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Gods house and the sanctuary where
he dwells all adorned as it should be
with the gifts of the faithful, and when
you think that YOU gave not one cent
towards it. / tell you you'll blush if
there's blush in you"
After proceeding in this tone for
twenty minutes, during which he laugh
ed heartily himself and made the people
laugh outright, he changed to another
topic, which he handled in style well
adapted to accomplish the object in
tended. He said he had heard that
some of the hotel girls" had been
swearing and quarreling good deal
that summer "Ah," he continued, a
was sorry to hear it! The idea of
LADIES swearing! How wrong, how
mean, how contemplate, how nasty,
how unchristian! Don't you suppose
that the ladies and gentlemen at the
hotel have heard how many Protestants
are coming into the bosom of the Cath
Ole Church? Don't you suppose they
watch you? They know you're Cath
olics: and don't you suppose they'll be
Judging of Catholics by YOU? And,
besides, who would marry swearing
lady? Tell me THAT! The most
abandoned blackguard that walks the
streets wouldn't marry girl that he
had heard swear for he knows very
we'll that she'd be bad mother. If |
were young man, and heard my true
love swear, do you think I'd marry her !?
HEY? do you think l would? BY no
NAMES! And l wish to God l had
spoken about this before; for now the
season is almost over, and many of the
Protestant people have gone home, and
very likely are talking about it now in
New York and Boston. You know
what they'll say, If that's the way
Catholic ladies behave, you don't catch
me turning Catholic"
At the conclusion of the discourse he
took up the collection himself, saying,
as he left each pew, " Thank you," in a
strong, hearty tone of voice; and if
any one took little extra trouble to
reach over, or put into the box some
thing more than the usual copper coin,
he bowed and said, " | thank you very
much, madam,-very much indeed."-
He was a strange mixture of the father
and the ecclesiastic, of the good fellow
and the gentleman"
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Nearest the Fire.

During the sitting of a court in Connec-
ticut not long ago, on very cold evening,
a crowd of lawyers had collected round the
open fire that blazed cheerfully on the
hearth in the bar-room, when traveller en-
tered benumbed with cold but no one
moved to give him room to warm his shins,
SO he leaned against the wall in the back
part of the room.
Presently a smart young limb of the law
addressed him, and the following dialogue
took place .-.
''You look like traveller" IL
''Wall, | suppose am >; come all the
way from Wisconsin afoot, at any rate"
''From Wisconsin? What distance to
come on one pair of legs"
''Wall, l done it ennyhow.' ....-...r
''Did you ever pass through hell in any
of your travels 9''
Eyes, sir; I've been through the out
skirts.''
81 thought likely. Well, what are the
manners and customs there? Some of us
would like to know"
''Oh you'll find them much the same as
in this place. The lawyers sit nearest the
fire. Is IND.
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View from a Balloon.

The view over London, in ascending
1000 feet, is thus described by the London
Nems: "The earth and its dwelling places,
its trees, it's roads, its rivers, drop slowly
and resolve themselves into clearly de-
fined, widely spreading map. The steam
ers plying ON the Thames recalled the toy
boats at the Polytechnic; the black ants
rushing busily to and fro in the barren
space Immediately below were schoolboys
in playground few minutes since; the
strips of drab tape stretching their devious
courses to right and left are roads; the
squares and oblong green patches with dark
borders, fields; and that large table upon
which game of dominoes is apparently
being played is Brombton Cemetery; and
it is it's profusion of white tombstones,
some flat, some upright, which are recall
ing the old game. There seems mighty
stir among thepigmies below, and huzzahs
which become faint in the distance, but are
never quite lost, come up to us cheerily.-
The small boxes drawn by ants, into cabs
and omnibuses have resolved themselves,
Irvine their way along the strips of drab
tape and almost arouse wonder by never
deviating from their path
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From the Atlantic Monthly for January.l
Moral Significance Of the Republican
Triumph.
BY E. P. WHIPPLE.

