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Sir Hugh Allan, OF Montreal, has made an af1l-
davit setting forth lls version Of tue Canadian
Credit Mobii'ar. It does not differ materially
from Tlat wps previously known, busjs olosea
, 1873-07-09

Tho Mayor of San Francisco hos beon sus-
tained by tho Board Of Supervisors in his veto Of
tho ordinance 1ovying upoclnl tax Oh Chinese
Inundrymen.
, 1873-07-09

DEs MolHEs, July 8.---Goy. Carpenter has do-
cidod not to cali the Convention Of Goveruora
on lilo transportation question until ne1s fall
, 1873-07-09

,Mov1oKER's TlIEATRE-Maa,son street, l,etvocn
Won At Lash p" I" Don't Julgo ~ Appearances"
, 1873-07-09
TERMS or THE TRIBUNE.

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rEnMs TO CITY eUnHCN1DHNs.
Daily, tetlvcrR. Sunday excepted, 81 contt per week.
uay, Gpiyotnd. Sintny included, % conts por week.
Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY,
Corner kndison aud Ueasborn.sts.. Chicago, iii.
, 1873-07-09

N1XON's N'sANfp1IlTl1EATIl:- Clinton streot, botveon
Washington and 1thndn1pl, Tony PASTORS Variety Com
blnatiuh, Afternoon aud evening.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
Men and Women.

1t is strange indeed that mems self.
condemnation of their coarseness and
vices should be interpreted as delicacy
and chivalry toward women. "We are
so vulgar and vile," they seem to say,
that we must continue to be vulgar and
vile, to show how tenderly we cherish,
how fully we appreciate the dear crea-
lures who are our better angels" If we
are not fitted to be women's companions,
if we go where we should not, so much
the worse for us. If women are too good
for us, it is our duty TO be better. We
require reformation, and the best reform
alton will come to us by admitting wo-
men to what we call, euphemisticaIly
enough, our recreations and our plea
sures. That these are unworthy and
rude, if not gross, for the most part, few
of US will deny. By making women our
partial partners, our associates on occa-
sion, we admit our inferiority and our
fear lest they should know of US what we
know of ourselves. We have not ad-
vanced so far beyond baronial barbarism
and Eastern indulgences as we would
fain believe, while we hold our wives
and daughters in the prisons of ignorance
and the seraglios of restraint.
1t is not consideration for women that
induces US to keep them in the border
land of acquaintance with our real lives.
1t is consideration for ourselves; It is su-
preme selfishness; it is engrossing ego
tism. We shrink from the thought that
the gentler and purer beings who love us,
and whom we love-when we have naught
else to do-should have a perfect un-
derstanding, clear revelation Of
what we are. 1t is an article of
our social creed that they prefer pleasant
illusions to disagreeable facts. This is
not without its verify; but it eyinces the
false education of women, and one of
their weaknesses that should be removed.
In this age we live, or ought to live, above
everything else, for truth. Whatever
leads thereto should be followed, though
the following dispel every deception
which, from the first, has been our most
grateful food.
The men are precious few that would
be willing their lives should be unrolled
panoramalike before their nearest and
dearest feminine friends. The thing that
they are vain of, even TO boasting, they
would hide from their wives or mothers at
imminent peril to themselves. The wor-
ship most of us receive is species of
sentimental fetishism offered under the
delusion that the idol is far more than it
seems; that it possesses powers and in
fluences linking it to the divine. Trans
parent as we may be TO our own sex, we
are opaque to the opposite. Genuine to
the one, we are shams TO the other, and
we exercise constant care that we shall
continue such. In respect, esteem, ad-
miration, and affection, we are actually
obtainers of goods by false pretences, and
are amenable to a spiritual law which
we always evade. Is it flattering to our
manhood, to our sense of integrity, to
know that to those we reverence most we
are miserable fictions and animated lies ?
=" Women as Companions" 6y Junius
Henri BrO1one, in Fs6T1Gry GALAXY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
THE OLD WORLD.

