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Year: 1867

FEAST FOR THE PooB.-A delightful time
was spent at the St. James Church yester--
day, where a bountiful feast was spread
for the children of the school under the
charge Of that church. The children Of
the Female Orphan Asylum were invited,
and enjoyed with the rest the feast which
had been generously provided.


To-day Christmas feast for the chill.
dren of the Episcopal mission schools will
be spread at the same church. Those per-
sons who promised contributions are re-
uuested to send them to the lecture-room
of the church between and II O'Clock
this morning. Whatever is left after feed
ing the four hundred poor children at.
tached to the schools will be distributed
among the poor of the congregations. We
sincerely hope that there will be perfect
shower Of contributions.
Year: 1867

JUDGE UNDERwooD's CoURT.-It may not
be generally known that for eight weeks
after the commencement of the term of
this court there was but one single case
tried before the jury. Indeed, the only
business of the jury seemed to be to 60 to
the courtroom, answer to their names, be
home, to repeat the process day after day
during the whole term Of the court. This
admirable and costly result is caused by
the Judge holding two offices at the same
time-Judge and President of the Conven-
tion-and he draws pay for both.
Year: 1867

NEGRO OUTRAG Es.-Below will be found
accounts of three outrages perpetrated by
negroes on yesterday. These affairs are
becoming alarmingly frequent, and some
measures, no matter how severe, should
be taken to prevent them:


About l O'Clock a young lady, while
passing the corner Of Ninth and Main
streets, was run against by negro man,
who snatched her reticule from her arm
and ran off, making good his escape. The
reticule contained a small amount OF
money.


Earlier in the day young girl Of about
twelve years Of age was on Broad street,
walking home, when she was met by a ne
gro youth, who, without any provocatlon,
threw an apple-core in her face, and then
deliberately spit in her eye. The little
girl said nothing, but wiped her face with
her handkerchief. In her hand was a
fifty-cent note. The scoundrelly negro
saw this, snatched it out Of her hand, and
ran off.


About 8 o'clock, on Main between Sc
yenth and Eighth streets, some words oc-
Cured between small white boy and q
large negro boy. The negro became en-
ragged, and picked up rock, which ne
threw at the little fellow, striking him
over the left eye, inficting deep and
nainful cash. The sufferer was taken
home and cared for.


We have Intentionally omitted the
names of the two ladies and the boy. we
hone soon to chronicle the arrest OF the
negroes.
Year: 1867

A New VIRGINIA lNvENTIoN.-Mr.
McGovern, the telegraph operator, has pos
session of the right for Patent Window
blind OPERATOR by means of which win
dow-blinds can be opened and shut with
ease without opening the window, simply
by the use of two levers handled from the
inside. The invention is simple and useful,
and will soon be introduced.
Year: 1867

ESCAPE OF A CoNvIcT.-Yesterday one
of the number of penitentiary prisoners
Working w at the quarries about two miles
from % the city eluded the guard and broke
for TT the country. We could not learn his
Year: 1867

THE CoNCERT.-This is the season when
the little orphans especially demand our
help. 1t is the season which, though it
brings Joy to many, brings cold and discom-
fort to many more. The rude, chilling
hand of Winter has been already felt,
though it has for some days been sparing,
and we know not when the piercing cold
may again return.


The concert to be given on Monday eve
ming at the Theatre for the benefit of St.
Joseph's Orphan Asylum should need no
appeal to be made successful. Can we
need appeals at this holy time? Do we
not see the Infant Saviour holding out his
little hands to US? 'Tis He who begs for
His little ones, and it is He who will not
let one mite given Him 60 without its
fullest and richest reward.


