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Mr.. Hunters Plan.

The Hon. R. NJ T. Hunter has rec ntiy
published letter in elaboration of his
Winchester speech in which he proposes
that the United States shall pay $400,-
100000 to the South as compensation for
the lib,l alton of its slaves. OF course he
does not offer to nullify the Constitu
tional A: endment which declares that
neither the United States nor any State
slall assume or pay any debt or obliga-
tion incurred in aid of insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or
any claim for the loss or emancipation Of
any slave" but he suggests scheme by
which the letter of the prohibition can
be observed while its spirit is evaded
This is for the General Government to
"lend" the money to the States without
interest, and never take it back again,
and for the States to distribute it among
the 'despoiled slave-owners" on the same
easy terms. 1t is perhaps hardly worth
while to argue seriously against pro-
posal so hopelessly repugnant to every
Northern man; and yet when we reflect
upon the gigantic schemes of public
plunder which are already prepared to
be brought before Congress at the first
favorable opportunity, we cannot be san
guine of the failure of any attack upon
the Treasury, however outrageous. Plans
lOF Gu0 appropriation OF ABOUT SIUU,UUU,-
900 to improper purposes (without count
ing Mr.. Hunters little billy are already
matured, and one of them can command
the support of considerable body in the
National Legislature. We may as well
open our eyes to the possibility that by
shrewd system of log-rolling almost any
of these jobs may be pushed through.
If Congress, however, should be in
duced to appropriate $400, 900, 900 for the
relief of the South, we should like to
know upon what principle the money is
all to be given to the ex-slaveholders.
Why should it not be given to the ex-
sla, esq They were rc bbed of the fruits
of their labor all their lives by the most
infamous system of legalized oppression
ever upheld by the laws of - civilized
country. Surely the State which Nept
them in unholy bondage owes them COM
pensation; but it owes nothing to their
masters, who brought upon the South all
the miseries by which it is now afflicted,
and who only lost by emancipation what
did not belong to them,-N. 2. Tribune.
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[From the New. York Evening Post.l
The Democrats in Congress.

The World is unfortunate in choosing
the back-pay question and that of the in
crease OF salaries to members of Congress
as the test of sound democracy--the
sound democracy, that is, that the World
represents. Refund and Repeal" it
says, are two words that every member
OF Congress (''Congressman" the World
calls him) "may as well paste in the
crown of his hat" 1t so happens that
the members of Congress who will not do
anything of the kind are the democratic
members. They are resolved not to
''meddle or make" in the business, but
will simply hold their tongues and but
ton up their pockets.
AS hypocrisy is the homage which vice
pays to virtue, it may be that Republic
cans are no better than the democrats, if
we assume them to be hypocrites.
Whether we have any right to make such
an assumption in regard to some OF them,
we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
enough of these Republicans voted
against the Salary bill at the last session
to have defeated it had not all the dem
ocrats gone in a solid body against them.
When these men paste Refund and Re
peal in the crowns Of their hats it means
something and on the whole we hold it
to be more just to commend the erring
members, who are willing to go with them
now, than to accuse those who have COM
mitted no offence of being hypocrites. Ii
we may not, on the other hand, accuse
the democrats of hypocrisy. it is because
they forbid us to suppose-so far as their
representatives in Congress are concern
ed-that they think it worth while even
to pretend to virtue.
