown wields her knife and fork with
much of the spirit and the elasticity
of youth. But Mr.. Rakestraw,
in his desire to crafty his appetite,
is not unmindful OF his health, Tor he has n bot
tie of carbonate OF soda, with which to qualify
his porter. Either from eating and drinking so
much, or from being the victim of this constitu-
tional infirmity he falls asleep and has scarcely
closed his eyes when Mrs Rakestraw and Mrs.
Brown close Their eyes likewise. 1t is on
awakening at tea-time that their most alarming
symptoms prevail, for then Mr. r. feels as if his
temples were tightly bound around with the
chain of the street door, and Mrs. r. as if she
had made hearty dinner of hundred half
pOu0u WclgnJs, ana MIS-. bTOW)l as II cOlQ water
were running down her back, and oyster-knives
were trying to open her between the ribs.
Symptoms like these are enough to make peo-
pie peevish, and no wonder they do little NOR
than doze and complain.
Supper coming after dinner. it is again done
honor to by Mr.. and Mrs. Rakestraw. still aided
and abetted by Mrs. Brown. After supper it is
ten to one but the last named old lady becomes
worse, and is led off to bed with her chronic
complaint in full vigor. Mr.. and Mrs. Rake
straw, having administered to her a warm cor
dial, then repair to their own room, where Mr..
r., with his legs and feet in hot water, superin-
tends the mulling OF some wine which he is to
drink at the very moment he plunges into bed;
while Mrs. r., in garments whose nature is I'M
known to all but married men, takes four small
pills, with spasmodic look between each, and
finally comes to something hot and fragrant out
of another little saucepan, which serves for the
composing draught for the night, when, smack
ing her lips and groaning, she crawls into bed.
Thus literally, as well as fguratiyely, they all
their lifetime are in hot water.
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~
WIRE BRIDGEPORT, MANrUA
Nov 10, 1869.
Mr.. Series Editor:-
I have a couple of neighbors who might be
called Representative men," only that one of
them is woman; nevertheless they are repre-
sentatives of class who, paying no attention
TO the graduates OF the Medical Colleges, male
or female doctor themselves, making up for the
quality of the nursing by its quantity. They de-
vote their whole minds, as they only have one
mind in common, to nursing, and the object of
their attention is themselves.
Mrs. Rakestraw's maiden name was Brown;
but there is nothing remarkable in that. She
was the only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Brown. Her
father died when she was as the play books eX-
press it, "yet an infant" and so the maternal
Brown, when her daughter married, made the
house of her son-in-law her home from that
time henceforth and set up her staff of rest with
Mr. and Mrs. Rakestraw.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Rakestraw are couple who
nurse themselves; and the venerable Mrs. Brown
is an alder and abetter in the same
Mr.. Rakestraw is rather lean and long
necked gentleman, middle-aged and middle
sized, and usually troubled with cold in the
head. Mrs. Rakestraw is a delicate-loobing
lady, with very light hair, and is exceedingly
subject to the same unpleasant disorder. The
venerable Mrs. Brown who is strictly entitled to
the appellation, her daughter not being very
young Otherwise than by courtesy) at the
time of her marriage, which was some years ago,
is a mysterious old lady who turks behind pair
of spectacles and is afflicted with chronic dis
ease respecting which she has taken vast deal
Of medical advice and referred to vast number
of medical books, without meeting any defni-
tiOn of symptoms that at all suit her. or enables
her to say ''That's my complaint" Indeed, the
absence of authentic information upon the sub
ject of this complaint would seem to be Mrs.
Browns greatest i'll, as in all other respects she
10 an uncOmmonly hale and hearty woman.
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PAPER tiAN0INos-

