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Year: 1868

1t il stated that important developments
have made which would to require in the in
terests Justice that the execution OF Brown for the
murder Of the child Angie Stewart OF Canaan. which IS
set down for the 3Oth should be delayed at least until


after the trial OF his wife who also under for
the same Offense II is alleged that the murdered
girl was the ilcgitmae offspring 0 Brown and that he
OF her mother who was unable 20 support her
important branch OF testimony adduced by
the prosecution lie has recently made TINS statement
privately not desiring that t should be made public be-
fore his death He Is OF weak mental powers, ana


undoubtedly controlled by hs WIFE, who s described as
~ woman OF strong WILL and of sehemng, cruel ana re-
vengeful disposition II is believed by impartial ineIi
gent and conscientious persons who have carefully lnYes


gated all the facts OF the that the whole plot was
conceived and executed by her without his knowledge
before the fact and that Brown prefers 10 offer him
self as a sacrifice for his wife rather than
make statement that would at once re
neve him and fasten the guilt OF the muir
upon her It Is contended also that various other i'm


porant facts be adduced at variance with the pre-
YOus testimony which Brown could not bring 70 light on
account of his poverty aud that II he is executed the
probability that his wife will not he convicted and
that the real facts OF the will never be diyulged
Hence safety would be promoted by the execution OF
her husband The Right Rev. Bishop Potter who visited
the condemned man and his wife in jail, aud VINO inly
satisfied himself OF her controlling power over her hus
band has written letter this subject IN which he
says %" think IL is deporabe that he IS 10 be executed
before the is tried That ought 10 be prevented
possiblc."
Year: 1868

The novel and interesting exhibition of a
new appliance for saving life in the water which came
of Wednesday, witnessed by many persons and ap
peared 10 give general satisfaction The apparatus con-
siss simply OF corkacket Weighing about six pounds
and rubber suit weghing about two and q half pounds
the latter fitting loosely the regular dress adjusted
In two or three minutes, and covering the
entire body excepting the face and hands.
There are also footweights for ballast and


flags rockets DO This may be attached TO the waist by


string and floats on tho surface sor the purpose Of
Year: 1868

A MoST REMARKABLE SwINDLE---Iateiv.


rural1ooking lady and gentleman OF ster.
ling, Cayuga County, called upon one Of the


Justices Of the Peace and expressed a wish


to be married The pair were made man and


wife NEXT morning they reappeared, and


each In turn desired that the proceedin0s


might be annulled; the lady particularly. wss


very urgent She charged that she had been


entrapped into marrying the man who stood


beTlde her, BY piece Of unparalleled dece,-


ton She had been corresponding with her
cousin In lows, whom she had not seen since
she was child, and during the correspond
enee, her relative had w0oed and won her
affections He wrote her that he was com
ing in December TO claim her hand and take
her to his home in the West The swain 10
whom she was married made his appearance.
claimed 70 be her cousin, said be could not
wait till December, etc On the strength Of
these representations she had reluctantly con-
sented to wed She had since learned that
the man whom she had married was not her
cousin, but wretch who had secured a wife
By base deception. The man acknowledged
his eulpability, but pleaded in exfenuafion
that the Iowa cousin had read him the letter
Of his intended, and that these had Influenced
him to do as be had done. His conscience
smote him 30 grieTously since The accom-
pilshment Of his treaehery, that be made
full confession to the lady he had ehaunefnIlV
wrOnged- he had hoped TO reconcile her to
the fraud, but she would not He was now
willing TO make the Only amends he knew on
viz: TO have the marriage contract annullsd,
The magistrate suggested he had not the now
er to unmerTy them He advised. that a..
matters had progressed thus far, Il would Be
better for the lady to make the best Of bsd
bargain, and sccept the situation. After 4
good deal Of persuasion on the part Of The
Bridegroom, the lady finally Decided 10 ae-
eept the advice Of the magistrate, on the a.
surance that the said bridegroom would make
IN Iowa Upon this happy settlement he
lady dried her eyes and the happy pair DE-
departed -O15sgo Palladium.
Year: 1868

