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Smyrna times., 1869-07-21
A Real KIerO---Scene at Sea.

Two weeks ago, on board an English steam
er, little ragged boy, aged nine years, was
discovered on the fourth day of the outward
voyage from Liverpool to New York, and car
rled before the first mate whose duty it was to
deal with such cases. When questioned as to
his object of being slowed away, and who
brought him on board, the boy, who had eyes
that locked like the very mirrors of truth re-
piled that his stepfather did it, because he
could not afford to keep him, nor to pay his
passage out to Halifax, where he had an aunt
who was we'll off, and to whose house he was
going. The mate did not believe the story, in
spite of the winning face and truthful accents
OF the boy. He had seen to much of stow
aways to be easily deceived by them, he said !;
and 1t was his hrm conviction that the boy had
been brought on board and provided with food
by the sailors. The little fellow was very
roughly handled in consequence. Day by day
he was questioned and requestioned, but always
with the same result. He did not know sail
or on board, and his father alone had secreted
him, and given him the food which he ate.
AT last the mate, wearied by the boys per-
sistence in the story, and perhaps little anx-
ious to inculpate the sailors, seized him one
day by the collar, and dragged him to the fore,
and told him that unless he confessed the truth
in ten minutes from that time he would hang
him to the yard-arm. He then made him sil
down on the deck. All around him were the
passengers and sailors of the mid day watch
and in front of him stood the inexorable mate
with his chrOnometer in his hand, and the
other officers OF the ship by his side. 1t was
the finest sight, said our informant, that we
had ever beheld-to see the pale, proud, sor
rowful face of that noble boy, his head erect
his beautiful eyes bright through the tears tina
sufused them. When eight minutes had fee
the mate told him that he had but two minute
to live, and advised him to speak the truth ant
save his life but he replied with utmost sim
plicity and sincerity, by asking the mate if b
might pray.
The mate said nothing, but nodded hi
head, and turned as pale as ghost, and shoe
and trembled like reed with the wind. An
then all eyes turned on him, this brave and nc
bic little fellow, this poor waif whom societ
owned not, and whose own stepfather could nc
care for him-thers he knelt, with claspe
hands and eyes upraised to heaven, while h
repeated audibly the Lord s Prayer, and pray
ed the dear Lord Jesus to take him to Heaver
Our informant said that then there occurred
scene as of Pentecost. Sobs broke from strong
hard hearts, as the mate sprang forward to th
boy and clasped him to his bosom, and kisse
him and blessed him, and told him sincerely b
} now believed his story, and how glad he wa
that he had been brave enough to face deaf
and be willing to sacrifice his life for the trut
of his own word. .--EngliSh paper.
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WHERE THE WEST is. Is.-Chicago is no longer
Western but is an Eastern city. It is only
900 miles to the Atlantic coast, while it is q
$50 miles to the Pacific coast Dividing the
Union into East, Centre and West, each divi
sion is about /, 100 miles wide. The Eastern
division will embrace all the States lying East
of the Mississippi River. The Central, all the
States aud Territories between the Mississippi
and Rocky Mountains and the Western, all
the States and Territories between the Rocky
Mountains and the Pacific coast Somewhat
the largest of these three great divisions is the
Central. And astonishing as it may appear
to those who have not examined the map care
fully the territory lying west of the Rocky
Mountains contains as many square miles as
the territory east of the Mississippi River,
Notwithstanding this comprises eleven South
| ern, all of the so-called Eastern" and Gen
| trail" States, and all of the old Northwest. u
The completion of the Pacific Railway has
changed the former West into East and Cen
| tral and moved the West 200 miles towarC
| the setting sun. The actual West consists o
/ California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada
Arizona, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, and th'
major portion of Colorado and New Mexico
1t is hard to realize the truth that Chicago i
an Eastern city. Omaha, which has Away
been regarded as on the western verge OF tn
Far West" is, in fact, one hundred and fft
miles east of the centre of the Union W
are not surprised therefore, that the citizens O
that enterprising little place resent the imputa
ton of being the Far West. In short, this
tolerable long "kentry" from East to Wes
and when the Dominion is absorbed, :" tn
, distance will be equally as great from North
, South. Chicago Tribune.
