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Year: 1869

Sun.baths cost nothing, and are the most refresh
ing, fegving baths one can take, whether sick Of
we'll Every housekeeper knows the necessity Of
giving her woollens the benefit Of the sun, from
time to time, and especially after long rainy sea
son. or long absence ofthe sun. Many will think
Of the injury their clothes are liable to from damp
ness, who will never reflect that an occasional ex
posure of their own bodies to the sunlight is equal
|ly necessary to their own health.


The sun-baths cost nothing, and that Is q mis-
fortune. for people are still deluded with the idea
that those things only can be good useful which
cost money, and they will cheerfufly pay away
their money for Turkish and Russian baths, wher
they could get any number of sun-baths, which
would be far more beneficial to them, for nothing


Let it not be forgotten that three Of Gods most
bepifcent gifts to man-three things most neces
sary to good health sunlight, fresh air and wat
er, are free to ALL you can have them in abun
dance without money and without price, if you
will. Ifyou would enjoy good health, then see te
it that you are supplied with pure air to breathe
all the time; that you bathe for an hour or &c
every day in the sunlight; and that you quenct
your thirst with no other fluid than water. ..
In regard to sun-baths, let any invalid, who
reads this and who has been housed for some time
take an occasional walk in the sun, if it should b
only on the piazza, and observe the effect Ir
our opinion, be viii find Il the most healthful bath
he has ever taken.


Sleeping-rooms should be selected in such parts
of the house as have the most benefit from the
rays of the sun; the bed and bed-clothes should
be thoroughly aired and kept in the sun as long as
possible every day. Many of the sleeping
in our hotels are so situated as never to feel the
suns rays, and those who occupy such rooms iol
any length Of time are simply committing suicide.
We have in mind now large hotel in the vicI'
nifty of New York city, where not less than two
hundred persons are located for the winter, il
which large proportion Of the bedrooms are IL
the centre Of the building, into which the sun-fgh,
never penetrates. As corroilary, the doctors
gigs are seen standing before the house at all hours
of the day. ..... 49,.
The Italians have q proyerb, which says,
Year: 1869

THINKS 1t mas reacneQ us WaAluum ldtSs


PRIVATE RESIDENCE.


Astor lives in Lafayette Place, not far from As
tor Place, in handsome, though somewhat old
fashioned brick house, adjoining the Astor Libra
y. His residence was built for and given to him
by his father. Most fashionable and wealthy peo-
pie have moved up town, but he is conservative,
averse to change, and will breathe his last under
that roof He is temperate in all things, and has
always taken care of his health, but he likes good
dinner and bottle of wine, and sits long at table,
His is not q very sociable or gregarious nature,
but he gives elaborate dinner parties, and often
has company at his house. As an entertainer few
surpass him. On social occasion his plate is the
most massive, his viands the costliest, and his
wines the richest to be found in New York


GENERAL APPEARANCE.


He is very fond of walking, going from bis home
to his Office and back almost invariably on foot
He is tall man, fully six feet, Of heavy frame,
large and rather coarse features, small eyes, cold
and sluggish-looEng, much more German than
Year: 1869

WE shall be heartily rejoiced and
we know our readers will-when this
Cuban business is ended. We have the
same dreary bulletins from day to day
about men with unpronounceAble
names doing little or nothing at un-
pronounceablep places. which are not to
be found on the map and If any OF our
readers can tell how the "cause pro-
crosses, 1t is more than we can. We
wish the insurrectionists we'll, but
should really rejoice If something would
get the matter OF the Havana and Key
West cable just for few days.
Year: 1869

HoRR1D MURDER IN SHELBY CouNTY.-The following
is taken from the San Augustine Beacon Of the l7th.
most arocious act of diabolcal malice and yet it
is inserted in the Beacon headed simply Homicide
Great Heaven if this wilfu premeditated killing is
only homicide in the opinion of the conductors of
the Beacon shudder at their ideas Of what consti
tutes murder: E.


A man by the name of Mays killed James Smith in
Shelby county, on the 25th June. It seems the two
were cropping together on the same farm, and Mays
becoming offended with Smith for some cause, net
known to us, went out to the back of the field on
Thursday evening, and there secretly concealed a
double barreled gun. The next morning he decoyed
Smith down in the field, under pretense of looking at
the crop and on drawing him the concealed gun,
jumped at seized it, and exclaimed "now, God damn
you, 1 have got you where want you!" Smith see
ing the gun started to run, when Mays shot him in the
back, telling him instantly. Smith being in a dying
condition asked Mays to give him drink of water,
when Mays ran up and broke his skull with the gun.
These are the facts as detailed to us. E


Since the death Of Smith, another man living on
the place, by the name Of Peoples, went out into the
neighborhood to employ hands, saying he would be
back in a few hours His horse came back the same
day he left, but be has not been heard FROM It is
supposed that Mays waylaid and killed him also. Mays
is still at large. Peoples the only white who
witnessed the killing of Smith, which fact strengthens
the suspicion chat he may be killed.


