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The New York herald., 1870-06-03
Musical and Theatrical Notes.

Mr.. A. L. Parkes, the well and favorably known
business manager Of Woods Museum, will have
grand benefit at that house this afternoon and even
ing. Mr. Parkes has been indefagable In his efforts
to make the Museum q popular resort, ana much OF
its success is owing to his efforts.
concert troupe OF unusual ability, consisting OF
Henri Kowalski, the renowned pianist; Miss Clara
Peri, one OF tile best contraltos on the American
stage, Mile. De Busy, soprano; Nine. Kowalski and
Mr. Charles Werner, start on a Canadian tour this
week under the direction of Mr.. w. +. Kotch.
George Morgan the well known organist, has COM
fnenced heightened concert tour through !ne west,
under the management OF Mr.. Alexander Turnpuil.
He plays In Wheeling thus week.
Harry Jackson, the eminent comedian. makes MS
renuee at Niblos tonight at Miss thompson pehe-
At.
Victor Ehng, young pianist OF st. Louis, made
q great hit at the last concert OF the Arlon des
Westerns Society in that city.
Mia Lotia. tine famous protcan actress, sailed on
Wednesday In the steamer Russia for Europe, for
the purpose OF recuperating her health and 20 pro-
cure attraction for The coming winter season. MI
Lotta "a under contract TO appear In this city on the
l2tb or next September
The New York herald., 1870-06-03

GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner OF Eighth avenue and
ID st-TuE TWELVE TRMrrArtoNs.
The New York herald., 1870-06-03

WOODS MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor
Thirtieth sMatnee daily Performance every evening
The New York herald., 1870-06-03
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

FRENCH THEATRE, l4th st. and 9Th av.-TuE coRsI.
BROTHERs
The New York herald., 1870-06-03

OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-THE FArR ONE WITH
ri
The New York herald., 1870-06-03

NIBLos GARDEN. Broadway-IuoS--Tu LIrrI
The New York herald., 1870-06-03

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty. fourth st.-THE
Coon NATURRD NAN.
THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth sreet.--GRANp VARIETY
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
NEWS ITEMS.

The resolution for the impeachment
of Gov. Reed, Florida, has been defeat.
ed.
Several lives were lost by the sinking
of the steamer America on the Arkansas
River.
Large seizures OF goods smuggled
through the mails have been made. al
Chicago.
A machine-shop in Milford, and a
wheel manufactory in West Amesbnry,
Mass, have been burnt down.
Governor Peter Washburn, of Yer
mont, died Monday morning.
1t was the Secretary of the Treasury
who ordered the suspension of the order
requiring whisky distillers to use tile
Kish coupon book. This he did as soon
as the House passed its resolution.
The President has nominated Joseph
Bradley, of New jersey, and " lillian
Strong, of Pennsylvania, as Associate
Justices of the United States.
In Havana. Monday, as for Americans
were walking along the streets, wearing
blue cravats, q man shot at them, kill
ing one and severely wounding two
more.
WHEAT in New York is worth what
it will bring in Lii erpool, less cost of
transportation and sale. Wheat in Chi
cago is worth just what it will bring in
New York for shipment. less cost of
transportation to New York from Chi
cago. Wheat at the farm is worth just
what it will bring in chicago, or some
other principal market, less cost of
transportation to that market.u
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
The Art of Thinking.

To Think Clearly is among the first
requirements ofa public teacher. The
faculty may be improved, like other fac
ulties of mind or body.
One of the best modes of improving
in the art of thinking is, to think over
some subject before you read upon it
and then to observe after what manner
it has occurred to the mind of some
great master; you will observe whether
you have been too rash or too timid, in
what you have exceeded, and by this
process you will insensibly catch great
manner of viewing questions. 1t is
right to study, not only to think, but
from time to time to review what has
passed; to dwell upon it and to see what
trains of thought voluntarily present
themselves to your mind. 1t is most
superior habiS of some minds to refer all
the particular truths which strike them
to other truths more general SO that
their knowledge is beautifully meth
odized, and the general truth, at any
time, suggests the particular exempllfi
cation at once leading to the general
truth. This kind of an understanding
has an immense and decided superiori-
ty over those confused heads upon
which one fact is piled upon another,
without the least attempt at classifica-
tion and arrangm9nt.-[Sidney Smith.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10

