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Year: 1869

The PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY are making
arrangements for q moonlight excursion to
Glymont on the 21st inst. The music OF
Weber's band. with dancing at the pavilion,
Will be the features Of the occasion, and the
recollection Of the excursion Of last year, will
bring out all the friends Of the society no doubt
Year: 1869

1t is a well established fact that fully one
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, TO
use their own expression never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite


To this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case Of Ma.
RASMUS, without fail.
Year: 1869

And feeling tho hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills will find
in the use of this BITTERS or the TONIC, al
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore in a measure the energy and ardor of
more youthful days, build up their shrunksn
forms, and give health and happiness in their
Year: 1869

The chief feature Of Wall street yesterday
was the activity in the money market. The
Government dealers generally got supplied at Z
per cent currency, but among the stock brokers
the rate was plump per cent. gold The gold
speculation, Of course, absorbs a large amount
Of currency, and this had something to do with
the activity; but the banks were calling in Their
gold for the Statement, which shifted a great
many leans. and this may trace the principal
difhculiy. There was a good deal of talk about
lock up OF S5,0O0,00O, but this wac only the
offspring OF proposition made 70 a financial
Institution by prominent broker. which Wa J
not accepted. This lock up story caused some
uneasiness on the street, and probably aggra-
waited the strIngency q little.
Year: 1869

STATUS OF TREASURY EMPLoYEss.-Act-
ing Secretary Richardson has directed that the
circular containing the following ques.
tions, shall be sent to every employee Of
the Treasury Department:


Please answer the following questions in
full, and return this circular TO the Secretary
of the Treasury without delay: Where were
you born? WHAT is your agel Are you mar
ried Were you ever in the United States
army or navy-either regular or volunteer
or in the marine corpsl II 50, state the COM
pany, regiment, or vessel1 In what capacity
where, and how long did you serve 2 We're
You honorably discharged IL SO, when and
where State in what other way you did
anything for the Union army or Union cause
during the rebellion When were you an.
pointed in this Department In what town,
county and State did You reside when ap.
pointed! Who represented your district in
Congress at that timef Who Is your present
Representative in Congress What other
Government appointments have you held
tefore the present one, and why did you not
continue therein Where is your present
residence! Where do you exercise the right
of franchise Have You any relatives in this
Department, or In any branch of the Gov
eminent service II so, state who they are
where, and in what capacity they are en-
ployedl In what bureau, office or division of
this Department are you now employedl
Year: 1869

SECRETARY OF WAR AID INrKRIx.-As we
indicated Yesterday would probably be the case
the Pr; sident has directed that L'eutsnaut
General w. T. Sherman be commissioned as
Secretary Of War adj interim. Under q recent
act OF Congress the President is authorized, in
case OF the resignation, sickness, or death of
any Cabinet officer, to designate to head Of any
other Department to discharge the duties Of
such position for a period not exceeding ten
days. General Sherman is therefore commits.
stoned as al interim Secretary under this act,
but a new Secretary will be ppointed before
the expiration of the ten days.
Year: 1869

TRIBUTE TO Mrs. MORTON the morning
of Sunday, Jan. 81, the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, announcing that the use Of the Sum-
day school room of Plymouth church had
been granted some ladies in which to meet on
Friday evening, to pay their respects to Mrs.
Lucretia Mott, added:


There are few persons in the United States
for whom would go further to express esteem
and admiration and affection than for this ven-
cradle woman, who stands only a few days
longer, as it were, upon this earth; but whose
memory will endure as long as the sun and
m oon. A great nature is hers, made great by
goodness, purity and largeness of soul
love to honor her for womanhood's sake, and
it it is, perhaps, an added pleasure that she be-
longs to a different denomination from my
own 1 like to honor persons OF another
church, even more, think, than persons who
belong to my own denomination, as it is a full
er testimony of Gods spirit in the heart. 1
suppose that if any Of the persons of our
meeting to shake hands with Lucretia Mott,
she will not object hope to myself.
Year: 1869

To the Editor of the Press:


For few weeks your correspondent mas
been under the weather" but is now able 10
take the sunshine once more. He will look
about and see what he can discover which
may be Of interest to the readers of the Press.


COTTON MANUFACTURES.


