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Year: 1869

THE CABINET DIFrIcULTY.-H was thought
that If the Senate showed any disposition to
be ugly with Grant in the confirmation OF
men for his Cabinet he could retain the present
incumbents and thus seriously bother the ten
ure Of Office meddlers. But this plank is
taken away by the resolution of the men now
in to resign their places to Andrew johnson
and retire with him. Grant will therefore be
somewhat at the mercy Of the Senate if that
body chooses to make fight with him on the
Cabinet. But the probability is it will not
will be 80 clearly in the wrong before the
country.
Year: 1869

Our latest special advices from Washington,
received last night, infoIm us that General
Grant has determined not to make known his
Cabinet selections until they are presented to,
confirmed by and published under the usual rules
of the Senate. Therefore all speculations on
the subject are mere gossip, which will do well
enough for breakfast-table talk, but afford no
substantial fare. There is only one point in
regard to the new Cabinet that seems to be
we'll established-that is, the retention of
General Schofeld as Secretary Of War
until the remainder of the Cabinet is
resignation of the Lincoln johnson Cabi-
net including Seward, McCulloch, Welles and
Browning, is expected to be unanimous and
nearly spontaneous. Attorney General Evarts
will also tender his resignation. Secretary
Welles, of the Navy, will 60 out at midnight,
the hour when shipyards yawn and wooden
hulks give up their dead. AS it appears well
established that General Grant is sincere in
his determination not to make known the
members of his Cabinet prematurely, even to
the persons selected themselves, it is possible
that some honest but obscure individuals, who
have never been burdened with public honors
or blushed under national distinction hereto
fore, will wake up on the morning of the 9TH
and suddenly find themselves famous. Wash
ington last night was alive with all sorts Of
rumors about the Cabinet, but the above gives
a condensed panorama of the real situation.
Year: 1869

ANoTHER DAM TO BE CARRIED AWAY The
extensive dam that has preserved the White
House from inundation through severe foods
for the past three years will be carried away
the day after to- morrow, and the waters will
rush in, sweeping everything before them
except the new broom. There will, however,
be Immediately constructed on Pennsylvania
avenue within few days thereafter dams Of
another and more emphatic sort.
Year: 1869

THE LUXURY OF BEING NUISANCE 1t
would only take five hours to change the gas


machinery so that gas could be made without
offensive odor, and the new process would be
cheaper than the old; but the Manhattan
Company will rather go into an expensive liti-
CATION than make the change. II cannot bear
to relinquish the luxury Of being nuisance.
Year: 1869

EeArIoNs.-The Southern radical delegations
in Congress waited on General Grant yester-
day and had quite an interesting interview.
The delegations assured the General Of the
loyalty of the South, and the General assured
endeavors to maintain peace and order in that
section, and that all the present military COM
manders would be changed with the exception
Of General Thomas. Nothing was said about
poor Sambo. The radicals seem to have drop
ped that unfortunate creature altogether.
Year: 1869

ductOn OF the interest the public debt secured by
keeping down the expenditures Of the Covernment to
tho lowest possible point aud by the honest Of
the revenues IL Is for Congress to keep down the
pendtures and 1t Is for the President TO ace that the


laws faithfully executed and that the revenues are
cOected but II is for Congress 10 also that they do
not keep the fetters upon the limbs OF the President so
10 render Ii impossible for him to faithfully execute
the laws 1t ia well to to the total expenditures
the Government for the last three years and IL is
couragng 10 observe that they have been gradually de-
Year: 1869

especially of the Holy Communion 30
that at last the presence Of God and the
glories of Heaven might be their. 10 have
and enjoy for ever.


After the administration of the Rite,
and before the confirmed class left the
Chancel, the Bishop was introduced to
each member, added some word af affec-
tionate regard or counsel


The Recessional was "Sun of my Soul
Thou Saviour dear, whose sweet notes
and holy words, as well as those of the
other hymns and chants of this whole oc-
casion will long linger in the memory Of
those who heard and enjoyed them.


The floral decorations of this evening
were most abundant, while the elegant
Pastoral Staff of the former Bishop, now
descended to the present Bishop. of yer-
mont, stood by the Episcopal Chair.


May God add His gracious blessing
to the entire services of this whole occa-
sion, and grant to all attendants thereat
such acceptable worship here that they
render him perfect homage in the world
TO come.


