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Year: 1869

The solcitude to relieve and care for, an;
comfort him, engrossed us T; the apprshen
sion OF our own desolation IN case he shoulC
be removed from US, almost drove us wild


While he lay deal beneath the home roo
there was hurry and hustle in preparation
for the funeral rites. Friends are sent for
neighbors are present, the funeral arrange
ments discussed, the mourning provided; al
is excitement; the loss is not yet perceived
in all its greatness.


But "after the funeral," after the business
has all subside and things begin to move
on rs usual, then it 10 that we begin to know
what has befallen US. The house seems still
and sepulchral, though in the heart of the
city; and though it's threshold be still trod-
den by friendly feet it is as if empty. The
apartment, how deserted Especially the
room where he struggled and surrendered
in the last conflict. There are his clothes,
there his books, bis hat and cane; there his
ever vacant seat at the family board. Du-
ring his sickness we had not so much rs
noticsd these things, for we hoped ever that
he might use or occupy them agln. But
DOW we know il cannot be, AMI we perceive
the dreadful vacuity everywhere.


Oh, how dark and cherries The night
shadows come down after the funeral NJ
moon or stars ever shone so dimly, no dark
ness ever seemed so utterig dark. The tick
ings OF the clock resound Like bells all over
the house. Such deep sile1cs No foot
steps now on the stairs or overhead in the
sick chamber; no nurse and watcher to coma
and say, "He is not % well, aud asks for
you" No, indeed, ''you may sleep now,
and take your rest" il you can. Ah, poor
bereaved heart 1t will be long before the
sweet rest you once knew will revisit your
couch. Slumber will bring back the scenes
through which you have Just passed, and
you will start from it but to fad them all
too real. God pity the mourners "after the
funeral"
Year: 1869

How do men feel when about to die-not
after being weakened by disease or when
the blood is heated by the strife OF battle
but when the much d. AIDED hour is
slowly but certainly approaching them, and
know that in exactly so many minutes it
will seize upon them and extinr Iish the
lusty life that animates their frames. Do
they rage and struggle against their fate, or
do they meet it with cslmness, resolution
and dignity2


In the recent terrible explosions in SaxOnv
the miners were not Immediately killed, ne
at first supposed a number OF them were
unharmed by the explosion, and were killed,
after an interval Of soma time, BY sufoca-
tion.
Year: 1869

PROVIDE FOR Your WIvEs.-When men are


prosperous, and are making money and consider


themselves rich, l wonder it so seldom comes
home TO them that they liable to reverses,


which shall plunge their families into the utmost
pecuniary distress. Men know that business is
subject to fluctuations, and that nothing is more


FREQ uent than that men should in one year have
all the comforts and advantages of wealth, and
the next year be stripped bare But vicious
hopefulness prevents them from realizing that
they shall never be subject to this fate which be-
falls others. Some persons have questioned
whether a scrupulous honesty would allow one
to hold back from creditors any part of a hus-
bands property. A settlement of property on
another, while debt hangs it, either for the
sake of avoiding payment of debt, or of securing
the family, would be fraudulent, dishonest and
wicked. But if, while clear of debt, a husband
settles property on his wife for the just mainten-
ance of herself and children, his after debts
have no more claim upon that property than if
he had sold and transferred it to a neighbor in
stead of his own wife. No man has right to
leave family whom he has accustomed to affiu-
ence liable to wasting poverty. A provision
made betimes, in property, for the safety of his
family il case of death or bankruptcy, may be
accepted and employed by the most sensitive
conscience. l write strongly on this subject,
because | have much distress arising
from the want of this precaution.-HenTy. Ward
Beecher.
Year: 1869

AT HOME IN THE EVENING -Nothng concern
ing the future welfare and happiness of the
young is so neglected by parents and guardians
as the manner in which their evenings are spent.
Darkness is temptation to evil and the suffering
young men and boys to be absent from the fam
lily hearth, when the light of day does not re-
strain them from misconduct is really restrain
ing them to it, and producing incalcuiable mis-
chief All the riots, disturbances of any kind,
and crimes the results of running in the
streets after nightfal. The home is sometimes
more necessary than the mere commhnd, and
parents should endeavor by their own example
to show the Importance of spending the hours OF
darkness with the family for if heads of house.
holds cannot experience the truth OF the asser-
tion that " there is no place like home, how
can they expect their offspring to be domestic
Evening recreation and employment in the fam
lily circle are infinitely more agreeable and pleas
ant than any amusement or dissipation abroad
and honorable and learned men are products OF
the one, while dssipated specimens of the hu-
man race are the results of the other. Let home
be the place it shonld be, and let the same fas-
cinations and inducements be offered Mt tho
homestead as abroad, and more exalted ana
creditable class of citizens would people the
world.
Year: 1869

