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Year: 1867

INF1UENcE.-''I have no more influence than
a farthing rushlight' swell, a farthing rush
light can do great deal; it can set a haystack
on fire, it can burn down house; yea, more,
N IN 20 Mnd's hook Go your way, friend let your


"a arthing rushlight so shine before men, that
Of others s Seeing your good works may glorfy your
Father which is in heaven" %
Year: 1867

HEARING A WILL READ.-A gentleman once
said to Rowland Hill: 1T is sixty-fve years
since first heard you preach, and the sermon
was well worth remembering. You remarked
that some people are very squeamish about the
manner of a clergyman in preaching, but you
then added: Suppose one was hearing will
employ the time in criticizing the lawyer man
ner while reading it? No; you would give all
your interest to actertain if anything were left
to yourself, and how much. Let that, then, be
the way in which you listen to the Gospel. !"
Year: 1867

The following eloquent passage is from the
pen of Albert Barnes:


A whole family in heavenl Who can picture
or describe the everlasting joy2 No one absent
Nor father, nor mother, nor son, nor daughter
are away. In the world below they were united
in faith, and love, and peace, and joy. In the
morning of the resurrection they assembled to-
gether. Before the throne they bow together
in united alteration. On the banks Of the River
of Life they walk hand in hand, and as family
have commenced career of glory which shall be
everlasting THERE'S hereafter to be no separation
in that family. No one is to lie down on bed
of pain. No one to wander into temptation.
No one to sink into the arms of death. Never
in Heaven is that family to move along in the
slow procession, clad in the habiliments of woe,
to consign one of its members to the tomb.
God grant that in His infinite mercy every fam
lily may be thus united.
Year: 1867

How TO DO GooD.-Dr. Robinson wisely
said, "He who waits to do great deal of good
at once will never do anything" Life is made
up of little things. It is but once in an age
that occasion is offered for doing great deed.
True greatness consists in being great in little
things. How are railroads built2 By one shovel
of dirt after another; one shovel at time.
Thus, drops make the ocean. Hence we should
be willing to do little good at time, and never
would do much good in the S world we wen must be be
willing to do good in little things, little acts one
after another; speaking word here, giving
tract there, and setting good example all the
time we must do the first thing we can, and
the next, and the next, and so keep on doing
good. This is the way to accomplish anything.
Thus only shall we do all the good in our power.
Year: 1867

But he will have to 20 into the Lowell
woods and pastures, aEd pluck bis
own posies this year. To be sure,
il would be quite consistent that
he should be praised and thanked
for the few kind words which he
spoke too late for Mrs. Surratt, but you
know woman will let one in Mrs. Sur
rats unfortunate condition lie quiet in
her grave before resurrecting her on
point Of law or metaphysics. The hang.
ing settled the matter Of guilt with them.
! believe today that the Radical party in
Massachusetts would give a good part Of
what he is worth to get rid Of him. What
a beautiful blab he is to be on them il
they let him into their secrets2 But, al.
ter all, It was a good thing to let him 70
to Congress. He is his own Nemesis,
nobody could be intrusted with the un-
doing Of him who could begin to do il so
well as himself He has not an intimate
friend or con6dant in any party. Nc.
body is afraid Of him, not even General
Grant, but nobody wants anything to do
with him. Ask Bingham, of Ohio.
Year: 1867

The progress of the world in valu.
able knowledge has been, in all ages.
mainly due to men in whom one
faculty dominated the rest and de-
termined the profession or pursuit of
the individual To the accumulated
discoveries and inventions of such
men we owe all the glories OF civili
zation. Rousseau said rightly, that
1t was better to be great in one OF
the arts or sciences, than conversant
with many. He meant that it was
better for the individual-for his in
terests, his regulations; but it is also
better for mankind. Had Newton's
faculties been on q par one with an
other; had he possessed what is call.
ed "balanced mind" he had never
discovered the principle of gravita-
tion, or written the Principia. 1t
was because one mental attribute
overtopped and overshadowed all the
others, compelling them to uses, that
he achieved such wonderful triumphs
in abstract science.


