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Year: 1869

We find in an exchange, without credit,
a marvellous story of wild goose which
was shot few years ago in Washington
Territory, and in whose craw was found
q few grains of wheat Being very large
and full, they were preserved and planted.
The yield was found to be so great as to
lead to its propagation, until this variety,
which is known in the Territory as the
Goose Wheat" has become a standard
enc in that section Of the country.
Samples of this wheat were recently sent
to the agricultural department at Wash.
ington. Upon examining the samples at
the museum. of which there are some two
Thousand varieties, the same wheat was
found. being one ofihe samples sent from
the Paris Exposition, and grown in
Cuenea, in Spain.
Year: 1869

his wife. They lived together in peace
and happiness long while. A son was
born out of this marriage. Finally, the
husband of the girl was taken sick with
that terrible disease, consumption, and
died, leaving the girl widow with her
child. During the illness of her husband,
the latter received kind consideration at
the hands of his parents, although they
never, in person, visited his bedside.
Soon after the death of her husband the
widow and child came to this country with
her father and mother They settled in
this city. The father and mother took up
home for themselves, while the widow
went out to service in a well-known fam


lily living on Washington avenue. She
had been there for long time, and was
honored by her employers. Last week
she received a letter, announcing the fact
that the whole estate Of her husbands
father, amounting to. e500,0O0, had been
bequeathed to her son. Arrangements
were at once perfected, and on Wednesday
last, the servant girl, accompanied by her


father, sailed from New York to Liver
pool, to look after the fortune coming to
them.-1L60nu RnIckerb0cker, AAgust 21.
Year: 1869

We have just heard of a rather roman


tic story, which has transpired in this city.
! the truth OF which we can vouch for, not
withstanding its sensational proelivities


A few years since, girl living as domes-


tic in an sristocratic and wealthy family
of Liverpool, England, won the affections
of son of that family. The young man
became smitten of his inamorata, and re-
solved upon marrying her. When he
. made his intentions known to his parents,
serious opposition was manifested. The
girl, although good one, virtuous and
honest, was not in keeping with the fami-
ly standing in society To marry such a
one was considered disgrace in England,
especially when the family of the young
man is of the highest blood. Notwith-
standing all this, the young man cast aside
! all family ties and married the poor girl OF
his affections, who was only servant in
his fathers house. The result was, that
the boy was driven from the parental
roof and took up his humble abode with
Year: 1869

AT Buffalo, recently, a pet Cushat dove
was lost for seven days, and when found
was between two closely joined houses. so
confined that it could not escape. The bird,
it is thought, had nothing to eat for the
seven days, but when rescued was as live
~ as O cricket,
Year: 1869

On Friday morning last morse attached to lager
beer wagon, belonging to New Jersey brewer fell
ON the icy road In Canal street, near LaIght and
broke one OF his legs. The harness was taken or
and the driver went his way, Gndinz other means OF
taking his truck with him. and the horse iay In that
puDuc tnoroughare suffering great pain until half
past four O'Clock yesterday Afternoon hen it died.
For about seventy hours the unfortunate animal,
formed the nucleus OF attraction Tor OF chill.
dren, VINO INDUCED IN the promising sport OF kick
Ing pelting and pulling the aud tail OF the poor
beast to make IL rise TO Its ieet During
most OF the time the horse lay on its side q.
very unnatural position, and through the recent cold
nights Its covering was little straw. policeman
states thai on Saturday the owner Of the animal
came for the purpose OF removing It, but abandoned
the idea for the reason that the horse insured
for 5000, and he was afraid that II the creature
died while being taken away the Insurance com pany
would quibbe out OF paying the amount OF The
policy. Brutality like this gives an early turn In
many cases to the character OF boys. and twas
strange yesterday to see little children with sabbath
school books In their hands exulting over the
struggles OF dying brute This city has the reputa-
ton OF having = society for tho prevention u
cruelty to aninlala.
Year: 1869

ATLANTA, Georgia, March 10.-The
Governor : message transmitting the
Fifteenth Amendment was taken up
aud read by both Houses to day. The
Governor says it is source of great
qualification to the lovers Of liberty
and of Republican principles through
out the country that Congress has
given this further pledge that the
declaration of our fathers-"All men
are created equal shall be recog-
nized as a reality, and no longer con-
sidered as a mere empty sound. The
ratification of this amendment by
your body and the recognition of its
requirements, together with those ofthe
Fourteenth Amendment, which are
as yet disregarded, will secure for us
full and complete recognition as a
State; dissipate our political differ
ences, and set at rest finally and for
ever those feelings of uncertainty and
insecurity which now excite and dis
turb a large portion of our people.


