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Year: 1869

thou shalt bruise his heel" This does


not imply any duty on the part Of g.
tan, the serpent, to hsye epmity against
the woman, Or 70 bro;.e the heel Of hor
seed. Il VA no command; and when
the Speaker turns to the woman and
announces the multiplication Of her
sorrow and concludes her portion Of the
curse b, saying 'sThy daairs shall be
to Thy husband, and bs shall rule over
thee" he implies no moral obligation
on her part to submit to that rule, any


moro than he forbids the man to labor
to overcome the curse laid upon the
ground for bis cake. No ono argues
/ at thorns OF thistles are sacred, and
may not nghtfully BE- e1terminated yet
they and the rule Of the husband over
the wife are joint products Of the Fall
In the primitive state of innocence
there was no such rule; and its pro-
phe!ic announcement Ms the keynote
to the dominion of brute force, which
bad its origin in sin and must gradual
ly yield to moral force, - the earth is
redeemed from the consequence Of that
first trausRreesiop. !!
Year: 1869

THEFT OF A GoosE.-Yesterday morning
a small negro boy, while passing through
the First Market, took fancy to live
goose which an old woman had for sale, and
not having the requisite number of stamps
to purchase it, he watched his opportunity,
and when the old woman's head was turned
he snatched the fowl and started in full
run down Franklin street, the old woman
close behind him. AS he neared the cor
ner of Twenty-ninth street he found that
his pursuer was gaining on him, so he
pulled the goose's head off, threw both the
head and body on the ground, and made
good his escape.
Year: 1869

ARRESTED FOR SELLING LIQUOR TO
soLD1ERs.-Mr. Henry Boyle, who keeps q
bar on Eighth street near the packet office,
was arrested yesterday afternoon by police
man Smithers for selling liquor to older
while ne was intoxicated, and when he was
on his way to Norfolk on military duty.
He will have hearing before the Mayor
this morning.
Year: 1869

POLICEMAN IN Yesterday morn
ing Sergeants Smoot and Kendrick fonnd
policeman Frank Fagan, who has recently
been appointed to the force, in Jail alley
helplessly drunk. He was taken up by them
and carried to the First Ward station-house,
where he was locked up to sober off.
Year: 1869

We have received from Turner the third
No. of the new illuminated paper The
Western World. The illustrations in this
No. are very good, and the reading matter
equal to that Of any which, has preceded it.
Year: 1869

GLOVE IN IT'S LARGEET SENsE."-hlr.
Charles Carter Lees lecture on this theme
will be delivered in the Second Baptist
church on Tuesday evening next.


This lecture on "Loye in its Largest
Sense" is one of a series nearly COM
pleted entitled Man Explained in few
Lectures for the Times" The plan adopted
by the author, Mr.. G. c. Lee ian elder
brother of General R. E. Lee), is to explain
the ends for which every passion and faculty
of our nature was given, and In the order
in which they are developed. lrritabihty
is the first which appears IN the infant, and
the passions which spring from it-anger,
hate, and re7enge-are the subjects of the
first lecture of the series. Affection for its
mother or nurse is the next feeling express
ed by the baby, which expands with its
growth into all the varieties Of love; and
these form the subject of this the second
lecture Of the series. The conclusion to be
derived from them all is expressed in the
last verse of the stOde to Happiness"
which is given in one Of the lectures:


81 Misery is but the sad abuse Of what for good


was sent from Heaven,


And happiness the righ teous use OF every


thing that God has given


To convince mankind Of this truth, and
to show the good purposes of all our endow-
ments, and how great are the joys We may
derive from them, and into what miseries
we fall by their peryersion, is deemed by
the author as worthy an object as he can
devote himself to. Of how happily he
may be able to impress his convictions upon
others his auditors must judge. Wherever
Mr.. Lee has lectured he has been greeted
by full houses and We may safely promise
all vino hear this one rich treat.
Year: 1869

