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the New York Evening ,,~,. Stare Secrets,
tho traitor thus: Laura kecno is iIsy
Init looks and acts like girl of twonty. Mrs
.John Drew is over sixty, but is sensible; ;;
Mrs. Bowers is forty five. Maggie Mitohei'
is forty -one, and bloshin.g bride; e.. C9ar- mar
mon is forty. Mrs. Barrow is over hi'y
Kate Reignolds is forty-threo. Lotta l.
! is txsrtY-sia, Olive Logan is thirty, seven eve
maiden. Mrs. Davenport is fifty. Lydia
Thompson will never sec thirty again, ant
Miss Marriott has arrived at the wears o.
| discretion
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GREATNESS OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE
Mr.. Caleb Gushing, who is perhaps the best
authority in the United States. ON Chinose
affairs, tells us that China contains single
provinces each of Wilhelm population,
wealth, civilization, education and all else
that gives power to State-is superior TO
France, England, Prussia, or any of the
frs. powers Of Europe; that the Empire has
500, ,OOO, 600 Inhabitants tmore than all Eu-
rope combined); );that this inconceivably vast
population is governed by the strongest,
brightest intellects of the land, upon a sys-
tenn which was old thousands of years before
the oldest government of Europe began
to exist; that education is universal even
more general than with US, there being abb
solutely no class of people that cannot read
and write; that the great body OF the Chinese
are intelligent. industrious, apt to learn
banyth;ng and everything frugal, pre-emi-
nently patriotic and more profoundly attach
ed, perhaps, than the people of any other
nation in the world to their own laws and
| institutions; that China was great nation
ages before what VIC call the ancient nation:
of Greece and Rome had been founded, and
has remained, great nation, while its ear
tliest contemporaries, Egypt and Assyrla, are
| only known imperfectly in the most ancient
/ the earliest records of our race; that the
| Rotbchilds, the Astors and Stewards among
the millionaircs of Europe and America arr
but pigmies in wealth compared to some
the great capitalists OF China.
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| Tur WAIJNG OF TIE JEWS IN JERUSA-
,rM-The Jews in Jerusalem have pur-
chased the right of the Turkish Government
! IN a assemble every Friday afternoon near ono
side of the Mosque of Omar, against sup
/ nosad norton Of thoir ancient Temple, aud
there lament and weep over their fallen city
Men. women and cl'.~ acquired a. 'el.loae7
all coming with Bible in LIS. 1L;nI !,
h, fheir hest suit---ssc ne4i H.>A =
,vn - :St dressing gowns made OF broadciotn ol
merino, or calico, OF various co,ofs' hayins
tho eIres trimmed with fur; and upon thoil
Loods thew wear caps turbaned also with fur
II Their bair is cut short behind the cars, bu
HANGS in long curls in 'front.' The bette
ii class of women arc clothed in white loOs'
} dress and shawl.
AS theyapproach the place OF weeping the.
usually lean first, for short time, with thci
/ heads against the wall, but soon begin t
r SWING their bodies back and forth, wrn1in,
4 their hands, while priest or patriarch lead
81 off in reading selections from tho Prophet
Q in mcst wailing tones.
S At certain periods all voices join in til
!. | crv. teors run down their faces, and the,
& seem to bc moved by the most agOnizini
i sorrow. Old men aud women were thcr
# With wbitened locks, and feeble steps, an
% they bowed and wept in deepest gric
o Little children, too, were there, their eye
q mo;stened and voices trembling as they join
10 ed in the heart touching lamentations.
,el No lookcr-on can doubt dut there Is sii
81 cer;tv in service. The Jews feel that Jcho
}. vah hears their cries and prayers, and acco
a. ding to prophecy, will restore TO tl,em' att
is LONG seasons of bitter wailings, their 10
,e glories; gathering together all the scatter' M
n children of Israel. and henceior!n Pci1u,
at buried among the graves Of their fathers, ).
r. This practice is said to have been cont ont
Sc ued from the twelfth century ana pefha
d, from. an earlier period. By the Lmper
he Adrian the Jews were driven from, the CIT
During the reign Of Cons.an.,nb annS ,ne IN s.s s'
tv hut at length they succeeded in purchase
ELL the privilege of entering it once a year
bE weep, and at present they are allowed t
privilege every Friday.
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The Hortiulturists recommends the follow
ing wash for fruit trees: Last year an expc
rienced fruit grower, the owner ola fine Or
chard near Niagara river, Western New York
wrote US that in care of his trees he had
practlced one simple method with eminent
success. lie takes ley from leached ashes,
mixes little grease with it, heat quite
warm and with a cyringc throws it up into
all parts of the tree, branches and trunk.
1t will effectually kill all kinds of worms that
are either infesting the trees in nests, or
running over the bark. Trees treated in
this manner were exceedingly healthy, beau
tiful and vigorous in appearance, possessing
a smooth, glossy bark and bore the best an
pies In the country. The remedy is cheap
and easy
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"A SMOKING DislIop uined with Admiral
farfagut once upon a time, and after the des.
sert rendered bunch of Havanas to the
sailor, with the invitation. HIVE cigar.
Admiral ?" mo, Bishortu,oov, u Admi-
raj, with aquizzical glanc0mpany, smoke
i swear a little sometimes.
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Oakley Hall is Mayor Of New York. lie
has invented a monogram for himself, which
is formed of the letter 0, encirclinS golden
key, which, b ing laid across two avis
forms the letter H.
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GO M M Il CIAL
New York stock and Money m.rk.,

