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Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

The London Star recently discussed the ne
cessity of adopting some such severe penalty
against the English practice of wife-beating as
will put stop to it. The Star thought that
the pubic hogging of wife-beaters would be the
most effective deterrent In the world. But it
indicated very extraordinary objection to this
in saying it is urged there is plenty of wife
beating among the well-to-do classes, especially
among the beneJfced cIergy;" and we can but
admire the bOlduess of the Star, in treating
this point, when it says the benefited clergy
man convicted of beating his wife should be
layer found guilty of the offense. We should
think it might be good thing, after whipping
the beneficial clerical wife beater, to deprive
him OF his benefce and degrade him from the
clergy.--N Y Times
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Ages of Some Living Authors.

Appletons Journal gives the following list
of the ages of some of the best known living
authors:
The following list of the ages of living au-
thors will, no doubt, prove of interest to our
readers. 1t has been compiled with care, and
will be found, we think, entirely correct: Guian
c. Verplank, 81; Richard II. Dana, 83 Geo
TicknOr and Charles Sprague, rs; John Neal,
76; John P. Kennedy IS; Sarah j. Hale, "A !;
William Cullen Bryant, 70 Stephen II. Tying,
Francis l.eber, and George Bancroft, 70; Will
liam Ii. Seward and Catherine +. Beecher, 69 !;
Lydia NJ Child and Leonard w. Bacon, 68 ;
William HI. Furniss and Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, 81 Horace Bushnell and George d. Prem
tice, 66; William Gilmore Sims and NJ. +.
Maury, GA; Theodore S Fay, John q, Whitti-
er, Louis Agassiz, and w. Fl. Longiellow, G.
James Freeman Clark, Isaac Mcclellan, and
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 60; Charles Sumner
Horace Greeley, and Alfred B. Street, Sc; har
rlet Beecher Stowe and Samuel OsgoOd So
G. r. Cranch and John S. Dwight, 81 }. L
Headley, w. Ii. G. Hosmer, Ii. !. Tucker
man, Henry W. Bellows, Henry Ward Beech
er, and E. II. Chaplin, Sc ! Richard II. Dana
Jr, and John Lothrop Motley, 50; John q
SAKE and Epes Sargent, "a; E: A. DuyckincI
and Parke Goodwin, So; Jas T. Fields, Joh
Bigelow, and Arthur Cleveland Coke, So; Wm
| OUduHlUS, llGuT1 OllGS, WIS IL -. OOulH
worth, Mrs. f. +. Elicit, +. S. Cozzens, L.
Whipple, and James Russell Lowell, 81 JUL
Ward Howe, Thomas W. Parsons C. A. Bri.
ted, and Herman Melville, so; T. B. ReaC
Samuel Eliot, j. G. Holland, and Edward E'
erett Hale, As; Alice Cary, William r. Alger
James Parton, and Donald G. Mitchell, Al
Francis Parkman and George w. Curtis, 46
Richard H. Stoddard George H. Boxer, Bay
ard Taylor, and Charles G. Leland, As; Mar
A. Denison and Charles l.. Brace, 43 Paul |
Hayne, and William Croswell Doane, 38 Wi
) liam Swinton, Sc; Ellen Louise Chandler an
James Grant Wilson, 35; Thomas r. AldriC
and E. S. Band Jr., 33. English and Fren,
Francois P G. Guizot, 83: Charles Knigl
and Victor Cousin, 70; Sir John Brownin
II; Thomas Carlyle and William Hewitt, z
: NJ. A. Theirs, 10; Emile de Girardin, Wet
Hugo and Barry, 68; Benjamin Disraeli, S
Lytton Bulwer, Harriet Martineau, and Ale
: ander Dumas, 81; Mary Hewitt and GeOr
r Sand 66; W. E. Gladstone, 6l; Alfred Tenn
son, 60; Louis Blame, Charles Dickens, Robe
: Browning, and Charles Mackay, 81; Charl
] Reade, So William H. Russell and Anthol
: Trolope, So; Tom Taylor, So; Rev. Charl
J, Kingsley and John Ruskin, so; Wilkie Collin
n As; Matthew Arnold, Al !; and James Hanna
e A.
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10
NO. res
An Irishman's Letter.
DouJlin, Swdtc Ireland,
OcfoIe,. the y

