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Year: 1869




knew woman once, gifted SO ex-
traordinarily by God that she nigh;
h We been a florist, mu ician, an ar
tist, q physician, a teacher, al evange-
list,-since to the mastery OF any one
of these callings she could bave bro't
q nearly equal power and passion


Whatever her fiery mind fastened up
on it fused into itself, nor was there
ANYTHING her cunning right hand sought
to do in which it did not excel. AT
fourteen her precocity was SO great
that her father cut short her studies,
because she "knew enough tor a wo-
man." and made her = teacher in his
school. At sixteen she married a young
clergyman. Children came fast. Her
health gave way, but her enet gy re


NAMED She was never idle moment;


but, alas. neither father nor husband
nor one of all her twelve brothers and
brothers-in- n-law saw that it would be
better economy to give the genius they
were all SO proud of, musical or an
artistic or medical education that she
might pay with her earnings some com


moner mortal to make clothes tor her
little ones, than to let her do it herself
with the painful toll Of the needle
And she had been brought up with too
narrow vision OF womans duties and
dcs,inles to understand herself that she
was wasting her lite and abusing her
pow RS. All her ready gifts were, in
her eyes, merely appropriate feminine
Accomplishments and to make fame
or money out OF them never occurred
to her as possibility, tar less as duty.
And yet her mind was ever in fever
OF desire, of invention, ofagonized cray
ing tor the realization OF the dreams OF
beauty, of beneticence, OF friendship,
that tormented her. The music rang
in her ears; the pictures floated before
her eyes; the fearful and wonderful
human organism haunted her brain;
the dread mysteries OF sin aud suffer
ing, the awtulness OF human response
billty, the glories of salvation, burned
upon her lips as she taught her chill
dren their daily Bible lesson; and still,
nailed to her chair, the swift needle
went in and out,-went, as it often
seemed to her, through her delicate
lungs as we'll as through the CLOTH
until at nine -and-thirty the struggle
ended; the body, after long paroxysms
Of exquisite anguish, gave up it's strong
hold on life, and the rich soul exhaled
away to Heaven, rejoicing to escape
from the bars against which it had so
long beaten its bright wings Ia VAN. !
saw her in her coffin, with an express
sion OF freedom and exaltation upon
her marble features that seemed glo-
ry reflected down from her now tri.
umphing far.off spirit, and ] resolved
to remember the woe and earthly
wreck OF her thwartei nature, and
never to cease until saw some better
way for women than this which can So
horribly waste and abuse their finest
power. .4slansse Aoxskly ts~ Eebrmsry
Year: 1869

II We may place implicit faith in the
assertions OF writer's now in China, the
reason civilization has never extended
in that Empire is because the religion
Of the people is OF the dead, and their
every motive OF acton has reference
to the dead. The present Cinnamon
are dragging thirty generations around
with them. A railroad running ten
miles in China would disturb the whole
spirit realm. Unlucky strokes from
spades might sever skulls from verte-
brn in some ancestral burial ground,
and then there would be headless
ghosts wandering through the land OF
darkness, and sickness, pestilence, ca
lamity and untold horrors would set
tie upon China. The whole Empire
is represented to be graveyard. 1t is
begged OF Burlirgame and his support
ers to hurry up telegraph and railroad
operations there. When that screech-
ing innoyator, the locomotive, begins
to run across the plains OF the Flow
cry Land, plowing up old bones, break
ing the chains which bind the living to
the dead, then, it is averred, there will
be hope for China. Hurry up the COW
catchers for Chlna.
Year: 1869

In the Island OF Goa, near Bonn.
bay there is a singular vegetable, cal
led the sorrowtul tree. because it only
tlourlshes in the night. At sunset no
flowers are seen, and yet after halt III
hour the tree is full OF them. They
yield sweet smell, but the sun no
sooner begins to smile upon them, than
some fall off and others Glove up. TIL.
tree continues to flower IN the night
during the whole year
Year: 1869

The Maelsltom Of our childhood )
biographies is a myth. A late report
on the Norwegian fisheries says that it
"is so little thought Of by the inhabi-
tants that they pass and repass it in
their sail vessels at all states OF the tide
except at certain times in the winter
season; and tar from drawing in whales
and other things that come within its
range, it appears to be q favorite resort
OF the fish OF the country, and the fish
ermen reap a rich piscatorial harvest
from its bosom. The greatest rate OF
the tide in winter does not exceed six
miles IN hour"
Year: 1869

