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AT Wallack's Theater on Thursda,
evening, Diss Lydia Thompson. as usu
al, sang:
May Grant return the Io,
OF presenI2 that he.s go,,
lt ever ccnse 10 INV

The storm of plaudits was prefaced by
few feeble Kisses. When the applause
subsidized, the Kissing was resumed, only
to he again drowped by hand clapplng,
Seven times was the feeble kissing re-
peated and each time it was overwhelm-
ed with applause. The kissing number
ed not more than ten IN an audience Of
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The millennium.

05NOTHING hall rloud the white splendor oi
A nn0u,
Nv In the Millennium:
Nothing shall blight the bright blossoms
Of June.
IN the Millennium
The pale. sparkling lilies forever shall -hirc
The golden grapes drip with delicate wine.
The red roses flame on the lush. trailing vine,
In the Millenium'
H.
The son, birds shall lll' in au evergreen bower.
In the Millennium!
And twitte- and till through eveniusless hour,
In the Millennium!
Ard never leaf IN the green forests gay.
BE borne from its bough-for no dark, wintry day.
Nor black. thundrous storms shall rise wild IN
our way,
In the Millenium
Never a heart shall ne broken on earth,
In the Millenium!
Never misery follow our mirrh.
In the Millennium
Never shall longings be- vilc,s0 ysan
Never be pestilence. famine, or cha8n,
Never be poverty, farewells, or pain.
In the Millennium
".
Never q cofiu or cold winding-Fheet.
In the Millennium
Nor blue myr.les creeping at headStoHc and fe'f,
In the Milenium.
No sad, stricken souls bending down by the dead.
To kiss the pale corpse whence the spirit has fed.
While the torn bosom blee'ls and the hot -tears
are shed.
In the Millennium!
TIE fires Of friendship shall faithfully hurn
In the Millennium
Heart unto heart shall unchanPingly turn.
In the Millennium,
Sin shall slink Gar Gus Of sound and Of sight,
The wrong that Is apturous always be right,
Nor faggot AMI steel be the symbols OF might,
In the Millennium
VI.
The dreams be fulfilled Of the poets aud sages,
In the Millennium
And all the grand yearnings OfinfHite ages.
In the Millennium
The march OF ofhumonify. strong and sublime,
Shall ring with the footballs ofangels IN rhyme,
When the white Christ shall triumph in every
cline,
In the Millenium.
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Our Chimney Corner.

