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Clippings For The Curious.
Wendell Phillips.

Ia the old Division street graveyard
at Bridgeport there is a marble slab
marking the grave of Robert Linus
Backus, who died on the 10th Of Febru-
'ary, 1884, aged II years and months.
On the reverse of the stone is a stain
which represents a woman grasping a
club with which she is in the act of
striking; all attempts to obliterate this
stain by scraping are Intellectual, and
we are told that this is the fifth stone
which has marked the spot, the preced-
ing ones having been removed on ac-
count Of their inveterate tendency to
represent the same scene. The legend
connected with this singular circum-
stance is that the child was killed by its
enthusiastically Evening Post.
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POETRY.
HeterOdoru.

Pray thss, put ths sermon by =FeE my soul no
no more with croeds,
They are Only stones and hlisEs to ny hunsry
spirits needs
lam tired OF striving seclsy with their various
bigotry-
All, for me death holds no terror but the fear
Of losing fheei
Iua Heaven apart from thee, could my e1ilcd
a ID soul rejoice7 -
Could Join the angels song, missing thence
thy tender voice?
What to me were gates OF pesTl IL they parted
thee and me?
What the streets so fair and golden II walked
them seeking thee?
What TO me would be The joys Of that bright
and wOndrOus land,
II among them 1 should lack eyermorc thy
loving hand7
What to me the pastures green where Thy feet
could never be?
What the paths beside stiIl waters If thou
wsIkest not with me7 -
Ah. wherever after death my stHl faithful soul
may dwell,
Saints may call it bliss or woe they may name
it heaven or hell
BY thee only, oh, beloved viii my JOY or pam
be wrought,
shall find my heaven beside thee, OF my hell
where thou art not
Ilsraos Isrey.
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Anber

Auber, the great operatic composer,
died at Paris on Sunday, the 14th inst,
at the advanced age Of eighty-seven.
He was born at Caen, in Normandy, in
1884. His father being q print seller in
Paris, sent his son to London to learn
the trade; but his ungoverenable passion
for music defeated this plan, and he
returned home. After a number Of sue
cessful minor pieces, Auber wrote a
Mass for four voices, and soon his opera,
''Le SejOur Militaire" 1881 which met
with so cold reception that the author
resolved to abandon the field of musical
composition. The death of his father,
however rendering him dependent on
himself, he went to work on another
opera, which, under the title of ole
Testament ct les Billets-dOuX," he
brought out in 1919. This was also un-
successful; but the next one, ''Le Ber-
gere Chatelaine," met with favorable
reception, and Auber's fame may be
said to be founded on this work. The
best popular known of his subsequent
works are "AIassanielloU land Fra Dia-
volo."
After the death of Cherubini, in 1872,
Auber was appointed Director of the
Conservatory Of Music of Paris.
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Personal.
llrs. MeFarlqnd-.R -.Richardsor.
Late Wife.

ifr8. McFurland- Richardson.
The Greeley, (ColOradO) Tribune no
tices the recent visit of Mrs. McFar-
Richardson to that place. It
says: Mrs. Richardson is a more intel
lectual lady than the average of cult.
waited women, and few excel her in good
looks. The pitying, sympathetic cast
of the eyes is noticeable, and she is
larger and stronger than one might
fancy. To see her and 10 hear her talk
give her additional light to the tragic
story which not long ago interested the
world
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

Writtea for Hs -Cr5aaa Union
I'd Like 10 MGTryU I Could.
I'd like to marry if could
I'm tired ofa single life;
wish some man, both kind and good,
Would come and take Inc for his wife.
Hong 10 play wOmsns part,
4 better wife there couldn't be;
Tho I've no wealth, have heart
To love the man who'll marry me
Chorus:
rdlike 10 marry, i'll could;
I'm tired Of single life;
wish somo man, both kind aud good,
Would come and lake me for his wife.
am, a maidof twcnty-threc:
Like other maids. my hopes are bright:
And when the young men smile on me
It nils my bosom with delight
Iplsy the coquette when can,
And do my best the men 10 tease
But. al nay airs won't vim man
Oh, dear! my hearts oil at ease.
Chorus.
The young men say, dress SO gay
Ny taste at dressing can't be beat,
And when pass them on the way,
They praiss my pretty face-and feet,
But, after all, they won't propose,
They seem to love single life;
And tho have dozen Beaus,
~ -e YET Rone has sought. me for his wife.
chor4y.
.-...-.| .#.. 75o, RcD,7o,5
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Neurological.
Todd.

