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Year: 1869

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,


Filling the sky and the earth below;


Over the housetops, over the street,


Over the heads of the people you meet,
Dancing,
Flirting,
Swimming along;
Beautiful snow. it can do nothing wrong;
Flying to kiss fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lips in frolicsome freak,


Beautiful snow from the heaven above,


Pure as an angel, gentle as love!
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,


How the flakes gather and laugh as they go
Whirling about in their maddening fun;
1t plays in its glee with every one,
Chasing,
Laughing,
Hurrying by;
1t lights on the face and it sparkles the eye,


And the dogs with bark and a bound,


Snap at the crystals that eddy around
The town is alive and its heart in glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful snow!,


How wildly the crowd goes swaying along,


Hailing each other with humor and song!


How the gay sledges like meteors fash by,


Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye
Ringing,
Swinging,
Dancing they go,


Over the crust of the beautiful snow;


Snow so pure when it falls from the sky,


To be trampled in mud by the crowd rushing by


To be trampled and tracked by thousands Of
feet,


Till it blends with the filth in tho horrible
street.
Once l was pure Us the snow-but 1 fell
Fell like the snow flakes from Heaven to hell;
Fell to he trampled as filth in the street;
Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat.
Pleading,
Cursing,
Dreading to die,
Selling my SOUL to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread,
AA"'hiS WIZ living aiil icoiiIS tlie uedu,
Merciful God! have fallen SO low?
And yet was once like the beautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,


With an eye like its crystal, heart like its glow
Flattered and sought for the charms of my face
Father,
Mother,
Sister, all,
God and myself, I've lost by my fall;


The veriest wretch that goes shivering by,
Will make wide swoop lest wander too nigh
For all that is on or above me, l know,


There is nothing that's pure as the beautiful
snow. -'..--.. -
How strange it should be that the beautiful
snow
Should fall ON sinner with nowhere to 60!


How strange it should be, when the light comes
again,


If the snow and the ice strike my desperate


brain,


Painting,
Year: 1869

Dying alone;
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town.
Gone mad in the Joy of the snow coming down
To be and to die in my terrible woe,
With bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow
Year: 1869

Slster, all,


God and myself, I've lost by my fall
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by,
Will make wide swoop lest wander too nigh;
For all that is on or above me, know,
There is nothing that's pure as the beautiful
Year: 1869

The indianapolis, Ind, Journal of the
I'd contains a detailed account of the ter
rible accident which occurred on the
Fair Grounds in that city on the 1st. We
extract as follows:


"The engine was set up about seventy
five yards west of the Power Hall, and the
saw-mill some fifty or one hundred feet
due north Of the engine. The force of the
explosion seemed to be lateral. Heavy
pieces of the machinery were blown to the
north and to the west long distance; a
few of the lighter parts were found some
distance to the east, but more were thrown
backward. Those who saw it, say nothing
was thrown higher than thirty or forty
feet. The bodies of several men were
lifted into the air, and alighted in man
gled and mutilated shapes many yards
from where they were standing when
struck with the steam An idea of the
force and power, and the horror of the eX
plosion, may be gathered from some of the
incidents which we have been able to col
late.


"Where the engine stood was left no per-
ceptible trace, except an area of smoked
and blackened ground Even the founda-
tion had been torn up, and not a brick was
left standing the one upon the other. The
framing of the saw-mill was thrown
askew, turned over, broken and dislocated.
A large piece of the boiler, which must
have weighed five hundred pounds, was
carried distance of a hundred yards.
One smaller piece was thrown clear into
the time track, and skipping over it, buried
itself into the sod beyond. Another large
piece was blown westward, clear over the
dyke upon the cattle pens. 1t crashed
through the roof of one, and struck a
large OK on the horns, breaking off the
tips, passing entirely out of the enclosure
of the fair grounds One of the shafts, to
which was attached an eccentric, was
thrown sideways over Power Hall, and
landed at the side of Domestic Hall. One
of the rods was twisted off and carried at
least three hundred yards in northerly
direction, striking man on the head who
was standing not far from the amphithea-
tire. In almost every direction smaller
Dieces were thrown, and the air was liter
ally full of splinters, bolts, screws, nuts,
pieces of rods, and such of the lighter
portions Of the engine. Innumerable are
the stories told Of how deadly missiles
ahghted just IN front Of people, arrested
Year: 1869

