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SOCIAL LIFE IN JAPAN.
INDUSTRY OF JAPANESE STUDENTS.

Correspondent N. Y. World.

YOKOHAMA, July 2s.-The transition of
japan from q state of absolute feudalism
to central government of strength, with
the elements of stability and with a policy
opposed to caste privileges. may now be
conceived as an accomplished fact. Scarcely
less important than this and as surprising,
are the rapid strides taken in that immense
space dividing ancient Oriental customs,
preludices, aud cultivation from modern
Western civilization. Outside the scholars
at the regular schools scarcely any young
men can be found-and with those may be
included many up to the age of thirty Eve
who, being above the wants of the labor
ing class. have not acquired or are not
learning something of Western knowledge.
They begin their studies with English, for
that, here as elsewhere i'll the East has
taken decided stand .s the acknowledged
leading language. With that they read a
little geography; arithmetic and history,
in turn, engage their attention. The io
dustry of the Japanese scholar is beyond
the appreciation of any but the hardest
students at home. He is an enthusiast !;
literally works night and day. His patience
in overcoming obstacles is of a degree not
equalled elsewhere, and aided by that cul-
tivation of memory, the result of his early
training, that he accomplishes much is not
surprising.
Fashion is all powerful here. Wearing
of swords is abolished, and hair ia being
cut In the foreign style, because of the
fashion set by some young swells Of Jeddo
rather than the result of any governmental
order.
The courtesy, politeness, and evidences
Of reciprocal respect observable in every
grade of society, in social intercourse, to a
degree not found among any other people
on the globe, have been often expatiated
upon, but can only be appreciated by OBJ
servation.
To say that a woman of the ordinary
working class, on making an evening call
on her next-door neighbor, should bend
herself until her head touched the matted
floor three or four times, and have this po-
liteness returned by each of the persons
saluted, each bow being accompanied by
some agreeable salutation, seems like exag-
geration. Yet it is but an allusion to an
ordinary part of the customs of every day
life, to be seen at any time in almost any
part of the country.
The social habits which have come down
for nearly thousand years with little
change, although beginning to disappear,
yet obtain with fve-sixths of the people,
and we'll repay any study or consideration
they may receive. To America, which is
directly responsible for the waking of this
people from their peaceful slnmber of CEN
tnries, and urging them into the busy
whirl of Western civilization, all that re-
lates to the future of Japan should be
deemed of deep concern.
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A Great French Newspaper.
THE PARIS FIGARO.
Paris Correspondent Chicago Times

Paris Correspondent Chicago Times
On it's literary staff the Figaro employs
one editor, in. chief, fourteen assistant edi-
tors and ten reporters. The composition
department employs seventy men, which
includes feeders, pressnen and stereotyp
ers. All this force is employed in issuing
daily journal about one-half the size of
the Times, and which contains scarcely
more than one quarter as much matter.
It will interest many to know the COM
pensation received by French Journalists.
Villemessant received last year as his share
of the profits of the Figaro, 400, 900 francs,
OF about 100000 in gold. The city editor
is paid $4,000 francs per annum the chief
reporter is induced to contribute his SER
vices for 40, 600 francs per year the man
theatrical artist slashes actors and dead
heads around green rooms for an induce
ment which amounts to Il, 600 francs per
year while other reporters and writers
are paid by the piece. If q writer secures
the leader in an issne he gets $50 francs for
it regardless of length other writer's are
paid from four sous to one franc per line
according to the quality of the contribu-
tion.
It will be seen from this list of prices
that paid Journalistic on the Figaro receive
from three to five times what the same
class of writers are paid in the United
States.
DETAILS OF LABOR.
The telegraph is used only for the brief
est summary of news on ordinary occa-
sions. In al extraordinary case, it will
be more freely used but not at all with
the liberslity that the same agency is re-
sorted to in this country. The escape of
Bazaine occurred while / was in Paris
and the Figaro published the news exclu--
sively in less than half a column. An
American paper would have made four or
five times as much of a similar case.
1t shows the vast excitability of the Pa
risian people that even this short descrip-
tion of the escape increased the sale of
the Figaro from its ordinary edition of SO,-
900 up to over 200, 900.
Each editor and reporter is furnished
with a carnet-an ingenious and artistic
safeguard against dead beating, and which
would be of immense benefit were it intro
duced among the profession in Chicago.
1t consists of a small folio of morocco, bound
with silver and shaped like q cigar case.
1t contains photograph of the employe in
one compartment, and in the other writ
ten authorization of his position by his
superior. In case of fire, or any emer-
gency, his Garnet is a passport, which ad-
mits him anywhere.
In getting up matter for each issue, Paris
Is the objective point-Paris whose horizon
to a Partisan is that of the world. The
leading artiSe-which heads the first col
nmn of the fret page-msy or may not
treat of Partisan matter but, as in the
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MISCELLANEOUS ADvERrIEMENrs.
THE NEW AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE

The Lghtest Running, the Fastest Seeing,
the Most Simple, the Most Durable, and the
Very Best Sewing Machine Made.
Self setting Needle, self threading Shuttle,
and self adjusting Tensions.
Tile most perfect Lock Stitch, alike on both
sides, and the same on thick or thin material.
Great inducements offered to 4gents,
Oranges aud all cash buyers.
AH Improred attachments, Thread, OIL,
Needles, etc, at the lorest rates.
Repairing neatly and promptly done.
/. G.. BERRY, Manager,
an30tt Office and Salesroom Isn Canal street.
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Youth, when the breath of vice has not
passed over it, has celestial fragrance,
like that of the early morning, fragrance
that the burning winds of the sun destroy,
when one does not take care to keep ones
heart and ones thoughts always young and
energetic, in the midst of the heavy and
enervating atmosphere of this world.
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A CARD.

Having just severed my long connection with the
United States Land Office and established myself at
NO ia COMMON STREET, near Camp, up stairs,
New Orleans, La. I would respectfully solicit any
patronage the public be pleased hestow feeling
assured that long and attentive experience in LAND
BUSINESS will enable me to give perfect satisfaction
in all matters entrusted to me.
am now prepared to attend to all busIness before
the United States and State Land Offices also before
the General Land Office at Washington, D. c. I will
give close attention the entering of ans procuring
Land Patents selecting desrabe locations soldiers
and sailors or their widows obtaining the refundng
of money paid the United States, upon illegal entries
which have been declared cancelled procuring accurate
copies from the official surveys will be prepared at
all times to give information upon matters pertanip ipg
to LANES, BOUNTY PENSION CLAIMS, etc.
T. J. FULLY,
Late Acting Clerk o. S. Land Office
au30 II ll4 Common Street. New Orleans.
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HOW TO WOO AND WIN.
BY J. G. SANE.

BY J. C. SANE.
Would you play the manly loveri"
Said q graybsard TO his son;
a. List, my lad, while discover
How a maiden should be won.
woo her not with boastful phrases.
Lest you teach her lip to sheer;
Still a suitors warmest praises
In his conduct should appear.
woo her not with senseless signing
Maidens love a laughing eyei
Tell her not that you are dying
Lest she. laughing. bid you die.
= Woo her not with weakly whining
Ger your poverty OF pelf;
Lest she answer by declining
Both Your sorrows and yourself.
Woo her with manly wooipg,
Giving hostages to Fate,
All the hearts devotion showing
By it's sire myth to work and wait.
woo her not with idle prastle
Whom you fain would make your wife,
But with proofs that in Lies battle
You are equal to the strife.
Like the knight whose simple suing
Won the lady (says the tale).
Whom, despite the wordy wooing,
All the rest were doomed to fail.
-' Lady quoth the bold knight.errant,
Brief the story shall tell,
Iwould wed thee; here's the warrant
I shall love and keep thee we'll
And, behold. his dexter fingers
Crush a horseshoe like reed;
And within her lap there lingers
All the gold the twain can need"
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
TEUToNIA INSURANCE coMPAN,