According to the returns of Internal Rev
enue for this district for the quarter ending
Dec. 81, the sales OF cotton goods were as fol-
Year: 1869

outid0 ana In close proximity TO tho building, were
also more or less injured.


The main building 400 feet by co. one story hgh,
with the exception OF some 90 feet on the northwest
corner which was two stories high. Thls was tne
shop proper second story being used for cabinet
two story corner was the blacksmith shop, story
hign and 40 feet long, The engine and boiler were
In this wing, near the east side OF the TWO story
portion and il was In this vicinity the nre was nrst
discovered. Shortly afterwards the fiames were dis
covered I'm the extreme south end OF the main puiia
ing Although tile wind was blowing from The south,
and this fact renders the origin OF the fire somewhat
mysterious The buildings were OF Drick and stone,
and were altogether substantial. The i0es Dy tneir
destruction Is estimated at S300,000 the whole
weight or IL coming on insurance companies sne
loss to the tools OF the employees We have no means
OF estimating.


There were about $50 men employed In the shop
and these are thrown out OF employment Ut most
unreasonable time OF year.
Year: 1869

THE WEATHER YEsTERDAY.-The following record
win show the changes in the temperature for the
past twenty -four hours In comparison with the cor
responding day Of last year, indicated by the
Thermometer at Hudnut's Pharmacy HERALD Build
inu of
Year: 1869

A man from the country invested five
ceuts in the purchase Of an orange and
preparatory to getting himself outside
of it threw the peel GU the sidewalk.
Soon after a young woman came along,
slipped upon the peel and fell, breaking
her leg. The woman was to have been
married the next day, but wasn't. The
man who was to marry her had come
from St. Paul, MINI, and was obliged
to return on account Of business, to
await the recovery of the girl, On his
way back he unfortunately took train
on the Erie railroad, which ran off the
track. and his shoulder. blade was brok.
en-, forcing him to stop at Dunkirk for
repairs. The Travellers Insurance
Company, in which he was insured, had
to pay two hundred and fifty dollars in
weekly instalmeuts before he recovered.
On getting back to St. Paul he found
that his forced absence had upset n
business arrangement which he had ex.
pected to complete, ut pecuniary loss
to him of $4,000 Meantime the in.
jured girl suffered a relapse, which SO
enfeeblcd her health that marriage was
delayed, which had bad effect upon
the young man, aud he finally broke the
engagement and married a widow in
Minnesota with four small children.
This SO worked upon the mind of the
girl that she is now in the insane hospi-
tai in Middletown. Her father, outraged
by the conduct of the young man, brought
suit for breach Of promise, and has
just recovered $4,000. The anxiety
aud expense Of the whole affair thus far
has been enormous, as anybody can see


Similar cases are likely to occur as long
as people will persist in throwing orange
peel around loose.-Harford Cowaat
Year: 1869

myself. Yetso it was-I was pardoned
for nn offence / had never committed.


"The real culprit. none other, it is
needless TO cay, thau he who had sough.
aud abused my hospitality, had been
mortally wounded 10 recent affray in a
distant city, but had lived long enough
to make disclosure, which had been
laid before the Governor barely in time
to save me from shameful death, aud
condemn me to cheerless and burden
some life.


This is my experience. My judg-
ment, as yours, in the case before us,
leads to but one conclusion, that OF the
prisoners guilt but not less confident
and apparently unerriug was the judg
ment that falsely produced my own"


We no longer importuned our fellow
juror, but patiently awaited our dis
charge on the ground of inability to
agree, which came at last


The prisoner was tried and convicted
at subsequent term, and ut the last
moment confessed his crime on the
scaffold.
Year: 1869

The action ofrespiration should never be
carried on through the mouth. God
breathed into mans nostrils the breath of
life. The correctness of the inspired writ
er of old is fully sustaintd by modern
physiology The mischievous habit of car
rying on the action Of respiration through
the mouth instead of through the nose, is
the real origin Of almost all the disease Of
the throat and lungs, and even consump-
ton ITSELF Medical writers tell us that the
excessive Precipitation to which some are
liable in their sleep, and which is so weaken
ing TO the system, is mainly the result of
sleeping with the mouth open. Whether
you walk, sit, read, or write or sleep keep
your mouth closed, except when engaged
10 conversation or necessary vocal reading.