The moral significance of the struggle
which has just closed is thus found in
the fact that the good cause was best
served by its bitterest enemies. A bad
institution like slavery, generates bad
type of character in its supporters, and
urges them blindly on to the adop-
ton of measures which, intended for its
defence, result in its ruin. The i'm
mense achievement of emancipating
four millions of slaves, and placing them
on an equality of civil and political
rights with their former masters, is due
primarily to such men as Calhoun and
McDuffie, Davis and Toombs, Vallan-
digham, Pendleton, Belmont, johnson,
and Seymour. The prejudice in the
United States against the colored race
was strong enough to overcome every
thing but their championship of it.
These persons taught the nation that
its safety depended on its being just
The most careless glance over the chief
incidents in the long contest shows
that all the enemies of human freedom
needed for success was little modera-
ton and good sense, but moderation
and good sense are fortunately not the
characteristics of men engaged in doing
the Devils work for the Devils, pay
"The Lord reigns, "a simple propo-
stion, but one which politicians find it
hard to accept, and which they often
waste immense energies in the impo-
tent attempt to overturn.
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Odd Yankees.
BY JAMES PARTON.

a curious thing about New England
is the variety of eccentric characters to
be found there. In almost every town
there is farmer or mechanic who has
addicted himself to some kind of know
ledge very remote from his occupation.
Here you will find shoemaker, in a
little shop (Which he locks when he
goes to dinner or to the post-office,
much to the inconvenience of custom
ers,) who has attained celebrity as
botanist In another village there NAV
be wheelwright who would sell his
best coat for rare shell; and, not far
off, farmer, who is a pretty good
geologist, and is forever pecking away
at his innocent rocks Again you will
find machinist who is enamored of
large paper" copies of standard works,
and reioices in the possession of rarities
in literature which he cannot read. |
know an excellent steel-plate engraver,
who, besides being universal critic,
is particularly convinced that the en-
tire railroad system of the world is
wrong,-ties, rails, driving-wheels,
axles, oil-boxes, everything,-and en-
ploys his leisure in inventing better de-
vices. Then there are people who
have odd schemes Of benevolence, such
as that of the Massachusetts farmer
who went to Palestine to teach the
Orentals the true system of agricul-
ture, and was two years in finding out
that they wouldn't learn it. There are
morose men and families who neither
visit nor are visited; and there is occa-
sionally, a downright miser, of the
ancient type, such as we read of in old
magazines and anecdote books. There
are men, too, of an extreme eccentricity
of opinion. / think there are in Boston
about dozen as complete, immovable
if not malignant, Tories, as can be
found this side Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
who plume themselves upon hating
everything that makes the glory of
their age and country. And, speaking
of Boston,-solid, sensible Boston,
what other city ever accomplished
feat SO eccentric as the production Of
those twin incongruities, George Fran
els Train and the Count Johannes? "
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The Metropolitan Church at Washington.