The entertainment will be of choice
character, and, Judging from the rehear-
sails already held, can hardly fail to be
successful. The sale of tickets has been
such as would indicate that the Theatre
will be crowded. We sincerely hope so.
The tickets are only fifty cents, and a
body can afford to buy one whether he
attends or not.
Year: 1867

A NOVEL SUlT-A curious trial took place
recently at Elmira, n. Y. A man possessed
some nut trees; Of which the branches hung
over the ground Of neighbor, who picked uT
the ripe nuts that fell from the tree, and also
broke some branches. For this the latter was
prosecuted for theft and trespass, but was ac-
quilted on the ground that he was entitled tc
profit by fruit growing over his own property


Appeal was made from this decision, and the
Judgment reversed because the principles oi
civil law ordain that all fruit and branches be-
long to the stem, and the stem to him upon
whose ground it was planted, and that the
right Of property of the latter does not cease
with the extension over neighbors ground' DC
matter how far this extension The accused
was consequently condemned on both counts
Year: 1867

A cute lawyer, pleading for burglar, a.
paipst whom the case was clear, contended
that az his client had been caught before half
his body was introduced into the house where
the burglary was attempted, case could not
be made out against him, he asked the follow
ing question:


"Can man be said to enter house when
only one-half of his body is in and the other
half out 2"


To which the Judge replied: 81 shall lesv,
the whole matter to the jury; they must judge
Of the law and the facts proved"


The Jury returned verdict Of guilty al
to one-half Of the body, from the waist up, anc
not guilty as to the other half. The Judg'
sentenced the guilty half to two years impris
onment, leaving it optional with the prisone
to have th. "not guilty" half cut of or takei
along with him.
Year: 1867

DoEs IT PAY TO ADvERTIsE.-A gentleman
doing business in Boston, while travelling in
the cars year or two since took copy of the
London Punch with which to relieve the mo-
notony of a tedious journey; and having fin
ished reading its well stocked columns of
fact and fancy" took to reading the adver-
tisements. At last, in remote corner. he dis
covered an announcement, about half an inch
in length. which told him where an article he
dealt largely in could be procured in England;
and being one of the shrewd, sharp kind Of
men, he wrote the parties for price list, the
result Of which was that he sent them an order
amounting to several hundred pounds ster-
ling. and during the year his partner, visiting
Europe. left another large order, aud they still
remain good customers. All this was the re-
suit of the half inch advertisement. Who will
say that it does not pay to advertise?
Year: 1867

NEGRO ORGANrzATIoNs.-Th President has
very properly given orders through the War
Department to break up all unauthorized or
ganizations of negro troops in the vicinity Of
Washington. The order should be extended
TO Virginia and West Virginia also.
Year: 1867

on MAIN ST., near the CARTER no USE,


II AS on hand a stock to which the people of this
community are invited and he eels satisfied
that those who examine it will be constrained to
purchase. He does not profess to be able to sell or
manufacture at lower prices than any one else in
she community; but this he does pledge that he
will give satisfaction to all who favor him with
their patronage. If experience and strict attention
10 business are calculated to commend, he feels
sured that he has these two requisites for in
business. Intending to work none but the most
Year: 1867

MowpRs, RrArERs, &c.-Tho uncertain
tics which surround our I,n.ent labor Fys-
tenn ore giving an unuSal impetus to the
ss.le of .abor-Sayng machines among our
people, and many arc the models and pa
tents Of moving, rcaping and other ma
chimes tha, are challenging the attention
Of our farming community We arc in
tho interest of no body's patent, but, If We
have been correctly informed, there arc
two mowers now IN use in our couuty which
have taken precedence in public favor of
all others. These arc Woods New Join
ted Bar Mower and Fluhbards combined
Reaper and Mower. Our limited space
now prevents us from instuutinC COM
parison between the merits Of these two
machines. Our present purpose Is to call
attention to them and TO impress upon our
farmers the importance Of uniting IN their
purchases not only upon the best but the
same patent, as itwouli then bc 10 The inter
est of the patentee or his agent to establish
In our county an agency for the supply Of
The different parts of the machine that
might be broken, thus avoiding the delay
and Inconvenience which at pre- sont attend
.he slightest accident to reaper or mower
in the harvest fed.
Year: 1867

nor require him to define his
position, as he seems utterly incapable
of expressing an opinion, or manifesting
the least independence OF political ac-
tion. BE is very supplant instrument
in the hands of the Radical Congress;
as a General in the army, he is no longer
subservient to the Commander.in.Chief,
the President of the United States. He
obeys the behests of the JacObius in Con
gress; and with the army under his hand,
the Radicals at his back, and the South
ern time. servers, who bend the "preg-
nant hinges of the knee that thrift may
follow fawning," to encourage and urge
him on, he could at any hour supplant
the President and take entire possession
of the Government, institute agrarianism
in the South, hang General Lee and all
the free thinkers that participated in the
rebellion. He is Radical to all intents
and purposes, although / believe he is
insipid enough to accept a nomination
from any political organization, on any
policy or platform of principles.


