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TESTING HER INNOCENCE.
The following touching scene recen

The following touching scene recently
occurred in Partisan court Of justice
A poor, pale, wan seamstress was ar
raigned for theft. She appeared at the
bar with boy eleven or twelve months
old in her arms. her child. She went to
yet some work one day. and stole three
coins Of 10f each. The money was miss
ed soon after she left her employer. and
a servant was sent to her to claim it
The servant found her. about to quit the
rooms with the three gold coins in her
hand. She said to the servant, Il was
going to carry them back to you" New
ertheless she was carried to the Commits
sioner of Police, and he ordered her to
be sent before the police court for trial.
She was too poor to engage lawyer,
aud when asked by the Judge what she
had to say for herself, she answered =
''The day went to my employer / car
ried my child with me. 1t was in my
arms at it is now. | was not paying any
attention to it. There were several gold
coins on the mantle piece, and unknown
to me it stretched out its little hands and
seized the three pieces, which l did not
observe until | got home at once put
on my bonnet, and was going back to my
employer to return them when I was ar
rested. This is the solemn truth, as |
hope for Heavens mercy. r
The court could not believe this story.
They upbraided the mother for her i'm
pudence in endeavoring to palm off such
a manifest lie for the truth. They be-
sought her, for her own sake, to retract
so absurd a tale, for it could be of no eff
feet, but oblige the court to sentence her
ato'a much severer punishment than they
were disposed to infict upon one so young
evidently stepped SO deep in poverty.
These appeals had no effect except in
Strengthening the poor mothers pertina-
cious adherence to her original story. AS
this frmness was sustained by that look
| ofinnocence which the most adroit GRIM
inal can never counterfeit, the court were
at some loss to discover what decision
justice demanded. To relieve their en-
barrassment, one of the Judges proposed
to renew the scene described by the
mother. The gold coins were placed on
the clerk table. The mother was re-
! quested to assume the position in which
she said she stood at her employer s
house. There was then a breathing in
the court. The baby soon discovered
the bright coin,. eyed it for moment,
smiled, aud then stretched forth its tiny
hands and clutehed them in it's fingers
which miser's eagerness. The mother
was acquitted. a.,s
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HARP w ERIN S'LooN,

