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Year: 1869




An intelligent and beautiful boy Of
three or four years of age was supposed
to be in charge of his father The child's
clothing showed that he had mother
who spared no pains in dressing him.
He was evidently the pride of her heart
and eyes; aud his father, perhaps, 80
far as the sentiment of affection goes,
loved him as we'll Bat mere "senti-
ment" costs nothing, and when it is not
accompanied with something more sub
stantial, wo are inclined to visit it with
the ebjurgation Of the old gentlemaR in
the comedy. The mothers love resulted
in actual benefit. The fathers affection
only persuaded him to take out the child
for walk-and that, perhaps, unwilling
ly.


But as they walked the father was
tempted to turn aside, and he did. He
could not keep out of his old haunts,
though he had an innocent child with
him The child resented rather than
received the compliments of loungers,
aud was amazed at what he saw and
heard but could not understand. Pres
emily, when they essayed to return home,
and reached the street, the father found
himself completely helpless and useless,
and the child, crying as if his little heart
would break, vsinly attempted to lead or
draw the wretched sot along II was all
a mystery to the little fellow, and yet he
seemed to know that he ought to be
ashamed to call for help. A good-natured
policeman stepped up at last, and led the
drunken father toward his home. But for
the child he would have gone to the
lookup.


This is one of our two incidents. New
for the other. Two young girls were
walking together. They were modest,
pretty, well-behsved, but still in very
cheerful spirits, as glance would show.
They were sisters, aud were full OF dis
cussion about some of the matters which
interest young people. Evidently they
were of the class of folks by whom holi-
day is as much appreciated as it was by
Charles Lamb and his sister. Suddenly,
amid their glee, an intoxicated man shot
toward them, moving with that giddy
impulse which cannot be controlled. He
just avoided running them down. Stag
gering back to make drunken apology,
he recognized in them his own two dsugh-
ters. Sick at heart they hurried, almost
ran away, and left their drunken father to
be cared for by his friends" What
else could they have done2 These "two
incidents need no words TO point their
moral
Year: 1869

Reviewing the result of the late elec-
tions in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the
causes which led to the defeat OF PsDdle-
ton and Packer, the New York Herald
says:


Chief Justice Chase is the man and the
only man for the Democracy in the next
battle. His name as the Democratic
candidate will at once extinguish all
those obnoxious copperhead ideas so re-
pulsive to the great Union party of the
war. The lines which have thus divided
the two parties since the war will be
wiped out. The Democracy will become
a new party, on new men, new ideas, and
new issues. 10 the nomination of Chase
it will advance from the graveyard Of
dead politicians and parties in the rear
to the front line of the marching column
of events. The name and the record of
Chase, too, on the nigg:r, on reconstruc-
ton, on our foreign relations and on the
money question, will be enough as the
platform of this new Democratic party.
His name will attract thousands of Union
men in the North who would shrink from
anything tainted with copperheadism an
tecedents or reputation, and it will rally
to the Democratic standard thousands of
Republican niggers in the South. No
msu will be afraid of any attempt to put
4he Government on the back track, or
the niger or the public credit under the
rslying cry OF Chase. All such fears,
which have hung as dead weights upon
the Democracy so long, will be removed,
and With Chase as their standsrd-besr
they will be strong as giant refreshed
with new wine.
Year: 1869

Let the fairest star be selected, like a
beauteous island in the vast aud shore
less sea in the szure heavens, as the
future home Of the criminals of eartb,
and let them possess whatever they most
love, and all that is possible for God TO
bestow; let them be endowed with un-
dying bodies, and With minds which shall
ever retain their intellectual powers; |;
let no Savior ever press his claim upon
them, no God reveal himself to them,
no Sabbath ever dawn upon them, no
saint ever live among them, no prayer
ever be heard within their borders but
let society exist there forever, smitten
only by the leprosy Of hatred to God,
and with utter seifishness as its all per-
vading and eternal purpose--theD, as
sure as the law of righteousness exists,
on which rests the throne Of God and
the government of the universe, sscie-
ty so constituted must work out for itself
a hell Of solitary and bitter suffering, to
which there is no limit except the ca
pacity Of a finite nature Alasl the
spirit that is without love for its God or
it's neighbor, is already possessed By q
power which must at last create for its
own self-torment a worm that will never
die, and fire.thst can never more be
quenched.-l Norman Macleod.
Year: 1869

and was TO be one OF the groomsmen, and the old
lady was to live with them, and plate was to be set
Tor me every Sunday, and the grain sellers son was
TO have shop OF his own and we were all to be as
happy as possible.


