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Year: 1868

to allow ihe'gunboat to ascend above the allied
lires to receive the Minister and his family, but
tn the Marquis would not do, although he
Offered TO seud sn iron ctad to receive them and
come, This General Wds0burn would not acCep pt,
but insisted upon the right to have the guubo At
up through the 0lock ade and the commander
OF the Wasp declared he would force his
way. However, mater did not proceed to the
extremity of force; but q steamer WAS at once
despatched TO bring up the Brazilian Special
Envoy, Senor Ameral, who was then at Mon
tevioeo, and hopes are ent rtained OF the quiet
solution OF dispute which 1t is generally felt
would have dlsagreeable consequence. The
Brazilians, from come cause, look upon Gene raj
Wasbburn as strongly in favor of Lopez, and
accuse him of working for him and sainst
them whenever he can. Whether or not there
is any ground for such supDosliIon 1t is Ger
tain that such supposition would be likely to
make the plg-headed old Marquis create a
stupid difficulty with him.
Year: 1868

the rad cal faction, had legislated unconstitu-
tonally all the time. In The course of his
remarks be SPOKE of the financial question, and
raid the noholders should be taxed, "for they
gave their money TO prosecute the most unholy
war ever known on the ear.h.n
Year: 1868

that purity Of character does rot follow
change of title. They will discover that
the immunity given to these lascivious per-
formances has encouraged many of the vices
which generate in popuious city; and
that, inasmuch as they have heretofore had
to describe all these things to their home con-
gregations, they will now have ample opportu-
nifty to renew the war against metropolitan
sins after the present anniversary season is
passed and gone. Here is splendid field for
their labors. Here is a chance to depict the
vices of the city in the attractive style OF
"Black Crook" or infidel magazine articles
Living In clover at home, resting at ease upon
their two million contributions, they can show
their congregations how depraved is city
life, how vain and hollow its seductions, how
treacherous its dazzling, fashionable glare,
how its tendency is to precipitate the tender
and virtuous down the abyss Of perdition,
and how their own peaceful homes are immea-
surably more calm and happy and blessed.
Having thus awakened the curiosity of the
young of their focks, and in glowing colors
portrayed temptation to their plastic and eager
minds, they will be enabled to recruit the sup
ply of victims to city life which their home
sermons, after the anniversaries are over, are
yearly calculated to produce. So, Beelzebub
says, let the country parsons come.
Year: 1868

In the HERALD of yesterday we printed
another of those graphic letters from the pen
of our special correspondent at the headquar-
ters of the British army in Abyssinia 1t is
not necessary for us to enlarge upon the merits
of letters which have had no superior in the
history of modern correspondence, and which
even now are exciting the envy of the great
English journals. 1t is not too much to say
that to the letters of our correspondent we are
that wonderful country than to all other sources
put together. Our correspondent has led us
from point to point with such clearness and
fulness of intelligence that Annesley Bay and
Zoulla and the pass to Senate, Senate itself
and Attegerat and the beautiful lake Ashangi,
have all become familiar to us almost as scenes
we have visited. That far away and myste-
rious country which the Egyptians, the Greeks,
the Carthagenians, the Romans all sighed
to know, but which they never knew, has all
of a sudden been unfolded to our view. The
Nile is no longer mystery. 1t is no more a
gift of the gods than the other rivers of the
earth. 1t owes its existence to natural
causes. Itself one of natures grandest objects,
it takes its rise amid scenes of grandeur which
have nowhere else parallel on the surface Of
the globe. 1t will be strange, indeed, If that
long unknown land should not now become the
centre of attraction for the adventurous spirits
of the world. The Alps and the Andes will
cease to be attractive until this new sensation
is fully experienced. The grand tour must
henceforth extend beyond Egypt. This, how
ever, is only secondary consideration. Those
lofty regions, while clothed with the verdure
of the tropics, enjoy climate which seems az
balmy and more bracing than that of Italy or
Greece. What unknown wealth it may COLI
tain we know not as yet; but it is not unrea-
sonable to conclude that, when the expedition
is ended and when DR.. Livingstone, having COM
pleted his investigation of that great water
shed, has returned to make known the result
of his labors, it will be found that Central
Africa is possessed of resources the develop
ment of which will work a new era in the his
tory of mankind. That which has long been
believed to be desert may be found to bloom
as very paradise.
Year: 1868




