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MAILS FOR EUROPE.

The steamship Colorado win leave this port on
wednesday for Liverpool.
The mails for Europe win close ar the Post once
at seven O'Clock A. M.
TIE NEW YORK HERALD Edition for Europe
VIII be ready at half past six O'CLOCK.
Single copies, in wrappers for mailing, six centx-
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Died.

LATuAM-Mrs. MARY LATHAM, In the 25th year Of
her age.
The friends and relatives are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral from her SISTERS, Mrs. r. A
McGrrs 143 Myrtle avenue. Brooklyn, this (ruesdaYl
afternoon.
IFor other Deaths soc Ninth Pu1e.i
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PRESIDENT GRANT.

The Quiet Of His Informal viit-Hs Presence
at the Evening Dress Parade and Closing
Cadet Hop-Proposed Visit to secre-
tary Fish-Great Crowds at the Ho-
tslS-Young Lady Visitors and
Youthful Candidates for the
Army-The Hop Tonight.
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BntchcIor's Hair Dyc-The Best In the
world The only pcrecs dye hArmlcss reltAbla tGsankA
nsous. Factory Is Bond street
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A.-Hcrring's Patent
25l Broadway, corner MurrA AZ strssts
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TRIIEGRAPHIC News.
FR M
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD
Nn6ther Mining Disaster in PennsylVa-
nia-Sk Men Killed.
Tho Splnners' Strike i'm Mas
sAchusetts.


Tho Ex-Prcmicr Of France.
FLORENCE, August 20, 1870.
Il Emile olivier and family have arrived in this
No.
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Diabctes. Observation-Disclosures Water u
4 certain cure for Il. Depot Is ClSr strset-
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, Rheumafisu,. ScrSfula, dsc.-Extra 0rdinarY
cures by HyArT'S LIFE BAlIsAh. Soc Eighth page
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American Walfham Watches
At lowest pricce. .
FULLER CO., II John street. New York.
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A Veteran,

We had the pleasure of meeting, yester-
day, Mr.. John Bishop, an old veteran Of
the war of 1912, who stated as follows ::
That he was 81 years of age, and was now
living with his fourth wife. That he had
raised 2l children out of27, That he had
10 boys, six of whom fought in the Fed
eral army, and nine in the Confederate ar
my. He also said that he had never talk
ell drop of medicine in his life, and con-
sequently, felt in perfect health, and able
to cut and split one hundred rails any day.
He said his grandmother lived to the ex-
traordinary age of 1877 years, and his fa-
ther lived to be ll8 years old.
This extraordinary man was one Of Gem
eral Jackson's best bowers, and was in the
battles of Horse Shoe and New Orleans
under old Hickory. General Jackson as
sisted him to scale the walls Of Pensacola
and he was the second man over the fort
Dolly Times.
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POnder0us,
"Thc lonely mountains DER.

"Ihe lonely mountains O'cr.
And thc Cumbcrland's shore,
A voice Of weeping heard and Oudlament
From haunted pond and dale,
Edged with lilliespale,
The parting genious il with signing sent.'
No more bull-frogs, with meladious
voice, pocking the belated truant on
summers eve, with dismal bass; or start
ling with sudden plunge, as homeward he
wends his way filed with horrid forebod-
ings, and shrouded with fearful birchen
shadows; no more mud cats, nor perch {;
10 more ice, no more skating; no more
chills and fever, no mosquitoes; no more
pond lilies Egyptian Lot, pleasing the
eye with their magnificent bloom-the
queen Of the lilies, blossoming with regal
splendor and Transforming the impure wa.
ters into au abode for fairy bands. How
often have been heard, there beneath the
falling dows of eventide, low breathed
vows aud honeyed words, weneSque sub
noctem sussnri," Ginning well with the
low voiced, melodious song Of the frogs,
or the "shard bone beetles drowsy hum"
Whilst the moOnbeams trembled in the
bosom of the water, and the floating clouds
lay mirrored down in the depths, and the
zephyrs lightly woed the lilies. Alas,
Improvement, that sparest neither hill nor
dale; "twilight shade of tangled thickets," j"
nor romantic grove, that carest neither
for moonlit walk, nor lonely stroll at star
lit eve, the clustering memories that 50
thickly cloud our fancy, when we recall
the big pond of the past, and the moon
light walks there on its brink and the lin
gerings there, beneath the falling dews.
the whisperings there and the gazing down
at the sparkling gems beneath the waters,
glimmering as the waves trembled with
the breeze! We are tempted to wish that
lotus were the lotus Of old, and that our
city fathers had eaten of it until they were
willing to linger in the old time, dreamy
past, leaving the home of the fairies and
the pond lilies untouched by sacriligious
hands; to "bid the weltering waves their
oozy channel keep"
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Secrets Of IIascnry.