The colored citizens of Washington
know their friends. They thus return
thanks to. the Cincinnati Enquirer and
the Democracy of Hamilton County:
ResolUed, That we regard the Demo
cratic party as the sworn enemy of the
black man and of the progress of liber.
ty and equal rights, and that it has done
nothing TO merit our esteem or demand
our support, but everything to inspire
our hatred, and call forth our most un-
relent ting opposition Except that patri:
OF who presides over the Cincinnati En-
quirer, and that band of spOtless Demo.
crats in Hamilton County, who washed
their robes and made them white by
voting for the seven Republicans on the
fusion ticket), and that We will careful
Iy guard against being influenced by
honeyed words and the sudden gushing.
of love, that are sure to flow forth from
Democratic bosoms upon our hitherto
scorned and despised race.
This touching expression of gratitude
ought to soothe the rufned Democracy.
1t should prove to them conclusively
that their exertions are not unapprecia.
ted.-TCincinnati Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
Health of Sch eol.children.

The Medical College of MiddleseX,
Massachusetts,, having for long time
considered the influence of public
schools upon the health of children, au-
thorized the publication of the follow
ing facts as the opinions of its various
members:
L. No child should be allowed to go
to school before the beginning Of his 9th
year.
2. The duration of daily attendance,
including the time given for recess and
physical exercises, should not exceed
four and a half hours for the primary
schools and five and half for other
schools.
8. There should be no study required
out of school, unless at high schools and
then not exceeding one hour.
4. Recess time should be devoted to
play outside of the school room, unless
during stormy weather, and as this
time rightfully belongs to the pupils
they should not be deprived of it unless
for serious offences and those who are
not deprived of it, they should not be
allowed to spend it in study, and no
child should ever be confined to the
school room during an entire session.
The minimum of recess time should be
fifteen minutes each session and in pri-
mary schools their should be more than
one recess in each session.
5. Physical exercise should be used
in school to prevent muscular and nerv-
Gus fatigue and to relieve monontony,
but not as muscular training. 1t should
he practiced by both teacher and chill
dren in every hour not broken by recess;
ands ould be timed to music In primary
school every half hour should be bro
ken by exercise, resting and singing.
6. Ventilation should he amply pro-
vided for by other means than open
windows, though these should be used
in addition to special means during
recess and exercise time.
I. Lessons should be scrupulously ap.
poriioned to the average capacity of the
children; and in primary the slate
should be used more and boOks less !;
and the instruction should be given a.
much as possible on the principles of
"object teaching"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
4 8Note of Timc.r

