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Year: 1868




At all times in the haunts of business,
especially on Change, Nathan Roths-
child was a marked object. There he
stood day after day, leaning against his
pillar, on the right hand, entering from
Cornhill. He was a monarch on 'Change
and the pillar in question may have been
his throne, but in this case solid one
of granite. No consideration would in
duce him to do business anywhere else,
SO devoutedly attached was he to that
particular spot. There, with his back
resting against the pillar, and with note
book in hand, he was always to be seen
during the usual hours of business, en-
tering into transactions of great extent
with the merchants and capitalists of
all countries. gsrsa ast So ~


Little would a stranger who chanced
to see the money potentate of the world
standing on the spot in question have.
fancied, from his personal appearance,
what an important influence he exerted
on the destinies of Europe. No one
could be more unprepossessing than he,
just such man as boys in the street
would have thought fine subject for a
clark" unless, indeed, they had been
deferred by the lowering expression or
aspect of his countenance. He always
looked sulky, never indulged in smile,
nor even relaxed the rigidity of his mus
cles. In private his intimate friends
mention that he occasionally made an
effort to smile, but never with any mark
ed seccess, his smiles at best being
hardly more than species of spoiled
grin. .-eo- ar


His countenance wore a thoughtful as
pect, but his whole appearance was
rather that of stupid, clownish-like
farmer of the humber class. His fea-
lures were massy. His features seemed
to be huddled together without anything
like regularity in them. His nose had
good deal of the cock-up form. His
mouth was rather large, and his lips
thick and prominent. His forehead was
more than an average hight, considering
the altitude of his face. His hair had
something Of a darkish hue, and was gen
orally short. His complexion was pale,
except where it was slightly tinged with
color by the weather. He was short and
thick though, being considerably un-
der the general hight, it is possible his
pot-belly and corpulent aspect generally
may have made him appear shorter than
he really was. He usually was to be
seen in great coat of dark brown
color; and as he paid little attention to
his personal habiliments, his tailor had
no difficult customer to please-that is,
in respect to taste and style, though not
on the question of price. -a


1t was one feature in. Nathan's con.
duct, when on Change, that he never,
except when engaged in business, en-
tered into any conversation whatever
with any of the multitude surrounding
him. -.


There he stood, apparently as deeply
lost in thought. and as melancholy
countenance as if he had been alone in
the "vast wilderness of shades" referred
to by Cowper, or been the ''Last Man"
described by Campbell. Whether his
reserve was constitutional, or whether
it arose from the pride of purse, or
whether from the matters which must
have been occupying his mind, or from
the conjoint operation of these three,
can only be surmised.-Packard'S
MontILy. fr ....---.
Year: 1868

A New FUEL AND New MoToR.-It has
been reserved for the distinguished engi
neer Captain Ericsson to supply new
fuel in the place Of coal, and a new motor
in the place of steam. His device is as
novel in conception as it promises to be
astounding in result. In brief, his scheme
heat of the sun, ard to use it for the pro-
duction Of motive power. He feeds his fur
mace, so to speak, from the sun. This motor
he calls the solar engine.


The first public announcement of the
success of this extraordinary device-for
"solar engines" kept in motion solely by
the suns radiant heat, have been actually
constructed by him and successfully ope-
rated-was made by Captain Ericsson to the
Swedish University of Lund at its late cen
tennial celebration. From his communica
tion to that body it appears that for several
years this engineer has been experimenting
with the view of SO concentrating the suns
heat as to obtain from it a practical motive
power. At length, at the beginning of the
present year, he was able to construct three
"solar engines; of which, the first was
driven by steam formed by the conccntra-
tion of the heat Of the solar rays, and the
other two by the expansion of atmospheric
air heated directly by concentrated
radiant heat. He shows that such is the
enormous development of solar heat that an
area of ten feet square on the suns surface
will drive a real steam engine of 45,9S4-
horse power, demanding consumption Of
more than 100000 pounds Of coal every
hour" But, Of course, interesting as are
these new studies of the suns heating
power, his statistics regarding the possible
concentration of the SUMS heat on the
earths surface are still more so. And,
without going into the process, we may
briefly say that Captain Ericsson's expert
ments show that the concentration Of solar
heat on ten feet square Tor 100 square feet
of surface) deyelopes power exceeding
one horse power. If, therefore, he adds, a
Swedish square mile were covered with
these solar engines, "64, 800 engines, each
of 1OO-horse power" could be kept in mo-
ton by tie radiant heat Of the sun thus
collected.


