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Year: 1868

That clever and kindly Old Bachelor
who discusses social questions with such
genial wisdom in the pages of Harper's
Bazar, tells the following story to il
lustrate the reason why women do not
usually prosper as well as men in some
of the professions for which they would
seem to be quite as well adapted:


1t seemed to me that women might
especially succeed as wood engraIers,
so went to one of the most experienced
and successful engrayers in the city
and consulted with him.


Don't you see the difiulty 2 he ask
ed, with great kindness and interest


MOI said l; you must instruct me.


WELL answered he, 4 have EN-.
ployed women here very often, and ]
wish l could feel more encouraged, but
the truth is, that when a young man
comes to me and begins his work, be
feels that it is his ife's business, how
to cut his future out of the little blocks
before him. Wife, family, home, hap,
piness, are all to be carved by his hand,
and he settles steadily and earnestly to
his labor, determined to master it, and
with every incitement spurring him on.
He cannot marry until he knows his
trade. tits exactly the other way with
the girl. She may be as poor as the
youth, and as wholly dependent upon
her labor for her living. But she feels
that she will probably be married by
and-by, and then she must give up
wood engraving. So she goes on list
Iessly; she has no ambition to excel
she does not feel that her happiness de-
pends upon it She viii marry, and
then her husbands wages will support
her. She may not say so, said the en-
graver, but she thinks so, and it spoils
her work


The same is true with regard to
many employments in which women
have been engaged. We know that as
clerks at Wasl lgtcn they ;r9 far less
useful than men. Their habits of work
are much less accurate, and they do
not give their minds to their duties
with the same conscientiousness and
fidelity. The reason is the same as
that given bv our old bachelor. They
do not feel that these duties are the
business of their life, and that their
whole success or failure depends upon
the manner in which they are perform
ed. Whatever they do, love matri-
mony, aud the care of house of their
own, are always at the bottom of their
thoughts.
Year: 1868

All, happy day, refuse to go!
Hang in the heavens forever so F!
Forever in the mid afternoon.
All, happy day of happy June!
Pour out thy sunshine on the hill,
The piny wood with perfume fill,
And breathe across the singing sea
Land-scented breezes that shall be
Sweet as the gardens that they pass,
Where children tumble in the grass
All, happy day, refuse to go.
Hang in the heavens forever so!
And long not for thy blushing rest
In the soft bosom of the west,
But bid the gray evening get her back
With all the stars upon her track,
Forget the dark, forget the dew,
And only spread thy wide warm wings
While summer her enchantment filings.
All, happy day, refuse to go.
Hang in the heavens forever SOL
Forever let thy temper mist
Lie like dissOlving ameythist
Deep in the distant dales, and shed
Thy mellow glory overhead!
Yet wilt thou wander-ca1 the thrush,
And have the wilds and waters hush,
To hear his passion-brOken tune,
All, happy day Of happy Junel


ATLANTIC FOR JULY
Year: 1868

A Rabbi reached a city late in the
evening; the gates were shut, and he
must sleep outside in the open air.
What God does is best for me, said the
Rabbi, and laid himself down to rest.
In the night storm arose which ex-
tipguished the light of his lantern, and
q lion came and devoured the ass on
which he rode. Still the Rabbi said,
what God does is best for me. At
daylight be found that band of rob
bers had plundered the city in The
night and murdered the inhabitants.
Said not, continued the Rabbi, what
God does is best for met We some
times learn in the morning why God
put US to Inconvenience the night be-
fore.-1Re Talnud
Year: 1868

Put out thy talents to their use
Lay nothing by to rust;
Give vulgar ignorance thy scOrn,
And innocence thy trust.
Rise to thy proper place in life
Trample upon all sin,
But still the gentle hand hold out
To help the wanderer in.
So live, in faith and noble deed.
Till earth returns to earth
So live, that men shall mark the time
Gave such mortal birth.
Year: 1868