/ O0Kl LOOK ! LOOK Klll-WAIL PAPFpS
- and Linen Window Shades Manufaetn,aa Hno
sehsspSssdb IN ne city at JoHNSTORs Depot ~ me
~ sshlhG SAkphN Street, below Eleventh Bran1 N1 iya
SV' V'fAO1hAL S'reet' Camden, New Jersey. 20.
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very elaborate affair. lie puts on very long
stockings over his socks, and india-rubber shoes
over his boots, and wears under his waistcoat
a cuirass of rabbit-skin. Besides these precau-
tions he winds thick shawl round his throat,
and blocks up his mouth with q large silk hand
kerchief. Thus accoutered and furnished besides
with a great coat and umbrella, he braves the
dangers of the streets travelling in severe
weather at gentle trot, the better to preserve
The circulation, and bringing his mouth
to the surface to take breath
but very seldom, and with the utmost
caution. His Office door opened, he shoots past
his clerks at the same pace, and, diving into his
own private room, closes the door, examines the
window fastenings, and gradually unrobes him
self, hanging his pocket handkerchief on chair
before the stove to air, and determining to write
to the newspapers about the fogs on the Schuyl-
kill at this season of the year, which he says
'has really got to that pitch that it is quite un-
bearable."
In this last opinion Mrs. Rakestraw and her
respected mother fully concur; for though not
present, their thoughts and tongues are occu-
pied with the same subject, living in sight OF the
river, which is their constant theme all day.
anybody happens to call, Mrs. Rakestraw opines
that they must assuredly be mad, and her first
salutaton is, what what in the name OF good
ness can bring you out in such weather? You
know you must catch your DEATH" This assur-
ance is corroborated by Mrs. Brown, who adds
in further confirmation, dismal legend con
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NUMBER CCXLIX.

From our O1cn Correspondent.
WIRE BRIDGEPoRT, MANruA,
Nov. 10, 1860.
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Both Mr.. and Mrs. Rakestraw wear an ex-
traordinary quantity of flannel and have habit
of putting their feet in hot water to an un-
natural extent. They likewise indulge in chamo-
mile tea and such like compounds, and rub
themselves on the slightest provocation with
compound spirits and other lotions applicable to
mumps sore throat, rheumatism, or lumbago.
Mr.. Rakestraw's leaving home to go to busi-
ness on q damp or wet morning is
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Profits Cf actors.

If any one doubt that the dramatic pro.
fcssion Is one to make money in, the New
York Star is prepared to prove that it Is
with the drama as Daniel Webster said of
the law-''roon, enough on the top shelf. "
As illustrations, the Star cites tenor sing
ing at the New York Academy of Music for
$4,000 in gold per month, John E. Owens,
with fortune Of $500, 900, Joe Jefferson
with e5oo, 900, Barney Williams with 500,
600; and Forrest with his great wealth and
claims of sixty per cent upon gross receipts.
Domestic stars, such as Lotta, Lucille Wes-
tern, and Others receive fifty per cent. on
the gross receipts. Mrs. Chanfrau. at the
Fifth Hvenue Theatre, receives $50 per
week. Lydia Thompson's terms aro half
the gross receipts, Pauline MMkh,m had
eiOO at the Tamma,y, and now gets S15C
travelling with the blonde brigade Of Brit.
ish burlesquers. Such stock actors a. John
Gil,'ert get 800 per week; Charles Fisher
$50, and downward. ~ ~
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The Ne'c idea In Photography.
. The Press and the Camera Welded.

