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or of silk to an intolerable deal of ''trim-

or of silk to an intolerable deal of ''trim-
miugs.
TO black silk suit $500
To work on trimming 15I 80
And again
To making poplin $500
To work trimmings ngs....................... 1867
But if Miss Flyut sinned as O trimmer, she
was punished whereby she sinned. Her
pleasant ribbons were made whips to scourge
her. These trimmings it would seems,
were the outward expression of a change
which wealth had brought, not upon the hus-
band only, but upon the wife also. From
confding absolutely in her 'true-hearted'
friend, Mrs. Coolidge, it seems, came to con-
sulting strange women fashionable persons.
jewellers in the Revere House people of
whom Miss Flynt, let us hope more in sor-
row than in anger, informs her ''they think
themselves your superiors, and only tolerate
you from policy The cat emerged,
the princess vanished. The lust of the
eyes had clothed Mrs. Coolidge in trim
mings of Paris The pride of life made
her trim the bills of the friend of her soul as
those of a mere mantua-maker. The memo
randa which the husband questioned the wife
repudiated. Miss Fiynts bill was not paid.
Miss Flynts faith was shaken to the founda-
ton. 'It seems to me-" she pathetically ex-
claims 'more like dream than a reality
1t was more than she could bear. 1t came
upon her ''overtaxed brain weary with exert
ing her ''taent for design in the service of
ladies SO truly aesthetic that they we're
''Willing to pay literally" in order to keep
the gifted artist of their wardrobes above
worrying or fretting about anything"
1t took from her not a mere customer only,
but an illusion, vision an ideal Nothing
remained for her but to put the case into
the hands of a lawyer. And with this
the milliner of the future sinks into the
light of common day, as the belle of the
future had sunk before her. The unpaid
bill of Miss Flynt disenchants the princess
of the pins and needles, as the ''social
ambition" of Mrs. Coolidge had disenchanted
the princess of the poplins and the MORE
antiques.
The wise Judge Pitman, before whom the
case was tried, charged the jury truly that it
had ''many and grave aspects The jury
found these aspects so many and SO grave
that they could not agree on verdict about
them. But neither the Boston Judge nor the
Boston jury seem to have recognized the
most truly grave and painful aspect of the
case. Here are trimmings" aud 'Hernani
suits and the social seductions of the "Re-
we're House" drawing away Boston matron
from communion with the ''friend of her
soul, and from the perlsal of Mary Wostone-
crafts "Rights of Woman" Here is an un-
paid bill debasing the uphfted gaze of a
Boston milliner to the benches of court of
law from that serene azure in which she had
so often beheld-not, like the vulgar, ga
Dutehmans pair of breeches, but the gar
ments and the singing-robes of Transcen-
dental Woman in the great To-Be. If these
things be so at the Hub whereon our princess
standing should have changed the world,
what remaineth for the circumference but an
inevitable wauling of untransmogrifed cats
for ever and for ever?
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CAMERON TO LEAD

