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Year: 1868

The Artless Art OF Oonyersation.
! Superficial people, who are content t.


take words very much as they find


them, think that conversation Is the ART


Of talking. There could not be greater


blunder. Its difficulty would be much


more truly expressed by defining 1t as
the art Of being silent. Any blockhead


is able to talk. To know how and when


to be silent is the gift Of the wise. The


common phrase, q good talker, Is more


usually than not applied to man who


is profoundly ignorant of what it il that


conversation means, or else who knows


what 1t means but does not much APP


prove Of it. As rule the persons with


the most universal reputation for good
talk are the sworn foes Of conversation.
They have no more right to be set up as
patterns Of conversation than popular
preacher, or teetotal lecturer, or pub
lie reciter. Preaching or lecturing Is, in
its way, just as little conversation as the
utterances Of the professed talker.-
Among other evils the talker is pretty
sure to be aware of his reputation, and
therefore to be constantly on the strain
In order to maintain 1t.


Effort may beget talk, but the charm
Of conversation is spontaniety and free
dom from self-consciousness. It Is here
as it is with literary style. Style is the
unaffected and unconscious outcome and
expression of the authors habitual way
of thinking and feeling about things.-
The moment he begins to study for
styles sake, he evidently becomes stilt-
ed, rhetorical, and to the wholesome
taste, intensely disagreeable. The pro-
fessed stylist il creature as little to be
endured in Literature a. the clipping of
lockwood into peacocks is to be endured
In landscape gardening. The only way
to arrive at lucid or sympathetic style
is to acquire lucid habits Of thought and
to cultivate human moods. If an au-
thor thinks little of his style, and much
Of his subject, and of what is due to his
own mind and character, his style will
take care of itself. It is the same with
The same qualities which
make man right-living person, will
Of themselves make him good in con-
versaing. To live well, one must have
= lively intellect and right feeling, to
well you want no more
Special training for conversational .pur-
poses is superfluity-nay, is worse
han super1uity, just as washes and
are worse than superfluous for
he skin or the hair.
Year: 1868

An Instance of great hesoism Oh the
part of a young man, Captain William
Jacknan, is related in the Newfound-
land papers as having occurred at Lab
rador during the violent hurricane OF
October 9th last. So extraordinary is
the story, that were it not vouched for
by the best authority, it would appea,
incredible. A vessel called the Sea
Slipper had struck on reef near place
called Spotted Islands, Labrador, at
which there were no residents. This
young man, being providentially in the
neighborhood, witnessed the vessel
striking and saw her fall asunder, with a
number OF persons OH her deck and rig
ging-twenty-seven, as 1t afterwards ap-
peared. To save some Of these poor
creatures Mr. Jackman cast himself into
the sea and swan to the wreck, distance
q hundred fathoms or more from the
shore. The herricanc was at the time
at its hight, accompanied by snow
Eleven timesdid this hiroic man swim
between the ship and shore each time
bringing man from the wreck and
placing him in safety. By this time
persons from a neighboring settlement
had arrived with ropes. Sixteen trips
more did the noble sailor make conduct
ing all the survivors in safety to the
shore. It seldom falls to our lot to re-
late more heroic conduct. Captain





Jackman is said to be as modest as he is
brave, and when spoken to on the sub
joct will not allow that he did any more
than his duty. Application is to he
made on his behalf, by the magistrate
OF the district, to the Royal Humane
Society for its gold medal, which will
undoubtedly be promptly granted.
Year: 1868

IMPORTANT REVENUE DECIsIoN-
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has recently made a decision which is OF
great Importance to business men. II fy
that every change in ii irm by which a
member retires from the same, whether
a new partner takes his place or the
surviving partner continues the business
alone, or by which formea proprietor
disposes of hia entire business and q
successor takes his place, constitute
alike in contemplation of the law, a new
person or firm liable to- special tax for
the balance OF the year for which tax has
once been paid by the original firm or
owner. No provision Of law exist In
relation to special tax receipts similar to
that which formerly admitted of the
transfer Of q license from one person or
firm to successor, by Endorsement Of
the collector, and the party continuing
the business is liable for special tax
from the lst Of the month In WHICH he
becomes the successor Of tho firm
Year: 1868

THAT'S After q great snow
storm little fellow began to shovel .
path through large snow.bank before
his grandmother's door. He had moth
ing but a small shovel to work with.