a query has lately been going the
rounds of our question-asking circle to
this effect-"If person were to start at
noon, westward, keeping up with the
sun, he would return to his starting
point at noon of the next day. Now as
it was noon with him all the time, when
did it change from one day to the next.
In the first place this question can
not be answered by Mathematical Ge-
ography only 1t is in some degree his
torical.
Evidently if we travel eastward we
shall see the sun rise earlier tomorrow
than we did to-iay-the reverse, if we
go westward. In the former case We
gain time, and in the latter we lose
time.
Should two persons thus set out in op-
posite directions and each correct his
watch as he went, on meeting, their
watches would agree as to the time of
day but the reckoning OF the eastward
traveller would be just one day ahead
Now let them continue their course till
the difference between their time be
about two hours greater, and We have
an illustration of the present state of
facts relative to this matter.
Take notice it matters not how fast or
how slowly the two travellers moved in
the case supposed, or how long either
would stop.
Emigrants from Europe coming west
ward, first brought slower time to Amer
lea and in the course of history we find
them on the acific coast of the United
States. Nor did this westward travel
cease there, for some of the Pacific islands
were settled from the United States.
The most important of these western
stations are the Sandwich Islands,
ctristianized by missionaries from the
United States, who of course took their
time with them.
Now while this was going on there
was movement in the opposite direc-
ton. Russia European power ex-
tended her conquests entirely across
Asia and finally to Russian America
an Eastward motion and carrying a
faster time. Consequently Russian
America, being the farthest point settled
by eastward emigration, of that great
circle of European civilization which
now throbs round the earth, there We
find the fastest time.
When Saturday noon with US, it is,
hence, Sunday morning, about 9 o'clock
in Russian America and still earlier on
Saturday morning, i. e. o'clock at the
Sandwich Islands.
As a result of these facts, when the
hour is three, MondGy morning, here {;
in Russian America the midnight clock
proclaims Tuesday to have begun !;
while the American settlers in the
Sandwiches, with a yawn, give forth
his opinion that ten O'Clock Sunday
night is time to go to bed. DELTA.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
LEGAL TENDER DECISION.
Debts Contracted Before the Passage
the Act Payable In Gold.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Z.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Z.
The opinion delivered to-day by Chief
Justice Chase on the legal tender ques-
ton, is very long. He closes as follows:
None probably could be found to con-
tend that an act enforcing the &C ,ept-
ance of fiftyor seventy-five acres of land
in satisfaction of contract to convey
one hundred acres would not come
within protection against the arbitrary
deprivation of property. We confess
ourselves unable to perceive any solid
distinction between such an act and an
act com pelling all citizen to accept, in
satisfaction of all contracts for money
at or per cent, or any other proper
ton less than the whole Of the value
actually due, according to their terms.-
1t is difficult to conceive what act would
take private property without process
Of law if such an act would not. We
are Obliged to concede that an act max
ing mere promises to pay dollars legal
tender in ayment of debts previously
contracted, is not means appropriate,
plainly adapted and really calculated to
carry into effect any express powers
vested in Congress; that such an act is
inconsistent with the spirit of the
Constitution; and thatit is prohibited by
tue NOuSllluiiOu. lG Is uOb SUI pIioluS
that amid the tumult of the civil war,
and under the influence of apprehen
sions for the safety of the republic al
most universal, different views never
before entertained by American states
men or jurists were adopted by many
The time was not favorable to con-
siderable reflection upon the constitu-
tional limits of legislative or executive
authority. If power was assumed from
patriotic motives the assumption found
ready just fication in. patriotic hearts.
Many who doubted, yielded their doubts;
many who did not doubt were silent;
some who were strongly averse to max
ing government notes legal tender,
felt themselves constrained to acquiesce
in the view of the advocates of the
measure; not few who then insisted
upon its necessity or acquiesced in that
view, have since the return of peace
and under the influence of calmer times
reconsidered their conclusion and nov
concur in the views which we have
Just announced. These conclusions
seem to us to be duly sanctioned by
letter and the spirit of the Constitution, ,
we are obliged, therefore, to hold that
the defendant in error was not bound to
receive from the plaintiffs currency
rendered to him in payment OF their
note made before the passage of the act
of February 25th, 1862. 1t follows that
the judgment of the Court ofAppeals OF
New York must be affirmed"
Justice Miller dissented from the de-
cisiOD.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
Belmont & Toledo Railroad