An abandoned wretch who was warned by a
temperance friend to ''l look not upon the wine
when it is red within the cup,'' replied ''I
never touch red wine; whisky agrees better
with my constitution This reminds US of the
chaplain in "Johnathan Wild,'' who held that
"punch a good liquor, nowhere spoken
against it Scripture.
Year: 1869

An Irish judge had habit of beg
ging pardon on every occasion.
At the close of the assize, as he was about
leaving the bench, the officer of the court
reminded him that he had not passed SEN
tence of death on one ofthe crmi lals, as
he had intended. dear me y said his
lorjship, IL really beg his pardon--bring
him in"
Year: 1869

shall be aprointed Circnt Judge, who shall reside in
his Crcuit and shall possess the power and juris
dction therein the Justice Of the Supreme Court al
lOed 10 the Crcn The Circuit Courts in each Circuit
shall be held by the Justice Of the supreme Court allotted
TO the Cronit by the Circuit Judge OF the Circuit or
by the District Judge OF the District sitting alone,
or by Justice Of the supreme Court and Circuit Judge
sitting together in which case the Justice OF the eu
preme Court shall presde or in the absence or either OF
them by the other (who shall presidel and the District
Judge and such Courts may be held at the same tlme III
different districts the ercuit aud causes may
be heard and tried by each Of the Judges holding any
such Court sitting apart, by the direction OF the pre-
siding Justice or Judge who shall designate the business
10 be done by The Circuit Judges shall receive an
annual salary OF 5000. ,


SEC That nothing in this act shall affect the powers
Of the Justices OF the Supreme Court Judge OF the
Circuit Courts except in the appointment OF Clerks
OF the Circuit Courts whO In each Clreut, shall Do
appointed by the Circuit Judge of that circuit and the
clerks OF the District Courts shall he appointed by the
Judges thereof respectively provided that the present
clerks OF said Court shall continue In office TIL other a


pointments be made in their place or they DC Otherwise
removed


SIC That &c shall be the duty OF the ChiefJnstice and
OF each Justice Of the Supreme Court 10 attend at least
one term OF the Circuit Court In each district OF Ills circuit
during every period OF two years


SEC. 8 That any Judge Of any Court OF the United
states who having held his commission as such at least
ten years SHALL after having attained the age or 20 years
resign his office shall thereafter during the residue OF
his natural life, receive the same salary which was Dy
law payable TO him at the time OF his resignation
Year: 1869

COMMISSIONER ROLLINS has written
IL letter calling especial attention
to the fact that the extension OF
time given to dealers in smoking and
fine cut chewing tobacco, before the
a lnHr
Year: 1869

bill to the Senate and was appointed to
do 80.


On motions OF Mr.. Howes, the Senate
Joint resolution ordering an investiga-
McFadden, Superintendent OF the PEN
itentiary, was taken up and agreed to.


Under this resolution the Speaker
appointed the committee of inVestiKa-
tion on the part OF the House as fol-
lows: Messrs. Carroll, Howes and
Jacob, of Hampshire.


Mr.. Mann, rising to question OF
privilege desired to say in regard to
the strain of remark that had been
INDUCED in, i'll regard to stealing
from members, that he had been one OF
the victims of the robbery referred to-,
and had lost more heavily than any of
them; yet he had been in Wheeling a
good portion of his time for the last
four or five years, and never had suf-
fered from any similar depreciation be-
fore. And now he had no right to sup
pose the thief was a resident OF Wheel
ing, but was on the contrary a straggler
from another place. He did not want
1t to be supposed he had any co complaint
to make OF the citizens of Wheeling on
this score.


