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The New York herald., 1876-12-31
OUR CABLE SHIPPING NEWS

AMSTERDAM Dec 30-Arrived bark Noah (yor, Gieruld-
sen. Baltimore.
Asrwxnr Dec so-saied ship Rufus 4 Wood, Davis.
Cardiff.
BnrsroL Dec 2s-Arrived steamer Somerset r3r. West
crn. New York
BELFAST. Dec 2Y-Arrived. bark sarpen Nor, BscAer,
New York.
BREMEN Dec 3o-Arr,ved ship Masdalene tGer) Hencke
New York ;barks Athena Ger. Bemer. do Reck tGerj
Walton. Phadelphia: sebastian zach cGer, sanstedt
do; Alamo fGer). Bruderhansen. Savannah; Germania
GER, Eyers Baitimore Bremen VGeu. Rabbe Charles
ton.
crxuavKs. Dec so-Arrived. bark Nsvssink Barstow,
Charleston
Cmrnnox Java to Dec 29sailed previous ship Fleet.
wing. Guest. sydney. Nsw; bark Rainbow. Rowel. do
CALCUTTA, Dec 2sArrived ship Susan Gilmore Carver
Rio Janeiro
GENOA Dec 2.-Arrived. bark reppins dtaD, Pa,urso,
New York.
hAvRs. Dec 3o-Arrived. bark Reviewer (Br. Brown,
New Orleans
noSe KONG Dec 25-Arrived previous ship Mount lash
fngton. Perkins. Hamburg
LrvKnrooI. Doc 29-Arrved. ships Washington Martin
New York; 3oth Acturus Rairdep Galveston; silyerhow
tBrl. Dougal, San Francisco
sailed 3oth. ship stewart Freeman (B1. Flint United
States
Also sailed aoth. steamer Lord Give ,BD, Urquhsrt
Philadelphia
New iork.
oronro. Dec 2s-Arrived brig Aisxina tBr) Gauthisr
Quebec.
rALssxo, Dec as-saiIsd. bark schamyl snow. United
States; brig Cora Gree7 Collins New York baltimore
PRonoLsGo. Dec 2i-saiIed. ship Fortune. Taylor Bos
rADasc Dec 2s-s.led previous, bark &a,.anoos..
Freeman, New York.
QuErSsrowS. Dec 2o-Arrived. bsrks gioetta Bosro
usb. Chcsa Phsdclphis; Bravo tSor) Tres New York;
3oth Francisco Bersolotto utsil. Antos. Philadelphia
Also afsved 3oth, iUAM. steamer Batavia tBr, Nou-
land. lork Tor livsrpoo and procecdedl
sailed 3th. bark Light Brigade OBJ. Asks, Phiiadsl-
phiA
ROTTERDAM Dec 2ssailed, bark Jupiter (er), schedt
New York.
sSeAroHx. Dec 3o-sailsd ship Electra Clark, Boston.
Sailed from - Dee ~. Mypssi.. for uassd ssstsA
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SAILED

Steamers Celtic tS ior Liverpool: Dakota (Br), do
Steinnann .Belgl Antwerp; Gieuartney Tn, London
Bolivia tBr1 glasgow; State OF Pennsyivana (Isr do
Labrador ttp. hs're; Acapulco. AspnwaIi; s.ate OF
Texas, nvesto1. Ac San Jatinto Savannah; New Yors
ton; rionser Wilmington. NJ; Ola dominion. Rchmuna
Sc: Florida. Phadclpha: Agnes do; snip Marianne Not
teJohn. Liverpool: barks Seversnk Cndiz Murray J
tardenas: Montexuma barbados; W r. Anderson. Glen.
fnego. Griths tBr). Matanxas: brgs AcelIa Thur.
low Acante yalencis Starlight, Port SPAIN Rising
sun, Barbados; Dayii ght. Demcrxra.
Wind al sunset NV.
barometer at sunset. .. 10. al midnight. % 90
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NOTICE TO MARINERS.