-ANO" n VEA StOCA anu money III 8EK6ts
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-THE week opened with
Money in free. supply at Z per cent. currency on
stock collaterals and per cent on Governments for
call loans: In the afternoon, the demand becoming
more active, transactions were made at per cent.
Gold, mainly to small borrowers, with mixed collat-
erals, and there were even exceptional operations at
1-32 q Lie per cent commission First class firms
had no difficulty, however, in getting all the money
at per cent. currency. The heavy realizations in
the stock market have caused considerable amount
to pass into weaker hands for the moment, which
was the occasion of a furry in the Money market.
Sterling Exchange steady at 1881 q 1881. Gold firm
err opened at 135t advanced to 1850, and closed at
1859 q 1851 There is an improved demand for first
class commercial paper which passes at a 10 per
cent; second class moves slowly and transactions
ments declined under heavy realizatons and report
that the Secretary of the Treasury has engaged to
deliver to Wall street house $6,000OO0 OF new 65's
denied by the Assistant Treasurer. Mr.. Van Dyck
has only $500 900 to sell in any event. and there is
Ciewes Co. furnish the following 4so 'q
1l2l; DC 1864 1855 g 1853; DO 1865 1891 1881; d
p Iss iSs os 5Ss dS 1881 1851 1884, do 1885, 1854
Border State bonds active; Missouri's, 81. a go;
old Tennessees, GO g 70; new do, 6s3 e 6sl; new
Louisiana levee bonds, 6's, 81 6S4; do SIS, 76i q
tn old Louisiana's, "a g 10.
checked this morning by extensive sales to realize
the advance Of the last few days The leading stocks
Western and Pacific Mail. The market became firm
at the o'clock Beard, but at the second regular
was heavy and lower, being effected by the temper
ary hurry IN the Money market: The decline ranged
being evnced by Rock Island. Fort Wayne, North
Western, Michigan Southern and New York Gen.
trail AT o'clock the market was barely steady, but
at the close prices again lower and lower under
further realizations by bulls and hammerings by
bears. The foil wing are $50 prices:-Paciic Mail
Hartford & Erie, 49, New York Central, 155t q 1864
Elie, 3sl 3s3; Hudson, 1854 g 1877; Reading. 9S4 q
q 115s Michigan Southern, soy q $50; Illinois Cen
tral, 143 a IA; Chicago & Rock Island, 1854 a 1928
Chicago & North Western, s1a q 80; do preferred,
s5t q S53. ...i. -. 81
The clearance of Gold day at the Exchange Bank
was $3G, 100000. ...... =
The balance at the Sub-Treasury to-day amount
70
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THE NOMINATION OF MR.. sMYrHE.
NEW YORK.
DAMAGE BY THE STORM.