From the Pitts5urg Commercial June 1.
The Republican members of Congress have
constituted an executive committee to take
charge Of the Congressional and other cleo
tiOns in the States. Simon Cameron is the
member of the committee from PENNSYLVANIA.
AS we have no State officer to elect next fall,
we will not probably have any active State
Central Committee to manage our campaign,
and the whole business will fallinto Cameron's
hands. Be it SO. If Pennsylvania Republi-
canism is merely Cameronism, there can be
nothing more proper than that the Senator
should have charge of the party and its inte-
rests. He claims to control the executive
patronage; let us sec if he cannot control
the State. Let hi.l have a fair field, and
enjoy the undivided honors of any victory he
may achieve. Let him ''set up all the
Senatorial nominations he can control, with
special regard to the next Senatorial election,
nearly three years off, when his own seat will
become vacant Let him bring his own case
directly before the people, and let them re-
cord their verdict. We will do what we can
to aid the party in coming to correct con-
clusion. We will tell all we know of the
great chieftain, beginning with the Winnie
bago transactions, and following his tor
tous career down to the present day.
General Cameron has never been directly
before the people of Pennsylvania, and we
think too highly of certain kind of shrewd-
ness which he has, and which his friends call
political sdgacity, to believe that he will ever
face the people of this State directly on any
question. OF course he will assume on this occa-
siento be the champion of the administration.
He will, no doubt, endeavor to persuade the
President that he can carry Pennsylvania.
We tell General Grant that there are one hun
dred thousand Republicans in Pennsylvania
ashO aO5R not VOt0 at all, if 6y 00ting they must
endorse men aohOse name aosH 90 doaon to
pOsteritg laden aoith the eDecrationS Of all qotO
esteem political honesty a public 0irtue We
say to the President and members of Con-
gress that General Cameron does not now
and never did represent the people of Penn
sylvania in the United States Senate, other
than in q narrow official sense. Thrice has
he corrupted Pennsylvania Legislature to
elect himself to tie Senate. As the case now
stands, the President and Congress have
right to consider him regularly elected
Senator from this State. If the agents of
the people have betrayed them at Harrisburg,
it is surely not the fault of General Grant or
the National Congress Come on, Cameron,
and make your campaign! You will deserve
all the glory of your victory. Those s0hO look
upon y0I as a politica! Ieper, sohiIo they soiH
consider themselves G6s0!oe9 from, any obLiga-
tiOn to support you or your pack Of corruption
lists, aoiH at least gtCe yow fair field.
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A sNUB FROM THE SOUTH.
From the N. Y. TEfbun&

FF0h1 Lhe ~. Il. ITtOuJe
While the Northern community in general
looks with great satisfaction upon the harmo-
nious consummation of the union of the
''Old" and ''New School Presbyterian bodies
in the city of Brotherly Love, there comes
from the General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church in session at Louisville
a report indicative of anything but charity
and fraternal affection on the part of Southern
Presbyterians for those at the North. The
consolidated body at Philadelphia, in what
we believe was a spirit of pure kindness,
made propositions to the Southern Assembly
for Joint committee of conference with
view to the reunion of the Church, North
and South The response to this over
ture of friendship is far from encouraging.
The Southern Church, in the first place,
announces that "the distractions to
cordial intercourse between the two bodies
involve great public interests and funda-
mental principles, and with strange incon-
sistency, after alluding to the fact of the non
intercourse, claims that it has manifested no
spirit of aggression or hostility towards the
Northern Church. At the same time, with
an assumption of condescension and in order
to exhibit before the world the ''spirit of
Cancellation and kindness to the last degree
the Assembly consents TO appoint a COM
mittee of conference to meet that of the
Northern Assembly, with instructions that
the difficulties which lie in the way of COR
dial correspondence between Che two bodies
must be distinctly met and removed before it
can consent to union. These difficulties are
then enumerated with much yerbiage and
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assumption of piety, which being stripped
off lay bare the following objective points
The Northern Church in both branches
condemned slavery and INDUCED in political
utterances, and therein was fatally" COM
plicated. This deplorable fall from grace
must be repented of and apologizedfo for before
the Southern Church can admit them to fell
lowship. Furthermore, the method of union
between the Old and New School bodies North
is very unsatisfactory to the Southern Church,
and involves total surrender of all the
great testimonies of the Church." whatever
these may be. The only apparent means of
overcoming this radical objection is the sepa-
ration of the recently united bodies by q pro-
cess of spiritual divorce. A third difficulty is
that certain members of the Southern Church
were violently and unconstitutionally expelled
from the fellowship of one branch of the
Northern Church upon serious charges. The
Northern Church must retract its action, of
course. Lastly, it is we'll known that the
Northern Church has preferred similar iniu-
rioUs accusations against the whole Southern
Presbyterian Church-which means, we pre-
sumo, that the position of the Southern
Church upon the slavery question has been
assailed. All utterances condemning that
Church must be ''squarely withdrawn" or
they will prove an impossible barrier TO Off
cial intercourse. In short, the response of the
Presbyterian Church South to the Presbyte-
rian Church North is this Acknowledge that
we have always been in the right and that
you have always been in the wrong as to the
matters of difference between us, and we will
forgive the past and receive you into official
intercourse" We fear that there is no pros
pect in the present generation for a union
between the Churches North and South.
The Southern Presbyterians have given their
Northern brethren very distinct snub.
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accordance with the provisions of tho existing acts
of Assembly that meeting of the commissioners nam cd
in an act entitled An Act to incorporate the NOVA
MHKbING FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, 20 be
located in the city Of Philadelph" approved the 18th
day of April A d. 1852 and the supplement thereto
proved the 26th day Of April, A. d. 1870 will held IL
O'clock M the 10Th day Of June, 1870 No 1872 5.
SEVENTH Street. Philadelphia, when the books Ior sub
scrpton to the capital stock will be opened the other
action taken requisite to complete the organization I3m
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generosity; and TO propose to meet it, not by
outright reputation, but by setting up sham
claims, only proves that the companies have
not been capable of meriting the kind treat
ment they have received. That kindness, we
presume, will not any longer be tried with
them. Their obligations should at once be
put in the way of collection; and they should
be made to feel the rigor of the law which
they have evaded and outraged.
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DIVORCES.
PAPER tlANOINos, EIO.