31HISS Lille Peckham, an estlmabIe
Jk lady of extraordinary culture
- passed to the brighter spheres Of
eternity at Milwaukee last week. She
was we'll known in this city and deeply
mourned - Toledo Dem.
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Col, Lewis w. Washington, the head
of branch of the family to which the
first President belonged, died on Oct. /. .
after brief illness of congestive fever,
at his residence near Harper's Ferry,
West Virginia. He will be remembered
as the most conspicuous of the gentle
men who were seized and held as host
ages by John Brown in his famous raid
on Harper's Ferry, in Qetqheh 1854
He possesse2 = valuable collection of
relies Of Washington, among others the
elegant sword sent by Frederick the
Great with the lRsariptioni From the
oldest General in the world to the great
est,-ErOhange,
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In the prOfOundest sense Alice Cary
never loved but once. The man whom
she loved is still alive; yet gossip, with
Its kcenest scent, has never found or
named him. With all her fullness of
affection, hers WAS an eclectic AMI soIi-
tary soul. He who by the very patent
of his being was more 10 her than any
other mortal could be might pass nom
her life, hut ia other could ever take
his place. A proud and prosperous fam
lily brought all their pride and power to
bear on a son tO.prevent his marrying
girl uneducated, rustic, and poor. 1
waited for one who never came back,
she said. yet believed hs wauld come
till read in paper his marriage to au-
othRr. Gan you think what life would
be, loving one, waiting for one who
would neUer come"
he did o0me at last. saw him. His
wife had died, Alice was dying. The
gray-haired man sat down beside the
gray haired woman. Life had dealt
prosperously with him, as it is wont
with men. Suffering and death had
taken all from her save the Iuster of her
wondrous eyes. From her wan and
wasted face they shone upon him full
of tendeFnesa and youth. Thus they
met with life behind them-they who
parted plighted lovers when life was
young. He was the man whom she for
gave for her blighted and weary life,
with n smile of parting as divine as ever
lit the face of wOman.-N Y Indepen-
dent.
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! love to hear the rumhling of the
steam power press, better than the rat
tie and roar of artillery. 1t is silently
attacking and vnnquishing the Mala-
kofts of vice and the Redaus of evil;
and its parallels and approaches cannot
be resisted, 1 like the click of the type
in the composing stick of the compost
tor, better than the click Of the musket
in the hand Of the soldier. It bears
leaden messenger Of deadlier power, of
suolimeF FORGE and Of q surer aim,
which will hit its mark though it is
thousand years ahead!- Chapman,
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sixteen hundred. Majority for DR.. Gree
'ey fifteen hundred and ninety.-N T.
SIN.
Notwithstanding all the Southern
people have suffered; the vast desola-
tiOns Of war; the gaunt shadows of
threatened starvation; the curse of ne
gro ami military rule, they have not be-
come degraded, nor lost their generous
and characteristic sympathies for the
suffering. Amid all the complicated
sorrow and distress which the desoIa-
tions of war, the expressions of an un-
ScruPulOus tyrant, and the diabolicaI
hate of PuritanicaI fanaticiSm combined,
has heaped upon them, when the great
calamity visited Chicago, they HbernIly
erteHded their sympathy aud aid to the
sufferers! Such an exhibition of noble
generosity and magnanimity, under the
circumstances, has scarcely parallel in
history, and presents spectacle worthy
of the highest strains of epic snng!-
None but noble, generous, high-heart-
ed and pure-soUled people would re-
spOnd, from amidst their own woe and
want, and djride their so,snty substance
to succor their encmiesi- Butler Coslty
Dem,
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lyNOTHING -hall rloud the white splendor ul
Al nnGu.
Nv Ia the Millennium:
Nothing shall blight the bright blossoms
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A. Exterior windows.
b. Head of stairs from below,
I. Door enclosing staircase to the Oh
erYataEF above,
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sixteen hundred. Majority for DR.. Gree
'ey fifteen hundred and ninety.-N =
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I'm the Millennium
The pale. sparkling lilies fOre'rr shall -lirc.
The golden grapes drip with delicate wine.
-r5e rcd roscs aarne on the lush. trailing vine,
In the MfIleninm'
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EVENING, JANUARY l2, 1871.

generated more rapidly-the wheels
moved around with increased velocity
there was pause, as the Titan forces
were contending for the mastery. A
moment more, and there was an upward
movement Now slowly, slowly the
boat passed against the current. In a
short time the point of danger was
passed, and long, heavy sigh of relief
broke from the bosom Of every one on
board.
A venerable, grey-haired man was
there among them. He lifted his hat
from his head and said, in a voice
trembling with emotion, "The Lord has
delivered us great is the name OF the
Lord. Let us pray"
And down upon the deck kneeled the
multitude, while the heartfelt offering Of
thanksgiving went up TO God, who had
wrought for them so great salvation
But it did not end here. The feeling
which had been awakened by the near
approach of death did not, with all, pass
away when the danger was over, as is too
often the case. Even there, on the brink
of that awful precipiee, many found their
Savior. Arevival followed in the church to
which large number of them belonged
it was a Sabbath-school excursion
and many found peace in believing.
One, man of large wealth, dedicated
much of it to God in the building of
church, as a memorial Of his gratitude
for being snatched from destruction both
in this life and the life to come. Thus
God got unto himself glory from the
carelessness--as we term it--of that en-
gineer, through which the lives of hun
dreds were for the moment imperiled.
He chose this way to work out his gra-
cious purposes toward the people.
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MASONIC MUTUAL l5j.
Life Assurance Association,
OF MEMPHIS. TENN. baj q 3, -
OFFICE: NO. o UNION STREET.

r,,,, ono,t;on-Hov much per amman will
I; cast a man ~ tbirtv.iye 10 iasure his life in
the IA made -"- : = - - - SSlN
VA nSnswcr~s1s4 O~ for a As 900 policy. ~4-'@
SnonI o,aSt;ny ~ uoy mpch w;ll n cost In
.l DeWvHno Wnsoo Mrt,,al AsSuranca Xssoc;atiop ~
Memnh;s9
Answar- Abopt S57 80. payable at intervals.
tabIe of standard autborities at our ONCE !
t0T9 ~ th;s Siferanca for in
.ln anuG ~ 4 TSss''oA >" ~ WAS -o- -
sam AnswerE1st. T,ecause by this plan the Asso-
c;ation only calls for enoueh in initiation fees
h ;,toras, on unnn wh;ch viii naiiv nav work
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AMERICAN POLITICS.
How it IL that Americans Dare Not
symPathfxe with Italy.

