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The New York herald., 1870-08-21
The Working Womeu's Movement.

The movement which was inaugurated some
time back by the young women employed in
the retail stores throughout the city, having
for its object the shortening of the working
hours, stands in great danger of being seri-
ously interfered with by injudicious counsel
lors. Long hours of toll, it will readily be ad-
mitted, are injurious, and the working girls,
in endeavoring to mitigate the evils which are
thus inflicted, have the Godspeed of very
large portion of the community with them in
their undertaking. To secure the results,
however, which they are aiming for, it is me-
cessary for them to act in such manner as
will command the respect of their employers.
Let them show, which no doubt they can, that
it will not entail pecuniary losses on those who
employ them if the stores which now keep
open until near midnight be closed at an earlier
hour let them point out the advantages to be
derived from the early hour system let them
prove that by limitation of hours they can
render more effective service to their business
during the time they are employed. By
the adoption of such course they will at once
place themselves in position which will claim
direct hearing from those to whom they render
service. This is the most practical way of
dealing with the subject The dry goods
clerks secured the advantages they now enjoy
by resorting to similar course. Employers
will, it is reasonable to expect, grant the re-
quests Of the girls if it can be proved they will
not be losers by so doing; and we think the
young women who are now working to secure
the short hour system can make satisfactory
exhibit on this score But while the prospects
are fair that the movement will be successful
it would be well for the workers in the cause
to bear in mind that success rests in their own
hands. All the preaching, theorizing and
haranguing of class Of individuals who live
on cheap fame and are to be found ringing
in in every popular movement can avail them
very little. They will retard rather than ad-
vance the cause. This the working girls
should fully understand. The matter rests
between the girls and their employers they
! alone should settle the question. The move
ment is mertorious one, deserving Of en-
couragement and, if managed properly, will
succeed
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

TIE GREAT Discussion ON PoLYGAMY. -
We publish this morning a report of the open
inr of the great discussion at Salt Lake, be-
tween Rev. DR.. Newman, of Washington, and
Elder Orson Pratt, of the Mormon Church, on
the important question, Does the Bible Sane
ton Polygamy?" The arguments of both these
champions were quite forcible, and will be
read with special interest. 1t is worthy of
record that although the articles of agreement
forbid it, DR.. Newman was several times
applapded, and this, too, in the great taber-
nscle Of the Mormons, by an audience nine
teoths of which were professed polygamists.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

PRESIDENT GRANT carries ont his pledges Of
retrenchment to the letter The official state
ment of receipts and disbursements of the gov
ernment shows the total receipts for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1870, to be S56S, ,2O6, O32
The total expenditures were $4lS, ,7l3, $50, of
which amount $l26, $40, sos was for the pur-
chase of bonds for the sinking fund A most
Hattering exhibit this of the ability and
willingness of the United States To extinguish
its public debt.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