Nobody is so likely to misunderstood
public opinion as a demagogue. In this
matter of the Congressional salaries there
are two mistakes made by that class OF
politicians. One is that the people are
perfectly indifferent to the whole subject,
and that all that has been said about it is
mere newspaper babblement; the other,
that what the people do care about is
that the money shall go back into the
Treasury, whence it was abstracted by a
literal breach of trust. Now the first
suppostion is an egregious blunder. The
act oil the last Congress was so fragrant,
and withal so simple, so transparent a
betrayal OF the faith which his constitu-
ents had put in their representative, that
the people have not needed to DO taught
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and unnecessary vigor, and would actu-
ally rejoice to have slight headache or
backache, as a result of these unusual
3exertions, for the express purpose of
more perfectly acting the martyr, and
thus pecking their hard-hearted hus-
bands in tender spot If, during one
of these silent moods, he should ask her
advice on any subject, he will either begin
to think that he has married a deaf
mute, or else he will be told that of
no use to ask her since her advice is of
no value. srr
We are all we'll aware that some of the
best women in the world occasionally fall
into these sloughs of despond, when they
have the NERVES as Grandmother Rig
glesty expresses it, although they may
have no other interest than their
husbands at heart. But there is another
class who continually use these tactics to
accomplish their petty purposes.
To these we wish to whisper very
few words These little ways and means
which you imagine will irrtate only for
few minutes at the most, will do much
more than you suppose, and may make
wound which lifetime will not be able
to heal.
Better let your kitchen be dirty, my
dear madam, from Monday morning till
Saturday night, and say nothing about 1t
to your careless husband, than to allow
the cleanest floor in the world to stand
between you and his love.
Better wear calico all your days, ii
your husbands S means can afford no bet
tel, than to have the stiffest of black
silks figure in divorce case.
Better allow your husband to sit in the
front parlor in his shirt-sleeves, with his
feet on the mantel-piece, than have a
husband only in name, and lose his
esteem by continual pickering and hen
peckingl
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[From Blackwood's Magazine.l
Twilight in Winter.
BY WIN. W. STORY.

BY WIN. W. STORY.
Once more stand beneath this spreading beech
Where, talking, dreaming, loving, we have lain
Now thou art gone Beyond thoughts utmost
Beyond .ne joy. we knew, the love, the pain,
Out ON the dim, dark way.
The problem is resolved for thee, butt,
Crushed, questioning, deSpairing, still remain,
And nothing thou wilt say:
Is love so weak thou dost not heed my cry?
Is memory SO vanishing, SO vain,
That death wipes all away?
Oh, torturing Nature, that vast once a bliss,
Vouchsafed in love to us,
Why hast thou kept those perished joys of old
Those hours and days of vanished happiness,
To sting me with them thus?
Let me forget oh, blind these eyes that look
Forever backward TO that happy past,
Behind her grave that lies!
Of loves sweet records! In that grave be cast
Those tortaring memories.
Let me forget! All, how can forget?
And what were life without that tender pain,
So deep,and, oh, so sad?
No; rather let these sorrowing eyes be wet
With endless, useless tears than e'er again
With heartleSS smiles be gladl
The blast among the moaning branches grieves
And frozen is the laughter of the brook
Death on the cold earth lies
All fallen are my joys, like these glad leaves
whose green haunts of song the sum
mer SHOOK
Odors and melodies.
Let me begone my thoughts are wild and hard;
By grief distracted, shivered, shattered, torn
In struggles fierce and vain
And, like loose strings to tones discordant
Jared,
Are all those sweet renembrances forlorn
That thrill through heart and brain.
Farewell! upon this life 1 turn my back.
Nothing the world can give is good to me-
A taint on all things lies.
lows all DOiSnnS-IifA a N endless
And this fair earth, that was heaven with thee,
Is hideouS to my eyes.
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He was an Irishman, and when frst
seen he was coming down Montague-st.,
Brooklyn, on his way to the Wall-street
ferry. Over his port shoulder hung
bag containing about a bushel of potatoes,
and in his starboard hand he carried
stout stick. Being under full sail, the
momentum acquired in coming down the
steep grade carried him nearly through
the gateway, when, seeing boat about
ten feet from the dock, he shook out
another reef made an astonishing burst
of speed and jumped. just as he reached
the deck the potato bag shifted heavily
to port and laid out Broad-street clerk
who was smoking Henry Clay through
q meerschaum holder, while the stick
hit a rotund South-street merchant In
the waistband, shutting him up like q
iack-knife. and Fat himself assumed an
involuntary devotional attitude. He was
the first to recover his perpendicuiarity,
and as he replaced the bag in its normal
position he complacently remarked: BE
iabers, but got the boat anyhow, Got
the boat?" screamed he of Broad-street.
splitting the pieces of amber out of has
mouth. "Why, you double-blank idiot,
this boat is coming int And so she
was.
