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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-06

We learn with pleasure that M JOSH
MANUEL MEsrRE, WHO, On the decease Of Mr..
MoRtLEs LlNuS, took charge If the Diplomatic
representation of tie Cuban Republic in this
country, is shortly To proceed to Washington as
a 'u'y accr'd .ied Cuban Commissioner.
Withort intending the slightest d spararcmeut
Of either the talents or energy Of the late Mr..
MORALES LfNr,, We congratulate the Cutans On
the judgment Displayed by their President in
the selection OF Lis successor
Nj. Jo,L Nir-rEu is a gentleman q eytroord-
nary talent aud learning. H. Havana, lis native
city. he was one If the leadiu. members Of the
bur In the celebrated conference held at the
Captain-Generul's palace in Havana on the cath
Of October 1865, on the right Of holding political
meetings in Cuba Mr. MEsrRE advocated not
only that Cublns should have a right TO hold
them, but that it would be polite in Spain TO
grant the right. To allow such meetings, he
said, would be as expcdient as to guarantee the lib
erty Of the press. Both, he said, furnished pub
lie sentiment with safety valves, and that, wnen
such valves were closed, expansion would neccs-
sar.ly eusue through clandestue aud dangerous
Issues.
This sound advice WAS not only rejected by
Gen. LErsrNpi, but eX.pe.atcd lin to such a
pitch that he lroko up the meeting; and the
appeal, which, a' VI. Nissan states IN ais ofida-
vii on Tile in the Stale Department WAS made
with the hope Of sayia- bl'olsaod. was .nso'cotly
received aud repealed. Thus all hope that Cuba
would benefit by the Spanish revolution was ior
| hidden.
In assuming his new functions as Commissioner
OF Cuba, Mr. NEsTau resigns his appointment as
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-06

The daily circulation Of rnE Sun during
the last ,coek 0hih ended on Saturday,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-06

The Plebiscitum lie far from having restored
calm 10 French politics. OLIVIER ia losing
ground, and in comparing the Plcbiscitum to
Sadowa he has deeply wounded the pride Of the
French nation by reminding them both Of the
aggressive spirit by which that victory was
achieved, and Of the blow which il dealt to the
prestige Of France in Europe. At the same time
the Emperor reveals Lis weakness both by his
spiefu pcrsccu,ans Of the press and by lis oppos-
ton TO the return Of the Orleans Princes to
France and to the election Of one Of their number
TO the throne on the other side Of the Pyreuees
The health Of His Majesty is also broken, and the
prospects Of the Second Empire are not bright.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-06

The Senate met on the Fourth of July
and transacted business throughout that sacred
national anniversary This is the first time
that such an outrage against the patriotic senti,
mcnt Of the country has ever been committed.
We have got tolerably used to the desccration of
the Sabbath by Congress, but the dissertation Of
the Fourth Of July is Il novelty in our history.
What need was there for itS Why did not the
Senate determine to remain in Washington two
or three days longerY THIS would have given
ample time to complete the public business with
o"t Infringing upon the anniversary Of the na-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-06
THEN CANE TnE SIGNAL,

and McVNTTIh IVT. INC only SOUND InAI bTOke Tue
impressive stiffness Of the occasion was series OF
very audible grunts nom the Indians on the outside,
who. after thus expressing their approval OF dIssat
lsiaction OF the performance rode on. The neck of
hcturtn Was not broken, aud II was not until
eighteen minutes that lie Was pronounced extinct.
II Is certain that the murderer was nsensbo before
he WIS executed. and rs soon a. the black cap was
placed upon him he rcelcc 10 aud lro, and would
have fallen had he not been supported by two
ofcgrs Half an hour Gferward the body was
place. in COIN aud buried 10 grave yard north OF
An Uureu.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
Gallant Defence of a Gallant Soldier.

