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Year: 1869

Having had desire to visit one of the Eng
lish steamers small party started on Wednes-
day afternoon to visit the HISTORIAN, which we
heard was to sail on Saturday. We believe we
never enjoyed an afternoon better, and our
hearty thanks are due to the gentlemanly
steward, Mr.. Healthy. and his attentive assist
ant, Mr.. Sloan. We were first shown into the
dining hall where everything for comfort and
qualification was collected. The musical in
strument which we tried was fine, the silver
spoons knives and forks, silver service, arrange
ment for dishes and the kitchen all attracted
our admiration in turn. We should fail to do
justice to the staterooms where everything for
comfort and convenience seemed combined
and if any persons are intending to cross the
Atlantic, we cannot give them better wish
than that the HISTORIAN" MIGHT carry them
across THE VIsITORs
Year: 1869

PROMENADE CoNcERT.-The First Parish
will give promenade concert on Tuesday
evening of next week, which bids fair to be an
occasion of peculiar briliancy. The music
will be something out of the common, and that
is saying a good deal.
Year: 1869

FIRE DEPARTMENT.-The committee on Fire


Department were in session last evening, and
we understand that it is intended to make
some important impro 7ements in regard to the


proper preservation of the hose, fire alarms, etc.
Year: 1869

USEFUL IIINTs.-A bit of Glue dis
solved in skim milk will restore crane.


Strong ley put in wator will make
it as soft as rain water.


Half cranberry, it is said, bound
on corn, will soon kill it.


Ribbons of every kind should DO
washed in suds and not rinsed.


Scotch snuff put in holes whero
crickets como out will destroy them.


A bit Of soap rubbed on tho hinges
Of doors will prevent their crcaking.


Wood ashes and common salt wet
with water will stop tho crack of
stove.


IF your flat irons are rough, rub
them with fine salt and it will mako
them smooth.


If you wish to avoid cold, keep
your mouth shut. The same plan al
SO keeps tho tooth from getting sun.
burnt and people from noticing them
if they arc.
Year: 1869

THE JEWISH New YEAR.-Sunday, at sun
set, was the commencement of the Jewish New
Year, and a two days feast is observed by all


the lsraelities. The Festival is called Rosh
Ha Shona, and is one of the most strictly OBJ
served of all the Holy days of the Jewish Cal
ender. The year of the Hebrews is composed
Of twelve and occasionally of thirteen lunar
months, of thirty and twenty nine days alter
nately. The year begins in autumn, as to the
Civil year, and in the spring as to the Sacred
year. The first month of the Sacred year, the
seventh month of the Civil year, answers gen.
orally to the moon of March and April The
first of the Civil year, which is to be observed
on Monday and Tuesday, includes the Feast Of
Trumpets, in obedience to the command" In
the Seventh month, in the first day of the
month, shall ye have Sabbath, memorial Of
blowing trumpets, holy convoeation." All
the synagogues will be opened during the two
days of the festival, and among the Hebrews
the days will be strictly observed by total
suspension OF business and strict attention to
the religious duties enjoined by the Rabbis.
Year: 1869

TIRED OF TIA Marylander (Kent co. J is
tired of TIE present system of farming. He
talks thus in one of our exchanges:


1t is becoming serious question whether
reconstruction. We buy fertilizers to raise
wheat, and the wheat does not pay for the fer
tilizers; we buy boxes to ship peaches, and the
peaches do not pay for the boxes-and to wind
up, we raise all the corn we can, and feed it to
a herd of hungry swine, and eat bacon till the
liver is torpid, and then the Doctor steps in to
take what little we may leave. I doubt very
seriously whether a single farmer in all Kent
county can exhibit the figures to show how
much any fertilizer has paid him above his or
dinary crop or show csSnclpsiyely s that the in
it may be in lime, bone dust, or ashes, which
permanently benefit the soil.
Year: 1869

The reports of Napoleon's health, guarded
and untrustworthy as such official bulletins al
ways are, show that there is reason for keen
anxiety in France, which the Empress sudden
abandonment of her trip to Constantinople will
not tend to allay. Probably there is no im%e-
diate danger of fatal termination of the mala-
dy, but it does not seem certain that Napoleon
is even convalescent as yet, and all France feels
that Imperialism is upheld by slender thread
indeed.
Year: 1869