The Empress Caroline Augusta, widow OF
the Emperor Francis l., and grandmother of
the reiguing emperor, died at Vienna, Feb
ruary Z, aged 81. ..t. r
1t is announced from Geneva that the
Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva has
decided against the complete separation Of
Church and State.
. A Paris dispatch of the 9Th says the north
ern portion Of France had just been visited by
heavy snow'storm, and railway travel was
blockaded. .r. rff -t.fh
The Swiss Council OF State has stopped
the salaries, for three months, Of all the
priests who read from their pulpits, unau-
thorized, the papal brief establishing q sep
arate BishoPric for Geneva.
A dispatch was received at Washington
from Minister sickles, dated Madrid, Febru-
ary IL, confirming the previous report OF
the abdication Of King Amadeus OF
Spain, and stating that republican form of
government had been adopted by vote of
$50 in the affirmative and 80 Ia the
negative There was great excitement man
Tested and some attempts at disturbance,
but the latest dispatches report everything
quiet.
AdVices from Lisbon, February IL, state
that an insurreetion Of natives had broken
out against the Portuguese authorities in
Loanda, on the southwest coast OF Africa.
Corvettes with troops have been dispatched
TO the colony,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21

the votes for him counted, on the ground
that Mr.. Greeley was dead when the votes
were cast, and was not, therefore, a
citizen within the meaning of the
Constitution. This point the House
settled afilrmatively, the Senate adversely.
This disagreement compelled the tellers, in
accordance with the rules, to throw out the
vote.
The Executive Board of the Wisconsin
State Agricultural Society have fixed upon
Milwaukee as the place fer holding the next
annual State Fair.
Governor Smith, of &c eorgia, In recent
special message to the State Legislature,
says that 81, 567, ,435 must beprovided during
the current year to meet bonds falling due,
and to pay the interest on the public debt.
At Richmond, Va, on the 18th, grand
celebration was held in honor of the arrival
of the first through freight train from the
Ohio River over the Chesapeake 81 Ohio
Railroad.
The newly completed census Of Brazil
shows total population Of 10,OOO,0oO in
cluding 2,o0O,0 900 slaves and 100000 abor'
igines.
The next Ohio State Republican State Con.
vention will be held May 81.
The jury In the case Of George Driver, on
trial in Chicago for the murder of his wife,
brought in verdict Of guilty, with hanging
as the penalty.
Governor Osborn, of Kansas, has been
notified by General Pope that President
| Grant has ordered the removal Of the troops
from the Cherokee neutral lands in that
| State.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
Tenacity of Popular Beliefs.

THE tenacity Of popular belief, in the
absence of any established facts on which
il can be based, and in opposition to all
the teachings of learning, science, and in
dividual experience, has long been the
wonder of philosophers. The explana-
tion perhaps is, that it is an inherited
habit or instinct, and perpetuates itself
through successive generations as other
habits do. Thus we see the dog on his
masters carpet before the fire, turn
around before lying down, in obedience
to an inherited habit acquired ages ago
by his progenitors when obliged to make
their own beds in their native wilds.
And so of many habits in man and the
domestic animals, which are still con.
tinued, though the occasion for them
ceased to exist countless generations ago.
The belief which seems to have the firm.
est hold on the popular mind, and 10 be
the most widely disseminated, is in the
influence Of the moon on vegetation and
the weather. This has long resisted the
accumulated contradictions of experience
as to the facts, and the teachings of
science as TO the theory. But it shows
the marvellous power Of the human mind
In thrusting aside phenomena which in.
terfere with cherished convictions and
established habits of thought. No indi-
vidual OF mature age who holds this be,
lief but has seen il fail in his own expert
ence thousand times. But all observa-
tion shows that the result OF such failure
Is only to fix the delusion still more deep
ly: Such belief does not depend on the
efficacy of trial, but on the strength Of
faith. A believer in these delusions will
believe anything rather than that his
faith is in the wrong. m Il ~.
AS to the weather, the experience of
every adult will require him TO admit that
there can be nothing more variable and
uncertain than the condition of the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21