The philosophy is this: TIE velocity of
the blood through the body, and the heat
Of the body itself, depends mainly upon the
quantity of atmosphere air taken into the
lungs. Nature measures that quantity BY
the nostrils, not bY the mouth. When the
mouth is employed the measure is too great;
but just sufficient when the nostrils are
used. Au excess Of air overheats the body
while its passage through the mouth other
wise injuriously affects the throat. The
habits of children, in this respect should be
carefully watched and regulated. Open
mouths produce vacant and unseemiugly
appearance. aud may be regarded as a very
sure precursor of habitual colds and sore
throats
Year: 1869

The LITTLE 0NEs.-Do you ever think
what work child does in day? How,
from sunrise to sunset, the dear little feet
patter around-to us-so aimlessly climb
ing up here, kneeling down there, running
to another place. but never still, twisting and
turning, rolling and reaching, and doubling,
as if testing every bone and muscle for their
future uses. 1t very curious to watch it.
One who does 50 may well and easily under
stand the deep breathing of the little sleep
er, as, with one arm tossed over its curly
head, it prepares for next days gymnastics.
A busy creature is little child
Year: 1869

Tn" beautiful exhibition ct the Northern Lights witnessed
10y the lnaItantS OF Manhattan Island Thursday night la,
covered vast extent OF land ami From Nova Scotia amt
Canada n"rthwari aud Maryland and Virginia in the south.
We have rrp"rts of the splendid heavenly display We have no
definite report OF its eastern western boundary Within the
Arctic Circle it may have bcc the globe. our c of ti-
tuIe dory-"ne north) the exhibition appears to have ln
brightest in this METROPOLITAN district even here lc
in its Intellectual Grcs before the brilliant display AZ Mon
trcal " have doubt that the exhibition was one of sr-
passing spcdor and Sublnity within the Luls Of Central
Greenland and Aska These wonderful lights come from, he
icv regions round the Pole. They saw posns
cent and electrical and although they above the ear;
atmosphere they reach to the earhs surface m strong
current succession of the air they run along
the ground We have the evidence this fact in the
OF various telegraph lines Thursday several hours
without the aid of the usual artificial batteries.


Our idea of tnis celestial illumination that to MS it
the outer edges OF electrical cloud drifting down to Us
from the icy laboratory round the Pole within th CITY,
as an observer the Copper Institute informs us at near
eleven clock the central point the play wa, exact
ly overhead Right overhead appeared to be- circular
opening in the luminous which otherwise seemed to fill
the air and the color ot this opening may he described as
deep invisible green"


The radiation shows that this luminous vapor ut the time
all above the wims of the carth atmosphere for other
wise 1t would be driven in parallel across the sky or in
irregular lines with the battling currents of the upper ar That
which We have described opening in t. sky overhead
perhaps dense body of electrical Clements from which the
rays Indicated supplied all event, the display was
cectnSy Interesting, and its solution far, puzzled our
protounJrat philosophers. In TACT,


"rhcrr are more things heaven earth IIoratio


lhdh are dreamed Ot III our philosophy


N Y. Herald
Year: 1869

of making the Investigation ordered
March 29tb. and the ordinary and
necessary expense of such committee,
and their CLERK. shall be raid during
the time they are engaged IN such
examination.


The following nomination was sent
to the Senate, to day:


VIM. Ii. Barnes, Collector OF In
ternal Revenue for the First District
of Pennsylvania.
Year: 1869

What a noise and hustle there is in the
family frequently when every body is get
ting ready to go to church on the morning
of the Sabbath. A thousand things have
then to be done, that ought to have been
attended to before. The children have all
to put on their Sunday clothes, and each
one of them has to ask mama where this
and that article can be found. The break
fast table has to be cleared away, the plates
and cups to be washed, and put in the cup
board Pocket handkerchief to be hunted
up, the shoes to be cleaned, and if the SER
want, who has that branch of duty to attend
to, is out of the way, or cannot find the
shoe-brush, the business of scolding com
mences, and every body gets into bad
humor before the hour of starting arrives.
All is hurry and bustle. The fear of getting
to church too late augments the disorder.
Sometimes the head of the household gets
into passion, makes use of harsh language,
calls one of his sons fool for contradicting
him, and threatens to whip another.