1t has come to pa ss just as we Anticipated.
The European war has demoralixed public
taste in the Old World--that is, the taste Of
Paris in matters Of dress. The taste Of Paris
in everything relating to the toilet is an es-
sential of Partisan life. This essential as
been completely revolutionzed. France is
about to return to first principles in the
matter of civil government, and Paris awaits
the result in the matter of costume with the
greatest anxiety. The French modistes may
have to alter the sweep Of their cutting
shears and fashion the public garments, and
that at very early moment too, according to
the style of the ancient regime-arissocrati
roomy, comfortable aud rich in outside solid
ornamentation. These artistic ndustrials may
thus really complete the entente cOrdi0le with
England by bringing ont new court suit,
made in almost complete accordance with that
which Is worn at Buckingham Palace and
Windsor-breeches, bagwig and sword and
which is put on so easily by everybody per-
tanning to the hereditary aristocracy or of
''blue BLOOD" but which has proved so embar-
RAISING to Mr.. Reverdy Johnson and Mr.
Disraeli, men Of the people, representatives
OF the masses, both in their present greatness
and their past glories
Military affairs continued to absorb the pub
lie attention in France. Paris was compelled
to be dressed, however, in some shape or other.
Napoleon, who is shrewdly suspected by the
clerics Of not having ''served his God with
half the zeal with which he served" the empire
and the dynasty, may be left ''naked to his
enemies;" but Paris cannot afford to initiate
him In this respect; SO his quondam subjects
in the city huddle on their garments ''any
way" and rush round, the ladies, ''perfect
frights, as they assure each daily, to read,the
war bulletins and tend to the sick. This occurs
among the people.
Distinguished French ladies still battle ear
nestly for the goddess and for style. The
Walewskis, Canroberts, Bourbakis and
Sestos, with other recognized leaders of the
ton, are there. They appear in black grenadine,
with white lace in fawn colored csrpe de chene
over blue; in scru lawn, trimmed with Valen-
ciennes, and in transparent muslins and silk
paners. Thus attired they walk "the hos
pitals," 60 round the ambulance beds, tend the
ambulance carts and care for the wants of the
wounded. It is still battle, however, beauty
fighting with the palIidG mors, Venus and
Mars in opposition. Black velvet is being
worked with white WOOL A new bodice,
which is described, has been brought out.
Gold and yellow braid;ngs are in use in large
quantities for opera cloaks, and military
braid, termed Hercules, is put on white silk
and white Cashmere cloaks.
Our special fashions writer in Paris ennme-
rates all this, with many things appertaining to
the boudoir situation besides, in the letter
which appears in our columns to-day.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

The French column Of General Ma cMahon.
as reported by himself, in the battle ofVWoerth
numbered thirty five thousand men. When IL
left Strasbourg il probably was not less e than
fifty thousand strong. A HERALD corresponds
ent, writing from that city on the departure Of
MacMahon's corps, says:-''This force marched
out yesterday august 81. What sight il
was! Eight batteries of ten guns each, all
tweive Founders; and 70 UT batteries Of mitrail-
ieuses' ten OF those fearful weapons in each
pattery. The Marshal, then, marched out Of
Strasbourg with fifty thousand men, eighty
pieces OF artillery and forty mitrailleuses, q
battalion OF those terrible Algerian Turcos and
heavy supporting squadron of cavalry, front,
fanks and rear.
Where is that imposing column now, the
flower of the French army, with all its fearfnllv
destructive equipments? Attacked, enveloped.
repulsed aud routed from point to point.
by the more terrible German column under the
Crown Prince of Prussia it has melted away
and disappeared from the field of conflict
Less than fifteen thousand Of MacMahOn's
corps are reported as having made good their
retreat to Chalons, two-thirds of the backward
march from Strasbourg TO Paris. The dead
hOrsemen and their horses of this late splendid
corps, it's terrible Turcos, cannon, Chassepots
and mitrailleuses, were mostly left behind on
half dozen bloody battle fields, and thousands
of wounded and unwounded of its officers and
men have been marched involuntarily ION to
Berlin"
Our Strasb0urg correspondent further says
august D:-'During the fortnight have
been here have seen three hundred thousand
men (French soldiers) leave Strasbourg, one
way and another" Strasbourg, then, now
practically in possession of the Prussans, was
the actual base of operations of Napoleon
against Prussia. We are further informed. in
the same letter from our correspondent, that a
French staff officer "tels me that ought not
to SO to Haguenau, for that que1que chose is
going to take place there. / know what he
means. His Quelque chose is the passing of the
Rhine by bridge of boats now being pre-
pared; of that there can hardly be doubt"
The appointed duty of MacMahons corps, then,
projecting to the river on the extreme right OF
the French line, was to lead the way over
the Rhine, "a Berlin." But Haguenau, Woerth,
Wissembourg and Froschweiler told a diff
ferent story, and brought Paris in the terrors
of a single night of panic to the verge Of
of war, and such were the consequences rashly
challenged by Napoleon and his fussy little
man Benedetti at Berlin.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