Old Zach Wheeler was quite charac-
ter in his time, being clever easy going,
confding man; who managed to let every
body cheat him out of his inherited es-
tates. Just as the last farm was about to
slip out of his hands, he succeeded in
raising the money to lift the mortgage.
Aaron Remer, prominent mason, accom-
panied him to the Registers office, which
was in neighboring town. As they were
riding along on horseback, so Aaron says,
Zach, in coufding manner, said:
Now, Aaron, we are here, all alone, and
| want you to tell me the secrets of Ma
sonry.
I can't Zach, they would kill me.
Why, no they won't they'll never find
it out.
Yes, they will, you'll tell of it.
No, swear | wont.
Well, if you'll ride close along side of
me, and put your hand under my thigh,
and take the oath Pll administer, Pll tell
you the secrets of masonry.
Zach was not slow to comply, and a
most powerful iron clad oath was admin
istored and taken.
"Now for the Secrets" exclaimed the
inpatient and unsupecting victim.
"Well" said Aaron, with mock solem-
nifty and secrecy, in the first place, we
masons combine together to cheat every
body, as much as we can. This is the first
grand secret
The second is like unto it. When we
can't find anybody else to cheat we cheat
each other, but as little as we can.
Well, exclaimed Zach, with evident
surprise, swear Pll join. l wish had
done it twenty years ago--I might have
been rich man afore now,
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Words of Puzzles.

The following funny puzzles in spelling
and pronunciation may amuse some dur
ing the evenings:
There is one word of only FIVE letters,
and if you take away two of them, ten
will remain. What word is that!
It is often. If you take away f, ten
will remain.
There is a word of five letters, and if
you take away two of them, six will re-
main.
Sixty. Take away ty, six will remain.
Here is a puzzle
Take away my first letter, take away
my second letter, take away all my letters,
and | am always the same. Can't you
guess that?
You are right; it is the mail carrier.
There is one word which, you change
the place of one of its letters, means ex-
actly opposite from what it did at first.
What is the word?
1t is united. Place the after the t
and it becomes united.
Can you tell me what letter it is that
has never been used but twice in America!
1t it is a; it is used only twice in
America.
Can you tell me when there were only
two yowels2
1t was in the days of Noah, before you
and l was born-In the days of no a be-
fore u and were born.
Now let me hear whether you can spell
the fate of all earthly things in two letters!
| will tell you'd k decay.
l suppose you have often heard, or can
guess, how to spell mouse trap in three
letters?
You are right. 1t is cat.
Can you tell man in one word that he
took late breakfastl
This is the way-attonuate (at ten you
ate.)
Can you tell me what word is always
pronounced faster by adding two letters
to it?
1t is the word fast; add er to it, and it
is faster.
What is the word Of one syllable, which
if you take away two letters from it vii
become word of two syllables?
You must try and guess that, for it i:
my last puzzl6. 1t is plague; take away
P !, and it becomes ague.
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PreparatlOns for spring WOrk.