Dreams-dreams We saved her delicate little
body from the horrors Of the fosse commune; and
now when stray into the cemetery OF Mont Par
nasse my feet Involuntary lead me to little green
grave fragrant with springng violets. Upon the
headstone three wreaths OF fnimOrfeies are hanging
Year: 1869

In 1sG6 the Minister OF Public instruction published
q coored map, showing the state Of elementary edu
tables Of the annual conscription. Taking this,map
guide to the recent elections, we find that, with
scarcey an exception; whereyer the standard OF ma,
opposition have distanced their onclal competitors
ana the bitter parody Of celebrated phrase, in
tional and electoral statfstcs-LEmpre cest rigno-
fdace-ts only too well JUSTIFIED.


to satisfy thoughtful I and II in,esent % t' sovsreisn
All the false doctrines OF rash and irresponsible
advisers capnot persuade hun that at this period OF
the nineteenth century such people as the French
will resign themselves TO the tyranny Of ignorance
Besides, in some slight degree this mass OF igno-
OF popular intelligence wdens, the majority OF the
satisfied shrinks, ike the Peau De Chdgrtn In Bal


To gain, however, clear view Of the true mean
ing OF these results OF the second ballot It is more
important to fix attention upon the electors than
where oficial or Independent candidates have been
whfc6 that majority and that minority severay and
distinctly represent. II Will be found that
In a considerable portion OF the country as
well as the town constituencies, the candidate
OF the liberal minority has run the ofcial nom-
nee very hard, aud when the moral and material re-
sources Of the administration against an obnoxious
Intruder In isolated localities are weighed In the
balance, the mere apparton or any but official can
is absurd to suopose thar in eectinc candidate OF
extreme opinions the populations OF commercial
ard industrial Cities and OF all the great of
intelligence and activity, are aiming at the de-
molton Of existing society or the violent subver-
SION OF the peace and order OF the commu-
nifty. What they mean Is simply to choose the man
who presents himself as the most uncompromising
adversary 10 tho ruling power, and this they do
sometimes without much regard TO the political ca
pacity OF the candidate OF their choice. But the
transformation OF the majority In the new Corps
Leglsatif viii be more striking even than the nme-
rcal increase OF the opposition. With such mlnorites
behind them they willsno longer be the doce and
compliant accaimers OF every Minister who demands
their unquestioning confidence and assent one OF
the OF the decline and fall OF the First Napo-
leon the servle acqulesceDce OF the great bodies
OF the State, which so easily degenerated into deser-
tion and insult when the masters fortunes began 70
wane. 1t may be reserved for the wiser
experience OF his nephew to learn the
value Of q representative assembly which has
the courage to assert It's prerogatives In due
season. His best friends and welbwishers can but
hope that he will be wise In time. Before the
Chamber which has Just been elected has fulfilled
Its constitutional term Of existence the Prince I'm
peral will be legally Of age. Perhaps this paternal
reelection may assist the Emperor In seizing OF
those supreme opportunities which once lost ir-
recoverable. II needs glft OF prophecy to fore.
ten that his conduct at this critical juncture will be
his late.
Year: 1869

The Public School Teachers Con yention OF
Maryland yesterday adopted a resolution to
appoint a committee OF five to review the en-.
IRE school system OF the State. and recon- lend
10 the next session Of the General Ascend v
such amendments and changes as they shall
deem necessary
Year: 1869

|


Pick and click,


Goes the type in the stick,
AS the printer stands at his case
His eyes glance quick, and his fingers pick