The great Metropolitan Methodist Epis-
copal Church, at the Capital, is approach
ing completion. 1t will be by far the most
superb church owned by the Methodists.
A short time ago, the Methodists under
took to rear national church at the CAPT
tai. The gigantic enterprise of securing
1925, 900 was undertaken. Rev. Mr.. De
Hass was assigned to this work. lie has
already collected 100000 The church
has three hundred pews. The pulpit fur
niture is made of wood brought from
lands of sacred associations. Gethsemane,
the Mount of Olives, and Lebanon make
their contributions. The vestibule is to be
paved with the marble which once graced
the portico of Solomon's Temple. A pew,
gorgeously fitted up, is assigned to the
President. Pews of lesser magnificence
are appropriated to the Vice President and
Speaker of the House. Every State in the
Union has a. pew assigned to it, and the
heads Of departments are not forgotten.
The church is to be opened OH the last
Sunday in February, the Sunday preceding
the Inauguration of Gen. Grant. Bishop
Simpson is to preach the dedication SER
mon, and Mr.. Punshon, the eloquent Eng
lishman, will preach in the afternoon.
What class of ladies are apt to give
tone to society? The bellies.
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Der, 1746. Earthquakes had come,
gone, and been forgotten. The people
of Lima had built their tall churches,
their beautiful towers, and lofty palaces
as if all were secure, and the people of
Callao slept by the side of their tran
quill sea as if they could rest on its
bosom forever 1t was the night of
October %, at half past ten O'Clock,
when all the city was asleep. A shock
awakened it. Fortunately the people
sprang into the streets. Four minutes
served to shake Lima to the gronnd-
not twenty houses out of three thous-
and were left standing. The whole city
crumbled into dust the converts and
monasteries, the church tower and the
churches, the palace Of the Nicoroy, the
pleasant adobe houses-all formed a
heap of ruins, beneath which might be
heard the groans of the dying, the cry
for help, the agony of woe. The loss
of life was not excessive, but nearly a
thousand persons were dead, and the
horrors of that dreadful night were in
creased by succession of shocks that
shook down what the first had spared.
Many were crushed in the ruins of
their houses, others were struck down
as they fled through the streets, and the
survivors watched YEARLY through the
long night for the coming of the dawn.
Suddenly their horror was doubled
by the intelligence from the port. Cal
lao was now only bank of sand. The
peaceful sea which had slept SO tran
gully at its side had risen in vast IL
dial wave, swept over the city, and car
ried its whole population back into the
deep. The ships in the harbor were
borne over the town to the dry land,
and as they passed they were surround
ed by multitudes of floating people,
and heard the shrieks of the great
throng as it sank under the waters
Some few escaped. In the morning
scarcely trace remained of Callao.-
Wave following wave had blotted it
from existence A heap of sand marked
the place where it's ramparts and pal
aces once stood and the new Callao
which was afterward built was placed
on fresh site, away from the terrible
memories of its predecessors.
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Howard at Atlanta.
BY J. G. WHITTIER.

Right in the track where Sherman
Ploughed his red furrow,
Out of the narrow cabin,
Up from the cellars burrow,
Gathered the little black people,
With freedom newly lowered,
Where, beside their Northern teacher
Stood the soldier, Howard
He listened and heard the children
OF the poor and long enslaved
Reading the words of Jesus,
Singing the songs of David.
Behold the dumb lips speaking,
The blind eyes seeing =
Bones of the Prophets vision
Warmed into being!
Transformed he saw them passing
Their new life's portal
Almost it seemed the mortal
Put on the immortal.
No more with the beasts of burden,
No more with stone and clod,
But crowned with glory and honor
In the image of God!
There was the human chattel
Its manhood taking;
There, in each dark, bronze statue,
a soul was walking.
The man of many battles,
With tears his eyelids pressing,
Stretched over those dusky foreheads
His one-armed blessing.
And he said 'Who hears can never
Fear for OF doubt you:
What shall tell the children
Up North about you?''
Then ran round wits, murmur,
Some answer devising;
And little boy stood up: ''Massa,
Tell 'em we're rising,
o black boy of Atlanta
But half was spoken:
The slaves chain and the masters
Alike are broken.
The one curse of the races
Held both in tether:
They are rising,-all are rising,
The black and white together.
o brave men and fair women.
III comes of hate and scorning:
Shall the dark faces only
Be turned to morning?
Make Time your sole avenger,
Allhealing, all-redressing
Meet Fate halfway, and make it
A joy and blessing!
Atlantic Monthly for March.
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FAT camp meeting. a number

WA At camp meeting, number
of ladies continued standing on the
benches, Notwithstanding frequent hints
from the minister to sit down. A rev.
erend old gentleman, noted for his good
humor, arose and said 81 think if
those ladies standing on the benches
knew they had holes in their stockings,
they would sit down" This address
had the desired effect-there was an
immediate sinking into the seats. A
young minister standing behind him,
and blushing to the temples, said:
go, brother, how could Won say
that ?"
Say that?" said the old gentleman,
cts a fact-if they hadn't holes in
their stockings, I'd like to know how
they conld get them on"
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New Mode of Calculating Interest.