Some of the radical papers are urging Gov
ernor Fenton to veto the city tax levy on
the alleged plea of extravaganza in the appro-
priations. The expenses Of the government,
under the mixed system of elective depart
ments and legislative commissions, have in
creased enormously for the past five or six
years; but the people, by their votes in the
charter elections, have shown that they are not
anxious for a change, and that they care moth
ing about economy. From the majorites OF
last November and December it is evident that
they rather like being robbed on a magnificent
SCALE The city tax levy this year is, how
ever by no means so large as might have been
anticipated, and exclusive Of the increase Of
nearly two million dollars in the State tax
apportioned to New York, and of the various
the city expenses proper will be less than last
year. The whole amount Of the tax will be
about twenty-four million dollars; but veto
by the Governor would increase It to some
thirty millions The money needed to carry
on the municipal government would be bor-
rowed on interest the city would be flooded
with suits and judgments, by which the Cor
poration Counsel and the Sheriff would bene-
fit at the expense Of the taxpayers, and there
would be general jubilee Of plunder The
demand for veto out of spite for the defeat
of Fenton's nominations in the Senate proves
how Indifferent these pretended economists are
10 the real interests Of the city,
Year: 1868

PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF THE TEST OATH
IN THE SoUTH. We learn from Washington
that General Grant sent to the House Of Repre-
sentatives on Wednesday letter enclosing a
communication from General Candy on the
subject OF the test oath in the South. General
Candy aays-what every unprejudiced person
knows-that serious impediments are in the
way oi carrying out the Reconstruction laws
OF Congress In consequence of this test oath.
We will say nothing here Of the unconstitu-
tional and dangerous precedent Of these mill
tary men ignoring the Executive of the repub-
lie and communicating officially and directly
with Congress, but will remark, apart from
this, that General Candy has made a sensible


argument against the atrocious and proscrip-
tive laws Of Congress with regard to the test
oath. We have no idea that the radical ma
jority in Congress will undo what they have
done and act upon the recommendation of
General Candy to repeal or change the law
but bis sensible communication will remain az
standing reproach against their impracti-
cable aud infamous schemes Of reconstruction.
Year: 1868

A telegram from London informs us that the
entire domain belonging to the Hudson Bay
Company lie to be ceded to the crown. This is
evidently intended as checkmate to our lately
acquired possessions north of this territory, as
the establishment Of American capital, enter
prise and pluck in the immediate neighborhood
Of the immense domain Of the Hudson Bay
Company would be considered, mildly speak
ing, inconvenient without corresponding
effort on the part Of the British government IL
their own possessions. This movement Is ON
Of particular interest to the people OF tn


United States for the DEVELOPMENT of the -
Year: 1868

The Louisville journal relates a very
pretty incident, in which San Fran
cisco physician figures as the hero. A
young lady from the South, it seems,
was wooed and won by a youthful
physician living IN California. When


the engagement was made the doctor
was rich, having been very successful
at San Francisco. IL had not existed
many months, however, when by an
unfortunate investment, he lost his
entire heap" The event came upon


him, il should be added. just ss he was
about to claim his bride. What does
he do? Why, like an honorable. and
chivalrous young fellow, as he is, he
sits down and writes the young lady
the particulars of the unhappy turn
which had taken place in his fortunes,
assuring her that if the fact produces
any charge Of feeling towards him, she
was released from all the promises she
had made TO HIM. And what does she,
the dear, good girl? Why. she takes
lump of pure gold which her lover had
sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake,
and having 1t manufactured into ring,
forwards it to him, with the following

Bible inscription engraved in distinct
characters on the outside: "Entreat
me not to leave thee, or to return
from following after thee; for whittier
thou goest l will go, and where thou
lodgest l will lodge; thy people shall
be my people, and thy God my God
where thou diest / will die, and there
will be buried the Lord do so b me
and more also. if aught but death part
me and thee" The lover idolizsd his
sweetheart more than ever, when he
received this precious evidence of her
devotion to him, both in storm and
sunshine. We may add that fortune
soon again smiled upon the young ply
siciau, and that he subsequently re-
turned to the South to we'd the sweet
girl he loved, and who loved him with
such an undying affection. Young
ladies who read the Bible, as the
heroine of this incident seems to have
done are pretty sure to make good
sWe eethearts and better wives.
Year: 1868

MY best friend would be he who
would take a pistol and blow out my
brains, and thus relieve me of my
misery"


So sale Edgar Allan Poe. His lips
curled bitterly. These were his dying
words.


