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Year: 1860

| The publishers Of VANITY Far announce o


series of works designed expressly for tn
rising generation Each volume will be
/ submitted TO the scrutiny Of the managers of
| the American Tract Society, and nothing
/ will De published which is unfortunate
/ enough To- receive their approval. From the
| volumes in press We select the following
| TRrE STORIES FOR Ny LITTLE GIRL By the


Editor Of Vanity Fair.


- William Wilkins was walking in
the garden one day, he met his dear sister,
| and thus he did say Why is a squash like
a LITTLE news-boy She gave it up. Be
cause, said this wicked boy, the older he
grows the more Of yell-er he will be-. His
good grand-ma-ma overheard him, and went
to bed sick with grief


TOMMY HIsToRY OF THE .. STATES. By the


Editor of Vanity Fair.


- George Washington was the Father of
his Country, but it is not known who was its
mother He was made Of brass, like peoples
door knockers, and as soon as he was finished


he was put on great brass horse, and left
out in the cold, giving great grief to all who
saw him


WILLIAM FIRST Book OF THEoLoGY.-By


the Editor of Vanity Fair.
- Thomas Jones was a naughty boy, and
when asked by his parents TO attend church,
he replied Not if he knOwed it. So he
went to take a walk; and fell down: and
tore his new pantaloons and his nose bled /;
and he lost his knife and all his marbles,
playing with dirty little boy, near the Bat
terry. Then he cried and the dirty little boy
said Dry up But he could not, and lost
his way; and was advertised in the New
York Herald. This disgrace was too much
for him, and he said He sposed be might as
well die And he did die; and then he
wished he had gone with his good parents to
church. -


MARY, THE LITTLE MISSIONARY By the


Editor of Vanity Fair.


% Mary's Uncle Charles came to see her.
and gave her a bright gold dollar. Then
Mary said Now | will buy some CANDY.
and some chewing gum, and a picked lime
and | Will give Sarah Jones two cents. and
the woman on Broadway with the little baby
three cents But Mr.. 4. Sleek, that good
man, heard her, and groaned. and he said :


Mary remember the Pottawatamies y So
she gave her dollar to good Mr.. Sleek, for tn
POttawatamies and when he took it he wac
kind enough to say he hoped the Pottawatas
mics might get it.
Year: 1860

Kat iullowcl the butterfly, as we have
seen. quite around the gray rock where Aunt
Ruth last saw her down the glen, where the
leaves rustlcd knee-deep at every tread. AZ
most in her hand, the winged creature bitted
on beyond the clump OF taiek laurels, and
thus lured her on beyond the sound OF the
voice that was calling her SO wildly She
had turned quite in an opposite direction at
first, and unconscIously the seeker ana the
sought were reccdns from each other at cve-
step. Ii was not until the lutterin5 paint
ed creature had flown quite up into the sun
set rays that glanced above the hurels, and
then SCARED up out Of the wood altogether,
that Katie knew that she had wandered far.
She pushed her curls away impatiently 60
catch the answer as she called ''Aunty
! Auntv - But 10 voice came back. Sh,
ran a few steps in one DIRECTION, then re-
| turned. She tried to think which way She
had come thithcr, but alas there were BOO
marks bv the way. She thought she remem-
bered a white laurel few steps back bat
alas there were many Of the pale flowers on
either side. She tried to think as sh,
wrung her little hands together, what shC
might do, but no path was there, no clearer
omen way. Only trees-trees-trees every
/ where.


She sat down at the foot Of an oak, AND
covering her face with her hands, cried mos
BITTERLY low pititul moan sometimes. an'
sometimes ID shriil cry. The sun rays. be- gar
to shine through the trunks of the trees iron
the west now, and she knew that beiJra Ion,
the dark night would come. Then she tho
of the little bed at home with its white GOV
ering and pillows, Of the curly head that wa
won't TO lie there, Of the prayer at her moth
er's ee,and the goodnight kiss as she wen
to her happy slumbers.