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Remarkable Masonic Incident.

The first Masonic funeral that ever occurred
in California, took place in the year l849, and
was performed over the body of a brother
found drowned in the bay of San Francisco.
An account Of the ceremonies states that on the
body OF the deceased was found silver
mark of mason, upon which were engraved
the initials of his name. A little further in
vestigation revealed to the behOlder the most
singular exhibition of Masonic emblems that
was ever drawn by the ingenuity of u man up
on the human skin. There is nothing in the
history or traditions of Freemasonry equal to it.
Beautifully dotted on his left arm, in red and
blue ink, which time could not eface, appear
ed all the emblems of the entire apprentice
ship. There were the Holy Bible, square and
compass, the twenty four inch guage and com
mon gavel. There were also the Masonic
pavement, representing the ground floor Of
King SOlomon's Temple, the indented tessel
which surrounds it, and the blazing star in the
centre. On his right arm, and artistically ex
ecuted in the same indellible liquid were the
| emblems pertaining to the fellow craft degree,
viz: the square, the level and the plumb.
! There were also the five columns representing
the five orders of architecture-the Tuscan,
| Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
! In removing his garments from his ody, the
trowel presented itself, with all the other tools
Of operative masonry Over his heart was the
pot of incense. On other parts of his body was
the bee hive, the book of constitutions, guard
ed by the Tyler's sword pointing to naked
heart the All-seeing eye, the anchor and ark
the hour-glass, the scythe, the forty seventh
problem of Euclid, the sun, moon, stars, and
comets the three steps which are emblemst
ical of youth, manhood and age. Admirably
executed was the weeping virgin, reclining on 4
broken column, upon which lay the book O.
constitutions In her left hand she held thu
pot of incense, the Masonic emblem of pur,
heart, and in her uplifted hand sprig of Aca
cia, the emblem of the Immortality of the soul
Immediately beneath her stood winged Time
with his scythe by his side, which cuts the bri;
tie thread of life, and the hour glass at his feet
which is ever reminding US that our lives ar
withering away. The witheIed and attenuat
: ed fingers of the Destroyer were placed ami
the long and gracefully flowing ringets of tn
| disconsolate mourner. Thus were the strikin
. emblems of mortality and Immortality beauti
fully blended in one pictorial representation
1t was spectacle such as Masons never say
before, and, in all probability, such as the fra
ternity will never witness again. The brother
E name was never known.
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JOSH BILLINGS ON GoTE.-The cote IL
koarSe wOoled sheep.
They hav good appetite, and sangulne
digestion.
They swallo anything what they eat, and will
eat ennything they kan bite.
Their moral karakters are not polished; they
had rather steal Il rotten turnip, out OV gar.
bage-box, than tcw cum honestly bI pek OF
oats.
The male cote has two horns on the ridge ov
hiZ he'd, and mustash on hiZ bottom lip, and
IL the plug ugly ov hiz naberhOod.
A maskuline cote will fite emmy thing from
an elephant down to hiz shadder on wall
They are hi seazoned animal, az mutch so
az pound ov assifdlty.
They kan KLINE ennything but greasy pole.
They are alwus poor in the boldly, but phatt
in the stumck. What they eat seems to all
go to appetight; yu mite az well agree tcw
phatt an injunfubber over shew bi filling 1t
with klam shells, az teW ralZe emmy adlpoZe
membrane on the outside bust ov cote. A
phatt gote.would be literary curiosity.
Thare il only two animals Oy the earth that
| will eat tObakko- one IL a man and luther IL
cote, but the cote understands it the most,
for he swalers the spit chaw and all
The msle cote, when he IL pensiv, IL ven
cradle and philosophy looking old cuss, and
wouldn't make bad professor Ov arithmetic
III SUu1 Nv our COlISRGb.
They are handy at living a long time, reach
ing an advanced age without arriving at emmy
defnate konklusion. How long cote livs
without gizing it up, thare il no man now old
enuff tew tell.
Gotes will liv in emmy klimate, and on amy
vittles, except tanbark, and if they even cum
to square death, it IL profound sekret, in
the hands of few, to this day.
l wouldn't like tew beeave emmy man under
: oath who had even seen maskuline cote ack-
tually die, and stay SO.