To TuE EDITOR OF THE New NoRru.wIsr:--
SlR:-l notice in the New NoRTn WEST
= paragraph stating that photographs can
now Ike printed will, printers ink. and -
high ~ u, 900 impressions worked from one
plate ,,
This accomplishment is dependent upoa
. we'll known property of gclatinc. b..
licving it is destined to be complete sue.
cess, and will create q revolution in plo,og.
rarhy and printing, have thought brief
explanation Of tho principles involved would
be interesting to your readers. ,..,.
II has been known for louS time, that
gclatine possesses the property Of swelling,
and becoming insolublc IN water, after hav. a.
ing been treated with bi-chromates. and cx.
posed to the action Of light. Consequently
photographers naturally sought to utilize
this. property by producing. through tina
action of light, m image which could be
used In the same manner as types, cuts, ETC..
and printed on the printers presses, thereby
enabling them to furnish illustrations for
hooks and newspapers, rs cheap a. the letter
press can be printed from types. e..
Among the first cxpcrimentcrs in this di.
| rcction were Mr.. Cary Lee, Of Philadelphia
and Mr.. Woodbury., Of Now York. Mr..
Woodbury's process consists iu covering =
plate Of glass with thin layer of warm
gelatine containing q proportion of bi-chru-
mate of ammonia, and exposing it, under the
negative, 70 the action of diffused light
The portions acted upon by tho light, [cor-
responding to the dark parts in photo,
graph), are thereby rendered insolublc, and
when tho plate Is treated with warm water,
the unexposcd portions arc washed away,
leaving the image III relief. The gelatiue Is
then ''backcd up with plaster of Paris, say
one. half au inch thick, and detached from
the glass. Tie surface is then treated with
an ctlieral solution Of gold, followed by .
solution Of proto-sulphatc Of IRON, which
prccpita.es thin layer of g,ld upon its
surface It is next immersed in bath CON-
tanning solution of sulphatc of copper, and
connected with the poles Of Il galyanic bat
tcry, which plates it with surface Of copper,
rendering it like stereotype plate. It "
then ready for the printing press. ..,. q
As mary - 1900 impressions have been
made from one plate, without any percepti.
bic difference in the proof. Moro recently,
. German Of Munich, named Albert, haa
created sensation in tho Photographic
world by exhibiting picture made by Sc
cret method, by which tho process Is said,
to be much simplified, and the cost of pro-
| srvne eo1n Tn 0Aaf II inflr
direction, lies the future Of photography
| .,' s.ita5 1T"
Deer Lodge, Dec. 20 1S0
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THE WERPINa WAFER,

There 10 no more beautiful valley in the
world than that Of the Weeping Water. q.
The Indian name for this stream is Ne
IIawks, which means the w>tcr that cries.
The legend is, that very many years ago,
when the O:oes and Omshas were among the
most numerous and warlke 1T all the lndi.
ans that dwelt upon the vast pruirics Of Me-
hraska, great battle Was fought where tie
sources Of this strpam now have their rise.
The braves upon either side wcrc num-
berless ~ the flowers that bloOlncd about
them. They were mlI aid daring ~ the
grizzly l,e.r and mountain lions 1T tl.e -"
y,'ns cf the great Platte. Upon beautiful
morning in carly June, the strife began, snd
the war.I'onp and tte yell of the contendinE
hosts drowned the sunrise song of the lark.
The dew drops that hung, like angels
tears. upon the trembling grass, were chang
ed from Gods diamonds 10 sparkles Of hu-
man blood. Where life. hvely and beautiful,
sanc.ified all things, grim death. insat,sble
and incxorable, began bis terrible and re.
lentlcss work. III p. -,@:i Il @@7" 1T
The battle waged aerccr and hercer. Noon
came, and in the hot sunshine the savage
foes still cOntcndcd will, hatred that knew
no sOftcning. and u scorn Ut pain and death
that knew no fear. All day long waged tho
h"rrid slaughter. And the night came, and
the stars. and still the carnival of death
alatci not All through the sweet and col.
emn night, dca.I..s,ruygics, grOsns Of van.
Qu:shment, and yclls of victory mingled in
. grandly terrible chorus Of destruction.
But fainter and fainter, rs tho night wore
away. grew the sounds Of conflict Aud
when the sun again threw his life-giving
warmth and light upon the earth tie field
Of contest was silent Not one lived t. tell
the tale Of tho grand battle between tho
Onnal,as and O,0es. And then the women
and tIIc children Of the Il. .in braves gathered
upon the spot, and with wailings and will,
bu ming tears, wept for the loved aud lost.
The good spirit ,oOk pity on them. The
battle field sunk in slvery lake of springs,
and all that was hOrr,d and terrible, was, ny
Gods goodness, cnshrouded in the shin.
mcriug sheet Of pure water. Around this
they still wcpt until their tears ovcrdowed
its banks and like threads of amber, wended
their way through ths prairies down into
the grta. Missouri, making the stream called
the wafer which wccps, and that to this day,
dancing and mui murins through pretty
farms and by many and many . sweet home,
pouEs its flood Of tears increasingly, into the
,,rs.nf river S<h (>aara sl,on, sondorlv r, tia
waters Of the Gulf.-PlousnouM Aerah.
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I S7l q.