weather at any given time and pace--or
more certain than that there " ill be q con-
slant variation in the weather at such
place az compared with any other point
either on the same latitude, longitude, or
in the same hemisphere. And while the
weatheris the most uncertain and vari
able of all natural events or conditions,
the moon in its movements and relations
to the earth is the emblem of precision
and punctuality; yet large part of man
kind persist in believing there is a con-
nection between the most unvarying of
possible causes and the most variable OF
(supposed) resultsi
AS to vegetation, there is the same in.
cOngruity between cause and effect-th9
extremes of certainty. and uncertainty {;
the same teachings of individual expert
ence and the same perennial faith, which
In its details tends more to the absurd.
There is another popular belief, very
much In conflict with the teachings of
science, which still retains-though SEEM
ihgly with failing strength-a hold on the
rural mind; il is that of the transmuta.
tion of plsnts-now, In this country, mar
rowed down to the change of wheat into
cheat or chess. Though unsustained by a
single established instance, and in con.
fiict with all the known laws of vegetable
life, II is not logically so preposterous as
the delusions regarding themoon-it fails
for want of affirmative proof; but as II
lacks the absurdity, go it wants the vital
ity of other beliefs, and the moon will
hold her sway over the ignorant mind
long after transmutation has gone into
oblivion. A certain mystery surround
ing the moon, with the uneducated, will
aid greatly in perpetuating the supersti.
tious beliefs in regard 10 its influence.
There is, or was, rather, one popular
belief prevalent at the opening of the
present century, which is now dead II
was in the Information of swallows in the
mud of swamps like snakes. This was
too tangible matter, however, to long
stand the test OF observation, and it had
no element of superstition or mystery to
give it vitality. Hence its early disap-
pearance into limbo
The study of the natural sciences is
the best antidote to superstition, and will
better aid in protecting the mind from an
inherited tendency to delusive beliefs
than any other branch of education. II
inculcates and requires habits of close OBJ
servation, careful comparison and eau
tious deduction. There is no better way
of strengthening and developing the
reasoning and perceptive faculties thar
by pursuing these studies, which are
closely connected with, and in fact form
part of, the wide scope of agriculture
science Country Gentleman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21

On the 18th, the Spanish Cortes, after ac-
ceptlng the abdication Of King Amadeus and
establishing republic, elected the following
ministerial officers Figueras, President OF
the Council; Cordoba, Minister Of War; 2.
Y. Margall, Minister of the Interior; Nicolas
salmeron, Minister of Justice; Francisco
Salmeron, Minister of the Colonies; Beran-
ger, Minister OF Marine; CASTELAR,, Minister
OF Foreign Affairs; Becerra, Minister Of Pub
lie Works; Echegaray. Minister OF Flnsnce.
The newly-elected members of the govern
ment took seats upon the ministerial bench.
A dispatch from Dublin, Ireland, 18th,
says that the trial Of Rev, Mr.. LOTUS, the
fret one of the Galway priests bronght be.
fore the Court Of Queens Bench Of that
city, on the charge of having Illegally used
his spiritual influence TO intimidate voters,
and secure the election Of Captain Nolan to
Parliament, resulted in acquittal, the jury
having failed to agree.
On the 18th the two houses Of the Spanish
Cortes convened in Joint session as the Ma
tional Assembly of Spain, and proceeded tc
effect q permanent organization. senor e
Martos, late Minister Of Foreign Affairs, wai
elected President of the Assembly In place
Of Senior Figuero, the Chairman pro ten,., re
eeiving 800 votes. Senor Martos, OF
taking the chair, delivered pat
riotic speech, which was loudly cheeret
from all parts Of the house. AL
the civil and and military authorities of the
provinces, as far rs heard from, have giver
In their adhesion to the new regime. Th'
city and country, with the exception Of thu
districts where Carlist bands are present
continue tranquil.
| A dispatch from Paris says that the pay
ment of the second fifty million installmen
Of the fourth milliard Of the war indemnit.
was completed on the 9Th instant
1t Is stated In a dispatch from Rome, tina
''the Pope on the 18th gave audience t,
several officers of the United States nav.
who are now in Rome. In the course o
conversation his holiness asked how h
would be received In America. The officer
replied that the country would regard hi
taking up his residence among them a grea
honor"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
Cheer Him.

