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The New York herald., 1870-02-19
TINE BRITISH lR0N-clAD MONARCH.

BALTIMORE, Feb. Is, 1870
Ats,x O'Clock this evening the Monarch had not
arrived at Annapolis. Steamers coming up the bay
report her anchored below sharp's island this morn
,nu. ffty miles below Annapolis. A heavy fog ana q
ihiok mist haa hung ever the bay al day.
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SHERIDAN, THE WIFE MURDERER, has been
fully committed by the Coroners jury. He
seemed on the inquest to be Indifferent to the
proceedings, and probably has Reynolds
notion about hanging in New York.
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Europenn Political Wonders.

A special cable telegram from London in
forms us that ''the Irish members of the
House Of Commons have agreed to support
the land reform bill introduced by Mr.; Glad
stone, and that there will be no opposition on
the second reading of the measure" "All
agreed" for once. If this be 80 Premier
Gladstone has eclpsed the managers Of the
happy family and all our wizards and presti-
digitateurs completely. We suspect, however,
that the word 'all" applies only to the liberal
Irish members OF the House, and that the
tories will still object If it be correct,
however, we sincerely rejoice in the fact that
the days Of the Kilkenny cats" are at an end,
and that Ireland will at length enjoy a fair
start. We find by another cable despatch that
a party of English economists are now OBJ
jectiug to tho Irish Land Reform bill, 50 that
the difficulty appears to have jumped over
the Channel and turned up afresh.
We are also told by the cable that Austria
and Hungary are perfecting an entente on a
land boundary question; SO that the European
''solidarities" which were anticipated by
Kossuth are being rapidly perfected.
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The Democratic Fight.

The appearance in the Legislature Of propo-
and to remove the Police Commissioners seems
to indicate the course that is to be taken by
the democratic opponents Of the new Charter,
and points to the opening Of fight that the
people ought to understand very clearly. The
viler elements of the democratic party-that
is to say, the ex-convicts. the dogfghters, the
gamblers the bruisers and the repeaters-dis-
approve of the new Charter, and will not have
it il they can possibly help themselves They
fear that under the operation Of such law
their occupation would be gone, or, at least,
that their several spheres of activity would be
does not answer their purposes, and so they
make war upon it, ana on account of it they
make war upon the knot of Tammany leaders
that is now the only restraint upon their wild
instincts. These leaders are certainly the
respectable portion Of the party as it now
term in or been sentenced to the State prison.
Not one of them has ever been known to cut
any ones throat, or even to lead riot for the
destruction of property and indiscriminate
murder Of the citizens. We believe it cannot
be charged thai any one of them has
ever even fought prize fight On the
contrary, they are men Of decorous demeanor,
some general culture, and some of them Of
fair legal ability. Their innocence before the
law is their crime in the eyes of the assailants,
No - o1o1g ~G
and their respectability and culture is the great
distinction between them and the party men
who open the fight under the lead of Sheriff
O'Brien, John Morrissey and kindred spirits.
The war is to drive out of the democratic party
the last elements of decency that remain in it,
so that there may be no restraint whatever
upon the party tactics of plunder and free
murder. With the repeaters, bruisers, bullies
and July rioters in this onset are some of the
silk stocking democrats, like Samuel j. Tilden.
These men have been thrust from power in
ordinary party warfare, and are willing to
regain power, even in association with the men
who now rebel against the last title OF party
decency. Our interest in this matter is great
whether the man or the bear came out victor.
If the Tammany leaders win, and we get the