but too familiar. In the scene in the
gardens of Fulham villa, lady, who is
as profuse of her aspirates as of her jew
ella. is asked by her cynical protector,
"What is the use of my spending for
tune to make you look like lady, when
you can't open your mouth, without let.
ting out Newington Butts?' At this
speech there came a solitary hiss from Q
private box. 1t might have been at the
mention of the vulgar, but not otherwise
disreputable locality. The audience saw
no reason for the hiss, and took no notice
of it. A little further on, the virtuous
mother of the poor syren, overwhelmed
with grief at the discovery of her daugh-
ter's position, makes some nncompli-
mentary allusion to aristocrstic vices, and
the house is pierced unpleasantly with
four or five possibly aristocratic Kisses
And then the whole house, thoroughly
warmed up by and wound up in the ac-
tion of the piece, and adopting the offend
ing sentiments as their own, burst into
one of those whirlwinds of applause that,
in great crowded theater, become sub
lime. The little fix of uncorked virtue
simmered down and was heard no more,
and the drama went on to its triumphant
conclusion The heartless and diss olute
hero marries o beauty and fortune; the
dissolute heroine finds rich and de-
voted husband the two villains of the
piece are marched off to prison by four
policemen, and Oxford wins as usual
The piece is not nearly so good as several
of Mr.. Boucicault's dramas, but this at
tack upon it is likely to make it one Of
his greatest successes. The envious crit
les will say that the mere suggestion OF
improperly will fill Drury Lane for g
twelve-month. l take an entirely differ.
ent view of the NJ after. Mr.. Boucicault
has million of admirers, who will all go
to see that he has fair play; and as the
love of fair plT.y is known to be the dis
tlnguishing characteristic of Englishmen,
a million more at least, who care moth
ing for the author, will still 60 to Judge
for themselves. If d drama is strongly
praised, it may be merely puffery. If it
is strongly abused, enough wish to know
what for to make good run for it.


i looked around the house with some
care to see the character of the audience
which the newest dramatic sensation had
attracted. First of ell, the crowd at the
doors of the theater curiously differed
from the one saw the n light before. wait
ing for admission to Mr.. Robertson's s
comedy of School at the Prince of Wales.
Six-sevenths were women. AT Drury
Lane, at the same eriod, nine-tenths
were men-but the women came little
later in quite their usual mum bers. 1t is
not the season for fash ioRabls houses,
yet the dress circle was full, and most of
the private boxes were occupied. There
were, perhaps, dozen of the class whom
some of the critics tolerate in the boxes,
but are quite shocked at seeing repre-
sented on the stage--I mean, OF course,
the upper class of splendidly disreputsble
ladies whom the "girl of the period is
said to slavishly initiate. l may be mis-
taken, and it may have been the too we'll
got up "girl of the period" herself whom
l took for her prototype.
Year: 1869

A young man of respectable appear
anee recently applied to police msgis-
trate in Paris to obtain him an entry into
q lunatic asylum, as be could not with
stand the temptation to strangle every
child he met. he was teacher in large
school, and although be had succeeded
so far be declared it utterly impossible to
keep his hands off the children under his
charge for the future.
Year: 1869

Sobriety, just little removed srom the
edge of laughter, is wholesome.


But the dull and trite sobriety Of pas
sionless life has no business to assume
airs of superiority over virtuous mirth.
Seldom is mirth deceitful. But sobriety
is mask worn by hypocrisy and pre-
tense. Sobriety is employed all the
world over to make witless men seem
wise to cover worldliness with guise of
virtue; to stimulate piety, and to gar
nish worthless life with the aspects Of
responsibility. Sobriety represents the
precious virtues, as the bills of solvent
banks represent the precious metals but
in both cases, when the banks suspend
payment, bills still circulate.


Commend me to an honest man that
looks you straight in the eyes, that dare
contradict you, that laughs with you,
laughs at you, but who, when occasion
comes, is silent and sober, and holds
your palm hard with his right hand, and
brushes a tear from his eyes with the
other. Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1869

had four different ones during the last
month. When you want doctor to
cure your body,o your child's body, you
get an educated man, who has his diplo-
ma to show that he is competent, and
you pay him in proportion but you
want nurse to assist you somewhat in
the care of your child, keeping it in
health and developing it morally and
physically, and for this you get a course,
uneducated woman. BY the time your
child is three years old, she has taught it
things which may harm it for life. A
nurses position is one of great impor-
tance. She should have an honored po-
sition in the world I; she should be well
educated and well paid. / think women
have plenty of work to do if it were only
recognized and properly paid for. But
instead of this, sisters and maiden aunts
are pressed into the service, and are made
to feel very much obliged because men
are giving them their living, when they
really are earning it five times over. A
great many women sink down under the
weight, and then everybody says, " Poor
thing, she always was weakly, good
for-nothing creature" and the "poor
thing" has been doing more for the last
ten years than three women ought to do.