Such scene in pious family in the
morning of the Sabbath, is much to be re-
GREETED, and must be considered as badly
calculated to excite devotional feelings. 1t
will have a tendency to do more injury, than
any sermon can possibly do good. All the
arrangements for the Sabbath ought to be
made on the preceding day, so that there
may be peace and quietness in the family,
when its different members are preparing to
set off for the house of God. Yet this is
far from being always the case, especially
where so many preparations have to be made
of an extraordinary nature, before all the
children in the family are ready to take
their places in the vehicle that is to convey
them to the place of worship. Would it not
be we'll for the pastors of our churches to
admOnish their congregations of the evils,
as well as the inconvenience, that may result
from not diligently preparing for the duties
obligatory upon them on the Sabbath day ?


QUIETUs.
Year: 1869

" Child of my love, lean hard,


And let me feel the pressure of thy care,
1 know thy burden, child 1 shaped it


Poised it in mine own handmade no proportion
In its weight to thine unaided strength


For even as laid it on, said,


Il shall be near, and while she leans on me,
This burden shall be mine, not hers;


So shall keep my child within the circling arms
Of mine own love- Here lay it down, nor fear
To impose it on the shoulder which uphOlds
The government OF worlds. Yet closer come
Thou art not near enough. would embrace thy care
So might feel my child reposing on my breast
Thou lowest me2 1 kHo'o it. Doubt not, then,
But loving me, LEAN HARD"


This sweet morsel was copied from the
scrap book of an select lady" who Gid not
know who was its author. And what does
it matter who wrote it? Its form is human,
but its spirit came from heaven. 1t is the
voice of the beloved speaking through the
experience of those who go up from the
wilderness leaning on his arm. 1t is part of
LQe OuuTCu u6dSuT6 VI sdCI0u oOHS-
which, whether collected in books of praise,
or hid away in private memorials of the
saints-causes one believing heart to re-
spond to another, and blends the melody of
the morning stars with the anthems of white
robed saints before the throne of the lamb.
Daughter of Zion, who goest about the city,
smitten, and wounded, and sick of love-or
hidest thyself like dove in the cleft of the
rock, hear the voice of thy beloved. If they
who keep the walls have taken away thy
veil, turn thy face into his bosom. If thou
art stript of earthly ornaments, cover thyself
with the skirts of his garments Put thy
withered arms around his neck. Thy Re-
deemer is thy true husband. Thou art the
bride of his eternal youth. In his eyes thou
art fairest among women, beautiful as Tir-
zah, comely as Jerusalem. 1t is has cross
and his yoke which thou dearest. Throw
thyself with thy burden, in the self aban-
donment of faith upon his breast, and when
thy heart and flesh fail, LEAN HARD.


II. j. V.
Year: 1869

Our farmers call this ga backward spring."
and yet what an amount of work God has
done already, and how quietly he has done
it Steadily and still the grass has grown
beneath our feet; noiselessly the buds have
opened into blossoms and leaves. Every
day, every hour of the day, there has been
progress; yet no haste, no tumult, no putting
of steam, no rattling and jar of machinery,
as in a human workshop. We say that the
trees and the plants grow, because this an
nual new creation is performed so quietly
and gently. But We know that every un-
folding leaf and upspringing blade manifests
the presence and the power of God. He is
there-he is working there. What we call
growth is merely the result of his wonderful
energy and skill 1t is no more indepen-
dent of him in the present than in the re-
motest past. He renews the face Of the
earth every spring just as he created all that
grows upon it at the first.


But is not one lesson of the spring-time
that of quietness in working? Should not
we especially in Christian labor, be still, and
steady, and patient, as our Master is? His
kingdom "cometh not with observation"
not with crying "lo here," and ''lo there"
1t is not to be built up with tumult and ex
citement, but rather like the first temple,
without noise of an axe or hammer. There
is no true work for God without faith, and
the tendency of faith is to tranquilize the
spirit-to inspire it with patient and hope
full energy. "He that believeth shall not
make haste"


Quietness has no affinity with laziness.-
1t is no more like the stagnant pond than it
is like the brawling torrent. 1t is rather
the gentle stream fertilizing the valley, Civ
ing drink to the focks and herds and sill
very beauty to the landscape, yet noiseless
as the sunshine or the dew. So should we
strive to bless the world and to glorify God.
|-Christian Herald.
Year: 1869

care you the man we've hired to preach
for US 2"


"No, sir; | am not.