FRusk (Texas) Observer, July oath.
Year: 1869

COL W. D. Mann, proprietor of the Mobile Register,
anda candidate for Representative for Congress in the
first district Of Alabama in speech at Bellville,
He said:
" At the commencement of the late war, his consci-
entious convictions mpelled him to draw his sword


in defence of the Union, and he continued in the
vice until February 1854, when he found the policy
adopted by the Federal Government that of max
ing war upon defenceless non-combatauts and upon
private property. Then he resigned his commission,
and be thanked God that it before the Of
the Shenandoah Valley campaign and Sherman's
march to the sea.


He reviewed the professions of the Radical party
during the Nne-tenths of the Union soldiers un-
derstood that when the ceased the seeding States
would at once be restored to their former positions
the Union. Such had been Sherman's declaration to
Southern men and women while on his march. And
it would have been but for the set Of corrupt dema
gogues in power who foresaw that their selfish pur-
poses could be accomplished if the friends of
the Constitution in Congress were strengthened, as
they would have been, by the entire Southern delega
ton. Then came the series of measures which have
produced and kept in existence the condition Of af
fairs which now prevail in the Southern States and
probably in its worst form in Alabama where set of
legislators expressly repudated by the people, but
fixed upon US by deliberate violation of law,
exhausting our substance by enormous taxation, for
no other purpose but to fill the purses, rather
pebags of themselves and their vile associates And
the chief importance of the pending election was in the
effect it would have in rdding the State of the carpet
bag tribe They relied only upon the votes of class
who were easily influenced, and whom they had at
tached to them only by the show of power Let
victory of the people be achieved, and that class
would abandon them, end they themselves would aban
don the State with equal rapidty, leaving the field
clear for complete renovation next year.
Year: 1869

that party which would in good faith carry out the
construction laws, accept the 10th amendment, and
give protection to life and property in Mississippi He
wanted to know whether the former enemies act


ing in good faith in their present professions of loyalty
and said this would soon be ascerained in part by the
actions Of the conservative Republicans in Virginia


they acting in good faith he should be glad to
have the influence and intelligence Of that State and Of
the South generally in support Of his administration.


The President inquired of Col. Moorman at what
time the conservative Republicans would nominate


their candidates. aud when informed that it would be
about the first Of September, he said he would see
what kind of ticket they would put in the field, and
that his action would be influenced more less by
subsequent events and the course of affairs in the
South He added that he desired to see the payment
of the public debt secured and the integrity and honor
of the nation rendered inviolate and when this
accomplished he would be satisfied.
Year: 1869

But let me think somewhat of the
future. There will come to me anoth-
er hour, which, like the present, will
be the last-but it will be the last of
all my earthly years. The clock will
sound it from the church tower, when
my falling ear can no longer hear it,
and those only who are watching be-
side me count its strokes; then my last
minutes begin, one by one, to depart.
As they go, this heart which now
beats strongly within me, will grow
feeble; until the last pulsatiOn is given
and all is at rest. How happy then
to feel, that the old life is passing away,
a new, better, noblerN life is opening.
Just now it is pleasant to think that
when this hour is gone, and the whole
Of the old year is sealed up in the past,
there is new year present, with all
its opportunities for good, all its hours
of communion with Christ, and days
to Be given to the service of God. So
after death there viii be new scene,
an immortal existence, through which
my soul may move in endless, incon-
ceivable joy, serving God and enjoy
ing him forever more.


z Savior, in the shadows of the last
hour, when my mortal life is ebbing
away, giveme thy presence, and when
its end has come, usher my soul, clad
in thy righteousness, and cleansed by
thy Spirit, into the pleased land where
years, and days, and hours shall be
forgotten, and nothing known or felt
but the fullness of the pleasures Of
eternity.
Year: 1869




The objects had in view in reading


are, first, to obtain information; Sec


ond, to be awakened to reflection and


investigation third, to be warned


against evil and strengthened in the


love of that which is good fouath,


to form and cultivate a correct taste
Ito minister to the love Of the beau,


tiful. 1t is evident at a glance. that
novels, if allowable at all, cannot
properly form the staple Of our read
ing, as they cannot minister to the


more important ends sought Neith-
el' is it their prime object to awaken


reflection or investigation, They may
warn against evil and encourage good
ness, and they may aid US to cultivate
pure literary taste. They are chief
ly valuable, when valuable at all, for


delineatiOns of character and for un-


masking and satirizing the fOlies or
vices or crimes of the age. We can
no more condemn all novels, there
fore, than we can recommend all
books that are not novels. A thing
may be as valuable on a page of fc-
ton, when true to nature, as when
furnished on the historic page as true
in fact. The lessons taught in the
parallels Of Jesus are as valuable as if
they had been conveyed in a homily,
and great deal more pleasant to
study.