new Charter, it will improve the government Of
the city, and we shall be glad Of that; and il
the other party wins affairs will soon become
so unspeakably bad here that the people will
arise some day and put the politicians in
tight places, and we shall be very glad OF that.
CoNenEssIoNAL BLuNpERs. The Congress
sional committee In making their report in
regard to the decline Of American shipping
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CONGRESSIONAL BLuNDERs. The Congress
sional committee in making their report in
regard to the decline Of American shipping
committed couple of blunders which were
hardly to be expected from such source and
upon 80 important matter. The committee
state that there is semi-monthly line of
American steamers from this port to Rio
Janeiro, whereas the line runs but once
month, aud the steamers of the line to Aspin-
wall do not stop at Havana at all, as alleged,
nor have they for three or four years past. If
these Congressional committees would bestow
q little more care upon their reports they
would save the country from great deal Of
unnecessary trouble and themselves from the
consequences Of their ignorance. The impress
sion that the committee propose to readmit to
American registers vessels that abandoned
the flag during the war is erroneous,
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner OF Eighth and
2Sd sI-Tux TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. Matinee at 2.
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NAPOLEONS TROUBLES-ANOTHER DIFFI-
oULTY.-Among the latest items of tele-
graphic news from Paris Is one which well
deserves passing notice. On the interpella-
tion introduced in the Chambers relative to
the domestic policy Of the government by NJ.
Jules Favre, it is said, immediate action will
be urged. It is said that If Ministers do not
accept the Interpolation the ''Left Centre" will
vote with the Extreme Left"-that is, the
moderate section Of the opposition, which has
been acting more or less steadily with NJ.
Ollivier-will join the extremists" or ''irre-
concilables," and thus force upon France the
question whether the one man power is to be
restored OF whether it is to be revolution.
The opposition united will make it impossible
for M. Olivier to remain in office; and, III.
Olivier ont Of Office, there will be left zap
which it will be difficult for any Curtius to FILL
NJ. Olivier is, no doubt, doing we'll in the
circumstances; but the circumstances are
peculiar, and his misfortune is that in doing
well he is under the necessity of acting too
much with the Emperor and too little with the
people. In the eyes Of the opposition the
Prime Minister is partisan. Should the
threatened union take place what would fol-
low2 In all likelihood Olivier would resign.
In that case successor will be sought. IF
found, he win have his chance. II he can
yield more to popular demand, well. The pre-
sumption ia that concession in the Emperor's
mind has reached its limit. IT seems really,
then, to have come to this-revoiution or the
restoration Of the one man power. This ne
difficulty will be watched everywhere with
intense interest.
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BOOTHS THEATRE, 13d st., between 9th and 9Th avs
Astineo-HAALET. Evenng-GUY MANNRRING
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WALLAcK's THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street.
MASKS AND FACES. MItinee-SonOoL.
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ADJUSTMENTS TINS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.-THH BUsLEsouz
az THE SEVEN. Matinee ~ g.
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The NEW JERSEY GRABALL RAILROAD
MONOPOLY have achieved another triumph in
the defeat Of the National Air Line Railroad
bill in the State Legislature. The Camden
and Amboy monopoly still ring tho changes in
the lobbies at Trenton, and carry their points
with scarcely murmur from any quarter.
The business Of running railroads through tho
different States belongs to and can be exer-
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CONTEATS OF TO-DAY,S herald.

