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Year: 1869

Every young man is eagerly asking the
best way of getting on in life. The Bible
gives very brief answer to the question:
walk in the way of good men, and keep
the paths of the righteous. Many books
of advice aud direction have been written,
but that is the gist of them all.
Year: 1869

The following modest advertisement is
pu blished in the Cleveland Leader: Want
ed.-A young man wishes to obtain board
in respectable private family, where his
moral department and example would be
considered equivalent. Reference required.
Year: 1869

A California butcher is described
as owning dogs enough to make an
Atlantic cable of Bologna sausages.


a man living four or a We miles from
Dayton was so frightened few days
ago by large dog scratching at his
door, which he took to be a burglar,
that ke tainted.
Year: 1869

Some years ago, in one of the eoun-
ties Of New York, a worthy man was
decoyed into a licensed tavern and
tempted to drink until drunk. In the
Idehrium of drunkenness he went home
and murdered his wife in the most bar
barous manner. He was carried to the
Jail while drunk, and kept through the
night Awakening in the morning and
looking around upon the wall and see-
ing the bars upon the windows, be ex-
claimed;


Is this jailp


yes, you are in JAIL answered one.


what am here for ? was the earn
est inquiry.


For murderr was the response.


With still greater astonishment and
esrnestness, he inquired:


Does my wife know itP


Your wife know it9 said some one.
why, it was she you killed.


On this announcement he dropped
as if he had been struck dead.
Let It be remembered that the consta-
ble who carried him to jail sold him the
liquor which caused his drunkenness;
the justice who issued the warrant was
one of those who signed the license;
and the sheriff who hung him also sold
liquor and kept ten-pin alley.
Year: 1869


Let's have the old bend, and not have the new,
Let's have the bend that our grandmothers knew;
Over the wash tub and over the ehurn,
That is the bend that our daughters should learn.
Let's have the bend that our grandmOthers knew;
Over the cradle like good mothers true;
Over the table, tthe family round,l
Reading the Good Book mid silence profound.
Let's have the bend that at church they did wear,
Bowling them lowly in meek, humble prayer;
Not sitting erect, with the modern-miss air.
With the Glove of bonnet just perched on on


hair.
Leave the camefhis hump-he wears it for use;
Leave the donkey his pannier-and cut yoursel
From fashions that lower, deform and degraded
To hide such deformity most of themma
Let our heads of false hair and hot yarn skeins b


shorn;


Let our garments be easy and light to be worn;
Don't shake in December and swelter in June,
And appear like unfortunates struck by the moon
Let's spend the time in things higher than dress!
Time that was given us to aid and to bless;
Time that is heeting and passing away;
o! let us work while we call it dayl
Let's have the old bend instead of the new;
Let's have the old hearts so faithful and truel
Away with all fashions that lower and degrade,
To hide some defOrmity most Of them madeI
Year: 1869

After much torturiug experience I
come to this, that nine in ten do not


know the value of time, nor the moral
ity of a promise. Why is not an en-
Igagement to meet me at nine O'Clock as
sacred as any bondl Why is not the


understanding that a church service or
a lecture commences at the given hour,
an acceptance on your part if you 90,
of an agreement and why are you false
TO it by your tsrdiness, and why are
you not bad friend because of all the
little miseries you infdelity entails
The world, intercourse, affection, great
affairs, little details are cursed; pros
psrity, temper, character, life ieopaTded,
lost by want of punctuality. Uupunc-
tual people are everywhere, and eYery-
thing encourages them. It is taken for
granted that nothing will be ''on time"
and so everybody holds off to insure it
The first ten miutes of a religious ser
vice are apt to be martyrdom to
preachers and punctual people. There
ought 10 be some oontrivance by which
the taFdy shall be made as uaconforta-
bic as they, and they might hope a
change. But in this world it too much
happens that a comfortable stoIidity
possesses the sufferings come upon those
who must take their comfort out in
doing their duty,
Year: 1869

The first news of the catastrophe was
received here by the naval section Of
the War Ministry, by a telegram from
the commando of the island and,fortress
of Lissa, in which it was stated that
the optic telegraph stationed at Fort
Wellington had singnalled the informa-
ton that, at a distance of about ten
miles TO the northeast of the island, an
Austrian frigate was blown up.