gbe following article on Gen. Sheridan
.ssom Harper's Weekly is SO applicable
to certain papers in this State that we
copy it for their especial benefit:
The World, in frenzy of delight to
decry q noble sol lief whose name Is
precious to every true American, eX-
claims, speaking of the massacre of
Glencoe: .From the day when it red
dened the Highlands to the hour when
the Lieutenant General of the Army OF
the United States fell on the Piegan
village, it has stood as an isolated monu-
ment of cowardly murder, in the annals
of the British tongue" and thereupon
screams that Sheridan has surpassed it,
and is "the champion assassin of two
centuries"
The World forgets. The massacre of
Glencoe, sudden blow, ended in day,
was mild humanity compared with the
ingenious torments and slaughters, the
slow starvation, the horrors of thirst, the
unimaginable agonies ending in mad
ness and idiocy, dragged out through
CHASTITY weeks and months, which were
inflicted upon helpless prisoners by the
Worlds friends at Andersonville-un-
speakable atrocities which the World
never condemned, perpetrated by men
whom the World calls great captains
and Christian gentlemen. Where was
the Worlds wrath when athousandtold
more cowardIy murder than that of
Glencoe was done upon innocent black
women and children in the city of New
York, when an orphan asylum was
burned by the Worlds friends, a raging
mob, which it called "the people" and
the most helpless and friendless and
blamelesS of human beings were hunt
ed for their lives by a mad hatred which
the World encouraged then, and which
it fosters even now in the very issue in
which it ISLANDERS Sheridan? If the at
tack upon the Indians, who, whatever
their wrongs, have committed unspeak-
able outrages, had been the wanton
massacre of the most innocent and
friendly colored men by the Ku-Klux
Klan, the World would have jested over
it in its most airy vein, and invited US
to drop merry tear over "de woes OF
Sambo."
There may have been wautOn cruelty
among some of the sol Tiers in Colonel
Bakers command. OF that searching
investigation will probably apprise us.
But the Worlds terocity against Gen.
Sheridan springs from the fact that he
dealt the final BLOW to rebellion begun
to perpetuate the foulest, the most das-
tardly, the mo st'inhuman of crimes-a
rebellion which the World virtually
supported, and which effectualIy ex-
posed the character and purpose of the
great leaders of its party. If Philip
Sheridan were not one of the most illus
trious and beloved of the Union soldiers
if he had only betrayed his flag and
dishonored his oath, and consented TO
be tool in the hands of bloody con-
spiracy of slaveholders-the World
would speak of him as it does of Robert
f. Lee, as distinguished" and "hon-
oredn man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
Magnific ont Distances.

Astronomers estimate that some of the
most distant stars, seen by Lord Rosse's
telescope, give to the earth the rays of
light which lef. them so, 900 years ago
having taken all that time, at the rate of
200, 900 miles, or eight times around our
earth in one second, to reach us that the
rays emitted now will not reach our So
lar system untilanother $4,000 years has
passed away. Take our earth for GEN.
trail point, and one of these distant stars
being due east and another being due
west their distance from each other
would be double this distance from the
earth, or 100, ,000year would be consum-
ed in the passage of rays of light from
one to the other-more time than is al
lotted to three thousand generations of
the human race If the time so occupi-
ed is conceivably vast, how can we
Multiply the 100, 900 years, reduced to
seconds, by 200, 200, and you get the
distance, between two such stars, in
miles; but the number is absolutely
overwhelming.
But we have only begun to look COM
paratively small distance out, into inh-
mite space, or perhaps, into, to us, the
illimited creation. We may imagione a
million of stars placed in straight line,
each as >fsr distant from its next as the
two we have above supposed, and yet
the distance between the two last ex-
tremes would be too short, for a measure
to measure across the vast creation,
thouglfsextended over new space once
in each minute, for million years.
How vast-infinite-that Eternal Mind
which filled these vast spaces with the
creations we are able to see and contem-
plate, and whose presence intelligently
fills the entire bounds of infinite space!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
The Lost Pocket Book.