Then she seemed to see them searching th
wood for her, and finding her pale and col
under the trees, and she came to feel pity 10
the lost child, as if it were not herself ou
Year: 1860

The OLDEST BUILDINGs IN BosToN.-The
ancient wooden building on Washington
street, opposite Mix street, was built in
1896, and is consequently two hundred and
four years DID, II was built thirty-f0ur years
before th, feather store in Dock Square
which has been often called the Oldest struct-
urc in Boston The timber Of which the
old huiIdmL opposite the Old South Church
is built, is Of oak. and was cut within a
short distance of that spot, and Is still sound.
The house was occupied during the admins
tratI'n of the Royal vernon, Hutchinson,
by his Secretary Of State, and for many years
the Chtc Of ioston were its welcome guests.
Washington has honorcd the mansion with his
presence and dined as the guest of the family
who occupied it during the Revolution; and
almost the last time the lamented Warren
dined in Boston before the battle at Bunker
Hill, it was in tins venerable building
After the Revolution it became noted as the
most fashionable dancing Hall in Boston.
The Old Province House on the next estate
south Of the above, the walls of which are
standing, was built in the year l679.-Trdn-
script.
Year: 1860

CoNGREss Is doing nothing while the
Charleston Convention is in session. The
House is without working quorum most of
the time, and no business is transacted ex-
sept the delivery Of speeches on divers sub
jects. for home consumption. Mr.. Morrill,
Of Vt. made an excellent speech on the 23d on
his Tariff Bill
Year: 1860

In the little that done yesterday we think
the Douglas men had clearly the advantage The
rule whereby the Delegates from each District are
entitled to cast the vote of that District unless the
Delegation was chosen by a State Convention and
instructed thereby to vote a unit seems fair and
it was sustained by every Douglas and resisted
by most Of the Chivalry, who only rallied lOl
votes against it to 1875 for it. Then the resolve to
have the latform reported and adopted before
ballot for President Is taken, though it passed
with little opposition, is point gained for Doug
las. The advocates Of a Slave Code for the Ter
ritories must now produce their n7strum, which
is sure to be rejected; and then they bound to
bolt-which will rid the Convention of thirty or
forty of the most violent opponents Of Douglas
ing condition.
Year: 1860

From Springfield Correspondence N. Y. World


The future lady Of the White House is,
periorce parsonage to whom just now the
!iveliest interest attaches. That she will
"dom and grace even the exalted position to
which she bids fair to succeed, none who
have had the fortune to see her can doubt.
She is yet apparently upon the advantage.
ous side Of forty, With face upon which
dignity and sweetness arc blended, and an
cir OF cultivation and refinement to which
familiarity with the courtly drawing-rooms
'of London, or tho aristocratic saloons o


eakis. would LazlllI lend ~ added grace
Year: 1860

You've LrNcoLN, son Of tho President


elect. now in Harvard College, was on the 7tt
instant called upon by a large party Of the
students in that institution, and congratu


lated on the success Of his father. He had
been previously waited on by many, bul
this call was more formal thoug Oh MT mote
cordial. The young man is said to be
worthy scion Of the old stock, and is quite
popular among his fellow students.
Year: 1860

PRoPELLER SAGINAW REPORTED LosT.-A
flying rumor was in circulation yesterday
that the propeller Saginaw of the Western
Transportation Company line from Cleve-
land to Buffalo was lost with all on board
She left here after midnight Saturday morn
ing with a full cargo of sundries from T. n.
Bond. We could not trace the report to its
source and place but little confidence in it.
Year: 1860

lHE THAL.-The trial of the Notary for
assaulting the Counsellor in his office will
be held this morning at the Police Court
room instead of at the new Court House as
has been announced.
Year: 1860

Leader, or that Of any person connected with
this office, is wholly and entirely untrue
Mr.. Cowles was standing by the side of the
reporter upon the balcony.


But suppose It had been as Mr.. schnable
supposed, that affords no excuse fo- his Ian
guage. We hold that public man has no
right to demand a suppression of his speech.
The speech that he utters in public is no
longer his own property 1t belongs to the
public, to be used to his advantage or disad-
vantage as the public may decide. His
friends have a right to claim it as a triumph
or his enemies as failure. He has set it
afoat, and what else does he expect but that
those who hear him will talk upon it to their
neighbors and discuss it wherever they
choose. The Press has a right to it, as well
as those who have the words from the speak
er's lips, and every time a man speaks in
public he put himself at the mercy of the
Press and the world. Mr.. schnable made a
request as personal favor that he be not re-
ported. Our reporter waived his right to
report what he pleased of what was said,
out of courtesy, and by no means from com
pulson. The charge that Mr.. COwles wrote
the article in Saturdays Leader and laid the
burden of it upon his "hireling" was not
true. The reporter wrote the article him
self