DEAR NEFFA--I haven't sent We letter
since the last time | wrote to ye, because wo
have moved from our former place Of living,
but now with pleasure take up my pen to in
form ye of the death OF yer own livin' uncle
Fitzpatrick, who died very suddenly last week
atther lingerin' illness of sex wakes. The
poor man was in violent convulsions the whole
time OF his illness, lying perfectly quiet all the
while and spacheSs entirely, talking incoher-
rcntly and cryin' for water. had no oppor-
tunity of informing ye Of his death sooner, ex-
cept [ wrote to you by the last post, which
went two days before his death, and then you'd
had the postage to pay. ! IN at a great loss to
tell what his death was occasoned by, but
fear it was by his last sickness. lie niver was
well in tin days together the whole time Of his
confinement; but be that as it will, as soon as
he had breathed his last, the doctor Civ up all
| hopes Of his recovery.
| needn't tell you anything about his age,
for you know that in May next he would have
bin twenty five years Oud, likin tin months,
and had he lived till that time, he would have
been sex months dead. His property is very
considerable it devoves upon his next kin,
who is dead sometime since, so that expect it
will be equally divided between US, and thin,
dear Larry, ven git two-thirds of the whole !;
an ye know he had fine estate, which was
sould to pay his debts, and the remainder on
the horse race. But it was the opinion Of all
the ladies present that he would have won the
race, if the horse he run against hadn' been too
fast for him bad luck to be baste. But, poor
soul, he niver will ate or drink more; and now,
Larry, We haven't relashun in the world, ex-
cept meself and yer two cousins that were kilt
in the last war.
But | can't dwell on the mournful subject,
but will sale this letther with black sailing wax,
| and put on yer uncle's coat of arms. So beg
/ you not to brake the sale when you open the
/ letther until three or four days afther you re
t save it, by that time ye will be prepared fol
the mournful tidings.
Yer old sweetheart, Mary, sends her love tt
r ye, unbeknownst to Inc. When the bearer o.
r this arrives in Hamilton, ak him for this let
: ther, and if he dosen't know which one it is
e tell him its the one that spakes Of yer uncle
: death and sailed in black.
t Your affectionate Aunt,
JUDY O'HALLIGAN.
y To larry O'Haligan
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

The Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum in Columbus, Ohio, gives the follow
ing interesting account of one of his pupils,
named VIM. f. Morfer: This pupil, in his
misfortune, illustrates the intimate connection
between hearing and seeing in their origin.
Last year, while pupil at the Blind Asylum,
he suddenly recovered his sight, with stimuli
taneous loss of hearing and power of speech.
Accordingly, at the opening of this term, ne
was transferred to this institution, and has
been in all respects genuine deaf mute. Last
Sunday he was attacked with severe neuralgia
pain in his head and chest, resulting soon in
perfect restoration of hearing and the loss Of
sight, without even the power of raising the
eyelids. His faculty of speech had not return,
ed to him, but he communicates by the manual
alphabet. He still suffers considerable pain. !"
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

"No, I Thank You. AT so-called spir-
itual meeting recently there was present wo-
man who mourned the loss of her consort, and,
as the manifestations began to appear, the
spirit of the departed Bendict entered upon
the scene. OF fcourse the widow was now ca
ger to engage in conversation with the absent
one, and the following dialogue ensued
Widow-"Are you in the spirit world :"
The Lamented-"I am.
Widow" How long have you been there?"
The Lamented-"O some time. :
Widow" Don't you want to come back and
be with your lonely wife,"
The Lamented-" Not it ] know myself.
It's hot enough here.
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

ETERNAL DISH WASHING. We are not
sure that the ladies will thank us for reproduc-
ing the following by Rev. T. K. Beecher, as it
may be simply repeating a, to them, tiresome
truth but it will show them that at least one
man appreciates their condition in life: The
quiet fidelity with which she will dish wash
her life away for him is marvel of endur.
ance and grace. just here is the servitude OF
woman heaviest--no sooner is her work done
than it requires to be done again. Man works
up Jobs, ends them, and takes his pay. This
pay can be translated into something else de-
sirable. A man works all day, and draws pay
for his days work. This pay allures him, as
oats a horse, homeward bound. Thus men
work by terms and jobs; and although work is
endless as to quantity, yet when cut up thus
into terms and jobs, we men go heartily on our
tourney and count our milestones. Not so with
our mate. She mends our socks, and we put
our irrepressible toe upon the darned spot, and
she darns it again. She washes for the
family, and the family make haste to seno
back the same garments to be washed again
She puts the room in order, and we get Il
ready to be rid up again. The same socks
the same washing, the same room every time
She has no successive jobs, no terms, no pay
day. no tally-stick of life. She washes th'
same dish three hundred and sixty-ive--yes
three times three hundred and sixty-hve time
every year. No wonder she breaks It and l
glad of It'll What relief to say, I've dom
with that dish
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To Larry O'Halligan.