4OLus
In the death of Colonel G.. 8. Todd, of
Kentucky, who expired lately at the
residence of his sOn-in-law in Baton
Rouge, La, the Union loses one Of its
Oldest and most respected public men.
He was born in 1871, and graduated at
the College of William and Mary, Vir-
ginia, in 1909. He was distinguished
soldier under General William H. Har-
risOn in his Indian and British North
western campaigns in 1872 and 1sl3.-
He was Minister to Colombia, South
America, as long ago as 1922, and was
Minister to Russia under President Ty-
Ter about thirty years ago. Mr.. Motley,
our late Minister to England, was his
Secretary Of Legation when he was at
st. Petersburg Gin. Eng.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

a married woman in Kansas, who re.
Gently elOped with physician, left the
following unique note for her husband:
Dear Hu66y-You're played out, I
like Dr.-sO well that 1 prefer going
with him-yOu good for nothing degen-
Grated cuss. It's none of your business
where we've gone to. It won't do you
any good to follow US, for l wouldn't
live another day with you to save your
life. You made mistake in thinking
1 loved you. 1 never did. 1 married
you for convenience sake. 1 take the
baby along, and I'll take care of it.
YOn can sue for divorce and get mar
ried as soon as you please. The woman
who gets you next will h9Ee healthy
old prize. Goodbye. Be virtuous and
you'll be happy. You
Late Wife.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

a thick-headed squire, being worsled
by Sydney Smith in an argument, took
his revenge by exelaiming: IF I had a
son who was an idiot, by Jove, I'd
make him parson." Very probable ,
replied Sydney, but I see that your
father was Of a different mind.-Er-
change.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

The residence Of a member of the
Board Of Councilmen who lives on Sew
enth street is said to be the scene Of
most singular and mysterious noises,
supposed to be caused by visitanUs from
the spirit world. They occur In a room
memorable on accent Of the decease Of
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

The Columbus (Aiiss.) Democrat,
The aBIest organ Of Democracy at the
South, denounces the New Departure
in the following fOrcible language:
The Black Republican press of the
North are just now industriously en-
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31
Flashes Of Fan.

A Sophomore translated "Nahns er
die Geige, ind apielte he'll agf" 'He
took the fiddle and played hell cut of
it."-CorneU Era.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

\ Clergyman was lately depicting be-
fore a deeply interested audience the
alarming increase of intemperance,
when he astOnished his hearers by ex-
claiming: a young man died very
suddenly last Sunday while I was
preaching the Gospel in bcastly state
of intOxication.-E1rc Exchange.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

Some young boys were annoying an
old man by snOw-balling his house. He
ran out and caught one of the rogues
who was standing at one side looking on,
and, thinking him to be one of the
offenders, began to administers a flogging.
But, the harder he whipped, the har-
der the boy laughed, until he stopped
and sought an explanation. Well, said
the boy, Pm laughing because you're so
badly sold. YOU'RE lickin' the wrong
feller!
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-05-31

Many thOughtless people have seen
fit to make sport of Mr.. Greeley's ideas
af agriculture, but we have always re-
Trained until now, but when he advises
an uncle of ours out West that the best
way to raise cashmere shawls is to graft
a cashmere goat with the hardy native
billy goat, it is too much, and we shall
go for tht old cuss every chance that
presents Exchange.
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1t was an evening in September, cool
aud clear. Aubrey and I had been
walking by the banks of an artificial
lake in an unfrequented part of the
park. o how beautiful had been his
conversation upon that occasion! What
grand passages he had read from raTest
PONIES in harmony with the time and
place! Indeed, indeed his heart, like
that of Walter of the VOgelweid, was a
very
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