December |, 1870. }
1t is possible to hev too much Nv a
good thing there is gettin to be alto
gether too much Nv the democracy Nv
Moo York to SCOT me. The eggstrordin-
airy means yoosed by the tyrant and des-
pot, Grant, to prevent repeetin, hez bin
of incalculable profit to the Chief of
Tammany, and hezn't hurt EN- particle.
Heretofore they hev elected themselves
by employing repeeters to vote, at SO
much vote, wich had got to be expen-
sive, ez the men doin it had to be paid
largely to make Twin out NV it. When
Grant stopped the repectin, by broot
forse, the cheefs achieved the same Ie-
suit by skillful countin, and found it
much cheeper. wuz ez easy to find
three judges of eleckshun who wood swear
that a candidate he'd SIGH and SIGH ma
jority, ez it wuz to git men to actilly. put
in the ballots by repeeting, and it didn't
cost one fourth ez much. But it throwd
some thousands Nv our best men out Nv
enjoyment, and makes discomfort among
en-. They must be provided for in some
way, else they may git to runnin indie
pendent candidates agin the regIers.-
Heaven help Tammany eff its old stand
bys shood turn agin it.
To rid ourselves Nv this surplus De-
mocrisy (for I don't suppose repeetin
will ever be allowed agin to any extent),
[ yesterday sent the following letter to
General Trochu. who hez French liberty
under his charge just now:
- NEW York, December /, 1870.
To General Iroch,, Paris, France
That you are in tite place think
you will be willin to admit. The
dastardly Germans wich hate, OWN to
the fact that in this land of freedom they
mostly stand in deadly opposishen to
slavery and the other institooshens wich
Dimocrisy IL champion. these Germans
have you by the back Nv the neck. There
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clze ludlciously he dams indIskrIminate-
~. s. lisow sGot Es17a9 $40
f New York u fast place IF a man
/ pulls out of a pilunerat procession, just
as likely as not the whole professions, led
by the herse, too, will strike 2-4O
gait and leave him to take their dust
Ambishun is like hunger-it obeys No
law but its own appetight. saHHGS sa
F. There il no medicine like a good joke
1t il a silver coated pill that frolicks
and phisicks on the run 2aof -7si'>ofi
Beauty IL morning dreem which the
breakfast bell puts an end to. ~ ~ i-a
The man who never. makes any blum
ders will never raise in the esteem of the
world abuv the reputashun ovv good
guideboard. 80 I'.a
Making an entry ov charity on our
worldly ledger is a sure way to hav our
whole account thrown out at the judg-
ment day.
don't want emmy better proof of a
good bod carryer than tew hear another
bod carryer say, ole IL cussed phool
and don't understand hiz Dizziness
Poverty and riches are mere imagina-
tive distinshuns. The man who can eat
his bread and be happy IL certainly rich
er than he who kant eat it unless it is
spread with butter.
Fortune is like mirror, it don alter
men, it only shows them just as they
are, ;-...-.-....
Dandys are high bred, cross between
fashion plate and unpaid tailors bill.
never knew but one infdel in my
life, and be had no more courage than a
half drowned kitten just pulled out of a
swill barrel. and as fraid tew die as the
| devil would be if he. wuz allowed to visit
this earth for a short season to recruit
himself. ....-.-....- ...
At the presen advance of intellectual
refinement philosophy will prove faith to
be farce-Adam a relic-this world the
work Of an earthQuake-the Bible tale
of credulity-and the Almighty nothing
more than an honorary member of the
great colledge ov science and art. Debt
il trap which a man sets and bates
himself, and then deliberately gets into
it.
Diseaze and pills, when they enter
mans body, are like two lawyers when
they undertake tew settle his affairs, they
compromise the matter by laying out the
| patient. 81.
One good way know ov to find ha p:
piness IL, by boring hole to fit the plug.
A lie is like nitro=glycerine, the best
ofjudges kant tell when it is going to
bust and skater CONFUSION.
A kicking cow never lets fly until jist
as the pals full, and seldom misses the
mark !; it is just so with some men
blunders. .- s5ea5 - .fe--r-.
Most people when they cum tew yu
for advice, cum to have their own opin-
ion strengthened, not correckted.
Men seem to me, nowadays, to be d.
vided into slow christians and wide awake
| shines.
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TOPHAM. THE STRONG MAN

Thomas Topham, the "strong man."
was born in London, ITO, and was bred
a carpenter, and afterwards Travelled on
his muscle" He was quiet, peaceful
man, Of middle size and weight, made
like other men, except the usual cavities
under the arms and hands were, in his
case, filled with muscles The wonder
full stories of his feats are well authenti-
Gated. E.e3r sd rtl
He could hold under perfect restraint,
and with ease to himself, the strongest
horse. He lifted a table six feet long.
with Fifty pounds on the end Of it, with
his teeth, and held it in horizontal po-
sition a considerable time. He rolled up
pewter dish weighing seven pounds,
with as much apparent ease as the reader
would roll up piece of paper. He held
a pewter quart pot at ARM length and
squeezed the sides together like an egg
shell, ~-- - r..- 4,.
He lifted two hundred pounds with his
little finger and waved it gently around
his head. He lifted Mr.. Chambers, a
clergyman, who must have lived on the
fat of the land, for he weighed three
hundred and seventy eight pounds, with
one hand, Mr.. Chambers head being
placed on one chair and his feet on anoth-
er. At blow he struck a round bar of
iron one inch in diameter AGAINST h;e
naked arm, and bent it like bow.
K One night, observing Waterman
asleep in his watch box, he picked up
box and Waterman, carrying the load
with the greatest ease, and dropped them
over the wall into Tindale burying ground.
Rs A butcher once passed window at
which Topham was sitting He stopped
down and took half an OK from the fell
lows shoulders with so much ease and
dexterity that the man swore that the
devil had flown away with the beef 4
At a race man insisted upon driving
upon the track SO Topham took hold of
the tail of the cart and drew it gently
back, the driver whipping the horse like
mailman all the time. a- ii ~
When he kept public house two men
were determined to fight him so to sat
isfy them. he seized them by the napcs
of their necks and knocked their heads
together Till he knocked all the fight out
of them. M gss shrr+ g.eas 81
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Do LEWIS saws of the American as