New York, Saturday, February 10, 1870.
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general character, lying between the Rocky
Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, and known
rs the Great Basin, abounds, as Fremont
expresses it, in evidences of Fracture and
violence and fire."
We are informed that the general direction
of this latest earthquake at San Francisco was
from the southeast to the northwest. This
would indicate that it was an offshoot from the
main volcanic gulf stream if we may so
express it, which flows under Sonora, Arizona
and the Great Basin, from Mexico and Central
America As the crust of the earth, however,
judging from the surface, is from four to five
thousand feet thicker, even in the valleys of
the Great Basin, than at San Francisco, that
city, even in side movement from the main
volcanic continental current, is liable to suffer.
Accordingly we abandon our effort to show
that San Francisco is in no danger, and can
only commend the citizens to build no more
four story houses and no more brown stone
fronts, and to sleep down stairs convenient to
the front door for four or five years, and mean
time to 60 ahead with their business affairs,
trusting in Providence that after their late
earthquakes they may be exempt from such
dreadful disturbances for many years to come.
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18
Religious Pomp.

It is curious to notice how fast the primitive
simplicity of religious organizations slips away
with the coming Of worldly prosperity. OF
this. the society of friends furnish notable eX-
ample in the changes (rlany of them for the
betterl which have been made in the discipline
as established by George Fox. We wonder
what the somewhat aScCtlc John c>lCy tWho
preach in the mes and meadows OF England to
coal beavers, sailors and the pcasantry, or to
congregations in the very plainc>t Of chapel>)
would have said to the pomp aud circumstance
of fashionable wedding celebrated few days
since in Methodist Episcopal Church i'll st.
Louis. The great preacher, who, at his own
request was carried to the grave upon the
shoulders Of six poor men, would hardly
! have recognized his own connection, if he
| had been present at these performances.
| 70 his horror he would have found an organ
! playing the wedding march. lie would have
seen the meeting house filed with aristoc-
racy of the city He would have OtScrv-
ed the bride and bridegroom richly cloth
ed He would have marked the former sup
ported by four bridesmaids. lie would have
found out that it now takes one Bishop an4
two Doctors of Divinity with four other c.er
gymcn as Supcrnumcraries in the pulpit 4
marry couple in Mctholi~t Church; an.
what he would have said to carpets stretched
from the church-do0r to the carriages, paS>e
all conjecture Poor Mr. Wesley was not him
self at all happy in the married state, and W,
can imagine him, at the sight Of all this >plen
dor breaking out with some cynical Latin quo
tation, and afterwards tran,lating it rathe
sternly for the benefit of the companys soul
for he would have seen in this scenic displa.
only an alarming demonstration Of the improf
er Old lady Of Babylon. 1t is evident tha
there is both in this country and in England
, growing aversion to SIMPLICITY Of rciiyiuus OBJ
servance Churches which owe Their very cS
istencc to a horror of the Roman cercmonia
are, to the best Of their ability, initiating til
forms and modes, the pompS and shows Of tn
(Roman) Catholic church The precise reli.
ious value of such change it is not easy I
determine but it is very certain that there al
a large class of plain, thoughtful and unpr,
tending men and women to whom an excess
4 ecclesiastical display is exceedingly dista>tetu
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TITE BOOTS.-l would ii>t like tcw kno who
the man wuz who fu>t invented tite boots. En-
ny man who kan wear a pair tite Ion'~ and
be humble, and pcui'cnt, and not indulge in
protane literature will make a good lu>i and.
lie will do more than that he will 10 to divide
up into several fu>t kIa>s hu>i and, aud be
made to answer for whole nab. rh0oI. oh
ior the buty Of VEINS to make IA igg foot look
hanNum without a ttc boot on II. Oh for
the pay-hunce oy Job, the Apostle, to nuss 4
tltc boot and bless it. and even FRA for one Il
size smaller and more pinchul. hav bin led
to the obovc assortment ov Oh'a from hav-
ng in mi po-sr>hun at this moment. pair ov
number nine boots with a pair or number
eleven feet in them. | surroz i had lived
long onu!f not to he Ihoulcd arin IN this way,
but hav found that an ounce ot VANITY weighs
more than pound or rcaz"n, esp, .hiIy when
a man mistakes a higg foot for a small one, |
hav promised nj two feet. at least dozen ov
times during hi chcckuId lie, that hoy never
should be stranglrd aEin, but | finA them to-
day az full OK pane az the stumnluk axe. from
sudden attak ov tte boots l'ut this il
! sOlemnIy the last pair ov tite hCntS will ever
wear; will hereafter wear boots az LlCg AZ
mi feet, il have to 90 bare foot to DO It. | am
too old and too respectable to be a ri ool any
more. M"thuS"le> IL the only man that kan
kali to mind now who could have afforded to
have Worn titc boots. and enjoyed t! en- he
had a crate deal Of waste time to be miserable
in, but lite now days IL too short and to full
oy aktual Dizziness to phool away cLny ov it on
tte boots -.Josh BWiagx.
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Too much of good thing is rorciLly IL
luStrated at our neyhboring town Of Frederick
You see their place grew rapidly. and Of course
they thought that if small towns bad oas town
clock Mcy should have tuo. AMI two they have,
brt they do not work as finely as anticipated
though they had none; far as they 10th strike
about the same time. you cant tell, when, for
instance. they are striking ten, whether it is
that number or fifteen or twenty and husbands,
ont sometimes till nine, rush fiant,ally home
thinking it is twelve or eighteen o'clock, and
catch Charles augustus in the hail squeezing
the hand of his wife 1t produces di>corl in
the family, you perceive AMI the R,ivLhcau
wants to know if they can be stoprcd-the
town cocks. People can have two horses, two
COWS, two Of almost anything; but two town
clocks in close proximity Ike two wives in one
house, are bound to ciash.-Yycc q WoE,
! HugerStotra.
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How A CAMEL GoEs THRoUGH THE Eye OF
A NEEDLE-The passage from the New Tes
lament, =" 1t is easier for a camel etc, has
perplexed many good men, who have read il
literally. In oriental cities there are in the
large gates small and very low apertures,
called metaphorically needle s eyes," just as
we talk of windows on shipboard as bulls
ewes" These entrances are too narrow for a
camel to pass through them in the ordinary
manner, or even if unlOaded When loaded
camel has to pass through one of these en-
frances, it kneels down, its load is removed,
and then it shuffles through on its knees
" Yesterday, writes Lady Duff Gordon, from
Cairo, g saw a camel go through the eye OF
a needle-that is, the low arched door of an
enclosure. lie must knecl, and bow his head,
to creep through; and thus the rich man must
humble himself.
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POeI2V.
THE SWALLOWS.