, The femail cote IL either the mother, or sis
ter or cuzzn ov the mail cote, ackording teW
the prevailing circumstansis in the case
They Civ milk ntuitively-about quart (be
fore it il watered) in twelve hours. This milk
which IL extrakted from the femail cote IL ex
! celent tew finish up yung ones on, but is ap
to make them bellycOse, and frightful.
/ In writing the history ov the mail and fe
e male cote tew adorn the pages ov future time
? fatter miseIf that haV stuck tew the truth
: and haven't allowed mi imagnaShun tcw bos
the job.
' A CRATE menny ov our best bilt historians are
: apt tew mistake opinyuns for facts. This il
S an easy mistake tew make but when | strike
goose, or bed bugg, or cote, yu notis ont
thing, stay with them.
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BOXING THE EARs.-Boxing the ears is an
inexcusable brutality; many child has been
made deaf for life by it, because the drum of
the ear is membrane, as thin as paper, stretch
ing like curtain just inside the external en-
trance of the ear. There is nothing but air
just behind it, and any violent conclusion is IL
able to rend it in two and the hearing is destroy
ed forever, because the sense of hearing is
caused by the vibrations of this drum or Tym-
panum. Picking the ears is most mischiev-
Gus practice In attempting to dc this with
hard substances, an unucky motion has many
time pierced the drum and made it as useless
as pierced India rubber life preserver; moth
ing harder nor sharper than the end of the
little finger, with the nail pared, ought to be
introduced into the ear, unless by physician;
persons are often seen endeavoring to remove
the wax Of the ear with the head Of a pin
this ought never to be done, first, because it
not only endangers the rupture of the ear by
being pushed too far ill., but if not so far, it may
CRATE against the drum, excite inflammation and
an ulcer, which will finally eat ali the parts
away, especially of u scr6fulous constitution;
second, hard substances have often slipped in,
and caused the necessity of painful, dangerous
and expensive operations to fish or cut out
third, the wax is manufactured by nature to
guard the entrance of dust, insects, and unmod-
fled cold air, and when it has subserved its
purpose it becomes dry, scaly, light and in this
condition it is easily pushed outside, by new
formations of wax within. Occasionally wax
may harden and intefere with the hearing but
when this is the case, it is the part of wisdom
to consult physician and let him decide what
! is the matter, and what the remedy.
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The Piano.

More or less, we have all withered under the
fantasies of the young lady with the brilliant
left hand have shuddered at the advent of
the person who plays a ltte," and have
wondered at the hostess "Thank you, that is
so charming" And in moments like these
most of us have pOndered why it is that this
peculiar form of musical art should be degrad-
ed into a wretched clap trap exhibition, to be
wreaked upon unOfending people who accept
invitations given with apparent kindness and
good faith. Why is the piano, of all other
instruments, to be corpus Vile for all persons,
with or without musical organization, to play
fantastic tricks upon? 1t is the pride, the am
bition, the business of ladies to be agreeable
and entertaining in the drawing room music
is agreeable; therefore the manipulations of
the piano must be part of ''inished" young
lady's education. A boy may have a sincere
love or an obvious taste for music, and find
under our present system Of school and unver-
sity education scarcely any encouragement for
his taste or opportunity for his talent; rather
it will be stigmatized by grave and reverned
seignors as a mischlevOus temptation, incOm-
patible with serious aims in life. But let girl
betray the most hopeless incapacity for compre-
hending either harmony or melody-it is all
one, learn she must 1t is part of her education,
of her duty in life, that she should be able to
play rattling fantasia at least vigorously as
her neighbors, the Misses Brown and Jones
Hence the murderous sounds which go up tc
the gods from thousand academies daily
and thus it is that countless young girls spenC
largo part of the best days of their youth il
what to many of them is but dreary mechani
cal exercise, and to all is sacrifice of time anC
trouble quite disproportiOnate to the end at
tanned. The time which might thus be em
ployed in gaining real knowledge and cultiva
ton of mind and character is employed il
achieving talent for debasing beautiful ar
into snowy mechanical display distasteful t.
themselves and wearisome to Others
What we want in our social meetings is no
to have the piano kept going, like a mill
against an opposing torrent of conversation
but to have music that is worth listening t
well played, if people wish for it and will liste
to it, and not otherwise; and if half the tim
spent by young ladies at school in excursion
up and down the keyboard were occupied i
learning something about music as an art, som
of us might have less reason to dread the sigh
J of "the piano in the house. "-Jennie June.
