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Year: 1869

TIE most common error of men and wo-
men is looking for happiness somewhere out
side Of useful work. 1t has never yet been
found. and never viii be while the world
stands. OF all the miserable human beings
it has been our lot TO know, they were the
most wretched who had retired from useful
employments, in order to enjoy themselves.
Year: 1869

Pay your pastor what you have prom
ised. fit be sufficient for his temporal
support, his mind viii be free from world
" cares, and he may give himself up to
the work Of bis n.ioiytry uith cheerful.
contented. and happy heart. he will re-
spect and love you for your Hberality, and
labour the more earnestly for your spiritual
good. He will not be easily drawn away to
another feld-ai least be viii not be ever
seeking a change. Able to educate his
children, to supply his library with the best
books of the day, happy in the midst Of
home comforts, aud able to lay up little
for the time when be must be laid aside,
be has nothing to do but to study and
labour for your good and the Masters
glory


If the salary be inadequate, it is all you
promised, and perhaps all you are able TO
give. He knew it when he accepted your
call If he be man Of earnest devotion to
the work, willing to make sacrifices of per-
sonal comfort for the sake of preaching
Christ, be may reduce his expenses to hi
income, and still be happy and useful. You
ought to appreciate his labour of love, and
pay him by all means, to the day and the
dollar You may be too poor to give him
more, but you cannot afford to be dishonest,
especially toward one who is sacrificing SO
much for your spiritual good.


But what is the pastor to do whose
salary is paid only in part Or in uncertain
installments, coming in long after the quar-
ter has become due? What is he to do?
How is he to sustain his character for com
mon honesty? Your promises will not pay
his bills at the butchers, the grocers, or
the booksellers. How can be love you as
dear children in Christ, or pray for you, or
labour in the study, the pulpit, or from
house to house, as he should? sit matter
Of surprise that he should preach dull ser
mons, aud seldom call to spend a pleasant
hour at your homes? Is it to be wondered
at, if he should become dissatisfied with
you, and you with him, his ministration-
Improbable to you, his temper soured, ana
his character and influence as a minister OF
the gosple ruined? No congregation can
afford to let their pastors salary remain uu-
paid. They can better afford to borrow the
money at fifty per cent, than fail to meet
their just obligations to him, aud bear the
consequences which inevitably follow to both
pastor and people, Pay your pastor whal
you have promised. The Presbyterian,
Year: 1869

A SCIENTIFIC writer says that water
which has stood in an occupied bedroom
over night is utterly filthy, deIeteTious
poison, and unfit fer drinking. The water
is a powerful absorbent Of gases, taking IN
during the nigh all the poison that Is
thrown off by res. iration The colder III,
weather the more mpue he water viii b


come. At ordinary mpeIature pail If
water will contain a pint OF earbonc acio
aud several pints of ammonia. The capaci
ty is nearly doubled for reducing the emper
ature of water to ice. OF course the matter
becomes doubly serious when small or
close room is occupied. These facts disclose
another Of considerable importance in do
nestle economy during cold weather, viz
that water may be used as an absorbent Of
frost. Place tub of water in cold cellar
over night and 10 the morning the vegeta-
bles will be found untouched by frost, even
though the water should be frozen solid
Water is excellent as purifier, but people
who regard their health should be certain
that it is itself pure before applying 1t to the
person either externally or internally.
Year: 1869

AN ATTEMPT AT RAPE.-By reference. to our
Municipal Court record it will be seen that
Jacob II. Cotton of North Yarmouth was
bound over to the Superior Court for an as
sault with an attemptto commit rape upon a
little girl named Mary Farrell aged 15 years.
This Cotton is about 35 years of age, and has
followed several trades, his last occupation be-
ing that OF gardener in Portland About a
month ago he engaged this girl to do house
work in his family, which consisted only of
himself and wife, and sent her to North Var.
mouth on Monday, he not going home till
the next Saturday evening, When he arrived
home on that evening, Mary, who was sleeping
with his wife, got up and let him in, prepared
his supper, and then went back to bed, He
got into bed with his wife and Mary, and there
committed the alleged attempt. She stated
that she screamed and woke his wife, who
turned over and went to sleep again. On
Monday she told his brothers wife, and few
days ago made complaint at the police Office in
this city, and Deputy Perry worked up the
case. The defendant stated that the main
points in the girls story were true, but that he
was led to suppose that she was not yirtuous
girl from the exposure sbe made to him when
she let him into the house on the SATURDAY.
evening in question; that he was certain she
was awake when he first commenced the at
tempt, (which she denied, and that if she had
made the slightest resistance he should have
dessted at once. The fact that the wife per-
mitted the girl to occupy the same bed with
her husband and herself, to say nothing of her
apathy when the child screamed, deyelons a
peculiar state Of morals, to say the least
Year: 1869