Mr.. Carpenter, OF Greenbrier, rose to
disavow the sentiments which had been
expressed here to-day. He endorsed
no such charges as had been made
against the citizens of Wheeling. He
had been treated here kindly and hon
against the people Of Wheeling, and he
wanted ii distinctly understood his
vote had been influenced by no such
appeals. If anything would have
changed his vote 1t was the character OF
argument that had been indulged In
here this morning. He regarded the
people OF Wheeling as genteel, hon
orable and Intelligent community, lib
eral enough in their political views to
allow every one his own opinion.


Mr.. Flick said that in the heat OF
discussion he might have said things
which he ought not to have said. He
had no charges against the people of
Wheeling. What he said was more in
n jocose way than anything else.


The House adjourned.
Year: 1869

ta1allon and Keep Them insured and IN
repair.


Signed on behalf of the State of
West Virginia by the President of the
Senate and Speaker OF the House of
Delegates thereof, in pursuance of
joint resolution OF the Legislature of
said State; and subscribed by US. resi-
dents OF the said city, this 18th day OF
Year: 1869

a farmer residing in the western part
of Massachusetts, had, many years since,
an old orchard, many of whose trees
were encased in very rough coating of
bark. Their productive days seemed to
be over, and the owner was counting on
a good supply of firewood from them the
ensuing winter. 1t was suggested to
him that if the bodies of the trees were
well scraped an improvement in yield
might result from the operation. Some
twenty of them were subjected to q Wig
orous application of the hoe and the
rough coating thoroughly removed,
The ensuing season showed a marked
improvement in their production, the
credit of which, whether correctly or
not, was assigned to the operation OF
the hoe. The experiment is easily made
and the cost but trifing, even should il
fail of rejuvenating the trees operated
| upon.
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies. They will cure every case of MA,
RASMUS, without fail.


Thousands of certificates have accumulated
in the hands of the proprietor, but space will
allow Of the publication Of but q few. Those
il will be observed, are men Of note, and Of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

ton, yet the shame which they bring on
the profession is very great. At balls
and parties during the winter, they swarm
around like harpies. In the commit
tee room they may be seen taking every
advantage of indulging for the first time
in square meal" and drinking them
selves into a state of beastiality. This
evil reached such an extent last winter
that respectable Journalists could not be
induced to visit the committee room du-
, ring ball. The only means of combat
ting this evil is for ball committees to re-
fuse admittance to any person claiming
connection with a journal and not pro-
vided with the necessary written authori-
zation from the editor of that journal
Again, any conduct unbecoming gen.
tleman or journalist, which the accredited
representative of paper may be guilty
OF, should be instantly reported to the
editor of that paper By this means the
journalistic profession will be weeded of
the swindlers, loafers and beats who
occasionally creep into it, and the true
gentlemen of the press will not be COM
PEELED to endure the shame and humilia.
ton of having such persons pointed out
to them as professional brethren.
Year: 1869

Spanish Soldiers: For the second time
l address you. The liberating army
crowned with glory throughout the island,
the resources we are constantly receiving
from Ultrsmar, the multitude of men who
hasten to take up arms, the soldiers of
the Spanish ranks who seek the clemency
of the government of the republic, all
will prove to you that the triumph OF the
holy cause of liberty is consummated
fact, and that Spain will have to withdraw
her forces from land which for so many
centuries she has oppressed. Tyranny
has found its grave in the Island OF Cuba
with the fail of the Bourbons.


Slavery, the shame and disgrace Of
every civilized country, has disappeared
forever, and the republic, with its glorious
liberty, appears to regenerate the people
and to relieve them of the heavy chains
of despotism.


The Spanish government, convinced
OF its impotence, with a civil war which
devours it, with its exhausted treasury,
unpopular among all the nations of the
globe, now feeds it's fury on the sons Of
heroic Cuba and assassinates without pity
prisoners of war. Horror and shame
The descendants of Cid, the champion,
and of Pelsyo have degenerated greatly,
and forgotten in their fury the rules of
warfare adopted in all civilized countries.


/ who love my country, but who detest
spiIling the blood of the conquered, and
who have placed ia my ranks hundreds
of Spaniards, write you to hasten to
unite yourselves to the army of the free.
The Cuban people do not hate the races,
but alone desire to be independent, and
!: Is shall shall be; desire to DO free, and no
human power shall prevent it.