Such was the unhappy state of one
whom Dissipation had robbed of the
pure eDioyments of life, and brought
to hopeless ruin. He had been reared
in the most elegant society, and educa-
ted in the most polished schools. He
possessed poetic gifts of unwonted
beauty and brilliancy. The productions
of his muse we're few and fragmentary
melancholy prophecies of what he
might have been-but they made him
a marked man among the lovers of
poesy throughout the world. He lack
ed symmetry Of character, and, with all
of these advantages that he possessed
over others he was wayward as youth,
passionate in maturer years, and al
ways unnamed at the sparkle of the
Intoxicating cup. He blazed awhile in
the literary armament, "the comet of a
season." but he left behind him an un-
worthy influence, reproachful memo
~, and the admonition of fearful end.


He was making a journey when his
death occurred, and his mind was
occupied with the preparation for his
wedding day. Better impulses warmed
his heart and Modified his passions at
the thought of his approaching nuptu-
ole opd the snptSrhf of the f,t,,ra
glsddened again the vision Of his mind.
Golden days filed his fancy-days of
the tenderness of coDjugal love. and
the sweet habitudes of domestic bliss.


He stopped at the city of Baltimore.
He met old companions, jolly fellows,
with whom he had passed conVivial
hours. The intoxicating cup glittered
before him. The temptation was too
great. He would spend one more eve
ming with his friends of the bowl. He
would have one more revel ere he
entered that purer sphere, depicted in
his dreams.


That cherries November night he
was found lying in the street, stupe6ed
with drinking, covered with dirt, and
his face distorted with horror. His





jovial companions had deserted him
He was taken TO hospital. A fearful
dream rose upon him and fred his
brain. Delirium with her thousand
demons darken his intellect, once
beautiful with airy thought and poetic
farcies. Mania potu ensues. A cler-
gyman is sent for. "Shall | send for
your friends ?" asked the pious man.
/" "Friends?" said the dying man, as
though the word was a mockery, my
best friend would be he who would
take a pistol and blow out my brains,
and thus relieve me of my misery" :"


We hear men cavil at religion. What
a treasure, beyond all estimate, early
piety would have been to the soul of
poor Edgsr Allan Poel
Year: 1868

Scripture tells US that our blessed
Master, on the night in which he was
betrayed, amid all the overwhelming
sorrow and anguish that was then
weighing him down, had one especial
desire and burden upon his heart it
was that his deciples should love onS
another. As they were gathered
around that table, which he then
made commemorative of his own dying
love, he said to them, "a new com
mandment | give unto you, that ye
love one another, IS | have loved you,
that ye also love one another" This
commandment he reiterated again and
again in that memorable conversation
"If ye love me, keep my command
ments. This is my commandment,
that ye love one another. By this
shall all men know that ye are my
diciples, if ye have love one to anoth-
er."


In immediate connection with this
injunction. he added the promise;
Ask, and ye shall receive that your
joy may be full" a promise which has
been fulfilled to US of late, as we have
been asking with united and loving
hearts; and which, we trust, shall be
yet more abundantly fulfilled 20 US in
the enlargement of his kingdom in our
midst, and the increasing Joy of our
souls. In his prayer for his disciples on
that same eyeDtful evening, our blessed
Master uttered these words: Neither
pray I for these alone; but for them
also which shall believe on me through
their word; that they all may be one
as thou, Father, art in me and I in
thee, that they also may be one IN Us
that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me. And the glory which
thou gsvest me, 1 have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are
one; in them, and thou in me, that
they may be made perfect in one and
that the world may know that thou
hast sent me, and hast loved them as
thou hast loved me-" Words Of deep
signi6cancel
Year: 1868