After the service, reception for the
Bishop Of the Diocese was given by the
members of the Convention and Of the
Parish ard their friends, at the residence
Of the Senior Warden. @.
Year: 1869

and weep for them tears of sorrow for


their sad condition, tears of repentance
for our own neglect, and worse than
neglect, opposition to the scanty and weak
handed efforts to enlarge parish useful
ness We need not fear to trust the Lord,
and we may all shrink from confidence in
the World and the Devil. Let us then,
by teaching ourselves and seeking to be
taught, and by teaching others exhibit our
love with all our mind. Let us by large
accession of love for our fellow sinners,
demonstrated by earnest effort for their
conversion and salvation, prove that we
love God with all orr heart Let us by
throwing down the parish barriers, by
opening the parish resources, by develop
ing the parish powers, for the benefit of
the tracts of country about us
where the church is unknown, exhibit
the unselfish purity of that love of
God which exercises our whole immortal
sonl
Year: 1869

EURoPE.-Six hundred political pris-
oners from Cuta noa at Fernando Po. are
soon TO be transported TO the Canaries.


The Spanish Cortes have passed the
new Constitution, and the Republicans
have announced their intention TO sup
port it.


Debate also took piece on Monday
in the Commons on ocean postage and the
treatment of the Fenian prisoners A
proposition TO create a committee TO in
vesiigate the treatment of these political
prisoners was rejected.


England's policy toward her American
Colonies was considered in the Common.
on Tuesday evening. In answer to am
enquiry the Unier-Secretary for the Co
lonial Department intimated that a part
of the policy of the Government is to
throw the cost Of seif-lefence upon each
Colony. The Dominion was advised in
directly to ratify the cession Of the Hud-
son Bay territory, when the proper time
should come, as thereby it's territory may
be extended from the Atlantic To the
Pacific.
Year: 1869

.Biliousness, INDIGESTION General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from q want of
proper action in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels. are eradicated by course Of this great
Year: 1869




Yes, there's another of 'em up stairs
now. knowod it cause papa told NE
must be quiet and sit down in q corner
with my books, and mustn't play ball, nor
ask Willie Smart to come in and help me
put up my puzzle together. Then there's
Il cross nurse that's always scolding me for
getting in her way, no matter where get.
Besides Miss Cadalf was here to-day, and
she took me on her knee, patted me on
the back just like the cook when l am
choking, and said my nose was another de-
gree out of joint, but knew better for
this is the third time she has told me so,
and it is no more out of joint than it ever
was. She's a hateful, goggle-oyed old
maid-that's what she is.


l saw it too. It's got little round,
red head, without any hair, with great
deep wrinkles instead of eyes; and when
it cries it opens it mouth as though it
meant to swallow itself. Pa helped me
upon the side of the bed, and told me to
kiss my dear, pretty little sister; and
when wouldn't, and called it a horrid
ugly little thing, he said | was a naughty
boy, and then the nurse shook me, and
said l ought to be ashamed. I didn't get
to kiss my ma at all. l knew better than
to try it, for once, when another baby
came, climbed up on the bed, and put
ting my arms around her neck, hugged
and kissed her; but all the time had
my knee on the baby's head so I was
whipped and put in my crib without any
supper because didn't know it was there.
Little Annie thinks it nice to have new
sister, but she was the baby before and
don't know any thing about it. l can re-
member long, long ago when ma used to
call me her "sweet little darling" and pa
dandled me on his foot and said I was
fine fellow" and aunt Julia declared that
| was "perfect little angel" but then
Tom came, and all my pretty toys were
given to him cause he was the baby, and
| was cufed and scolded by every body
'cept grandma, and she's good to me yet,
though there's been two other new ones
since.