Men of general talent, who pos
sess no salient faculty directing them
to one special subject of study and
research, seldom make their mark in
the history of their own times, and
never achieve enduring fame. They
shine in society, they are popular,
they are useful in their day and gen.
eration, but they add little to the
golden store of knowledge, to which
men are great in particular branches
OF science and art are continually
contributing new and inestimable
treasures. These latter rarely pos.
sess the social qualities most priced
by the world at large. They are alb
sent, taciturn, reserved. The gay
and thoughtless vote them dull and
uncompanionable, perhaps; but re-
member they are thinking for all the
time, for all humanity. II great
/ philosopher happen to boil his watch
while he holds the egg in his hand to
time the cooking, or TO take up his
pretty wife's finger and use it rs n
tobacco stopper, as Newton is said
TO have done with Il young lady's, let
us, before we ridicule such eccentric
tiles, recollect how the absent mind
was employed-what reaches it was
making after hidden things, what
mysteries it was unvailing, what i'm.
portant practical truths it was deduc-
ing from objects which the million
pass with unobservant eye.


We take it to be a principle in ra.
tional education, that the master fac


ulty, when it tends TO the useful, ol
the beautiful, in science or art, SHOULD
always be cultivated. The Hon Fe
lix Grundy made a slight mistake
when he said he was born veteran
in politics, but it is quite true tha
, nature gives to one man u talent AM
another ' faculty and taste for me
chanics; to third a genius for poe
try, and that it is impossible TO max
the poet a shining light in mathe
mates or chemistry, or the chemist
or mathematician an epic poet.
Year: 1867

Some people have so much curios.
ity that they would be glad to turn
the rainbow to see what is on the
other side of it.


The easiest court to practice-The
court of lady.


The editor of newspaper down
east has been bled to improve the
circulation of his paper.
Year: 1867

WANT OF DEC1sION.-A great deal
OF labor is lost to the world for the
want of a little courage. Every day
sends to their graves a number of Oh
scure men, who have only remained in
obscurity because their timidity has
prevented them from making first
effort, and who, if they only had been
induced to begin, would, in all proba-
bility, have gone great lengths in the
career of fame The fact is, that in
doing anything in the world worth
doing, we must not stand on the bank
shivering, thinking of the cold and
danger, but jump in and scramble
through as well as we can. 1t will not
do to be perpetuallY calculating risks
and adjusting nice chanches: it did all
very we'll before the flood, when a
man woald consult his friends upon an
intended publication for $50 years, and
live to see it's success for six or seven
centuries afterward; but at present,
man waits and doubts, and consults his
brothers, and uncles, and particular
friends, until one day he finds he is IS
years of age, and that hex has no more
time to follow their advice. There is
so little time for over squeamishness at
present that the opportunity slips away.
The very period of life at which a man
chooses to venture, if ever, is SO con-
fined that it is no bad rule to preach
up the necessity, in such instances, Of a
little violence done to the feeling, and
efforts made in defiance of strict and
sober calculations .-Sad1aey Smith.
Year: 1867

How To PUT OUT FIRES.-A econ
sulting Chemist writes to a scientific
paper that he happened to be present
some time ago at the burning of an oil
distillery. The place was, as usual,
drowned with water, which merely had
the effect of spreading the flames and in
creasing their intensity, for the oil burn
ed until their appeared to be nothing
left to support the flames. noticed
the flaming oil floating on the surface
of the water on the floors. The water
runping down the walls bore a flaming
surface of oil likewise. This shows that
the water had little or no power over
the burning oil. There was laying near
the building in which the fire broke out
a large quantity Of sand Now if half
a dozen men provided with spades, had
dashed a lot of this sand upon the
flames soon after the fire was discover
ed, it would have been put out and but
little damage done.


Some time ago | put out fire which
might have destroyed an immense
amount of valuable property by simply
dashins fifty or hundred s6ovelfuls
of Stacked lime, which happened to be
near at hand, upon the names, Whlch
literally choked them out. The fire in
this case was caused by a cask of oil be-
inc set on fire accidentally. This is on
ly one of the many fires which 1 have
seen put out by adopting the same
means. I consider it would be good
plan if owners of such places as oil
works, etc, always had at hand guam
tity of sand, dry old lime, ETC., which
could be used in the manner l have
stated.
Year: 1867

VOLUME IN A PARAGRAPH.-Here is what
Horace Greeley says, in his autobiography,
about running into debit


"Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, contempt,
suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreable,
but debt is Infinitely worse than them all
And, if it had pleased God to spare either or
all of my sons to be the support and solace
of my declining years. the lesson which 1
should have most earnestly sought to i'm
press upon them, is Never run into debt !
Avoid pecuniary obligations as you would
pestilence or famine. If you have but fifty
cents, and can get no more for week, buy
a peck of corn, parch it and live on it rath
er than owe any man dollar"
Year: 1867

mand'ng oapacity and winning personal worth and
dignity associated with the Presiden ntal Office thai
wOulu measure the time in the memorien of men as
one Of pubic welfare and good report, enIirey
convinced. If he Is not have the opportunity of
greatest usefulness be viii serve his country faith
emorable men OF the republic, who did not reach
the highest place because their names early
associated with IL, aud they attained such Strength
and prominence as TO combine against them the
jeRlousies and the ambitions OF smaller Aside
from all that the only que tiOn really worth Weighing
is. what for the countrys sake would be best9 The
situation is enough to call for the most con-
Biderate public judgment on that question.
Year: 1867

The Queen and Cabinet to Support the


POpe-APprOval of Catholic Alliance


In Aid of his Holiness


MADRID, Oct. 26.-It is said that the Queen
and Cabinet of Spain have decided to join in
any action which the other Catholic Powers
may decide to adopt in favor of the temporal
sovereignty of the Pope and the defense of the
HOLY See.
Year: 1867




Csnvention.


The two houses Of the State Legislature have
been ct work since the termination of the
recess on the Constitutional Convention bill,
and there appears prospect Of speedy re-
cancellation Of all differences and final pas
sage Of . good bill. The Senate have made
their bill accord with that Of the Assembly, 80
far as the election Of one hundred and twenty
eight delegates by Assembly districts is con-
cerned; but the Assembly voted In favor of
the additional thirty-two delegates at large,
equally divided between the two political par
ties, by vote Of seventy-six yeas to forty-six
nays, while the Senate rejected the same pro-
position by majority Of one vote. There is
little doubt that the bill will eventually be
passed with this provision embodied in II, in
accordance with the recommendation of the
Governor, and in conformity with public SEN
timent. 1t would be well to add another
amendment, providing for the election of dele
gates in all counties containing more than four
Assembly districts on q general ticket This
would enable the independent democrats, the
taxpayers and all the friends Of q good city gov
einInons "nu an iuucPOnucns ouu iucoIIupuDie
judiciary in New York and Kings counties, to
unite upon ticket composed of responsible
and respectable men, and to elect 1t over
the various rings and grogshop politicians.
Under the separate Assembly district system in
this city we cannot avert the election Of some
undesirable candidates, and 1t would greatly
increase the chance Of securing . delegation
composed throughout of citizens Of character
and good reputation, If we could elect the
whole number on general ticket. II some Of
our representatives will propose and secure
the passage Of such an amendment it will be
acceptable to all the respectable citizens Of
New York and Kings counties.
Year: 1867

We see that there Is further decline in the
price Of coal. and that the accumulation Of
stocks Is SO great that this article cannot be
quarried at the mines for what 1t is actually
selling at here. In this condition Of things the
Coal Consumers Associations, which worked
mines on their own account, arc compelled to
suspend operations. This result was to be
looked for; but what was not to be expected
Is the fact that the gas companies, which
kept up the price Of their gas on the ground
that coal was 90 dear, and who arc now selling
their coke at . little over two dollars chal-
dron, have made no corresponding reduction
in the price Of their light What are our
representatives in the Legislature about that
they do not take steps to relieve us from these
shameful impositionsi
Year: 1867

The WOrktngwOmeu's Protective UmIou.


The proceedings Of this institution, now over
four years in existence, have elected facts in con
nection with the position Of the workingwomen
Of this city which probably have not been
thoroughly understood and certainly have not
been very earnestly considered. 1t Is notorious
that this poor and comparatively helpless class
Of women are frequently and cruelty imposed
upon in many cases by those who employ their
labor and make profit out Of 1t. The sewing
girl is more hardly worked and more poorly
paid than any class in tho community; but
when, in addition to wearisomc labor by day
and night she has to submit to bullying en-
ployers, hesrtless Indifference as to her wants,
and often TO palpable fraud, her lot becomes
indeed hard one. 1t is In the latter cases
especially that this excellent institution-the
Workingwomens Protective Union--comcs to
her aid. During last year one hundred and
thirty-one complaints of imposition and de-
frauding Of wages were laid before the
directors, and the sum Of $441 was re-
covered for the poor complainants. This
amount, although not very large, was, no
doubt, q substantial benefit to the recipients.
and perhaps helped to stave on dire poverty
from some Of them.