I OOKl LOOKil LOOKll-WALI, PAPERS
II and Linen window, SHADES Manufactured. the
SPRING GARDEN Street, below Eleventh. Brsnch No
e7 FEDERAL Street. Camden New Jersey.
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ReSy- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY, TREAsURER's DEPARTMENT
NOTICE TO sToCKHoLDERs.

NUIIUE To bIUUkbUBDEkS.
The Board of Directors have this day declared semi
annual Disidend of FIVE PER OENT. the Capital
Steck of the Company cloar of National and State Taxes
payable in cash and after May 30. 1870
Blank Powers of Attorney for collecting Dividends
be had at the Office Of the Company, No 25 South Third
street.
The Office will be opened at s A. II. and closed at
T. M from May 30 10 june for the payment Of Dividends
and after that date FROM A. M. to3PM.
THOMAS T. FIRTH,
54sOt Treasurer.
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The Black Cadet,

The story told by the colored cadet of
Lis treatment at West Point, ought to
make us blush for the American name.
On all sides he has been badgered with
insults, teunted because he is a negro,
and sneered and jibed at. No imp of
wickedness is so persistent or so ingen-
ious as a bad boy, and it is to be su p
posed that the black cadet has suffered
smartly. The young rogues whom we
are allowing to train themselves into
the vilest moral cowardice at the Ma.
tional expense ought to be taught better.
West Point must impart a better mill
tary principle to its students shan that a
hundred white boys shall make war upon
one black boy. Better that not a stone
of the National institution should stand
than that we should add meanness,
oppression and cowardice TO its list Of
studies.
The whole country owes it to this one
black boy that he shall be protected
against the prosecutions which have
made the ncstlings of West Point for ar
instant formidable. If they are toe
mean and vain, and afraid to stand by q
black boy. they had better 90 home to
their mothers and learn the Golden Rule,
and how to say their prayers. Nothing
is wanted to give national complexion
to the credit due his race, than for the
black cadet at West Point to brave it
out. Three japanese boys now lead the
Worcester Military Academy. Why
should a native American black boy be
prosecuted in the National school of the
country for which many bled and died
The authorities of West Point would
not be true soldiers if, after thousands
of blacks have assisted in the defense OF
the flag, they cannot make that FLAG
wide enough to cover one black boy,
". y. iSpdadQTM.
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see already, az through a mist, the
brother beings who are TO be their ever
lasting companions-some of whom may
be already welcoming their coming
Their hearing waxing dim, and uncon-
scious to the melody Of beloved voices
whispering in ;heir natural ears, they
can become aware Of sweeter music,
sung by more exquisite voices still, of
the beloved who have gone before them :
in fine, dying unto earth, they are be
coming alive unto heaven. Does this
not fully and worthily explain the SOL
emn scenes of thousands Of death beds ?
visions OF spiritual visitants minister
ing to the dying resplendent light sur
rounding glorious beings who cast no
shadow ; gorgeous scenery, bright with
never-fading beauty voices thrilling in
tenderness; music mysterious in harmo.
ny the recognition of dear familiar IA
ces, fondly loved in the bygones or the
toreknowledge which some have receiv-
ed Of the exact moment Of their depar-
ture There are few families who
have not some tale Of this kind to tell,
some testimony to add to this proof of
the contiguity of the spiritual world.
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Military Resources and Strength of
France and Prussia.