A fireman was once striving to save a
person in danger of perishing in burn
ing house, but the flames leaped out of
the windows and beat him back. "He'n
never do it." cried one. "He'n have to
come down" "Cheer him." shouted an
other, and in a moment three stirring
hurrahs went up from the crowd. 1t
nerved the mans arm and strengthened
his spirit. 1t quickened his movements,
and in another minute he bore the child
down in safety to its mothers arms.
What power in that cheeringl 80 1t
often is with those who are ready to give
out by the way. They would have per-
ished but for some good stirring word of
cheer God put it in the heart OF some one
to speak TO them, Have you ever cheered
q desponding heart thus? Or have you
let the opportunity slip by with the feel
ing, "Am my brothers keeperf'' We
are all, in a sense, our brothers. keeper.
| Is there poor, down-hearted man in
| your community whom sickness and mis-
fortune have reducedP Don't give him
the cold shoulder, as is the worlds Gus
tom when person is unfortunate. Cheer
him, and see if it will not infuse new life
into his heart. Do more. Lend help
ing hand If you can. ag
What would you have done that day
your wheel got stuck in rut II neigh.
Dor had not happened along who could
lend you helping hand for five min
utesS 1t was very little for him TO do,
but it was worth great deal to you. A
little after, you were rolling along pros
perously, as If nothing had happened.
Just so little cheer and a little help often
puts a poor neighbor ON the road again
Surely it were worse than churlish to re-
fuse to give what costs you such little
effort, yet is worth so much. Country
! Gentleman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
Improbable Acqualntances.

THERE Is not the least necessity of frit-
tering away much time on people who are
neither profitable, congenial, OF in any
way companionable, although there is an
immense amount of time wasted in that
manner, and deal of scolding done in
consequence.
Those who have nothing to do but
chatter, lounge about in easy chairs, eat
bon bons, and coniure about their neigh
bors, will soon seek more welcome quar-
ters If one continues the duties and la
bors of the day regardless Of their pres
ence. The atmosphere of industry does
not harmonize with chronic idleness.
How often it occurs that entire plans
for the day are frustrated by an untimely
visit from the last person one would care
to see Important matters are neglected
merely to be civil and hospitable, purely
from a cannothelp-yourself feeling.
Entertaining people without being at
all entertained or edited in return, is the
most stupid, thankless task one can as
sumo. There Is absolutely nothing to be
gained from it in the end.
The only true, successful and lasting
basis for sociability and companionship
Is sympathy OF thought or similarity of
pursuits
1t is unwise to have or permit &C.
quaintanceships which cannot prove
pleasurable or beneficial.
Now and then it may be pardonable in
man or woman to treat a consummate
"bore with consideration because he has
money, and can be induced to lend few
dollars in an emergency, but the obeis-
ance and sacrifice made to money are
generally too low, frequent and fawning.
Money and clothes are not recommenda
tions to the friendship of those who
amount to anything Intellectually, still
they are too apt to win soft smiles, gentle
words and fiattery from the masses, and
pass for much that exists only in dazzled
imaginations.
Such twaddle as people endure because
gilded with money is almost enough to
discourage the poor from seeking after
knowledge. Rich ignorance and vulgar.
ity snub impecunious culture and refine.
ment, and the people bow in submission.
"She is an heiress," or "he is rich," set
tie all questions of equality and merit,
and the poor are discounted at once.
There are few eccentric individuals
who do not regard money above all else,
and they will not bend the knee TO that
which is tasteless and uncongenial. Such
persons are not popular; but they enjoy
| freedom from the trammel Of unwelcome
guests, and cringing to the unworthy is to
them unknown, Blessed be such eccen.
| tricity, Elm OrL0u.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
What an Engineer Did.