A carpenter in Washington prizes
among his choicest treasures scrap Of
paper on which is written: III you
have piece of board to spare, please
let Tad have it. A. Lincoln" 1t was
brought to him by the boy while he
was At work at the White House.
Year: 1869

RUMoRED HANGING.-The Hamilton
Empire of the 29th ult., says:


A rumor was prevalent in this city yes
terday to the effect that two robbers had
been hanged by the Vigilance Committee
OF Egan Canyon, on Wednesday afternoon
The matter was talked of by many persons,
but none seemed to know anything positive
concerning the affair We would not be
surprised, however if the rumor turned out
to be true, inasmuch as the people of Egan
have been greatly exasperated of late, on
account of the repeated robberies in that
vicinity. 1t is altogether probable that we
will have something reliable on the subject
before our next issue, more particularly il
the rumors which have reached here hap.
pen to be correct.
Year: 1869

ASK PA.-On Sunday last, in one Of
our churches, stood couple apparently
singing from the bottom of their souls oui
Of the hymn book. Being religiously
disposed, and not having book, our re
porter, who sat Immediately behind them
attempted to read from the same book
In doing SO, at the end of the verse, he
heard the gentleman whispering, @Oh, say
yes" The next verse began, and thu
twain sang away as devotedly as if they
were thinking of nothing but the hymn
When the verse was ended the fair one
replied; "Go ask pa; all's right, so far al
I'm concerned
Year: 1869

A fishing party Of young ladies and at.


tendant beaux on bayou near New Or.
leans, was few days ago frightened from
their canoe by the sudden appearance there
in of young alligator. The gallants
swan to shore with the girls but the banks
were 80 msrshy and trescherous that the
latter could not effect landing. The situs-
ton Was dangerously ludicrous. The ladies
could not get out, and were steadily sinking
into the quagmire, the gentlemen could not
add to their Own the weight Of the ladies
aud come out, aud therefore did not ven.
,ure in again. They finally took off their
pants, and with the splicing Of suspenders


made ropes and dragged the fair gudgeous
out. The ladies, parsphernsiis was com,
pletly wrecked IN the disaster, and the gen.
tlemen stood minus their uumentionables
in their presence, A compromise was eff
fected by the gentlemen going to town and
sending the ladies . suit Of clothes piece,
Year: 1869

The Case of Captain John $. Young-Argu-


ments Of Counsel.


Before Judge Cardozo.


The People eL rel. John s. YOing rs. The Board or
Potice.-The argument Of this case in which eX-Cap
tain John Young asks to have the judgment OF the
Board Of Police discharging him vacated came up
yesterday.


ton OF the Board Of Police in refusing regard his
resignation as effected was merely for the purpose
of degrading him and was contrary to the policy OF
our law, which does not seek to keep men In office
against their will and contrary to the Police act,
which expressly recognizes the right Of police
officers TO resign at their own will. That, though
Mr.. Young did not ask restoration to the police
force and so not pecuniary relief his demand was
for substantial relief as the record OF the Judgment
would II allowed to stand be brought against him
in the future He argued that mandamus was the
true remedy In such cases, citing, with many other
cases, the old police suits. That the Police Board
was utterly without power over Mr.. Young after
his resignation, whether considered as complete at
the expiration OF five days from the absence from
duty on the 15th or at the formal resignation the
17th or even at the expiration OF five days from this
latter date That the Board which purp0rted to try
him was incomplete through the absence OF the
President, claiming that the Presidents presence
was necessary to any action or the Board.


Mr.. vanderpoe In reply, urged, first, that man.
damus was not q proper remedy, because 1t was
never granted where 1t was useless, as It would he
in this case, Mr.. Young did not ask to be re.
stored, and the Board had no power to alter their
records. IL was never granted to review judicial
proceeding the proper remedy for that was
by certorari unless the proceeding were
entirely without jurisdiction, In which case a
mandamus might Issue to- restore the previous
circumstances not TO reverse a nulity. As to the
Qaestion OF resignation, Captain Young's was shown
by act until the 18th. Up to that day he retained
his Shield ana showed no intention, whatever might
be the rumoTS In the newspapers, to do so. Ills
resignation was that evening gwen to the clerk but
the clerk could not accept IT, all he could do was to
communicate the letter TO the Board, which he did
on the morning OF the 18th. Such designations re-
qured an affirmative act OF some Kind by the re-
cipients to make them complete. The Board refused
that acceptance, and at any time, the five days OF
absence commenced from then, and the trial was
within those five days. As 10 whether that trial was
fair OF not could only be argued certiorari. Mr..
Nanderpoel argued that the presence OF the Presi-
dent was not necessary to q quorum OF the Board.