The Fifteenth Amendment has
been made the special order for Fri
day in the Senate, and for tomorrow
in the House.
Year: 1869

WASHINGTON, March IL, 1869.
Hon. h. B. EIastburI1e, Secretary Of State :
DEAR SIR: Your resignation of the
Office of Secretary of State, with rea-
sons for the same, is received. In
accepting it, l do so with regret that
your health will not permit you to
continue ia the office or some Cabinet
position. Our personal relations have
been such from the breaking out of
the rebellion to the present day, and
your support of me individually in the
army and its cause such that no other
idea presented itself more strongly to
my mind on my election to the Presi-
dency than that [ should continue to
have your advice and assistance. In
parting with you, therefore, [ do so
with the assurance OF continued con
fidence of your ability, zeal and
friendship, and with the hope that
you may soon be relieved fcom the
physical disabilities under which you
have iabored for the last few years.


Very respectfully,


Your obedient serv't,


u. S. GRANT.
Year: 1869

THOSE CABs.-When shall we see those
graceful and commodious Hansoms whirling
along our streets? Some envious persons and
papers have insinuated that the bill which
passed the Legislature the other day, incor-
porating the ''Hansom Cab Company" was
only blind to prevent other parties from
establishing line of cabs in the city. We
are informed, however, that the company is
sustained by large English capital; that cabs
are being built in England for shipment as fast
as possible, and that the company intends to
carry out all the provisions Of the charter at
the earliest moment. We hope that there will
be no disappointment about 1t. The public
are anxious to have a good line of cabs run
ming at moderate rate offare and under good
regulations.
Year: 1869




We publish to-day an abstract of the second
days proceedings of the radica. convention In
Nashville. We might give longer abstract,
for the Nashville papers contain several
columns of the report, but it is so dashed,
double dashed, and extra double dashed of,
like a Georgia cornAeld laid out in rows ready
for planting, that more of it might confuse our
readers and render what we already give al
most perfect blank. These reports Demon
strate that the convocation was among the
most disgraceful of any. kind that ever assem-
bled In the State. It's proceedings were
marked by profane and vulgar declarations
that would have caused those who uttered
them to be thrown from the windows of con-
gregation Of horse thieves and cutthroats. Il
is absolutely humiiating to the whole Ameri-
can people that any political organization in q
State in the Union should so outrageously con-
duct itself In its representative capacity in
public hall. No term of opprobrium is too
strong to apply to blackguards who befoul
their party and their country as
these Tennessee radicals have just done.
But what is the cause of all this
political Generalization? It can safely be
ascribed to the polluted political career Of
such intolerant radical leaders as Parson
Brownlow, who, with one foot in Satan's do
minions and the other in the United States
Senate, scarcely knows which way to turn for
either spiritual or political salvation. He
seems to have endeavored to make the reign
of Satan as complete In Tennessee as possible
in order that the contrast might not be so great
hereafter Tennessee must repudiate such
men altogether or live in constant terror of po-
litical and social Ku Kluxes until she does. OF
course the radical convention burst up In
row without efecting nomination-the con-
test being between Senter, the successor Of
Brownlow, and Stokes, radical member Of
Congress-. Andy johnson did not come in
anywhere. Indeed, he seems to be nowhere in
Tennessee just at this time; but 1t will be
among the wisest acts of his life if he man
ages to steer clear Of every such shameless
gang of bummers as that which has lust dis
graced by their presence the capital of the
State. The radical party in Tennessee, thus
being hopelessly split, why do not the con-
servatives rally once more and endeavor to
right the ship of Statep
Year: 1869

TAKING ADvICE.-Grant was informed by
his official legal adviser that there was no
warrant in the Eight Hour law for giving men
ten hours pay for eight hours labor, and he,
therefore, did the thing by proclamation, sup
posing, perhaps, that his proclamation was .
sort of supplementary law. An attorney gen.
eral, then, is person whose advice is of no
account when II stands in the way, but is all
important when 1t affords pretexts for disre-
garding laws men do not wish to obey.
Year: 1869

