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Year: 1869

LONDON, Aug 27.-YOu know already from what
has been sent you heretofore or at least cannot be
very hard for you to imagine the state OF excitement


that London has been in for the past few days. in


ticipatOn OF the event which has now at last been
decided in favor of her faYores 1t is our habit to
consider that the English population are not as
ctable as our own, but the fact is that although
they take more to rouse them, they are
capable of being reused TO far higher
pitch of excitement than any aggregation OF Ameri-
can humanity. And this is TO them even more than
to us, an occasion to call forth all their dormant
patriotism, Horses and boats are the two things
In which your Englishman takes particular
and patriotic pride Threaten his aquatic supre-
macy or his equine supremacy, and you touch
him in his most vital part, and you thrill every nDre
OF him with unquenchable desperation ana Iury. Ihe
victory which the yacht America won In the Solent
in 1851 was not nearly so much the cause OF Amerl-
can eXultation as of British disgust When the
the English heart was fairly ablaZe. You remember
how often and how persstently attempts were made,
after the horse had shown his superiority, to
do him out OF his just dues by trickery, ana now
nearly those attempts came TO being successIul.
And here now, after John Bull has been subjected 10
the laceration OF his very tenderest sympatnes Dy
seeing a foreign yacht carry OF MS royai
cup, and foreign horse win MS Derry,
comes crew of Americans with
intent to wound him more intimately yet. For
the university is truly TO respectable Eng


sh sportsmen the boating event OF the year. as the
Derby is the great turf event. Contests between
professional watermen are not regarded with a
more favorable or q more interested eye by the
general mass OF Engishmen than they are by the
general nRss Of A0eTieaRs, uere, as AZ home,
Year: 1869

one of the members OF the Harvard crew in tele-
graphing the result OF the race to relative in this
city, states that the complaint with which Simmons
was suffering both before and during the race mani
tested itself mostly strongly when their boat reached
the Soap Works at which time Harvard was leading
by something over length. Simmons did not
pull with anything like his accustomed sweep
the finish, and Immediately after the signal gun an
nOunced the termination OF the race, he staggered
and fell back, and was only saved from falling by
being caught by member of the crew. HIS illness,
dlarrh9a was the cause, and had during the race
visible effect on the decreased speed OF the boat


After the race a proposition was advanced to have
another trial in one weeks time. The OXfords par
TALLY agreed to the proposition. 1t is however, a
matter of great uncertainty whether eoIts to that
effect will be successful. There is great rejoicing in
England over the result. The Harvard crew are
greatly complimented on their game rowing and the
close finish to the race.-N. Y. World.
Year: 1869

DO Won feel weak debitated, easily tired?
Does a little extra exertion produce palpita-
ton of the heart? Does your liver, or your Kid


news, frequently get out OF order? Do you have
spells of short breathing, or dyspepsiaP Are your
bowels constlpated2 Do you have spells OF fantng'
or rushes of blood to the head2 Is your memory i'm
paired2 Is your mind constantly dwelling upon ths
subject7 Do you feel dull, lisess, moping, tired OF
company, OF llfe2 Do you wish to be left alone to
get away from everybody Does any little thing
make you start or jump? Is your sleep broken OF
restess2 Is the lustre Of your eye as brilliant? The
bloom on your cheek as bright? Do you enjoy your
self in society as well? Do you pursue your business
with the same energy? Do you feel as much con-
ndence in yourself? Are your spirits dull and nag
ging given to fits Of melancholy? II so do not lay
It to your liver or dyspepsia Have you restless
nights? Your back weak, your knees weak, and
have but little appetite, and you attribute this 10
dyspepsia or liver compaint7


Did you ever think that those bold, deh-
ant, energetic, persevering successful business
men are always those who are in per-
feet health p. You never hear such men COM
pain of being melancholy, OF nervousness, of pal
ptation of the heart They are never afraid they
cannot buCCeeu III uuslllc5si Ohoy uOA DSSSAAS SN
and discouraged; they are always polite and plea
SAINT in the company OF ladies, and look you and
them right in the face-none of your downcast looks
or any other meanness about them.