n pursuance of resolution of a majority OF
the Corporators of the Belmont and Toledo
Railroad Company, adopted alta meeting held
at st. CIairsvile notice is hereby gwen. mat on
MONDAY THE 18th DAY OF FEBRUARY,
1870, AT O'CLOCK, A. NJ.
Books will be opened at the following named
places, Ior the purpose of receiving subscrip-
lions to the capital stock OF the Belmont and
Toledo Railroad Company, to wit:
At the Office of Isaac Holloway, in the town
of Flushing, Belmont County.
Atthe Business House of Samuel Branson in
the town of UniontOwn, Belmont County.
At the First National Bank in st. ClaIrsville,
Belmont County.
AT the First National Bank IN Bridgeport,
Belmont County.
At the Banking House of Hoge. Sheets & Co.,
in Bellaire, Belmont County, and on
MONDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH, 1870,
AT O'CLOCK A. NJ,
At the Business House of William Alexander,
in Uhricksville, Tuscarawas County.
At the Business House of George Green in
Freeport, Harrison County.
At the Business House of Hopkins & Wherry
in Moorefield, Harrison County-all in the
state of Ohio. Said books Will be kept open
from day to day, between the hours of nine o.
clock A. NJ and three O'Clock P. NJ, until the
requisite amount of stock shall be subscribed.
By order of the Corporators, at st. Clairsville,
the 18th day of January. 1879.
ISAAC HOLLOWAY, Chairman pro tenn.
Ross J. ALEXANDER, Secretary.
Jan.N-tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
Webster on Byron,

The following extract from letter
from Daniel Webster addressed to Mr..
George Ticnor, dated Washington,
April s, 1880, possesses interest in con-
nection with a recent controversy.
"I have read Tom MoOre's first vol
ume of Byron's Life. Whatever human
inragination shat hereafter picture of a
human being, IshdU believe 1T all aDitIiin
the bounds of credibility. Byron's case
shows that fact runs by all fancy as a
steamboat passes a scow at anchor.
have tried hard to find something in him
to like besides his genius and his wit,
but there was no other HkedbLe quality
about him. He aras paa incarnation Of
lennonism. He is the only man in En-
glish history, for a hundred years, who
has 6oasted of infidelity, and of every
practical vice not included in what may
be termed (what his biographer does
term) meanness. Lord Bolinbroke, in
his most extravagant youthful sallies,
and the wicked Lord Littleton, were
sair is to him. All Moore can say is,
each of his vices had some virtue or
some prunLence near it, which in some
sort checked it. Well, if that were not
80 in all, who would escape hanging
The biographer, indeed, says his worst
must nOb Dt WI WIG
standard! And that is true, if favor
able decision is looked for. Many ex-
cellent reasons are given for his being a
bad husband, the sum of which is that
he was very bad man. Iconfess, Iacas
rejoiced then, Tam rcjoiced no,o, that he
aDds driven out Of England 6g public
scorn :. for his pices ,Oere not in his pas
sions, but in his principles. He denied
al religion and all virtue from the
house top. DIR. Johnson says there is
merit in maintaining good principles,
though the preacher is seduced into
violation of them. This is true. Good
theory is something. But theory of
living, and ofdying, too, made up of the
ele nents of hatred to religion, contempt
of morals, aud defiance of the opinion
of all the decent part of the puilic,
when before has man of letters avow-
ed il? If Milton were alive, to ~ecdst
certain prominent character IN his great
eipc, he could embeiLish them t0ith neW
traits WITHOUT UioLdting probability
Walter Scott's letter toward the end of
the book, is much too charitable"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10