Notwithstanding this, / will venture to
record the assertion that he is eterndlly
pledged TO the Radicals, to any extent
of oppression and tanaticism that they
may wish to CO. 1.. "


have said that / would not abuse the
General, but in view Of the above facts,
| wish to ask of his adherents here q
few questions. -a


How can or will he ARREST the progress
of Radicalism,' when he is already NOM
mated by the New York Radicals, and
most of the Radical press throughout the
North; especially when heis so liable,
as has been asserted, to prove false to
us, to his oath, his history, and the Con-
stitution Of his country p


How can he relieve the South when he
is bound hand and head to the Radical
interests, as evinced by their confidence
in him by trusting him with so much
power?


How can you establish new order
of things" when you second and abet the
Radicals in their efforts to make Grant
President2


Always being opposed to Radicalism
and disunion, | don't propose, as future
Southern man, when the issue of life and
death is before me, to go about the streets
retailing puerile arguments about the
expediency of Southern men stultifyinR
themselves in order to snub people
whose advice they rejected, and suffered
in consequence. And as long as the
above interrogatories are unanswered,
"can't see the point" in making GRAM
President, while the South is rendered
helpless, robbed and humiliated, by the
very policy and principles that he ad
heres to. NORTHERN DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1867

Communicated


"still Harping on NJ Daughter"


1t is an admitted fact that all people
have their hobbies, and the only differ
ence between men is, that some ride
theirs to the death, while others do not.
And these hobby riders are usually so
peryerse that, though they have eyes,
they will not see, and though they have
ears, they will not hear, and are con-
scious of nothing but their own mode Of
galloping to conclusions. And there is
another class Of humanity who have an
irresistible penchant for being miserable
when it is far more easy to be happy.
It is a sort Of "hyppO" that sfiicts their
mental faculties, while their physical
functions are in high state Of health.


There are a few political hypochon-
driaes in the South at the present time,
and their hobby is that gentle stick,
General .6rauL They are very deter.
mined to be miserable, whether or not
and make frequent lugubriOus lsmenta-
tons about the South being crushed be-
tween the upper and neither millstones
the said millstOnes being the Demo
cratic aud Radical parties. l
have expressed my opinion Of Gen
eral Grant heretofore, and will
not say anything harsh Of him now
Year: 1867

At the Royal Institution in London, re-
Gently, according to the London Lancet
Professor Tyndall repeated some Of the
interesting experiments by which he has
on previous occasions given ocular proof
of the effects Of sonorous vibrations.
When a let of gas is burning under an
amount of pressure which is but just
short of the haring point, it be-
comes excessively sensitive to no.
mentary increase Of pressure, and will
respond in the reRdiest manner to the
slightest acute sound, vibrating actively
to the merest "chirrup Of the lips. A
still more remarkable demonstration was
made with thin column Of smoke, OF
which the shadow was cast on q screen
by means of an electric light; here the
smoke became so sensitive that the
slightest vibration Of the air affected 1t,
and two tuning-forks making a aiseord
produced the well known beat, which.
was attended by marked pulsation Of
the edges Of the shadow. Perhaps the
most beantiful ocular demonstration Of
the effect Of sound was produced by
throwing the electric light through a
minute stream Of falling water, tbe effect
being to produce a stung Of ghuering
drops Of the most brilliant appearances.
When musical notes were sounded % the
vicinity, these drops altered Their ar
rangement in obedience 70 the waves Of
sound, and clearly indicated by their
modified appearance the eject produced
upon them.
Year: 1867

H6~ An old man named Ellis Jones
was shot by his son at Peoria, Mahaska
county, Iowa, on Thursday morning last.
The father told his boy to feed the horses,
when the boy refused, and words followed
until the boy drew pistol and shot his
father in the left side. The cause of the
affair is supposed to be the fact that the
old man had decided his property to his
sons, provided that they would take care
of him until he died, and they thus con-
nived at his death, the boy being tool
in the hands Of the others.
Year: 1867