From the New York Times, 1th.
We printed a call yesterday for pub
lie meeting to express sympathy with
the freedom and unity Of Italy, which
should arouse every friend Of free insti-
tutions throughout the land. We have
already commented on the disgraceful
fact that there have been many grand
meetings held in our large cities TO ex-
press sympathy for the Pope, but not
one as yet to utter the voice of approval
of the American people over one of the
greatest events of the age in the history
of liberty and progress. The causes of
this hesitation and apparent coldness
have been patent. They are Of a like
character with those which have OBJ
structed this meeting The truth isl
there is an established Church and rul-
ing class in New York and other large
towns, but the Church is not Protestant,
and the ruling class is not American.
We understand from good authority
and the fact ought to make Americans
blush for the manhood of their public
men-that there has been the utmost
difficulty in inducing any public man or
statesman, from Mr.. Colfax or even Mr..
Sumner, downward, to utter a word Of
sympathy for so stirring an event as the
Liberation of Rome and the unity of Italy,
after more than a.thousand years of sep
aration and oppression, under one con-
stitutional and free government. Even
our own eminent lawyers whose tongues
in more generous years thrilled our
peoples hearts with their eloquence over
much less important events, turn the
cold shoulder on this meeting, and have
engagements in the Supreme Court.
Had a meeting been called by Mr.. Tweed
or Mayor Hall to express sympathy with
some petty outbreak in Ireland, and the
occupation of Dublin by an Irish Catho-
lie force, if only for few hours. no hall
in the city could have been found large
enough to contain the crowd, and every
statesman and orator in the land would
have been only too glad to lift up his
voice for Irish liberty No engage
ments in the courts or the Senate would
have prevented their prompt attendance.
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AnIncident az Niagara.


A good many years since steamboat
was accustomed TO make daily trips be-
tween Bafalo and Niagara Falls. The
nearest point to which she approached
the great cataract was Chippewa Creek.
about ten miles distant, on the Canada
side. One day there was a pleasure 'ex-
cursion, and several hundred men, wo-
men and children went down from Buff
falo. Affer spending the day in all sorts
Of amnsemehts-in looking upon the
falls, admiring the rainbow, passing
under Table Rock and behind the falling
water = they gathered themselves on
board the boat, toward night, TO return
to their homes. By somemiscalculation
Of the engineer, sufficient steam had not
been generated, and when, after passing
out Of the creek, the boat met the strong,
rapid current Of the river, inst cad OF
going forward she was slowly, slowly
bosle backward toward the dreadful
cataract
The people on board, As nAg well be
imagined, became Instantly alarmed.
The color fed from their cheeks; they
stood in speechless horror; the roar Of
the cataract sounded fearfully distinct
in their ears, az slowly, slowly they we're
still borne back toward It. At length
the engineer bethought him Of the oil
s.tb which be fabricated his machinery.
Re threw u into the furnace-the flames
blazed up more intensely-steam was
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IN. RoIIies Of society.
Nav York papeE remarks: !:


The "Black Crook" and siHilar speci-
mems OF the free drama introduced 70
New York the appetite for questionable
masked balls, which, although tabooed
by the respectable female element were
extensively patronized by the young men
Of the better class. These balls, which
are coarse travesty Of the orgies Of
Jardin Mabille and Of the abandon OF
the Spanish fandango, known as bdts dc
Ia GrdRde DHchesss, from Ohenbach's
prurient boufa Of that name, have been
frequent for several winters past. The
press mas exclaimed against them, but to
no purpose. Men, cid and young resort
to them, the attraction being the license
which they afford, and the law is forbid
den 10 interfere With them, since they
are usually conducted ~ manner sgfii-
ciently orderly 10 keep without its pale.
These balls have recommended in New
York. There is no doubt thai they tend
to vitiate yonng men just entering upon
life. and il will probably need some
daring set Of bloodshed, upon the verge
of which die participants in their de-
baucheries have several times been, 70
awaken The police 20 tts necessity Of
suppressiHg them entirely.
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A SONG FROM THE sUps.