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| by the newspapers what to think. If
they have known. they have not cared,
what the newspapers said, but have so
Enthusiastically made up their minds upon
the character of the transaction that we
! pity the man, who was a member OF the
! last Congress from a rural district-where
| men are personally responsible for their
acts to all their neighbors-and went
home with the back pay in his pocket
and kept it there To him and to his is
affixed stigma which not in his lifetime
will be washed out and the one thing
about him which his children will blush
| to remember, when he is dead. will be
| that he was member of the Back Pay
Cangress," and took the money. Nor is
| it because of this ill-gotten money
| though $1,000 is good deal to most peo
pie in rural districts and small towns
where the interest on that sum is as
much as many people ever see from years
end to years end. The money having
been taken, the people care little what
may have become of it, or whether it
shall ever be restored to the Treasury
though they would think the better of,
and no doubt forgive, the man who should
show that act meet for repentance. But
what they do care for is that the man
who on their behalf held up his hand in
TO witness that he wonld be true to its
laws, should, like cowardly thief rob-
bing till, have thrust his greedy hand
into the Treasury, and grabbed there
from all he dared lay his hands on, for
getful of personal honor, of official trust.
and every feeling that should have held
him back from an action us mean and as
mercenary as 1T was contrary to the
spirit of the Constitution which he had
sworn to uphold.
The ''refunding" part of the business,
then, is of comparatively little conse
quence; for the people do not care for
the loss of the money, and the keeping
or returning it is rather a question that
concerns the individual member in his
relations with his friends and neighb bors
If he, for his own sake and his childrens
sake. can afford to hold on to it. his con-
stituents have nothing further to say on
that point. But all the intelligent and
right-minded people of the country do
ask that there shall be repeal of the
law which is a stain on the statute book
of the United States. They are not easy,
and will not be content that such blot
shall remain after the time has come
when it can be erased To refund con-
Germs the sense of decency and of honor
in him that did this base thing. Repeal
is a matter that concerns the whole peo-
pie, and that they demand.
Does the World really hope that it can,
by any iuggle of words, hide the truth in
this matter? The democrats, in their
first caucus and by their nomination of
Speaker, deied and jeered the deep,
stern conviction which the people have
on this subject. They see that while the
better part of the Republicans are de-
termined to have repeal, even if they
take their weaker brethren by the throat,
the democrats stand aside in one compact
body, never more harmonious in any
thing than in this: that the money is in
their pockets and they have nothing
further to say upon the subject
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A Dublin merchant named johnson
was very hard on his clerks, and when q
visitor left the store without purchase
he would discharge the clerk. He took
up a position near the door, and as Gus
toners passed out would inquire if they
had been properly served. On one occa-
sion lady was negotiating with clerk
for shawl, but the sale was not made.
The clerk called the ladys attention to
the old gentleman, who was, as usual,
standing near the door, waiting to waylay
the lady with the customary question.
The old man." said the clerk, lis crazy.
He may attempt to stop you as you go
out, ard you had best avoid him, as he is
sometimes dangerous +" The lady started
for the door, and as the old gentleman
approached her gave shrek and darted
out. johnson was greatly astonished,
and. walking back to the clerk, asked;
DO you know that lady 2 NO, sir,
replied the clerk, but / think she is
crazy" You are right returned the old
gentleman, she must be crazy,
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The Tricks of Magic.