[ wonder where all the babies come
from? Ma says the Lord sends them. |
wish he wouldn't send any more to our
house; we've got more'n enough now. 1t
might be nice for them if they could stay
little always, but they have to grow big af-
ter while, and then they amt no better
off than the rest of folks. I rather think
if I was baby I'd ask the Lord to send
me where I'd not grow any bigger, and
then I'd have nothing to do but to lie on
my back, and chew my toes, and have
folks say was the "darlingest, cuningost
little creature they ever laid eyes on"
Year: 1869

A couple of Yankee girls put bull
frog into the hired mans bed, to see if
they could get him to talk Daniel threw
the frog out of the window and said not
word. ESoon after ho put bushel of
chestnut burs into the girls bed, and
about the time he thought they would
make the least shadow, Daniel went to
their door and ratified the latch furiOusly.
Out went the light and in went the girls,
but they didn't stick, though the burrs
did. Calling to them, he begged them to
lie quiet, he only wanted to know if they
had seen anything of that pesky bull frog;
he'd gin two dollars to find him.
Year: 1869

A maA who represents himself as Ca
madam Railroad Agent, who calls himself
John Wallace, left his boarding house on
North Summer street last Monday with
out paying his board. He is man of
pleasing address and prctends to be very
courteous and obliging. He is not the
only one that getsyhis living in this man
ner. Some people make it practice to
go from one city to another and leave
the boarding-housos without paying their
bills Union and american.
Year: 1869

Ex-President Davis was interviewed, on
his recent visit with this result:


He is said to have expressed the hope
that the liberal Conservative Republicans
of the South and the Democrats of the
North would succeed in the Fall elections.
His estimate of parties is that the North
ern Democrats represent what is left of
the principle of self-government, or'White
Mans Government while the Conserva-
tive Republicans South represent all that
is left of the principle in that section.
Year: 1869

A printer is the most curious being liv-
ing. He may have bank, coins, and not
be worth cent; have small caps, and
have neither wife or children. Others
may run fast, but he gets swifter by set
ting fast. He may be making impressions
without eloquence /; may use the ley with
out offending, and be telling the truth /;
while others cannot stand while they set,
he can set standing, ,and do both at the same
time; have to use furniture, and yet have
no dwelling; may make and put away pi,
and never see pie, much less eat it dur
ing his life; be human being and a rat
at the same time may press great deal
and not ask favor may handle shoot
ing iron and know nothing about can
non, gun or pistol; he may move the lev
er that moves the world, and be as far
from moving the globe as hog under
mole-hill spread sheets without being
housewife, he may lay his forms on a bed,
and yet be obliged to sleep on the floor;
he may use dagger without shedding
blood, and from the earth he may handle
stars; he may be OF rolling disposition,
and yet never desire to travel he may
have sleeps foot, and not be deformcd:
never without case, and yet know moth
ing of law or physic; be always correcting
errors, and be growing worse every day !;
have embraces, without having the arms
of girl around him; have his form lock-
ed up, and at the same time be free from
Jail, watch-house, or other confinement;
his office may have a hell in it, and not
be bad place after all; he might be
plagued by the devil, and be Christian
of the best kind; and what is stranger
still, be honest or dishonest, rich or poor,
drunk or sober, industrious or lazy, he al
ways stands up to his business.


The Radicals confess that Grants oppo-
sition to Hamilton in Texas, has given him
strength, as it did Senter in Tennessee and
Walker in Virginia.
Year: 1869

nv LeiOhilIOuu I1AdHilAOl


"Dirt eating inI Virginia has not yet
assumed that morbid and disgusting form
when lump of clay furnishes a more
sumptuous repast than dish of good old
fashioned. bacon andF Fgreens.'"


Going the whole Reconstruction hog is
the bacon and green's of modern progress.


When Mark Twain was in the Holy
Land, the monks showed him the "Tomb
of ADAM" which evoked the following
gush from that super-sensitive nature:
"The tomb of Adam how touching it was
here in a land of strangers, far away from
home and friends, and all who cared for
me, thus to discover the grave of blood
relation. The unerring instinct of nature
thrilled its recognition. The fountain of
filial affection was stirred to its profound
est depths, and gave way to tumultuous
emotion. | leaned upon pillar and burst
into tears. deem it no shame to have
wept over the grave of my poor dead rela-
tive. Let him who would sneer at my
emotion close this volume here, for he will
find little to his taste in my journeyings
through the Holy Land. Noble old man
-he did not live to see me--he did not
live to see his child. And I-I--alas
did not live to see him Weighed down
by sorrow and disappointment, he died
before was boru--six thousand brief
summers before [ WAS born.O
Year: 1869