MORE ABOUT BEEcHER's FARMING.-Here
is another extract from Mark Twain about
Henry Ward Beecher' farming experience:
When he bought his farm be found one egg
in every hens nest on the place. He said that
here was Just the reason why so many farmers
faled-they scattered their forces too much
concentration was the idea. So he gathered
them eggs together, and put them all under
one experienced old hen. That hen roasted
over that contract night and day for eleven
weeks, under the anxious personal supervision
of Mr.. Beecher himself, but she could not
faze" " those eggs. Why? Because they
we're those infamous porcelain things which are
used by ingenious and fraudulent farmers as
"nest eggs" But perhaps Mr.. Beecher's
most disastrous experience was the time he
tried to raise an immense crop of dried apples.
He planted fifteen hundred dollars worth, but
never one of them sprouted. lie has never
been able to understand to this day what was
the matter with those apples.
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

Fanny Fern says: "If one-half the girls
knew the previous lives of the men they marry.
the list of old maids would be wonderfully in-
creased" Whereupon the Boston Post asks,
p" If the men knew what their future lives were
to be, wouldn't it increase the list Of old maids
still further?'
An Iowa editor solemnly VOWS that he will
not support man for Representative " who
is whiskey barrel in the morning and baI.
rel of whisky at night
In Chicago toothless man, shaking with
palsy, has just married blooming damsel of
eighteen summers. She is the third wife. But
perhaps he has money.
Some very naughty and wicked man says
Mrs. Cady Stanton is wonderful and fearfully
! nsaidw Put him out. l..
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

MAKING EDITORS S.--General Lee proposes
to establish in the university he presdeS over
a special department in which editors are to be
trained and fitted for the duties, of life, the
sanctum, and the contest with those who WELD
an instrument mightier than the sword.
General Lee can never make editors. 1t
takes God Almighty, a printing office, and
cOntact eCith the outer aoOrLd to do that. You
may lay down rules, print recipes college pol
ish and sheepskin-graduate till the crack OF
doom and just as your educated editor sits
down to write an article some dirty fingered
type-sticker," as we were once called, will step
to his case and compose from his head, to the
music of clicking types, an editorial that will
travel over the world, shaping thought, while
the labored effort of the graduate futters
unable to raise the fence in the back yard.
Teaching editing is much like telling man
to do certain things when danger threatens and
fright may come upon him. The good advice
is forgotten and he falls back upon his wits.
The best editors of the country never saw the
inside of college. This brOadclOth, kid glove,
C private mark" style is well enough till you
come to peel for work. Then, blood and pluck
| tell.
The printing-ofice is the place to educate ed
| itors. Inward from the street newsboy-the
ink smeared apprenticeship steady-worklng
iourncyman-the careful reporter-thc ready
and rapid writer who, with the pen, photo
graphs events-the close observer, quick tC
catch ideas, and bold in their detencemo.tht
men who have graduated in printing -othces
and whose diploma is battered and careWorI
printers rule-these are the men and the di
plomas.
Young men, if you wish to learn military
form in line, guide right to General Lee S col
lege, forward march If you wish to be edi
tors--about face; deploy to right and left-,t
different printing Offices on the dOuble-quick-
march.-NetU York Democrat.
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

QUESTIONS FOR OUR READERS TO ANSWER
Why should delicate house. bred little girls
wear upon their legs only thin muslin drawers
and fine cotton stockings, while the great
strong men, who are their fathers, wear stout,
warm cloth both for drawers and pantaloons,
and leather boot legs besides?
Why should the little girls go with their
arms and shoulders bare, while their fathers
have shirts and lined vests on their shoulders,
and shirts and lined eoat-sleevos on :heir arms2
Why2 ~, ......
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10
POetrY.
NELLY.