Professor Hartz, the magician. has
lately been giving a series OF performance
here, some of which are as surprising as
they are entertaining and amusing. One
of them is as follows: A common empty
packing box, with a lid hung by iron
hinges, is placed upon the stage. and
committee from the audience asked to
examine it. They report that 1t Is
firmly made packing box. After
thorough examination, outside and IN
side, they take a rope and tie 1t up, pass
ing twice around the ends and sides,
passing it through the staples for the two
padlocks and then tie the ends hrmly,
and seal them with sealing wax. they
then envelop the box in a canvas, which
covers all six sides, when another rope Is
added, tied and sealed. Surely the box
is safe from any attempt to get into or
out of it without removing the ropes
Professor Hartzs assistant then comes
forward with a canvas sack, open at one
end This is examined by the committee
and by the audience 1t is then placed
over the head of the assistant, and tied
below his feet and the knots sealed. He
is then laid on the box, and the box sur
rounded by screen. In two and half
minutes the sack is thrown over the
screen, the knot and seals untouched.
The screen is instantly removed, and the
committee, after examining the seals and
finding them unbroken, commence unity
ing the ropes and removing the canvas.
The box is opened and the man found
inside l-,Scie1atlfc american.
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DIRECTORY.

CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist Episcopal Church, Portsmouth St.
Rev. j: III. ACTON, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at l01z O'Clock A. NJ, and 61Z
p. M. Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Sabbath School and Bible Class every Sabbath
at o'clock A. NJ
-Presbyterian Church, on Church Street
REV. ]. X. GIBSON, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at l013 A. NJ. ,and e1& p. NJ. Sab
bath School and Bible CIassat o'clock A. NJ.
Christian Church, on Broadway Street-EIder
= r. ]. BACRUs, Pastor. Public preaching the
LIST and Sd Sabbaths in each month"; at l0% o.
clock, A. NJ, and 612 P. NJ. Sabbath School at
O'Clock, A. NJ. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night, and every Sabbath at lOL o'clk.,
when there is not public preaching.
Methodist Protestant Church, corner Church
and Pearl Sts.-No regular services
Baptist Church, Broadway Street-Services
at the usual hours, in the Welsh language.
Free viii Baptist Church, Petrea.-REv.
THOMAS E. PEDEN, Pastor. Covenant meet
ing the 4th Saturday and Sabbath of every
month Sabbath School every Sabbath at
3 o'clock p. NJ.
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Do IT Now-Don't live a single hour
of YOUR life without doing exactly what
is to be done in it and going straight
through it from beginning to end. Work,
play, study, whatever it is-take hold at
once and finish it up squarely and
cleanly; and then to the next thing.
without letting any moments drop out
between. 1t IS wonderful to see how
many hours these prompt people con-
trive to make of day; it is as if they
picked up the moments that the dwind-
iers lost. And if ever you find yourself
where you have so many things pressing
upon you that you hardly know how to
begin, let me tell you secret; take hold
of the very first thing that comes to hand.
and you will find the rest file and follow
after like company of well-drilled sol
diers; and though work may be hard to
meet when it charges in a squad, it Is
easily vanquished if you can bring it into
line. You may have often seen the an
ecdote OF the man who was asked how he
accomplished so much in his life. My
father taught me- was the reply, when
had anything to do, to go and do 1t.
There is the secret-the magic word
"NoW
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The SECRET OF HEALTH.-First keep
warm. Second, eat regularly and slowly.
Third, maintain regular bodily habits.
Fourth, take early and very light sup
pers; or, better still, none at all. Fifth.
keep clean skin. Sixth, get plenty of
sleep nights Seventh, keep cheerful
aud respectable company. Eighth. keep
out of debt Ninth, don't set your mind
on things you don't need. Tenth, mind
your own business. Eleventh, don't set
up to be a sharper of any kind Twelfth,
subdue curiosity. Thirteenth, avoid
drugs.
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has made for the coming holidays. He has
something for every man, woman, and child, in
the way of holiday presents, toys, candies, nuts,
raisins, figs, sweet-meats, and all nice things
that little folks would wish. Hatchets ham,
mers, tool-chests, bells, tops, races, dolls
heads of all dimensions, rubber and china wax
and patent heads, and five thousand other arti-
cles, too numerous to mention, that will show
you when you come. Old Kris Kingle has
spoken for large supply. No doubt you all
will share the feast,
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a IT Q O . tt.