The Queen of Spain, we are told, re-
fuses to abdicate in favor of the Prince
of Asturias, and has been induced TO
take this course by the advice of friends.
We should have thought that, under the
circumstances, "abdicate" was not the
word to be used by monarch who was
driven from the throne without being
able to rally supporters enough to make
one decent fight. And we should
scarcely think that the abdication of his
mother would have increased the pros
poets of the youthful Prince of Asturias
very materially, or that her refusal to
abdicate will exercise much influence on
the course of events in Spain. But there
undoubtedly is certain party in Spain
which would gladly see the old dynasty
restored in some shape or form, and it is,
we suppose, in Difference to the advice OF
the leaders of that party that Queen Isa-
bella declines to renounce her personal
claims to the throne. She must be thor
oughly imbued with the Bourbon ina
bility to learn or to forget, however,
if she thinks that the adherents OF
her dynasty can ever restore it. 1t
is true that it seems impossible
at present to manufacture King
out of any foreign princeling, that there
are difficulties in the way OF electing a
born Spaniard to the throne, and that the
majority Of the Spanish people are still
averse to the idea of republic. But it
by no means follows because of all this
that Spain is prepared to revert to lsa-
bella, or accept any puppet that might be
put up in her name. We rather fancy
that Queen Isabells's refusal to abdicate
is of Just about as much political impsr-
tsnce as her abdication would have been
and no more. In one respect, sup
posing her to be actuated only by sim
cere desire to preserve the dynasty, her
decision is scarcely complimentary to the
Spanish people. The Prince of Asturias
at least has hitherto preserved an un.
blemished character, aud has not prsc-
tically exhibited any utter incapacity for
government. And yet Queen Isabella
considers herself likely to prove the more
popular candidate ofthe two.-New York
Times
Year: 1869

From Appleton's Journal j.


The devotion of the French mother to
her children is very great, and her house-
while nowhere can be seen greater dis
plays of devoted affection and demon-
strative foudness than in well ordered
French household. Frequently, even
after the marriage of the younger mem
bers, the united families continue to live
together under the same roof-and the
pleasing spectacle is often exhibited of
three generations sitting daily at the
same board, and dwelling together under
the patriarchal control of the grand
parents. The separation of families,
almost universal with us, when the new
scions are usually transplanted to the
West, and the parents are left solitary in
their old age, while their offspring are
peopling new regions, far from the old
homestead, is not 30 common in France,
and the tendency is to cluster together,
not to scatter. Thus the parental in.
fuepce is felt and exerted throughout
life, the experience and wisdom of age
over tempering the wild and head
long ardor of youth and the maturer
plans of manhood; for the foundation
Of all society is in the family, and
the stronger that tie, the healthier and
happier will be the society built upon it.
In all societies, woman gives it the tone,
whether as mother, wife and head of a
household and the training she receives
determines the measure of her influence,
and the good or evil effects it produces.
Tho training of the French girl is excep-
tionably good for the purpose, and her
purity of mind and freshness of feeling
preserved by the system, which is sneered
at by those who do not comprehend it.
The parental supervision of the boys is
very strict; but that over the girls is
stricter still, and they are treated as chill
dren up to the period of assuming the
obligations of the heads of households
the mselves, and guarded as carefully
from all contact with the other sex as
under different system in the East.
The mind and heart of young French
girl, tenderly Hurtursd, are like virgin
page of paper on which no Impressions
have yet been msde-innocent of evil
thoughts or deeds, and unhackneyed by
premature experiences. The will of the
parents has ever been the child's law;
and that pernicious make. believe love-
making, styled Irritation lin which
young Americs indulges freely on enter
ing her teens-the French girl would
shrink from as immodest and shameless.