Queen of my tub, merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wiring,
And fasten the clothes to dry;
Then out ii the free, fresh air they swing
Under the summer sky.
1 wish 1cOuld wash from our hearts and soul
The stain of the wreck away;
And let water and air by their magic make
Ourselves as pure as they.
Then on the earth there'll be JOY indeed
A glorious washing day.
Along the path of useful life
Win the heart 's-ease ever bloom;
The busy mind has no time to think
Of sorrows or care or gloom
And anxious thoughts may be swept away,
AS we busily WELD the broom.
/ am glad a task to me is given
To labor at day by day;
For it brings me health and strength and hope
And | cheerily learn to say:
" Head you may think, heart you may feel,
But hand, you shall work Away"
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The Origin Of phrases.

The saying ITO leave no stone un,
turned" may be traced to response oi
the Delphic oracle given to Polydrates
as the best means Of finding a treasure
buried by one of Xerxes' generals on
the field of Platea SIT glY
Every man the architect of his own
fortune," is ascribed to Appius Claudius
Cacus, the earliest Roman writer whose
I name has come down to us. In B. G.
| 3l2, he began the celebrated ''Appian
Way" from Rome to Capua.
Of the very common saying, Where
the shoe pinches2" Plutarch relates TIE
story of Roman being divorced from
his wife. This person being highly
blamed by his friends, who demanded
WAS she not chaste2 was she not
fair?" holding out his shoe, asked them
whether it was not new and well made;
yet, added he, none Of you can tell
where it pinches me. lo 1'ol
The saying when at Rome do as the
Romans do, is said to have arisen in
this wise: st. Augustin was in the habit
of dining upon Saturday as on Sunday,
but being puzzled by the different prae-
tices then prevailing (for they had begun
to fast at Rome on Saturday. he con
suited st. Ambrose on the subject. Now,
at Milan they did not fast on Saturday,
but the answer of the Milan saint was,
when | am here do not fast on Satur-
day; when at Rome do fast on Satur-
day"
The Spectator says that Tobias Hob
son was the first man in England that
let out hackney horses. When a man
came for horse he was taken into the
stable, where there was great choice,
but he obliged him to take the horse
which stood next to the stable door, so
that every customer was alike well
served according to his chance; from
whence it became a proverb, when what
ought to be your selection was forced
upon you, to say "Hobson's choice. - ,
Macaulay says that King Charles II
often remained in Parliament while his
speech was taken into consideration
The debates amused his sated mind, and
were sometimes, he used to say, "as good
as a play. no ;.
The expression. steal my thunder, "
is familiar, and Disraeli accounts for it.
The actors refused to perform one of
John Dennis tragedies to empty houses,
but they retained some excellent thun-
der which Dennis had invented. and
rolled it one night when Dennis was in
the pit, and it was applauded Sud
denly starting up, he cried to the au-
dienee: They won't act my tragedy,
but they steal my thunder.
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The Way TO XIII a Bright Child.

4.
Master Oliver B. Goldsmith, "aged
six years" recited from memory several
of the most dramatic scenes from Sbaks-
peare last week, at Chickering Hall.
Unquestionably, the child is possessed
of remarkable talent, which has been
unduly developed at the expense of
others, if we judge from his defamation,
and from the statement that he has not
yet learned to read. His recitations
show that the faults Of great actors are
more easily initiated than their excel
lencies. He can mouth as well as the
worst of them, while his elocution is not
good and very indistinct. Yet, for a
child of his age, what he does may well
excite astonishment-a painful aston
ishment to those who think of the
natural and almost inevitable re-
suits Of the forcing influences by
which he is now surrounded, which
can hardly fail to prevent full and per-
feet maturity 1t is well known to those
informed in such maalsrs, that precocity
should rather be checked than stimu-
lated, unless, indeed, itbe better to be an
infant prodigy for year or two than to
be great artist for the full period of
manhood Yet, in the announcement of
these entertainments a,letter, signed by
anumber ofgentlemen eminent in letters,
arts and sciences, asking for public
exhibition of this child's powers, was
printed. We can but think that such a
letter was thoughtlessly signed, or that
the signers were influenced more by con-
siderations for the father of the child, to
whom the letter was addressed, than for
the real interests of the child himself.
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NEWSPAPERS.