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CONCERNING ORGANIC GRINDERS have
a sincere regard for the disabled defenders of
tie country who are now reduced to the ueces-
sity of turning the crank for a living. We be-
heve in putting pennies in the box, and are
willing to otherwise encourage them in any
proper manner yet there is feature in the
performances of these musicians against which
we must mildly protest. 1t is that of eontinu-
ance. There is an organ in our vicinity which
is a desperate persister. Its favorite melody
S;dn's Il u'e graduate W at West Point ~ "'
Now, Captain Jinks is well enough if you
don't get too much, but when that distinguish
ed representative of the. horse marines is
ground out to the rnmitigated time of two
hours and a half without stopping, one naturally
begins to feel as though he had beard that ,
and and Sion. pals, or perhaps the inauguration o.
a powerful squirt-gun, fit through the listen
ing mind.
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APPEARANCE OF WAsHrNeroN's OLD HEAD

APPEARANCE OF WAsHINaToN's OLD HEAD
QUARTERS. house which Washington
made his headquarters. at Valley Forge, on the
Schuylkill has, from every appearance, had
the greatest care taken of it, and is now in
excellent repair. Little change has be n made
in it since the terrible days of the revolution.
1t is rock house, consisting of two rooms be-
low and one above, having a narrow hall
(Some one story rooms have been added. The
style of the window sash and woodwork gener-
ally show it's great antiquity. The inside is
painted white. The rooms are neatly papered,
and every thing appears tidy and attractive.
The old intrenchments have also withstood the
rugged hand of Time, being almost perfect in
some places. This may be accounted for in
some respects by the nature of the ground.
There is a great deal of rock mixed with the
thrown up dirt Part of the intrenchments
extended through woody country. 1t lookslik
it has always been pasture ground. The forts
are still elevated far above the common leve
and unless moved by the hand of man vii
remain there for centuries to come. There are
five cannon ball at the headquarters, said tc
have been left there by Washington. Here
the American army endured sad want and hun
ger, and here its great commander bowed hi
head in prayer.
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IPrRIIc RRsnLrr1nN-Nn- 81
IPUBLIC HEsOLUTION-NO.3 81
Joint Resolution to supply omissions the enrolment
tain appropriation acts approved March third egheen

Joint Resolution to supply omissions enrolment
tain appropriation acts approved March third
dred and sixty nine.
Be resolved by the Senate
the United States of Congress assembled That the
following items omitted in the enrolment of appropriation
acts approved March third eighteen hundred and
and the same hereby amended made valid portions
of the acts from which they were omitted, viz:
In the act making appropriations for elegsatve
tive and judicial of the end
the thrteth OF june hundred and seventy after
the provlso the paragraph commencing For salaries and
collectors
agents. &c. inserts Provided further That the passage
OF this act the propretor OF all internal bonded
houses shall the United States the and
salary all sorekeepers other officers charge such
warehouses; and the shall be treasury
accounted for like other public moneys.
In the act making appropriations sundy civil
of the tor the ending June threh eghteer
hundred ahd seventy and other under the head
Public Buildings and Grounds before the item For
of lampghters gas-ftng &C., insert For lighting thu
Capitol and Presidents house and public then
and around the executive Offices thirty thousand dollars
Approved, March 29, 1869
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AWARNING.- Here is a warning to all per-
SONS who think to improve the compilations
which nature has given them. One George
Neal, of Truftonborough, Mass, being desir-
Gus of improving his personal beauty was in
the habit of taking "Fowler's Solution,
which is a preparation of arsenic. An. over
dose last week finished George Neal: AS the
use of arsenic in one form or another, as a
beautifier, has become altogether too common,
it may be well for young men and women to
contemplate the sad fate of George Neal, who
certainly has not finally succeeded in perma
nently improving has complexion.