There has been great discovery of gold in
Duchess county. 1t Is ascertained by careful
exploration and examination, made by profess
sional gold discoverers, that there is as much
gold in the soil of Duchess county, taken alto
gether, as there is-in the soil Of any other
county in the State. The gold prospectors
have written report-we cannot say for how
much. According to this report it appears
that the ore in the veins of Duchess Is worth
something like thirty dollars q ton. To get
the ore out and work it would not cost more
than fifty dollars ton at the outside, so that
the owner Of first rate Duchess county gold
mine would not lose more than twenty dollars
on any ton of ore he might take out. This is
rather better than the North Carolina mines,
and great deal better than the Madoc mines
in Canada, or the mines that are regularly dis
covered from time to time in the other sections
in which people wish to sell land. Such mine
would not be very expensive luxury for a
man who had more money than he knew what
to do with but we hope that all others know
by this time that gold discoveries Of this sort
are among the oldest Of land-se!ling lodges,
and thus will not be led to have faith In the
quartz-bearing gold Of our up the river coun-
.y. Let that happy district cou=s on her
quarts Of milk, richly bearing golden butter,
as all the quarts she has Of peculiar value.
Year: 1868

It appears that the Baudin manifestations, as
they are called, in Paris are increasing, and
that the police is active in suppressng them:
These demonstrations, with the free express
sions of the liberal press and the revolutionary
movement in Spain, are regarded by some as
extremely embarrassing II not critical TO the
Emperor Napoleon. There is no doubt tha,
they are troublesome and tend to keep the
active brain Of his Majesty employed to fortify
his position. Bat Napoleon has shown him
self to be equal to great emergencies on pre-
vious occasions. and probably will be on this.
He has an immense and mos. efficient army
ready to act at home or abroad when neces-
sity calls for action; and he can most likely
depend upon this army. Should the revoiu-
tionary elements at home or on the border
become in the least dangerous to his govern
ment he has always means Of escape by
arousng the ambition Of the army and the
vanity Of the French people through foreign
war. A war with Prussia or Russia, or more
general war, combining the Latin Powers OF
Southern Europe against the Northern Powers,
would occupy the French mind and turn
aside revolution at home. Paris has been
90 much changed and lie so much under the
grip Of the Emperor that II Is no longer the
great central volcano of revolution that 1t was
formerly. After him may GENE the delrge
politically speaking bat while he lives he may
turn aside revolution from France.
Year: 1868

The Report OF the Secretary or the Trea-


We publish elsewhere an abstract of the
Forthcoming report of the Secretary Of the
Treasury. The country will be gratfed to
learn that the national finances are in a good
condition, however practical experience may
show the contrary. The Secretary is opposed
to forced resumption of specie payments.
There he shows some sense. The funding
OF the public debt he regards as one step
toward resumption. or the seven-thirty bonds
1t appears that upwards of eight hundred and
twenty-seven and a half millions have been
funded into fve-twenty six per cent bonds
thus leaving Of the outstanding seyen-thirty
notes but little over two millions anl third.
Only a few millions of the outstanding COM
pound interest notes remain. The policy
of funding, by converting the temporary
loans, interest-bearing notes, &C., into six
per cent gold-bearing bond, has, in the opinion
of the Secretary, most important bearing
upon the question Of resumption. AS regards
contraction of the paper circulation Mr..
MoCulloch has no new views to offer. The
expenditures for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1870, are estimated to be two hun
dred and fifty million dollars: The annual
interest on the public debt is one hundred and
forty million dollars. It is estimated that next
year it will be about the same. The internal
revenue for the year will reach one hundred
and twenty million dollars, leavngs out the
whiskey frauds and wholesale stealings by
revenue officials. 1t is gratifying to learn
that the public debt has been reduced during
the year, taking it up to the lst of Decem-
ber, 1868, about twenty seven millions. There
have been expended on account of the public
debt during the year the sum Of eight hundred
and eighty million five hundred thousand dol
lars, and the general taxation not increased a
dollar.