PORTLAND, Me Dec 29-Thc and buoys In this
harbor have removed the winter season. thei
places supplied with spar buoys.
INFORMATION ioR MASTERS OF COASTERS.
Our st Andrews pondent writes "A mistake has
been made by the comprs Of Barnes Aim In
20 tho location Of th, light White Head There
light WhevHead. he light il situated the sW
point OF Bliss Island yesse entering Bliss arbor
Keep the Ight (which - req ae on the starboArd hand
Pentilow's house; then steer by ~ and anchor
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NOTICE TO MERCHANTS AND CAPTAINS

Merchants shipping and shipmssters informed
that BY telegraphins the HERALD London Bureau
dressing Bennctt No 40 Fiee. street, London
Paris Office. addressing "Benuett 81 Avenue rOpera
Paris the arrivals and departures from European
Eastern ports OF American and all foreign trading
with the United States tho will be cabied this
country FREQ of charge.
Captains arriving and sailing French and Mcd-
trrranean will nd the Paris Office economi.
cal ana expeditions for telegraphing news
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OFFICIAL NEW YEARS CALLS.

Tho new Sheriff and County Clerk will receive their
friends tomorrow in the sherin's oce. but there will
be reception at the Mayors Comptroller's olico
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AMUSEME ENTS.
EDWIN BOOTH AS RUY BIAS:


Mr.. Edwin Booth played Ruy Bias yesterday after
ut the Lyceum Theatre for the FIRST time in
many years. The perfection OF any art requires con-
tinuous practice fine pianist said TO US, 'lf
do no: play my piano on Sunday know on MONDAY
that have lost something OF my power" so Dir.
Booth did not play Ruy Blss well we had
expected He not at ease in the char
acter. and he had also had during tho
week the burden OF King Richard. The cxactions Of
that character upon the aud physique OF actor
relentless No one who plays Gloster every night
should attempt any other great role as an interude
Mr. Booth did justice neither TO himself to the part
in his personaton OF Ruy Bias The performance was
not powerful, bat pleasing This we believe, Is
not because OF any deficiency In the actor but
because OF the want OF experience Ruv Bias
sould be OF Edwin Booths great presentations
The genteness the honor the transitions tho soul OF
the man are elements which nc ought TO express with
supreme emphasis. but to do this he must make
IL study, not an experiment The cast OF tho play
generally good. but Mr.. Levck did not do his
best Don Sailust, and Miss Jennings was evidently
lot familiar with tho Queen. Several changes OF the
stage business were introduced, and we think they
were not Tor the better.
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NOT EXACTLY PENNILESS.

man who gives his name as August Bcgman
arrested Is imposter by the police OF the Third
precinct BrocKlyn, for begging Court street last
night He pretended that he could not speak English,
but quentiy spoke that tongue like native
the manner born" On being searched six dollars
Vas found on him.
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THE HEBREW CHARITY FAIR.

The Hebrew Charity Fair, which opened on the 18th
inst closed last evening. All tho articles were rallied
on by returning board, who gave an honest count
Tho fair was q brilliant success
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FEEDING THE FLOCK.

The warrants for the payment Of the employees of all
tho departments were promptly signed yesterday by
COMPTROLLER Kelly.
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LryxRrooL. Dec 30-Ths American ship fhcf y
S"ot Nickeis from Bangor VIA searspor Dec .. whcn
rived here yesterday experienced heavy weather. and
her deckioad and buiwarkS
The American shin cy Of Montreal Capt Mudgett from
New York Nov - which arrived hero yesterday, repor
having the British bark Nsria Capt Greyston which
sailed from Doboy Nov 81 for Belfast. J. dismastsd and
waterlogged Thirteen hands board the Ma
ria but impossible render aid consequence OF
the gale prevailing vt the time.
LONDON Dec 30-Brig W Beard (Br). Robinson. ffom
Galveston Nov o for Hamburg. Is ashore at -.
The American Union Capt Phelan before reported
towed to the Gambler Gibraltar. Dec he hove
for examuaon has been condemned and ordered to 10
sold.
WEATHER REPORT.
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SPOKEN.

Brig Lizzie Bgeow. Hardenbrook, from Cayenne and
st Martins for Salem tand sun.ed with
pilot boat Exra Nye No zee "a. IS miles SsE Of the
highlands, and 2StL y shinnecock.
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ing New York by addressing to such vessels
Of HERALD yacht. Pier No. East River. New
York Letters received from all parts Of the world and
promptly delivered. Duplicates required
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NIpLo's GARDEN.