The audacity of this enterprise and the
incalculable reach of its results are alike
bewildering; but it is already, as we have
said, practical success, insomuch that Mr..
Delamater, proprietor of the well-known
Delamater Iron Works, declares in late
scientific publication that before the ter
mination Of the present season bread will
be prepared from flour ground by the power
of the solar engine. ."-Neao York Times.
Year: 1868

SEVERELY BITTEN BY AN 1NsEcT.-A sin
gular misfortune befell Mrs. Edward Sim
mons, lady resident of Church Hill, on
Thursday afternoon. 1t seems that as she was
enjoying an evening walk in her garden a
large bug lighted on her right hand and bit
her very severely. She knocked him OF,
but he flew to her left hand and inflicted
another wound. Soon thereafter she was
seized with most violent pains, and suffered
so much agony that several physicians were
at once summoned. For some time her case
was considered very critical one, but she
is now pronounced out Of danger.
Year: 1868

Many of the most valuable and efficient
members of the Society are ladies, and
their full and active cooperation is very
much desired. From the efforts Of our
ladies everywhere much of the anticipated
advance in the objects of the Society is an
ticipated. Directly and largely interested
in the improvements which this Society is
destined to make in the comfort and happi-
ness of every household-having under
their control most of the subjects in which
that improvement is to be made, and with
the time. the taste, and the skill to design,
arrange, and execute-a confident assu-
rance is felt that none Of the aid which
they can render will be wanting.
Year: 1868

A FoUSDLING.-A white infant was left
by its heartless mother on the porch Of q
gentleman who resides on Twenty-ninth
street on Thursday night last. 1t was taken
charge of by the authorities, and will be
sent to the city alms-house.
Year: 1868

LADIES' FA1R.-The ladies of Clay-street
Methodist church will hold "a fair next week
for the purpose of relieving the church
from debt. We are sure no one can refuse
to lend assistance to SO praiseworthy pur-
pose. The fair will commence on Tuesday
next.
Year: 1868

A MEETING of the Commissioners Of
Streets generally will take place this after
noon at 5 O'Clock in the Council chamber.
We understand that business of Importance
will be brought to the attention of the COM
mittee. Let every member attend.
Year: 1868

CHURCH ExTENsIoN.-A new Methodist
chapel is to be erected in the northwestern
part of the city. 1t is proposed to complete
it in the next sixty days. The Baptists
also contemplate the erection of chapel in
the same section of the city.
Year: 1868

IT is SAID THAT EVERY DELEGATE to the
Ponh Of July his first business to call upon KNOX


No Broadway Of PuOnst in order to have bis costume
crowned With recherche Summer hats without which no
delegate nor any other man gain distinction in EewYOrk
Year: 1868

Perhaps no one medi- cine is so universally re- qnired by everybody as a cathartic, nor was ever any before so universal ly adopted into use, in every country and among all classes, as this mild but efficient purgative .PM. The obvious req son is, that it is a more re- liable and far more effec- tual remedy than any

 oAhon nihnc0 rr1h0 houn
Year: 1868

Females. owing to the peculiar and important
relations h4ch they sustain, their peculiar
iZston, and the Offices they perform, are ubect 10
many suhertngs. Freedom from these contribut To
In no smsV degree 70 their happiness and welfare,
Tor none can be happy who are ill. Not only so ,
but no one OF these yarieus female complaints can
long be suffered % run on without involving the
general health of the individual and long pro-
dscing permanent sick ness aud premature decline
Nor is u pleasant to consult Q physician for the
RELIEF OF these various delicate affections and only
upon the most urgent necessity will a true woman
so far sscrl nee her greatest charm as 10 do this
The sex VIII then thank US for placing in their
hands simple specincs which win be found EN-
cscioHs in relieving and curing almost every one
OF those troublesome complaints peculiar to the
sex.
Year: 1868

sending them TO sleep 10 order to rob them Of the


strength for vhim. / was at Omphsleis feet
don't deny it for q moment; but the first snip o
the scissors would have awakened me from the