The commander of the island in
stsntly telegraphed to the vessels sta
toned at Trieste and Zara, and to the
commander of the squadron at Gravosa,
to proceed at once to the scene Of the
accident; and the irou-clad frigate Fer
dinand Max, as well as the gun boat
Hum and the steamer Address HofeT
were immediately despatched to LISA
with orders to render any assistance
that was necessary rand possible under
the circumstances.


A deputation Of the corporation Of
Lisss also set ont to the place where the
accident had occurred, and on their re.
turn yesterday they telegraphed that Of
the whole crew and marines on board,
numbering in all three hundred and
sixtY-four men, besides the Captain,
only twenty-three had been able to save
themselves BY swimming.


The Radetzky was under sail, on a
cruise for gun practice. and had no
steam up, SO that the accident could
not have been caused by the explosion
of the boiler or cylinder.


According to the meagre authentic
reports (Which have reached the War
Office and the newspapers, wet cart
rides we're being dried in the powder
room. The ammunition had been un-
packed, and quantities of powder were
lying about on the floor, and the work
men were consequently commanded
to enter the room only in felt slippers.
They, however, came in with their
boots on, without putting felt slippers
over them. The powder coming in
contact with the hard soles of the boots,
ignited from the friction caused there
by, and terrific explosion sent the
vessel and three hundred and forty men
to destruction.


A telegram from the commander of
Lissa to the naval section of the War
Office, dated yesterday evening, gives
the following additional details: The
explosion took place in the powder room
sbaft while the metal was being cleaned.
Cadet Barth was near the foremast
when the explosion took place, by
which he was hurled into the sea-
Quartermaster Kraus reported that be
was in the corridor, experimenting the
process of cleaning. After ten o'clock
he laid himself down in the corridor,
near the foremast. He was reused from
his sleep by violent shock and the cry
of "Fire.


He rushed to the hatchway, but the
steps were blown away, and he had to
creep into the battery, when he saw
the destruction of the hind part of the
ship, which was on the point of sinking. |
The water was rushing in from all sides, |
and he had just time to throw himself
into the sea through the port-hole.
Kraus is of opinion that Quartermaster
Dogek, by incautiOusly striking light, |
had caused the explosion in the powder
room, where the ammunition had been
lnpscked. and cartridges spread out to
lry.- NsRHa Cor. London Post.
Year: 1869

The following familiar lines " On
going to Church have made their ap-
Pearance again, as one of those things
which cannot be suffered to die. The
views they take may be a little cynic-
al, but they-fnd too ready acceptance to
be altogether false;


Some go to church Just for a walk
Soue go there to laugh and talk;


Some 60 there for speculation;


Some go there for observation;


Some go there to meet a lover;


Some the impulse oft discover;


Some 60 there to meet friend;


Some 60 there the time to spend;


Some 60 to learn the parsons name /;
Some 60 there to wound his fame /:
Many go there to doze and nod


But few so there to worship God.
Year: 1869

Gold-bearing earth of extraordinary
richness has recently been discovered
in the neighbOrhood of El Paso, Texas.
There are also rich silver mines some
where in the locality, but they are at
present known to but few Pueblo In
dians. Tradition places the locality of
the richest mine known to the Spaniards
in the neighborhood of FL Paso. In
the year 1880 the Indians rose stimuli
taneously and either murdered or drove
from the country the Spaniards, and
the site of many valuable mines was
sfterward lost,
Year: 1869

The insuferable impertinence of the cox
comb who writes letters from London to the
Tribune of this city tends to make that sheet
nuisance. Every representative abroad Of
this country is apparently called upon to pay
this fellow q tribute of notice and civility or
take chance to be vilifed and slandered.
Our Consul at London has just called upon
him to be set right in regard to charges made
against him on no better authority than the
scribbler's spleen, and the scribbler makes
haste to chronicle the fact. The Consul might
have been in better business. Some time ago
our Consul at Southampton, Mr.. Thompson,
was requested by member of the United
States Legation in London to get free
passage for afriend of his, and the Consul, fan
cying that the United States had sent him out for
quite different purposes, failed to do it.
Hence he incurred the ire of the attache, and
the ready correspondent of the Tribune was
easily induced to lend hand in writing him
down. Letters that 80 handle mems names on
rumor and even worse authority ought to be
more closely scrutinized before they are given
to the public; for we know that the Tribune,
so careful Of the reputation and feelings even
of enemies, does not sympathize with this in
discriminate assault
Year: 1869