A NEW NATIONAL CuAIN.-It Is stated In
Texas paper that ''chain Of cattle and horse
droves" for Northwestern cities has been cross
ing the Brazos at one point for three weeks
past. This is expressive of the value Of Texas
as grazing and produ cling country, and es-
tablishcs another import ant link in the chain
of national union.
Year: 1869

BIGOTRY vs.. CHRIsrIANITY.-The New
School Presbyterians in session in this city
adopted, one day last week, aresolution recon-
mending the Grand Army of the Republic to
change the day from Sunday to Saturday next
for the decoration with flowers of the graves
Of those brave soldiers who died that the
nation might live, because these Presbyterian
Pharisees hold that this Christian service on
Sunday will be ''desecration ofthe Sabbath. -
We are glad to hear that this outbreak of Puri-
tanical bigotry will not be regarded by the
Grand Army Of the Republic. OF all
the seven days Of the week Sunday
is the very day for this service
this beautiful religious tribute of respect to
our dead heroes. It will be in the highest
sense keeping the Sabbath day holy, this rev.
erential sprinkling of our soldiers graves with
flowers. The Founder Of Christianity himself
was once taken to task by roundhead for
desecrating the Sabbath, and these New School
Presbyterians concerned In this aforesaid reso-
luton belong to the same order Of bigoted sim
pletons. How they would roast all disbe-
LEVERS In their senseless crotchets II they had
the power! What q glorious blessing is re-
ligious liberty!
Year: 1869

SIGNIFICANT.-It is a somewhat significant
fact that the only speaker at the late radical
convention scrimmage in Nashville who sue
ceeded in commanding attention was colored
delegate from an interior county.
Year: 1869

NOVEL PoLIoY OF AUsTRn.-The Austrian
government has named the descendant Of
famous Polish Czartoryski-Governor
Of Galicia. This appointment Is regarded as
an anti Russian demonstration made openly
by the Cabinet In Vienna. If England inter-
preted the case Of every Irishman In Office in
New York in similar sense she would have
been either vanquished by or at war with
the American people long since.


Doos.-One great public benefit Is likely to
grow out Of the law for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals. Mr.. Bergh, in his sym
pathy for the dog, is likely to force upon pub
lie attention some knowledge Of the real facts
of hydrophoba, and thus prevent much evil
resulting from ignorance and panic. He could
not do better with the funds of his society than
| 70 put in gratuitous circulation q well written
pamphlet on rabies. 1t must be better written
than bis letter to Hoffman, and must take the
true ground that there is no spontaneous by dro-
phobis, but that the disease is always copzmu
nicated from dog to dog as smallpox ID srou
man 70 man.
Year: 1869

prefer peace. If war should become neces-
sity, war with Great Britain would have for
ms a. few terrors a. war with any other
Power. We know that Great Britain is
mighty and dangerous as q foe; but we
know nothing Of fear. We know what we
have done; we know what we can do; and
any Power that will attempt to trample upon
us will feel that we, too, are mighty and dan
gereus. But we prefer peace to war; War
could occasion us but little loss 1t might
bring us something In the shape Of gain.
Peace, however, Is more to our mind. We are
now doing well. II is something to be able to
say that we are reducing our debt by some
seven or ten millions of dollars month. In
all the arts OF peace the success which
has attended us since the close of the war
Is In the highest degree encouraging.
We wish to 60 on peacefully, believ-
ing that the enormous prosperity which
has attended us In the immediate past is but
an imperfect foretaste Of the prosperity which
will attend US in the immediate future. We
do not want to bully, but we will not be bullied.
offence. We have simply said that we like not
and will not have your terms. We have stated
the case as we understand it; but we are not
pressing. We are disposed to be magnani-
nous. We can wait for months, for years, if
need be; but we cannot, we will not abate one
jot or title of our just demand. War, how
ever, Is not necessarily connected with the
maintenance Of our dignity, our pride, our
national honor. We are willing to say, 'Let
us have peace;" but we are not willing to say,
England has done us no wrong"
Year: 1869