Only little child.
Who sings all day in the street
Such tuneless song
To an idle throng,
Who pity her shoelsss feet;
A poor, pale, pretty child
With clothes so ragged and mean.
And wild wierd face,
On which ne'er trace
or childhoOd's joy can be seen.
Out In the damp, wet fog,
Cut In the sleet ard the rain,
Out when the cold wind
Sends its blast unkind
Thro ugh her again and again:
Out in the dreadful night,
By the hinge of the tavern door.
In hopes as she sings
OF the pity that filings
Some pence on the beer-stained aoor.
Mothers who pass her by
Shudder, with terrible fear,
Praying her fate may
Never be some day
That of their little ones dear;
Children who hear her sing
Stare at her features so wild,
Ger her life ponder.
Thinking with wonder,
"What. can she too be a childf"
Out In the damp, wet fog,
Out in the sleet and rain,
Out when the cold wind
Sends its blast unkind
Through her again and again.
Brought up in Satan's school,
Hells abyss falling in;
Is there no pity
In the great city
To save her from shame and ninP
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

Find fault only when you must, and then iD
private if possible, and some time after the Of
fence. The blamed are less inclined to resist
when thew are chided without witness and the
accused may be impressed with the forbearance
of the accuser, who, although noticing the
fault, waited for proper time to mention it.
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

A young wife demonstrated with her hus-
band, dissipated spendthrift, on his conduct.
"My love, )" said he, 9 am only like the
Proligal Son-I shall reform by-and by. =,
''And will be like the Prodigal son, too, :
she replied, :. for [ will arise and go to my
father" And off she went
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

Chenoa, ILL.,, must be sweet place for
peace-loving man to reside in, for the local pa
per there reports the commencement OF seven,
teen petty lawsuits in one day, the sum total
of the amount in litigation being S3 5O-an
average Of a little more than twenty cents in
each suit
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

1t is stated that the late Bishop of Exeter,
Henry Phillphotts, once published ten cent
pamphlet which realized to him the enormous
sum Of ESQ, 900 iu four months.
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10

Mr.. Geo. Peabody was building a large .ssr-
cophagus in Harmony Grove cemetery, Salem,
Mass, where he proposed to be buried with
his brothers and sisters. 81. ..a..
Smyrna times., 1869-11-10
The
DELAWARE HOUSE
HOTEL,
SMYRNA, DELAWARE,
THOS. L. SUTLIFF, Proprietor.

The we'll known Brick Hotel" being under
the entire charge and management Of the undersigned
he desires express the public his thanks for the
liberal patronage heretofore gwen the house. during
his connection with it. and 10 ask its continuance,
which he hopes to merit by we'll directed efforts to
provide for the comfort and enjoyment Of his guests
and 10 leave nothing undone that the fasidous
could desire.
The rooms have been placed IN the most thorough
order The Table is we'll provided with all the
staples and LUXURIES the market affords Those
living the TO in the city, when minus of heI p
al home, can always find my table ready the
Of those who wish board by The meal day week,
month year, at the lowest possible rates.
THE BAR
10 we'll stocked with fine assortment of the Choicest
Liquors.
Experienced Cooks attentive servants, and all de-
termined TO give complete satisfaction,
August llth. 1869. 7. L. SUTLIFF.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-04

Victor Hugo is great man, but great men
may some times make themselves or be made
ridiculous. The New York World certainly
succeeds in this amiable purpose as to Victor
Hugo, as witness the following paragraph
We have heard of "bridge of signs. - and of a
sigh that was waited "from Indus to the Pole.r
and of the passing tribute Of sigh - but it was
reserved for Victor Hugo to utilize signing as an
implement OF war. The Greeks-who remember
that another exile of genius and self.will. Lord
Byron, gave them his ''sbining blade'-seem to
have invited Nj. Hugo to do as much for them.
To whom NJ. Hugo replies, "Alas l can only
sigh; l hSve done SO before, yet / shall do 30
again. You may reckon on me-"
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-04

The Boston Traveller publishes an article on
the Grant-Banks-Stanton affair, which is sup
posed to be either written or authorized by
Gen. Banks himself. 1t will be remembered
that the n. Y. Tribune and the N. Y. Herald
both denied the truth of the story that Banks
had been ordered to supersede Grant before
Vicksburg. and the Tribune declared this de-
NAL to be made by authority of Stanton. So
direct denial on the part of one of the prin-
cipal characters in this little interlude, seemed
at first to be fatal to the story but it appears
that, after all, Stanton was guilty of a subter-
fuge which was intended to conceal the truth,
so far as he was concerned. The article attri-
buted to Gen. Banks reiterates the original
statement, in spite of the fact that there are no
papers on file in the war department to con.
firm 1t. 1t asserts that Gen. Grant, himself,
never heard of the story until about four
weeks ago, when his attention was directed to
/ 1t by friend. Gen. Badeau, and a member
of Congress, then called on Gen. Banks.
learned from him that the story was true and
obtained the correspondence on the subject
between that officer and the war department
Gen. Banks had guarded these papers the
more closely when he ascertained that STAN
ton had disposed of the duplicates-an Illus
tration of the peculiar sagacity of the born
and bred New England politician, whose keen
scent enables him to discern the elements of
future usefulness in things which less patriotic
and less "trooly loil" people might throw;
aside as deplete of contingent profit. When
the documents came into Gen. Grants hands
they were communicated, by member of his
staff, to the correspondent of the N. Y. Times.
This exposure was not, by any means, agree
able to Stanton, who had just got his eye fixed
on his old place in the war department No
thing abashed, however, he stoutly denied the
whole story, relying on the absence of docu-
mentary proof in the department, and on the
fact that Halleek had signed the orders. Hal
leck, however, issued the orders with Stan.
tons full knowledge, and Grants resentment
will be only augmented by finding that the
man who was chosen to put this affront upon
him was his military rival and his personal
enemy.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-04