THE UNIvERsALIsT FEsTIvAL.-We under
stand that among the other attractions at the
Festival tomorrow night will be beautiful
flower arch where choice bouquets win be for
sale, and it is hoped th 1t the friends Of the So
cieties will send in an ample supply. This fes-
tival will be one of the attractions of the sum-
mer in this city, for the parties who have
charge of the arrangements are ladies of taste
and who believe in perfection down to the
merest details. All the pretty girls and agree
able young men in the city will be present, and
and the band will discourse their sweetest
music Af
Year: 1869

the title of a magnificent moonlight coast scene
painted by M. f. I'll. DeHaas, the celebrated
marine artist, off the Isle of Jersey, and now
on free exhibition at Hale's Art Gallery The
painting is of large size, displaying group of
rocks on the left, among which the lazy break
ers roll-dashing themselves into foam-while
boat with several occupants is seen on the
right, making its way to vessel in the ofing,
and over all the broad expanse of water is seen
the full-orbed moon, struggling through the
August haze, and casting its beams in asilvery
Simmer over the waves. All lovers of art
should not fail to see it. The picture is valued
at S5n00 .-..l
Year: 1869

Mr. MOTLEY IN ENGLAND. "A private letter
from one of the leading consular officers in
England says that Mr.. Motley has been very
kindly received by the best class of citizens in
that country; that everybody is anxious to
know what his instructions are, and that Lord
clarendon is quoted in club-circles as saying
that he has no doubt that Mr. Motley and him
self VIII ultimately be able to draw up
treaty satisfactory to the right-feeiing men on
both sides of the water. The letter further
says that the Queen is not likely to return to
London for some time, and that it is probable
that Mr.. Motley will begin his formal inter
course without waiting, as usual, to be pre-
sented to Her Majesty. on .s#
Year: 1869

HALF WAY Rock LIGHT.-This lighthouse
is to be commenced next Spring, and the stone
will be got out at Fort Scanned at once, so
that it is confidently expected the light will be
finished in the fall of next year. Tt will be 60
feet high, Y I-2 feet diameter at the base, and
II feet at the top. The base will be Of granite
blocks, dovetailed in the strongest manner
The plans and estimates have all been accept
ed at the Treasury Department. and orders
given to the Engineers Office here to proceed
Immediately with the work
Year: 1869

The STATE CONVENTION 1t will be well for
those who attend the Convention tomorrow,
as well as those who attend future conventions,
to remember the truthful remark of Dogberry.
that when two ride horse, one must ride be-
mind. The fortunes of war, and politics as
wen, are various and uncertain. Let those
who shall prove to be vanquished remember
that they may some time be among the vic
tors and accept defeat with sanity resigna-
uon. Let the vctors wear their laurels with
becoming modesty, asking ever and anon, "are
we not all brethren M n 80. a
Year: 1869

THE GRAND TRUNK MANAGEMENT.--The
Toronto Globe has begun bit Of "unpleas-
antness" with Mr.. Bridges of the Grand
Trunk road, acting, 1t would seem, decidedly
in the interest of the English capitalists who
have recently made a hostile demonstration
against the scheme to repair the road in be-
coming manner. These capitalists clamor for
dividends and are not content to see earnings
appropriated to improving the property of the
corporation. They cannot, from their distant
outlook, fully sympathize with those to whom
the business of the road is vastly more vital
than stock dividends, and hence the unrest
they exhibit. We feel quite sure that, while
there may have been faults in the manage
ment, the present purpose is most praise
worthy and we hope the efforts to put the
road in good condition throughout will be ac-
cepted as the true policy even of the British
capitalists, and that at least, the dwellers
along the line of this great thoroughfare will
throw No obstacle in the way of this.
Year: 1869