mot less than sky thousand head
of Texas cattle are now On thisside OF


Red River, on their way North for
shipment oyer the. Union Pacific
Road, Eastern Division, to an East


eFn Inrketf EAII0tTi FE
Year: 1868

We may, therefore, look forward to
that question becoming gradually the
It Itgradually assumes a serious charac-
terS and the final result of the present
Abysstnnian expedition is likely
to have more or less direct influence
on the Afghan question and the con-
duct by which this Government will
then be guided.
Year: 1868

We always like to give great orators
the benefit of wide dissemination of
the good 'points" they make in their
speeches. and therefore print the follow
ing sentence ola Western orator. Warm
ing with his subject, he exclaimed 81
guess there amt a man, woman or child
in the house who has arrived at the age
of fifty years, but what has felt this
great truth laundering through his or its
mind for centuries."a -sya
Year: 1868


bought this farm, and came to it with
Betsey, his young wife. She died at the
end of year, and he buried her with
her baby in a sunny spot just over
the brow of this hill.


Another woman came into her place, aud
reared tall sons and blooming daughters, and
has been notable wife to the good man, as
the perfectly ordered house where we slept
last night well shows; but can see by the
twitch of his weather-hardened face and
the moisture in his eye that the bride of his
youth is not forgotten. He talks of his chill
dren, of his daughters married and gone, and
his lour strong sons that went to the war
Only two came back, and of these one had
the death-mark Of the Andersonville prison.
pen upon his wasted face. The old mans
voice sinks into husky whisper as he tells
me of his boys sufferings in that devilish
den, and Of his swift decline despite the love
and care that tended him in the home he had
so piDed for. l feel my own heart swelling
with indignant anger at the thought of all
that cruelty; but this wronged father only
says, a little chokingly.-"It does seem hard
that our boys should have had to suffer such
things from the rebels; but they warnt used
to war any more'n we were, and perhaps
they didn't know any better" If this is not
the spirit of Him who said, "Father, for
give them for they know not what they do,'
will you tell me what it is?


Willing to change the subject, l began
talking oi the sights and sounds about us,
and praisng the fragrant red clover in the
midst of which we are sitting. "Yes," the
the old man says, "clover is excellent to
plough in.' Then, seeing my rather blank
look he adds with a smile, "You know, my
dear, that is ,ohat zoe are all for jnst to
plough in."


They are blowing tin horn from the
house, which is the signal tor dinner, and 1
obey the call. We shall take the road again
in an hour or two. More anon.


ZNGARA.
Year: 1868

The INCOME TAX.-By the advertisement In
another column II Will be seen that the annual
assessment list for income of 1-67. and special
tax for l@6o, is now in the Assessors office, 46-
seventh street. open to inspection, and will so
remain Tor the space OF ten days from the 23d
INST. for the purpose of enabling tax-rayers 10
appeal from The assessment of the Assistant
Assessors; after which period the list will be
returned TO the Collector for collection, and
cannot be reCtifiei
Year: 1868

One of the most remarkable phenomena
connected with dreams is the shortness of time
needed for their consummation. Lord Brough-
am says that in debating, a man may frequent
ly fall asleep after uttering few words, aud
be awakened by the amanuensis repeating the
last word TO show that he has written the
whole but though FIVE or six seconds only
have elapsed between the delivery Of the sem
tence and its transfer to paper, the speaker
may have passed through dream extending
through half a lifetime. Lord Holland and
Mr. Babbage both confirm this theory. The
one was listening to friend reading aloud,
and slept from the beginning Of the sentence
to the latter part Of the sentence Immediately
succeeding yet, during this time, he had
dream, the particulars of which it would have
taken more than quarter Of an hour to write.
Mr. Babbage dreamt a succession Of events,
and awoke in time to hear the concluding
words of friends answer to a question he
had Just put to him. One man was liable to
feelings Of suffocation, accompanied by dream
of skeleton grasping his throat whenever he
slept ia lying posture, and had an attendant
to wake him the moment he sunk down. But.
though awakened the moment he began to
sink, that time sufhced for long struggle
with the skeleton. Another man dreamt that
he crossed the Atlantic, spent a fortnight in
America. and fell overheard when embarking
to return yet his sleep had not lasted more
than ten minutes.
Year: 1868