ENGLAND has had notion that we wanted
to fight, and the whole press has been depre-
eating the views that seemed to move this
humor in us. England has quite wrung her
hands and tore her hair in the excitement Of
regret that we should have thought her
capable Of such bad conduct a Sumner de-
picted. It seemed that we were the terrible
clustering fellows and she the calm saint eager
for peace and good deal afraid Of war. The
fact is, however, that we are both afraid OF
war. We know that it is our evident destiny
to fight her some time, sooner or later, for the
antagonizing claims Of two such Powers can
finally be determined only by force but wa
know that the struggle is to be terrible one,
and, therefore, we are in no hurry for it.
Year: 1869

TIE Wool INTEREST Is exercising the Ohio
radicals. They don't want Ex-Governor Hayes
renominated, because he voted in Congress
for the reduction Of the tariff on wool to such
an extent as to forbid its being grown in Ohio.
Ohio has been In the wool business very long
time. She was the head scenter Of the under
ground railroad when Il was the practice to
run of the ebony and enslaved population Of
the South TO some point where they could en-
joy the glorious atmosphere of the free North.
The Ohio radicals should never go back on
their wool
Year: 1869

q gentleman Of culture and experience, and Is
known to have proper sense Of the dignity
Of the nation he represents, as we'll as of the
important interests Immediately conHded to
his care. We shall rejoice if he succeed in
settling this vexed question. II, however, he
should not succeed, if the temper of the
British government and people is such that
negotiations for the present cannot be resumed,
we can well afford to wait. There is no neces-
sity for being in haste. Time, which is loss
to England. is a gain to us. We grow
mightier and mightier every day. Our
voice will be more authoritative, more
imperious, ten years hence than it Is
to-day. If war with us would be dangerous
to England now it will be infinitely more dan
haste. There Ia no occasion for anxiety. IL
would be absurd for us to preciptate war.
We make larger victories by peace than we
could by the conquest of Great Britain or the
forcible annexation of the New Dominion. Let
us strive to develop our resources. The
Pacific Railroad has brought within our reach
untold treasures. Let us stretch out our
hands and claim them. While we are thus
waiting for England to come to her senses the
rich resources of our enormous territory will be
astonishing ourselves and the world (; our broad
acres, where now is the waste wilderness, will
be yielding their increase our mines will be
vomiting forth their silver and their gold our
hillsides-North, South, East and West-will
be made musical with the rattle of the mill and
beautiful by the hand of industry and thrift,
and our population will be multiplying at a
rate unexamped in all history. If need be we
shall be able in brief space Of time to defy
the world in arms. Time, therefore, we
repeat it, will be gain to us. We can Yait 1t
is for England to say whether she will make
terms now, when terms are possible, or
whether she will defer until no terms can be
had. This is her affair, not ours.
Year: 1869

RAILWAY CoNsoLIDAToN.-A through rail-
way corporation between the oites Of New
York and Chicago seems an accomplished
fact, now that Commodore Vanderbilt has en-
larged the field Of his operations from the line
of the Hudson river to the great northern
boundary OF the country. Were not the
undertaking so regal In Its character we would
compare Mr.. Vanderbilt 10 General Grant in
the distribution OF his places. The former is
the President of the New York Central Rail-
road. He has given his son, W. II. Wander
bilt, the Presidency Of the Hudson river,
while his son-in-law Is the candidate for the
Presidency Of the Michigan Southern and
Lake Shore line between Buffalo and Chicago
The era of great railway combinations is at
hand, now that we have through route to
the Pacific. The public will have TO endure
the increased burden which the watering Of
stock and the extra dividends will put upon
travel and freight
Year: 1869