examples OF Mr. Il flSk'S dpiiity w 'n""bo P''"'
at a moments notice, and take money out OF
the treasury with one hand while no put
it in with tho other. We know, Tor IN
stance. in what an astonishing manner he
manipulated his diluted stock so as to vote
for himself with shares that did not belong to
him, and how, by pretending to he two or
three pcrsOns at one and the same time, he
mapaged--if we may use the expresson-to
eat his cake and have il too. But his talent
for being sOmCN else has been underratod.
IL seems that N,r. James Fisk, jr, is his own
hest customer, and he has made so many fat
contracts with Fisk the Controller OF the Erle
Railway Company that even If the stock
holders should at last regain their rights and
come into possession of the road, they would
find nothing but debts and bother When
we say Mr. James Fisk, jr., we beg to be
understood as alluding to the Ring OF which
that reSplendent warrior is the conspicuous
and eflulgent center.
The Erie Road has a contract with the
Flmira Rolling-Mills to furnish all the rails
those establishments are capable OF pro-
ducing; Mr.. Fisk and Mr. Could are the
rolling-mills. The Erie Company has coal
contract with mining company at Towanda;
Mr.. Fisk and Mr.. Gould are also the Towanda
Mining Company. The Erie Road has con-
tract with the Brooks Manufacturing Com
pany to furnish twenty five new locomotives
every year and repair the old ones; Mr..
Fisk and Mr.. Gould are also the Brooks
Manufacturing Company. Mr. James FISK, Jr,
is a sleeping-car company, a palace-car COM
pany, an Oil-car company, cOal-car company,
a transportation company, an express com
pany-to say nothing of being likewise a
Lake Erie steamer company, Long Dock
company, and IA Narragansett admiral; and
with each of these separate and Independent
Fisks tho Erie Road has heavy contracts,
greatly TO the aforesaid Fisks' profit. Now we
can see how il is all done and how a railroad
can mako money while its receipts are running
about t2,000000 year behind its expenses
Mr.. GOuld's system of accounts is not so frank
az it might be ; but TO the initiated who hold
the key we presume the items are clear. we
dare say now it il understood that certain
percentage of the amounts paid to these DIFF
ferent companies which we have enumerated
shall stand for the private and personal plum
der of the President and Controller. When
we find 81 ,327 402 charged for fuel" first cost
I" and handlingr-we read between the lines
that here is an entry of the first cost and
handling of an Eric judge. A million and a
quarter for engines represents the expense Of
the Grand Opera House, and two millions and
a half for rails helps to keep up the Ninth
Regiment Mis-. Lawlor is included in the
charge for oil, and the purchase of an inde-
pendent newspaper appears as "waste." 1t is
an admirable scheme; and now that it is in
complete working order we see no reason in
the world why Fisk should not repeal the
Erie bill and allow the shareholders to vote.
He has eaten the oyster, and he might as well
graciously give up the shell.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

ago learned TO accept the word of the ex-
Senator who Is at its head rs readily as they
would the oaths of half the Sen
ate. And the third member of the
Commission. President White of Cor
nell, is gentleman Of such standing, so
removed from political schemes, and so en-
tirely uncOmmitted on the whole question,
that his opinion will be received like the
carefully considered verdict of Judge
These gentlemen go out without instructions
from the White House. and with no purpose
save to perform impartially the duties
assigned by the law under which they are ap-
pointed. The investigation could not be begun
under better auspices; and with the sailing OF
the Commission, and the publication, this morn.
ing. of the documents from the State Department
reciting the history of the previous nesotia-
tons and discoveries, we gladly dismiss the
question from the domain of present political
6iscIlcsion
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
2,-co-3lorIs daily Gri5allte,
TUESDAY. JANUARY II, 1871.

The details of the battle Of Wednesday last before
Ic Mans are published this morning. == Contradic
tory reports are received Of Gen. ChanZy's Army, the
Prus,an representing that 1t is broken up, while the
FreUch say it is reOTganized, and about to resume
offensive operations. === severe engagement has
occurred in the saone Valley, but no particulars arc
given. =- The Prussans about to lombard Long
Wy. == The bOmbarlmept of Paris continues,
In the senate yesterday, bill was passed to hasten
tho survey OF private land claims The bill giving ONO
;,r.sdicton over the Soldiers Asylum at Dayton was
debated hill was introduced for the establishment OF
gu ocean Steamship line. =- In the House, the Ar
ISM. Railroad bill was debated resolution was intro
ci loaiJng TO the restoration Of the general order
s,sfern m the New-Tork Custom House. Several mem
pe, from Georyia were admitted. A bill was passed
rrtirc IT, ations for The establishment Of Ocean
Cabo lines
senator wilson has been nominated for rececuon 10
ae lrjied States senate by the Massachusetts, RepuD-
'r,D- = The Potomac River Is again open tor naNi-
cation, -- The Manager Of the san Franciso sailors
Home ha ascaded with $4,000 belonging to the sailors
=-- TIE Internal Revenue Bureau at Washington mas
been reolganIzcd.
Dr. Cairy continued his evidence IN the trial OF Dr
ra..bap. --= Tie san Domingo Commissioners san
..., Nayy.York to-day. == DR.. j. G. thompson al
,-,. Az Important meeting in behalf Of womans edu-
!o, z= Cold Iloi, l1Os Thermometer, Az 52', So''
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