1t is related of Persian mother that, on
giving her sou forty pieces of silver as his
portion, she made him promise never to tell a
lie, and then said, Go my son; commit
thee to God we shall not meet again till the
day of Judgment


The youth went away, and the party he
travelled with was attacked by robbers. One
fellow asked the boy what money he had, and
he said, " Forty diners sewed up in my gar
ments." The robber laughed and thought he
was jesting. Another asked him the same
question, and received the same answer.


At last the chief called him and asked him
what he had. He said, A" have told two of
your people already that have forty diners
sewed up in my clothes"


He ordered the clothes to be ripped open,
and found the money. "And how came you
to tell this2' asked the chief


"Because," replied the child, 81 would not
be false to my mother, to whom | promised
never TO tell lie."


Child" said the robber, "art thou so mind
ful, at thy tender years, of thy duty to thy
mother, and am insensible, at my age, Of the
duty | owe to God2 Give me thy hand, that
may promise repentance on it' He did SO.
His followers were struck with the scene.
."You have been our leader in guilt" said
they to the chief: now be the same in the
path of virtue" They Immediately gave back
what they had stolen, and began at once to
lead honest lives.
Year: 1868

There is no fear whatever that men will
ever suffer in the long run from the COM
petition of women There must always be a
large class of avocations which only men can
follow successfully. AL callings which re-
quixe tough nerve, certain coarseness Of
mental texture, aud the faculty OF continuous
attention from year to year, must, in the ma
ture of things, be closed against the majority
of women. The sensitive imitativeness Of the
sex will forbid such pursuits to women in gen.
eral, and a large field Of intellectual exertion
must therefore remain essentially masculine.


But the utmost that can happen is that men
should be diverted from tasks which require
but portion of their faculties to others in
which all their powers will be exercised and
rewarded And such distribution of labor,
so far as il was created, would necessarily act
benefcaly on the whole community But in
fact, much less than this would probably be
effected. Three years are but small portion Of
life, and however well woman may employ
them, she cannot change herselfinto the work
ing machine which nine men out Of ten are
forced to become Ii will still be in most
cases her lot to bring up children, and act as
the helpmate of her husband but the better
she is educated the more will she exempliiy
the truth that helpmate to man should help
him in every part of his nature. His mental
constitution has hitherto been treated as some-
what beyond her powers. To carry the iniiu-
ence of woman into this province will be the
business Of the new Female University
James Chronicle.
Year: 1868

The following beautiful allegory is transla-
ted from the German.


Tophronious, wise teacher, would not suf.
fer even his own grown-up sons and daughters
to associate with those whose conduct was not
pure and upright.


Dear father" said the gentle Eulalia to
him one day, when he forbade her, in company
with her brother, to visit the volatile Lucinda,
"dear father, you must think us very childish
If you imagine that we should be exposed to
danger by it."


The father took in silence a dead coal from
the hearth, and reached it to his daughter
alt will not burn you, my child take IT,"


Eulalia did So; ard behold her delicate
white hand was soiled and blackened, and as
il chanced her white dress also.


1--WE cannot be too careful in handling
GOALS" said Eulalia, in vexation.


"Yes, truly" said the father "you see,
my child, that Goals, even If they do not burn
blacken. So il is with the company of the
vicious"
Year: 1868

.