Information relative to the compare
tive military strength of Prussia and
France will now be in demand. We pre-
sent the following statistics which will
enable the reader to judge ofthe strength
of the great combatants now supposed
to 6e in deadly conflict on the field.
The army of France consists of the ac-
tive army and the reserve, each number
ing 100000 men. The active army is
being rapidly recruited, and perhaps
France has to-day over a balf million of
men enrolled therein. The National
Guards is another division of the military
arm, number a half million of men. The
active army, the reserve and the Nation
al Guard number a grand total of $780,
900. The army is under the chiet com
mand of Napoleon. At the head of the
army are eight Marshals-Count Vail
liant, Count Baraguey d'Ililliers, Count
Random an de Boeuf, +. G. Canrobert,
Mac Mahon, FUrey, and Bazaine. The
army is divided into seven army corps.
France has ll9 first class fortresses. Her
navy contains 43O vessels with 1850
guns, of which thirty-fve are ironcIad
screw steamers Tke naval force con-
sists of 10000 men.
Prussia is under superior military or
ganizatIon. According to statement
in the Prussian Military Gazette, Ga mil
lion soldiers can at any moment be placed
under arms by single telegram from
Berlin. The chief commander of the ar
my and navy is the King. Count de
Moltke is chief of staff. There are elev-
en- regular army corps or divisions. The
commanders are MaLteutfel, Prince Frede-
rick Williams, Prince Frederick Charles,
Alvenslebeu, Steinmetz, Tumpling, East
row, Bittenleld, Manstein, Noigts-Rhetz
and Plouski. The Prnssian navy consists
of 90 vessels, bearing 637 guns. Her sea
armament is only about one-fourth as
great as that of France. Prussia has
four iron clads to meet Frances fitty-fve.
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THE BOTHER OF INTEREST. No blister
draws sharper than the interest does
OF all the industries, none is comparable
to that Of interest. 1t works all day
and night, in fair weather and foul. 1t
has no sound in its footsteps, but travels
fast. 1t g6aws at a mans substance
with invisible teeth. 1t blinks industry
with its film, as a fly is bound in spi-
der's web. Debts roll man over and
over, binding hand and foot, and letting
him hang upon the fatal mesh until the
lOng-legged interest deyours him. There
is but one thing on farm like it, and
that is the Canada thistle, which swarms
new plants every time you break its
roots, whose blossoms are prolific, and
every flower the father of million seeds.
Every leaf is an awl, every branch
spear, every plant like platoon of bayo-
nets, and field of them like an armed
host. The whole plant is torment and
vegetable curse. And yet a farmer had
better make his bed of Canada thistles
than attempt to be at case upon interest.
Deecher.
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ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1870.

minute. put up my hands-the bali went
swcetly singing on Its way, with all the skin
from my palms with 1t.
More raw beef.
That was an eventful chap who first invent
ed base ball. It's such fun. I've played five
games, and this is the result:
Twenty-seven dollars paid out for things.
One bunged eye-badly buDged
One broken little finger.
One bump on the head.
Nineteen lame backs.
A sore jaw.
One thumb dislocatcd.
Three sprained ankles.
Five swelled legs.
One dslocated shoulder, from trying to
throw the ball a thousand yards
Two hands raw from trying to stop hot
balls.
A lump the size of a hornets nest on left
hip, well back.
A nose swceuy jammed, and five uniforms
spoiled from rolling in the dirt at the bases.
l have played two weeks, and don't think
like the game. I've looked over the scorers
book, and find that I've broken several bats
made one tally, broken one umpire's jaw, bro
ken ten windows in adjoining houses killed a
baby, broke the leg of dog, moraly injured
the bread-basket of a spectator, knocked five
other players out Of time by singing my bat
and knocked the waterfall from aschool -marm
who was standing twenty rods from the field
quiet looker-on.
I've used up fifteen bottles of arnica lima.
ment, five bottles of lotions, half raw beef
and am so full Of pain, that it seems as if my
limbs were but broken bats, and my legs the
limbs of dead horse chestnut
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\ story has been told of a graceless scamp
who gained access to the Clarendon printing
office, in Oxford, when the forms of new
edition of the Episcopal Prayer Book had just
been made up and were ready for the press.
In that part Of the form" containing the
marriage service he substituted the letter for
the letter in the word live, and thus the VOW
"to lore, honor, comfort, &c, as long as ye
both shall live" was made to read as long as
ye both like !'' The change was not discovered
until the whole of the edition was printed of.
If the sheets thus rendered useless in England
be still preserved it would be good specula-
ton 10 have them neatly bound and forwarded
to Indiana and Connecticut.
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CHARLOTTE BRoNTE, in letter recent
ly published, says: ''Do not be over
persuaded TO marry man you can nev-
er respect do not say love-because,
l think, if you can respect person be-
fore, moderate love, at least, will come
after; and, as to intense passion, l am
convinced that it is no desirable feeling.
In the first place, it seldom or never
meets with requital; and, in the sec
ond place, if it did, the feeling would be
only temporary; 1t would last the hon
to disgust. Certainly, this would be e the
case on the mans part and, on the wo-
mans, God help her, if she is left to love
passionately and alone. / am tolerably
well convinced that / shall never marry
at all. Reason tells me SO, and am not
so utterly the slave of feeling but that /
can occasionally hear her voice."
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Select Poetry.
The Old, Old Home,