Mr.. Homer V. NJ. Miller does us the kind
ness to send us documents, under his frank
as United States SENATOR We do not know
but that the petty swindle is entirely in accord
ance with precedent our immediate concern
is to show that system admitting abuses at
once so paltry and so ridiculous needs refor-
nation altogether. Here is man chosen to
the United States Senate in 1863 by Legisla-
ture which subsequently turned ont all its ne
gro members because Of their color, and was
itself repudated by Congress because of its
aWlessness. He has never come within gun
shot of admission TO the Senate, and there
are, besides him, some five others, claiming
the seats which only two can have. All six
have exactly the same right to the Franking
Privilege-which is no right at all. Cannot
Mr.. Creswell induce Mr.. Homer V. NJ. Miller
and the five other aspirants for the Georgia
seats in the u. s. Senate to use Postage
Stamps
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
HOV TO KEEP ACCOUNTS


Mr.. Jay Gould, in compliance with pressing
invitation from the Courts, recently exhibited
the balance-sheet of the Erie Railway Com
pany, and We can imagine that, as he held
it up for inspection, he exclaimed to
the stockholders: "There is our state
"ment; now make the most of it!n 1t
was indeed difficult matter to make any
thing of it at all. Mr.. Gould controlled good,
well-equipped road, doing very heavy bust
ness; and, according to all ordinary maxims
of railway management there ought to have
been large annual profits. Yet, according to
this statement, whatever the Company may
have earned during the year 1868 was paid to
Messrs. Vanderbilt and Schell, in settlement of
stock -jobbing suits, and to the forty lawyers
who conducted the great Erie htgations. For
the shareholders, there was nothing at all. A
correspondent calls our attention to pecu-
liarity in the management of the Road, which
explains not only how the stock is kept down
and tho profits are absorbed, but how Messrs.
Gonld, Fisk, and Tweed are enabled TO collect
fortunes every year out of n road which does
not pay other shareholders a dollar.
TIA whole secret lies in the duality Of Mr..
James FIX. II. we have had several brilliant
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
SIT IND IT'S COST


Mr.. I. Wells writes us from Syracuse in
deprecation Of The present duty on Salt, in
that Che says) it enables the associated salt
boilers of his city to charge a high price for it
at home, or in the interior of our State, while
they sell it much lower Che says) at Chicago,
in Canada, in this City at Baltimore, Glouccs-
ter, &c. He thinks the duty on imported Salt
should be reduced from GS TO 50 cents per bar
rel, in order TO counteract this tendency Of
the salt-boilers to bear too hard on the salt
consumers of midland New York, while they
sell their product very cheap at remote points,
where they can do no better
We will concede, for the present, that the
facts are as Mr. Wells puts them-that the
salt-boilers charge from 81 to s. per barrel ac-
corlng to quality, for their product in central
New-Yo ork while they sell it for much less
to be taken TO Chicago, Baltimore, or GlOuccs-
ter-will Mr.. Wellss panacea effect q cure Of
the evil he deprecates
We copy from one OF Mr.. David A. Wcllss
"Rcports of the Special Commissioner of the
"Rcvennon Jan., 1869, a note printed on pp.
27-S of the Official copy, (which reads as fol-
lows:
The following table showing the prices Of Turks Iland
Salt in god from 1871 10 l9C2 under different and WILDLY
varying conditions of Tariff, illustrates tie difficulty
which often exists fracinguy definite constant con-
nectou between the prices of the imported article and
the duties that may be imposed upon it,
Prices Of Turks IslGd Sgt in Nc0 ork and rates Of ft.
HhGIon rom lSil rhtc'| lrl8 i,et o. drih lrm
area -'C"""S GGs 'UIgcStd.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

Tn. Committee of Inquiry which is making
cav nuddle" Of the affairs Of the Methodist
Booh Concern had another than DR.. Lanahan
on tl.al ycs.crday, for having opinions Of his
own; a.d tAc evidence went to show only that
Nh. Fletcher Harper hadn't very good idea
OF ,hc business abilities of the Book Agent.
There is an intimatiOn that the Committee, in
executive session yesterday, concluded to drop
tie inquiry entirely Evidently that is the
wiscst determination it can reach, and the
snoncr thc. wiser.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

There is perhaps nothing in the attitude OF
the disfranchised South, as Senator Abbott OF
Norlh Carolina argued yesterday, to Justify the
Government in declaring General Amnesty.
But does Mr. Aabott hope to reconcile the en-
emies of the T. ion by continuing what they
have been taught to think persecution.f Re
move their disabilities and you take away the
whole stock in trade of the Southern politl-
clans by depriving them of their little import
ance. These fellows actually live off the SYM
pathy aroused by their continued disfranchise-
mcnt by the United States.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