Criticism keeps pace with the theatre. and
the theatre has very emphatically gone whittier
Macbeth proposed to throw physic-" to tho
dogs" Our stage has gone the downward
road and would be reprOach to the city II
our people were to any degree involved in its
fame. But they are not; for since the intro
duction here of the leg drama there has not
been metropolitan audience in the especial
temple of that style Of ''art." Our people
have abandoned the theatres, or have restrict
ed their favors to the two or three establish
ments that have kept themselves free from the
common contamination. In all the rest Lon-
don concert troupes have played trash, and
sometimes very filthy trash, too, to the gotc-
moucAes crowd of countrymen free for day ia
town and eager to see the elephant or any other
animal that might be on view. In this there
is nothing of our metropolis but the accident
of places and we conceive that the HERALD
was never more happily in sympathy with the
true sentiment and the correct and judicious
taste of city people than when, at the very
outset, it raised its voice against this theatri-
cal indecency. But we were not prepared to
see the press, or any portion of it, or any per-
sons affiliated with it, adopt style in its way
equally discreditable. 1t is true that critics
must, to certain degree, have sympathetic
natures. The older drama filed with it's spirit
and its dainty taste the men who wrote upon
it., and left us Addison, Charles Lamb,
Hazltt, Talfourd and the rest, and
the time just passing away gave us in the
harmless and genial school of oyster house
critics nothing worse and nothing better
than the drama of the time had called for.
But now that the drama has gone down, now
that it has ceased to be harmless stupidity
and become public nuisance, the critic
should cease to sympathize with the de-
bauchery Of theatrical managers, or he In
his turn becomes a public nuisance also.
Criticism should not essay the style Of the
prize ring nor the knock down and drag out Of
the Water street dance house. Give us salt,
gentlemen, but do not put it roughly; and
above all do not make it the rufianly assault
of robust critic on poor little sinner Of tho
theatre.
Year: 1869

EPIDEMIC Smallpox is contagious
disease, and the word epidemic does not pro-
perly apply to il either in its general or techni
cal sense. Infectious diseases are epidemic
because the poison by which they are caused
can he spread abroad in the air so that all tho
people may receive it in full virulence; but
contagious diseases are communicated by moro
or less direct contact with o sick person, aud
dissemination in the general air deprives tho
poison of Its power.
Year: 1869

and tho Prospect.


Tuesday was the eleventh and last day OF
the Old School Assembly. The New School
Assembly had already adjourned, and Its
members had departed for their respective
homes, well satisfied, on the whole, that union
must now be regarded as un fait accompN-a
fixed fact But at the eleventh hour or day
the Old School Assembly, which had also as
sented to union with apparently hearty good
will matches lot of eggs out Of which full
brood Of future discords may be expected.
After an interesting and gratifying report from
the Chairman of the Committee ON the Mar
rative of the State of Religion, the announce
ment Of the estimates eight hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars) of the moneys
required by the several boards to carry ON the
work of the Church during the ensuing year,
and the report Of the Committee on Theological
Seminaries, minister from Kentucky brought
to the notice of the Assembly an important
memorial relative to matters of difference be-
tween the Old School Presbyterian Church in
Kentucky and the civil courts of that State,
involving the rights Of property in Kentucky
of the Northern Church as against the claims
of the Southern Presbyterian Church. This
is revival Of the question of the North
against the South in new shape. 1t is
fresh exemplifcation Of the usually unper-
ceived extent to which the question Of filthy
lucre is mixed up with the so-called religious
questions of the day. Here is betrayed the
cloven hoof of the devil, who would fain kick
vigorously against any such cooperation on
the part of his Christian foes as might possibly
result from carrying out the spirit of union


manifested by the two General Assemblies


which have recently met in New York. The
| action of certain courts In Kentucky was de-
nounced by one speaker as the first attempt to
| subject religious bodies to the civil courts on


religious matters. The attempt, he added,
should be crushed under foot. Another
| speaker believed the question of civil liberty
involved; because, if civil courts can over
ride the decision of ecclesiastical courts in


matters purely ecclesiastical, religious liberty,
| he said, is gone. But however this may be,


the question at issue involves so vast an


amount of property in the shape Of church
| edifces and church funds that to outsiders, at


least, it seems mainly to be money question
rather than a question of religious liberty.
| Provision was made to sustain the expenses Of
an appeal to the Supreme Court. If the Pres
| byterians have to 60 to law so soon after hav-


ing solemnly resolved upon union the prospect
| for lasting union is not 80 encouraging as we


had hoped. If, however, all divisions Of the
doughtiest disputants and most beligerent sec
tarians in the Christian world should harmo-
| niously combine their forces in perfect and
permanent union, we shall believe that the age
of miracles is not past.
Year: 1869