One Edward Murphy convicted of muir
dor and sentenced to the Michigan State Pris-
on for life, has been pardoned, as it was dis
covered to be a case of mistaken identity, and
now he wants the Legislature to pay him for
his services while in prison.
Year: 1869

It's the general desire that the Board OF Health
will not compromise with the fat boiling and other
concerns of the same noxious class, but compel
them TO remove their establishments from the city.
or at least from Its populous parts Now Is Ihe time
for ,hose most deeply Interested In absting these
uu,sances to lend their aid to the Commissioners.


Its rare thing for the city OF New York to ind
of,cals from Boston coming hther to examine street
navemen,s or anything else connected with
street improvements. rne "Ifub' has always
boasted OF the almost immaculate cleanliness
OF Its thoroughfares, as compared with other
cities. and why special committee should be sent
here for information the subject passeth compre
henslon. But this is a fine season OF the year for
municipal junketings, and this may be al the bottom
OF the present visitation from the City OF Notions.
class has recently been organized 10 one OF our
public night schools for the purpose OF teaching the
English language to foreigners. This supplies q


want long slt and there is reason to hope that the
4 Temperament win prove successful.
Year: 1869

The news that the Spanish press is in COM
plete ferment Of excitement and indignation
against the American Minister, General Sickles,
under the idea that he was sent over solely
because he is strong partisan of the annexa-
ton Of Cuba. General Sickles says, however,
that he has done nothing to touch the pride of
the Spanish nation except to hint in kindly
way that bis government is willing to inter-
pose its friendly Offices for the settlement of
Spain's difficulty with Cuba. Very good.
This brings up the main question; and we
like this Spanish ferment because it will set
them to thinking on the main question; for
when they begin to think on it 1t will not be
long before they will think that their only policy
is to make the most they can of their costly
white elephant in getting him off their hands.
II this present ferment of the Spanish press
should cool down without any approach to
action on Cuba we hope that General Sickles
will give them another hint, and hint that
will be broad enough to bring them to negotia-
tions. Don Cesar de Bazan in his rags Is q
model Spanish cavalier; but even he, when
pinched for money. is ready for bargain.
Year: 1869




The public will be delighted to learn that
General Butler is to call the attention of Con-
gress to the extravagances of the Committee of
Ways and Means, which, with Mr.. Schenck at
its head, has been having happy time all sum-
mer at the public expense. Butler is caustic,
keen, logical, incisivs and effective in his
exhibitions of the shortcomings of others,
and as the people generally have been some
what scandalized by these very doings that
Butler proposes to examine he has popular
subject. The public will also be happy to
hear that Mr.. Schenck, chairman of the
Committee of Ways and Means, in
tends at the opening of the session
to present to Congress some facts in regard to
General Butler that it is thought will be dam
aging to Buffers splendid reputation for mo-
rality and fair dealing. On both sides there is
every reason for the public to be happy. Hit
him, Butler Give 1t to him, Schenck! Let no
one hold them. The beauty Of it all is that
Schenck er o6icio is leader Of his party in the
House, and Butler seems to be more fit for the
place, as the legitimate successor Of Old Thad
Stevens in boldness and talent. 1t is fight,
therefore, for the championship of the party.
The party will stand before the country may
be, in some new lights ere the fight is over
Year: 1869

A shocking affair occurred in Jersey City
on Sunday, which bears out our former


views that neither tho moral influence of the


was effective in enforcing the commandment
which orders that we shall remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" The suburban
event referred to was q smashing of heads
and stabbing with knives, and other brutal


practices, reported in our columns yesterday,


avenue, with probably fatal results. These


bloody ARRAYS appear to be more frequent on


Sunday than on any other day, from which


fact it is not uncharitable to infer that there is


screw loose somewhere in our pulpit ma


chinery. The divines who preach the Gospel
evidently do not direct their attention sufi-


ciently to "the Greeks at our DOORS" or we
should have higher order of morality to
boast of. Indeed, we fear that, with the
salvation of souls and the circulation of tracts
il China and the Feejee Islands, many Of our
clergy forget the memorable words of John


Randolph, above quoted, when the question
of assisting the Greeks was presented to him.
ssWe have the Greek at our doors, he said,
and the expression is as true to-day as ever.
While fashion sits within the precincts of the


sanctuary every Sunday-when the preacher
is not on vacation-and receives mild rebukes
and gentle homilies from the pulpit with
becoming decorum, ignorance and vice and


crime run riot all over the city and its envi-


rons, even to the ultimatum of murder.