When long for saintcd memories,
Like angel troops they come,
If fold my arms TO ponder
On the old, old home;
The heart has many passages,
Through which poor feelings roam,
But its middle aisle is sacred,
To thoughts of old, old home.
Where infancy was sheltered,
Like rOse-buds from the blast.
Where boyhood's brief elysium,
In ioyousness was past
To that spot forever,
AS TO some hallowed dome,
Life's pilgrim bends his vision.
'Tis his old, old home.
A Father sat how proudly
BY that dear hearth stones ray,
And told his children stories
Of his early manhood's day,
And one soft eye was beaming,
From child to child 'twould roam;
Thus mother counts her treasures
In her old, old home.
The birth day gifts and festivals,
The blended vesper hymn,
Some dear ones who were swelling it
Are with the Seraphim:
The fond good nights" at bed time,
How quiet sleep would come,
And fold us all together,
In the old, old home.
Like wreath of scented flowrets,
Close interwined each heart,
But time and change in concert
Have blown the wreath apart
But sainted, sainted memories,
Like angels ever come,
If | fold my arms and ponder
On the old, old home.
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DARWIN and Agassiz, and still more
their respective disciples, represent two
opposite doctrines in regard to the orr
gin of the animal species. The first sus-
tains the idea that gradual develop
ment from inferior to superior species
took place, so that in the beginning only
inferior species of animals existed, which,
by change of circumsta tances, gradually
developed into others, among which there
were some of an inferior, others OF su-
perior type; while the original races, Of
which the fossil remains prove the exist
ence, disappeared. The doctrine of Ag-
assiz is that every species had its sepa-
Fate progenito;s s, especially created to pro-
pagate their own species unchanged; that
even the human race had at least FIVE
progenitors-one pair for negroes, one
pair for whites, &c.
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A young man, accompanied by his
lady love, took breakfast at hotel the
other day. Never having seen any fish
balls, he handed one TO his lady, under
the impression that it was doughnut.
After breaking his own, he carefully ex-
amined, then smelled of it, and with a
sepulchral voice said, "Sal, don't cat
that doughnut, there's something dead
in it,"
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WHOLE NUMBER 1914.
Little Things,
All the wendcr in the skies

All the wendcr In the skies
Careless glances cannot pass,
But how blind are many eyes
To the wonder in the grassl
Every tiny blade zee
Is a miracle to me,
And the fairy blossoms show
More than can ever know.
o the Joy that flowers give
the perfume on the air
o the life that MOSES live,
Making earth so very fair
Lovely lights and colors gay,
Tints and shadows--what are theyp
Grace that dies beneath touch,
. how little, and how much
Kiss them with delightful lips;
Love them while your heart is truce
Let no meaner Joy eclipse
That which they can bring TO youI
Sweet the pleasure they impart,
Taken TO happy heart,
And if future sorrows sting,
Sweet the comfort they may bring!
Good Words.