IFTHE PEOPLE are not getting their
fooIishness, during the last ten years,
n,eted out to them, with interest, in the
ha7I times of the present, then we are
mistaken. The Democracy ruled tnls
ceuntry for almost sixty years, yet the
naonle neysr suffered in all that time as
they suffar now, for money and the ne
ces;ities of life.-[People's Defender.
Similar paragraphs may be found in
almost every Democratic newspaper in
the land. The heshallow-pated libelers and
sneaking false prophets who utter such
paipabie falsehoods deserve the con-
tempt Of honest men for their unprin-
cipled misrepresentations OF history. In
1851, under Cne ad ministration of James
Buchanan, laboring man received less
than half as much for days labor as he
does now. Farmers then were unable
to obtain the money to pay their taxes,
aud such things as the fine clothing now
worn by the families of mechanic la
borerand farmer were entirely unknown.
If the dishonest scoundrels or ignor-
ant asses who constantly utter these
faisehoods would turn to the files of
their own filthy papers for the four years
! of the last Democratic administration,
they could find the evidence oftheir pres
ent Misrepresentation in the recital of
wants, failures and suffering there un-
folded. In the year 1857 the'losses sus-
tanned by the people of this country by
reason of the failures of business houses
and manufacturers amounted to the
enormous sum of S291, 755 900, while the
loss sus, aimed from the same cause in
1869, amounted to only $75,054 900, or
only about one fourth the amount. Dur
ing the four years of Buchanan's ad-
ministration, from 1857 to 1850 the losses
sustained by such business failures
amounted to $5S1, 733, 900, while during
the two terms of Lincoln, from 1851 to
1869, eight years, the total loss from this
same source was only S46S, 900, or
S62, ,203 900 less in eight years of Repub-
lican rnle than in four years of Demo-
cratic rule. Dvring these same eight
years the country has made more rapid
progress in the development of its re-
rources than during any sixteen years
of Democratic rule since the govern
ment was organized There were more
miles of railroad, more rolling-mills,
more wooden factories, more glass houses,
more school houses, more churches, and
more good dwelling houses built in these
eioht wears than-were ever built before
in the same period of time, and yet these
slanderegs and false prophets were con-
stantly crying 'hard times" 'the
country is going to ruin" They seem
to live upon lies and grow fat on rnisrep-
resentations.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10

HE following are the questions before the
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
L What is language? What are Eparts OF
q What part OF speech receives infection?
3. What is a compound relative pronoun
form a sentence containing one and parse the
4. How many forms of the possessive case
have personal pronouns and how are these
forms used?
5. l never studied no grammar . Give
Henry and he the book. 3. Who did you vote
for. l. Her very name is forgot. 5. He has just
come. Correct above if wrong and give reasons
6. Parse italicized words) You can not find
one better than Hti$. have rtdt money tcd1h
He, being worthy man, was promoted.
Z. Define clause principal clause, a subor-
dinate clause.
$. How do you determine the grammatical
character of a word?
8. What are ecopulativelverbsa
10, What is an attributiveverh?
GEOGRAPHY.
l. Bound Louisiana. Where is, the town of
. Which of the New England States has,no
sea coast?
g. Name three of the largest islands and two
of the largest cities of oceanca.
4. What mountain range of the earth has the
highest peaks?
5. Name the rivers which .empty1 into the
Black Sea.
6. Which is the largest Borneo or Pennsyl-
vania?
I. Describe the Madeira Rivers
s. Where are the Caucasus Mt'so
8. In what latitude is CalcuitaS
10. How far north of the Equator is the
tropic of Cancer? What reason can you give
for its being placed there?
ARITHMETIC.
l. Describe the methods of notation in COM
mon use.
2 What is numerative. Define the method
in general use in this country.
B. Whit is the simple and what the local value
of unit?
4. What is the rule for, the division of deci-
NAL fiactions?
T. Divide 3 by c67s5.
6. What Is percentages? discount? interest?
7. What isthe present worth Of fs475.7l due
years hence.
S. \ merchant bought 20 yards of broad cloth
that was III yards wide for $3.50 per yard bui
the cloth having been wet IL shrunk per cent
in length, and in width; for what must the
cloth he sold per square yard to gain 70 per cent?
q. What are duodecimals?
10. What is mensuration?
ORTHOGRAPHT.
l. What are the component parts of word?s
.. Upon what is the pronunciation of word
based?
3. What is the basis of a good elucation?
4. How do you teach II beginner the alphabet.
3. How are words divided into syllables?
O. ofwhat use are silent letters and why are
they used?
I. should the whole school be taught ortho-
graphv. Why:
S. What are the advantages of spelling school?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
l. How do You obtain perfect lessons from
pupils?
9. DO you believe in corporal punishment
Why?
3. At what age, and with what qualification
4. Should pupil, In n black board exercise,
,e allowed TO have a book containing the ex-
implies copied complete.
5. Do Won believe in compulsory attendance
It school?
O. Do you favor the passage of law creating
he office of County superintendent Why. !
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-02-10
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