TEUToNIA INSURANCE COMPANY
NEW ORLEANS.
Office, No. Ill Gravier Street.
Insure Fire, Marine and River Risks at Lowest
Rates.
A; Elmer RAIDER President.
GEoKGE srRoMEYER % iGs rsss1ssasy sssTosary.
EfHFy gys Asas ssnss q ft%s. hS%or B.amsardon
HR Gogreve, Hy nsiier, sismand s,atz.
rhao ksathA hRiMifiSs Miller FRisisrs F1si: iasGnAArd
Frank Roder, Louis Schneider. w Il seamidt.
s' 'Vis SssSass
au2 II
HIBERNIA INSURANCE COMPANY,
Office, No. 81 Camp Street.
5oHS / H. y HENDERSON; E p President.
Ii rnos. aswrSi +: bRhSd xieS frssssssa sssss,ary.
following PANIED gentlemen were chosen Direotors Of
this Company to serve for the ensuing year:
r nss Il ofstss oR1iss, laSn IaS%s. g. k,ss. kgas.
John L. Gibbons, j. A Girdner
William Hart. Sweeney
L. Conery. Jr.
And at q meeting of the Board, held Nav llth JOHN
HENDERSON, Esq, President and p. IRWIN, Esq
Fice-Prssident were unanimously reelected.
Tho Board declared out of the profits OF the
Company for the past twelve months 10 per cent in
terest also cent dividend the paid up CAPT
and - per cent dividend premiums paid by stock.
hoderssaid interest and dividends under tho amend
ed charter to be placed to the credit of the
Interest and dividends full paid stock to be paid in
cash at the office of the Company and after July
next.
THoS. f. BRAGG, Secretary.
new Orleans. May lB. 1874 mylT ~ "
NEW ORLEANS MUTUAL INSURANCE COM
PANY.
Office, corner of Camp and Canal Streets
Capital, S560o0o.
Assets, December 81, 1878 S774,5O5 II
Insures Fire, Marine and River Risks dividing the
profits on each department tey the insured
For the accommodation of Its customers, the Com
pany will make Marine Losses payable IN London.
- J. TUEES. President.
j. w HINCkS. Secrerarv. mh2a n Nv
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Never visit friends without some an
nouncement of your coming. Crockett's
motto is good one "Be sure you write,
then go ahead"
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The greatest secret of happiness is to be
happy with ones self. No one can be happy
who cannot esteem himself
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To be followed Immediately by Fifth and Sixth Read.
1t is also the intention of the Catholic Publication
Society to issue Grammars, Arithmetics, Histories,
Biographies etc-in fact, all the books needed in
well regulated Catholic School. No pains expense
will be spared in getting up this series. The tlustra
tions will be from original designs, made to illustrate
the text the whole series will be submitted for
examination and orIection to competent critics.
Samples sent free on application.
Special terms given for introduction.
For further particulars, address
THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY.
LAWRENCE KEHOE General Agent
No. Warren street, New York
Or C e. ELbER, Southern Agent
je7 If 1874 Camp street. New Orleans.
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sa,rning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY OCTOBER T. 1874
AUTUMN.
pY w. W. STORY.

'Tis the golden gleam of an autumn day,
with the soft rain raining as If Ia play;
And a tender touch upon everything.
As If autumn rem embere cd the days of spring.
In the listening woods there Is not a breath
To shake their gold to the sward beneath;
And glow as of sunshine upon them lies,
Though the sun 10 lid in the shadowed skies.
The cocks clear crow from the farmyard comes.
The mufied bell from the belfry booms
And faint and, dim, and from far away,
Come the voices of children in happy play.
Ger the mountains the white rain draws its veil
And the black rocks, cawing, across them sail
While nearer the swooping swallows skim
O'er the steel-gray rivers fretted brim.
No sorrow upon the landscape weighs,
No grief for the banished summer days,
But o sense of peaceful and calm repose,
Like that which age in its autumn knows.
The spring.time longings are past and gone,
The passions of summer are no longer known.
The harvest is gathered. and autumn stands
Sereneiy thoughtful with folded hands.
Over all Is thrown o memorial hue,
A glory ideal the real ne'er knew;
For memory sits from the past ito pain,
And suffers its beauty alone to remain.
With half q smile and with half sigh
1t ponders the past that has hurried by;
Sees it. and feels it, and loves it all,
Content it has vanished beyond recall.
o glorious autumn, thus serene,
Thus living and loving all that has bsen7
Thus calm and contented let me be
When the autumn Of age shall come to me.
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COLUMBIA HOTEL.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.

This Hotel was built and established immedia
after the and still retains repu, for is
large and airy suits of with all odern i'm prove.
ments. The Dining. room first floor Telegraph in
Rotunda, Barbershop and Billiard attached gas
bells Throughout the house, Table second to
in the State The house is situated on Main street.
The Senior Partner. MIR WIN. GORMAN with
twenty years experience the Charleston Hotel fiat
ters himself that he is able to give entire
the most fastidious.
Terms-Three Dollars per Day.
GORMAN g. CALNAN
au23 6m Propretnrs
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WESTERN PRODUCE. LIQUORS, Erc.