Multiply the number of months and one
third of the days by one-half the principal,
and you have the. exact interest at six per
cent.
eB-"H How many children have / ?'' asked
woman of a spirit-rapper. '',Four."-
"And how many have II" asked her hus-
band. "Two," was the astonishing reply.
Mistake somewhere. as
M BY Thoughtful henpeck' d.
Old Boy.-In our sceool days the ''rule Of
three" is proverbially trying-how much
harder, in after life, do we feel the rule Of
some ~ v
B How to prevent gray hairs-Keep
your head Shaved. Warranted not to fail.
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nW": john INQUIRED a dominic c

W John" inquired dominic of
a hopeful pupil, "what is nailer?"
"a man who makes nails" said
John ... ...-..
every good. What is tailor?"
Gone who makes tails"
30, you stupid fellow" said the DOM
inie, biting his lips, "a man who makes
tails" "a. s.'
Eyes, master" returned John, eff
the tailor did not put tails to the coats
he made, they would be all JAcKETsP'
"Sit down, John, you're an honor to
your maternal parent"
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AGENTS WANTED

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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ELEGANTLY
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cB What class of ladies are apt to give
tone to society? The bellies.
The New York herald., 1869-01-18
LONG ISLAND INTELLIGENCE.

sroRTsMEN's CLuB.-An association under the
name OF the Sportsmen's Club has been formed in
the village OF Flushing, having for Its object the en-
forcement OF the game laws OF the State and replen
ishment of birds especially quails The association
embraces large number OF names well known 70
the sporting community. These gentlemen intend
procuring go pairs more Of quals TO turn out In
the spring. and intend enforcing the law at what
ever expense OF time money and perseverance.
SUFFOLK COUNTY COURT.-A term OF the Suffolk
County Court for the hearing OF motions and argu.
ments OF appeals VIII be held at the Court House,
Riverhead, to-day.
NEW RoAp.--The contract for building the new
road from Hunters Poinv to Blissvilfe has been
awarded to Mr.. John Moore. OF Greenpoint. who in
tends having the same passable for teams by July
l. The road when completed will be the finest In
the Island.
QUEENS COUNTY SUPERvIsoRs.-Ar meeting OF
the Queens County Board OF Supervisors, held at
Jamaica, on Friday last, q resolution was adopted
authorizing the District Attorney to draft bill pro-
vidng for the erection Of the new court house In the
village OF Jamaica, at cost not to exceed $500 0O0
the bonds payable In twenty years. committee ut
the same time was appointed to proceed to Albany,
to secure the passage OF the bill.
The New York herald., 1869-01-18
NORFOLK FRUIT AND TRUCKING FARMS.
rFrom the Norfolk journal. Jan. -,

lFrom the Norfolk Journal, Jan. l2.1
We have been favored by the Secretary OF our
P0inological Society with the following exhibit OF
the various productions or the fruit and trucking
farms IN the neighborhood OF our city during the
past year which have been sent from this port 10 the
Northern market:-1, ,0OC, 600 baskets Strawberries
$4,000 barrels potatoes, 10000 barrels pcas, 10000
barrels snaps 900 heads cabbages 600 barrels
cucutnber5, 100000 boxes tomatoes, 5000 barrels
squashes 1000 barrels beets 10000 punches radishes
100000 cantal0upes and $4,000 watermelons. The est
mated value received Tor the above Is 81. .043. 200.
This calculation, IL VIII he observed. does not In.
cude what has been received from the sale OF apples
pears, plumbs, cherries &C., which would probably
amount 10 s25,0Q0 more.
From what we can learn the society has taken the
greatest pains to ascertain the amounts produced on
our fruit and truck iarns In this vicinity. They have
certainly not overestimated them or the money re-
ceived for them.
The above exhibit shows what q country we have
In the neighborho0d OF city. Here Is a compara
lively new species Of cultivation which has already
brought In above million In one season. What will
be produced when all the counties around Norfolk
will compose one great garden and supply with
early fruits and vegetables the whole OF the Union
north Of this ports
The New York herald., 1869-01-18