But as it is not the chief end of
reading to crafty the imagination or
please the fancy, novel reading must
hold g subordinate place. As alitera-
ry recreation, as pleasant change
from severe mental toll, as pleasant
and not useless way Of spending an
odd hour not employed, or as a peas
ant treat to an overtasked student or
a relief to a MOI bid state of mind, it
may be desirable occasionally to read
a good novel. Butwhen this becomes
the chief object of attention it absorbs
time from more valuable purposes,
enervates the mental powers, units
for severe study, and emasculates the
intellectual and moral nature.


The Waverly novels are, in the
judgment Of competent critics, much
better and every way freer from OBJ
lection than most works of fiction
About once a year, it may be, one of
the Waverly novels might be read by |
almost anybody forthe benefit of men,
tai recreation. But to have novels Iy-
ing about the house to be read by
children at will is about as bad as
having whiskey about the house to
be drankby them at will-especially
such trashy books as most popular /
novels are. As to the proportion of
time to be allotted to novel reading, |
we know nothing better than the hint
in Paul's advice to Timothy about
wine, "Take a little" just "a little"
Year: 1869

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the downward road. The courage
which carried her thro' that ordeal was
surely greater than that which enables
a man to meet a battery; but she
was only sensible of c0wardice and
personal pollution. think that I was
one OF the only three persons who ever
knew ber wrongs, and they were, told
to me in the hope that at some time
I might use the story as a protection
to Others. When I first knew her she
was premature1y old. With a crushing
sense of degradation she had been ac-
cessOry to the ruin of others, as he had
been reported engaged to half dozen
after her marriage with him was
broken off. She had outlived the
days of emotion and tears, and settled
into a quiet happiness very much like
despair, which was attributed to dis
appointed affection, but was in reality.
a consciousness Of degradation-a de-
sire to get away out of body she felt
was not a fit habitation for the soul,
and to lay down the mask of decep-
tion she had worn so long. She said,
with her hands lying listlessly in her
lap, looking out, with an introverted
gaze: 81 have looked thousand times
lost women on the street proclaim
ing their disgrace, and felt that I
ought to be with them, that I had no
business here. It hurts me when
father or mother kisses me, and
think I ought to go and stay with peo-
pie like myself.' It was strange to
nOteGhow the tempter availed himself
Of her misfoftune-the weakness Of
cOncealment, and the probable disbe-
lief doubt, scorn and ridicule which
would be the result of disclosure, and
framed out of them arguments in IA
vOr of elf-abandonment. He never
succeeded in this case; but taught me
to understand some of his tactics, and
gave me new insight into the "first
steps, by which women go down to
death. One who should fall, after be-
ing thus violently cast down; would
surely be an object of compassion, and
society should be as careful about clos
ing the door against the erring as a
shepherd about locking up the fold
while portion of his flock are out in
the paths of wolves. As there is dan
ger in bringing an infected member
into thefold, it is often unsafe to bring
a fallen woman into a family; but
there can be no good reason why
there should not be a Christian Home
where they could be safe until they
could give evidence that they can be
restored to society with safety to 9TH
ers. Then LET their sins be forgotten,
even as we ask God to blot our trans
gressions out of the book of His re.
membrance. .E.7s-E .... !
Year: 1869

The Bishop of New Jersey, it is
said, has given notice that he will ~
fuse at confirmation to lay his hands
upon the piles Of false hair and CHG
mons which surlnOuht the heads Of so
many young ladies seeking admis-
sion to the church and communiOnx
The laying on Of sacred hands at the
altar upon so much rubbish gathered
from the four corners of the earth.
instead Ofthe natural hair or head,
is deemed an offence to the law and
gospel Of the church. -.5.f.
Year: 1869

A breach-Of-prOmise case is on trial
in New York, the plaintiff in which
alleges that one night, at her mothers
house, the defendant found a dry fish
bone, and proposed that they should
pull it. The bone broke, each hold
ing a piece, and the central part fell
upon the floor This, the plaintiff
holds, was interpreted by the defend
ant as a sign that they should marry
soon. He explains by saying that be
remarked, at seems we are to be
married at the same time wouldn't
you like itW The plaintiff answered
modestly, eli bet I would !'' This
is warning to unwilling bachelors
to keep shy of wish bones, or to pull
them without after-eommeDt.
Year: 1869

When you ask lady if she is en-
gagged, and she replies, That is my
business, not yours, Mr. Jones" make
up your mind that she il right, and
you have been set so, About that
time you can put your coat on your
head and your hat on your backLor
at lesst you viii probably feel hkedo-I
ing something OF that gratis -sortf q
Year: 1869

An unrUly pig may have brought
on the war Of 1872. A member Of
the Rhode Island Assembly absented
himself from his seat one day to at
tend a trial brought about by the
depredations Of pig. A War Sena-
tor was chosen that day, by one vote,
to represent the State in Congress-
The man who was absent would have
voted for an anti-War Senator. r
Year: 1869

WEDNESDAY, July 2s-e NJ.