There is clearly reform needed, and it


will be acceptable, whether it comes from the
moral suasion of the church or from the brute


force of the ever ready policeman's bludgeon.
II we are not to 60 from bad to worse Sab
bath after Sabbath, reform must come from
some quarter. The secular press at least
does its part of the duty in exposing and con-
| demnng Sunday rowdyism.
Year: 1869

Progress of TcIcsraphing Tho Western Union
Company's Report.


We see, from the annual report of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, which has
just been issued, that the business Of tele-
graphing in the United States continues to be
rapidly developed and extended. This COM
pany alone has lines to the extent of over fifty
two thousand miles and a hundred and
four thousand miles of wire. Six thousand
miles were constructed during the past year.
This, of course, is independent of the lines of
other companies. Mr.. Orton considers that
the extension of lines and the progress Of the
telegraph business will more than keep pace
with the increase of population or development
of the country. He estimates that if this rate
of extension should continue for ten years the
company would possess q hundred and sixty
four thousand miles of wire. But the policy Of
this gigantic company is to absorb all other
telegraph lines and rival companies and to be
without competition, and considering its vast
wealth and power there is no doubt of its
ability to accomplish that. Mr.. Orton makes
an ingenious argument against the PROPOSE
tion to place the telegraph under the
control Of government; but the very
fact of the magnitude and rapidly increasing
extent of the telegraph system shows the
necessity Of government control. The tele-
graph is becoming as universal a necessity to
the public as the Post Office, and will soon
supersede, to great extent, the mail service.
In fact, the time is not far off when the gov
ernment will not be able to run the Post
Office Department without great loss in con-
sequence of the extended use of the tele-
graph. II will not be proper for the whole Of
the communications of the people, with the
exception of what might be left to the Post
Office, to be under the management Of any
corporation With postal telegraph system
under the control Of government the charges
for telegraphtng can be greatly reduced, and
this mode of communication can be brought
to the use of every individual. Congress
should as soon as possible pass law to take
possession of the telegraph system. A fair
price should be offered to the existing tele-
graph companies for their lines. II they choose
to accept the offer, all very well, but if not,
the government can and should construct new
lines throughout the whole country. The
postal telegraph has been proved success in
other countries and would be successful here.
This is one of the great questions Of the time,
and Congress will be derelict in duty to the
public if it does not take it up Immediately.
Year: 1869

the part of the United States This is the stll-
alton. Spain is to stamp out the rebel
lion if she can. Cubans are TO be
murdered wholesale. The island is to be
desolated. If its fair fields should be con-
verted into shambles no natter the island
will still belong to Spain, and the re-establish-
ment Of authority will deprive the United
States government of pretext for annexation


In such circumstances what will our gov
ernment do? What should it do? Its
course is clear II has no choice if it
would act the part of brave men and prove
mental principle of our constitution that no
government should be forced upon an unwilling
people. Our history from its commencement
has been an expanded illustration of this prin-
ciple. Our sympathies have ever been on the
side Of suffering and oppressed peoples, no
matter in what part of the world they may
have been. We have ever been foremost in
succoring the distressed, although we have
ever been duly respectful to the principles Of
international law. Cuba has claims upon us.
OUc 10 Ouc Vi our uodTobt uciBuUOrb. W.
respect her people and we love her
land. Our duty, we have said, Is
plain. The Cubans must not be trampled
down because they love liberty Our first sin
was that we loved liberty, but our first victory
was that we justified our offence. Cuba is now
in our position. We are bound to help her.
The Cubans wish one of two things-inde
pendence or annexation. Our government, by
its own experience and by the claims OF JUS
tice, must help the Cubans to the one or the
other. With General Grant as President we
must not allow any European Power to dictate
to US course of foreign policy. Surely we
can, if need be, fight our way. The best
English papers say we can. Let us, then, be
true to ourselves. Cuba must not be crushed.
If she cannot win her independence we are
willing to say she ought to have it, II she
cannot have her independence we ought to be
willing to say we will do all things to secure
annexation. One or the other, General
Grant; think of it. We are a great people.
Europe says 80. Let us prove it.
Year: 1869