The haps and mshaps OF Azurine continue to draw
fair audiences at Nib!o's The piece has been on
the stage long enough TO work smoothly, notwith-
standing its complex combinations of incident and
ballet Azurine, Leoiin and Pierre are respectively
represented by Miss Florence Ellis Miss Marion Fske
and Mr.. W. H. Fitzgerald, all Of whom sustain their
somewhat fragmentary parts sufficiently well TO serve
punctuation points TOR the alternatons OF spectacle
and ballet, between the ours de orce OF which they
interlarded There is a magic jevel-a taismar by
which trans lations from one world to another are
readily enected-which gets mslad IN tho
course the performance, and thereby
causes great deal OF trouble. Somebody descends
10 the bottom OF the for II. the journey
giving occasion for the exhibition OF vast c0ncourse
OF fishes walking their tails and OF naiads In gauze
and spangles The latter, supporting the three pre-
mieres danseuses Niles Rosa eournier and Gangain,
form the setting oil series OF feats OF suppleness
which elicit abundant plaudts OF course the tasman
Is ound-by of descent into the ccEtre oil the
earth and an invocation OF tho services OF certain
gnomes dressed in scarlet navDeL When, however,
The jewel has been recovered Azurine has no dsposi
ton to test It's virtues as means OF ascending 70 her
celestial home, expresses such strong preference
for earthly residence, and particularly for Pierre,
that her wings drop from her shoulders and the over
joyed young man consents 10 an immediate union
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THE OLD GUARD BALL.

The Old Guard Ball will take place on Thursday,
January Is, at tho Academy Of Music. and promises
very successful The list OF invitations include
the names OF members OF all prominent military or
ganiZatoGs.
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"SCHOOL AND HOME"

The Hon. Lawrence g. Goulding, Commissioner OF
Education, has published the first number OF q new
newspaper, entitled School and Home The contents
show that 1t well suited for the scnoolroom and the
Preside
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A NOBLE ARMY.

The total number OF made by the police dur.
ing the year 1876, computed from their returns
from January until the morning OF December 80,
was 81, ,40l.
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YACHTS, STEAMBOATS,, &C.

ClNGLE OR DUuBLk DECkED BARGE WANTED
Jfor desirable Real Estate she in good risr.
swnu il particulars and lowest price to box 19f5 Pos
onhce
Inn BOATS. WOOD AND METALLIC. READY re
lOOshp. jos south st. Gouvrineur alp.
STEPHEN ROBERTS.
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BELOW.
CLEARED.

Bark Urbano UtaD. Edward, from Plymouth Oct l3
Bark Southern Belle tBr) Robbins. from Leghorn Oct
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MISCELLANEOUS.

A BSOLUTE D1voRCEs. LEGAL EVERYWHERE
hspeey With publicity; sast~ssctor
Consaltalon ir~c. FKEDEKick KIN0, Lawyss, -
Marks slass adleiAinx Cssosr inatiasts-
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SHIPPING NEWS
OCEAN STEAMERS.

,ArKs or DEPARTURE PROM NEW YORK FOR rns MONTH
JANUARY
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WEATHER REPORT.
HoLYHEAp. Dec 80. rM-wiud S. fresh gale.
PLYxouTH. Dec 80. PM-wind w. strong; Gle
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-07-11