Do LEWIS says of the American as
an eater - Well, then, let me tell you,
that during my six years residence in
America, 1 saw nothing which surprised
me so much as the way the Yankees ate
and drank. Why. T really think it is
worth an admission fee to stand at the
end. of dining room and see hundred
Yankees at the dinner table. Each one
has something to eat in one hand and
something to drink in the other. When
the food hand goes up. the drink hand
is down. and when the food hand goes
down, the drink hand goes up. It al
ways reminds me of those walking beams
on steamboat-wheno one end is up the
other end Is down.
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WHO can tell the power for sood

ac WHO can tell the power for good or
evil of but one sentence falling, upon a
fellow creatures ear, or estimate the
mighty series of emotions, purposes and
and actions, of which one articulate
breath may be the spring? ga word
spoken in season. how good is it ?'' In
another sense than the; poets all words
are winged, and Imagination can lily
track their fight. Evil or idle words
may seem rs they are uttered, light and
trivial things yet if light, they are like
the -6laments of the the thistle down
each feathery tuft floating on the slight
est breeze bears withit the germ of nox-
ionso.weed. Good, KIDD, true and holy
words. dropped in conversation n ny be
little thought of too. but they are, like
seedssofa fpwer or fruitful tree falling by
the wayside. borne by some bird altar,
happy thereafter to fringe with beauty
some barren mountafn-side, OF to make
glad some lonely wildernesss-
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20 THE Chinese are indeed barbarous
and unprincipled race. How bad they
are in business transactions is told Incl
dentally by Tuliu A. Palmer, in the De-
cember Old and New:
You have any partners, All, Sing ~
/ asked. 5t 4.
=-.-stOh, yes Ehave partners. I-got
one partner dead ! my partner all same;
no difference make all can: he have
share. He have wife, children, home 10
China. Every year I look over ice, oil,
tar, -four, see how much make; then
send China, pay him his wife. all he
make. Suppose live, my partner dead
all the same. 49,
Now if this practice ever obtains preva
lence here il will utterly demoraize all
our current christian practice. The idea
of cherishing sentiments of justice and
business obligations to dead, partners
families Ont upon the heather
Chineet p Germdnto,on Chronicle.
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Previous to the last ten years, the
question of granting to sectarian bodies,
certain amounts Of the school fund was
not mooted. Since that time, however,
different religious bodies have brought
more or less pressure to bear to alter the
system heretofore in vogue, and procure
an appointment of the fund to the schools
over which they proposed to exercise
control, or which they Immediately or
ganized. The Constitution implies that
the fund being raised by public tax
should have universal application, and
should be entirely free from the control
of secss. Chippe,oa Falls Democrat. Ii
The Democrat goes on, t.length, to
balance the pros and cons of allowing re-
ligious sects to divert a portion Of the
public money from the public schools to
their own sectarian uses, and finally es-
capes in fog of its own raising without
taking any ground On the subject. Out
upon such moral cowardice There is
already the small black cloud, no bigger
than mans hand, rising in the southern
part of the State, which, if it can, will
spread over the whole heavens. In 9TH
er words an organized effort under the
auspices of 'sectarian bodies is being
made to break down our present public
school system. The scheme has been
successful in New York City-why not
in Wisconsin Without going into the
merits of the case any further than results
patent on the face, we ask any intelligent
citizen to compare for moment the free
public school system as known in the
United States and the Protestant States
of Europe, with that which obtains in
ireland, for Instance, or Spain, or the
States of the Church, or Mexico, or Cen
trail America, or the Republics of South
Amelica. In these latter countries there
is but one system Of public education al
lowed, and that is entirely under the
control of 'sectarian bodies and as a
result, the people are in swaddling clothes
to- day. Then look at Prussia, with not
only free public but compulsory attend
ance upon them, and reflect on the pow
er that knowledge brings to a people.
Free public schools are the nurseries of
the Republic and rhe- sureties of our
liberties. They are under the superin-
tendence,9 and subject to the regulation
Of the public authorities, who employ
and dismiss teachers, examine their
qualifications, inspect their work, stimu-
late their diligence, and keep them under
q wholesomesense Of responsibility. Take
away these cheeks, and the tone of the
public education sinks to the level adopt
eddy bigotry. superstition, or the self
interest of ''sectarian bodies '-E.c.
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THE van pRA sTMENr.