PLYING GRANr.-Ben Wade went TO WASH
ington for nothing else in the world but to pity
poor Grant, who is condemned TO be President
and fight the party men of all stripes for the
peace of his life, and to make the President
unhappy by showing him how easy and good
natured q man may be who Is quite out OF
Office. It was piece of the most coolly cal
culated cruelty our annals can show.
Year: 1869

TIE PUBLIC DEBT. The statement of the
public debt, as officially published on the LIST
Of June, is gratifying inasmuch as the Secre-
tary of the Treasury sets forth continuous
reduction Of the money burden Of the nation.
The decrease Of the debt during the month Of
May footed up $i3,3s4,7 III 81, and the
aggregate reduction since the LIST Of March
400 O5O GAG 80. Encouraging
Year: 1869

Our correspondence from Nassau, published
to-day in another column, gives an interesting
account of the return of the steamer Salvador
and Of the landing of her expedition in Cuba.
The seizure Of the ste amer on her return was
made by the British officers on the ground OF
violation of the Passenger act, In having
taken out more passengers than the law
allows but it was supposed that the claim of
the Receiver General would fall through for
want of proof. 1t limited in our correspond
ent's letter that Captain Carlu Of the Salvador
will soon be in command of a Cuban man-of-
war and searching for the Spanish ships in
stead of being searched for by them.


The enthusiasm Of the Cubans on landing is
described as intense, and they expected soon
to give good account of themselves. It was
stated by the crew of the Salvador that the
department of the Spanish recruits and volun-
teers is not quite so valorous as the official
statements of the Havana press would make it
appear. Instead ofrushing to the charge after
firing the first few shots they quite as often
rush in the other direction. According to the
reports brought by the Salvador the new troops
are getting quite disheartened. We suspect
that the extravagant heroism of the Spaniards
is confined mostly to the Havana volunteers,
who find themselves always safe behind their
shop counters. From the account of the
voyage il is plain that the Salvador saw moth
ing of the Arsgo, and the whole story Of an
expedition having sailed from this port on the
Arago was an invention got up by so-called
newspaper in want of sensation.
Year: 1869

The House was not in session to-day, but a large
number OF members were at the Capitol, mostly
around the Senate chamber. looking for new dcye


opmcnts about the Cabinet and anxious to ascer.
tain what appointments had been made by the Prcs-
dent. AS the contents OF Grants message to
The senate relative to A. r. stewart became known
u was the theme Of general conversation among the
Year: 1869




In iumbsgo they act like charm. In few
hours violent cough is relieved by Plaster ap-
piled to the chest. Many persons believe cold
cannot be taken while Plaster is worn there
thisws do know they greatly assist in the cure of
neglected cold, so often the introducer of Con-
sumption.


Cure of Lesion of the Liver.
A gentleman. after severe sickness had lesion
of the liver. Every quick movement or sudden lar
gave him severe pain, often laying him up for days
Hence he was unable to follow any occupation with
regularity.


In this condition. he applied over the part
affected ALLcoCK'S POROUS PLASTER.
At 6rst, it seemed to irritate SO it was taken Off
But the marked improvement he experienced after
ward gave him courage to try again, and he there:
fore applied another plaster. In few DAYS some.
thing gave way" slipped" to use the GENTLE
mans own words.
Year: 1869

Since the publication of Darwin's views
on the gradual development of new species
in the animal and vegetable world, by slow


and long continued changes in species pre-
ceding them, and in consequence Of the dis
cussions TO which these views have given
rise, great interest has been felt among sci
entfc men in the question how far any in
dications can be found, in any part of the