Wall street has 6ete noiro. Some shrewd
fellows down there, who know more of finance
than they do of politics, have made combi-
nation, and bought not only all the gold in the
city, but all that the street would sell them.
All the gold in the city is trife to such specu-
lators. As the banks hold only fourteen mil
lions, and the amount scattered about in safes
and desks is not over q million, it required no
very formidable clique to ''corner" all there
was to be had. II will be remembered that
Erie was cornered last winter when it's stock
was about fifty millions. Gold nowadays is
only speculative vehicle, like railway stock
The fun of the situation is that number of
first class radicals went ''short" OF
gold when it was down at 1872 and they
are in very hot water. When Secretary Bout
we'll passed through here the other day they
interviewed" him; but that not sufficing they
banqueted him, all to the end Of persuading
him that 'the interests of the country" required
him to sell the Treasury gold and so get them
out of their scrape. Even the radical organ
came at him with double-leaded editorial.
It happens, however, that the administration
is trying to carry water on both shoulders.
That troublesome Pendleton is making speeches
out in Ohio, showing the farmers why the
price Of breadstufs has gone down and call
ing for more greenbacks. To sell gold would
only further decrease the price Of wheat and
corn, and so, perhaps, change the result there
next month. Hence the Secretary is unable
to give heed to the piteous entreaties of the
political spectators, around whose necks the
gold cliqne are slowly but surely tightening
the cord. How will it all end?
Year: 1869

An ADMIRABLE MONUMENT FOR THE PARK
''The Vanderbilt bronze" 1t is too beautiful and
grand for the Hudson River Railroad depot, and
the only proper place for it is over an arch at
some one Of the entrances or over the
approach to some conspicuous bridge in our
great Park. We don't know what Commodore
Vanderbilt thinks about it, but we dare say
that he would make the bronze present to
the city on application of the Park Com
missioners.
Year: 1869

STATE Prison INSPECTOR. There is said to
be considerable wire-pulling about the selection
of candidate for State Prison Inspector on
the democratic State ticket at Syracuse to-mor-
row. Among the aspirants is well known
punpowder manufacturer of Ulster county.
This man on pinch may do for the State
prison system of this State requires little
blowing up and some of the officials good
da,l
Year: 1869

ANOTHER OUNCE. Ross Browne has been
condemned as minister recreant to the policy
he was sent to subserve. This time the con-
domination comes in the shape Of approval


from the Hong Kong Chamber Of Commerce.
Year: 1869

At the recent meeting of the Statistical
Congress in the Hague, the capital Of Holland,
some suggestions were made towards the
reduction of standing armies, and thereby
reducing the ruinous expenditures at present
incurred by various European Powers. Mr..
Ruggles, of New York, in support of the sug-
gestion, referred in lengthy speech to the
late civil war in this country, comparing the
existing ornaments There is no doubt
that many Powers in Europe especially are
obliged to keep up strong armies because
their mutual policy is continually tending
to create differences which may at any
moment necesstate their being thrown into
the field for their protection. Here, however,
we have proved that when the nation requires
men to protect its policy sufficient are found
at once to enlist in its cause. When their SER
vices are no more required the soldiers are
disbanded and become absorbed by the popu-
lation. The resources Of this Continent are so
immense that every person willing to work
can find remunerative employment, and it
would be taking wise step if some Of the
nations in Europe were to modify their policy,
thereby rendering the maintenance of such
large armies unnecessary. The example set
by the United States in its policy subsequent
to the late war might be followed advan-
tageously by many foreign potentates. Tho
many thousand men who are now maintained
throughout Europe might fnd here field
where their intelligence and manual co-opera-
ton would result in far greater benefit to them
selves than idling away the best years of their
lives as miserably paid mercenaries. Let the
strength of nations be expressed by their peo-
pie, not by the numbers Of men that they can
afford to keep continually under arms.