"a The New York Home Journal
thinks there is danger in the absurd high
heels worn by our fashionable women.
They cause the weigh, Of the body to be
thrown unnaturally forward on the toes
and wedge them too tightly into the shoe
Year: 1867

SG- An exchange gives the following
method for preserving ice; Make two
bags of stout wooden fabric, the inner one
should be ten inches wide by fourteen
inches deep. The outer bag should be
made at least two inches wider each
way. After placing one bag inside the
other, stuff feathers between the two,
and sew the two bags together at the
top. A block of ice, placed in bag of
this description, it is said, will be pre-
served from melting for nearly week,
which under ordinary exposure would
melt in about an hour
Year: 1867

probability, but by such evidence as an English
Court OF Chancery will accept, that they ara
in the direct line Of descent from Thomas
That which satisfies them that the money should
be instantly paid over to their agent with in
terest since the demise of old Mr.. Church. NAV
be very unsatisfactory indeed to the Lord Chan.
cellor Miss Elite, in Bleak House, expected
judgment, but how vainly the readers OF that
useful story know


The truth of the matter is that, in cases Ik,
these, everything is shadOwy and uncertain.
1t is by no means probable that there are seven
millions sterling lying unclaimed and a begging
for an owner in the Bank of England. II i,
by no means probable that real property in the
heart of London valued at four millions ster.
ling should remain so long in abeyancc and
without the creation of a good adverse title by
lapse of time. 1t is by no means probable that
the American "Churchesr have better title
than the English "Churchesn 1t is by no
means probable that if suits were instituted
any living Church" or the son of any living
" Church." would see the end of them. 1t is
possible that some Church family may have
title; but we warn all of the name that ths
name is of little or no value, and that enormous
estates are not transferred as a matter Of course
by English courts to the first applicants.
Year: 1867

Count Bismarck has made i'll the German
Parliament an important statement with regard
to the expansion of the Confederation. In re-
ply to an inquiry as to the obstacles existing
to the entry of the whole of Hesse-Darmstadt
(Of which now only one province be-
longs to the Confederation, he said that pre-
vious to such a step the consent of Austria, OF
the South German States, and of the people
must be obtained. The answer shows that the
Prussian Government is determined to disre-
gard the interference of Napoleon in purely
German questions.
Year: 1867

Gen. Pope in his correspondence with Gov.
jenkins of Georgia, not only gives that officer
a plain Ieprimand for his letter advising the
people not to act under the Reconstruction law.
but clearly defines the relations of the Provis-
ional to the Military Government. AS Gen.
Pope rightly interprets the law, civil officers
in the Rebel States cannot advise op-
conflict with the Government, and he warns
the Governor that the repetition Of such offenses
will bc punished by immediate removal from
Office We presume this will be called an out
rage on free speech, but the difference between
the opinions of an individual and his official
recommendations is too plain to need to be
explained
Year: 1867

horted (or prayed,) until, the eyhOrtations hav-
ing proved Intellectual, the beating did its per
feet work; achieving not subjugation, but
death. Can we wonder that the hapless parent
regards himself as rather unlucly than de
praved-as misjudging rather than criminals


The great mass of parents have yet to learn
that their displeasure with child is no reason
and no excuse for beating it. Nor does the simple
fact that it has done wrong give them warrant
to subject it to physical torture. Here, for in
stance, is child of five to ten years, who, in the
hope of thereby attaining enjoyment or escaping
punishment, has told q lie. The father, natur-
ally indignant, thereup0n gives 1t beating.
What relation has the penalty to the Of
fenseq or rather, What good result may be
fairly expected from the beatinge Can you ra-
tionally expect it to love and speak the truth
because you have mauled itY Is 1T not far
more likely to hate and loathe yOu9 That child
will be good deal more apt hencefOrth to tell
one lie to hide another than to abhor and shun
lying altogether.


-" But may not parent justifably use force
" to restrain a child from evil-dOing 2"


Certainly. If the child insists on throwing
the hammer at the looking glass, or doing any
wanton, malicious mischief, the requisite force
may be employed to constrain it into better
behavior. But to restrain from evil-dOing is
one thing; to infict pain because evil has been
done, is quite another Many a child has been
hardened into inveterate depravity by chastise-
ments inflicted under the mistaken notion that
its evil propensities might thus be subdued and
eradicated.