I The fiscal year Of this institution ends
on the 3Oth day Of june. Yhe army is
composed Of 2,4SS officers and 34,S7O en-
listed=man 3lyI5S=of these constitute
the ten regiments of cavalry, five regi--.
ments of artillery and twenty-five regis
-meats q. iafaatry-authorized by acts of
congress. The remaining 1852 are en-
gineer troops. The army IS stationed in
forty-two States and Territories at two
hundred and three organized military
ports. The appropriations for the year
ending June both ls70were $a7, 53s, $751;
Os. The appropriations and deficiency
for the present year will be less by ,$4,-
636, SOB, IL and estimated appropriations
for the year ending June 30th 1872 con-
template still further reduction of three
and one half millions %of dollars. A re-
commentator is made by the secretary
that congress authorize the construction
of new fre-proof building for the de-
partment. In consequence of the fact
that the present building is old and en-
tirely too small to accommodate the bust
ness of the department, much of its
business is done in other buildings scat
tered about Washington, and the ar
chieves Of the department are continual
ly exposed to destruction by fire. The
department has inaugurated the system
Of observing and reporting storms. The
corps of observers; went to their stations
on the first day of November, 1870 Ar
rangements have been made with all the
principal telegraph lines to CO operate as
sistance from scientific men and institu.
tions both here and in Europe have been
rendered and the results of the labors Of
this corps promise to be valuable and in
tercsting. The most experienced officers
of the service are still experimenting
with breech-loading, arms. The rifle to
be adopted by the United States army
has not yet been selected. The coast sur
vey, work of vast magnitude and inter-
est, is progressing under the direction of
skillful engineer officers, The Secretary
is laboring to bring the expenses Of his
department down to a point near the an
nual expenditures before the war. but as
civilization advancesin the west, the
military posts are pushed farther out and
the expenses for transportation constant
ly increasing. The railroad companies
in the southwest, to which the govern
ment delivered up roads in its possession
at the close of the war, are still in arrears
nearly seven millions of dollars. Little
has been paid during the past year and
there appears to be disposition on the
part of these companies to swindle the
government out of the amount due. The
courts in those states will not enforce
these claims and it is difficult without
the interposition Of Congress to reach
| them.-.Sentinez.
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ALMOST one fourth of the numerical
strength of the Methodist Episcopal
Church is In Indiana and Ohio.
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PLUM PITS,
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

| have always notised when an indi-
vidual haint got the ability tew crit
cize udiciously he dams indiskriminate-
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Massey,
SHINES.