We print in our Maryland items in this issue
an account of terrible fire that has broken
out in the woods in Worcester county, near
the Delaware line, which nothing but severe
rain will subdue. Our accounts are up to Sat
urday, when the fire was still raging. We also
give an account of serious riot and fire al
Drummondtown.
Year: 1869

The following is an extract from private letter
written by the PropretOrs OF the PantstiOn Bitters


I'VE had no conception of the wide spread suffer
duced by the Plantation BiLters when we first COM
menced offering them for sale We now find that
every house has weak child, an ailing parent, or
debilated aged member, who needs this Tonic. Our
Laboratory has grown from a single room 10 an i'm
mense building and sales from few bottles 10
many hundred dozens per day, and we are glad 10
know that they have done you so much good
Year: 1869

sault, the following item from It's lssne


of Saturday is submitted: "The small


est consumers pay for their dwellings


from S25 to $50 year. From these tg-


ures, others who burn more literally,


according to their need or ability. to


pay, run up to 500 and beyond" The


facts are these: A very large number


of private consumers pay scarcely %


per year, as the books of the Gas Com.


pany will show. Not single private


consumer in the city of Wheeling pays


s1OO per year. These facts are their


own comment. A candid public


may judge of the animus
which prompted the statement
here refuted. No man will complain of
a public journal for standing up for the
rights and interests of the community.


On the other hand, no man can see
either sense or propristy in the
course of a paper, which assuming to
champion public cause, deliberately
falsifies the record and presents as fact
that which, as in the above instance,
is readily proven to be un-
true. Reckless assertion may some
times serve the purpose of
sound argument. Doubtless it is in
tended to do 80 in this this case. But
unfortunately for the Inteligencer it
merely shows lack of facts upon which
to base an argument, if it does not in
dicate o purpose to excite improper
prejudice against an institution of our
city, to serve an object not yet disclosed,
but to which allusion may be made
hereafter.
Year: 1869




A decision from the Supreme Court
of the United States upon the constitu-
tionality Of the Missouri Test Oath for
voters is expected at an early day. The
st. Louis Republican is confident the
Court will deliver Favorable opinion"
that is an opinion declaring the Test
Oath unconstitutional, null and void.


The Missouri Oath for voters is the
same almost in words as that required
in West Virginia. If the former be un-
constitutional so is the latter. The de-
cision of the question will, therefore,
have far mere than ordinary interest
for the people of the State. Should it
be, as expected, adverse to the Oath,
its natural tendency would be to COM
plete at once the let mp" movement in
West Virginia. The Test Oath is the
foundation stone of our proscriptiye
system. Remove this and the whole
structure must fall, unless braced up
by some of the expedients in which the
Bitter. .enders" are so skillful.


Just here we would like to know, and
our city eotemporary will perhaps in
form us, what will be the policy of the
powers that be in case the Supreme
Court shall decide this Test Oath IN
constitutional Will they continue to
enforce it Their action in the matter
of the Lawyers Test Oath indicates
that they will. At the same time the
recent verdict rendered by the people
at the polls, may have O salutary effect
as a warning to our rulers. But Radi-
calism dies hard. In this State espe-
cially., where, il it once loses power it
is gone forever, we may expect it to
grasp at every device for lengthening
out its rapidly lessening days. Setting
at naught the decisionso of the Supreme
Court is not exactly the best method of
ensuring party ascendency, but as tenn
porary success is all the West Virginia
Radicals can hope for, and as they have
already defed the Supreme Court in
another matter to procure such tenn
porary success, We should not be sur
prised to see them adopt that line of
action again to secure the same object.
But popular sentiment is getting into q
state that is not encouraging to such
experiments.
Year: 1869

PITTSBURGH papers are Dragging over
their exemption from the ruinous effects
of the resent rain storm. Some years
ago the promise was given that there
should no more "be a flood to destroy
the earth," but it is generally conceded
that some day a general confiagratlon
will consume it. Possibly the "Smoky
City," escaping the waters, is merely
reserved for fiercer fate from fire and
birthstone. Let her remember the doom
of Sodom, turn from her Radical ways
and thus escape the wrath to come.
Year: 1869