:" If l were to own that was fool, I should be
cutting at once at the root Of my story. don't
understand the meaning OF what tell you, any
more than you will be likely to understand it. i
give yon the facts, and must leave you to unrayel


"ws were both Of us in oar plain senses, quite
grown up by this tine, and able TO think for our
selves; and now well tell you what We did one
spriDg.time down at Craven Court.


She bad grown into 6ne shapely woman.
Not beautifully no means beautiful-some
| people might very fairly have considered her
plail-but hers was that strange kind OF ugliness
tat bad terrible fascination for me.


There had been wedding down at Craven
Court. IL was spring time, and | was hidden there
only too glad 70 shake the dust OF London of my
ieet among the bursting apple. blossoms of Kent
ish orchard. NY young mans fancy had lightly
tarned to thoughts of love over and over again
since bad last seen Lillian. Up in London had
tried to persuade myself that my boyish affection
was just so much folly. In action, over and over
again, had been untrue TO the love which had
warmed my young beart; 10 reality never. There
was something which kept on telling me that I
only liked In London ard loved some where else
Whenever | frted, and hirted on every possible
occasion, made little mental contrasts and
knew very well TO whom would have rushed il
every woman had ever seen had thrown of her
reserve.


= Perhaps she had hrted too; perhaps she had
loved during the interval; but know. when our
eyes met as we stood in the old oak dining room
at 'rayen Court. man and woman now, in an il
stsnt the old love rushed back intensified and to
me Il would never have come back, and would
never have been intensified, had there not been
something In those strange. bluish.gray eyes of
hers which told me had not come down among
the sppe.blossoms for nothing.


And the freight was Pickering off the old oak
waipscoting on to her marvellous hair.


:" assure you did not bully her TO loving me
In worldly point Of view. she could gain nothing
but sorrow and misery by listening to the tale had
to tell She knew as well did, that we're our
secret once known, her family would cut out her
name from its records and discard her at once and
forever.


IS She loved Der father, and her father loved
her; but in this one respect his heart would have
become marble towards her, and she knew it,
She loved her mother, but she knew on this one
topic her mother would have been merciless Her
sisters, brothers. relations. frends-every one she
knew in the world-would have inveighed against
such match, and still she stood there in the fire
light and her eyes told me more eloquently than
any words that she lay
Year: 1868




OYsTERs.-We take the following from


an exchange, which is worthy of trial:
We suppose that nine out of ten house.


keepers will contradict US point blank, in a


statement that nine out ten do not know


how to stew dish Of oysters BY the or
dinary routine that nearly every one follows,
either the oysters are stewed and shriveled
out Of semblance of themselves in shape,
size and favor, or else the soup and "thick-
ening"'ohas raw taste that spoils it. Here
is the right method. Try it once, and We
warrant you won't need telling the second
time. Pick the oysters out of the juice
with a fork, as dry as possible; stew the
juice thickening, milk Or water, of which
the soup is to be made, until thoroughly
cooked then drop the oysters in, and just
as the cooled soup begins to show signs of
simmering, empty out altogether, and you
will have rich soup and plump oysters, lu-
scious enough to make you think you never
tasted real oysters before. H- a',s
Year: 1868


Soft falls through the gathering twilight
The rain from the dripping caves,
And stirs with tremulous rustic, .
The dead and the dying leaves:
While here in the midst Of the shadows,
hear the sweet voice Of the bells
Come born on the wind of the autumn,
That ftfully rises and swells.
They call and they answer each other.
They answer and mingle again .
And the deep and the shrill in an anthem,
Make harmony in their strain; y
AS the voices OF sentinels mingle


In the mountainous regions Of snow,
Till from hilltop to hilltop chorus


Floats down to the valley below.
The shadows, the freight Of even,
The sound Of the'rains distant chime,
Come bringing, with rain softly dropping,
Sweet thoughts of a shadowy time;
The slumberous sense Of seclusion,