Fly from those vile ranks, sullied by
crime and injustice, and come where we
shall receive you as brothers-here where
we breathe the pure air of liberty-here
where all men are equal and do not bend
the forehead before the presence of
King or sullied Queen. If / write you
in this manner it is because consider
myself strong; because ! have under
command a numerous army of brave men,
and because the liberty of Cuba enjoys
the sympathy of all civilized countries


Present yourselves to our pickets; they
have orders to receive you and to take
you to headquarters. II you would be
free and live with honor, come to our
ranks; it is not yet too late.


The General-in- Chief of the iberating
army of Cuba, MANUEL QUEsADA.
Year: 1869

The excavations in the Hoosac Tunnel
have recently been seriously interfered
with by the occurrence of soft place,
but the workmen have at last overcome
the difficulties, and have reached point
one hundred feet beyond, The soft place
vas about twelve feet in width, composed
of soft and rotten rock filed with water,
which kept slowly falling until timbered
up. The tunnel fell for the whole width,
leaving cavity above about forty feet
high, all of which had to be filled up and
nsde firm with wood and timber, aud
viii have to be srcbed with brick. The
material beyond this place, it is stated, is
the best hitherto met with, being mica
slate, aud blasts of 10 large fakes, suit
able for building purposes. The rate of
the progress now is about forty feet per
week on the east end Of the tannel, it is
reported,
Year: 1869




The following beautiful passage is BY the
Rev J. T. Corning. It viii be appreciated
By all " brain workers" While l sit at
my study table with my pen in hand, the
fingers moving with tardy pace at the beck
on ofbrain, l hear right below my window,
in the adjacent field, the monotonous ring
Of a laborer's hoe upon the corn hills
While he hoes he whistles, hour by hour,
until tbe clock strikes twelve, and then with
q rayenous appetite repairs to his bountiful
yet simple meal, only to resume his task
again, aud pursue it to the setting Of the
sun As | stood at the window watching
his toll, and turned'again to pen and paper,
l asked myself how it happened that the
man with the.hoe will labor his eight or ten
hours a day with less fatigue than the man
with his pen win toll his three or four.
Hugh Miller was great worker with the
shovel and the pick-would have made a
good hand in slate quarry, in grading a
railroad, or digging a canal. But one night,
as you know, he shot himself In a nervous
fever What was the difference between
the great gcologist aud the man with the
hoe wbistIing under my window? Simply
this, the former was a worker of brain, and
the latter a worker Of muscle. Let this man
with the hoe lay down his husbandry for a
li.t'e while and set himself to studying one
Of the stoks Of corn, or the chemistry of one
of those hills Of SOIL and very likely he
would soon learn what it is TO lose one 5 ap-
petite, and hear the clock strike nearly all
the night hours in feverish wakefulness.
And thus we get great organic law of our
being to wit: that brain work subtracts vi
tality from the fountain, while muscle work,
only makes 1raughts upon one of the rami-
fling streams of life. 1t is estimated By
scientific observers that man will use up
as much vital force in working his brains
two hours as he viii in working his muscles
eight
Year: 1869

A fellow who has bean shaved in
China says that the barber first strapped
the razor on his leg, and then did the
shaving without any lather. The Gus
toner demonstrated, but was told that
lsther was entirely useless, anu had a
tendency to make the hair stif and
tough, and was therefore never used by
persons who had any knowledge of the
face and its appendages. After the beard
had been taken off-and it was done in
very short time-the barber took long,
sharp, needle-shaped spoon, ana begau
to explore his customers ears. He
brought up from numerous little crevices
bits OF wax an1 dirt that had been accu-
mulsting since his childhood. The bar
Der suddenly twisted his SUBJECTS neck
to one side in such manner that it
cracked as if the vertebre had been dis
located. "HoId on " shouted the party,
alarmed for the safety of his neck. 4" Ali
right" replied the tonsor, me no hurt
you" and be continued to jerk and
twist the neck until it was Timber as an
old woman's dish rag. He then fell to
beating the back, breast, arms and sides
with his fists, and pummeled the muscles
until they fairly gloWed with the beating
they had received. He then dashed
bucket of cold water over his man, dried
the skin with towels, and declared that
his work was done. Price tao cents.
Year: 1869