Don't think your daughter is turning
into lecturer ; but 1 really feel pro-
voked when see so much wrong in the
world, and see people take hold of it in
such a stupid way. Peopleare so clever
about machinery and science, and all that
and so very stupid about moral questions.
There come Helen and Joe. We are to
have grand canter across the country.
Do you know can catch Nance now
and saddle her myself? Good-by.


Your loving daughter, KATE.
Year: 1869

The following beautiful extract is from
the pen of Benjamin F. Taylor, the print
ers poet


Perpays there is no department of en-
terprise whose details are less understood
by intelligent people, than the art
perservative," the achievement of the
types.


Every day, their life long, they are


accustomed to read the newspaper, and


find fault with its statements, its arrange


ments, its looks, to plume themselves up


ON the discovery of some roguish and


acrobatic type that gets into frolic and


stands upon its head or of some waste


letter or two in it but of the process of


which the newspaper is made, of the my


riads of motions and the thousand of


pieces necessary to its composition, they


know little and think less.


! They imagine they discourse of


wonder, indeed, when they speak of the


fair white carpet, woven for thought to


walk on, of the rags that futtered on


the back of the beggar yesterday.


But there is something more wonder


ful still. When we look at the hundred


and fifty-two little boxes, somewhat shad-


ed with the touch of inky fingers, that


compose the printers cease" noiseless


except the clicking of the types, as one


by one they take their places in the grow


ing line-we think we have found the


marvel of art.


\ We think how many fancies in frag-


ments there are in the boxes how many


atoms of poetry and eloquence the print
er can make here and there, if he had


only little chart to work by; how many


facts in a small handful )" how much
truth in chaos.


Now he picks up the scattered element,


until he holds in his hand stanza of
Gray's Elegy," or monody upon
Grimes All Buttoned up Before. -
} Now he sets Puppy Missing" and now


Paradise Lost; +" he arrays bride in
small caps" and a sonnet in " nonpa-
reil y he announces the languishing
live" in one sentence-transposes the
word and deplore the days that are few
and evil" in the next.
A poor jest ticks itself slowly into the
printers hand, like clock just running
; down, and strain of eloquence march
es into line letter by letter. We fancy
we can tell the difference by hearing by
, the ear, but perhaps not.
, The types that told a wedding yester-
day announces burial to-morrow-per-
J haps the same letters.
, They are the elements to make world
Of Those types are world with some
: thing in it as beautiful as spring, as rich
, as summer, and as grand as autumn flow
: ers that frost cannot wilt-fruit that shall
: ripen for all time.


. The newspaper has become the log
r book of the world. 1t tells at what rate
!. the world is running. We cannot find
our reckoning" without it.
: True, the green grocer may bundle up
| pound of candles in our last expressed
thoughts, but it is only coming to base
, uses, something that is done times innu-
merable.


: We can console ourselves by thinking
} that one can make of that newspaper
what he cannot make of living oaks-a
! bridge for time, that he can fling over


the chasm of the dead years and walk
, safely back upon the shadowy sea into
} the far past. The singer shall not end
t his song, nor the soul be eloquent no
) more.
Year: 1869




RUSSELL writing to the Boston ITaU-
elLer from Port Hudson, relates the fol-
lowing romantic story:


Many of the boys of the SD Mass,
regiment who were with Weitzel's brig
ade when the charge was made on the
works at Port Hudson, will remember
well the gallant defense which three or
four men made at the salient pointit was
expected this brigade would take and
hold until Paine's division could come
up. One of these men, so native of
Port Hudson told us, resided on a plan
tation about nine miles from the landing,
near farm now owned by Moody Broth
ers, from Massachusetts. None of the
men who saw him with his musket
dubbed" that day will doubt his being
very brave man. He was afterwards
captured at Chattanooga and taken to
Camp Douglas, Chicago, where he re-
mained nearly six months. About
year before his capture he had been
among party who seized supply-train
of the Federals near Corinth, Mississip-
pi. In box of stores belonging to the
Sanitary Commission he found pair of
blue cotton socks, and when he drew
them on he discovered the following note
inside:


Soldier,--Whosoever thou art, wear
these socks, with the comforting assur-
ance that the fingers that knit them were
supplied with life from a warm and SYM
pathizing heart.