Ss
WESTERN PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS
800 bbls. Standard MESS PORK
100 casks BACON. Clear sides
% - Clear Rib Sides.
10 - Shoulders,
$50 halfbbls Choice PIG PORK
100 " Choice Family BEEF
200 tierces Choice Refined LARD
SO bbls.
800 kegs and Kettle IaRn
zoo cases - LARD-3, and 10 n caddies
rs ttetces Sugar Cured HAMS, various brands
l0oo coo lbs Dry Salt SHoULDERS--Sammer and WI.
tor Cure,
80 hrkins Goshen and Western UTTER,
so boxes Choice Western. CHEESE,
so boxes SuGar.Cured BREAKFAST BACON.
In store and for sale by
BYRNES & BRO
aao I'm I'd Poydras atreet-
RLooD WOLFE " CO.'S
Pale and xxx ALE and xxx Dublin STOUT
fokfER, In Stone and Glass Bottles, to cfoss CON
signments. will be sod In lots suit In fus shIpptrS
order and condition, put six dosen saeh
For sale by MARTIN DRUHAN,
Sole Agent. No 80 Commercs strcet
Ia anuA(si sic.a&
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-03-26

COMPETING CITIES FoH WESTERN
TRADE. = New York, Philadelphia, BIS
ton, and Baltimore are competing for
trade, and Boston, with the Hoosac
tunnel open, will have communicate:
West. Philadelphia reaches all the
grain centers, and even taps by a
brid re at Buffalo the Canada Southern,
feeder to the export business of Mons
treal and New York partially. Balti :
more has lines to Indianapolis, ST.
Louis and Chicago. The aggregate
grain trade of these four cities increased
l,2J0,00o bushels III January last over
January, 1873. Baltimore increased
6,o0o,030; Philadelphia, l,2oo,oov
leaving 4,n5n,O)0 OF the Increase to
New York and Boston. Since 1856
the Baltimore grain trade has increased
25U per cent; the New York only 81
per cent. Again, the Baltimore trade
in 1871 was 2,J00,0Jn bushels, and it
bad increased Il million year since,
and the increase thus far this year is
such az to warrant an estimate OF 6,
O0U.Ou0 bushels as the lowest figure
for 1874. : N. Y. Express .uarct II.
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BuRNIHe IN EFFIGY.-It seems very
strange to us of this generation to read
of people few centuries ago burning
each other to death on account or a
difference Of religious opinion. Yet
burning in effigy, as it is practiced in
some parts OF this country, suggests
that the old fires of intolerance in hui
man nature are not quite extinguisheo.
1t lie certainly less painful to burn in
an imitation than by reality, but it
none the less suggets the animus Of
those who do the burning. Ii is, at
any rate, curious method of punish
ing an alleged culprit. In the ancient
legislation of France hanging in etiigy
was recognized as mode of execution
in the case of criminal condemned to
death, but who had escaped from Gus
tody. In default of the person a like.
ness OF the convict was conveyed to
prison, after judgement had been pro
nounced, whence it was taken, at the
appointed time, to the scaffold, and
there fastened by the neck to the GAL
lows. II IL only the impracticability
Of hanging or burning the convict that
makes the efigy popular method OF
venting spite against unpopular men.
In London it was long custom to
hang Guy Fawkes in effigy annually,
and frequently the most prominent
men OF England incur this penalty for
some political or ecclesiastical offence.
In France this old custom was moii-
lied by the Legislation of the first
French republic, which suppressed the
imitation of all execution, and reduced
the ceremony to merely posting the
name Of the condemned person, togeth
er with the judgement against him,
upon public place. This is milsier
form of the process than in England OF
this country but, in any shape, it is to
be more IGNORED in the breach than
the observance. Bait. San.
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Maryland and Virginia Boundary Lilac Arbri.
tration-Tne usury Law.