, The present is the farmers time to ar
range his plants for the coming year, and
on its being carefully done depends great
ly the success of future operations. He
has the gathered experience of the past to
aid him and if one or more crops have
failed, now is the time to consider the
cause Has he been unproftably stinted
in the necessary amount of labors! has any
other than the best seed been sowed Or
planted have weeds been allowed to grow
unchecked has work been performed too
much in hurry ! have the most improv-
ed implements of all kinds been used /!
Trade and business in tho cities have
been depressed the past season, as well as
the prices of produce in the country. Let
not the farmer be discouraged.
Is the working stock of the farm sufi-
cient has there been false economy in the
use of manures? has there been room to
estore the crops?
All these questions should be asked and
answered; recollecting that the most i'm
provident of all kinds of farming is the
raising of half'crops, aud that poor stock
is always the most expensive, he should
map out his plans for the year 1870, so as
to avoid all these errors and with the aid
of agricultural papers, to introduce an i'm
proved system of management. The In
crease of railroad facilities may bring his
farm within market distance of large cities
or manufactures, so that his whole system
should be chauged-and perishable arti-
cles, such as butter, milk, small fruits,
vegetables, be cultivated instead of beef
and grain, with which he has been striving
in an unequal competition with the cheap
lands of the West.
Let the farmer now sonsider and digest
the tried capacities of his soil and its adap-
tation to particular crops. Has he gener-
ally succeeded in his crop of corn, potatoes,
or cotton, or cabbage, or broom corn, or
hops, or pasturago !-let him not suddenly
change his system on account Of temporary
depression in prices,
''Time aud chance happeneth unto ALL"
and with patient industry and persever-
ance, every man in his proper calling, (not
forgetting the performance of moral, So
cial and religious duties) will find that for
him "seed time and harvest, cold and heat,
Summer and Winter, day and night, shall
not cease, nor the early and the latter
rain."-
'Lot us then be up and doing,
With heart for any iate---
Still achieving, stir pursuing,
Learn to labor and to watt
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-31
Philosophy Of MARRIAGE 4 .

Few people, in estimating thehappipesp
Of married couple, makes due;alloYappe
for human imperfection. No two huihah
beings can be brought into intimate fslaA
tionsbip of husband and wife without AN
occasional development of something dis
.cordant. Only perfect, absolutely sinless
persons, could live absolutely perfect lives
together, and such men and women can
never be found in this world, and las IN
another world there will be no marrying,
absolutely perfect marriages can never he
realized, either in this world or that which
is to come. But, are not the vast majorl-
ty of married persons quite as happy as un-
married onesl Nay, more, are not tho
great majority of married people asa.hapr
py in their married state as they would be
unmarried Aud still more, are they not
as happy with each other as they, would
be with anybody elsel BY change of
partners they might get rid ofsome one or
more causes of disturbances between them
some constitutional defects or inGrmitics,
or some disagroeable, cherished habits, but
they would find in other parties other
causes of disturbance quite as serioosI
though of an entirely different kind-7so
that, after all it might be very difficult to
say ON which side there was the greatest
amount of happiness or misery, The fact
is, that men and women are susceptible OF
only given amount of contentment and
happiness, in any condition of life, aud
marry whom they will, they can never ex7
coed their capacity for enjoyment. Many
poople are foolish enough to imagine that
marriage is the sovereign cure for altthe
disquietudes and miseries of ,life--and
when they get married and yet find their
fayorite panacea does not work perfectly,
they jump to the conclusion that it is be-
cause their marriage is not true one'-+
that it was ill.sorted, and, therefore, an
unhappy one whereas, the only trouble
is, that both husband and wife are human
neither divine nor angelic-and have,
like all other human beings, more or less
of sinful infrmity about them. .aoii
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"Lct us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving, stilrpmsuing,
Learn to labor and to wait"