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By THE President OF TIE UNITED SrArEs OF AMERIoA
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas additional article the convention for regua
the Jurisdiction Of consu between the United States Of
America and his Majesty the King of Italy and
signed by their respective at on
the twenty first day Of January eighteen hundred and sixty
languages, is word for word as follows: . -
The exchange racatops of the convention for reguat
the jurisdiction Of co1su between the United States and
his Majesty the King Of Italy which signed the sh OF
February 1862 having been unayodaby delayed beyond the
period stipulated in Article XVII agreed between the
high contracting parties that the said convention shall have
the force and effect would have had the exchange
had been effected within the stipulated period.
witness whereof the respective penpotenaries have
signed the article in duplicate and have affixed thereto
the seal Of their
Done at Washington, the Gis day Of January, 1869:
lsEALl WILLIAM ii. SEWARD.
lsRALt MARCELLO CERRUTI.
And whereas the said additional article has been duly ratified
both and the respective we're exchanged
at Washington on the 7th instant: -
Now, Therefore be il known that s. Grant President o.
States of America have caused the said additional
made public to the end that the and
article thereof be observed and fulfilled with
faith by the United States and the citizens thereof
Whereof have hereuno set hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Washington this eleventh day Of May, In
the thousand eight hundred and sixty
nine Independence Of the United States Of Amecs
the ninety third. -....
(sEAL.l ...t.t.... n. =. U .. dhANT.
BY the President:
~. HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary Of State.
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1t is stated that seventeen different foreign
governments carry on diplomatic correspondence
with the State Department, at Washington, in
the Spanish language. Only England, Liberia
and the Sandwich Islands communicate with
us in the English language. Several govern
ments communicate with us in the French Ian
guage, because it is supposed to be the most
polite. For instance, Holland, instead of treat
ing us to good Dutch, uses French, and Turkey
also All semi barbarous people communicate
in French
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A poor old woman having been removed to
the alms,house was very importunate to have
an article of household furniture she had left
behind. Her unceasing request was at length
complied with, and men were dispatched to
transfer her household property to her new
abode. Imagine their surprise, on arriving at
her former residence, when they found nothing
but a coffin, which, however, they forthwith
brought to the old woman, much to her joy
and satisfaction, who pleasantly observed that
she found it very handy to keep her gowns in.
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PUBLIC REsoLurIox-No. 81


Resolved by the Representatives Of the
Omitted States America Congress assembled section
three chapter two hundred aud thirty of the public
acts OF the thirty ninth Congress- approved July twenty
eighteen hundred and sixtysx be- and hereby declared
take effect from and after January s eighteen hundred and
sxtyeven And all fees which have
obedience the provisions said section which
accrued prior to SAID first day of January eighteen hundred
and shall be refunded OF consular receipts
Approved, March
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PUBLIC REsoLUTIoN-No. 81
for the raliar of aattlars nnnn the ahsantaa 2hI

lands in Kansas.
Whereas large tract of lands set apart by treaty with the
Shawnee tribe OF Indians dated May TENTH DOmni eigh
teen hundred and and proclaimed November second
UOmni eighteen hundred and the benefit Of
the said Shawnee tribe
has BEEN occupied large number white
settlers citizens Of the State Of Kansas whereas the
beneficial interest Of the said absentee Shawnes in said lands
absolutely forfeited by their continued alb
and nonaiation with the said Shawnee tribe; and
the said lands ordered be publicly sold at the
United States land Office at Topeka August third eighteen
by Abraham Lincoln, President, by
his proclamation dated March twentieth Domin egh
hundred and and by of the absence Of
numbers Of said settlers from their homes In the federal
armies the sale indefinitely postponed Therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House Representatives Of the
United States of America in Congress assembled That each
bona fde settler occupying said lands and having made
thereon the heirs law Of SUCH who
citizen of the United States who has declared his intention
SUCH shall be entitled purchase the land
pied aud improved by him. exceed hundred and
each the price Of dollars and fifty cents
under such rules and regulations the Of the
Interior shall Provided however That the proceeds
of said sales shall be applied in accordance with the provisions
O the eay between the United States and the said shaw
Indians proclaimed November second Domni eigh
teen hundred and Ityfour
ApprOyed, April T., 1869.