RICHMOND, VA, March %. The
Senate committee on federal relations
and the House committee on general
law, sitting in joint session for the con-
sideration OF the Maryland and Vlr-
ginia boundary line questions have
determined to recommend to the Gen
eral Assembly the arbitration plan OF
settlement OF all matters of jurisdiction
and boundary between the two States.
They are, however, in favor Of three
members OF the board of arbitration,
one to be appointed by Maryland, an
other by Virginia, and the two to
choose the third. On the part Of Wiz
ginia the committee unanimously rec,
ommcnd Hon. " lillian A. Graham, of
North Carolina, who has been a men,
Der OF Congress and Governor Of the
State, and was Secretary Of the Navy
during Fillmores administration.
Maryland claims to the south bank
of the Potomac, as far as Smiths Point
thence to c. dar Straits, on the east
shore of the Chesapeake bay; thence up
the Pocomoke river to where what is
called the Calvert and Scarborough line
crosses that river, and thence by said
line TO the Atlantic ocean.
Virginia claims to tie north bank of
the Potomac, to the extreme southern
angle of Point Lookout thence by a
right line to the EXTREMIST part OF the
westernmost angle OF Watkins Point
at the north headland of Little AMMAN
essex river, and thence by the Calvert
and Scarborough line to the Atlantic
ocean. s.sas --. l
1t will be seen that the dispute is
over no trifling latter, as it embraces
the Potomac river and its ri parian
rights; fifty square miles ofland on
Smith 8 island and OH the mainland
south of of Little Annamessex river and
north of Pocomoke sound, and about
800 square miles If oyster beds IN
Chesapeake bay and in Tangier and
Pocomoke sounds-now exceedingly
valuable, the trade in oysters at the
mouth OF the Little Annamessex alone
being estimated to be worth annually
three or four millions of dollars.
Both houses of the General ASSEM-
bly, have passed a bill fixing the legal
rate of interest at six per cent. per
annum, and making the penalty for
nsury forfeiture OF all interest charged.
1t is expected that Governor Kemper
will approve the bill.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-03-26

The sL1y.- 41e tl.ss OF, Virginia,
while sympathyzing with the white
people OF Petersburg, with here and
there an exception, sustain Governor
Aeniper in vetoing the bill known as
the Petersburg charter. The sense
less ''lauror raised by some papers
against him has died away, and friend
End foe now concede that he acted con
selentously and from high sense of
duty. The fears entertained by some
tlmid persons that the Conservative
party has been divided in consequence
ct the veto, is too abstfre to need con;s--
meut
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tn. HOWE MACHINE COMP NY.

s
AS the recent endorsements of the
Howe Machine Company, from outside
causes, have been widely known, it is
proper that a somewhat detailed ac-
count OF it's present condition should
be equally wide spread, and it gives us
much pleasure to premise that the real
facts show that the COMPANY is in y
most Unexpectedly sound and prosper
Gus condition. The mortgage to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company has
been rele.sr'l, and there are now no
other encn,niranrc whatever on the
properly ot this Immense manufactur
ing concern.
1t has been the practice ssf this com
pany to pay AL it. employees on the
18th Of every month. That is, on the
18th Of February they pay all wages
due fer the month OF January, and OH
the 18th of March they pay for the
month of February, and SO on through
the year; but it is well known that dur
ing the panic, the company tailed to
make payment with regularity or to
the tnll amount due We are now in,
formed that in the month of February
all wages, about S7o,u0J, due to the
first Of January were paid in full, and
in month two, the company expects
to resume its former practice of paying
promptly and in full on the regular pa,
days The company Has now six irer-
dred and twenty five employees work
ing eight hours per day, and making
about two hundred and fifty machines
daily. On the first Of April they IN
tend to resume the ten hour system ano
put On more workmen.
During these hard times the com
pany has made very careful estimat.
OF its property and liabilities, and the,
find that their total assets at fair esti
mate, exceed their total liabilities b,
the immense sum OF ane million eight
hundred and thirty eight thousand dol
lars, exclusive of the Glasgow factory
which has not been affected in ths
least by the temporary embarrassment
OF the company in this country. Thi>
showing is certainly very gratifying
and we trust that in future the c.
'pany will enjoy its old time prosperity
Bridgeport DAILY Sta'adard.
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The defeat Of Mr.. Griffith y resolu.
ton in the House Of Delegates, on
Tuesday, while effected by bare
majority, gives evidence Of the temper
of that body an being in opposition !"
all measures hooking to Reputation OF
the State debt. This; says the Peters
burg Appeal Index, is right. The bur
then ct the public debt is grevions IN
deed to be borne, but not vet so gre
vious az the shame and ruin o.
reputation For our very poverty Is
une Of the most efficient arguments that
could be employed against reputation
Nothing is left US except our credit
and we cannot afford to sacrifice that.