II will probably be interesting to our
lady readers to know that this spring
they are permitted to consult their
taste and crafty their vagaries, and
still be in the fashion. In Paris, we
are assured, there never was time
when so many different styles could be
or were adopted. Thus you see in
one salon short dresses, and dresses with


trains a metre long; the empire style of
eoifius, raised high to the top of the
head, with small curls covering the
forehead, and side by side with this q
Grecian headdress, displaying the shape
of the head and face in classic outlines.
Then, again, some fair laiies have dis
carded crinoline altogether, while others
have added dimensions to theirs. But in
one thing all agree, and that is the
constant changes which make Partisan
season of gaieIy one of great costliness.
Year: 1868

Our store building. corner of Main and Frank
lin streets. is tin roof. but was so leaky as to
be very unsatisfactory. but was made perfectly
tight by the application of Plastic Slate.


ANDERSON q RUPP
Year: 1868

When girl Of fifteen years of age mar.
rles man of forty-fve years. he, of course,
is three times as old as she. After hayino
lived together fifteen years, she will be
thirty and he will be sixty years, the hus.
band being but twice as old as his wife
How long. according TO this rule, would
they have to live together that she would bs
of the same age as he
Year: 1868

1t is said that Gen. Grant has expressed
himself against the proposed increase of the
Presidents salary. This is what was to be-
expected from him. and we trust that this
condemnation of the scheme may have the
effect of putting it to sleep forever.
Year: 1868

GENTLE FoLKs.-The young lady whc
let's her mother do the ironing for fear of
spreading her hands the miss who wears
thin shoes on rainy day. and the young
gentleman who is ashamed to be seen walk,
ing with bis father.
Year: 1868

Medicine Wolf. Cheyenne chief who
vas killed few weeks ago. in western Kan
sas, had forty scalps. which be wore for a
necklace. All we're those of white people
some taken from grey-headed men and
women, and some from very small children
A piece of the chiefs own scalp is to be
made into vest chain for one of the party
who killed him.
Year: 1868

1t will be seen that civil war impends in
Spain, and that only the most wonderful en-.
gineering can pilot the people in comparative
safety through the coming storm. For come,
it wouldeappear, it must. While the people
at Madrid shout themselves hoarse in favor
of a monarchy, the rabbles of Seville, Cadiz,
and other provisional settlements clamor,
with the enthusiasm of the old revolutionary
sans culottes, for Republic-but they have
no idea of what Republic really is, or
should be. They are altogether untitled to
live under Democracy, but they will un-
doabtedly insist upon trying it, and will con-
tinue to insist until the bayonet and the
cannon ball reduce them to submission and
inactive discomfort. As it was in the be-
ginning, etc.
Year: 1868

Prentice utters a bit of wisdom to the
effect that it may be very we'll for paper
to boast of the amount of its reading
matter" but better be able to speak Of the
xuantity OF its read matter.
Year: 1868

A correspondent, in the Southern Chilli


vator' gives the two following recipes and
says they should be printed in letters Of
gold and given to the public.


Choltc or Scours IN Ho,yes-G;ve y
half lumber of spirits of camphor in pint
OF warm water, (cold will do y if not re-.
lleved in fifteen minutes repeat the dose
Give nothing else. l have never known it
to fail in practice OF twenty years. No
bad effects.


NaU IN tie Foat.--To relieve from the
effects OF running nail in the foot of man
or horse, take peach leaves, bruise them.
apply to the wound, confine with baudase
and the cure is as if by magic Renew the
application twice day if necessary but
one application usually does the work. l,
have cured both man and horse in few
hours, when they were apparently on the
point of having the lockjaw These recipes,
remembered and practiced will save many
valuable lives
Year: 1868

OFFICE MANHArTAS COOPERATIVE !


RELIEF ASSOCIATION,


No 432 Broome Street New York
THE MANHATTAN COOPERATIVE RELIEF AS
ISOLATION is chartered by the State of New York


OBJECT.


The object Of this association Is to cash pay
within forty days after the death of member Of
many dollars there members in the class which
he OF she belongs, his or her heirs.


MEMBERSHIP FEES.
The membership fees six dollars joining (for
which policy win be furnished) and dollar ten
tho death of each member, of which due notice
will be given. One dollar from each member the
widow heirs the deceased member aud the
for expense of collection.