IT'S not tor ~ 10 triAc. Life IL Sr;e<
And sin II here.
Ou. age IL but the falling ot icaf,
4 dropping tear.
We have no time to spuas away the hourr,
All should b. earnest 10 world like ours.
Not saany iivcs. but only one have We
Our only one:
How sacred should thnt one life ever be-
That narrow span
Day after day filled mp With blessed toll.
Hour after hour still bringing In new spoil
Then let us clasp the new horn child
This infant year,
Enjoy its fragrant breath, its sunny smile,
Ere starts the tear
Which warns us that the lot Of man 10 pain,
And call. US hack to Duty's path again.
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Il Pile Of NcsCsl,apers.

from tue IUVsUuISu SuGOuSCVs OSC. Hs
Certainly there is something suggestive in
the heap Of exchanges which burdens the
table at which We si: Before VIC attack
this formidable accumulation Of newspapers
We ind ourselves invoiu"t"rily pursuing n
train of reflection which may be thus rcn.
Acrc.l into speech: Here within space of
six feet l,y four is the concentrated thought
which NJ the present moment occupies the
mind of this vast country, nay Of the whole
globe. Here are tho views and facts l,Oliu.
cal. religious, mercantile, social, mechanical,
scientific and literary, which a:its;e millions
of people. Tic telegraph and rsilrs'ad plac.
ing limitations upon time and space nrc both
here. We need not visit Richmond, Virgin.
n. In these papers whatever IL of interest
or concern in ihat quarter 10 mirrorcd forth
Here il New Orleans. There il New York.
That Is st. Louis Or Ci.lcinnsti. Aud THAT
very respectable sheet photographs Montana.
Here you. have In correspondence the cont.
ncui Of Europe and there China Is brought
-----.- o" .--.--...". What ileaIy,
however rich, 50 teens will, prUvocations u
thought Us this pile Of newspapers. The
vast rows Of books speak Of departed things.
But this heap of printed paper, with inf
ni!c variety md cloquencc, speaks Of the
wide and mul,ifsrious present. II imngci
ahc iviag.wo'ld. 1t details its pleasures and
jts pains. tts tragedies aud IL merry max.
sngs. its pcmps and shows, its hopcs and
psngs, its triumpl,s and failures. Ii tells uf
great and small things. II Itrecoris the run.
away Of horse and the completion of the
;Sucz canal with equal impartiali,y. II at.
tends y, one and the same time to the mos,
sublime md the I,ctticst transactions. Il
has tho microscopic eye and Il surveys the
broaiast fields Of observation. We say II
without irreversnco. Ihst there is nothing
short Of 0mn!potcncs which covers 70 uni.
vcrial field and comprises such broad and
such minute Investigations - The ppss. Il
not only records, but It makes histosy. Il
not only notes. but 1t creates public opinion.
1t Is at this writing not the Fourth, bus lhs
First Estate In tho, world, srd i y with 10
slight feeling Of becoming respect that re
now pause in this digression 70 examiue for
the benefit of the readers Of Tive C1,sNials,
this imposing mss 1t exchange, and con.
tribute I, extend still further whatever ID ie
chem Of Proat os ornament -
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n cnIl In a ~ IAtRLGll.

IL heard IT,"
"Who ,ol.l yoa?"
~Ilcr friend" ~
lyon don't say7"
"'Tis dreadfuI!"
Yes. awful"
-'DOn't tell 1t. ! pray"
GOOD gracious!"
Who'd think it,
We'll, well: well"
"Dcar me-"
'I'vc had ny
"suspicions!" I"
And !. too. you sect"
''Lord help ns!"
Poor creaiurc!'
$50 n,slm:"
$50 -ly!"
"No beauty"
quite thiity!"
Between you ard n"
I'm going"
"Isrnt; stay. lovc!"
~ can't"
"l'm fO,lOrn!''
Farewell. dear"
Goodbye sweet"
''I'M GLAD sHE's 8OHE!"