The type at rapid pace;
And one by one as the letters go,
Words are piled up steady and SLOW


Steady and slow


But still they grow,
And words of fire they soon will glow;
Wonderful words, that without sound
Traverse the earth to IT'S utmost pouudj
Words that shall make
The tyrant quake,
md the fetters of the Oppressed shall break
Words that can crumble an army's might,
Or treble its strength in righteous fight,
Yet the type they look but leaden and dumb,
AS he puts them in place with finger and
thumb;


But the printer smiles,


And his work beguiles
By chanting a song as the letters he piles,


With pick and click,
Like the worlds chronometer, tick tick
o, where is the man with such simple tools


Can govern the world as /?
With printing press, an iron stick,


And little eaden die,
With paper of white, and ink of black,
| support the Right, and the wrong attack.
Say, where is he, or who may he be,


That can rival the printers power?
To no monarchs that live the wall doth he
giye,-


Their sway lasts only an hour;
While the printer still grows and God only
knows


When his might shall cease to tower
Year: 1869

II Judge Strong and Benjamin H. Brewster,
and half score Of other reasonably obscure
Pennsylvanians, don't Ill get to be Supreme
Judges, Cabinet Ministels, ETC., it won't be for
want Of having their names " prominently men
toned in connection with the particular Of
fees for which they have hankering. One can
hardly take up Pennsylvania paper without
seeing something to the above effect; and nearly
every train coming to Washington brings gang
Of sweaty euchre-playing county and ward poll
ticians from that State to blow their wheezy
whistles in favor Of this or that favorite candi-
date, whose appointment to a high place, they
pledge themselves, would forever finish Geary,
or smash Curtin, or cripple Covode, or lay out
Kelly, or do some other equally clever or desir-
able job, Of which the general public might be
in favor as general proposition, but for which
1t wouldn't care enough to be willing to pay
80 high price.


1t Is possible that capital manufactured in
this way for local magnates may hoist them into
high places, but 1t didn't work that way in
the earlier-and may We add, better?-days OF
the Republic. And, it's pity to spoil the hopes
OF these aspiring gentlemen and their enthu-
siastic friends; but we are afraid the President
win see through the very thin and transparent
halo of glory thus thrown around the heads of
so many Of " Pennsylvania's fayorite sons"


THE END OF MARRYING LoRD.-The we'd
ded life Of Miss Martin, the Staten Island belle,
who married Lord Hubert 8. Leroy Ainslee"
otherwise called Dick Radford) some time ago,
has terminated much as was predicted when
the nuptials were announced. After q check
cred career Of several months in New York;
part OF which time everything was lovely with
the young couple, and the balance otherwise
the scene closes by the hasty disqualification Of
the snowy swindler, who farther emphasized the
event by carrying OF the loose change, watches,
jewelry and other portable property Of his con-
fiding wife, and leaving her note saying she
would never see him more. 1t is added also that
the heartless scoundrel has shamefully abused
and maltreated his wife, who has now gone
back to her mother disgraced and heart broken
woman.


Such, at least, is the story told by the New
York Sun; but that paper has such a way of
mixing up facts and fancies that we are not
quite sure that both parties are not bodies of
straw, ingeniously set up for the purpose of
being genteelly knocked down. Nevertheless,
we do not doubt but there Is truth enough in the
sad narrative to furnish telling moral to Young
American ladies who are in the habit Of doting
on titled foreigners.
Year: 1869

THE LARGEST WORKSHOP OF THE BoDY is


Liver whose withdraw bile the blood:
important organ do act the shin yellow
generally SIX headache sets in with chilly sensations and
with loss Of appetite system becomes
eloged machinery does well both body are
disored aietebeeomng aud % finding with every
thing To any person this condoo Dr. JAYar
PLrs recommended by their stimulating action the Liver
soon healthy end enabled perform proper
tons cured and all the aggavatng symptoms Bilious
ness removed Sold everywhere
Year: 1869