The Court reserved ITS decision.
Year: 1869

This Board met yesterday evening" pursuant to ad-
journment with the President, Alderman Conan, in
chair. Aarge number Of papers were received and
laid over referred to the appropriate committees
Among others were resolution In regard TO certain
small fry papers applying for the corporation adver-
Using; veto from the Mayor rejecting the IRISH
Tribune as q corporation newspaper, on the
ground that 1t had not achieved any reputation
or position here since Its removal from
Philadelphia, and also that the appropriation had
been exhausted. Another resolution, directing that
the rooms occupied by the clerk Of the Board Of
Assistant Aldermen be lifted up for the of the
Mayors Marshal was laid over A resolution grant


ing permission for the construction and maintenance
OF salt water baths at the Battery laid over. A
number OF resolutions In regard to regulating and
grading certain streets up town. laying gas and
Croton mains, were adopted, as were also
resolutions TO pave Forty street. from
First avenue To East river, and Forfy-sxth
street from Third to Lexington avenue, with
Belgian pavement. The resolution requiring the
Counsel TO the Corporation to examine into the fact
at to whether other States in eyacting fees taxing
commercial travellers from this city had net violated
certain national constitutional guarantees was
ferred TO the Committee on Law. ana the Board
adjourned until Monday next at Two O'Clock p. NJ
Year: 1869

THE WEATHER.-The following record will show
the changes in the temperature for the past twenty
four hours, in comparison with the corresponding
day Of last year, as indicated by the thermometer
at Hudnuts Pharmacy, HERALD Building, Broad
way, corner OF Ann street,
Year: 1869

NOBLE ExAMpLE.-We have learned with much
pleasure that it is the purpose of large number
of the members of the Methodist Church within
the bounds of the Sumter Circuit, to plant, the
present year, certain crop, or amount Of land
pro rata, the product of which they will sell and
apply for the support and benefit of the church
The idea is, in this way, to create church fund
from which the preacher may be regularly paid
and all the other necessary expenses Of the church
met, without difficulty, complication or failure
The example is noble one, and if adopted
throughout the country, would at once put the
church upon an easy, sound and safe financial ba
sis 1t is gratifying to know that the members Of
the Church of Christ are waking up to some sense
of the imperative obligations which rest upon
them in this connection. They have allowed the
church to languish and the ministers of Christ, in
many instances, to suffer from want, whilst they
enjoyed abundance.


We trust that better day is dawning upon the
church, in its several branches in this respect
The support of the church must be reduced to &
system-made matter Of promptly
regularly attended to, and no longer left to the un
certainties and hazards which have attended the
disjointed and irregular practice of the past.


Sumter Uutcb,unu
Year: 1869

COLD CoMFoRT-An old missionary, who had
been many years in Labrador, was at length COM
PEELED to return his influence all gone and his mis-
sion entirely fruitless. A young man, who was
just aedging into the ministerial status, was ap-
pointed in his place, and before be went on his as
signment he thought he would visit bis venerable
predecessor, and learn from him the cause Of his
trouble in the land of icebergs The old man re-
ceived him cordially.


sVenerable BROTHER" said the young man, II
wish you to tell me the cause of your difficulty that
I may avert like failure. Must preach to them
q hell that is hot?"


"No, my young FRIEND" said the old missiona-
ry, laying his hand on his brothers arm mo,
that was the rock split on. I preached it very
warm to them, and they rather liked the idea Of
going there. think if you preach them hell
fifty degrees colder than Labrador, you will drive
them all to repentance"
Year: 1869

QUALITY OF WHIsKEY. and son keep
within thousand miles Of Hartford shop where
whiskey and other decoctons of like character are
sold by the glass. One morning recently the old
man had got his keg full at so early an hour that
by nine o'clock he was laid out in chair as drunk
as boiled owl. At this particular period of the
old gentleman's s existence, two chaps entered the
place and called for whiskey. The son stepped
behind the bar, and put the bottle down. ''Is
this good whiskey," asked one Of the customers.
II don't know myself" replied the SOD, but
there the old man, he's been drinking it steady
for two years past, and he am dead yet."
Year: 1869

THE MISCHIEF OF PAss1oN.-"Will putting
ones self in passion mend the matter?" said ar
old man to boy who had picked up stone tt
throw at dog. The dog had only barked at hin
in play.


eyes, it will mend the NATTER said the pas
sionate boy; and quickly dashed the stone at tht
dog.