Mr.. Nasty Addresses. a Letter to the
French Authorities, Offering them
the Service nv 10000 of the Demo-
cracy of New York. fi15i e. 80 .A-
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Trooly,
PETP oLEUM v. Massey.

s.faf NJ. v. NASB1.
A. S. Yoo may objeck to this skeem
on the skore that 700 wood prefer to be
under German rool than Irish:-that you
wood prefer Bizmark to an O'Shaugh-
essy, but remember that Moo York hez
been under their control for years, and it
still stands. Ef we kin exist with mil
lions Nv EN- over US, can't you manage
to git on in some way with only forty
thousand? taF p. V.N.
I await with much aniety a response
to this note. Eff l kin only git this su-
perfuous yotin material off our hands,
[ shell hev done good thing. 1woodent
objeck to goin with eny myself as sutler,
or commissionary, or sutben Nv that sort
where there is cengenyal and profitable
employment.
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY.
(Which wuz Postmaster.
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In addition to the above, we are now
selling Choice Variety OF TEAS and
COFFEES at prices that will satisfy the
most economical. We fully warrant ev-
cry pound TO give perfect satisfaction or
we viii take back the goods and refund
the money
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CARD OF
CHlKL1yrI

:. ~CHARLBsroN, 5. g., April ", 1871.
At a meeting Of the Commissioners OF the
ghae!ertas srptlanhouse, held on q an-hstsnt,
rhe following resolutions were unanimously
adopted, and orlersa.so be published in he daily
papers Of thtseisa ;sssy
Reso uea, sass y Jtss.Sftreasasl hospitality of
Phl,,,I j. p.erssE Esa. are tna nommis,r'ners,
che Ihc, rsSaGkpp rtia OF t4e Otfapiest n Orphan
house aval4Idqe6tad'for Noae. OF he most %ittriG..
tive geAuris tustais2 vicinity for indulge & in Their
annual picnic, tnr the 38yhin. SAINT; aud sincerely
do they req ct I as.t6A e1s'tb ct cnndit on Of Mr..
Porrher'- health prrnluded his presence. aud de.
barred him q gra hcstiOu 81 congentaI to his be-
neyulrnL nature.
Aesoiued. Thai the chu"tesy anil nb"ranty nf
presri"p A. p. y, ReMei, uf tha Nurthra tern Rail-
roaIi Comp my. in'fu nlshing gra' III GU ,s a e,ial
train on The neo 1st0m Oh the nRmu,l festival OF
the, pupils ul tIe :GnarieaI"n Orpha n uSe-the
shdughtful onn +detatron AID personal 4 irn'ton
OF S1pefi. benleIt ). b. sui 'nUls. In perfectlnR
a. ranreni"nts which cohfuced 81 ereail' Ia inc
cnmr0rs aud grasneaIiun VI every participant 10
the fest. viti.s or the ,ar. ar iui Appreciated.
and will ever be gratefully ,remehoere't by, ne
meta bsrs The board AM the "mrer. and. nuniis
u thetnsntnti7n T. :
APRIL 2as 1871. y. seSrsAak9 NM
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Hotel Arr4rnls-april 20.
NLIA HAESH.