An organization Of this kind deserves to be
sustained by the good and charitable. 1t fs Of
little use for philanthropists or philosophers to
deplore the existence Of what is called the
social evil. The best way to limit Its opera
tions Is to enable women to earn an honest
livelihood by paying them remuneratively for
their labor. There Ia more Of this vice at-
tributable TO poverty and the absolute neces-
sity for food and raiment than 10 any natural
depravity In the sex.
Year: 1867

returned to the tender mercies of Fernando
and Boole.


Our city and county expenditures are enor-
nous, and the city is badly governed at that
The Corporation "rings, with the Mayor at their
head, manage to concoct some very profitable
jobs, even with their present limited power;
and the various commissions, each acting
independently Of all other authority and
running their own machines, are certainly
somewhat costly luxuries. The only real
remedy for oil these evils lies In the adoption Of
q system of government that shall concentrate
the authority in one executive head and make
that head directly responsible to the people.
By this plan alone can the taxpayers rid them
selves at once Of extravagant commissions
and corrupt "rings." 1t Is to be hoped that
the State Constitutional Convention, which will
meet early in the summer, will bestow such
system Of government upon New York as that
before this time next year we may be reaping
its benefits But 1t must be one that will rid
US Of aldermanic and councilmanic profigacy,
a. we'll as Of spendthrift and irresponsible
commissions.
Year: 1867

The Fire Dcpartnent Bali-Charity tho Hand


maid Of Pleasure.


The Academy Of Music was inaugurated last
combined with mirth, fashion and music to lift
up the sorrowing and bring comfort to the
destitute. The widows and orphans Of the
members Of the old volunteer Fire Depart
ment are to be the recipients of the handsome
profits which must have accrued from
the ball last night, and, judging from
the appearance Of the house, the vast
crowds which filed it in every parton
the floor, with its kaleidoscope variety of color
and costume, and in the different tiers of boxes
and galleries, which were filed with hundreds
Of elegantly dressed people-the receipts must
this excellent charity. The community is not
ungrateful to the volunteer Fire Department
It has many obligations to fulfil with regard to
that institution, and perhaps no better way Of
releasing itself from those obligations could
have been devised than by inaugurating the
half of those who have been left as
sacred trust to the members OF
the organization, the widows and orphans
of the men who have died in the service Of the
public. Four hundred widows and their families
are now in receipt of pensions from this fund.
To keep the treasury full for this commendabIe
purpose the splendid ball OF last night was gotten
up. We trust that the receipts were common
surate with the good intentions Of those who
had it In charge, and we have little doubt that
the worthy object has met with as great pecu-
MARY success a. that which crowned the
occasion in a social point Of view. Nothing
could have been more appropriate than that
the new Academy should have had Its inaugu-
ration festival in the cause of so deserving .
charity as the Firemen's Widows and Orphan
Fund.
Year: 1867

to reinforce Mexico. were completely cut up
by the liberals on the 7th Instant at the pass Of
Monte de las Cruces.


Putting any coloring we please upon these
reports there Is abundant evidence to prove
that the liberal cause in Mexico Is on the high
way Of triumphant success; and we would not
be surprised to hear at any moment that
Juarez is permanently installed in the halls Of
the Montezumas, and that the unfortunate
Macmillan has left the country and aban-
doned his imperial aspirations upon Mexican
soil forever; or, that he has been cut of, run
down and captured, like the rebel General
Lee, In postponing his departure too long.
Year: 1867

BREvET PEoMor7oNs.-It is stated
that the House Military Committee will
at an early day take up the question of
brevet promotions, in consequence of
the hope expressed by many army Of
officers that Congress will abolish the
system, which they say has accomplish
ed all the good of which, it is capable,
and now produces only confusion and
jealousies. s-,.-
Year: 1867

Greeley's Pet Project In q Nut


shell.