Its exceedingly large circulation throughout
he city and State offers brtiness men an ex-
client opportunity 70 make their business
his section Of country.
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Thackeray as an Artist.

A cousin Of Thackeray contributes to
an English magazine this little item:
Thackeray's mother told my own
mother that when her son thought of
being painter, he used to lie awake for
hours coneeiving pictures-he could con
ceive, hut he could not execute, he said.
The executive brilliancy of his literary
works, the extreme elaboration and fin
ish one recognizes therein, he seemed to
achieve with less trouble than would
have been necessary in the pictorial de-
partment But when he found that his
pen would not serve him well, he in
formed me that he was in the habit of
sketchlng those little illustrations which
we find in his books They are a great
relief to my mind, he said, L can
always do them. .f....l ,a
"The artistic excellence OF Thackeray
was not perceived to any extent when he
was but magazine contributor
He very soon despised some of his
own early attempts, but they are so fresh,
genial and graphic that they will always
afford pleasure. Of the Yellow-plush
papers, when told him | did not like
them so much as his other works, he
said, they are horrible rubbish but ! get
well paid for them. A man must live.'
He thought at that time Punch paid
nobly,' and the Fat Contributor was
doubtless of very great service TO the
facetious satirist and Snowman, but |
suspect that he never intended to remain
on the staff Of Punch He told me that
he wished one day to be ranked with
classical writer's. That he is. No
more classical writer than Thackeray
ever existed
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DENTISTRY.
Dental Co partnership.
DRS. HINSON & MAYES.

nR. HINS0N HAVING ASSOCIATED
who is a graduate Of the Baltimore and Penn
sylyania Colleges Of Dental Surgery, sessions
and winters '5S and SO. takes this method 20
announce to the public, as in the past. 90 in
the future, will be found striving to excel in
repairing the natural teeth and replacing arti-
fetal with neatness and Dispatch. Particular
attention given in the regulation Of teeth and
diseases Of the gums with ETHEREAL; and Nj
trous Oxide gas being given in the extraction
Of teeth. Hypnotics are also used in plugging,
which are harmless and eficacious to obtund
sensibility. Once and residence, No. Z3S
Main street, Memphis, Tenn. 72-l23
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Previous to the war ninety religions
papers we're published IN Paris.
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FIna. lt conyenlen. % Keen Aloof.

From the New York Evening Post.l
The Nation remarks upon the San Do
mingo question: "We ought to men.
ton, in connection with this San Do
mingo business, fact on which we have
commented elsewhere, that the pro
moters Of a meeting to be held here to
celebrate the completion Of the great
work of Italian uni6cation have found it
impossible to get single politician OF
note either to attend the meeting or ex-
press sympathy with its objects, so great
and widespread is the terror already in
spired amongst this class by the Catho-
lie Church in this country. The Church
is, as we have said, virtually established
in this State, and there are absolutely
no limits to its pretensions. Of any
man who, in view Of this fact, works to
secure the admission TO the Union of a
State peopled by Spanish Catholic
blacks, We shall only say that he must be
a renarkable person" Politicians of
both parties refuse to approve in public,
the union Of Italy, for fear Of offending
the Roman Catholics. Suppose their
names were published, how would it at
feet them with the Protestants2
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A little boy in the infant class of a
Sunday school was asked by his teacher
if he had learned anything during the
past week. "0h, yes" said he. What
is that you have learned2" Never to
trump your partners ace, was the reply.
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A Dutchman married second wife in
about week after the loss of wife No. L.
The Sabbath following the bride asked
her lord to take her riding, and was duly
''cut up" with the following response:
You think ride out nit anoder woman
in so soon after the death of mine frau ?
No, nolp nnala asr
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The chaplain Of the New Hampshire
penitentiary says: L have the hap
piness 70 number among my friends
many printers, but though il may seem
to imply lack Of ability on the part Of
the minister, or the want Of proper quail
tiles, ! meyer succeeded vel with that
class. For the nine long years of'my
connection with the penitentiary, with
all the inducements offered. not one Of
that trade has connected himself with
my congregation, and DO not think a
man could be found Of all who ever ten
anted our prison who could set up a
column Of type