The usual stringency OF money In


March and April was followed in May
| by a very decided reaction towards the
! other extreme. The contraction of bn-
siness neceSSitated by the pressure OF
the former period was naturally at
tended by a limited demand for ac-
commodation from merchants through
out the country, and at most of the
commercial centre there has prevailed
an abundance of idle funds, which
have gravitated hither, and are now
seeking employment at very low rates
of interest, At the same time the loan
able resources OF the banks have been
increased by the payment Of about
four millions of interest in the redemp-
tion of Compound Interest. Notes,
dated May 15, 1865, both principal and
interest of which have been paid in s
per cent. certificates, absorbing the
whole of the latter.


The fact of money being now Sa4 per
cent on demand loans, while choice
commercial paper is negotiable at per
cent, Is an indication of stagnant
condition of general trade. In most
branches of business the spring trade
has proved unsatisfactory, the only re-
ally healthy demand having come from
the West, which has been exception
ably prosperous through Its abundant
crops. Retail dealers complain of the
contracted purchases OF their custom
erS, and that their business Is SO over
done by the multiplicity OF traders that
they cannot make an average profit; and
jobbers, under these circumstances, are
naturally cautious about the standing
OF the parties TO whom they sell.


The general unprohtableness of
trading enterprises and the plethora of
money have induced an extension of
speculative transactions in securities,
and especially so on Governments. A
variety of considerations have conduc-
ed to diverting operations in that direc-
ton, prominent among which may be
mentioned the near tcompletion of the
funding process, and the consequent
filling up OF the outstanding authOriza-
tiOns for loans. The high prices of real
estate have had an influence in causing
investors to shun that mode of en-
ploying their funds, while the high
prices of railroad stocks have tended to
deter spectators from touching them.
Under the influence OF this and other
circumstances, there was during the
latter half of May an unprecedented
demand, which toward the close car
ried up prices beyond all precedent.
Transactions in all kinds of bonds
have consequently been large.
Year: 1868

why the streets are dirty, and the Citizens
Association are chopping logic on the same
subject. Now, the fact is, that the streets ara
most abominably dirty, and nobody is trying
to clean them. Can nothing be done while all
the talking is going on?
Year: 1868

AS the balmy skies of spring and the jolly
face of the god of day look down on our fair
city and melt Che snow and mud heaps that
have so long encumbered our principal
thoroughfares, as well as our back alleys, the
ladies' begin to pay attention to the most be-
coming and attractive novelties that Mistress
Fashion has devised for the season. The
spring opening day is fast approaching and the
maodistes are in session, pondering over the
latest Paris extravagances, and selecting and
adapting for their patronesses the most ap-
propriate and stylish toilets that the spring
demands. There will be, however, little in
the way of novelty in the spring fashions.
Bonnets will be, If possible, smaller than ever,
and milliners lament in vain over the decline
of their business. The bonnets at present In
vogue are such that almost any lady can make
them for her own wear, and, Of course, this
Injuries the millinery business to considerable
degree. Yet sooner or later, there must be a
revolution in the styles of bonnets. A tiny
piece Of velvet, flower and ribbon, can
never satisfy the demands Of the feminine
head, and already mutterings Of discomfort
are heard.


Our lively and chatty correspondent in Paris
sends us an interesting batch of fashionable
news this week. The use Of sackcloth and
ashes during the Lenten season seems to be
extremely limited, and the austere clergymen
are quite horrifed at the extravagant toilets
which their fair penitenas assume during this
holy time. On Ash Wednesday the churches
were crowded with ladies, and around the
altar rails was circle Of the new round vel
vet hats with bands Of gold and steel in lace
ruche on the rim. As these dainty little hats
were worn on tAe eyebrows the penitential
ashes were thrown either on the aigrettes Of
the hats or the pretty noses Of the wearers.
The Belle Poule hat has also been revived. II Is
derived from celebrated vessel of war which
reflected much glory on the navy Of France,
and consists of crimson rather du vdisscdu,
| placed on foundation of curled and powdered
hair, with green gauze to represent the raging
pillows. The sails are of white poult and the
shrouds OF pearl. Imagine o. lady on Broad
way with such an affair on her head and the
Stars and Stripes--in diminutive form, Of
course--aoating over all. American ladies dis
tinguished themselves during carnival time in
Paris by their beauty and rich toilets. In
this city we are gradually emancipating our
selves from the tyranny Of Partisan modistes


The day is not far distant when we shall send
TO Europe the latest fashions, as well as prime
donne, pianos, monitors and sewing machines.