ALBANY, Jan. 1.-THE water in the river is
slowly rising and severe storm of rain and
hail prevails. No heavy inundation is appre
hended, but owing to remarkably strong cur
rent that sets in from the east side of the river
north of the city, and which pours into the
basin in great volumes, very serious damage is
being done to property ON the pier between the
east end of Columbia street bridge and the cut
through which passes the Hudson River and
Harlem railroad ferry boats. Buildings Nos.
", rs and 70, which we're occupied by A. Van
Sanford, Schuyler Vosburg and Briggs, as
barge offices and storehouses, are almost ruin
ed, the west wall having fallen. The contents
which were mostly flour, belonging to Water
man and Buell., was nearly all got out before
nightfall. The west wall of No. 80 has also
caved in. This was six story brick building,
owned by S. F. Washburn, of Troy. 1t was
filled with oats, cargo of wheat, also barley, a
large quantity of which is lost. Nc 81, occu-
pied by Trowbridge & Combie. is badly dam
aged. This is new building and cost $25 900;
1t stands upon thickly studded piles driven
into the bed of the river some 30 feet, and the
walls are "a inches thick. This building con-
tains large quantity of grain belonging to
various parties. Nos. 80 and 83, formerly Pat
tens steam flour mill, is also in great danger
it contains 5000 barrels of -four and ii 600 bush
els of wheat belonging to John Tweddle, and
grain owned by several firms. The property
lost. together with that still in danger, is val
ned at over half a million. The water seems
to be undermining the whole stretch of the
pier south from Columbia street bridge to the
railroad ferry cut. In Patten mill and eleva-
tor are some 100000 bushels of grain, and al
though the walls of this building are still ap-
parently firm, the engine in the engine room
has settled several inches. aI.
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE House Judicial
ry Committee have agreed to report bill en-
acting universal suffrage in all the States to
this extent: Presidential Electors, Represen-
tatives to Congress, and Members of the Legis-
lature. A majority of the Committee hold
that the exercise of this power TO this extent is
entirely constitutional, especially under the
fourteenth amendment. The bill will contain
provisions for its enforcement by penalties for
its violation. The committee are understood
to agree that they cannot prescribe by statute
the qualifications for electors for purely State
officers. Legislatures are included because
they elect United States Senators. They have
also agreed to report a constitutional amend
ment embodying the whole question of uni
versal suffrage, to be submitted to the States
for ratification. The reasons addueed for pro-
posing both bill and amendment are, that at
present, with the amendment alone, there are
not more than twenty five States that will rat
lfy, but with suffrage for President and Mem
bers of Congress enacted by law, and once ex-
ercised, the prejudice against it will give way,
and it will act as an inducement for the ratifi-
cation of the amendment ~ .F
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HELMBOLD'S
Compound Extract of Buchu.

Directions for use, diet, and advice, accompany.
Females IN every period of life, from infancy to
extreme old age, will find it remedy TO aid nature
the discharge of its functions. Strength is the glory
ofmanhood and womanhood. ...
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e. u IL . p r

FRANCE. -
LONDON, JAM 1.-THE indications of the first
davis session of the conference on the Eastern
question leaves little if any doubt OF ultimate
success. The Turkish government, through
its representative, consented to maintain the
present status until the close of the confer
ence. 1t is the general impression that but
one more session will be held and that war
between Turkey and Greece will be obviated.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Jan. 1.-THE Sublime
Porte has officially congratulated the people of
the Danubian Principalities on their loyalty
during the recent crisis. ,.
ITALY.
FLORENCE, Jan. 1.-Rscent disturbances in
various parts of the Kingdom, fomented by
revolutionists, have been suppressed and the
unpopular taxes are now being collected with
out difficulty. go. .-a.- ni. ~
PORTUGAL. ast tHHs..
LISBON, JAN 1.-THE Duke of Saldanha has
been summoned to Lisbon to form new min
istry. .. .s.-- ID III
SPAIN,
MADRID, Jan. Traditional troops are to
be sent to Cuba and will sail from Cadiz in a
short time ---- ~ f l-
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Foreign Markets,

HAVANA. Jan. 9.-The following are the closing
quotations of merchandise for the week ending to-
81 reals b arrobe; Nos. Is to 20 steady at Of @ 10
reals. Molasses Sugar buoyant at 6s g 7Ieals Mus
business for want of stock; there is good demand
and large speculative inquiry Lard steady; tierce
2Oi a BIC; keg 20 q 22tc. Flour quiet at sly o. g
steady at 81 y gal. Wax dull Yellow $500 Y 8 oo
" arrobe; White 9 50 q 10 CO.. Petroleum adyanc-
ing; sales at % Al reals gal. Potatoes steaay az
IS so " bb'. Hams active; common salted 16c " ID
sugar cured zoe. Lumber-Yelow Pine firm at S23
a "a - M; White Pine steady at $22 a %. Shocks
Box fiat, little inquiry and prices weak HID Shocks
market supplied; quoted at So So Empty hogs
beads in demand at So. Freights advancing; box
Snear to Northern ports 81 "a S7s; hid: do to do
hid. MOlasses to Northern perts So s7A a Al 5 Ex-
change on London ut q ia per cent. premium; on
Paris g per cent premium; on United States, in
currency 60 days sight, 21I a 2oh per cent discounts
40 short sight 10 per cent. discount; do in Gold 60
cent premium,
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WASHINGTON.



WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE United States
Supreme Court to-day issued peremptory
mandamus to the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court to restore Joseph ii. Bradley to
the right to practice in that Court.
MORE GOVERNMENT LOANS ASKED iAh'
A bill was introduced in the House to-day
by Mr.. Ashley, of Nevada, to loan 6 per cent.
bonds of the United States 10 the amount of
$5O0000 for the construction of the proposed
Sutro tunnel in Comestock Lode, in that ter
ritory.
THE NOMINATION OF MR.. sMYTHE.
The Senate was engaged about one hour and
half in executive session this afternoon on
the nomination Of Henry A. Smythe as Min
lister to Russia. A motion to postpone and lay
on the table was rejected by vote of Is against
"a. Notwithstanding this apparently favora-
BILE action several Senators are of the opinion,
jud ling from the tenor of the debate which
followed, that Smythe will ultimately be re-
jected.
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KANSAS.
TROUBLE BETWEEN NEGRO AND WHITE TROOPS.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1.-THE Leavenworth Com
mercial says white man named Hays was
recently murdered at Hays City, Kansas, by
three negro soldiers belonging to the 18Th In
tantry. The negroes were arrested and lodged
IN Jail: Preparatory to trial but during the
night they were taken from the prison by the
trees. w
iroupie between the white and negro troops
at fort Learned has occurred, and conflicts
nave become SO frequent and serious that the
negroes na1 70 be removed from the post and
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Maine Legislature.
Especial dispatch by International Line.l

Especial dispatch by International Line.l
SENATE.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 1.-THE report of the State
Treasurer was received and referred to Joint
select committee.
Ajoint select committee consisting OF Messrs.
Lang of Kennebec, Garcelon OF waldo, ana
Fuller of Franklin, with such as the House
may join, was appointed to contract for the
State printing and binding for the current
wear. subject to the approval of the Legisla-
ture. 49,.
HOUSE.
The House after disposing of papers from the
Senate in concurrence adjourned.
The standing committees of the House and
Senate together with the joint select commit.
tee, will be appointed tomorrow.
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A LII KINDS OF BOOK AND JOB PBINTp "a
"A neatly and sheaply done at this office.
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Dispatches to Evening Papers.
NEW YORK.
MOVEMENT TO REMOVE THE NEW YORK POLICE
JUSTICES.

MOVEMENT TO REMOVE THE NEW YORK POLICE
JUSTICES
New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE leaders of a secret
movement against the police justices of this
city, have published a confidential circular
which is headed "P. j. K" The recipient is
warned against communicating the details of
any meeting held by the league to represen-
tative of the press, ON pain of the severest PEN
atty. The circular has had the effect of clos
ing some of the channels of information,
though enough has been learned to show that
the proposed movement is gaining strength
On Wednesday evening an informal meeting
was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and a
plan of operations was drawn up. On Thurs
day afternoon a meeting was held ia one of the
leading Broadway hotels, and two or three
prominent lawyers practising at the New York
bar were consulted on the feasibility of having
the State Constitution SO amended as to rotate
all those persons holding police judicial posi-
tons out of Office. Meetings were held on Sat-
urday evening in several Of the wards.
MIR. JENCKEs TO SPEAK IN NEW YORK.
Mr.. Jenckes is to be invited to explain the
object of his Civil service bill now under con-
sideration in the House, to citizens of New
York, on Saturday evening next. Among the
signatures to the invitation are the names of
Edwards Pierrepont, James Brown, L. B. Chit
tenden, Jr., A. Stewart. A. A. Low, VIM. b.
Astor, Jackson Shu liz, VIM. e. Dodge, August
Belmont, Geo. Opdike, and other distinguished
gentlomen. -. o. ... .
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A ssignee'S Notice.