dOSons
E. q: Harris and wife, New York; JAS. Fife,
Philadelpnis; Wm. ". Jackson, wife, nurse and
three Child IN, z. A. SackspR. New Y'fk; kssFJ,
H. Chedell, Jnn. 9hed.tb Aabarn, N. T.: u. u
Freem w and wife, MISS Ere man, New Jersey; J:
A. King, New YORK; 8. Levin, IT,, agent for
Chap an SISTERS Tyoupe; Hiram Harding, Sr.,
and wife. Miss steha NJ. siugmsn, G. 4. Yaomp.
son and vile, uswrgos N. Y.
cHaRtssros gorEL.
Captain j. n: Miller, Assusta; J. N. Selkitk,,
Columbia; W. 4. J q. Woodward, South Carolina,
Phil Rnsenheimss avannsh 5RhSs Lzuisu, h. Pal.
ner, Burlington, vf:.Mr.AadaMrs SaHeed and
.serysn1 esisasei; nr 4NrS AaRad &ffi
mtneroa~Dal; sAB4A Rstgietphtss aeo.Es.w,
Dixie and vIfs. Hs s. Dixie Boston: ~. asInd Ma.
J. Rsenspii ,NAAHss4s oaal, New York; !. 3. Dow,
c.Rs!xa5ionrs1 athC esoHna. ssEe
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=. CLUES AND .STARSJohn Wright, arrested
for disorderly conduct and assanAing -Adsm
sCisra. THURSDAY afternoon, at the corner q PITT
and Beaufaln streets. &ss discharged with reg.
rimand.
an individual, who coald not take csEeof him
sell, was taken to the Gusrdhouse, anu sbeing
brought before the Mayor on the sharse of'setag
drums, on Broad sire {, THURSDAY afternoon, he
admitted that sueh q thing 'was possible" He
mas discharged oa the plsa-of the arst. onrncef
A COW, found in Fsgnn's Chu en- yard. was
saksp to the SiaIlonhou,e, and delivered - the
oszasso4shss pssanens OF. ,AkzEaisotStt44apS,ed
blythe Mayor. A. horse, found astray In Nassau
stree. swas :lod- ed aud delivered to the owner
without a ine. . =
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FL
1Scassr. OVER I Dlsrvssaasp BoDr-Tsa
wEks IN TIE GEAvE.IAn inquest was held
yesterday MN ming AT Polter's Field. and AFTER.
wards, by ,djuurnuent, sa,,he c"roler's onlce,
over the body OF Geo. Smith. e. native Of Trieste:
Austria. Al the time that the steamship Falcon
was on tie shoals, about three week. ago. the
deceas, d, who was IN . ver5. rlckIy condition, had
goue duwn to Coles Is and, in company With a
Spsniard named stephen Deparo. and several
other men, r4r the purpose of 8 Wing such articles
as might be thrown oYerbnRr' an q at ashore.
The party on thei>land were very snocesaul, and
gathere, q large lot OF goods. Duripg'the week,
the dec, ased was very i'll, but recovered
suai cleauy 10 eat Z. q hearty supper on the
night OF, Tnursday, the 18th. He died sud.
denly next morning, aud was buried on
The Island by Denaru. He remained here until
1, formstiunrSas lodged Mt the cOrone''s Office
that there wereseverai suspicious circumstance
attending his death. when the BODY WIS 'iisin-
TERED. and yesterday morning brought up iothe
city. 1t was taken To the. P0ler's Field aud pre-.
sented a loathsome spectacle to the Jury of in
uues; here assembled. peoom' ositton mad set III,
aud the ne,h disoolUred aud swollen with gases,
could not be cut by the knife OF he surgeon.
The stomach Of tile deceased was taken out. hut
de surgeon cnul discover no signs Of p 'ison,
the. whole beinSesaJeoomDosed that the signs
could not have b az ec' ed even II they existed.
The jury adj raSped. asd subsequently met
at the teyroner'ss&aes x6Se6 tnsg ,sase ed the
foIlos Dig .yerdfSsssS sSS6As enc SfdetsASed cama
to his Observation-Disclosures sshe 18TH
dsvsfapril, as7lt 3EnoKl Isaud, thes1rdy huv.
Ing aiep ssried ~ ssephsS Penare Twelve days
pr~tspns7oshe aIsfdtatmear, Eahdto t:snred u to
<sutbh.hsnsaaapsssstn the o'usser causes Of
his deass,, Fis deees.ed mad not been attended
by any pf apssn, and his ssaden death apparent
ly from the enrclssof tSe uROer he had eaten
gave use to the suspicion that he ha', been foulls
dealt with for The saAe or hls IN re Of The wrecked
gouds. Tile Inquest established nothing. and
there ia no promise OF the uncertainty concerning
hs death beIp ever cleared up.