To those who shouted pitch the reporter
over,' " down with him." etc, we have
simply to say that Reporters, like Policemen,
are in every crowd, and they intend to be
there. They are accustomed to threats, and
usually give them all the attention they de-
serve; while they are not accustomed to
threaten in return, they hold themselves in
in readiness for anything that may turn
up" prominent Douglas lawyers" or
any other man" who talks of pitching
Reporter Page off the balcony" or smash
ing Reporters" have to deal with class
who return civility for civility, but who


"- know their rights,


And knowing, dare maintain them"


Mr.. Schnable's afternoon speech was much
the same as made the night before at the
balcony. His audience was small, and his
Year: 1860

The DENOMINATION AT NEwBURGH-SUP-
PER, ILLUMNAuoNs, AND A GENERAL Coon
TNE.-The Republicans of Newburgh had
their final jubilee on Tuesday evening, and a
rare occasion it was. The weather was very
bad, a snow storm prevailing, and the streets
were ankle deep in mud, but these did not
serve to thwart the Wide Awakes of New
burgh The town was brilliantly Illuminated,
sono OF the houses being as tastefully decor
ated as any we have seen on similar occasions
in Cleveland.


1t had been arranged that three of our city
Clubs should visit Newburgh and take part
in the festivities, but the bad weather, to-
gether with the fact that the high wind at
the appointed time for starting would have
extinguished every torch as soon as lighted,
induced the Old Guard and the Fourth Ward
Club to reluctantly forego the intended visit.
This is to be regretted; but it is to be hoped
that the magnanimity of the Newburgh
Wide Awakes will prompt them to hold the
weather, or the weather-elerk responsible,
for that was the only obstacle, special train
having been provided for conveying our city
Clubs out and back.


Cleveland, however, was not entirely un-
represented. The Sixth Ward Republican
Band, with small delegation of the Sixth
Ward Club, procured a wagon and drove out
to Newburgh. The parade was through with
when they arrived, but they were cordially
welcomed, and after being conducted around
the town, they sat down to fine supper
which had been prepared by the fair hands
of the Newburgh ladies. After supper the
Band marched through the town, serenading
the prominent residents, and then returned
to the city. Everything considered, the New
burgh jubilee was a success.
Year: 1860

CLEVELAND FEMALE SEMINARY will enter
upon its next quarter on Thursday, Nov. Is.
Those who design to enter, either as day or
boarding pupils, will find this favorable
time for doing so. New rooms for ten or
twelve additional boarding pupils will be in
readiness soon. Those desiring to secure
rooms should do so without delay.


Arrangements are being made for Primary
Department.


The Street Railroads now afford the best Of
facilities of getting to and from the Semi
nary noYs:S10
Year: 1860

FIRST WARD-ATTEETIoN Every Wide
Awake of the First Ward Club is requested
to be at the torch room at o'clock, this eve
ming, to equip for the West Side parade. A
prompt attendance is important.


By order, WIN. Jones, Secretary.
Year: 1860

LOGIC NECESSARY TO WoMEN.-The follow
ing extract from the "Ladies' Department.
of the California Farmer, suggests the i'm
portance of the study of logic to women:


''The proper development and legitimate
use of the scoldfng propensity are iudispen-
sable balance-wheels in the domestic rea-
ton, and woman who understands the
tactics, or the PHILOSOPHY" of scolding, can
always gain the victory But utunfortunately,
as few women understand the laac of scold-
ingas there are who know and have studied
the law of being coed wives and mothers.
The illiterate mode or wrong use of scolding
is deSpicable in itself and deleterous in its
effects, as is abuse of good thing Women
scold at random; they fire their guus as ill
trained combatants in battle, regardless of
the enemy's position, or whom they may hit
the right one, the wrong one, or any one
at all. They are not sure of anything, only
that the gun goes off. Women should scold
philosophically@-from cause and effect-by
Induction and deduction. If this could be
adopted what conglomerated noise for moth
ing would be dispensed with
Year: 1860