you've dropped your pocket book.
sir; here it ISL said the almost breath
less child, but the gentleman walked
on rapidly without needing her. "Here
it is, SIR" she repeated, giving his coat
skirt a little jerk, which secured the
desired attention.
"Here what is, little girl? OH" and
the fur glove was withdrawn, and the
hand thrust into side pocket.
"Sure enough. Well! that's the last
pocket I'll ever have made on that
sewing-mechine. Now you queer little
piece of humanity, what shall do for
you?"
"Please don't call me names, sir"
The lip quivered as the appeal passed
over.
81 wont if I can help it. But you are
an odd little puss. Here, take this bank
note, and run home to you MOTHER
"I have no mother, SIR"
"Who, then, do you live with?n
"Mrs. Maynard, sir. She took me
from the orphan asylum. Won't you
please go with me by that corner? Ned
Sykes is hiding there. He saw your
pocket book drop, but 1 got to it first,
and he chased me ever so far. Now |
am sure he will hurt me.n
"I am sure he will not,n said the
gentleman, turning to so her way. "But
you havu't told me your name, nor
what you want most.
my name is Nettie Wells, and I
want togo to school more than. any,
thing.''
"And have you never been to
SCHOOL,"
mo sir. Mrs. Maynard says she con-
not afford to send me, though the
matron told me should go part of the
time.n
"What is your street and NUMBER"
The gentleman opened his pocket
book and set down the little girls ad-
dress.
Listen, Nettie, you are going to
school. shall see about it. 1t will
patient. You have done me n great
favor, and l shall prove to you that
honesty is the best policy Good bye,
little girl"
"Good bye, sir. o! thank you. I am so
glad;" and Nettie looked eagerly after
her unknown friend till he turned the
corner.
Even Mrs. Maynard could find no
fault with Nettie that day. Every task
was completed in the shortest space of
time, and the thrifty mistress secretly
rejoiced that she had secured such good
service at so trifiing cost. But her
triumph was of short duration. Before
n week had passed, a note was handed
her requesting her 10 meet the mana
gers ofthe Orphan Asylum at the institu
ton next day, and bring with her satis-
factory evidence that the child, Nettie
Wells, had attended school according
to contract Mrs. Maynard stormed
AL
dlesome neighbors, but was finally
obliged to yield back the child on the
requisition of the asylum authorities.
.~"Now, Nettie,n said a pleasant-look-
ing lady who was waiting in the recep-
ton room, IL want you to go with me
and he my little girl. Would you like to?"
eyes mama, if"
"If what, NCttie?"
"If may go to school, mama"
"Of course you may; every day as
long as you improve your time. We had
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
The Value of a Good No,a.

IF we could tell our boys and pirIs
how many hundred times in life. and
IN how many unexpected ways, thew
Will ind 1t to their profit as well as
pleasure to have reputation for truth
fulness and integrity that no suspici-
Gus circumstances can destroy, thew
would hardly believe US. And yet lust
such things, often happen as ares narrat-
ed in this story, which we find going
round the papers:
In the school of DR.. Woods, none
were allowed to enter the conservatory
without leave; but boys a handkerchief.
with his name upon it, had been found
there. Just at the close'of school, the
doctor called the name of James Howard.
The whole school became silent with
suspense. James Howard, what has lie
done-such noble boy, such good
boy!-all thought. DIR. Woods himself
believed he must have been sent into
the conservatory by the teacher of
botany. So lie asked
flames Howard, have YOU been into
the conservatory, to-day?"
81 have not, SIR replied James. in q
clear, calm tone.
Woods, although your handkchief has
been found there. You are not the bow
to tell an untruth."
So James sat in his seat unmoved.
Every boy in the school believed him,
and almost envied him his good name.
DR.. Woods said no more on this sub
| Ject, except these few wrods: "Let
every boy learn from this incident the
a0orth Of good name, especially when
appearances are against him.
How came James handkerchief in
the conservatory?-for as have said, it
was contrary to the rules of the school
for boy to enter there unbidden.
James had loaned it to small boy.
named John Rand, to tie up some nuts
the day before, when they had a little
ramble together. The boy for1ot to
return it. He also forgot the rule of
the school against entering the con-
servatory, but, seeing the door open,
rushed in to look at some rare flowers.
The handkerchief, being partly out of
his pocket, dropped upon the ground.
See here the evils of needless forgot
tutneSs. The boy had exposed school
mate to censure; and had it not been for
James Howard's good name, his teacher
would have surely thought him to be
the offender. At least, so thought John
Rand.
How ashamed he felt when DIR. Woods
said those words about O. rood name !
The words kept ringing in his ears. He
had broken rule of the school, and was
afraid to own it. He thought the doc
tor would despise him if he knew, and
so would the boys. All that day, all
that night, he had no peace. At length
he went to James. He was not afraid
to tell him all about it.
81 did forget it, James; truly, honest
ly, did," and said child; "but I'm
afraid the doctor won't believe me as be
does you."
"Yes, he WILL" replied James. "You
have been so short time.in school there
some excuse for you. Go at once, AMI
own up; for the longer you put it Off,
the harder it will be. Always own 4
fault at once. Don't be afraid; the doc
tor will forgive you"
Thus encouraged, the boy went to Dr.
Woods, confessed his fault, and WAS
forgiven; but he learned a lesson against
forgetfulness which he always remenI-
bered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
@oral Gems.