walked to-day in the ancient wood


That the brook mcandcrs through,
And thought that again sweet Annie stood
On the bank where the violcts grew.
That again gazcd in her clear blue eye,
And held her hnud in mine;
While the little strcamlci, lnurmuring by,
Made melody divine.
thought that she culled from the bank at


her feet,


a bunch Of the fairest there;
And once she kissed the violcts sweet,
AS she bound them with her hair.
But alas dream the old oaks sigh
Der the violcts fresh and fair
And the streamlet sings Gs it passe es by,
But Annie is not there.
And the only thing that remains, to tell
That my drcamings once wcrc truth,
That once wo stood in the leafy dell,


In the golden spring of youth. ..
Is n bunch Of dry and withered flowers,
And n lock Of sunny hair;
But these sing TO me of happy hours,


Like voices on the air.
And forever that spot in the ancient wood
A sacred place shall be
because twas there sweet annie stood,


And plucked the flowers for me.
Year: 1869

A GooD SUGGESTION. We are glad
10 notice in many of the leading Jour
nails of the country the suggestion
that the ceremony of decorating the


graves nf the daad who cali =. +hs lot.


war be discontinued in the future. OF
course all will appreciate and applaud
the motives that actuate and inspire
these annual floral offerings. They
are the true poetry of affection. But
we doubt If the memory Of the dead


would not be much more appropriately
reverenced by substituting a Contri-
button Day for a Decoration Day,
Let there be one day in the year set
apart, North and South, for the col
lection of a fund for the care of the
widows and orphans of tho fallen
heroes, whose wants cannot be sup
piled by such ceremonies as those OF
May 30lh. If Che dead of the two seq
tions could speak, we believe they
would urge the change There cannot
have been less than several hundred
thousand dollars expended through
ont the country, in decorating the
soldiers graves. This sum would


provide for great many whom the
war has left without a husband or
father. Paid annually, it would sus.
tain splendid institution for their
support ond education. Erie Observer.
Year: 1869

Intellect can't bear fashionable re-
fnemcnt, and dies under Il in one or
two generations If you would select
youth who is likely TO make bis mark
in the world, take one who is carting
mud in q clam shell wagon, or building
houses in the sand; and not the deli
cate baby who is fondling China lap
dog on the parlor carpet. Daniel
Webster's father cuta cradle for little
Dan. out Of a pine log, with an axe
and auger; and Lewis Cass was rocked
by his staid New Hampshire mother,
in a second hand sugar trough. Tho
greatest architects for the manufacture
Of genius are Poverty and RePgb-
licanism.
Year: 1869

Second Spain to grant a general amnesty TO the
insurgents.


Third. Cuba to pay Spain for all the Spanish pro-
perty on the island and for all the property Of loyal
Spanlards destroyed by the insurgents


Fourth. Suffrage to be granted to all the popula-
tlon OF the island, so that the people may have an
opportunity to decide whether they will remain with
SPAIN or whether they prefer to be separate and in


Fifth. Spain will guarantee full protection to such
OF the insurgents as may be selected to come through
the lines OF the Spanish army, for the purpose of
treating with the representatives OF the Spanish
Government for settlement on the basis OF these


Sixth. The United States to guarantee to Spain
debt P'''''O


In reply to the above Secretary Fish sent
despatch by cable stating that the Government
of the United States was glad TO know that Spain
accepted its mediation in the difficulty which
had arisen between Spain and Cuba. Inasmuch
as the attempt at negotiation for a settlement
had been thus far successful, he trusted the
interest TO accept the proposition offered
by Minister Sickles. Mr.. Fish in this de-
spatch made no allusion to the substitute pre-
sented by Spain, which may be regarded as
n refusal on the part of our Government to ac-
cept it, or indeed to take any notice of it, The
representatives of the Cubans in this country
have already signifed to Mr.. Fish that under no
circumstances will they accept the proposition
basis of settlement submitted by General Sickles
is their ultimatum. Since the reception of
SPANS substitute, and the reply of Secretary
Fish thereto, about half dozen kilograms
have passed between Minister Sickles
Secretary Fish They are merely
advisory of the situation, however, and re-
port no material progress. Judging from their
contents, Mr.. Fish is of opinion that Spain will
ultimately accept the original proposition offered
by the United States. 1t appears that recently
Serrano, as well as majority of his Cabinet, are
convinced that the wisest and best thing for them
to do is to take the Cubans at their word and get
the hundred millions, of which poor Spain stands
so much in need. The trouble is, however, that
heretofore the Spanish people have been kept in
profound ignorance as to the true proportions
and condition of the insurrecton in Cuba. They
have been led to believe through their press,
which is controlled by the Government, that the
rebellion was insignificant, and that in a short
time everything would be quiet and Cuba would
become once more the faithful isle" Serrano
and his counsellors are in reality afraid to reveal
the true state of affairs which the acceptance
of the proposition of the United States would
do. 1t is thought, therefore, that, as already
stated in these dispatches, final action will be
postponed until a king is selected.
Year: 1869