Before the war, it CHANGED that in a
hotel bar room in Canada, not far from
the line, group were seated, when IL
bright looking negro entered.
81 5'pose you're runaway slave," said
one, looking sharply at the new Conner.
Feeling that he was pretty well away
from bondage, the darkoy responded that
he was.
"Ah, indeed; well, we're glad it, but
you don't seem to look very poor-have
good clothes down South ~
''Certainly," said the darkey, with some
pride, "samo clothes as my MASTER"
"But you got many L good thrashing
ehw
"Nover had whipping in my life"
"Nevor thrashod p' said another; swell
but you niggers don't get enough to eat,
do you?"
"Always had enough, gemmen; never
went hungry"
"What?' said the interogator, "good
clothes, no punishment, plenty to eat"
"Now," said he, turning to the group.
"only think of It'll This fellow has left a
position where he enjoys all these privi-
loges for an uncertainty"
"Gemmon," said the darkey, "all l'se
got to say respectin, dose privileges is dat
if any one wishes to avail himself, de sit
uation still stands open.
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An Eastern editor says that a man in
New York got himself into trouble by
marrying two wives. A Western editor
replies that good many men have done
the same thing by marrying one. A North
ern editor says that quite number of his
acquaintances found trouble enough by
barely promising to marry, without going
any further. A Southern editor caps the
climax by telling the story of man who
had much trouble in finding any one to
listen to his promise to marry.
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Compositors in the New York Tribune
Office are fined 10 cents for each profane
word uttered on the premises, the money
so gathered being given to the poor. One
unfortunate chap new hand, lost nearly
a weeks wages one night over a bit of
Greeley's manuscript.
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We'll, wife, | don't see for my part how
they send letters on them 'cre wires with
out tearing them all to bits. La me {!
they don't send the paper, they just send
the writing in a fluid state.
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EMpLoYER TO New CLERK.--""Well,
Snifles, have you posted the ledgerl"
New CLERK-"Yeth, thir! I've posted
the ledger; but, lor, thir, it wath too big
for the letter-boxth, and [ had to takej it
inthide the poth-ofith p ra4 ~ sne
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1t was Jeremy Taylor who said to all
men: eff you are for pleasure, marry {;
if you prize health, marry. A good wife
is Heavens last, best gift to man his an
gel Of mercy; minister of graces innumer-
able; his gem Of many virtues his cas-
ket of jewels; her voice his sweetest mu-
sic; her smile his brightest day."
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-31

"What death would you prefer to disy'
said one person to another. 81 don'tex7
actly know; I should like to try seven OF.
eight before deciding the point.n
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-31

A lady wished seat. A portly, hand;
some gentleman brought one and seated
the lady. Oh! you're jewel, said she.
Oh, no, he replied, l am jeweler, ! have
Just set the jewel. ~ = ls' ho'li,4 ~.
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You may outlaw the friend oftruth, but
truth remains; you may humble the'poet,
the artist, the Christian, but you cannot
debase poetry, art or Christianity o. ss9g
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A FOX,s Revenge,

A respectable man Of the county Of
Montgomery, lived on the banks Of 'the
Hudson River. One day he went to bay
on the river to shoot ducks or wild geese.
When he came to the river he saw six
geese beyond shot. He determined to
wait for them to approach the shore.
While sitting there he saw fox come
down to the shore, stand some time and
observe the geese. At length he turned
and went into the woods, and came out
with a large bunch of moss in his mouth.
He then entered the water, very silently,
sank himself, and then, keeping the moss
above the water, himself concealed, n he
floating among the geese. Suddenly one
of them was drawn under the water, aud
the fox soon appeared on the shore with
the goose on his back. He assembled the
bank and found a hole made by the tear
ing up of tree. This hole he cleared,
laid in the goose, and covered it with
great care, strewing leaves over it. The
fox then left; and while he was away the
hunter unburied the goose and closed the
hole, and then resolved to await the ,issue7
In about an hour the fox returned with
another fox In company. They went d.
rectly to the place where the goose had
been buried, and threw out the earth.
The goose could not be found. They
stood regarding each other for some time,
when suddenly the second fox attacted the
other furiously, as if offended by the trick
Of his friend .-MMrraYs CreatiOn.l ora
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\ paper in Stockton, Wis, has the fol-
lowing pathetic and irresistible appeal'to
its debtors: "Come in. We cannot for
give our debtors as our Heavenly Father;
we are unable to do so; our powers are
limited. But we can write receipts and
stamp them nicely when full payments are
made. We are waiting anxiously." R'"
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A Chicago husband advertises that he
will pay no debts contracted by any per-
son except by his wife. The ladies onght
to erect monument to him while living,
as u model husband. .t;,-5T
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-31

The man who tried to sweeten his tea
with one of his wife's smiles has "fallen
back''.on sugar. Nothing like first prin.
ciples, after all. a ,a 9i nffslaia
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-31