FANCY GOOD 3.

Fine albums, port monnies, card cases, vases of
the very latest and richest decorations, ever
brought to this market Wine sets, toilet sets,
Cash ceivers, cigar stands and holders, cigar
cases from cheap to something very fine. In con-
nection with large variety of silk & satin vel
vet purses & port monnies of various colors and
styles, also variety that never has been seen
in this market. Gents combination shaving
mugs and boxes, and brushes of all dimensions
No competition in my line. You that want bar
gains rush in, as the first choice is always the
best Drugs and medicines always ON hand
cheaper, fresher, and better, than can be pur-
chased elsewhere, from the fact we always, in
all cases, give the business our full attention.
Pure brandies, gins, Wines liquors, imported
Pennsylvania Rye and Kentucky Bourbon for
medicinal use only, always on hand. Parents
in all cases sending minors for spirits must in
variably send written order.
Thanking my customers for their liberal pat
ronage in times past, I trust they will always
get bargains at Hale's. Don't fail to call.
w. f. HALE,
Druggist and Apethecary,
Grafton Block, Broadway, Jackson. o.
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WAGON SHOP.
r OUIs BERDEL,
Wagon & Carriage Maker.

Shop in the brick house formerly occupied by
w. A. G1llilnnd as gunSmith shop, on Ports
mouth street, near the Gibson House.
He carries on the Wagon and Buggy making
business in all its branches.
REPAIRING done on short notice
PLO RS on hapd and toysGle. Tuug 25, Toy
The New York herald., 1873-10-02
DIRECTORY FOR ADVERTISERS.
AMUSEMENTS-EIGurH PAGE-Fourth, nth and sixth

AMUsEMENTs-EIcurn PAcE-Fourth, nth and sixth
raeEsis e3a%n Fourth
BOARD iu AND AM 0o1p LopGING wANTED-srcosD PAGE
Ss$sr E.sfss 55a
BUSINESS 5oPiPsoSRSTpUNirIEs-Fprn PAcr-sixth col
BgslSEs$ ICE P.sfs.tn column
CLERKS AND sALEsMENASiSTn fAcE"Tourih col
ooacHNEN AND dARDENEEsDSiSTa % PAGE-Fourth
goA$TWlsE sTEASshIps- sixth column
column
DANCING AOADEMIEs-EIeMrn rAGE-Fourth column.
BY
FURNishED-NsTn P4GE-First and second col
EURoPEXN sTEAMsHIPs-FrHsr PAer-Fourth and
xouRfsaI LxouRsIoNsmFins eSss.FS PAcH-si.th column.
FINANCIAL-FIFTH PAGE-Fifth column.
FSR s5oh b TO
,,,,n n hiNTa pAcE-second and third columns
FREScH SS Faan-slxth col
HELP PS%WANTED-FEMALEs-Tw P4er-Fiah and
HELf wANTED@MALEs-NmrHP PAeE-Fifth column
HORSES, CARRIAGES, &C.-FIRsT PAGr-rhlrd and
uorfpasI flGaIth 1sssagn colHmps. P.ev-s,, !, column
HOUSES, ROOMS. &C., wANIED-EicnrH pAor-rhird
INsTSg9TI0NsFlrTa aS nSrInSs ETH P4eE-sixth column.
MACHINERY-NINTH PAGE-Sixth column
MARBLE MANTELS--FIFTH PAGE-Sixth column.
GisoEELANEoUs ADvERFfsESESTs-r nIfs PAGE
Sixth column.
MIsCELLANEoUS-SEcoN PAGE-Second column.
MUSICAL-EIGHTH PAGE-Second column.
PERSONAL---VERY. PAGE-Frst column.