LOPEZ JORDAN, the rebel leader in the
province of Entire Rios, is still able to elude
the pursuit of the Argentine army. His latest
achievement has been the capture of the capi-
tai of Entire Rios, which, after taking, he gave
up to his soldiers. They sacked the city,
plundered its inhabitants and committed all
manner of outrages.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

THE BULLET AS A FRIEND OF THE LA
BoRER.-The National Labor Congress at Gin
cnnati is strangely exercised over the subject
of Chinese labor, and one delegate yesterday
said elf the ballot did not stop the evil the
bullet must" The Chinese at Tientsin took the
same view of European labor, and, with the
aid Of the bullet, effectualy blotted out ''the
evil in that par. of the Flowcry Kingdom.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21

The STORM NEAR VALPARAISO. The storm
in the neighborhood of Valparaiso, full &C
count of which will be found on another page,
was one of the most disastrous occurrences
which has visited Chile in some time. The
loss of life, we fear, has been far greater than
is reported, and the destruction of property
will assume greater proportions than what it
is now set down at
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
THE CoMMuN,pAW STOCK YARDS.

During the past week 202 cars arrived at the COM
munipaw stock yards, containing 1878 cattle D. ild
hogs and 1881 sheep. There were slaughtered dur'
Ing the week 597 CATTLE 6093 hoxs ana 7soz suseos
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
xHE HERALD CORPS OF EUROPEAN wAB
CORRESPONDENTS.

We have special correspondents moving
with each division of the opposing forces of
France and Prussia, and news agencies in the
principal capitals-London, Paris Berlin. Ma
drid and Vienna-so that nothing of an i'm
portant news character escapes our vigilant
representatives.
We do not pretend that our comments upon
the war, or that our opinions upon the proba-
BILE success of either belligerent in contem-
plated movements come by the cable. Our
only aim is to give to the public the fullest,
the most reliable, and the most authentic
record Of facts as they occur in the grand
operations of the contending armies.
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW EVENING.
NIgLo's GARDEN, Broadway.-TuE DRAMA OF USprn
WOODS MUSEUM AND MENA0ERIE. Broadway. cor
ner Threth every afternoon and evening
wALLAcK's THEATRE, Broadway and 18Th street
FRITZ. OUR COUSIN GERMAN.
,BowERY THEATRE Bowery.-TsrrSs In os-Tnr
WIDOWS VIoTIM, 60.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner OF Eighth avenue ana
I'D sI-SITALA-THE NATIONS.
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway-OPEEA BoUFrE-
LITTLE FAUST,
BOOTHS THEATRE, ssd st.. between 5th stn avs
RIP VAN WrNKLR.
MRS. F. B. CoNwAY's PARK THEATRE BrookIyn-
MARBLE HEART.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. POI Bowery-vA.
RIE1Y ENTFRTAINMKNT-CoNIo VoCALIsMs, 30.
THEATRE CoNIQUE. 5l4 Broadway-Coxro VOCAL.
ism, NEGRO ACTS, &C.
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7h av, bet tween 6stb and
18th ss-THKoDoRE THOMAS PorULAR Cosogkrs.
TERRACE GARDEN. Fif,y-eighth street and Third ave
nue.-GRANp VOCAL AND iNsTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
LEEDS ART GALLERIES, sl7 and $40 Broadway
EXHIBITION PAINrINGs
NEW YORK Museum OF ANATOMY. 6ls Brosd~sy-
SCIENCE AND ART.
DR. kAIiN's ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 7S Broadway
SCIENCE AND ART.
L r | p L E SHE EFT.
New York. Sunday, August 81, 1870.
The New York herald., 1870-08-21
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW EVENING.