How many men, from badly cured diseases, have
brought about that state of weakness that has re-
tuced the general system so much as to induce al
most every other dsease-idiocy, lunacy paralysis,
spinal affections suicide and almost every other form
|of disease which humanity is heir to- and the real
cause Of the trouble scarcely ever suspected, and
naye doctored for all but the right one.


Y These diseases require the use OF Duretc.
Year: 1869

The lower branch of the Tennessee
Legislature has refused, by most EN-
phGtic vote, to ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment. This action is not intend
ed Us "a forerunuer Of a bill TO limit the
right of Suffrage already made unIver'
sal in that State, but is meant as q sol
emn assertion of the right of a sovereign
State to decide this question for itself
and a refusal to give the Federal Gov
ernment powe: to impose it on others


Tcnnesseee may accept negro suffrage
or not, as her people elect. That is bel
concern. But she will not force it upon
others, who protest against tie colored
movement at the ballot box. The Rad


ical party, in their Chicago platform


empha lically declared that the settle


ment aud determination of this question
properly belongs to the several States
and not the General Government, and
that position is now occupied by Ten


uessee and all the States which have re-


pudiated the Amendment, But the
Radicals have changed front. They
now declare the Federal Government
has the sole right to fix and determine
the repositories of political power il
the States, thus reversing our whole
system, and converting it into central


lied despotism. The people must check
the column or they will soon find them


selves slaves instead of freemen.
Year: 1869




The Parkersburg Times of Monday
says:


Last week friend of ours spent one
day in the hills 81, miles east of this city,
and within space of four miles square
found half dozen full grown people
| who did not believe that the earth turn
| ed, because that is contrary 10 Scripture
nor thst the last eclipse of the snn
was Saused by the moon, because the
moon was then quite new, aud could not
shade so large q space. One of these
aborigines also proposed TO make oath
upon any amount Of holy books, that on
certain afternoon during the late war
the miracle of General Joshua was
re.enacted, as the shadow of the door
frame did not move the breadth of a
hair in three-quarters of an hour. In
the same vicinity bran new school
house is tenantless, because no teacher
can be found TO take charge of it,. A
majority of the scholars are strapping
big bows and buxom lassies, who insist
upon promiscuous sparkling, dancing
hornpipes and playing sociable games
during school hours, and threaten to
lick the master or duck him in the
creek before the door if he says word.
The Grand Lama Of a famous celestial
order has presided as Vice Governor
over that romantic region for the last
six years, - - II


The Times omits TO state the fact that
the sectios of country alluded to is su-
premely "loyal."
Year: 1869

lFrsm the Philadelphia Ledger, Nov.27}
The end of high, prices Of almost
everything seems to be approaching,
and if not hurried by crash it viii be
WE'LL. The recent failure of an old and
supposed to be wealthy wine house at
New York has quiekened apprehension
in the money N markes,-and apprehension
is the nourishmeit of trouble in the
same line. At Chicago we have reports
of an apprshended panic thsre' At
! Louisville there is right sharp pres
sure with high rates for money, and an
indsposition on the part of the ban ks
to discount. From Cincinnati reports
are current of similar condition OF
affairs. This years grain and produce
have only been marketed to limited
extent; and the current prices thus iar
obtained have been 60 unsatisfactory
that the West Is poorer thanit was be-
fore. The farmer is now selling his
wheat in currency for q lower price than
he got in gold before the war, while he
has bought his land, hired his labor,and
purchased his supplies on an inflated
greenback basic Ia plain words, this
is the real trouble with the West at the
present time. The hog crop is yet to be
harvested, and grave apprehensions are
beginning to be excited every where lest
prices give way at the commencement
of the movement. Considering the EN-
barrassments which have been occas.
ioned by the low range of prices in grain
a corresponding decline in the price OF
hogs would be but natural, though al
event which would greatly complicate
and aggravate present financial troubles
already shown at the West, and have
given sigas here at the East. These fact:
point to the grand conclusion of forced
sales and lower prices. Ithas long been
felt that the prices were exorbitantly
high, but it has been difficult to find q
point at which to begin reduction, sc
interviewer are all the several products
of la Dor, and so dependent is each upon
another The wagesVof labor cannot
come down while the cost of all the ar


ticles necessary to the feeding and
clothing of the laborcr's family art
high, nor can the productisn Of those
articles laescm in price while the cost o