The following was told to a Sentinel
reporter night or two ago; Some years
ago, there was q well-knOwn engineer,
whose name is not given, for good and
sufficient reasons, ran a passenger train
on one of the most popular and most
travelled roads that runs out of Indianapo-
lis. At certain place on the road, every
night for about week, as the passenger
train ran by this engineer came thunder
ing along, it was certain to be thrown
from the track by distractions placed
there. Several of these mishaps to the
train caused loss oflife, and the Company
was becoming considerably alarmed, and
the ability of the engineer was being
seriously questioned. One night as the
unfortunate train was nearing the fatal
spot, the engineer, who had been sitting
glum and silent at the throttle, turned to
his fireman and said: ''If this train
Jumps the track at that place tonight,
you follow me; don't stop for anything,
but keep close after me- Somebody has
been throwing the train OF the track,
and Pm going to catch him."
When the train arrived at the usual
place it struck misplaced rail and was
banked. The engineer, closely followed
by the fireman, jumped from the engine
and ran into corn.feld, and started up a
man that lay concealed there. Upon
bringing the culprit back to the wreck,
the enraged passengers wanted to lynch
him, but the engineer, stern, cold, de-
termined man, prevented them, saying
that he would take charge of him, and
through the inteIcessian of the conductor
the trembling wretch was left in charge
Of the engineer. The train was righted,
and was soon speeding on its way. The
prisoner, who had confessed his hendish.
ness, had been seated on the engine and
the fireman placed beside him as guard.
When the train was on q smooth piece OF
track, bowling along at a speed of twen-
ty-five miles an hour, the engineer beck
oned the fireman to stand out of the way.
The fireman stepped aside, and the en-
gineer picked up round stick of wood
and struck the criminal such blow upon
the head that it stunned him.. He then
caught the quivering form Of the poor
wretch, and, opening the furnace doors,
threw his body into the hot, seething hell
of flame The doors were shut, the train
ratified along, and never, until upon his
death bed the engineer confessed the act,
wes it ascertained what had been the fate
OF the fiend who had been in the habit of
throwing the train of the track. -Indi-
a1apOtSs Seatislet. pl rr.s 1stt
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21
"T LOVE, YOU LOVE"

OLD JONES, the village pedagogue,
The grammar lesson called one day,
Young Bess. a maid of sweet sixteen,
Began the we'll -knewn words to say:
"First person, love-" first she said,
Sly Tom, beside her. whispered, "Ms :"
"Second person, you love-" Bess went on.
cay, that do ~ said Tom-"love thee 7"
''Third person, he loves" still said Bess,
Tom whispers, "Who the deuce is her"
"Oh, Toni" said Bessie, pleading low,
"Do hold your peace, and let me be!'
mo whisperingl" calls the master lOud,
And frowned upon the forward youth.
"First person, loe love- Bessie said.
''By Gcorgel" Tom whispered, "that's the truth y
Thelesson DER at last poor Bess,
With cheeks all crimson, took her seat,
While Tom, ely fellow, tried in vain
The maiden's soft blue eyes to meet
But when the recess hour was come,
Tom begged q walk with coaxing tone,
And meath the trees Bess said again
The lesson Ger for him alone.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21

WE HAVE from Troy, N. Y, the story
of remarkably bold case of abduction,
the heroine of which is young married
lady named Mrs. Williams. While stand.
ing in the public street, in the daytime,
she was approached by gentleman hold
ing pocket handkerchief in his hand, who
asked her if she had dropped it, at the
same time thrusting it quickly into her
face. She became partially unconscious
in moment, when another man Joined
the first, and the two lifted her into a
close carriage standing near by, and drove
quietly to the depot, where they got on
the train for New York. When near
Poughkeepsie, gentleman who sat near
the lady observed an occasional applica-
tion of handkerchief TO her face, and to
his inquiries as TO the cause the reply was
made that she was being taken to the asy.
um. The suspicious stranger kept such
sharp eye on the abductoIs that they left
the cars at Poughkeepsie station. The
lady soon recovered, and told her story,
saying that she was all the while sufficient.
y conscious to know what was going on,
but unable 10 speak. Upon reaching New
York she at once telegraphed to her
friends in Troy, who came on and restored
her TO her home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21

NEW JERSEY JUsTIoE. Several servant
girls in New Jersey had the power of the
Supreme Court of that State brought to
bear. upon them to compel amisbility and
obedience under any and all circum-
stances That Court has affirmed the
following doctrine; "Where a servant
whose wages are due and payable period
ically, as quarterly, monthly or weekly,
refuses to serve in the manner contracted
for, or is rightfully discharged at any in /,
tervening period between the days when
his or her wages are due, he or she can
recover nothing for that portion of time
during which he or she has served since
the last periodical payment of wages"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-02-21

"A far Western town has six citizens
who always form the jury before every
Justice of the Peace. They have never
been known to disagree on a single case.