It will be interesting to the people to learn
from the above that the public debt is decreas-
ing, although in minute ratio as compared
with its magnitude. The Secretary's ideas about
the prospect of resumption of specie payments
may be accepted as reasonable in view of the
fact that he recommends the conservative
policy of not forcing them against the irrevo-
cable laws of trade. The Indian war now
pending may add a few millions to the
budget of the governments expenses next
year; but we think the country will agree to
bear it if the war be pushed in the energetic
manner inaugurated by General Sheridan. The
report of the Secretary is open to criticism.
Year: 1868

The spirit of speculation is bad enough in
its effects when there is some real value at
bottom in the article traded upon, but it is
swindle of peculiar wickedness when The specu-
lation Is fictitious through and through, as it is
in SO many of the ways now spread before the
public in advertisements as sure and easy roads
to fortune. There appears to be great activity
in this direction just now. 1t is difficult to say
why. 1t may be that the spirit of speculation
working recently on such an immense scale in
Wall street is spreading to the community
generally. We notice as particularly helm
Gus phase of the mania the tendency to specu-
late on the desire that every man has to pos
sess home of his own. Advertisements an
nouncng that for the most trivial sum man
can secure land in thriving village with
romantic name, and build house on the land
too, are very seductive to the overworked
denizen Of q crowded city, and he is led by
happy dream of suburban quiet and ease TO
part with hard earned savings that swell the
gainings Of the land shark. Nearly all these
affairs are bogus-of the same character and
worse if possible than all the famous phalanxes
that started with the name Of Fourier, and that
are remembered only in the curses of the vic
Tins
Year: 1868

GENERAL GRANT IN THE HU3.-The Bos-
Grant around considerably; in fact, they sue
ceeded so far at one time that they thought
they had cornered him for speech, but they
were mistaken. In the presence of the coming
man, the foremost lion Of all the lions Of the
day, however, the Hub has been made happy,
and the General has made himself public
benefactor. Let the Hub rejoice.
Year: 1868

discoveries at this port in smuggled goods
were made the other day. and we understand
that Collector Smythe and the Treasury detec-
tives have got on the trail of an extensive ring
of smugglers, extending from this city to the
Canadian border, and that we may possibly
have some developments soon in the smuggling
business at par with the doings Of the whskey
rinOa
Year: 1868

sive~ in her dramatic education, Mrs. Scott
Siddons need fear no cabal against her on the
part of the Bohemian theatrical ring. She may
hope to outliye happily even the comparisons
provoked by the illustrious name which she In
herits. She will win applause and gratitude
by her ambition to revive the legitimate drama
and to restore the stage to its sweetest and
DOhlest uses
Year: 1868

IT LOOKS LIKE BusiSEss-The sailing Of
the steamship China from San Francisco with
four hundred and eightysix thousand dollars
in specie for China and two hundred and
seventy thousand dollars for Japan, but this
Asiatic trade with San Francisco and thence TO
New York is but bagatelle compared with
what win follow the completion of the Pacific
Railroad
Year: 1868

gave way before the pressure. Fullerton is .


horse Of another color. He has character,
position. influence and ability to back him,
and it will be difficult matter to turn him
from his purpose. But he must insist upon
prompt action The time is short, and il
President Johnson desires to do justice to his
agent and to clear his own skirts of the stain
OF these notorious frauds he must take de-
cisve step at once towards the exposure and
punishment of the guilty.
Year: 1868

AA have l5 setts of Mink. Squirrel and w Sable Furs. which we will close out at Cost for cash for the next ten days. Now is the time to get Muff and Collar cheap at

 BISHOP & SEOGWICK'S.
Year: 1868

from the Shlcaso IilnsS.


Since the departure of Mr.. Buchanan


from the White House, the presidential


mansion has lacked wofully 10 refinement.