ooa.s BY two men In divers dress, who w0ul0
enter the water at Fourteenth street. come down
under the boats, and by means OF snarp-polnsed
screw, which would be driven thr ough tue copper
with blow from hammer, fasten the torpeooeS
Afniy 10 the hull. Each torpedo WAS 10 be con-
nected by wife with galyanic battery anu nhu
space OF about SIX inches between the powder anu
apex OF the case that with the resistance oi tue
water on the broad. FIAT bottom, tue Wnoio
force of'the explosion would be slrected against
the bottom OF the BOAT. IL was calculated tnas Two
men In dIyer's dress, supplied with air by the thlrd


man, concealed with an air pump at Tue ioot oI


Fourteenth street. could attach tOrpedoes TO all OF
Tue coats In three nights, and when all was reauy


nasn from the galyanic battery would blow up
every vessel The position OF the Runboats as tney


lay together In the dock, the character OF Tue


wharves the intricate passages among the nelgn-


boring lumber yards and the dark nights all favored
such an attempt, and Ii is probable that u ths
gunb0ats had remained Q few days longer IN the
position where they had been so long the scheme
would have been successfully carried out. The
leader IN the enterprise has mad similar experience.
no less dililcut and dangerous, during the war; ana
with his coolness, energy and courage would un-
doubtedly have destroyed at least part al The ota
The rapid movements being made from place to
place about the docks by the several gunDOats pre-
vents the execution or any such plan now, but It u
possible that some other scheme may be devised to
prevent portion OF the vessels from ever leaving
New York. There Is q rumOr that the Cubans are
preparing to astOnish the community by coup
d'etat and the notilla now ready for sea may have
trouble before It gets out or sight OF Sandy HOOK
Year: 1869

d law has not reached them. While by
the statute every Illuminating oil is pre-
scribed, in order to be salable, 70 stand a
heat Of one hundred and ten degrees Fahren-
heit before burning, there are oils sold by
corner grocers and by many moro pretentious
tradesmen, that go of in a Whit at TEN.
perature of from fifty to seventy five degrees.
And with all the vaunted tests that the Health
Board has ordered, nothing has yet been done
to abate the evil.


This convention Of reHners, which adjourned
yesterday. did certainly fail in their daty to
she public in this regard. They must under
stand where the root of all this roguery and
cheating lies. Some of the members stated
facts enough to show that they were well in
formed about the matter Why, then, did they
not set their experience and ingenuity to work,
instead Of babbling about their trade and de-
nouncing the oil exporters of New York and
making spread-eagle illusions to the pro-
gressive American people-why did they not,
instead Of all this twaddle, make at least an
attempt to devise the best means of stopping
the manufacture and sale of these villanous
compounds9 They might have done so were
they so minded. That they did not, aud even
postponed action on the only resolution which
leaned remotely towards it, is very bad sign,
to say the least, and may induce the suffering
public to charge the whole trade with COM
plicity in the offence.
Year: 1869

Several recent law suits in this city and the
Richardson Mcfarland tragedy have combined
10 awaken the public mind to legal confusion
existing throughout the Union upon the sub
iect Of marriage and divorce. Almost every
State has marriage and divorce code of it's
own. Every day is presented the spectacle of
divorced parties, who have been prohibited in
our State from marrying again, rushing off to
another, engaging in new marriage contract
and returning to this State practically to defy
its law. Husbands go off on tour to the
West for business or pleasure, and in few
that they are divorced. Wives in similar
manner separate from their husbands and tarry
in Indiana or Connecticut for short time as
the old Pilgrims used to tarry at Joppa, and
then come back to shake in the faces Of their
friends divorce DEGREES.


Such confusion in a matter so deeply affect
ing social order and family security is mon
strous evil. We see no way to correct it
hut for Congress to pass uniform law
about marriage and divorce. State rights
lawyers and politicians of the ancient and
easy era of Fillmore may say that the sub
ject lies beyond the province Of Congress.
But surely the events and Supreme Court
decisions Of late years have rendered the
constitution elastic enough to stretch over 30
laudable grasp of power by the national
legislature. Let the womens rights conyen-
lions turn their attention to something prac-
tical in this behalf, and agtate for a uniform
law in respect to marriage and divorce
throughout the United States. Thereby they
viii protect the interests Of women, the
security OF families, the dignity Of descend
ants and the muniments Of property, besides
hitting the free love monster a very decided
knock on the head. Perhaps Vice President
Colfax, with his knowledge of the Richard
son-McFarland complications, can inausurate
the reform