THE Austin (Va) Republican says:
There is horse at the government
corral, at this place, noted for loosening
the knot ofthe halter strap with which he
is tied. 1t is useless to tie him with any
ordinary knot: He will work the strap
loose with his teeth, and go about the cor
raj, just when he chooses. There is well
in the yard, from which all the government
stock are watered. Day before yesterday
the pump "a force pump worked by
brakers) got out of order, and no water
could be obtained. The animals were
taken to the creek, close by, for water
The horse referred to refused to drink,
was taken to his STALL and tied as usual.
In a few minutes he deliberately united
his halter, walked over to the pump, and,
finding no water in the trough, where he
was accustomed to drink, at once seized
the brake with his teeth, and worked it
up and down several times; then put his
nose to the spout, evidently expecting
water to come. Again and again, for
nearly five minutes, did he seize the brake
and work it, and then put his nose to the
spout. Finding his efforts useless, he
walked off,. evidently disappointed.
Several Of the hands at the corral, and
others, witnessed the above, and can tes
tify to it's correctness.
Year: 1869

way to Washington to offer the Govern
ment a loan of all the money it may need,
at a reasonable rate of interest-four per
cent, it is said. This is an encouraging
indication of our national credit abroad.
Year: 1869




In his last letter to the Cincinnati En-
guirer "Mack" gets off the following on
the suffrage question:


Now that the elections are over, and
new lease of power is granted to the Re-
publican party, the question of negro
suffrage is again brought up, and this
time in more insidious and dangerous
form than ever. Mr.. Boutwell,, o few
days ago, introduced a constitutional
amendment prohibiting disfranchisement
on account of color, and panied
with bill of pains and penalties to
guarantee its enforcement My impres-
sion is that both will pass before the
close OF the present session, which
will make it an issue in the guberna-
torial election in Ohio next fall. The
Radicals feel certain of carrying 1t
in a sufficient number of States to en-
graft it upon the Constitution. This
brings up in o forrn more directly to be
felt than heretofore the odiousness of the
carpet-bag governme ut of the South OF
course the "equal suffrage PROPOSE
tion will be adopted by every one OF the
bogus Legislatures in the Southern
country. and it will be forced by them
upon Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and
such other of the Northern States as
will undou btedly reject it. Whether the
people of the North will quietly submit
to the proceedings remains to be
seen, though there can be no doubt
of their right to resi- st it by every means
in their power, as fragrant violation OF
the principles of sci f-government and the
sovereignty of the States. Acquiescence
will not be the duty nor even the honor
able privilege, of ny State whose citi-
zens vote down tn proposition, If the
attempt is made to fssten it upon them
with the votes of the bogus reconstruction
abortioDs now in peration in the South


The people of Ohio should bear this
matter in mind. a,id make it the living
issue of the next campaign. 1t is in sub
stance whether proposition voted down
by them year ago, by q majority OF
nearly one hundred thousand, shall be
forced uuon them as supreme law by the
action of such State governments as
Louisiana, Florida and Alabama, whose
existence in their present form
is mere burlesque upon civil
governments. The surrender OF the
principle involved in this is the sur
render Of ever ything that makes our form
of government differ from the worst OF
anarchies or the worst of despotisms. 1t
must not be coDfounded with the question
of negro suffrage per SO which the people
of each Ste te have perfect right to de-
termins for themselves, to adopt or reject,
as they see it Nor must it be co ufounded
with the rights of three-fourths of the
States to amend the Constitution in the
manner prescribed in that instru mint. 1t
involves the right of Congress to make
State Governments after its own fash ion,
and against the will of the people living
under them, and then ma ke the action of
their bastard offspring binding upon the
other States. If this is acknowledged,
there is not vestige of the old Federal
Government left. but change as radical
as from a Republic to . Monarchy has
been effected, and the sooner it is ac-
knowledged the better.
Year: 1869