What Mr.. Lincoln was, and what was the
character of affairs Behind the Scenes, is
we'll, too we'll, unforlunately-knowu in


this country, and even in Europe


If Mr.. Johnson should be removed to
make way for Wade, a new development
would be given to the vulgarity which has
characterized the occupancy of the White
House since 1861. Mr. Wade is what some
OF his admirers delight to call the Sturdy"
sort. Rendered into understandable En-
gllsh, sturdy" refers to rough, brawling,
blasphemous old reprobate, who is tho
roughly untitled for the companionship of
any man or woman who is possessed with
an average amount of self-respect


To suppose General Grant in the Pres-
dental chair, would be to suppose no
great improvement over those whom We
have particularized He is reticent and
bearlsh when sober, and good deal more so
when not sober. There are a thousand
things Necessary to be done by a President
that he could not do al all. He could not
receive the Ambassadors from other as-
uOns he could give no dignity or charss-
ter at the White House receptions; he
would be a simple wooden effigy, Possessed
with no other qualities than impassibiity
aud motion.


The people Of the United States must
begin to become excessively Wearied with
the blackguardism and scum which the
agitations Of the last few years have brought
into prominence. The time is about past
when men will pardon every violation of
deceney in one simply because he is
loyal Already is there a reaction
against the intolerable profanity of such
men as Governor Oglesby aud Senator
Wade, and the gross, indecent drunkenness
OF such men as Yates, Nye and Sprague.


The selections of the Democratic party
for the Presidential position have always
been OF men, who, in addition to their
great statesmanship, have been noted for
their knowledge and observance of the pro-
prieties of social life While selecting
this class of men, it has never been unfor-
tunate enough to get one who has been
snobbish or inaccessible, or one who
became perVaded with the idea that his
position lifted him above free communica-
lion with the people.


1t Will be one of the efforts of the Demo
cracy, IN the approaching Presidential
campaign, not only to purify the politics
OF the country, but its social character.
It's crusade will be against corruption and
yulgarity. 1t will attempt to fumigate
both Congress and the Presidential man
sion. In such an effort, it should be sue
cessful if defeated, there can be no dis
honor In the result. In no case could a
man die a more glorious political death
than in an assault directed for the rescue
OF the halls Of Congress and the house Of
the chief executive from the disreputable
hands into which they have fallen.
Year: 1868

A POOR woman in the Prussian province
ofPosen, being shout to die, sent for priest
and confessed to him that thirty years ago,
having been delivered Of boy, she e1-
changed him for the child of a Countess, in
whose employ she was, and was undetected.
Her own son was educated as a Count, and
married the daughter of a very proud no.
bleman. The real Count grew up in pow
erty, went out to service, married, and is
now living not far from his own princely
estate Of Komorink. The case is being in
yestirated
Year: 1868

A HORRIBLE discovery was recently
made In Hackney Wick, station on the
North London railway, England, Of dead
body IN a cupboard Of an unfurnlshed
house, Ey caJlaan, who, being instructed
TO leave a load Of sash weights at this
house perceived an offensive smell which
Issued from small cupboard beneath the
staircase On opening this he found the
dead body Of a man, fully dressed, lying
with the head toward the door, in reclin-
ing position, and, from subsequent investi-
cation 1t was evident that death had occur
red two or three months previous. No
clue being obtained by which to identify
the deceased in the ueighborhood, the BODY
was conveyed to the Hackney MortuaryI
There were sufficient indications that it
was a case Of murder, but the most singu-
lar incident connected with il is that the
remsins have been positively identified by
four different parties, each claiming that
the deceased was a different person. The
features were not 80 disfgured but that
Identification would have been easy enough,
aud they actually bore striking resemblance
20 photographs Of two or three of the miss
ing parties One lady, backed by her fam
lily, claimed the deceased as her husband !;
two girls were sure he was their brother !;
another lady was equally positive he was
her brother and & Mr.. Heasman identi-
fed him positively "a his brother. The
conflicting claims are still unsettled
Year: 1868

n'HESE WELL KNOWN AND VERY Pop
i ular Cooking stoves have been before
the public since 1852. Each succeeding year has
added to their popularity, until the name has
become familiar in every household in the West
and South. The demand for our
Year: 1868