toms OF the past century. 1t might no
be desirable il we could. But we need
not drift on the current OF fashion. We
can stand firmly against innovations
which are wrong. while We accept those
which may be helpful. We can be con-
scientious in our home training. We can
raise our voices, feeble though they may
be, for the right. II we cannot turn the
stream backward, we can keep from be-
iug borne along MS its willing victims.
| know lady who was reared in q
home of wealth. But she had sensible
mother who taught her daughters TO
work. This lady is delicate, suffering
from inherited disease. Sometimes she
is without a servant for months. She
has three children, healthy play iul,
noisy, us heppy childhood should be.
But her house is kept in order; her work
done at the proper time, and no neglect
ed dust, no unsightly closets, nor soiled
linen but perfect neatness, and health
iul food. A morning caller would find
her in dress suited TO her work her
hair carefully arranged, her children
neatly and prettily dressed. Flowers
arc always smiling up from her window,
and her table is usually graced with q
simple bouquet. The piano stands in
vitingly open, while she readily responds
to an invitation 10 sing, showing that she
is not the household drudge, but the
home queen.
How does she accomplish so much?
She was trained as every lady should be,
10 master her work, Instead OF being
mastered by it. So she makes her home
Il resting place. So it should be with our
daughters. Their hands may not be
beautiful and shapely, but they will be
loving hands They may not be soft, but
they will be skilled in kindly deeds
helpful To mother or sister or brother.
They may not be able to perform difficult
mnsic. but they will give you sweet home
melodies. They will know how TO keep
home bright.-how to caress the baby.
They will be welcome wherever there is
sorrow. and their hands will be grateful
TO the fevered brow.
How white, and pure, and clean, will
such hands be in Gods sight! How far
reaching tho influence OF such homes.
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work, and forward with the same old
cheer which had been its own ever since
its broDzed veterans heard the whistle of
bullets. But it was too much for us. -
They had forgotten how weak we were.
and some one had blundered. The lines
wiihered before the storm OF shot We
fell back; were charged in turn. and
went down among the heaps Of dead and
wounded. The roar of battle died away
in moment; daylight changed to dark
ness, and when opened my eyes again
The surgeons stood over me and my left
arm was gone.
There was no one TO call the roll The
stark, stiff form Of The lieutenant had
been given 10 earth, and ,ha seven men
who represented Company q looked to
themselves. Fate had choice who
should be taken and who left, and death
passed me by. l alone Of tue one hun
dred and three veterans returned to the
country village TO tell them how this one
and that one died; 10 hear the sobs of
widow and orphan, until my heart ached.
Sometimes in my day reveries or night
dreams call the roll again, and shadowy
forms stand In line, and ghostly voices
"aye" and "aye" until start up with q
sob in my throat at the remembrance of
those who sleep 10 The trenches beside
the Potomac, meath the shadow OF Round
Top, along the Rappahanuook. and down
among the dark thickets OF the Wilder
ness. sleeping there never to know war
again. G. b. LEWIS.
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HOME.
BI 4 LADY.

There was time in our counlry's his
tory, when our sons and daughters were
not ashamed of work. In this centennial
year, we may do well to look backward.
and see whether We have gained in hap
piness and thrift by the modern tendency
to be ashamed of labor.
1t is nearly as much as a young lady's
reputation is worth, 10 have it known
that she daily works in the kitchen. 1t
certainly would ruin her prospects with
the Stuckup family.
have heard q mother say with evident
satisfaction. my daughter never cooked
dinner in her lite." And yet that daugh-
ter could. and did, for hours. swing the
mallei in playing croquet; and Tor years
had spent from three TO six hours day
practicing on the piano, while her mother
spent six hours or more in housework.
and was annoyed to DEATH" with SER
wants. Now, while music should be en-
couraged as one means OF keeping home
bright, we should insist that the piano
practice be but the complement Of kitchen
practice.
1t isn't pleasant 10 wash dishes. and
scour, and sweep, and dust. 1t isn't
pleasant to stay in heated kitchen when
the pure air. and sunshine, and birds, are
all calling TO you 10 go out and enjoy
them. Yet the more housework is de-
spsed and shirked 10y wives and daugt-
ters, the less comfort there is in the fam
lily.
What do you mean by that?" some
one asks. There is so much meant by it,
that one brief paper is iasufiicent to an
swer.
A young lady's private room will afford
some index TO her character. II will
bear the impress OF her own mind. She
should not tolerate confusion in drawer
or closet. The furnishing should please
the eye. Il does not require costly fur
niture. Indeed, every thing may be very
simple and inexpensive; but there must
be nice discrimination in form and color.
Convenient receptacles for odds and ends
may be prettily made and arranged as
ornaments. A few pictures should grace
the walls-perhaps those from her own
brush or pencil--while care must be taken
to avoid crowded display. The "beau-
ty OF propriety" should pervade all; and
the room be fitting expression Of maid
enly purity.
1t is q question whether our nineteenth
century homes are as joyous and loving
as those of our grandmothers, whose in
dustry banished all morbid iancies. There
were virtues woven into the garments
wrought by mothers and sisters. Love
teamed in each tasteful ornament. and
modesty pecped from every graceful fold.
Their needles glanced brightly through
delicate laces or fashioned the homely
garments OF linsey-woolsey. They held
the distatf with grace while chatting with
friend or lover.
An eminent New England clergyman
said to The writer, 81 wore clothes which
my own mother spun and wove, until l
was ready to enter college" That moth
er's earnest, self-forgetting life gave TO
The world noble man.
We cannot expect TO revive the GUS
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3flisttllang,
Jity.
Rl IL. /

Some nowers are wlthered and some joys have
died.
The garden reeks with an East Indian scent
From beds where gillynowcrs stand weak and
spent;
The white heat pales the skies from side TO side
At MONDAY all the living creatures hide;
But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content,
Like starry blooms on a new hrmamCnt,
White lilies hoat aud regally abide.
In vain the cruel skies their hot rays she'd;
The lily does not feel their braLcn glare,
In vain the pallid clouds refuse TO share
Their dews; the lily feels no thirst, no dread;
Unharmed she lifts her quecnly face and head;
She drinks Of living waters and keeps fair
-AHGnfic Monthly.
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4ottrp.
for the OXFORD DENocsAr.
4 Wish.