Nothing is troublesome that is done by
a willing hand.
No person ever got stung by hornets,
who kept away from where they were.
1t is so with habits.
| Gratitude is the music of the heart.
when its chords are swept by the breeze
of kindness.
Gratitude and prayer are always suit
able and becoming, as we are ever in
want, and God is always giving.
Imaginary troubles are to US like the
dissolving views ofa camera-sometimes
magnified hundred-fold.
Law is like sieve; you may see
through it, but you must be consider
ably reduced before you can get through
it.
BeEevolence is alway virtuous prin-
ciple. Its operation always secures to
others their natural rights, and it liber-
ally super-adds more than they are ac-
cuStOmed to claim.
The two most precious things this side
the grave are our reputation and our life
But it is to be lamented that the most
contemplate wisper may deprive US of
the one, and the weakest weapon of the
other.
No trait of character is more valuable
than the possession of good temper.
Home can never be made happy with
out il. 1t is like flowers springing up
in our pathway, reviving and cheering
us. Kind words and looks are the out
ward demonstration; patience and for
bearance are the sentinel, within.
Justice is the great interest of man on
earth. 1t is the ligament which holds
civilized beings and civilized nations
together. Where her temple stands,
and so long as it is duly honored, there
is fountain for social security, general
happiness. and the improvement and
progress of our race.
bad thoughts are worse enemies than
lions and tigers, for we can keep out of
the way ofwild beasts, but bad thoughts
win their way everywhere. The cup
that is full will hold no more; keep your
heart full of good thoughts, that bad
thoughts may find no room to enter.
He who cannot find time TO consult
the Bible will one day find that he has
time TO be sick; he who has no time to
pray must find time to die; he who can
find no time to reflect is most likely TO
find time to sin; he who cannCt find
time for repentance will find an eter-
nifty, in which repentance will be of no
avail; he who cannot find time to work
for others may find an eternity in which
to suffer himself.
To everything beneath the sun there
comes a last day-and of all futurity this
is the only portion of the time that can
in all cases be infallibly predicted. Let
the sanguine then take warning, and the
disheartened take courage; for 10 every
ioy and to every sorrow, TO every hope,
and to every fear, there will come last
dsy, and the man ought 10 live by fore
sight that while he learns in every state
to be content, he shall in each be prepar-
ed for another, whatever that other may
be-.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
New Series-Vol. 10, No. IL