With rapid shoot Of purple wings,
Like crescent arrOw-heads, they fly,
And cut the soft blue deep ~ if
To them belonged the endless sky.
Now high and soaring near the dome
That spreads in azure down to earth;
Now low along the river wide
That mirrors all the Summers mirth;
Now skimming over meadows rich
With waving crowds of golden flowers;
Now STOPPING close, moments rest
On lichened rail in orchard bowers.
Then up and swift again they hunt
Through deserts of the air and light.
Where blueSt space and yielding breath
Stretch wide around their utmost flight.
o who can e'er such gladness know
As that which fills the swallows breast,
When all the land in morning hes,
And skies above the sun hath dressed
Or who with such reckless dive
The sea immense Of Heaven would dare,
And rush ON fearless wings to taste
The glorious freedom Of the AIR
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18

Tn many New England towns esquire is a
kind of hereditary title, and when the "Squire"
is also Deacon he has reached nm Cmnence
of social position which leaves him quite in-
different to any further elevation.
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18

Two twin brothers in New York are so much
alike that they frequently borrow money of
each other without knowing it.
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a Wisconsin farmer sues for a divorce on tho
ground that his wife can't chop the amount of
wood she boastcd about previous to marriaee
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An Irish orator, speaking Of an opponents
love of praise, described him 50 vain in that
respect that he would be content to give up
the ghost il it were but possible for him to look
up and read the stonc-cutter's puff Oh his
grave
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Il believe in going to the bottom of things. "
as the schooimarm said when she laid Il rcfrae
tory pupil over her knee.
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A Partisan horse-cater thinks that after be-
ing carried for years by his horse. it is only fair
that the horse should, in turn be carried by
him
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\ young lady clerk employed in tn" Treas
ury department at Washington, was frightened
nearly cut OF her wits recently while n work,
by finding mouse which was snugly cn>concrd
in her chgnon.
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18

A JOKE on WILMINGroN.-The author of
"Quill Sketches in the .Suadry Dispdtch.
gets off the following on TIE young men in
Wilmington
Down in Wilmington, some time AGO. an
old man who was very feeble was helped across
a crowded street by youth of twenty. A
month afterwards the old man died, and as an
expression of his gratitude he left the youth
forty thousand dollars. And now no old man )
life is safe in Wilmington All the young lel-
lows have had their ambition excited, and as
soon as any venerable man appears on the side
walk dozen chaps rush at hm, grab him hy
the trowScrS and the collar and the back hair.
and try to carry him across the street, whether
he wants to 90 or not. When he gcts there a
lot more iasten ON to him and set him back
again, and then present their cards. So the
old men in Wilmington are having Evclvtimc
now, and they have got to tack up the street
whenever they go out for walk. Thus far
very little cash has been evolved; but all the
young men study the obituary advertisements
carefully, and when they see the words " Az
the age of seventy-six" or "Sixty-six," or
anywhere in that neighborhood, thov hurry
down to the office of the Register o! Wills and
pore over the last testament Of the deceased
II this goes to show how much distress one
incOnSiderate action will cause If that first
old man had left as that forty thousand dollars
this foOllshness might have been prevented.
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18

"A Couple announce their marriage, and add
get them with ' '''' "
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18

A young lady went into drug store the
other day and asked for a bottle of :. Hair
Manure. 1t was R.newer" She wanted.
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18

The crowd, hustle, music and excitement of
Henry Ward Becchcr's church must have APP
rcared to Whittier in strange contrast with tho
dral' in Amesbury. - B,sfoa transcript,
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AlJer inc pony,
Beautiful pup, you viii soon DC Bologna.

A good story is told ofa young man who ap-
piled to one of our hotels ior a ,iultion. The
landlord informed him that there WIS Lut one
place vacant, that Of lamp cleaner. The
qucStioncr accepted the >iugtion, Observing
that he would ike something as rcmune,atiyo
A. possible, as he was once IA clerk spoke four
different languages fuently. etc. oh that
Of no consequence. said the unappreciative
landlord; this business won't require YOU IN
speak but one language, and mighty little of
that" "
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Classification Of Flowers,