From the New York Tribune


All that is needed, In our view, is a
simple notice over the door Of the
Treasury: "The United States have
Resumed Specie Payment. Every
railroad, steamboat company, every
mortgage, bondholdor, or receiver OF
fixed income of any sort, would be
interested in sustaining the Govern
ment in this return to solvency. Every
holder of greenback in the Rocky
Mountains, or on the Pacific Slope,
would be likewise interested in sustain
ing q step which made his paper mon
ey worth at least it's face in coin. And,
if all the insolvent rickoty, kito-hying
interests were to combine to break the
Government and force it back into
non-redemption, We are confident that
they could not draw one hundred mil
lions of coin from the Treasury. The
spirit might be ever so willing, but the
flesh would be weaker than dishwatcr


We have had a good grain crop just
coming forward, and Europe is buying
it rapidly at high prices. We are ma
king enormous quantities of cheese,
and its consumption by the laboring
class, especially Of Great Britain, is
rapidly extending We hayca cotton
crop just coming forward, which even
at the present reduced prices, will bring
$10O, geo, 600 il Europe, after supply
ing our own wants. Our tobacco and
petroleum sell largely and rapidly
abroad. We might resume to-day,
withouta SHADOW Of peril. For, if the
paper mcn should draw one hundred
millions Of coin from the Treasury,
what would they do with til They
could not eat it, and would not be apt
to throw it into the sea. Europe could
not draw it from us because she need
our staples more and we have them to
send her. So, il the coin were drawn
ont, our debt would be reduced by SO
much, the outdoor demand for specie
would be glutted, and the holders would
soon be glad to bring it back to the
Treasury and take bonds for it. And,
even if they should prove able TO force
us back into susp ension, we should on
ly be where we are now, with our debt
considerably reduced, specie every
where y drug, and the discount on
grecnbacks almost annihilated.


The true way to prepare for re9unp,
ton is to "reGume"
Year: 1867

The Alabama convention is slowly


pegging away, bat have resolved to ad-
journ sine die ON the 26th inst Among
the latest propositions on the subject
of suffrage, we note one extending the


right to vote "to all Confederate SOL
diers who have favored reconstruction
under the military bills, and to disfran-
elise all rebel editors who have oppos-
ed it, until 1876" Another is, that
"no person shall vote unless he will
take IN oath that on the 3rd of March,
1864, he preferred the government OF
the United States to the government oi
the SO called COnfederacy, and would
have abandoned its cause had he had
an opportunity to have done So"
Another proposition is. to pay the ne
groes at the rate sl0per month from
the issuance of the emancipation procla-
nation to the time they were actually
set free by the cessation Of hostilities
Year: 1867

The editor of the Muscatine (lowa)
Courier was sued the other day. BE
took it philosophically. Hear him:


"The dim recesses of our dark sane
tum were illuminated yesterday BY the
rubicund visage of our friend Consta-
bic Scott. Our hair stood on end as
with tears in his eyes lie proceeded to
read q very nicely printed blank on
which our name figured conspicuously
with that of Justice KLEIN. TO cut
short Il long article, we were sued,
Were you ever sued reader? Yes Z
Nice, amt it? We put our pen behind
our ear and looked wise at the officer.
He trcmblcd little, for the idea of sue
ing an editor was new to him. lie
never imagined that anything could be
got out of "them fcllers" BY aueing--
We didn't either. We don't now. The
art of suing is Il science. Young law
ycrs anxious for suits sometimes bring
them for fun. Old ones, however, new
or do anything OF the kind unless they
can get something, We never knew
anybody to get anything where there
wasn't anything TO be had. We hope
they'll get a judgement against us, then
we hope they'll take out an execution,
and lastly we beg they'll execute it.
If we've got any property we'd like to
know it. They might garnishec lot
of other fellows We owe around town.
We guess they will. II they are sharp
they'll commence on George Schneider.
We owe him for g glass ofbcer. If
they go. That it would help q little.
Failing in this We recommend them to
attack box ofsoiled paper collars we
have on hand. They haven't been
turned yet, and they might use the
clean side. If this won't do, we are
unable to help them.
Year: 1867

1t seems probable that a new system
of telegraph construction will soon be
adopted generally in England The
wires are 10 be laid side by side in tubes
buried under the bed of railway, each
being separately insulated in very
simple manner.