PICTUREs.-A room with pictures in
it, and Il room without pictures differ by
nearly as much as room with Windows
and room without windows. Nothing.
we think is so melancholy, particularly
to person who has to pass much time
in his room, as blank walls and nothing
on them; for pictures are loopholes Of
escape to the soul, leading it to other
scenes and spheres. What an inexpres-
sible relief it is t. person engaged in
writing or even reading ON looking up
not to have his line of vision chopped
square off by an odious white wall, but
to find his soul escaping as it were.
through the frame of an exquisite pic.
ture, to other beautiful and perhaps
idyllic scenes, where the fancy for a mo-
ment may revel refreshed and delighted,
Is it winter in your world perhaps it is
summer in the picture; what a charm
ing momentary change and contrast
And thus pictures are the CONSIDERS OF
loneliness, they are relief to the jaded
mind; they are windows to the impris-
oned thought; they are books, the y are
histories and sermons, which can be read
without the trouble of turning over the
leaves.
Year: 1869


There is many rest in the road Of life,


five would only stop to take it
And many a tone from better land.


fthe querulous heart would make it!
So the sonl that is full Of hope,


And whose beautiful trust ne'er laileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright
Though the winter storm prevaileth.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through
When the ominous clouds are rifted
There never was night without day,


Or an evening without morning;
And the darkest hour, as the poverb goes,


Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the-path Of life,


Which We pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweIed crown,


Or the miser's hoard of treasure;
Il may be The love ofa little child,


Or mothers prayer to Heaven,
Or only beggar's grateful thanks


For cup Of water given.
Better to weave in the web Of life


A bright and golden filing,
And to do Gods will With ready heart,
And hands that are ready and willing;
Than to snap the delicate, minnie threads
OF our curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit aad grieve and wonder.
Year: 1869

In every cline under the sun firtations
have been indulged in from time immemo-
rial, but perhaps in no age more extensively
than our own. Can any one recall a seaside
recollection, a ball or party reminiscence, the
memory Of a days blitbe and careless ex-
cursion, or, indeed, any pleasure or a ike
character, in which those of opposite sexes
participated, unmarked by one or more fir
tations?


It's somewhat remarkable that even the
most desperate hirts win rarely acknowledge
-uselves guilty of flirting. They demons
inl his species of amusement under vari-
Gus names, as though the name, and not the
thing itself, oppressed the conscience. The
only two classes, however, into which fir
tations can be divided, are Innocent and
wicked, What an innocent Irritation may
be, we leave for those who understand it to
define The author of book of essays.
called The Gentle Life, mildly defines q
wicked Irritation as the exercise of our
powers of fascination and of pleasing, with
the express purpose or conveying to the
mind Of a person of the opposite sex the as
suTanee that his or her society is particular
ly agreeable to US. There are a thousand
ways Of doing this, and every way is wrong.
A word, a squeeze of the hand, gesture Of
admiration, or, at times, one Of impatience;
viii equally serve, and viii send back the
blood to the heart Of a silly girl with hut-
ter of impatient and tumultuous JOY. Both
sexes are equally to blame; for this kind Of
filtration Is a species Of lying, and one can
lie with the eye or the hand as well as with
the tongue


We think It was Bulwer who said in one
of his early novels, that conscience is the
most elastic material in the world. To-day
you cannot stretch it over a mole-bill, TO
morrow it hides mountain. The first
triaing With hpman heart occasions re-