PlANOFORTES, ORGANS, dC.-LIGHrH PAGE-Third
PROFESSIONAL SITUATIONS ,wANTED-rEMALEs-
oGT Ths Gnr4 FOR SALE OR TO
RENT-EIGHTH PAGE-First and second columns.
REAL ESTATE TO ExCHANGE-EIGHTH PAcE-Second
REAL ESTATE WANTED-EIGHrH PAGE-sixth column.
REWARDS-FRsT PAGE-Second column.
SALES AT AUCTION-SRcoND PAGE-First and second
SITUATIONS WANTED-FEMALES- ES-ELEvENrH PAGE
First, second third fourth, fifth and sixth columns,
and TWELFTH PAGE-Ffrst second, third, fourth ana
fifth columns
SITUATIONS WANTED D-MALEs-TwELrrH PAcE-sxth
- column, and NINTH PAGE-Fourh column.
SPECIAL kOTICES-FIRsr PAGE-second column.
SPORIING-DOGS, BIRDS, &C.-FIRsT PAGE-Third COL
sToRAGE-FIRsr PAeE-second column.
THE TRADES-NiNTH PAGE-Sxth column
THE TURF-F1Rsr PAGE-Third column
TO LET FOR BUSINESS PURPOsES-NINTH PAGE
First column
TRAyELLERS GUIDE-FIRsT PAGE-Sixth column.
UNFURNISHED ROOMS AND APARTMENTS TO LET
NINTH PAGE-Thrd column.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY PROPERTY FOR SALE OR
TO LET-EIGHrH PAcE-First column.
WINTER RESORTS-SECoND PAGE-AiXth column.
YACHTS, STEAMBOATS, &C-FIFTH PAGE-Sixth
column
The New York herald., 1873-10-02
REWARDS.

6S REWARD. D.--LosT OR STOLEN. ON SUNDAY
YO night. solden Lockst i with two pictures inside
store will receive the aforementioned reward ana no
QQeshons viii W Askeds
The New York herald., 1873-10-02
BILLIARDS.

BILLIARDS.
A SPLENDID CHANCE TO PURCHASE 3Xi0 Bill
~ lard tables, good as new, for S75; also improved
bevel Tables but little used $2O great inducements
offered 10 buyers for cash
W. H. GRIFFITH CO.. 40 vescy street.
Al STANDARD AMERICAN BEvEL TABLES AND
al the Phelan Col,ender Combination Cnshions
tor safe only by the palentee, H. W. COLLENDER, suc.
cessor 10 Phelan Coender 135 Broadway, New York.
A "A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF NEW AND SECOND
~. hand Billiard Tables constantly on hand, at GEO.
4. PHkkANs. M Barclay street. hew inxk
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DEERFOOT DRIVING PARK
IL THIRD DAY-TH URSDAY, OCTOBER e-Purse Of
$500 for horses that never beat2.50
}. II. Phillips x M. Flora.
Owners br m. Wicklow Witch.
, l.. Carpenters blk. h.
II. j. Feck's b. IN Sadie.
Il. Dunhams b. m. Carrie White.
II. Casey's b. 6. Bob.
j. Evans b. m. Mag.
j. s. Bakers b. m Gulnare.
George Wrights b. e. Phil O'Neil, Jr
Dan Mace's blk. s. Young Fillingham.
Ben Mace's m. Washburn Maid.
]. Murphy's b. &. Everett Ray.
Owners e. Z. stranger
Thos. Ogle's M. Richmond Girl.
SANR UAY-Purse OF $60J for horses that never beat
2.25:-
Dan Mace's blk m. Blanche.
j. Murphy's b. g. Charley Green.
j. II. Phillips b. &. Ell. White
Jas. Dugrey's br Z. Joker.
Vim. Loyells' b. e. Barney Kelly
John Doty's b. m. Lydia thompson.
. j. S. Bakers b. g. Tom Keeer.
There will be two and hurdle Friday
October 5, instead OF saturday.
WIN. MCMAHON, Superintendent