INVESTMENTS.
The Bylaws Of the Association require that third
of the money received membership fees shall be
made q sinking fund meet payments falling due by the
dclinquencies Of members. This fund is held by the


NATIONAL TRUST CO.,
and wi be in United States bonds estate
or bond and mortgage upon New York City property
which property shall be double the value Of the money
90 loaaed- |


THE FIYNDS
Year: 1868

Hon. Isaac n. Morris, an old and inAuen-
tial Democrat fQuincy, Illinois made long
and able speech lately in favor Of Grant and
Colfax. The conclusion of 1t was as fol-
lows:


"lf you ask me to forget the rebellion--if
you ask me to blot out from my recollection
the memory of the Eve hundred thousand
brave patriots who died that their country
might lIve-some of whose graves you have
been strewing afFectionately to-day with
flowers, sweet emblvms of gratitude-if you
ask me TO shut my eyes to the widows, the
orphans and MANNED soldiers left by the war
If you ask me to assist in restoring TO pow
er treason and traitors or their Auxiliaries-
If you ask me to embrace men whose hands
are stained with the precious blood of our
fallen heroes, and who only wait for favor
able opportunity to overthrow the govern
ment, tell you frankly that am not with
you in that.


Z" If you ask me to lin my voice against
the great Captain to whom we are more in
debted for our preservation as a nation than
to any other living man, and who has writ
ten his principles With the point Of his sword
on .he national records, and enstamped his
fidelity to liberty on the national heart,
tell you plainly cannot do that. | claim to
have some little gratitude left. The ensuing
four years will, in my judgment, be the most
dangerous and eventfnl in our history, and
we must have one mt the head of the gov
ernment who will be equal to the emergency,
or we will sink under the weight Of crush
ing revolution. No tremuleus hand must he
at the helm no politician whU will seek on-
ly his own interest at the expense Of nation
al security. need hardly add that II live
until November and can reach the polls, APP
pealing to the God of Hosts for .he rectitude
of my intentions, And believing shall be
serving the best interests of humanity and
my country-believing there is a necessity
which rises far above conventional platforms
and party demands, requiring every patriotic
citizen to do tis duty Il shall cast my vote,
Democrat though have always been, for the
incorruptibls patriot, the best judge of
character, and the hest thinker In the United
States, Ulysses 8, Grant; and 50 thou and
do likewise, counting it great privilege"
would rather have Grant, II hsa silent and still.


Than an empty declaimer Of words


would rather have Grant, with his good honest will


Than one from noisy political herds.


His deeds are all written in the face Of the world


Aud he who desires car read them afar;
He stands forth to-day with his banner unfnrled,


In the light OF his acts-0uP National Star.
Year: 1868




The April number Of the DraDer contained
q couple of anecdotes of General Spinner,
United States Treasurer. Here is another
apropos of the General as areligious enthu-
siast. In politicsihe is known as a thorough
Radical; in religion devout conscious
Methodist. 1t began to be whispered around
that, under very trying and extrat rdinary
circumstances, General Spinner was gnilty Of
swearing q little sometimes The Church
took the matter in hand as quietly as possible,
and appointed discreet sister the gPieving
mouruer of u husband and three gallant
brothers slain in the wary to inquire into the
matter. Instead of gathering evidence at
second hand, she went to the headquarters I;
she posted herself among crowd Of wait
ing o1es In the Generals Office. The old
man was absorbed in business, and working
away like steam-engine. File after file
Of men passed before him, and he shot his de-
cisions at them in sharp, curt sentences as
they moved on. Finally, tall handsome
man approached and handed in his docu-
ments for examination. THE General ran his
eye down the pages, and a thunderstorm
settled portentously upon his countenance.
He threw down the papers and shook his fist
ferccly in the gentleman's face, and said:


"You have come 10 me with this You
sneaking hound of deserterl You bring
paper here sigued by the President of the
United States, setting fourth that, when you
deserted from the regular army to 90 and
Ggbt four years against your country, there
were four moths pay coming to you from the
Government you SO outraged, and ordering
me to pay you those arrearages I'd see you
and the President hundred million miles in
the hottest hole in hell frstp