In the northern par, of Saratoga conn
ty. Greenfield, New York, and in the last
part of the old year, there was trio Of
weddings in one house at the same time,
on which occasion an old lady and her
two daughters were led to the hymenial
altar. The mother was q widow; the
frst daughter was a widow Of two months,
and her husband q widower Of four
months, and the other was miss Of sweet
seventeen, and the espoused Of man Of
about thirty yeers, who had recently OF
tanned a divorce from former wife. The
dominic was considerably confused TO
know when be had finished the job, and
il was understood that be was to be paid
at wholesale price, and receive the equiv
aleut in chopping wood. The husband
Of the mother, after ali was over, de-
clared that be should run the homestead
concern himself, and the rest might shift
for themselves.
Year: 1869

From the Baltimore SUM-


There are varying accounts of the
character of these treaties, though we
think it likely that that given by our cor
respondence is substantially correct.
These treaties seem to have secured for
this country much more than she has
hitherto been able to obtain through her
former representatives in England. The
diplomacy and craftsmanship of Mr..
johnson have thus produced results
which should cause his detractors in this
country and in England to blush for the
injustice they have dose him. Instructed
by his government to pursue . concili-
atory course, he has been simply faithful
to his trust in that kindly and courteous
vet frank bearing to Englishmen of all
classes, with whom he has been brought
in contact, which has provoked such un-
friendly comment in this country, but the
results of which have been seen in the
practical concessions made by the Eng
iish govern ment and their acceptance Of
The various suggestions which have been
made by Mr. Seward for the modifca-
ton of the protocol. We see that doubts
are expressed whether the Senate will
ratify these treaties, but il that body,
once so elevated above the din and
clamor Of faction and personal preju-
dice, can sacrifice great interests now to
ipnoble influences, it must have sadly
dsgeuerated since former days.
Year: 1869

The new method of manufacturing
gas, discovered by Du Motay, is de.
scribed rs follows: The ordinary black
oxide of manganese of commerce is
stirred into solution of caustie soda,
and the whole evaporated to dryness.
This mixture OF the dry substances is
then transferred to retort, and o current
of hot air is passed over it. BY this pro-
cess the oxygen of the air is absorbed
and chemical compound Of manganese
and soda-the msnganate of soda-is
produced. Super heated steam is then
passed through the retort, which has the
effect to expel the oxygen previously
taken up from the air, and of converting
the msngans.e of soda into the sesqui
oxide of manganese and soda. Three
equivalents of oxygen are displaced.
The steam is condensed by being passed
through coil of iron pipe placed in
cold water, and the oxygen is conveyed
into suitable gas holders. The sesqui-
oxide of manganese and the soda re-
naming in the retort are regeneratsd by
being treated with current of hot air,
when they absorb new quantity of oxy-
gen, which can be expelled by steam as
before. philadelphia Ledger.
Year: 1869

The editor is one of the happiest ami
mails in the known world. He can 60 to
the circus, afternoon and evening, with
out paying cent; also, to inquests and
haugings. He has ticket to picnics
and strawberry festivals; gets wedding
cake sent him, and sometimes gets lick
ing, but not often, for he can take things
back in the next issue, which he gene
rally does. l never knew only one editor
to get licked. His paper busted that day,
and he could not take nothing back.
While other folks have to 20 to bed early,
the editor can sit up late every night and
see all that's going on. The boys think
it's big thing to hang out till ten o'clock.
When am man mean to be an edi-
tor, so can stay out at night.
Year: 1869