SEwARp's passage through Mexico is
a grand triumphal procession. The
people there seem to appreciate hum
bugs of the Turveydrop variety. They
should complete their manifestation of
esteem by getting up a special rsvolu-
ton for the entertainment of the "little
belln ringer.
Year: 1869

ALLEN MISSION FEsTIvAL.-We trust the
friends of the Allen Mission School will not
forget to call at the Mission Chapel, ON Locust
street, this evening, to be present at the straw
berry festival. Donations of strawberries,
cakes and pies, are solicited from the numer-
GUS friends of the mission, and any article of
the kind left at the Chapel this afternoon will
be gratefully received
Year: 1869

WE understand that the Directors of the
Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Company
have not yet decided in regard to the route Of
the above road. The public are waiting with
interest for the result, and feel confident that
the best interests Of the city will be considered
at this important juncture
Year: 1869

celebrated yariety comnaqvs .uhieh lsaz-zz-..---,
a wide. spread celebrity during the past year
from the excellence of its various performers,
who have drawn crowded houses night after
night at the Howard AthenHum in Boston,
will make its first appearance at City Hall to-
night. If the company is the same, 'apd we
have no reason to doubt it, that we saw at the
Howard short time ago, we can assure our
readers that it is well worthy their patronage.
These is no necessity of taking each name in
detail, and dwelling upon its claims to public
favor. The record of every member is that Of
a champion in his liue City Hall will no
doubt be crowded both tonight and Monday
night.
Year: 1869

Ar the meeting of Post Bosworth last eve
ming, it wasvoted that the thanks of this Post
be rendered to its officers for the generous col
lation furnished on Thursday evening after in
stallatien
Year: 1869

PLAYED OUT The New York Telegram, a
Democratic paper published in New York
says: 'By the next election (PresidentiaD tbe
prestige of a good record during the war will
have been played out" What effect will thar
have upon the gallant soldiers and sailors
who fought the battles of the Union, from
patriotic motives and who were declared by
the Democratic State Convention at Bangor to
be entitled to the gratitude and support of
the people?
Year: 1869

AUSTRIAN MUsIc.-There is not in Europe
more musical city than Vienna. Not only every
female, but every man, IN respectable life, is
capable of taking part in a concert In making
up parties for the purpose of this delightful
amusement, no kind of formality of ceremony is
observed. gentleman wishing for quartette
or quintette in the evening, walks out in tho
morning for the purpose of inviting any friend
he may chance to meet; and, as the slightest
previous acquaintance is sufficient, no difficulty
occurs. The love of music is SO general, and
the ability to play on some instrument so COM
mon, that it is usual for gentleman not to en-
gage any man-servant who is not sufficiently
master Of some instrument to occasionally &C
company him, and join in his concerts, if wanted.
The number of music shops, and the rapidity Of
the sale of music in Vienna, are prodigious
and there is not a respectable private house
without piano-forte.
Year: 1869

APUzzLE FOR BIOLOGISTS. very interesting,
and, in one aspect, professionally important
discovery has been lately made at Antelope,
station four hundred and fifty miles west of
Omaha. In digging WE'LL for the railroad COM
pauy, there was reached, at the depth of sixty
eight feet, a layer Of human bones-undoubtedy
human, from the fact that there were q skull
and jaw, as we'll as other bones from the extrem-
tiles and the trunk. The excavaters assert that
in the process Of digging they have found layers
of bones in which the remains of elephants and
tigers were unearthed it being known to every
body that these animals are extinct species
this continent. 1t remains for the Savans to de-
termine whether these human bones were
| covered SO deeply by cateciasm or were deposit
ted there in prehistoric times, to confirm or cor
rect scientific opinion both as to the origin OF
the human race and the time of its existence on
this planet,
Year: 1869

The ART OF WRITING WELL.-To the influence
of associations language it is necessary for
every writer to attend carefully who wishes to
express himself with elegance. For the attain
ment of correctness and purity in the use of
words, the rules of grammarians and critics may
be sufficient guide; but it is not in the works
of this class of authors that the higher beauties
Of style are TO be studied. As the air and man.
uer o: a gentleman can only be acquired by liv-
ing babitually in the best society, so grace in
composition must be attained by an habitual ac-
ouaintance with the classical writer's. 1t is in
deed necessary for our information that we
should peruse occasionally many books, which
have no merit in point of expression, but be-
lieye it to be extremely useful to all literary
men to counteract the effect of this miscela-
neous reading by maintaining constant and
familiar acquaintance with few of the most
faultless models which the language affords. For
want of some standing of this sort, we frequently
see an anthor's taste 10 writing alter much to
the worse in the course Of bis life, and his later
productions fall below the level Of his essays.
Year: 1869