NIBLo's GARDEN, Broadwsy.--TaE DRAMA or UsDEl
THE PALM.
WOODS MUSEUM AND MENA0ERIE. Broadway. cor
Thireh every afternoon evening
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-14

And, further, that it appears, from an
official document on file in this depart.
ment, that the Legislature of the state
of New York has since passed iesolu
tons claiming to withdraw said ratifica-
ton of said amendment which had been
made by the Legislature of that state,
and of which official notice had been
filed in this department.
And, further, that it appears. from an
official document on file in this depart
ment, that the Legislature of Georgia
has, by resolution, ratified said proposed
amendment.
Now, therefore, be it known, that I,
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the
United States, by virtue and in pursu.
ance of the second section of the act Of
Congress approved the goth day of April,
in the year 1918, entitled AN act to pro.
vide for the publication of laws of the
United States and for other purposes,
do hereby certify that the amendment
aforesaid has become valid to all intents
and purposes as part of tie constitu-
ton of the United States.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
Department of State to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
10th day Of March, in the year of our
Lord 1870. and of the independence
of the United States the ninety fourth
(SigueO HAMILTON FISH.
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WAS HE IDLE!

Mr. Solomon Winthrop was plain
old farmer-an austore, precise man, who
did everything by established rules, and
could see no reason why people should
grasp at things beyond what had been
reached by their great grandfathers.-
He had three children, two boys and n
girl. There was jeremiah, seventeen
years old; Samuel, fifteen; and Fanny,
fourteen.
/: was cold winters day. Samuel
was in the kitchen reading book, and
so interested was he that he did not no
tice the entrance of his father. jerry
was in an opposite corner, engaged in
ciphering out sum which he had found
in his arithmetic.
"Sam," said the father to bis young
est boy, {" have you worked out that sum
Yeti"
mo, father" answered the boy, hest
tasingly.
didn't 1 tell you to stick TO your
arithmetic till you had done it T. said Mr.
Winthrop, in n severe tone.
Samuel hung down his head, and
looked troubled.
"Why haven't you done iti" contin
ued the father.
al can't do it, fatherr' tremblingly
said Samuel.
Cant do it. And why noti-
Look at Jerry, ihere, with bis slate and
pencil. He had ciphered further than
you lave long before he was rs old as
you are"
"Jerry was always fond of sums and
problems, father. They have no interest
for me-"
That's because you don't try to fee
an interest in your studies. What book
is tbat you are resding!" ECL
1t is work on philosophy, father
"A work on fiddle sticksl Go, put
II away this instant, and then get your
slate; and don't let me see you away
from your arithmetic until you can work
out those roots. Do you understand
ner
Samuel made no answer, but silently
he put away his philosophy; and then
he got his slate, and sat down in the
chimney-cOrner. His lip trembled, and
his eyes moistened, for be was unhappy.
. His father had been harsh towards him,
and be felt that it was without cause.
"Sam," said Jerry, as soon as their
father had gone. "Ill do that sum for
you"
"No, jerry" replied the younger
brother with grateful look; "that
will be deceiving father. I'll try to
do the sum, but l fear | shan't sue
cced.n II
.FlrSamuel worked very hard, but all to
no purpose. His mind was not on the
subject before him. The roots and
squares, the bases and perpendiculars,
though comparatively simple in them.
selves, were to him mass Of incompre.
heusibIe things; and the more he tried,
the more he became perplexed and both
cred.
The truth was, his father did not un-
derstand him.
Samuel was n bright boy. and uncom.
monty intelligent for one of his age
Mr.. Winthrop was a thorough mathe.
maticisn; he hardly ever came across a
problem he could not solve, aud he de.
aired that bis boys should be ike him
be considered that tue acme of education.
al perfection lay in the power of con.
quering Euclid; and be often expressed
his. opinion that, were Euclid living then,
he could give the old geometrician a
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The Salmon Ascending the Columbia
River.