The flowers usually grown from seeds are
Her baceOus, PerennalS, Bennials, and An
nual<
Hardy bulbs, like tulips, crocuscs and hya-
cinths should be planted in the autumn. Ten
der or summer bulbs, like the gladiolus, tube
rose, and tiger flower, must be set out III the
spring.
Herbaccous Pcrennials are plants which die
down to the ground every autumn, but the
roots continue to live, and new branches and
flower stems are thrown up for many years
Some continue indefinitely, but others die after
three or four years. like the Sweet William
but if the roots are divided every year, they
Will c0n'lnuc to live and increase. These are
called imperfect pcrc0nialS.
| l}ienniaIs flowers the second and often the
third year, and then die, like the holly hock:
but these may be preserved by dividing the
! roots
Annuals flower the first season, perfect THEN
/ seed, and then die. Some varieties that ar,
grown aS ANIMALS in a northern climate, ar,
either pcrennlals or bcnnas in their southern
/ home, where there are no severe winter trostS
This is true of the vcrbena, marvel Of Peru
etc. As ANIMALS flower in few weeks ol
months at most, after being planted, and ear
! always be depended upon for IA brilliant show
they have always been deservedly popular
With a proper arrangement, a conlinuou
bloom may be kept up from early in July unit
frost.
ANNALS are claSscl as hardy, haIfhardy, anc
tender. Hardy annualS are those that. .ik,
the larkspur. candy-tutt, etc, may be sown il
the autumn or very early in the spring in opcl
ground. The half hard y varieties will not en-
durc frost and should not he sown in the opol
ground until danger from frost is over. lh
tend T ANIMALS generally require starting in
hOt-bed to bring them to pCricctinn and >hOuli
not be set in the open ground until the weqthc
is quite warm. The cypress vine and the sen
sitive plant belong to this class but, fortu
natcly, very few Of our fine annuas. Some Z
them do tolcrably well if sown in the opc
f ground the latter part of May, but very grca
success is not to be expected in this way
Vck'S CdtuI0qUp
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REMoVAI.
]. 3. COOPER & GRO.

@S 80 ~ ~ ~ G9 ss N9 SBSS 80
Have removed to COOPER'S NEW BUILDING,
s. f. Cor Main and Commerce Sts,
Where they endeavor to keep constantly ON hand
stock Of tie Choicest
Sugars, Cotfees, Syrups, Teas,
Pulverized Thyme, Sage, Majoram, SUmmer Savory,
Soaps OILS, Candies, Spices Meats Cheese Fish, Salt
Lard ling sh and American Bottled Pickles, Sau-
ces CaIsups, Canned Fruits, Olive Oh, Prepared
Mustards, Chocolate, Cocoa, Corn Starch, Rice.
Farna, Pearl Starch, Rice Flour. Barley. Ba.
king Powder, Hops, Family Crackers FarI-
Crackers Soda Biscuit. Sugar Biscuit,
Raisins, Currants CitrOn Figs, Apples,
Lemons, Nuts, Plain and Fine-Cut
Chewing Tobacco, Common and Fine
Smoking Tobacco. Cigars. Snuff, Pipes,
Snuff Boxes, Flour, Meal, BuckwheeI Corn,
Oats. Ship Stuff, Tubs, Buckets, Cans Kegs
Keelers Brooms Broom Fl andles, Brushes Work
Baskets, knife Baskets, Fruit Baskets, Travelling
Baskets Fancy Baskets and Satchels, Seine Fwlne
Gill Twine, Broom TwIne. Sail rwne. Choku Twine
PEACH BASKETS.
FLOOR AND TABLE OIL CLOTHS,
Stand Covers, Fine Window Shades Paper Window
Blinds, Umbrellas Walking Canes, Boys Canes,
GLASS WARE,
Granite Ware, Common Qucensware, Toy Glass and
Queenswarc, Stone Ware. Pocket Cutlery, Table Cut
cry, Spoons, Scissors, Shears, Cloth Brushes Tooth
Brushes Hair Brushes, RazOrs, Razor Strops Combs,
Powder Shot, Bullets, Gun Caps, Cartridges, Powder
Flasks, Shot Pouches.
SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS,
Memorandum Books Bibles, Hymn Books. PRAYER
Books Photograph Albums, Diaries Toy Books Cen
eral Stationery, Drawing Pencils, Drawing Books and
all other articles embraced any of the above classes
Of Goods be had at the lowest prices afford
10 sell lhem taking Quality ways INTO consideration
GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS in season.
RAILROAD TICKETS
For PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON, or DO.
YER, going or returning, for sale
fe27 J.B. c. e. BRO.
Smyrna times., 1870-05-18

When the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry
entered the town OF Dawson, Georgia. in the
sprin" Of 1860, among those who welcomed
them was negro woman, whose Appearance
denoted extreme old age Imrcllrd ly curl
o,ity. one of the " boys rode up to her. and
asked, . How old are You auntjr? ," We'll,
chile She replied, Il don't zactly know hom
old is; but was here when c ium6us COME"