"How do you expect to get through
that drift?" asked man passing along.


by keeping at It," said the boy cheer
fully; that's how! @-
That is the secret OF mastering almost
every difficulty under the sun. If a
hard task is before you, stick to it. Do
not keep thinking how large or hard it
is; but go at it, and little by little 1t will
grow smaller and smaller, until 1t Is
done.


Ifa hard lesson is to be learned, do
not spend moment in fretting do not
loose breath in saying, II can't or 1
don't see how" but 60 at it, and keep
att. Study. That is the only way to
conquer it.


If fault is to be cured, or bad habit
broken up, 1t cannot be done by merely
being sorry, or only trying little. You
must keep fighting It, and not give up
lighting until it is got rid Of.
Year: 1868

In the new brick building on Main street,
opposite the Post Office. Where he is re
ceiving and opening large and varied as
sortment Of FAMILY GROCERIES, which
he will sell as cheap as
Year: 1868

DEAR SIR have your letter Of
the 18th in reference to the eligibil-
ity of a colored man TO Congress. j
know of no ground on which he
could be excluded from his seat, if
duly elected, and / should welcome
the election Of a competent repre-
sentative Of the colored race to
either House Of Congress as the final
triumph Of the cause of equal
rights. Till this step is taken our
success is incomplete


Yours truly, CHAs. SUESER-


wAsHISsrox, June 25--The
Speaker decided the Arkansas mem
Year: 1868

There are now probably not fewer than half
million of returned veterans of the War for
the Union scattered throughout the Northern
and Southern States. Having assumed the
dress and occupation of citizens they are merged
and lost apparently in the common crowd. No
outward badge remains to distinguish the farmer,
or merchant, OF railroad conductor who lately
commanded regiment or carried the colors or
fought as high private from him who re-
manned at home and sneered at the defenders
of the Union as Lincoln hirelngsp or mer-
cenary hOrdes. Yet these citizen soldiers
are still the well-remembered Armies of
the Union to whom the nations
gratitude is due for its salvation. If France
gratefully cherished till they passed from the
battle of life the veterans who, under Napoleon,
carried the victorious tri-colOr of the French
Republic across the Rhine and the Alps, and
sustained the Imperial Eagles from the Pillars
of Hercules to the Pyramids, how much more
does America prize the Grand Army of the
Union, to which we afe indebted for Union
restored, four millions Of Americans emanci-
pated, and our nationality savedq


There are those who seek to compare our
late War for the Union and Freedom with the





partisan tyrants and revolutionists fighting for
personal ascendancy in the civil wars of Rome.
If it were possible to leave wholly out of view
the merits of the recent war. such compari-
son might be just, and its inference, viz, that
the American people should hold the armies of
the Union in no more regard than Romans
held the hired mercenares of these rival chief
tains, would necessarily follow. But it is not
possible thus to ignore the nature and causes
of the great Rebellion and the conse-
quent War for the Union. The fun
damental facts that there was an iTepressible
conflict between Freedom and Slavery, In
which one or the other had to go to the wall
and that the war was not merely by rival
chieftains for personal ascendancy, cannot be
overlooked The facts that with Freedom
were allied all the redeeming forces Of our
Christian civilization, and most of the sources
of our material prosperity, and that with
Slavery were joined in natural alliance
the hosts of poverty, passion, preju-
dice, and brute force, cannot be
cried down. The facts that the Rebel
lion was directed against Government which
had never lifted finger toward Slavery or
the South except in protection, and that the
War for the Union was inspired by no other
than the most calm and righteous conviction
of the necessity of preserving the whole Amer
ican people under one nationality, and with
homogeneous institutions, cap neither be belied
nor forgot. These facts existing, the attempt
10 represent the war as mere triumph
OF brute force, or of rival factions or
personal interests, is depraved and iniqui-
tous on Its face. The elements Of brute force
party passion. and ambition for personal as
Year: 1868