81 beg your pardon; are you not the
minister?"


Yes, sir; l am pastor of the church
here; but do you really think have been
hired to preach for you?"


"Why, yes, sir; I was at the meeting
when the vote was taken to raise the money
Did you not come here expecting to receive
salary y?"


Certainly; and SO does the Governor Of
this State enter upon his duties expecting to
receive salary, but would you say that he
is hired to govern the State?"


"Not exactly"


"And the reason is just exactly this: the
Governor is elected to fill certain office,
and when you speak of him you think more
of his office than you do of his salary. You
do not hire him to do whatever you wish to
set him at, but you elect him to an office,
fixed beforehand and expressly defined in the
Constitution, and then you fix salary that
he may attend to his duties without embar-
rassment. The same is true of PASTOR
You do not hire him to do job of preach,
ing for you. You elect him to an office, or
dained by Christ and defined in the Consti
tuition of the Church, and then you affx a
salary that he may give himself wholly to
the duties of his Office"


"Your theory appears very well; butwhat
practical difference does it make?"


"Just this. When you hire man you
expect him to do as yOu say. When you
elect man to an Office you expect him to
do what the Constitution says. -1adings.
Year: 1869

1t is not by clamoring for rights that have
been conferred upon others; it is not by
restless discomfort, by partisan appeals, by
stepping out of her God given sphere, and
by attempting to destroy the network of
holy influences by which He ever has sur
rounded her; it is not by ridiculing marriage
and casting scorn on motherhood, that she
is to obtain the blessing she courts, but by
TRANQUILITY laboring under this heaven-im-
posed law of obedience. Woman's weak
ness is transmitted into strength when she
opens her nature to the influences of love,
and when she consecrates herself to the
happiness of others. Then it is she obtains
moral and spiritual power to which man
is glad to do homage. Ambition, pride,
wilfulness, or any earthly passion, will dis
tort her being. She struggles all in vain
against Divine appointment. 1t is from
the soul of meekness that the true strength
of womanhood is derived, and it is because
it has its root in such soil that it has a
growth SO majestic, showering its blessing
and fruits upon the world.


1t was the sun and the wind that in the
fable strove for the mastery; and the strife
was for the travellers cloak. The quiet
moon had naught to do with such fierce ri.
valry of the burning or the blast; but as in
her tranquil orbit she journeys round the
world, she gently sways the tides of the
ocean. Woman's influence resembles that
exerted by the queen of night. In the con-
hicts of life she has little to do; but her in.
fuence is felt from the cradle to the grave,
and the sphere Of it is the whole region Of
humanity. Woman's worst enemy is he
who would cruelty lit her out of her sphere,
and would try to reverse the laws of God
and of nature in her behalf. They deceive
woman who cause her to believe that she
will find independence when she abandons
the positions assigned her by her Creator
and reaches one against which her nature
the interests of society and the laws of Goo
contend. Woman has her sphere and hel
work, and she is only happy when she finds
pleasure in lovingly, patiently and faithfully
performing the duties and enacting the re
lations that belong to her as woman. Sht
is not the natural head of society. Man
rough, stern, cold, and almost nerveless, i;
made to be the head of human society; and
woman, quick, sensitive, plant (as her name
indicates,) gentle, loving, is the heart of the
world. As the heart, she has power. She
rules through love, and finds the work SCI
for her to do in the doors opening before
her loving nature. She rules through love
and becomes a blessing, greater than W,
can ever acknowledge, because it is greater
than we can measure. .e


Let woman take heart. She is not il
captivity. The law of service is on her, as
it is on man. Much Of her service consists
in suffering; much of mans consists in toll
Before both there are fields of endeavor
white with beckoning harvests In litera
ture, in reforms, in ministering to the wants
and woes of humanity, in making homes
more and more like heaven, woman has al
open door set before her, which no man vii
desire to close. Let her enter it and work
There is a law of companionship far deeper
than that Of uniformity and equality, OIL