a prominent physician of New York
has written an interesting letter to the
Times upon the tendency of the veloci-
pede To produce hernia, and saws that
tue frequency of this accident is far
greater than is generally supposed, and
gives his reasons: THE operator sits
with his feet in the proper places; legs
at variable angle with the body, the
latter being slightly bent forward; the
hands on the crossbar. Thus he sits. his
limbs moving downward, upward, for
ward, backward, using slight exertion
on n level, little descending a hill.
and very much in ascending. And
what now is the condition of thipgs :
All those muscles which, when the BODY
Is IN one straight line, were tense, now
become relaxed. The hernial rings and
canals are somew hat open, and while
thuS open, let the viscera be slightly or
powerfully pressed upon, as will be the
case when the machine is in motion, bv
the action of the abdominal muscles


which are accessories to those of the
legs, In vast majority Of cases the her.
nial tumor will appear If the victim
does not understand his case. or il
q surgeon Is not convenient, the
state of affairs is indeed alarming
and even if it is reduced, unless tLe
proper precautions be taken, the tumor
will reappear. Not only the relaxed
condition of the abdominal rings, and
the force exerted by the external ab,
dominal muscles, Dut that powerful in.
ternal muscle, the diaphragm, is lend
ing its aid to the other causes in the
production of hernia. For it must be
apparent to all that there is danger
not only to those who have nevel
been ruptured, but are predisposed from
the formation, or rather lack of forma
tion, of their bodies, but also those wht
have been ruptured and are now cured
Here, then, is tendency to the refor
nation of the tumor. And what shal
We say of those who are already rHptur
edi The least exertion may cause th'
tumor to appear, inasmuch as there il
formed q passage already, and especi
! ally since the pad is constantly liable t.
become misplaced"
Year: 1869

The pressure of the hungry brigades
at Washington have compelled tie
closing up of the free-lunch depart
ments at all the restaurants. A fellow
was caught at one of the lunch tables
last week with every pocket about hin
stuffed with bread and meat. lie wa'
an applicant for foreign cOnsulship
Probably he claimed considerable credit
for not having crammed bellyful into
his carpet bag.
Year: 1869

THE ratification by the Legislature Of
Pennsylvania of the negro suffrage ana
equality amendment to the ConstlIu-
tien was appropriately celebrated by
the murder, in New York, of white
woman by a negro. The Radical tree is
bearing legitimate fruit.
Year: 1869

It is a well established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom In the enjoyment Of good health, or, TO
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BITTERS OF the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


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 a few. Those,
ii will be observed, are men of note, and of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

A little of Trains private history is
given in the following, from his last
letter: ~ am the best governed man
in the country. At home l dare not say
my soul is my own. 1t was by mere
accident that | learned that my fair
wife was building palace down there
by the sea Cat NewpOrt.) When You
get money settle it on your wife, and


let her buy real estate If she wants to-"
Year: 1869

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore In measure the energy and ardor of
moro youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness In their
remaining years
Year: 1869

The ladies of the Oakwood Memorial Asso-
citation on yesterday paid their annual tri-
butte TO the memory Of the Confederate dead
inferred in the cemetery under their partcu-
lar care.


The day was as bright and beautiful as a
southern heart could wish for the noble work
and the ladies and children-many of them
bearing flowers-thropged the avenues lead
ing 10 lakewood. True, the crowd was by no
means so large rs that which annually visits
Hollywood but still it is estimated that not
less than two or three thousand persons were
on the ground during the day. They were
constantly going and coming, In carriages, on
horseback, and afoot, from about 10 o'clock in
the morning until the shades of night began
TO fall.


The Board Of Managers and invited guests
left st Johns church little before noon, and
were followed by a large number of persons
who had assembled at the same place laden
with such floral offerings rs they could pro-
cure. Arrived at the cemetery, the crowd
dispersed, and the flowers were soon distri-
huted but owing 10 the backwardness of the
season these were few, and many graves Of
the known rs well rs of the unknown dead
were left without even sprig or q bud TO
show that they were not forgotten.