From storm and intruders alOof, ...
We feel when we hear in the midnight,
The patter Of rain on the roof
When the spirit goes fourth in its yearning
10 take all its wanderers home .e-t
Or, after in regions of fancy, u,
Delights on sweet pinitns to roam, . d
l quietly sit by the freight .
The freight SO bright and SO warm
For | know that those only who love me
Win see me through shadow and storm.
Aud should they be absent this evening,
Should even the household depart
Deserted, should not be lonely;
There still would be guests in my heart.
The faces Of friends that | cherish, 81
The smile and the glance and the tone,
viii haunt me wherever l wander, -
And thus am never alone.
With those who have left far behind them
The joys and sorrows of time i.
Who sing the sweet songs Of the angles
In purer and holier cline; -.
Then darkly, D evening Of autumn, -,
Your rain and your shadows may fall;
My loved and my lost ones you bring me.
My heart holds feast with them al.
Year: 1868

WANrED.-A bride who is willing to COM
mencc housekeeping in the same style in
which her parents began. 't


Twenty fashionable young ladies who
dare to be seen welding a dust-brush, or
darning their brothers stockings, if gen.
tleman should happen to make an early call.


Ten independent young ladies of good
families, whe dare to wear their last win
ters bonnets to church on a fine Sunday.


Fifteen young ladies Of sufficient age to
90 into company who dare confess they ever
made loaf of bread or pudding
Year: 1868

Withhold or withdraw the salerics now
paid to the educated workers in all our great
and benifcent enterprises and institutions
civil, military, educational, religious or san
itary, and the entire machinery now 30 effect.
i've for good would stop, because all these
workers would have to opply themselves to
some industrial pursuit to obtain their daily
bread. A.


The Temperance enterprise in this coun-
try, has not now, and never had adequate
funds to employ a sufficient number Of ed
ucated and competent laborers, therefore its
machinery moves but feebly at some points,
and others not at all.
To depend Oil men whose time and
thoughts are mainly devoted to other and
more remunerative labor or study to guide
and prosecute this great and needful work,
is to subject ourselves to certain disappoint-
ment and defeat. So many precious inter-
ests are at stake, in the fate of the enter
prise that we cannot afford to have it die Of
financial starvation. and that, too, in coun
try enriched by millions through its direct
influence. Through changes wrought in
our social customs and in their own personal
and domestic habits by the temperance et:
forts Of the last thirty years, multitudes Of
our citizens have been saved annually, sums
varying from ten to five hundred dollars.
A portion, at least, Of what has been thus
saved should in all cases be devoted with
fidelity to the prosecution Of this great work.
10 add the entire amount thus saved to
ones previous accumulations, or to devote
it entirely to other enterprises, excellent
though they may be, is as impolite as it is
unjust We must steadily pay for tho re-
striction or suppression of intemperance and
its procuring causes, or expend many times
the amount in footing the bills which this
wicked, destructive system will still present
to u2.


No efforts ever put forth by man have
been richer in results to all the precious in.
terests Of Christian communities than those
employed by temperance reformers so far
as those efforts have been made in proper
spirit, and guided by practical wisdom.


The temperance cause is not failure
We have simply failed to sustain and use to
a sufficient extent appropriate agencies and
instrumcntalities. The cause has had hith.
erto the moral, while the liquor system has
had the money powers. Let us henceforth
add to the moral the money power and we
will educate the community in sound views
in relation to the whole subject and all its
phases, secure respect to wholesome and
needful laws, shield our youth from contain
mating Influences and thus with with God bless:
ing greatly mitigate, if we cannot utterly de-
stroy, the great scourge and curse of the
civilized world.-DR. JEwErr. ''"
Year: 1868

The Jackson Miss Clarion publishes
portions of the documents of several
Loyal Leagues, placed at its disposal by
repentant members and officers of the
concerns. One clause of the oath is


THAT I will vote only for, and none but
those, who advocate and support the great
principles set forth by this league TO Gil
any office Of honor, profit or trust in either
the State or general governments, aud
that if ever called 90 fill any Office l will
faithfully carry out the principles set forth
by this league"


The variations 10 the different docu~
meuts show that there were TOO many
cook" to this hell-broth, and the old
proverb is amply illustrated The late
Secretary OF one of these concerns
certifes r.