Lady Thorn and American Girl are matched IN 30
races for ST. 900 side In each race. The first race
will take place The Cd OF May ana the second on
the 10th OF that month. A good day and good
track are among the stipnlations. Both animals
have wintered well ara are in fine condition
for preparatory training. There is supposed to
be very little choice between the two mares at
present their status being abont the same as 1t
was last autumn at the close OF the troitng season.
The result OF these two races will afford an index as
20 the relative positions they win occupy in the great
race to take place at the Union Course on the I'd OF
June, when they viii meet Goldsmith Maid, George
wilkes, Myron Perry and Basbaw, Jr. These races
will be OF great service 10 both mares in putting
them In proper condition for the large purse that
win be hung up for them at the Union Course and
Prospect Park Fair Grounds.


During the favorable weather last week many OF
our horsemcn were out enjoying themselves on Har-
lem lane. The road has been greatly improved Of
iate but Is not quite SO good yet rs it ought to be
for speeding purposes. good many new horses
made their appearances; but II is too early yet to
judge of their merits. few weeks will suf'ce to
tell what they 10, and to verify or dsprove the
stove stable s.ories that have been aoat during
Sha winter
Year: 1869

The police Of the Twenty second precinct report
that at half-past twelve yesterday German, aged
nfty-two years, named Murray May, living at 42o
East Fiity-fourth street, shot his wife Eliza
beth in the right breast. The instrument
used was O gun loaded with shot. The contents
were discharged throug door, and thus the force
was nearly spent that but little injury inflicted
upon the woman. The report failed to state whether
the shooting was accidental or an attempt at mar-
der but, as May was arrested by officer Donohue It
s probable that the shooting was the result OF domes
tic nfeIicity,
Year: 1869

ing our mall every morning We wa.N 70 see the


orders of our correspondent dictated aIIe. the


close of business hours yesterday. The pro-


posed limit Of one cent for every five hundred


miles is simply the creation of barrier which


we believe to be wrong With equal justice
we might apply it to our postal system; yet


who would advocate to-day that we should
charge postage at the rate Of three cents per
half ounce for every hundred miles? Let us
have, then, truly American spirit in adopting
this great reform, and discard the Old World
idea that five hundred miles is an immensity.
The fallacies of cost in transmission will be
controverted by the facts of experience in tele-
graph practice, just as railroad practice has
taught that trus business policy inculcates
the carrying Of through passengers at a lower
rate per mile than local travel.


There is in thsse fallacies of the present
Telegraph managers another evil, and it is
welded to the bill now before the Senate COM
mittee It is the fallaoy that private enterprise,
meaning themselves, can do better in building
and managing telegraphs than government
can. We propose to meet this prepOster0us
claim with practice, not with argument. Let
the appropriation be made of sixty thousand
dollars, asked for by Mr.. Washburne last year,
for the purpose Of building an experimental
postal telegraph between Washington and New
York. We shall then know what it costs to
build and run telegraph line. Our great error
was committed twenty-five years ago, when
Professor Morse asked for an appropriation of
thirty thousand dollars to demonstrate the
feasibility Of telegraphc communication be-
tween Washington and Baltimore. The money
was granted and no man has ever regretted 1t.
But his major proposition TO make the tele
graph part Of our postal system was rejected,
and there we erred. To-day we have to repair
that error.