labor is kept up. High prices IN one
direction make them necessary in an
! other, and no one is willing to begin The
downward movement. Each is anxious
to get all he can for labor or the product
of labor. The desired reform seems tt
be awaiting some irresistible crisis
financial or otherwise, involving all the
interests OF the country. Whether this
movement az the West, beginning with
stringeucy in money, at a time of Hs'
usually abundant crops of breadstufis
and prod ucr, is first step towards gen.
eral decline in prices, little time will
determine. Ii it shall be SO accepted
by by producers as well as CONSUMERS,
and be pliantly yielded to, the crisis
| that has been awaited as necessary to
enforce the result may be materially
shnrn Of it's severity.
Year: 1869

The Democracy of Indiana are divid-
ing and fighting over the respective
merits of HENDRICKS and PENDLEToN
asPresideutial candidates in 1872. If they
dent quit tearing the eyes of each other,
ard unite to redeem the State from
Radicalism, it will not matter much to
either faction who the candidate may
be. If they can't carry their State, it is
not likely their influence will have
much weight in National Convention
no matter for what candidate.
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except grad.


ual declination of bodily strength and nervous


erergy, will find in the TONIC a FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEYIG0R AS RE
POOL IN The DESERT TO THE SAND
SCQRCHED AND EA INTING TRA AXEI.ER.
Year: 1869

On the 22d, while number of persons
were standing on a bridge at CRANKY, Can.
ada, watching the flood, one end Of the
bridge gave way, precipitatng eleven per
sons into the rushing tide below. They
we're all carried out of sight at once and
drownad
Year: 1869

Biliousness. Indigestion, General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from want OF
proper action in the liver. the stomach and the
bowels. are eradicated by course of this great Z
Year: 1869

BOSTON SHOE AND LEATHER MARKET.--The boot
and shoe market Ia entirely without feature OF in.
terest. The seasonable trade Is drawing near to
its close; remote dealers are more anxious to re-
duce than to increase their stocks, and are buying
only goods enough to Keep up their assortment
are generally well sold up, and are now preparing
TO settle up their accounts and take account OF stock
Collections from the West come In slowly and goods
In that section are passing into consumption very
moderately. At the South goods are selling quite
freely and at fair profit. The New England trade
ia absorbing about the usual quantity OF nne goods
and prices are well sustained Quetness relgns In
manufacturing circles. There are no unfinished
orders OF consequence on hand IN any OF tue shoe-
the next seasons WORK; but beyond this no prepa-
ration has yet been made for getting up stocks OF
snrino goods. The leather market ID exceedingly
dul in ali departments OF the trade. Consumers are
not vet In want Of stock and OF course not incline
60 anticipate Prices are nominally unchanged; hut
bona nae buyers could obtain good lots OF leather at
very low cash prices. Commercial 6uUetin,
N0p. ~.
Year: 1869

TEACH THE WOMEN TO SAvE.-There's S
the secret. A saving woman at the head
of the family is the very best savings bank
yet established-one that receives deposits
daily and hourly, with no costly machi
merry to manage it. The idea of saving is
a pleasant one, and if the woman would
imbibe at once, they would cultivate and
adhere to it, and thus many when they
were not aware of it, would be laying the
foundation for competence, security in a
stormy time, and shelter on a rainy day.
The woman who sees to her own house has
a large field to save in, and the best way
to make her comprehend it is for her 10
keep an account of current expenses
Probably not one wife 10 ten has an idea
how much are the expenditures Of herself
and family


Where from one to two thousand dollars
are expended annually there is chance TO
save something, if the attempt is only
made. Let the housewife take the idea
act upon it-and strive over it--and She
will save many dollars perhaps hundreds,
where before she thought it impossible,
This is duty, rot a prompting Of avarice
"a moral obligation that rests upon ail-
upon the women as well as men, but it Is
duty, we are sorry to say, that Is cui'i-
waited very little, even among those who
preach the most, and regard themselves as
examples 10 most matters Teach the
women to save, is good enough maxim
to be 10 The next edition Of Poor Rich
ards Almanac.
Year: 1869

THE following is specimea Of printers
technical terms-it don't mean, however
as it would seem to the upinitiated