The prayer Of, the ofice-seeker-"Oh,
that were an event, that | might take
place."
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DOCK AGENTS WANTED for the
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" II Embraces Forty Years Recollections of his
Busy Life, as q Merchant, Manager, Banker,
lecturer and Snowman, and gives accounts of
bis Imprisonment, his Failure, his Successful
European Tours, and important Historical and
published SO acceptable to all classes. Every
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week, We offer extra terms and pay freight.
Our Illustrated Catalogue and Terms to Agents
sent free. j. B. BURR & CO., Publishers, Hart
ford Conn. feb24-6t.
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God loves simplicity and sincerity, even
though it be mixed up with ignorance
and weakness: "When Isreal was q child
then I loved him." ...,, g-.., .o,.,,.,o
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Tennessee,

THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE STATE.
STATEMENT OF HoNoRABLE DoRsEY B.
Thomas, SPEAKER OF THE SENATE,
BEFORE THE REcoNsTRUcTIoN COM
MlTTEE.
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Tom, and as he was mercifnI to me
then, let me be merciful with the means
/ have" and she looked so beautiful |
would have kissed her on the spot, that
very moment, i'll had red.-Laugh-
teri came there again in the even
ing with very agreeable party of
friends. l am afraid | must have taken
little too much, for on the occasion
we drank toasts to Tom, his wife, to
father and mother, to the little Noddy,
to Rev DR.. Pumpton; and then when |
could not think of any one to drink to,
| drank one to the sexton ofthe church.
--Laughter,-I slept soundly, and
dreamed, and before dismissing you l
will relate to you what heard and saw
in my dream, which was a very pleas
ant one:
At the foot of an angel a mother wept,
And spoke the fears which her full heart felt
For the child in her arms who sweetly slept,
The while the prayerful mother wept.
~ have all can want in the world" said she,
But my baby is more than the world to me;
| fain would know If In age or youth,
My son will cling sternly to honor and TRUTH
"Then tell me, o spirit Of mercy and love,
Who knowest the fiat recorded above,
Willmy child who is all in this wide world TO me-
Prove all his fond mother could wish him to be?
~ know that temptation youths senses can win,
With the lures of enjoyment the pleasures OF SIN,
| know how lifes trials and pitfalls abound
In the follies that worldlings scatter around.
'Will he fear to dishonor his fathers good name
With the dark stain of evil, the foul blot Of
shame?
Win he scorn from his innermost being to lie,
In the presence of man and his Maker on high ?
"For could bear,"-the fond mother cried
~ could bear that my baby in innocence had
died,
/ could easier lay him down under the sod
Than know him to be faithless to honor, to God.
"Then tell me, o spirit of mercy and love,
Who knowest the fiat recorded above,
VIII my child who Is all In this wide world to me,
Prove all his fond mother could wish him to BET"
And the mother was silent and held down her
Hear, hear, little one, now in hope or in dread,
Or seek to read In the calm beauty there
The answer to come to her motherly prayer.
The light that shone forth from that angelic
brow
Was brighter and lrmer, and more dazzling now,
And the tones Of her voice were as soft and as
AS the glory Of Heaven, while morning is near.
"Woman though the future may all be forecast,
We but witness the present, remember the past;
But the father of all things, above and below,
Gives to men in His mercy this lesson to know
"If q child be but led In his earliest youth
To look up to his Maker and cling to the truth |;
To bo just in his actions important or small,
And to cherish Gods creatures as God loves MS
all;
"The grace Of our Father will so hedge him in,
That the weight of his manhood shall overcome
sin;
And his path shall be peace amid every strife,
His crown shall be glory in the home after life"
These words though recited, were
accompanied by the tones of melo-
deon played by Mr.. Warden, thereby
adding much impressiveness to their
deliVery.S
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$685.

One Pound Of CPamptOn's ImperIaI
fdrE sSsP C w 6Ss make tTsIys os S1sr.: Ss.
ieE ,rTn ,feT and TJy q. CRAMeT1N
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UNDERTAKING.

have a first class Hearse, and will keep
Collins, of all sizes and qualities always on hand
Funerals attended. Terms low.
Orders for Collins by Railroad promptly at
tended to.