NOTICE Is hereby given that Nathaniel G. Mars
~ ION, OF Yarmouth, in the County OF Cumber-
Ianu uld on the eighteenth day OF December in
stallt make an assignment of all his propertv not
exempt by law from attachment, to the Subscriber
70 Dc held IN trust Tor the and benefit OF such
erediorS OF sad Marston as may, alter notice as
come parties thereto in proportion to the amount OF
their respective claims; and three months are al
ors to become parties to sal / assignment which NAV
be found at the office OF the subscriber.
b. FREEMAN, Assignee.
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WEST INDIES

HAVANA, Jan. ia commission of inAu-
entail citizens of Havana, native Cubans, and
prominent members of the liberal party left
this city yesterday on the steamer Moclezuma
for Nuevitas, on their way to Bayamo to meet
the revolutionary leaders and attempt to bring
about a compromise for the restoration Of
peace. ..
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HELNBOLD'S

Hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundreds Of
others apply vainly druggists and DOCTORS who Ell
Their merely tantalize them with the hope of cure
or apply remedies which make them worse. would
not assert anything that would do injustice to the at
ficted, but am obliged to say that although it may
eproduced from excessive exhaustion of the powers
ofife, by laborous employment, unwholesome air
and food, profuse menstruaton, the use OF tea and
Coffee and frequent childbirth it is far oftener caus-
ed by direct irritation, applied the mucous mem
brane of the vagina itself.
When reviewing the causes Of these distressing
complaints, 1t is most painful to contemplate the at
attendant evils consequent upon them 1t Is but sim
pie justice to the subject to enumerate few Of the
many additional causes which SO largely affect the
ute, health, and happiness OF woman in all classes OF
society, and which, consequently affect or less
directly, the welfare OF the entire human family The
mania that exists for precocious education and mar
rage, causes the years that nature Designated for
corporeal development to be wasted and perverted
in the restraints address, the early confinement of
school, and especially in the unhealthy excitement
of the ball room. Thus, with the body half clothed,
and the mind unduy excited by pleasure, perverting
in midnight revel the hours designed by nature for
sleep and rest the work of destruction is half accom-
plished. .el.sl. aH -ai.Iy
In consequence of this early strain upon her sys-
tenn, unnecessary effort is required Iby the delicate
votary to retain her situation in school at later day
thus aggravating the evil. When one excitement is
over another in prospective keeps the mind morbid
y sensitive to impression, while the now constant
restraint of fashionable Dress absolutely orbidding
the exercise indispensable to the attainment and re-
tenton of organic health and strength the exposure
to night air; the sudden change of temperature; the
complete prostration produced by excessive dancing
must OF necessity produce their legitimate effect At
| t.f
least an early marriage caps the climax of misery
and the unfortunate one hitherto so utterly regard
lees OF the plain dictates and remonstrances OF her
delicate nature, becomes an unwilling subject of
medical treatment. This is but truthful picture of
the experience of thousands of our young women.
Long before the ability to exercise the functions Of
the generatve organs, they require education OF
their peculiar nervous system, posed of what is
called the tissue, which u.s. in common with the fe-
male breast and lips evidently under the control of
mental emotions and associations at an early period
of life and shall subsequently see, these emo
toHs when excessive, lead long before puberty, to
habits which sap the very life OF their victims ere
| nature has self-completed their development
For Female Weakness and Debility, Whites or Leu
corrhea, Too Profuse Menstruation, Exhaustion Too
Long Continued Periods, for Prolapsus and Bearing
Down, or Prolapsus Uteri, we offer the most perfec
i hLa1
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MISCELLANEOUS.
How to Get Patents.

For opinion, no charge. Send sketch and descrip-
ton. For application send model not over one foot
in size, and SIG 6rst Government and Stamp iees.-
Specifications, Drawings, caveats; assignments pre-
pared rejected claims prosecuted. Also, interfer-
ences, extension of patents, and appeals. Patents
taken out in all European countries Illustrated
pamphlets, ITO pages, sent free. Address MUM &
CO., No 81 Park Row, N. Y. oc21isd3m
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Farm for Sale.

ENOR sale at great bargain a very desirable Farm
Il of about so acres choice land, under a good state
OF cultivation, well divided into moving, tage. and
pasturage, well fenced and watered: keeps ~ head
stock the year round. Large amount of good muck;
300 acres wood, Near school, 2 miles from village
and churches 200 apple trees, one-balf grated TO
choice fruit, puDs, cherries currants, grapes and
cranberrries. House 1. story ten years old, with l.
IS feet long; barn 70x42 all in good repair. Water
at house and barn. Four acres hops; hop house 80
by % cellar under the same.
This farm is very pleasantly located, and has only
to be to be appreciated. For further partcu lars
please address the subscriber at Harrison
Harrison, Jan 7, 1869. d&w3w