From the Cleveland Herald, 19th.l


On Monday the history of young
woman, through en- attempt to commit
suicide, FAMED Alice Buchamp, who is
now an inmate of house of prostitution
near the hay market, came to light, and
aside from its sadness reveals the modus
operaudi Of recruiting the ranks of this
abandoned and outcast race In brief,
she is the daughter Of influential parents
living in Tennessee, and about eighteen
months ago became acquainted with
Young man from Connecticut, who
won her affections, ruined and deserted
her. Turned from her fathers door,
she sought her seducer in Connect
cut, and subsequently followed him
to this city, where she was a second time
deserted by the villain whom she had
trusted to her sorrow, and being without
means and too proud to beg, she sought
refuge in the house above spoken of.
Her sorrows were too much for her to
bear, and Sunday night she attempted to
com nit suicide by swallowing an ounce
of laudanum. The act was soon after
found out by one of the inmates, and
medical assistance summoned, and now
she bids fair to recover. She says that
as soon as she RECEIVERS she will quit her
present mode of life, and, with her child,
q bright little baby, seek honest employ
ment farther west, where she and her sn-
tecedents are unknown.
Year: 1869




Our authorities who are anxious to do
something for Cincinnati, at large ex-
pense, might render public service of
some value by protecting travellers with
in the city limits from highway robbers.
The ease and certainty with which peo.
pie are robbed within the corporation
lines of the city, which are not very ex-
tensive, offers premium upon that sort
of thing. Recently gang of robbers
have infested the Avondale road, and
citizens have been stopped and relieved
of their watches nearly every night The
police may not have heard of this, but it
is time they had information. The rob-
bers are bold and expert. If there is a
symptom of resistance, they appear in
such numbers as to show the victim that
his case is hopeless. The police make
great pretense of their knowledge of the
mysteries of scoundrelism /; can they not
find out the haunts of the audacious fel-
lows who are spelling our suburban citi.
zens2 Side hills on Deer creek will not
be worth ten thousand dollars per acre
long, if highway robbery at 6 o'clock in
the evening becomes fashionable on our
most frequented thoroughfares within
the corporation limits.
Year: 1869

A small lad in Bath, Maine, the other
day, was coss,ing down q steep road
which crosses a railroad, when a freight
rain came along He struggled hard to
avoid what seemed to be certain death,
but was carried forward with irresistible
momentum, which seemed to threaten
certain death. While the bysianders
held their breath in horror, expecting TO
see him cut to pieces, he shot across the
track like al arrow between the wheels Of
one Of the cars, coming out safely on
the other side.
Year: 1869

There arc very few grown men. or even
stout boys in this country who have any
pride in being out Of business. Occasionally
one is found. however, and when found he IL
worth making note Of We ran across a
genuine specimen the other day-or, rather, he
ran against us-emphatically against us
against our feelings, against our judgment,
against our sympathy, but not against our pity.
We did pity him, and that was the extent oi
our recognition. lie was dressed faultlessly-
that is. if the extreme Of latter-day fashion can
be called faultless; he had beautiful white
hands and teeth. his hair was parted IN the
middle. his downy mustachc adroitly colored
and curled, gold-mounted eyeslass dangled
from button-hole Of his vest, and " nobby


little walking-stick was twisted in bis beIewel-
ed lady-fngers. lie was proud to say that he
was " gentleman of leisure" We inferred as
much before he said it. What else could have
been inferred What earthly use could the
mortal thing be put to? Physical force be had
not bis mind was as vacant as an exhausted
receiver; and he seemed to have no excuse Tor
living except to advertise some tailoring estab-
lshment. It is something to the credit OF this
republican country that such specimens OF the
genus homo are rare. We can only wish they
were so rare that Barnum would be induced
10 care them with bis monkeys; though the
monkeys would be apt to protest against the
companionship.-Pactdrds Msa1tiy.
Year: 1869

I used 20 have great deal of trouble 10
make eurrant and goosebcrry cuttings or slips
grow, until tried the following plan: Iboiled
some potatoes until they were nearly done, and
then stuck one on each slip and putt in the
ground. Every slip sprouted and grew well
that Summer, with but one or two exceptions.
The idea of putting the boiled potatoes TO tho
cnd of the cuttings was To furnish and keep
moisture enough for them to grow, until the
roots became large enough to gather this mois-
ture and substance from the soil. never tried
it on grape cuttings, but DO not see any reason
why it would not do as well with grapes as
with anything else.
Year: 1869