Over jagged stones thrown on each
other, in jutting wall twenty feet wide,
pours n great flood of the Columbia, with
rear and fury that browns all other
sound. We stood on separate points and
tried to speak to each other in explicsble
dumb show, and then we forgot to talk
and only looked. Up the stream,
through the fierce and sucking rapids,
white against the black stones that here
and there tear the water, flash the swift,
strong. gittering salmon. They came a
few together, then large multitude, then
the whole river from side to side is dark
with their innumerable host. The in
domitatle creatures mean to 90 up the
river to spawn, and they mind that prec-
ipice and torrent no moro than if it wera
a. summer pool within IFS little margent.
They swim swift and safely to the very
foot, whore you lose them in che boiling
white whirlpool. Something flashes in
air, elastic, strong, light. The daring,
determined, wonderful thing has made
that leap, defed rock and torrent, and
found its home in the smooth run beyond.
Or, there is the fash and then struggle,
and the poor, bruised creature, wounded
to death against the sharp edged stones,
drops back into tho stream, and floats
down bloody track, dying after little
while. So they come, and come, and
come, such myriads of them, and leap,
and win or lose, for all the hours of the
day and for half the days of the years.
Mrs. q. Il. Calhoun.
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piers of his day could hardly reckon in
simple addition, and one of our greatest
mathematicians could not write out
commonplace address. One of our lead.
ing editors, whose sterling integrity and
profound originality of thought have
made him rank as almost the chief
teacher of public opinion in this genera
ton, writes hand SO execrable that
those unused to it can scarcely .decipher
it. No one commends these Deficiencies
as worthy of imitation; but they serve
to illustrate how nature limits some fac
uIties when other capabilities are en-
larged. May each right-minded child
be suffered to follow the instructive out
stretchings of its own soul towards the
divinely sane toned end!
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-04-14

Br sOHx q. WHITTIER.

BY IOHx @. WHITTIER.
me au.umn-time has come;
On woods that dream OF bloom,
And over purpliBg vines,
The low sun fainter shines.
The aster-aoweris failing,
The hazers gold is pailing;
Yet overhead more near
The eternal stars appear
And present gratituder
Insures the futures good.
And for the things 1 see
trust the things to be;
That in the paths untrod.
And the long days Of God,
Ny feet shall still be led,
My heart be cOmfOrted.
o living friends who love me
o dear ones gone above me
Careless OF other fame,
leave 70 you my name.
Hide it from idle praises,
save IL from evil phrases
Why. when dear lips that spake II
Are dumb, should strangers wake II
Let the thick curtain fall;
better know than all
How little have gained,
How vast the unattsined.
Not by the page wOrd-painted
Let life be banned or sainted:
Deeper than written scroll
The colors of the soul.
Sweeter than any sung
Nv songs that found no tongue:
Nobler than airy fact
My wish that failed OF act
Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong
Finish what begin,
And all / fail TO win
What matter. or they:
Nine or another's day,
So the right word be said
And life the sweeter mades
Hail to the coming singersl
Hail TO the brave light bringers.
Forward 1 reach and share
AL that they sing and dare.
The airs Of heaven blow Ger me
A glory shines before me
or what manking shall be-
Pure, generous, brave and free.
dream Of man and woman
Diyiuer but still human
Solving the riddle old,
Shaping the Age Of Gold.
The love OF God and neigIbor,
An equal-handed labor;
The richer life, where beauty
Walks hand In hand with duty.
Ring. bells in unreared steeples,
The joy Of unborn peoples.
Sound. tTumpets far-Oh blown
Your triumph is my owni
Parcel and Part Of all,
/ keep the festival,
Fore-reach the good to be,
And share the victory.
feel the earth move sunward,
Join the great march onward,
And take, By faith, while living,
Ny freehold Of Thanksgiving.
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Lsgals charged at the rsrss prescribed hy siav'e'
Special notices Is cents per line fer hrst
and 10 cents for each subseseaueni insertion.
Transient advertisements mustte PAID Tor IN so-
vance; all others quarterly. -,
Advertisements not otherwise ordered, VIII De
con tinued until ordered out and charged accordingly
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C. L. BARNES d. CO.,
EORWARDERS,S Steamboat and Express Agents,
L. Levee. 81
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Touching and irristiblc was that invita-
ton of the rustic maiden to her swain !:
Come over and see me; we have new
lamp at our house, that we can turn down,
down. down, until there isn't scarcely a
bit Of light in the room ~
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A wag recently appended to the lst Of
market regulations of Cincinnati: mo
whistling near the sausage stalls"