1t is good sign when man is proud
of his work or calling. Yet nothing is


more common than to hear men find
ing fault constantly with their particu-
unfortunate because fastened to it by
the necessity of gaining a livelihood
In this spirit men fret, and 1a5oriOusly
destroy all their comfort in their work ;
or they change their business and go on,


niserablY shifting FROM enc thing to
another, til the grave or the poor house
gives them q fast grip. But while Oc-
caBiOnally a man fails in life because
he is not in the place fitted for his pc
Culiar talent, it happens ten times Of
tener that failure results from neglect
and even contempt for an honest busi-
ness. a man should put his heart into
everything that he does. There is no
profession that has not its peculiar cares
and YeIations. No man viii escape
annoyance by changing business. No
mechanical business is altogether agree
able rG5Dmnerce, in its endless Warie-
ties iR affected, like all other human
pursuits with trials, aunwGlCOnae duties.
ana nPtftt-sgirrlug ugCcaaibies.


It ia the very WautOnneBs Of folly for


man to search out the frets and burdens
Of his calling, and give his mind every
day to a consideration of them. They
belong 10 human life. They are newt
able. BroOding, then, only gives them
strength. on the otEer hand, a man
has power given to him to shed beauty
and pleasure upon the hOmeliest toll, if
he is wise. Let a man adopt his busi-
ness, and identify it with his life, and
cover it with pleasant associations for
God has given us Imagination, not
alone to make some poets, butte enable
all men to beautify hOmely things. Ac-
cept your lots as a man does a piece of
rugged ground, and begin to get out the
rocks and roots, ana to deepen and
mellow the soil, to enrich and plant it.
There is something in the most forbid
ing avocation around which man may
tNvine pleasant fancies-out of which be
may develop an honest pride.-Ecouo-
mist
Year: 1868

SURVIVING AN Exfs0UTIoN.-The Ttsl-
ian journals tell a singular story. A
soldier who had deserted and taken 10
brigandage was captured and sentenced
10 death. Being brought out to the
place Of executiony a firing party Of Eve
performed their painful duty, and the
sergeant commanding them perceiving
that the man was not quite dead, gave
him point-blanz the c00p-de-grGce. In
the belief that this was really "a fniHh-
ing stroke, the body was handed over
to the grave-digger but as night was
approaching the latter postponed his
office until the morning, leaving above
ground what he naturally supposed 70
be a corpse. The unfOrtunale man,
however, was still alive, and the cold
night air, by irritating his wounds, re-
viVsd him. Painfully he dragged him-
self to the wall Of the enclosure, against
which he managed to place a ladder
which happened to be there. got over,
although all bleeding with his arm bro
ken by the bullets, and delivered him.
self up as prisoner at the nearest guard
house. The Minister of War and of
Justice each claim this resuscitated vfo-
tim Of martial law, but the beliefis that
he win be pardoned. His wounds are
not mortal, and his arm has been reset.
Year: 1868

each step in civilization brings US nearer,
that we hope to see all men made equal,
and all titles cast away,


And man be like man,


Through all the circle of the golden year"


Europe reproaehes democracy as the
mother of imperialism. Absolute govern
ment by the people tends, they say, to be-
come absolute government by chieftain.
They point to the two Caesars and two Ma
poleons as historical proofs. They prove
only that nominal republic, corrupted BY
generations Of unjust spoil and fred BY un-
scrupulous ambition that makes soldiers and
emperors, has no existence. Caesar is as i'm
possible as Attila Napoleon would be as
powerless as Mahommed. Neither the pas
sions which make such leaders, nor those
which follow them, are ever awakened. Was
Alexander born in Athens2 Did Philip TT
learn tyranny in Antwerp? Is it fear OF
laughter that is moved in rs by threat of
usurpation in Washington


The need of the nation is not great men,
but greatness of purpose and Of action Not
a few leaders can shape this people, future;
but steady movement Of the mass, with
growing intelligence, patriotism, and charac-
ter, towards the full development of its men
tai and material power; and it may not be
long before all viii recognize in the declining
prominence of cur foremost names, as the
people become more capable of thorough
deliberation and wise action, one of the
most beautiful Of those harmonies which
everywhere characterize the history of civil
zation.-N Y Post