The French girl is taken early into So
ciety, but always under her mothers
wing and strict supervision; and her
shrinking modesty and timidity of man
ner surprise the American or English
man, accustomed to the frank fearless
ness of his fair young compatriots, who
agree with the poet Burns that


"A mans a man for a. that"


and by no means an alarming creature.
"The Girl Of the Period" as dissected in
Saturday Repieio and Echoes from the
Clu6s-who doubtless exists on that side
Of the channel, and whose imitators, with
the aid Of strong glasses, we can detect
on the Fifth avenue and on Broadway
even here--is unknown in France, who
may export her native follies, but never
imports one from abroad, not being an
initiative country in such matters.
Year: 1869

An extraordinary fallacy is the dread
of night air. What air can we breathe
at night bat night air2 The choice is
between pure night air from within. Most
people prefer the latter. An unaccount-
able choice. What will they say if it is
proven to be true that fully one-half of
all the disease we suffer from is occa-
stoned by people sleeping with their win
dows shut2 An open window, most
nights in the year, can never hurt any
one. This is not to say that light is not
necessary for recovery. In great cities,
night air is often the best and purest air
to be had ia the twenty-four hours. /
could better understand shutting the win
dows in town during the day than during
the night, for the sake of the sick. The
absence of smoke, the qniet, all tend to
make night the best time for airing the
patient


One of the highest medical authorities
on consumption and climate has told me
that the air Of London is never so goUd
as after ten clock at night. Always air
your room, then, from the outside air, if
possible. Windows are made to open,
doors are made to shut--a truth which
seems exceedingly difficult of apprehen-
sion. Every room must be aired from
without every passage from within.
But the fewer passages there are in hos
pital the better.-Florsncs Nightingale
Year: 1869

As relief from the surfeit of magnif.
cence in the decoration of the palace Of
Fontainebleau, where the French Court
is to pass the summer, the ordinary
rooms are as plain as can be. The EN-
peror's bed chamber is absolutely without
ornament; his bed has BOT even curtains;
by its side is green silk screen, which
can be folded or opened and placed
against the bed. The walls are Of wood
wainscoting, painted white. The Em
press bed chamber and dressing-room is
decorated quite as plainly, and her sit
ting room has no ornament, except a
marble group.
Year: 1869

The PresbyterIans yesterday cele-
brated the union OF the Old and New
School Churches, by joint comnun-
lon at the Central Church In the alter
noon, and joint meeting at Walnut
street Church In the evening, both Of
which were largely attended.
Year: 1869

On this subject, the Hearth and
Home has the following:


The most plausible argument thst
can be advanced against the practice
Of plowing the ground around fruit
trees Of any kind is the fact that
every tree will send out system of
coronal roots just beneath the sur
face Of the soil, which will again
throw out branch rootlcts in a hori-
zontal direction, all Of which will
continue to, multiply until the entire
surface Of the ground is completely
occupied with open mouths Of hun
cry rootlets, ready 10 drink in the
first supply of nourishment that is
dissolved by the falling showers. 1t
is as much legitimate habit Of a
fruit tree to provide close network
Of roots, near the surface Of the
ground, as it is to send other roots
downward into the earth. Every
fruit tree, most decidious ornamental
and timber trees, as well as ever
greens Of all kinds, when growing
on dry upland, will send down a
long tap-root for the purpose Of
reaching moisture, to supply the
growing branches during a dry pc
riod in the growing season. Let the
tap-root be removed, and the tree
will make but slow growth, because
its habit has been interferred with.
The same is true touching the upper
system Of coronal, orsecondary roots,
near the surface Of the ground. These
are, what are properly called, the
feeders Of the parent stem. They
should not be mutilated nor removed,
as they usually are cut of and torn
away by the plow. All vegetation
should be kept down, around fruit
trees as far from the body as the ex-
tremity of the longest branches, by
hoeing the surface over frequently, or
by the application Of few inches in
depth Of q mulch. Fruit trees may
bear we'll when every coronal root
has been removed with the plow but
II those roots had not been removed,
the cray Of fruit would have been
more abundant.
Year: 1869

Don PIArr os THE RADs.-Hear him in one Of lis
last letters:


must say, in all fairness that do not wonder that
General Grant shriks in dismay from contact with
the crowd and gets poor opinion Of politicians, from
the specimens presented here. We have class Of
men belonging to all parties, but especially to the Re-
publican organisation that seek to live politics. and
if possible grew rich in office Their entire time is
taken up either in holding seeking Office This is
more the case with the Republican than with the DEM
oeratic party. We have large number of voters
who take 10 other part i'll politics than to vote and
these delegate the business, it WERE to these self
constituted agents, who their trust to place them
selves i'll the official positions The Democratic party
on the contrary, is made up of who take an in.
erest in the business and award the Offices more gen.
orally to people WHO have other claims than the brassy
check of pot-housc Caucus