The races which commence to-day at jerome
Park may be said to mark the elimination of
the season. SO far, the institution of the Ford
ham Course seems TO have been of great ad-
vantage to the racing fraternity in more than
one way Though only in its third year, it
has already achieved place at the head OF
the American Turf, and attracts owners OF
choice stock from the most distant States of
the Union. More fine horses have been brought
on from the West this season than ever before,
and, although the running of the Western
horses at the recent Secaucus races was
disappointment to their hackers,
it is probable that this week, having
measurably recovered from the effects of travel
and change of climate, they will make much
better show. The importation of full-blooded
stock from England has also been greatly
stimulated by the opening of this new and
beautiful park. controlled as it chiefly is by
gentlemen of large fortune TO whom the turf
is not business but an amusement, and who
have every facility for the qualification Of their
tastes. The American Jockey Club, in fact, by
literally indulging the expensive fancies of its
members, Is doing excellent service TO the
whole country, and rapidly infusing into our
native breeds the blood of the best horses Of
Europe.


But this is not all. Racing may be and
ought to be q useful as well as an exciting
pursuit. So long as it was controlled by
gamblers and disreputable characters generally,
the improvement which it made in the breed
of horses was neutralized by the damage it
did to the morals of men. The turf has been
looked upon for many years as social evil,
and in many respectable circles man who
freouented it was barely tolerated. That at
least has been the case in the United States.
In England, where it has been for generations
the fayorite amusement of the highest classes.
It has kept an outward social dignity, but has
nevertheless been privately disreputable. Our
correspondent, Mr.. Thomas Hughes, the we'll
known Liberal Member of Parliament, wrote
In ono of his letters to THE TRIBUNE:


OF all cankers OF old there nothing
In this country appyosehing In unbushing mespness. "
Year: 1868

Paris is again startled by rumors of an i'm
pending European war; so, at least, says lie
Nord, the Russian organ in Paris which is
generally well informed whenever Russian in
terests are at stake. The announcement Of
this paper that war is to break out even
before the close of next Autumn is GER
tainly as serious as it is unexpected. For
many months the political atmosphere in
Europe has been uncommonly serene. There
was reorganization of the standing
armies in Austria and France, but it has all
along been accompanied by so emphatic as
surances of peaceful intentions that the belief
in a long continuance has evidently gained
strength. 1t may be that the announcement OF
LIE Nord is one of those sensational reports
which so frequently turn up on sudden to
disquiet for few days the money market, and
then as suddenly disappear. AT all events,
the semi i-oflical and usually cautious charac-
ter of lie NOrd will give to the above report
greater significance than is usually attributed
to war rumors


Whenever war of large dimensions shall
break out in Europe, it must arise from one of
the two central, still unsolved questions-the
German or the Eastern. The former, for some
time, has Dccn ulInOSU ullOPtlllcT lOhJ SlRHI Ol
Prussia has declared that she intends to exer-
else not the least pressure upon any of the
Southern States, and that if Bavaria and
WurtembeTg refuse to enter into
closer union with Northern Germany,
Prussia will be entirely satisfied with the
present arrangement. Apparently the official
declarations of Prussia have given entire salts
faction in Paris, and ever since the end of the
Luxemburg complication the official papers of
both Governments have been Oyerfiowing with
assurances Of mutual love and esteem. 1t is
true this state of affairs may suddenly be
changed for the views OF the two Govern
ments on the solution of the German question
widely differ. France has never yet renounced
its opinion that Prussia has no right to over
step the line of the Maine, and that France
has an international right to prevent such q
movement. Prussia, on the other hand,
while disclaiming any wish to coerce
South German State into closer union, in
sists very strongly that the consolidation of
Germany Is an affair Ipurely German, in which
no foreign power has right to meddle, and
that when Prussia can arrange an agreement
with any of the South German States, she
will do so without any regard to what foreign
ers may say or think about it, This case may
arise at anyl time The Grand Duke Of Baden
is an ardent partisan of union, and the major
ity of the Diet and of tho popular voters
agree with him. He smooths tho way
Year: 1868

The defeated Conservative local politicians
of Washington. not satisfied with the disorder
and bloodshed in which they vented their cha
grin on the day after the municipal election,
yesterday attempted, in defiance of the official
award of the election to the Republicans, to
take possession of the City Government. The
defeated Conservative Aldermen disputed the
occupancy of the City Hall with the lawfully
chosen officials, while the Republican Mayor
found the doors locked against him. In spite
of these disgraceful and mheard-of proceed
ings, the Republicans are now in firm and
rightful possession.
Year: 1868