to 12ok, but closed so" that figure the rest Of the
list, except the express and miscellaneous shares
rather bearlsh and unsettled In consequence OF
the rumors anoat respecting the intention OF the
clique to seek the assistance OF Western courts and
Legislatures to defeat the plans Of the "buls" In
the case OF the Cleveland ana Pittsburg road. the
stockholders secured the discontinue Of the Erie
clique. or tho inception Of these efforts nothing
definite is known, and Of their effect upon the
ket and the movements the other side everything
at the present time Is mere speculation. The closing
quotations at the second open board folows:-
Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s Express, rs q 2eh; American
Express, ss'1 bid; Adams Express, 62H q 62k;
United States Express, 40 SO; Merchants' Union Is
Is; Quicksilver, FAX Q 24X; Canton. 541z SAX;
Martposa, bid; do. preferred 231< 23x; Pacific
Mail, l22K 122H; Western Union Telegraph s35x .
"a; New York Central. 16lK 161h; Erie. 3sA Q
3sX; Hudson River, 131 1872; Harlem, 130 o 1S1;
Reading, o5K s5A: Bankers and Brokers', 10s bid;
Alton and Terre Haute, 20 . Al; do. preferred,
es ok; Wabash o2x . eax; do. preferred. ~;
Milwaukee and st. Paul, TAX TAX; do. preferred,
o3,4 os,<; Fort Wayne, Sl2oX 121; Ohio and Mis-
siasippi asK aaK; Michigan Central 1lsK; Michi
gan Southern, 90 . COX; Pittsburg ssX ssk;
Toledo, 1881 1O4; Rock Island 1881 a 12sk;
Northwestern. SEX s2,<; do. preferred, ss a ssH.
As is usual on Saturday, there no boards later
than this, but an animated business transacted
In the Long Room up to four O'Clock. The following
were the prices here just before the publication OF
the bank statement:-New York Central, 163 1oak;
Reading s6iS . 95K; Milwaukee and st. Paul pre-
ferred, o.; Fort Wayne 100 12oa<; Ohio and Missis
sipRi 33k; Michigan Southern, COX o0s<; Pitts
burg, SIX 80; Toledo, 1884 104; Rock Island,
129'S 129x; Northwestern, 50 o s21E.
The following were the closing street quotations at
five O'Clock yesterday evening:-New York Central,
1925 1886 Erie, 3sX sszs Fort Wayne 1917 bid;
Michigan Southern, sok soX; Rock Island, 1888.
l2sss; Reading, s5h 96k Northwestern pre-
ferred, 8s ss; St. Paul preferred o. bid; Ohio and
Mississippi, s3K sas; Wabash, e2k bid; Pacific
Mail, l22lS q 122K.
Annexed is q comparative statement showing the
shipments Of specie from this port last week and
during the year to date together with those the
cnrrrsn0ndinr neri0ds IN lS62.-
The New York herald., 1869-01-18

The stock market for the week was on the whole
IN favor OF the bulls. Notwithstanding the uneasness
caused early In the week by the continued closeness
pf the money market In the face OF favorable bank
statement which had the erect Of limiting transac-
tions TO certain extent but did not materially lower
the prices. This dulness continued most OF the
week, except In the OF the speculative railway
shares, which were dealt In almost 70 tho exclu-
sion OF the balance Of the list. The market for
these was rather excited and prices nuctuated
very much In consequences OF various rumors. Yes
terday was one OF the most animated Of the week,
pnd was especially noticeable for . very decided
movement In New York Central which sold A high
~ le2k just before the publication Of the bank state
Dnent, Notwithstanding tho market was then being
bharpy attacked by the bears but subsequently ad-
tancins, upon tho favorable appearance Of that
statement 70 1esK, but settling again before the
ose The course Of this stock for the past few days
has been wholly independent Of the rest Of the
kex 10 he's remained duli when the balance Of the
1ist was buoyant and this advance yesterday was
in the face Of general depression ROCK Island was
smother feature of the market Yesterday, and sod up