This g. j.. .ncourasiDg for Che public who
desire 10 $50 new avenues 20 Washington
OF ncl. The An.Line Railway bill! is 70 be
pushed raoic vigorously in Congress than here
.or", AMI apparently with better chances of
s..c..ss. 1t was introduced in the Iiouse yes
fauiay oy special permission by an Oyerwbelm-
rls vr.e, aad is 10 have early and proper con-
s'acu,ioa Il is an enterprise of great moment
% N.Y YQyt, and one that ought to be under
taken IN ,pae OF Camden & Amboy opposition.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
The Journal of Commerce has letter from

Washington, which says:
"Take the charge that salt freghts would Increase II
the duty on salt removed. Experience has proved
otherwise But suppose they did, not the shipping
interests as val 10 the country the interests OF
the Syracuse salt monopoly Salt ballast is good thing
for shipowner He would bring salt, return tobacco,
petroleum. cotton, grain, rum whisky, and many things.
lie could afford to bring salt at the half trips expense
thing ship owners hardly ever attempt now and the
suit would more likely DO reduction in frcghts instead
OF an increase thus giving exporters better chance
compete In the markets Of the world 1t was before
the war and the present excessive duty salt has had
the effect since IL levied OF retaining hundred
thousand uns domestic products in this country that
might otherwise with cheaper ireights out, have found
"a foreign market"
Comments.-That the price of Salt in the
West Indies and the cost of bringing It thence
to our ports, would be increased by repeal
or essential reduction Of the duty, il shown by
the interest taken by foreign producers and by
shippers in the question. We import as much
Salt as we did ten years ago, and it ID sold
here lust about as cheap ~ II vas then while
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

--We suggest the facts as Mr.. Wells pre-
sented them, without argument or comment
Whether they do or do not prove the price of
Salt very little affected by the duty, the reader
will judge for himself.
. We submit that the end contemplated 10y
our Syracuse friend is to be attained, if at ALL
in different way from that favored by him.
What is needed, it seems to us, is old-fash-
ioned, healthful competition in Salt-making at
Syracuse. And that s'to be secured, if at all,
by legislation at Albany, not at Washington.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

Every now and then we have the pleasure to
record another instance of the enlargement Of wo-
mans sphere of labor. The latest comes to us from
Pennsylvania. On the 10th inst, Mrs. Ruth 4. Ross,
widow Of the late Gen. VIM. s. Ross, was unani-
mousy elected a Director of the Wyoming National
Bank of Wilkesbaue. We heartily commend the
appointment. Where women show special capacity
for any position they should have precisely the same
chances for filling 1t as men have. This is o right
which they may justly claim. Mis- Ross's unanimous
election Is at once both an expression of BIO con-
idence rcposed IN her abilities and the wisdom and
liberality of the electors. Her success ought 20
stimulate that spirit of self help aud independence
81 ieeDly developed In her sex.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
amnstments, ctt., Gtio Crcninq.

BoorH's TuF vrlsG-" Richclion' Edwin Booth.
Furu-AvENUE TIIEArER.-"S saratoga
GRAND OprRA HOUSE,. -" Les Brgands''
LrNA EryvIN's TnFAIER." Ma2eppa" aud His
Jsst legs" Frgnl Drew.
NIi0', GARDEN" Tic klack Crook"
OLYair1C THEATER.-"Nee Wllhe Nmkie" G l..
Tot.
SrADr TER" Lorlc." Nine. Seebach.
WArrACt'S TTFATER.-" Faint Heart Never Won
FAR Lady" sud Used Up" Lester Walaok.
NFw-YoRK CIRCUS" Cindcrella.v Equestrian
srcr,ses sete aac pelioru,anccs 6c. L. b. Lent
SAN lEANCISCO MrNsTREIs, No. 5S5 Broadway.
sorVs dances a.dc sets
SrrtNwAY HNL.-Concert. Mme. Anna Bishop.
Wtou's MUSEUM AND MrN, ,GFEIU.--At . True
Lest a8: Ger5e the Dragon" TbcuTson Troupe
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

Co.Hic,iuc reports leave us in doubt as to
,lo E,e Of the Hornet expedition, but the
n.a o. eyi crcc seems to indicate that Ryan
..ud IS m,l nrt with disaster after landing,
loa.n nc vessel escaped to sea without In
j1y. Wo print both stories elsewhere
.lnr,l mining themselves wholly to asser-
,.ors. t.c Iaban agents here are positive Of
- -. y q he a.naditiOn.