" may you grow In richest good
D,, N' no"ers that deck the days OF spring
he oiest With music like the wood
wherein The binds OF summer sing,
Nuu may your eyes discern afsr.
Ane land Of light and peace above
And see from thence full many a star
The GOLDEN beams Of those YOU love
AA'e CT may be your outward state.
WAY inward JOY your heart delight,
Aod strength OF mind anew create.
A A'pheFe Of action pure and bright.
re life and soul adorned with peace
Nud love eneircle earth and skv.
In veal or woe your joys increase.
And Heaven is yours or live or die
-WuuA BRUNrox,
H. "A ~. .
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..-,.-. car tell. bv examining the coloIed
'-..t.tr trr.r papers the amount due and
.r-t. ava themselves OF the advanced
-.... .'- ..a., t0 g, by maIi' or hand O. the
.-.-,.ra. sept .,', on the Sip, means
il0 -...r tar o. that datc. when money
.ba.ll b. taken 20 examine the slip,
'r-...- --,-ry .su1tct edited within two week :
-,.---.I re- a7,rtsca OF 70.
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Harvard Divinity school.
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,., PRINTING OF Every Description
T-,UptIy and Neatly Executed.
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THE
0rforo 9rmotrat
is
.,.n,d Every Tuesday Morning, by
GEO. H. WATKINS,
x-1;tor and Proprietor.
arn1S
Rates of Advertising.

Terms.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-27
Farmers and Books.

The Boston CuHiyaior has very good
editorial under the above title, from which
we select the following extracts
a." Few Of them rfarmers] think Of reading
books, especially such as are prepared for
their benefit. We doubt if books prepared
for any other class are as poorly patronized
as those written for farmers. Farmers are
not entirely to blame, for we must admit
that very many of our agricultural works
are not sufficiently practical to make them
of general value. But while there are many
trashy farm books there are many others
possessing real merit and we do not hesitate
to say that more of our farmers should have
their libraries of agricultural works, and
that they should not only have them, but
read them, and be able to refer to them upon
questions which are constantly arising in
the mind of the thoughtful farmer.
I'VE may educate ourselves, and aid
greatly in the education and culture of our
families by the selection of books. We would
not have all our books for family reading
| CONFORM 10 our OWN tastes. W e WOulu con
suit the tastes of the family, aiming con
stantly, however, to cultivate taste foi
pure and improving literature. The book
which have the largest sales and the papers
most generally in demand, are those which
are filled with exciting stories having nj
foundation in fact.
awe believe that the great want of far
mers, as a class, is more education. We com
plain of the over-reaching righteousness o
other classes We complain of the name
in which we are imposed upon by those VIII
compel us to pay extravagant prices TO
what we want to buy, and who in turn Civ
us but small compensation for our labor
We must make our intelligence, as a class
equal to that of other classes. We mus
prepare ourselves to fill the responsible pos
tions in society, and then farmers will eS
ert an influence more in proportion to thei
numbers and the vast industry which the
| naprespnt -
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-27
Can't Hold In.

Brother Wetherell, of the Boston Cuitiraior,
who has twice declared within the year that
we were unworthy OF further notice at his
hands, goes for us " in three or four dis
tinct articles of his last issue. Brother
Wetherell is a queer chicken. lie has been
pitching into US, more or less, for fifteen
years, and during the past eighteen months
has copied something like a dozen columns
from our department, aud taken up nearly
as much more space in comments thereon
yet he repeatedly declares us beneath his no
tice, and in his paper of September 10th
calls us the compiler of useless book " Che
being judge, condemns us as not knowing
the difference betwixt "science and
knowledge" Gn which he is right, fol
once), aud expresses the opinion that " il
not critical we are "noihiHg "--Gn retalia
ton of our opinion that he is nothing, Of
pretty near it, when he is crticaD. Blu
with all our dear brothers supercilious airs
we wish we could believe that all who hav'
access to the products of our pen stud,
them as carefully as he-and profit as mucl
thereby.