Many persons are in the habit Of sleeping
for half an hour or an hour Immediately after
dinner. This is bad practice. Ten minutes
sleep before dinner is worth more than an hour
after. 1t rests and refrcshes, and prepares the
system for vigorous digestion. Ifslcep taken
after dinner it should be in the sitting posture,
as the horizontal position is unfavorable to
healthful digestion. Let those who need rest
and sleep during the day take it before dinner
instead of after, and they will soon find that
they feel better, and that their digestion viii
be improved thereby Herald of Heaih.
Year: 1869

A friend contributes the following enumera-
/ ton Of follies:


To believe. that. the moro children study at
school, the faster they learn.
To conclude, that, if exercise is good for the
health the more wildcat aud cxhausting II Is,
the more good is done.


To imagine that every hour taken from sleep
is an hour gained.


To fancy, that, because you dance all night
lose sleep and do many things contrary to
your mothers wishes, that your actions are po-
lite.


To sit in your front door or window, 10 gaze,
instead Of being at your domestic affairs


To act on the presumption that the smallest
room in the house is large enough to sleep IN


To eat without an appetite. or to continue
to eat after it has been satiaied, merely to
crafty the taste.


To envy one for what he possesses. rather
than for what he enjoys.


To be continually complaining because things
are not otherwise.


To think there can be true friendship whcro
there is no freedom.


To contend, that, because the dirtiest cbil-
dren in the street or on tho highway are hearty
and healthy, that therefore it Is healthy 10 DO
dirty.
TO believe that warm air is necessarily i'm
pure, or that cool air is neccS a-ily morchcalthy
than the confined air Of a crowded and close
vehicle.


To remember thc Sabbath Day " by work
ing harder and later ON Saturday than any
other day in the week, with view to sleeping
late next morning, and staying at homo all
day to rest, conscience being quoted by the
plea of not feeling very well.
Year: 1869

VICE PRESIDENT CoLFAx stated to the Senate
this morning that he would retire from the
chair this evening and requested that a Presi.
dent pro tenn. be elected TO preside until the
first Monday of December next.
Year: 1869

tendent turn, as naturally as the needle
turns north, to these older classes to see that
the work is done. So of any special effort
for good, whether at home or abroad.


Who shall estimate the benefit to the
young people themselves, who thus continue
to place themselves under the influence of
this powerful agent for good?


But how to secure teacher for this class
is usually a great problem, where such a
class can be formed 1t is matter much
to be regretted that the best talent of al
most every church is not employed in the
Sunday School,. There are usually men of
superior intelligence, position and culture,
who might be employed here, but who have,
perhaps, never even been invited to do so,
much less urged to undertake the work as a
great duty imposed by the Master, and one
which will call down an especial blessing
from him. Few people volunteer such SER
vices; indeed, those most worthy, and best
adapted to the work, are often most retiring
and difRdent with regard to their own abili-
ties. They need to be sought out oy the
superintendent, and, if possible, enlisted in
the work. The modest retiring teacher,
when once fairly enlisted, will often make
the most laborious and eficient.--Sunddy
School Times.
Year: 1869

expected by each Presbytery, SO as to ena
bic each laboring minister to devote himself
wholly to his work. This is the end to be
attained. And certainly there should be
party to adjust the scale with an eye to Sc
cure it. This should be the Presbyteries
committees under conditions specified by
Presbyteries themselves. If there is an
amount in the treasury to afford compe-
tency to all, and yet the minimum be as
high as $3.50, there would be no necessity
for such action This, however, we are con-
fdent will not be the case. We can not ex-
pect the contributions of the people to rise
above competency for all its laboring min
listers, and the amount needed to sustain Its
aggressive policy. Moreover we think no
effort should be made to raise the salary OF
our ministers above What is needful for their
comfortable subsistence. A poor ministry,
is strong presumption of its purity, and is
entirely preferable to an unsanctifed one.


With such restrictions and precautions,
we approve this effort of our Committee and
Assembly to aHeSs an adequate support to
those who minister in word and doctrine.
Nav the Head of the Church confer upon
us a ministry full Of faith and good works,
and incline those who are taught to COM
municate unto those who teach in all good
things. Nj.