1t is the commercial portion of the commu-
nifty that is mainly interested in this great
movement, and their duty is to take the matter
into consideration and to act upon it. Con-
gress can hardly take mp the bill before the
proximate adjournment, and the interval
affords ample time. During the spring and
summer every Chamber of Commerce and
every Board of Trade should discuss the ques-
ton and adopt resolutions and memorial to
Congress asking for suoh action as they may
deem best to promote the commercial interests.
We call upon them to do this in an enlarged,
liberal and American view OF the vast results
involved. Let US have postal telegraph
system worthy Of our name and nation. The
press has spoken and is speaking everywhere
IN favor of it, and let the merchants do their
duty to themselves and to their age
Year: 1869

zen. Grants inaugural, which we print in
another column, is in marked contrast with
those Of his immediate predecessors. There are
an 1t none Of those aphoristic sentences to be
taken up by the people and made into prov
erbs, which abounded in the public addresses
Of Lincoln, none Of the aggressive spirit that
lurked in every paragraph Of our late acciden-
tai Presidents State papers, and hardly any
traces OF the accomplished politicians hand
such as were found in Buchanans inaugural
1t is the production of a man who Is chary vi
words and not gifted in the framing oil SEN
tenees; of.a man who thinks and acts more
than he talks and writes. Every line bears the
unmistakable impress of its author, and none
who read il will have the efrontery 10 charge as
they would be most glad to do, that he called
any friend to his aid in its composition. Its
rude strength land the telegraph has certainly
NOT taken of any Of its rough corners) win
commend it the more to the people, 10 whom
it conveys in firm but temperate tone these
welcome assurances:


First, there Is to be no more conflict between
the Executive and Legislative branches Of the
government Grant reiterates his former dec
larat'on that he shall have no policy to enforce
against the will Of the people. He will use the
veto power If he thinks best, but will execute
all the laws, whether approved by him or not


Second, the Presidents influence will be
given unreservedly against every form of re-
pudistion. There is no mstaking his language
on this point, or the effect of it in Europe,
where our bonds advanced yesterday to point
never reached before.


Third an tor h;o ia, 1.
control of his subordinates are able to secure
the collection of the revenue and its honest
and economical disbursement, these things will
be done.


Fourth, our foreign policy under Grant will
be firmer than it has been hitherto, but just
and cautious. Newspaper correspondents have
of late given the most extravagant accounts of
the fllibustering and sanguinary views of
Grant with respect to foreign nations. These
reports are not justified in the smallest degree
by anything contained in General Grants ad.
dress.


Fifth, Gen. Grant is. entirely in sympathy
with the party that elected him on the suffrage
question, and recommends the passage of the
10Th amendment as the best means of reaiz-
ing his most cherished sentiment, "Let us have
peace"


Verbal criticism has no function to perform
with language that clearly expresses views like
the above We have had thousand accom-
plished phrase makers to one honest and sue
cessful official. Mcclellan could write elegant
dispatches, but couldn't fight. 1t is enough for
the American people to know that Gen. Grants
administration will have earnest patriotism to
inspire it, and honesty, economy, Justice and
peace for its leading purposes.
Year: 1869

The city council of Buffalo are debating a
proposition of certain parties to build bridge
across the Niagara river between Buffalo and
Fort Erie. The Hon. G. j. Bridges, as agent
for the Grand Trunk Railroad Company, pro-
poses to transfer 100000 of the stock of that
company to the city of Buffalo to aid in the
construction of the bridge provided the city
will guarantee the interest upon bonds to the
amount of 81 1,350,OOO. The question OF voting
the proposed guarantee of interest will come
before the city council at its next meeting,
and is expected to pass.
Year: 1869

FIRE ON TUG BoAT.-Wednesday morning
the steam-tug Robert G. Getty was discovered
to be on fire. After short time, however the
crew succeeded in putting out the flames with


out the boat being materially injured. We
understand the fire caught from some waste
which was used in cleaning the engine, and
which was probably pretty well saturated with
Year: 1869

AccrDENT.-As the British brig Java, laden
with sugar, was hauling into the dock at Cen.
tral wharf yesterday, she shot by the wharf
and was carried up beyond Union wharf, SO
chat when the tide turned she was carried
afoul of the mud-digger lying there, then
swung around and stuck on the distractions.
The steam-tug Getty tried to get her off, but
did not succeed, and the Warrior next tried
her luck at the job, with better success. 1t
was very lucky she was got off, for if she had
remained there much longer her back might
have been broken
Year: 1869

hUFAwAY.-A horse, attached to a sleigh
took fright ON Commercial street and was off
at gallop, but when near the head of Central
wharf was very cleverly stopped by a man
who ran in front of him and seized the br;dle
as he was dashing by. No damage done.