REVENUE AMENDMENTs.-Seyeral amend
ments to the revenue law of the State have
been presented and referred-a sufficient
proof that the present law does not work al
together as it should but the most radical
proposition in this regard is found in the
new revenue bill of Senator Kirkpatrick
The defeat of this bill last winter did not
discourage its author, and we are glad to
see it again brought up. 1t had our cordial
approval then, and we still believe that it
commends itself by the simplicity and econ
omy which it would certainly inaugurate.
The plan Of collecting the revenue by dis
tricts, co-extensive with the present town
ships, particularly recommends itself, even
in theory but the weight of extensive ex-
perience in older States, and some counties
of our own State, is also in its favor. The
district system insures more correct assess
ment and more thorough collection at less
cost, and would prove peculiarly efficient
for the collection of the poll tax and foreign
miners license.
Year: 1860

Is THERE DoGBERRY AMONG THEM p
One of our Assembly men, in the Legislature,
who is very attentive in sending US docu-
ments, although he didn't vote on certain
notable occasion, takes particular pains in
franking them to write Ass after his name
without the proper abbreviation pont-Co-
h4mbia Courier.
Year: 1860

We learn with much pleasure of the res
toration to health of Bro. Ridge of the Marys-
vile Democrat. He is a genial and honorable
editor, and could not be taken from the pro-
fession without great loss to it.
Year: 1860

1t will be seen by reference to the first
page of this paper, that the Truckee Turn
pike Company has elected permanent Off
GERS. and levied an assessment of ten dollars
on each share of stock. An adjourned meet
ing will be held on the last day of March
The prospects of the company are highly
fattering.
Year: 1860

INSANE AsYLUM.-Thc annual report of the
resident physician of this institution shows
that there were $40 patients still under
treatment in December last. 1t is thought
there will be an accession of at least 100 to
this number in twelve months. The annual
cost of keeping each patient is about 5000.
An appropriation of SOL 900 will be needed
to meet this expense and make repairs and
Improvements. The Asylum is surrounded
by well cultivated garden and ORCHARD,
and vineyard is to be planted.
Year: 1860

Another coal mine has been found in AM
ador county, near lone City. The Calaveras
Chronicle says that the best stratum is thir-
teen feet thick, and equal in hardness and
quality to the Peacock coal of Pennsylvania.
Several tons of the coal has been tested, and
found to be a good and cheap substitute for
wood, and fit to be used for making steam
1t burns beautifully, with brilliant flame,
and leaves but little ashes. It is thought a
thicker stratum of more bitnminous coal
can be found by sinking deep enough.
Year: 1860

JAPANESE WARE.-Frank Smith bought at
San Francisco lately number oil articles of
Japanese manufacture, such as beautifully
finished wooden trays and vessels made from
the gluten of rice. The articles are all of
fanltless design and finish. Two cargoes of
Japanese manufactures have been sold at
the Bay within short time, and the day
will arrive when every dwelling in the State
will contain some of them. They were once
articles of vertu of tho great cost to be
within the means of any but the richest
persons
Year: 1860

The select committee on the Pacific Rail-
way held meeting to-day at which an amend
through the State of Texas via FL Paso and
San Antonio.


A question arose whether the friends of
the extreme Northern route could move the
amendment in the House.


The Chairman said he would call for the
previous question, shutting OIL all amend
ments and debate


This settled the question for the Southern
route,


A vote was then taken Oh reporting the bill
as amended, to the House, apd the proposition
was rejected.
Year: 1860

mingle with the gay crowd join the fash
ionable circles of society engage in the merry
dance and they, (the world think | am
happy When my laugh rings gaily through
the throng, some one will say, aside, she is
happy y she "knows not core" Mistaken
world, you are but poor judge of the human
heart, if you think that smiling face, and a
merry laugh, constitute a happy one. There
was day when | '0as happy but that days
sun has long since set. There acas time when
my face might have been fair index to my
heart but that time has passed never to re-
turn. There 1CaS time when my heart beat
in warm response to another but that is over
Hope has fed, but the torch-light of memory
still burns brightly. / will not speak of the
blighted loves will not tell Of past joys
enough 10 know they are gone enough to
know that my heart is slowly but surely with
ering away. Oh could you but open the
window of my heart, and see the parched up
fountain within could you draw aside the
curtain of my brain, and behold the scorching
fires which are slowly consuming my reason !:
could you but know how earnestly | long to
die methinks you could then see better through
the veil-like covering, which is bnt the shadow
of myself and which is spread over my inner
being.


| wish even now that the grass was growing
over my grave, that the winds were signing
my death requiem, and that my soul was happy
in the land where there are no blighted afec
lions.