THE STREETs-WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH
THEM Worse and worse grows the condi-
ton Of the streets as the thaw advances. The
snow heaps are being converted into dirty rivu-
lets wholly impossible for ladies, and no'
quite fordable for the sterner and more heavily
booted sex Meantime, committees ara sitting
Year: 1868

let Speaker Colfax take the chair, with the
understanding that Mr.. Wade will be chosen as
the regular candidate for the Vice Presidency
on the Grant ticket. A nice arrangement, but
not calculated to give much strength to General
Grant
Year: 1868

"OLD Ben WADK's" Position. latest
explanation Of ''Old Ben Wadc's" position is
this THAT he win sit and act as member of
the Court Of Impeachment to the close Of the


trial; that If judgment can be carried against
assistance Mr.. Wade will not vote at all, but
that II his vote is necessary and will convict
the accused this essential vote will be given |;
and that then Mr. Wade will decline the Office
Of President Of the United States pro tenn. and
Year: 1868

The people ofAlabama rebelled, they
raised large armies-they made war
they contendetl for years for the privi-


lege Of destroying the the Union
they were defeated. They were rebels
then, for assailing the national author
ity. What are they now? If we
keep Alabama out Of the Union, we
will only ir-itatc long fostering
wound, and adjourn reconstruction.
We make necessary standing armies
and armed occupation. This is i'm
posed upon us in defiance Of national
authority, and in spite of the protests
of the loyal men. In the large and
civil sense of the word these men are
not "peoplc," and they have no right
to bo so considered. They are no
more "people" than the inmates Of
sing Sing, orthe conviction BlackwelPs
Island, or body of foreigners passing
through our States. They are men
who have committed a crime, and who
are released from its consequences on
ly by promising obedience TO the laws
and an acquiescence in all the drties
Of citizenship. But to say that they
have the right to block the wheels Of
Government, and delay reconstruction
and impose more burdens upon us, to
crafty their malignity, is as mad as it
would for the ticket-ofleave men in
England toenter Parliament and claim
to make laws for the nation.


But the fault is ours, we are told !
Way did we give them the power to
block the wheels of Government ?
We grant that. We made mistake.
We wore generous to those people for
their own sakes. They reply by nm
effort to inhct anarchy upon alabama.
Such mistakes are frequently made,
but in this case we accept the rebukc
and shall see that it docs not occur
again. We can very we'll postpone
onr generosity until these people show
a disposition to accept it. We have
no notion of crowding our courtesies
where they are despised. We hoped
to have them in the Union, and in
few years to see every American, Reb-
ell or not. in the full exercise of citizen
ship. We can afford to wait if they
can. We have opened the door.
They stand in the way and keep out
those who wish to enter. Our first
duty is to admit the loyal people. That
done we can rest easy. When the
Rebels finally desire to come in they
may knock at the door, and wait until
VIC are ready to open it.-Tribune.
Year: 1868

The following, with one word cham
gcd, is attributed to Gen. jackson,
and is as applicable now as when II
was uttered: "The Republican who
reads his county paper regularly, is
bullet proof against the falsehoods Of
the enemy. The weekly arrival Of
his paper is like the visit Of a commit
tee man to warn him of what is going
on, and to prepare him for election
day. 1t posts not only himself in
what's new and important, but it ena-
bles him to post others also, who
look to him for counsel and instruo-
ton.
Year: 1868

THE Chinese on the Central Pa.
cifc railroad work for about one dol
lar day and find themselves. They
import rice and dry fish from China,
live better than at home and save hall
oftheir wages-but upon the whole
they are slow workers, butrelitiin0pd