Senator Wilson's proposed amendment has
the true Radical ring in it. He fatty pro-
poses that nobody shall be disqualified for
suffrage or Office except "rebels." This is
frank and straightforward, at all events.
The amendment passed by the House means
the same thing, but it could not come in
practice to the same without q vast deal of
circumlocution and superiuous delay and
bother. Under Wilson's plan, every Radical
Legislature in the country would at once see
the way clearly to the accomplishment of the
precise degree of Acknowledgement of their
political opponents needed to secure the per-
petual ascendancy of their party. In the Rad
ical vocabulary, as we all know, everybody
may be relegated to the "rebel" category
though the President, Senator, or Congress
man-who does not chime in with the latest
edition of the Radical creed and the latest enor-
nifty in Radical policy. Itwould be the plainest
kind of sailing, therefore, under the Wilson
chart The title of this amendment ought to
be: article providing that nobody vote or
hold office without the consent of the Radical
party"
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-04

Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Co., of Philadelphia,
send Us the following works, published by them,
and for sale in New Orleans by James A. Gres-
ham, 80 Camp street:
The OLD WORLD, PALESTINE, SYRIA AND ASIA
MINOR. By Jacob r. Freese, NJ. D., U. S. Com
missioner to Paris Exposition, 1867. With preface
by the author.
CLOSING SCENES OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST. Being
harmonized combination of the four gospel his
tories of the last year of our Saviour's life. By
D. d. Buck, d. d. With introductory essay by w.
ID. Wilson. ID. D., L. l.. ID.
CAsELLA, OR THE CHILDREN OF THE VALLEYS.
A historical romance by Martha Farguharson.
anthor of Marion Harvie, Annadale and other
tales.
WHAT Know ABOUT BEN EccLEs. By Abra.
ham Page. A story the events of which are prin.
cipally laid in North Carolina, and are prettiy
told.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-04

Honest people don't always get their dues
when rogues fall out, but the truth sometimes
comes to light. Witness the disclosures made
by the rival Radical prints in the State of
New York concerning the election of Fenton,
whom the Republican recommends to Radi-
cal imitation, as model of all "trooly loil
virtue. The Rochester Chronicle was favor
able to Morgan, and is now very indignant that
after all the expenditures made by its candi-
date, he was defeated by a man who used his
money more effectively. The Chronicle says
that, from the outset, Fenton's managers de-
clared that after ascertaining how much
Morgan would give for votes, they would go
into the market and offer twice as much, and
that this plan was fully carried into effect
The Democrat, Fenton's paper, considers this
an admission that Morgan did try to buy votes.
But the case against both of these virtuous
politicians does not rest on generalities like
this. Between the two papers referred to it
has come out that one of Morgans managers
bought the votes of four legislators, canal
contractor, for $4,000, after concluding
which bargain the contractor went to the
four members and told them that somebody
had sold their votes to Morgan for $4,000,
and that if they voted against Fenton the
public would believe that they were bought.
Three out of the four took the alarm and voted
for Fenton. 1t seems that by strategy of this
kind Fenton availed himself of Morgan's labor
and coolly pocketed the votes for which his an
tagonist had paid. The general conclusion is
that senatorial election among the New York
Radicals is as much an object of barter, and
that votes are as much articles of sale and pur-
chase as if they were ordinary merchandise.
All of which is shining commentary on
humanity" with big H, and the " nation"
with big N, and 'liberty" with big L.
Carpet-baggery has something to learn yet,
proficient as it is in ''trooly loil" virtues and
accomplishments.