Outside Of the stock market and Of the few lead
Ing shares In that department Of business affairs
were duh in Wall street to-day. The money market
has almost totally lost interest," for is 80 generally
understood that the supply up to the demand that
borrowers show no uneasiness and produce no ac-
tivty. The rate call loans is variousy reported
In different portions of the street. While the exoep-
tions at five have been very rare the transactions
were about equally divided OF six and seven per
cent. Seven per cent is 30 trining in comparison
with the profit or loss OF stock operation that
borrowers seldom feel inclined to dispute paying It,
20 that In all transactions which are made to assist
speculation lenders have no difficulty in getting the
full legal rate. Commercial paper was sold at nine
to ten per cent discount. ana the extreme range Of
rate was from eight to twelve per cent. Foreign ex,
change was dull and steady, and inclined to weak
ness. Quotations were made on the basis Of 10
110K for prime bankers sixty daY and
HOY 1l0% for sight sterling bills.
great deal OF interest was taken In the
movements of gold, which sold as high as
1851 In a furry before the opening OF the Long
Room, but rapidly declined to 1861, and subse-
QuentIy to 1854 on the discovery that the Cunard
steamer to-day had only nominal amount of specie
on board. In fact, the market was quite panic
stricken by fear that The gold shipments were going
to cease, but was reassured on learning that the
steamer OF tomorrow had large amount engaged
this afternoon. The fact is the recent advance In
gold SGT free large quantity Of produce and cotton
awaiting favorable opportunity for shipment
The bales Of cotton sent during tho week were
about twelve hundred-an excess over the previous
weeks shipment Of about eight hundred. The total
exports exclusive Of specie. were $4544 for the
same period The supply of bills which these ship.
meuts produced has largely diminished the amount
OF gold requisite to go abroad. The disbursements
of coin interest to day were $ls3 249 The range OF
Year: 1869

Cash gold was in moderate demand aud the rate
for carrying ranged from seven to five per cent,
with the bulk Of the transactions at six. In the
afternoon an exceptional transaction was recorded
at "nat for borrowing. The following Is the report
OF the Gold Exchange Bank:-
Year: 1869

A NUISANCE ABATNG ITsfLF.-vermont has one
luxury, which. we believe, is enjoyed by no other
Council OF Censors. It is . body Of thirteen men,
chosen periodically, whose duty Il il to see that the
commend such amendments 70 the constitution as
they may deem necessary. In past years their
duties have been small, and their recommendations
UNDECIDED, and the ONCE has gradually fallen into
contempt. But the ONCE was creation OF the consti-
tuition, and the councillors would not recommend
lts dscOntinuance, there seemed to be no way Of
teaching them, and SO, like useless machine, the
Council has been kept running because there was
power Of stopping it. This Ia The year for eectng


discovery which Is likely TO enable the people get
rid Of this useless body. Acting his suggestion


ticket has been nominated composed Of men pledged
70 recommend change Of the constitution abolish
ing the Council and the State Is likely TO get the
benefit OF the first really useful work Of that body
and TO enjoy the unusual spectacle Of q nuisance
abating itself.-Bost0a Traveller, March 2
Year: 1869

The following brief extract of a gene
raj law of Congress, will no doubt be
read with interest and profit by many:


Any person who takes a paper regu>
larly from the Post Office-whether dis
rected to his name or not, or whether
he has subscribed or not-is response
BILE for the pay.


If person orders paper discontins
ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the
pnblisher may continue to send il until
payment is made. and collect the whole
amount, whether it is taken from the
office or not.


The courts have decided that refusing
to take newspapers and periodicals from
the post Office, or removing and leaving
them uncalled for, is primd fdeie evi~
dence of intentional fraud.


1t is also made the duty of postmast-
ers by a law of Congress, to notify pub
fishers when papers sent TO their offices
are not taken out: and also TO inform
the publisher why they are not taken
out-whether mot called for" refused
or whether the subscriber has moved
away. A noncompliance with this law
makes the postmaster liable to the pub
Usher for the amount due on papers not
taken from his office. This We conceive
20 be eminently right and proper, as il
is very little trouble to the postmaster.
and may save the publisher a good
may dollars;


No man is bound to take a newspaper
il he don't want to, but if lac does take
a paper. il is the intent of the law that
he shall pay for il. And, why notT