We beg every parent who is prone to beat
ing his child to recall the experiences of his
own childhood, and consider what were the eff
fects on his moral nature of any and every
penal nfiictiOn he ever endured. We doubt
that so many as one in ten can fairly say that
all the parental beating TO which he was sub
iected did him as much moral good as harm.


We are not pleading for indulgence. Every
child should be taught to know the right and
to do it. What we urge is, that the rod, the
whip, the cudgel, are implements of parental
discipline which have, on TIE whole, done far
more evil than goOd-that more children have
been confirmed and strengthened i'll wrong
doing than rescued therefrom by the infliction
of physical pain. How many have been
bludgeoned into idiOcy or permanent mental
infrmity by misjudging fathers, can never be
known till the sea shall give up her dead.
There are abundant means whereby q
parent may evince his dispeasure, his sorrow,
in view of the faults of his child, without
mauling it, Withdraw or withhold indulgences
which you would gladly have accorded, had
not your past confidence been abused-let your
child realize that your loss of faith in its
integrity inevitably subjects it to privations
and rcstrictions-show that your love for it
constrans you, most reluctantly, to render it
less happy because of its rangessions-but
keep the lash for unreasoning brutes, and be-
ware of employing it to deface and disfgure
the image of God.
Year: 1867

The Cable dispatches concerning the Lux
emburg question continue to be of an alarming
character The great Powers it is said, have
renewed the appeal to Prussia in the hope of
aveIting thereby the imminent war; but Prussia
is determined not to leave Luxembourg. We
infer from these dispatches and from our latest
steamer accounts that the subject of the con
trovcIsy is no longer the sale of Luxemburg
TO France, but the refusal of Prussia to evacu-
ate the fortress of Luxemburg.
Year: 1867

There is an error in the statement that the
Legislature have passed three bills for Elevated
Railway routes in this city. But one has passed
that of the West Side and Yonkers trial line,
which is to be begun at once at the foot of
Greenwich-st. and the Battery When tho
initial half-mile section of this road has been
reported favOrably by the three Commissioners
appointed by the Governor and the Croton
Board, the route may be completed to fonkers.
Year: 1867

The returns printed to-day arc too FEW to
enable an estimate of the total vote i'll the
State for delegates to the Convention, but give
additional proof that the Democrats in some
districts made no effort to elect their ticket,
and that the Republican majority is proportion
ately large. The vote thus far reported con-
firms the correctness of the list of delegates
we published Yesterday.
Year: 1867

THE ROMANCE OF WAR.-A French sol.
dier who accompanied the armies to Russia,
concealed a small treasure at the entrance of
a village near wilma, with view of taking
it with him on his return. After the defeat
of Moscow be was made prisoner and sent
to Siberia, and only recovered bis liberty q
few years before his death On reaching
Wilma be remembered his hidden treasure.
and after tracing out the spot where he had
hid it, he went to take it away. What was
his astonishment to find, in the place of his
money, small tin box, containing letter
addressed to him, in which commercial
house was mentioned in Name, where he
might receive the sum buried, with interest.
since the year 1912. The soldier supposed
this was all a hoax; he went, however, to
the house pointed out where he received his
capital, with twelve years interest. With
this sum he established small business at
Name which enabled him to live comfort
ably; but he was never able, although he
took some pains, to ascertain how his money
was taken away and restored to him,
Year: 1867

A HAPPY NEGRo.-A negro sat on the
curbstone bare, the light of his grinders
showing freedom from care his hat was
brimless and full of ali. holes, his shoes
nearly minus vamps, quarters and soles,
while his coat, pants and vest to fragments
were blown. and excepting the collar his
shirt was all gone. To any one passing,
twas easy to see. this darkey was happy as
happy could be; though wanting food he
seemed not to feel it, but patiently waited a
good chance to-nip it. No master to hector
him now, like Turk, or mistress to hurry
him up to his work no handling of plow,
hoe. shovel or spade, and nothing to do but
sit back in the shade Cdrlinrile Spectator.