The animal, thus enrsged, sprang at the boy anc
bit his leg while the stone bounded against I
shop window, and broke pane Of glass.


Out ran the shop-keeper, seized the boy ant
made him pay for the broken pane. He hac
mended the matter finely, indeed.


1t never did, and never will, mend a matter te
get into passion about it. If the thing be hard
to bear when you are calm, it will be harder wher
you are in anger.


Ifyou have met with loss, you will only increase
it by losing your temper.


Try to be calm, especially in trifing troubles
and when great ones come, try to bear them brave
Year: 1869

WEAR A SMLE.-Which will you do? smile
and make others happy, or be grabbed and make
everybody around you miserable? You can live
among flowers and singing Birds or in the mirt
surrounded by fogs and frogs. The amount o.
happiness which you can produce is incalculable
if you will only show smiling face, kind hear
and speak pleasant words. On the other hand
BY sour looks, cross words, and fretful disposi
tion, you can make hundreds unhappy almost be-
yond endurance. Which will you do? Wear {
pleasant countenance let joy beam in your eyt
and love glow on your forehead There is no JOY
so great as that which springs from kind act o.
pleasant deed, and you may feel it at night whel
you rest, and at morning when you rise, ant
throughout the day when about your daily bust
ness.
Year: 1869

B6r A certain Sunday school teacher was in the
habit of making collection in the juvenile class
for missionary objects. He was not little sur
prised one day to find counterfeit shilling among
the coppers; and on asking the class who put it
there the donor was pointed out to him by one
who had seen him deposit it. Didn't you know
that it was good for nothing?" said the teacher.
EYES," answered the boy. 'Then what did you
put it in the box for?" The little boy coolly re-
piled, II didn't pose the little heathens wcald
know the difference, so thought it would be just
as good for them"
Year: 1869

THE PHENOMENA OF THE BRA1N-One of the
most nconceivabe things in the nature of the brain


is that although the organ of sensation, it should


itself be insensible. To cut the brain gives no
pain; yet in the brain resides the power of feeling
pain in any part of the body. If the nerve which
leads to the injured part be divided, We become
instantly unconscious of suffering It is only by
communication with the brain that any kind OF
sensation is produced yet the organ is itsefiusen-
sible. But there is circumstance more wonder
full STILL A certain portion Of the brain itself may
be removed without destroying life. The animal
lives and performs all those functions which are
necessary to simple vitality, but it has no longer
mind. Itcannot think or feel. It requires that
the food should be pushed into its stomach; once
there it is digested, and the animal will even thrive
and grow fat. We infer, therefore, that part Of
the brain is simply intended for the exercise of the


intellectual faculties, whether of the lower degree,
called instinct, or of that exalted kind bestowed on
man, called reason.
Year: 1869

At this season of the year young men are ma
king out their plans for the future. Many propose
to change their employments in hope of lighter
labor, lucrative returns, and, as they imagine, a
more honorable position. Especially many farm
ers sons, weary with the labor and the monoto-
nous life of the farm, are turning their faces to-
wards the city, or toll ght employments in the coun-
try, and are dreaming of a life of prosperity and
ease, and ultimate independence. To such we
commend the following sensible remarks of Gener-
al Patrick, made at the last Annual Meeting of the
New York Agricultural Society:


"Only few Of our children are following in our
footsteps. The old folks are left alone. With
failing health and increasing years many are COM
PEELED to sell out the homestead and live in the
village. where it is possible to live alone. Our
young men are showing great aversion to honest
toll. Often, if they remain on the farm, they are
more interested in fast horses than in training
steers. Others engage in triAing, undigni6ed oc-
cupations, such as selling MAPS books, patent
rights, or even clothes pins. They are attracted
by genteel ways and habits At the best they seek
commercial adventures, and through this means
sudden and great riches Can they not read their
fate by the wrecks of thousands in the city of N.
York who attempted the same thing. For able
bodied, strong young men to quit the farm and
engage in such trihing pursuits as have been
named, or to attempt, where thousands fail, in a
city occupation, they should be ashamed. When
ever labor in any country is considered dishonora
Bile, the doom of that nation is sealed. Until the
;dea nreva;ls that labor is honorable there can he
no bright hope before U.s. When we find coun-
try divided into small estates, and each proprietor
labors with his own hands, we have happy peo-
pie. Under small homesteads grew up those peo-
pie before which the world trenlbled when they
buckled on their swords-the ancient Romans
Look at the large plantations Of the South, with
degraded aborers, and you need not ask the result
Countries are cultivated, not according to their
fertility, but according to their liberty. Agricul
ture is the basis of the happiness of State, and
it is the most honorable as well as the most ancient
of all professions"
Year: 1869

The ALMOND TRADE.-A recent visitor to NAL
aga describes the process by which the Clipped,
cracked, or otherwise damaged almond kernels are
prepared for the extensive fruit establishments Of
that city. The defective kernels are scrupulously
sorted out and conveyed to large, low table,
roun. which half dozen women are seated on the
ground Before each woman is pile of the dam
aged almonds, little jar of liquid gum and tiny
mound of brown dust, gathered from the inside Of
the almond Shells by her side basket, and in her
hand camels hair brush. Her business is to
pick up almonds from her pile (which is constantly
being fed by an attendant) paint over the damaged
place with gum and dip it in the mound Of brown
dust. She then brushes off the superauous grains
of powder, and drops the apparently perfect al
mond into her basket, the latter being emptied at
intervals into heap Of sheled fruit that occupies
whole corner of the room. In some establish
ments simpler and less adhesive liquid Of gum is
used in this department Of the trade; the gum be-
ing a recent invention.
Year: 1869

MEN WANrED.-The great want Of this age is
men. Men who are not for sale. Men who are
honest, sound from centre to circumference, true
to the hearts core. Men whowil condemn wrong
in friend or foe, in themselves as well as others.
Men whose consciences are as steady as the needle
to the pole. Men who will stand for the right if
the heavens totter and the earth reels. Men who
can tell the truth and look the world and the devil
right in the eye. Men that neither brag nor run.
Men that neither flag nor finch. Men who can
have courage without shouting to it. Men in
whom the courage of everlasting life runs still,
deep and strong. Men who do not cry nor cause
their voices to be heard on the streets, but who
will not fail nor be discouraged Judgment be set
in the earth. Men who know their message and
tell it Men who know their places and gil them.
Men who know their own business Men who will
not lie. Men who are not too lazy to work, nor
too proud to be poor. Men who are willing to eat
what they have earned, and wear what they have
paid for.
Year: 1869

RICH WITHOUT MoNEY.-Many man is rich
without money. Thousands Of men with nothing
in their pockets, and Thousands with good, sound
constitution, good heart, and good limbs, and q
pretty good head-piece, are rich. Good bones are
better than gold, tough muscles better than silver,
and nerves that flash fire and carry energy to every
function, are better than houses and land. 1t is
better than landed estates to have had the right
kind Of father and mother. Good breeds and
bad breeds exist among men as really as among
herds and horsea Education may do much to
check evil tendencies, or to develop good ones, but


it is good to inherit the right proportion to start
with. That man it rich who has favor Of wit
and fun in his composition, The hardest thing to
get along with in this life is mans own SELF A
cross, selfish fellow, desponding and complaining
fellow, timtd, care-burdened man-these are all
deformed on the inside. Their feet may not limp,
but their thoughts do. A man Of fortune, on the
brink of the grave, would gladly part with every
dollar to obtain longer lease Of life.
Year: 1869

VAIN MAN.-Whilst thou art building castles,
the carpenter is building thy coffin. While de-
ceitful illusions are gliding thy future prospects,
the painter is leisurely putting the varnish upon
the casket that is being fitted up for thy reception.
While thou art striving hard to distinguish thysef
among thy fellows the marble worker is fitting the
slab that shall mark thy grave. While you are
querying as to the wherewitha you shall be cloth
ed in, the materials for your burial suit are upon
the tradesmaus Shelf You add field to field, and
anxiously reach out for more; but go to the grave
ward and stake out the lot to which death will soon
assign you. 'Then whose shall those things be
which thou hast provided"