But l must wait it will not be long tmost
before | will be called away land then oh how
thankfully | will lay this weary head upon my
pillow, and crossing my hands over my heart
60 to my rest.


Do not weep for ne when you see me stretch
ed in the cold embrace of death. Do not
grieye that my days are numbered, onl think
that | am at rest And when you have kissed
my lips for the last time, and have taken your
last farewell close the little cotin-lid upon my
breast, bear me to some little shady nook, and
lay me beneath the sod and when you have
smoothed the cods over me, leave the spot.


Do not put anything to mark the place
where lie but if any one should find my
grave and ask who sleeps beneath, do not tell
them whose grave it is do not tell them the
sad tale of my young life tell them nothing,
save that it is the grave Of one who died Of a
ariHered heart
Year: 1860

HARD WoRK.--All classes Of men complain
Of 4" hard work" The carpenter thinks that
it is too bad that he is obliged to work so
hard for living, while his neighbor the ply
Scian can ride in his carriage TO attend patients
or lesurely deal out medicines in his Office.


The physician thinks it hard work to be in
readiness to obey calls ct all hours of the day
and night to travel ia cold and heat, through
mud and storms and not even be allowed one
hour in the tweltyfour which lie can positive
ly call his own. He envies his friend the car
penter, who, when the days work is done, can
return to his family and rest in peace


The blacksmith feels that hard lot in life
has fallen to him, as he strikes the anvil
through the long day, while on the opposite
side Of the street, his neighbor, the lawyer,
seems TO be called to the performance Of no
harder work than writing at his table or the
reading Of his law books. But the lawyer as
his glance falls upon the blacksmith, thinks of
the years spent in study to fit him for the pro-
fesSion, of other years Of strenuous mental ex-
er.ion and constant application to gain rep
utation, OF the still incessant toll necessary to
attain lt-of his frequent unavoidable contacts
with most hardened villains, of the reVolting
relations Of crime he is compelled to hear, of
the hundreds of suffering, innocent victims
who plead with him to Succor them from power
ful oppresSors, but whom he cannot aid With
a sigh he turns away from the whistng, sing
ing, jolly-faced and brawny-armed blacksmith,
and feels it harder TO work to hammer and
weld the iron and blow the bellows of the law
in such manner as shall always keep the fires
of his reputation burning before the world


So it is in the various branches of trade and
in all professions. Each is apt to think his
neighbor's business Light work compared to the
duties incumbent upon him to perform But
it is not 80. The merchant and the mechanic
the clergyman and the farmer, have all work
to do, either meutol or physical, of equal i'm
portance to the general body polite, and re-
quiring equal exertions This grumbng about
hard work is of no benefit to u.s. but decided
ly foolish and wicked.


We are made to work God constituted US
with bones, sinews strength and in every way,
by mental and physical endowment, adapted
us for the performance Of labor Labor is
called worship and whether in the mental or
physical sphere of action, he who labors the
most perse5eringly, the most unmurmuringly,
the most efficiently for the good ofhimsef aud
welfare of his fellow men, must he accounted
the most faithful and acceptable worshipper.
Year: 1860

perviSory control over the less experienced
teachers of the school, and to manage cases
Of discipline.


f. Great facilities for dividing the school
into suitable departments, and forming larger
classes, enabling the teacher to devote more
time to each class, TO amplify and illustrate
more fully any subject under discussion than
he could do if the classes were smaller and
there were more to be heard.


8. Greater facility for classifying the school
in respect to the age and attninments of the
scholars, and for adapting the discipline of
the school to the wants and capacities of all.


5. The greater opportunity afforded to
teachers for that special preparation before
each lesson, resulting from the less number of
subjects which he is required to teach, which
is indispensable to the highest success in the
school-room.


l. The enthusiasm created in the minds of
the schools not only during the recitation, but
also during the hours of study, by the thought
that they must soon appear in the presence of
so large a class, and measure themselves in
tellectually, with them.


8. The incentives to greater diligence on
the part Of the pupils from the influence ex-
erted upon them by the prospect of promo
ton


g. The economy Of both time and labor on
the part OF both teachers and pupils. No one
who has witnessed the practical workings of
both systems will deny, that in a well graded
school, teacher can instruct sixty or seventy
five pupils more easily and more efficiently
than twenty five or thirty in mixed school