Among the graves that seemed to have re-
ceived unusual attention at the hands of the
ladies we noticed that of Major J. w. Adams.
OF the Forty Fourth Georgia regiment, who
seems TO have been favoraby known to the
people Of Church Hill during the DAYS of war.
The monument near the gate was handsomely
testooned and crowned with q wreath of ever
green.


There was no speaking during the day, nor
any noisy demonstration, as the ladies thought
best. while showing their affection for the
dead, 10 do nothing whatever that might be
construed rs evidence of q desire TO keep bare
old wounds, or that might be used to the pre-
lndice OF the living. 1t was 4 quiet, popular
demonstration, and the Sabbath stiffness that
prevailed was not the only feature of the ob-
servauce that gave it, TO the spectator, the ap-
pearance OF Il religious rite.
Year: 1869

stand that it proposes to communicate with
the Board Of immigration and the Commis-
sioner of Immigration of the State and ascer-
tain what is being done by them under the
joint resolution amendatory Of certain act
OF Assembly which was rather exclusive in
its character as regardedth the immigrants 10 De
invited here.
Year: 1869

NAYwRGS.-This delightful spring beverage is
composed OF Heck wine and plant gathered in
Germany generally about the first OF May. The
plant nparts to the wine delicate and delicious
flavor, especially for ladies, and 1t is most
healthy drink for this season. We arc indebted to
our friend II. goSTz, Of Broad street, for very
fine samples.
Year: 1869

DEAD CHILD FOUND On Sunday afternoon
the dead body of a negro infant was found on
Shockoe creek near the Central depot. JUS
tice Mitchell viewed the body, and after dill.
gent inquiry deemed an inquest unnecessary.
Year: 1869

The discussion of the question of rebel
enfranchisment is continued by the Re-
publican papers. In a late number Of
the Parkersburg Times cores.
pOudent, "AURELIUs," takes issue
with the IntellgeRoer, and main.
tains that Republican asceudency
is best for the State, and rebels should
be disfranchised to perpetuate it; that
the prescription policy has not weak
ened the Republican party, and will not
do so that if the disfranchised element
don't like their condition, they can emf
CRATE; and that Virginia herself set
proper precedent by disfrancising tories
and non-property holders. To the FIRST
OF these propositions the IHtelGgeRcer re-
plies by showing that toleration, not par
ty necessity, is the only sure basis upon
which Republican Government can be
maintained and that in the absence of
either probable or remote danger to the
Government there is no justification for
"the purely arbitrary act of denying to
a portion of our citizens their due voice
in its affairs" The following para.
graphs from this portion of the IRtelT-
qeRccr's article, illustrate its argument ::


If the party in power, simply for the
purpose of keeping in power, disfran-
chised the minority, how long does any
one suppose republican institutions
could exist We cannot and dare not
attempt to Justify the present policy in
this State en- any such ground.


Henceforth political contests in this
country will not involve the existence
of fundamental principles of the Gov
ernment, but only the success or failure
of rival ideas and policies; and the
prosperity of the country or of any sub
division of it will depend hereafter, as
before the war, on the experience aud
good sense of the majority of the people
Interested. If they cannot be entrusted
with their own welfare, who cant


In order to give our readers the full
est possible understanding of the dis
cussion, we copy entire the IatslligeHoer's
remarks upon the remaining points at
issue. The italics are our own:
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore in a measure the energy and ardor Of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness in their
remaining wears
Year: 1869

It is a well established fact that fully one
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health or, TO
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BITTERS, OF the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

About 4 o'clock this morning
the weather, which yesterday was
beautiful. changed, and a slight
rain set in, which hos increased so
steadily as TO lead to the belief
that a heavy storm is likely to pre-
vent the inauguration taking
place outside the Senate Cham.
har
Year: 1869

Up to this time. the rain had
been falling, but suddenly as il
Providence wished to mark this
day with his approval, the sun
showed its golden. rays from be.
hind the dark clouds A cheer
went up from the assembly at this
prospective change in the wea her,
and almost at the instant that Gen
Grant came out of army headquar
tcrs the rain ceased and the sun
poured its rays forth in great
splendor.