value OF the English market for the
farmers of Minnesota; for by this we
learn that low as the price of wheat
is at present, the ground down laboring
population are too poor to buy, and are
recommended to run away frD-.. .tis
very guilt of foreign imports; this barren
invitation to eat extends to those who
have no money. Let us hear from the
great English organ little further
still:
1.-The strange phenomenon is: Provi-
dence has made the earth TEEN with
plenty, that plenty instrumentally
caused by the hand of men, get the labor
ing man is destitute i7l the midst of tybsul-
dance The influence of English advices
has every where been felt abroad. In
France they have rather cheapened for
wheat; but not seriously; and it is the
same in Belgium, Holland, Hamburg,
Stettin,, Cologne and Odessa. The frost
may yet hold on some time in Northern
parts and Montreal; but then liberty to
ship will find very little encouragement
without an improved range of prices, OF
which there seems no immediate pros
peet."
That was the condition of the boasted
English markets at the last accounts,
and when we note that hardly one
thirtieth of our wheat crop ever gets
over there. that we eat up at home all
but about per cent, of it; that of that
grudgingly admitted, the English paper
admits that the people are too poor to
buy-and we have condition of things
so very attractive that it is scarcely q
wonder that these par.isans of England
in this country seek to make us still
more enamored of their market fol
wheat.
And this is not all. While the free
traders are trying to make our people
fancy starvation and low prices, Eu
ropean fashion, becaue they propose
competition" with these people, one o
the remarkable features of the case tC
look at, is the fact that tens of thous
ands of these same workers are fleeing
from their own happy condition to joiI
US; to help eat the bread they are de-
MED sight ofon the other side of the
water.
These are ce rtainly points for oul
people to consider, in casting about t.
see where they are to obtain relief; but i
demonstrates that whatever way the,
lookthe Mark Lane Express seeks to shu
the doorin the faces ofany who propos
too earnestly to knock at it over there
Plainly telling US that they do not wan
our little surplus, they at the same time
clamor to sell to us for gold or war bonds
their carpets their railroad iron, their tel
thousand knick knacks, such as, perish
ing with the usage, would lie ave US pool
to the end Of time.-l Minneapolis Tri
bune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
fafts md Gigares,


Judge DAILY, the President .Of the
American Geographical and Statistical
Society, in his last address to the soeie-
ty, enumerates the following events as
making 1869 memorable year: 81. The
connection of the North Atlantic with
the Pacific Ocean by rail. 2. The COM
pletion of the canal across the jIsthmus
of Suez. 8. The exploration and dis
coveries in Southeastern and East Equa-
torial Africa. 4. The additional and
conclusive evidence now brought to
light of a climate in the icebound re-
gions of the Arctic, at past and remote
period.of time, resembling that of the
countries lying near the equator. 5.
The marvellous results of the deep-sea
dredging Of Professors Thompson and
Carpenter, revealing the existance of
animal life at enormous depths of the
ocean, W here should have supposed the
existence eflife to have been impossible.
6. The very general disturbances
throughout this year of the earth's sur
face by earthquake, distinguishable not
so much for its effects in paticular local
tiles as for the distribution of the phe
nomena over the globe, and its appear
ance in parts of the werld where such
disturbances have never been previous
Iy witnessed within the memory of
man. 7. The attractive power of noun
tains discovered in the pendulum
experiments made during the past year
at the observing stations upon the Him.
alayas in India. s, The discovery
through the spectrascope of method
of determ ining theproper motion of the
stars, and the fact that the physical and
chemical construction OF the whole
stellar universe is identical. 8. The in
vention and successful practical use of
self-registering compass by which every
motion of a vessel can be recorded and
preserved from the beginning to the end
of her voyage. 10. The discoveryiof trees
of enormous height and magnitude in
Australia, one Of which was found to
be sixty-nne feet circumference. II.
The discovery of great deposits of coal
throughout the whole of New Zealand,
and the finding of coal upon the bor-
ders of the Caspian Sea verifying in this
last particular prediction of Humbolt's
both of which discoveries are of the
highest Importance to commerce. II.
The authropological researches in Eu-
rope, Asia and AFRICA, revealing the
structure and mode of life and customs
of the earliest inhabitants of the earth.
13. The passage and escape of the
American ship Congress, last August,
through cyclone OF extraordinary in
tensity and power, in the Atlantic. un-
der circumstances which afford great
deal of inform alton and movent in this
terrible phenomenon of the ocean,"