That the league is the organization Of
the Republican party; that il is clearly
understood that all members are sworn 10
support sll candidates put forth by that
party; aud that failing to do so, a member
would be guilty of violation Of his ob.iga-
tion, and subject to the pains aud penalties
Of perjury, as set forth in the charge at
initiation.


There are cue or more councils in every
county IN the State.


"The negroes are all instructed that the
oath they take binds them to vote for the
candidates Of the Republican party. The
election tickets Of the party are printed
with the American flag on the back and
the Republican candidates on the face, aud
negroes who cannot read receive these
tickets from a member of the league, aud
vote by the back Of the ticket"
Year: 1868

day we find the following card, signed
ry Charles P Wiggins, in which he
says;


The publication Of the article in the
Republican Banner, Of Nashville, on
tho lst instant, has been the cause Of
great pain to mysef as General Agent
OF the Southern Insurance Company
for the State of Georgia. The man
ner in which the grave assertions of
fraud and fraudulent combinations
to impose upon brave and generous
people is made, is calculated to re-
fleet upon my official transactions,
In vindication Of my character, |
would say that | had no connection
whatever with the organization Of the
Southern Insurance Company aud
my association with the same has
been only in the capacity of general
agent, In regard TO the assets of
the company, all representations
which | have made have been based
upon sworn statement ofits capital
and liabilities forwarded to me by
the Secretary, the truth Of which |
had no reason to doubt. Impartial
investigation will demonstrate that the
strictest integrity and good faith has
characterized the cOnGuct of those as.
sociated with me at this point, a:
we'll as ofmyseIf in all business trans,
actiOns.-NaSbuHc Banner
Year: 1868

The PUBLIC DEBT.-During the first week i'm
Octcter the disbursements from the Treasury
Department were very heavy, and it was
thought there would be a considerable increase
Ia the pIbllc debt, but the receipts from ems
toms during the month have been very large,
and will probably make up the deficit, and it
IS row expected that the statement Will show a
slight decrease.
Year: 1868

the Chief Magistrate OF the nation. A large
appropriation is asked for annual repairs
for the next fiscal year, and also one for refur-
nishing the establishment at the commencement
Of the next Presidential term. As this city has
become the permanent seat of the Government,
where millions have been expended upon the
public buildings aud the improvement aud
1namPntation OF the grounds, 1t would seem


proper that each State should build and furnish


suitable houses for its senators aud Representa-
tives. The necessary appropriations could easily
be made, and would prove not to be bad invest
ments. Those benefited would be made more
comfortable, and be able to receive aud enter
tain their constituents and friends. TIE city
would be improved by the addition of highly
embellished houses and more apparent STABILITY
would be given to the capital. Foreign nations
would be induced to emulate the example. as 1t
would then appear that each State individually
bad some permanent aud active interest aud
influence over the municipal affairs of the city.
Year: 1868

which are so necessary TO her progress. United
as they are, success is beyond doubt for the
welfare of a community who has for the last
three centuries groaned under the iron hand Of
deapotism.
Year: 1868

WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF INFLAMMATION Simply violent and unnatural determine tion of the blood to particular part of the body. Equalize the circulation with that powerful vegetable counter-irritant, Rad ways Ready Relief, and a cure is thereby effected. At the first symptom of local in 1ammation apply it to the inAamed part and give it inwardly, diluted, according to the directions. Price 50 cents per bottle Sold by Druggists.
Year: 1868

That Iron is Valuable as Medicine has long been known, but it is only since the preparation of it in the particular form of roruvinn Syrup ~"s discovered that 1ts 1nlI power over disease has been brought to light. Its effect in cases of dyspepsia and debility is most salutary.
Year: 1868

Reader, if your Druggist or Merchant does not keep Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil on hand to sell he will send for it at your request, and sell it at the manufactu- rers lowest price at retail. ''It works hke charm