William, put General Washington on
the galley, AMI .Aen finish the murder Of
the young girl you commenced yesterday
Set up the ruins Of Herculaneum, and dis
tribute the small pox you need not finish
that runway match, but have the high wa
ter in the paper his week. Put new
head on General Grant, aBd lock np JET
Davis slide that old matter into hell; and
let that pie alone until after dinner. You
can put tie Lalies Fair to press, and then
20 to the devil and then put him to work on
Deacon Fogy' article ou Eternal Punish
mept Pfiater CIeuk0r
Year: 1869


THE very last page Theodore Parker
busy fingers ever wrote, tells the child
story, than which, he says. no event IN
my life has made so deep and lasting i'm
preston on me- A little boy il petticoats,
in my fourth year, my father sent me from
the field home. A spotted tortoise, in
shallow water, at the foot of a rhodora,
caught nly sight, and l lifted my stick to
strike it, when a voice said it was wrong.
| stood with lifted stick. in wonder Il the
new emotion, till rhodora and tortoise van
ished from my sight l FASTENED home
and asked my mother what 1t was that told
me it was wrong Wiping a tear with her
apron, aud taking me in her arms, she
said: Some men call it conscience; but /
prefer to cell it the voice of God in the
soul of man. If you listen to it and obey
it. then it will sraaL. -alaar4p, sua sIvpasra
guide you right. But if you turn a deaf
ear or disobey, then it viii fade out, little
by little, and leave you in the dark aud
without a guide -
UNANSWERED.
How sad and awful it must be for God to


listen,


Sitting in white Gains upon his shining


throne,


To all the ceaseless and uuanswerable pray


ings,


Beseeching blindly for the good unknown /;
The importunate pleadings of strong souls


in pain,


Yearning for what they never can attain.
To answer with blank and wordless 81


lence


The passionate longings of the hearts


desire


Over some dear one. on whose brow His


finger


The avful sign hath writteu-"c Come up


higheri'


To listen, answering not, yet know one


breath,


One look, would stay the chariot wheels Of
Death.


God is not deaf; the cry of every human
| creature


That out Of doubt and darkness calls to
! Him


The infinite, sad chorus of appeal He heareth,
/ Between the hyuniDg Of the cherubim;
Amid the music of the swinging spheres
The lowliest breathing of His name He


hears
Year: 1869

SUPERFICIAL INFIDELs.- Isaac New
ton set out in life a clamorous infdeI, but
on nice examination of the evidence of
Christianity, he found reason to change his
opinion When the celebrated DIR. HALEY
was talking infdelity before him, Sir Isaac
Newton addressed him in these, or like
words: Or Haley, am always glad to
hear you when you speak about astronomy
or other parts of mathematics, because
that is a subject you have studied and well
understand but yon should not talk of
Christianity, for you have not studied it
have and am certain you know nothing
about the matter This was just reproof,
and one that would be suitable to be given
to half the inGdcls of the present day, for
they often speak of what they have never
studied, and what, in fact, they are entirely
ignorant Of DR. johnson, therefore, well
observed, shat no honest man could be an
atheist, for no man could be so after a fair
examination l'' The name of Hume being
mentioned to him, 'No. sir. said he,
Hume owned to clergyman Of the Bis
hopric Of Durham, that he had never read
the New Testament with attention.
Year: 1869

WHATEVER may be said of Henry Ward


Beecher's eccentricity on some subjects,


his "head is perfectly level' ON the music
question. In o recent sermon he said !:


1T is no wonder that singing died out
from the congregation when q choir is put
up to recite words that no one can under
stand, to music that nobody knows, and
the people are left to listen to newly con-
verted opera airs, which, last week. were
brought over by a fresh troupe of foreign
singers! And those sweet melodies that
stilted propriety has long ago driven from
the churches, but which have gone forth
among the people, and rung out gloriously
in camp-neeting, shaking the forest leaves
with the ascending shouts of mighty
people; or which, more gently, have
filled rural school houses, and humble
lecture rooms and village churches, no,
yet corrupted by the false pretenses Of
classical music'-those sweet melodies
that no one can hear with his ear, and
not feel his heart beating within his bosom
all the faster for the sound-are become
the ridicule and contempt Of men who
think God must be praised to the sound oi
Meyerbeer or Rossini, and not to the
sweet and humble melodies of our OWE
land" .-.
Year: 1869