It seems there is another appeal to he argued
in the matter of the Fernando Wood leases,
and the case was yesterday reOpened, the
question being the technical one of the appeal
ability of framing Of issues. 1t is too much
to hope that Mr.. 0'GOrman means to do any
thing more than throw dust by this move or
that his clients will be any better off than If
the case had remained closed.
Year: 1868

The bill to admit the State Of Arkansas to
representation in Congress has passed both
Houses and gone to the President. The condi.
tions upon which Arkansas, the first State TO
be readmitted to the Union, is received are az
follows The Reconstruction act of March Q,
1867, provided that when the people of any ono
of the late Rebel States shall have formed
constitution and government in conformity with
the Constitution of the United States, in all
respects, framed by convention OF delegatea
elected by the male citizens of said State, 81 yean
old and upward, of whatever race, color, or pre-
vious condition, who have resided in said State
for one year previous to such election, except
such as may be dsfranchised for participation
in the Rebellion, OF for felony; and when such
State Constitution shall provide that the cleo
tive franchise shall be enjoyed by all such
persons as have the qualifications herein
stated for electors of delegates; and when
such Constitution shall be ratified by
majority of the qualified electors
and submitted TO and approved by Congress
and when the Legislature OF said State shall
have adopted the amendment to the COnstitu.
ton known as the XIVth Article and when
said article shall have become part of the
Constitution of the United States such State
shall be admitted into the Union. with all the
privileges accorded the loyal States.


On May Mr.. Stevens (Pa.) reported bill
to the House reciting that, as the people Of
Arkansas had accepted the terms imposed
by Congress, their State should be admitted
into the Union on the condition that the present
Constitution of the State shall not he 80
amended as to deprive any citizen OF tie
United States of the right to vote who is entitled
TO a vote by said Constitution. The bill passed
the House on the 9Th ut. On the 18th the bill
was brought up in the Senate and referred to
the Judiciary Committee, where it lay dormant
during the impeachment excitement 1t was
afterward taken up, taf III lowing fnada-
mental condition imposed az a ubst'tutt for
the House provision;


That the Constitution OF Arkansas shal ever be a
amended changed 20 deprive any citizen class o
citizens the United States Of the right vote who
except as punishment for such crimes nov
felonies at common law whereof they shall have beoq
duly convicted under laws equally applicable 10 all tA1
inhabitants or said Stae provided, that alteration
OF said Constitution. prospective in its effect may b
made In regard to time and place OF residence Of Ia
voters. w


This was agreed to by the House YESTERDAY,
and the bill was sent to the President IL viii
become a law probably by the expiration oi
the constitutional limit of tirle, withou. ia
being signed by the President ~
Year: 1868

coptemnt which was adopted. The witness
having been brought to the bar of the House,
declared his readiness to answer the quos'ionS
of the Committee a ,,roO,ross


The Tax bill was then taken up, and progress
made as far as the 10th section
Year: 1868

Persons having real estate for sale or to leu
and those desrous Of purchasing or renting such pro
perty viii find 10 to their interest 10 advertise in THE
TRIBUNE Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF
other newspaper and in addition to this advantage THE
TRIBUNE will be found not only in New-iork ana oil lts
cities and villages but IN every State and Territory
within the Union The advertisement should be made as
brief as will allow Of the advantage offered being clear
TO the reader We would especially dwell on the fact
that the subscribers for the three editions OF TIE TRB
I,E semiWeokly and Weekly, comprise individuals in
every profession or business consequently advertise
ments in each disseminate among all classes. THE
TRIBUNE devoes especial attention to the reports OF real
estate both the city and in every part OF the state
thus adding greatly the value Of its columns as an al
versing medium. The charges for advertising are us
follows: DAILY TRIBUNE, 25 cents per line for single
insertion: WEEKLY TRIBUNE, 81 90 per line; SEMI
WEEKLY TRIBUNE, 25 cents per lue.
Year: 1868

JEALOUSY of the negro, aud dread
of unsuccessful competition with him,
must have worried ALBERT PIKE
very much. In his valedictory. on
withdrawing from the Memphis Ap-
peal, he says:


We shall not speak upon stand or
platform where a negro sits swelling
in the bloom of his majestic self
importance, expecting his speech to
be reported in the Avalanche and be
declared an orator superior TO many
OF another color.
Year: 1868

An observing man explains that the
better treatment which President John
son is now receiving is owing to the fact
that, instead of swinging around the
circle, he is now :" travelling on the
square This comes from the East.
Year: 1868

A correspondent Of the Spirit Of the Tines
writes as follows:


A gentlemen of Chatham, N. j., while snioe-
shooting on those excellent meadows there, last
September, shot a snipe, or knocked Ii down at
least After all was ready he told the dog to go,
find dead bird,n which the dog did in excellent
style, and retrieved il without hurting ii in the
least. In taking it from the dogs mouth it was
seen to be uniDjured, except slight scratch on
the head, which had evidently only stunned it, for
as soon as it was taken out Of the dogs mouth it
was lively enough TO have flown away again, if it
could only have got at liberty. He took the
bird, put grass all around il, and taking
his napkin off of his lunch, wrapped the
bird up in It very carefully, so that it could not
get hurt in his pocket. He continued hunting bat
only getting three brace, he returned home, re-
jocing over the capture Of a live English snipe.
Arriving at home. he took the bird out Of his
pocket and put it on the floor; it Immediately
commenced hopping around, and feeling every
thing with its long BILL and, seemingly, took great
pleasure in standing in front Of the fire on one
leg with its bill under IFS wing. 1t never showed
any signs of fear, and may well be called game
bird. 1t would allow the dogs TO point II, and
took great deg6t in 6eSPg ,Ssg, bstsd ED Hiding


he would come running up TO get it, and would
then hop away to pan filed with water, would
there wash the worm and then swallQU.1sk.
After taking little drink he was~rea1y for
another. He washes himself every morn
ing, but wants fresh, clean water every
time, as he would never wash in the same water
twice. His chief amusement was boring, which
it did in large milkpan filed with mud, grass
and worms. He would eat more than twice bis
own weight Of worms each day; myself and its
owner watched il for three hours, and in that time
1t consumed seventy-one worms. We afterwards
got seventy worms, and found them to weigh five
ounces, and the snipe weighed three ounces. It
was very lively and wakeful bird, although it
would 60 TO sleep in your hand. But with all the
eating the bird did, it kept continually getting
thin, and after two months captivity it died. 1t
must have died of starvation, for it was SO thin
you could see through it. 1t must eat something
else besides worms. 1t was the handsomest bird
ever put in g cage.
Year: 1868




walked beside a dark gray sea,
And said, 80 world, how cold thou art!
Thou poor, white world pity thee,
For joy and warmth from thee depart.
Yon wave like rising Of the snow;
Winds on the crsg each other chase
In little pOwdery whirls they blow
The misty fragments down its face.
The sea is cold, and dark its rim;
Winter sits covering on the world;
And |, beside this watery brim,
Am also lonely, also cold"
spoke, and drew toward rock,
Where many news were twittering sweet;
Their wings upreared, the clustering flock
Did pat the sea-grass with their feet.
A rock but half submerged, the sea
Ran up and washed it while they fed;
Their fond and foolish ecstacy


wandering in my fancy bred.
Joy companied with every cry.
Joy in their food, in that keen wind,
That heaving sea, that shaded sky,
And in themselves and in their kind.
The phantom of the deep at play!
What idless graced the twittering things
Luxurious paddlings in the spray,
And delicate lifting up of wings.
Then all at once a fight, and fast
The lovely crowd flew out to sea;
If mine own life had been recast,
Earth had not looked more changed to me.
Where Is the cold? Yon clouded skies
Have only dropped their curtains low
To shade the old mother where she lies,
Sleeping little meath the snow.
The cold ia not in crag, nor scar,
Nor in the SHOWS that lap the lea,
Not in yon wings that beat afar,
/. DeGghIing on the crested sea;
No. nor in yon exultant wind
That shakes the oak and bends the pine,
Look near, look in, and thou shalt find
No sense Of cold, fond sjol, but thine
With that felt the gloom depart,
And thoughts within me did unfold,
Whose sunshine warmed me TO the heart,
walked in joy and was not cold.