You wish to dress your wife better than
your circumstances will allow. She wants
to have you. She is a woman of spirit as
it said, and she does not mean to be
drudge. .Why should our neighbors,"
she says to her husband, "dress better than
we7" They are made Of the same flesh
and blood that we are. See how they
come out l don't think man of any
spirit would let his wife and children 20
to church dressed as you let us go. Lock
ut these children. You would think they
had just come out Of the slop house. If
/ had married as l might have marri, d,
we should have had different times-l and
my children" How many men are stung
to the quick by such remarks from their
wives? Oftentimes their moral sense re-
volts, at first, and they feel indignant; but
continual dropping wears stone = and
by-anG,by the man is dressed a little bet
chan he can afford; and somebody must
pay for the extravaganza. | do not say
that they are tempted to steal but do
say that they grind. They mean some
how TO get it outsof the mlliner, out of the
dress maker and out of the merchant.
They intend to make one hand wash the
other somehow, and they 60 into petty
meanness to bring it about. And this de-
sire to dress better than they can afford is
taking of the very enamel Of their virtue,
and taking out the very stamina Of their
religious life. Unimportant as it seems,
ostentatious vanity in dress has ruined
many family and damned many soul
Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1869

The CHATTER Box.-The Chatter Boz
is talking continually. Sometimes toe


much, and again it creates great mischief.
The manner of his speech is not remar.


kable, and in his familiar discourse be


never seems to make any exertion. Refer


to something that has happened in the
neighborhood, and he will tell you all the


particulars, and often times more concern
ing both parties.


He attends nearly every social meeting.
Those that are held in fashionable houses,
and also in bar-rooms.


He has an excellent memory, and never


fails to circulate what has transpired


through the village in which he resides.
Once in a while he will try to amuse you
by telling you about his schoolmates or
acquaintances in his younger days, which
does not entertain you as much as he
imagines.
Year: 1869

There are strifes and Inward warfare
in many, perhaps in most families, and
yet an impartial judge could seldom, if
ever, impute the whole offence to either
side; indeed, there may be no intentional
offensive act, but simply the friction Of
inharmonious natures, the greatest suffer-
or being not necessarily the woman, but
the one possessing the most sensitive
nlnDus organization. This is one cause
of the early fading out of our American
women-this and the burden of heavy
household duties, the multitude of family
cares. know it is sad to be young,
fresh, and attractive, and in few years
to be old, faded, and forlorn, with a
weight of care never lifted from aching
shoulders, and the duties of six pressing
upon one feeble pair of hands. 1t is sad
to see, inexpressibly more sad must it be
to experience. | recall dozen, at least,
of these hopeless women whom l once
knew as fresh young girls; and yet |
think of the husband of one Of these has
tening home from his desk and the long
column of vexatious fgurers to take the
ailing, fretful child from the arms of the
weary wife and mother.


Sometimes this fading Of a woman's
beauty is unavoidable. Poverty is hard to
to bear, but, after all, much is the result
of placing our standard in dress, and
living beyond our means; SO much, that
have sometimes thought the fixed classes
in the Old World, with their unalterable
customs and costumes, really blessed. o
sisters when will you learn that simple
dress of Inexpensive material, neatly fitted
home surroundings suited to your means
which your neighbors know as well as
yourselves-willd do more to win admira>
ton and respect, to say nothing of comfort
and happiness, than silks and satins,
! lvets and laces, in which you appear
simply out of character and i'll at ease?
This striving after the unattainable is
killing our women; living in houses be-
yond their means, poorly, If at all; SUP
piled with servants; buying the most
expensive materials; leavin, no surplus
sum to pay for the making of garments; ;
following the constant changes of fashion;
and when some one, with mercilul intent
provides a sewing-machine, filling the
leisure time it should have given with
endless tucking, rufling, and embroidery,
till what was intended as blessing has
become almost a curse. A woman should
devote reasonable amount of both time
and thought to her personal appearance.
But we destroy our charms in our over
efforts to enhance them. A little attention
to the blending of colors, to the style
prevailing, to the hang Of a garment, as
we women say, will do more to produce
the desired effect than any amount of ex-
pensiye material and trimming alone.