LIZZIE V. GEE, Chicago.


This short letter (Which was printed
in the Louisiana papers at the time) was
called to mind one day at Camp Doug
las when he was putting on the stockings,
and he resolved for the fun of it to write
to her and tell her the history of the pair
of socks. This he did, and soon after
received call'at his quarters from Miss
Gee and her father. He did not see her
or hear from her afterwards until he was
again in the Southern army and station
ed at Harpers Ferry. There the COM
pany in which he was lieutenant cap
tured squad of cavalry, and among the
number was the only brother of Miss
Lizzie V. Gee. Every kindness which
could be done for prisoner was done
for young Gee by his new acquaintance,
and when, shortly after, Gee was pa
rolled, he was the sworn friend of the
Confederate lieutenant. When the war
closed they had some correspondence,
and the Confederate soldier was invited
to Chicago to attend the wedding of
young Gees sister. When he got there,
much to his surprise, the ex-Confeder-
ate found that Gee had two sisters and
that the one about to bemarried was not
the one he had seen. The rest of the
story is told in twinkling. He married
the sister that knit the stockings. For
the details of the latter part of this ro-
nance, see everybody's experience, "
such as sighs, palpitating hearts, a little
moonlight, and silly resolves to die or
win her." The matter which concern
lovers were not told us to circulate
But the story itself we feel satisfied is a
a true one, as the address of the firm in
Chicago, of which the bridegroom is a
member, lies before us in our diary as we
write.
Year: 1869

STRAwBERRIEs.-To produce large
strawberries, remove the soil around each
hill to the depth of half an inch or more,
without disturbing the roots; then spread
evenly over an area of twenty inches in
diameter, a pound or more of finely pull
verized linseed meal or oil meal, and
cover it with mellow soil then spread q
mulching Of hay or straw two inches
deep over the entire surface between the
hills. Should the weather be warm and
dry,a liberal supply of warm water daily
will greatly promote the growth of both
vines and berries. Pull up the weeds
and grass among growing Strawberries,
rather than cut them up with hoes, as a
system of roots is formed near the sur
face Of the ground, which should not be
injured with broad hoe.-Erchange.
Year: 1869

EFFECTS OF HIGH-HEELED BooTs.-
What stupid ninnies some persons will
persist in making themselves. by contin-
uing to wear boots and shoes that give
them pain every moment, and which
hinder their easy and graceful move
ments. 1t is, indeed, true as the Scien-
tifc American affirms, that this silly
fashion must be creating rich harvest
for the corn doctors, it is sure to result
in greater or less degree of personal
deformity. Especially may the latter
consequence be expected in the case Of
young children.


When the heel is raised, as in the
prevalent custom, the bones of the thigh,
pelvis and leg, as well as the foot, are
thrown into abnormal positions; and
while the bones maintain their Elasticity,
the effect of such unnatural tension is
sure to be perpetuated, in shape Of
crooked shins, handy legs, elephantine
toejoints, and cramped, ungraceful gait.


Let us hope that before the evils shall
be greatly multiplied tickle fashion may
remove the cause, and give us something
more sensible and endurable than these
toe-screws which are giving us the hob
bling gait of Chinese women, and which
possess neither beauty or comfort. Let
boots and shoes be made to fit the feet;
and do not attempt to require the feet to
adjust themselves to the unnatural form
of many fashionable boots and Shoes
Church Union.
Year: 1869

THE CENSUS COMMITTEES Of the House OF
Representatives adjourned Saturday to reas.
semble upon the call Of the chairman. They
have not yet determined upon the form OF
schedule to be used in taking the census, but IL
is understood they have agreed to recommend
the plan of sending schedules in advance to be
filled up prior to a certain day nam ed, which
are to be called for by the census taker in pref.
erence TO the old plan.
Year: 1869

A few days ago the Rebel iron-clad steam
ram Atlanta was sold by the Government and removed
from her moorinEs at League Island. Knowing ones
mystsrouAly hnted Cuba. Everything was conducted
onietly and n certain samuel Ward OF New-1Ofk city
was reported as the buyer OF the vessel On Mon
day the ugly, formdabe-looking craft was yng al the
shfp-yard OF Neare Levy In Philadelphia. AT the
ship.yard the owners name is not known
Her hull and battery-casing being substantial
mud powcrfu and her machinery not very much out OF
repair the work upon the ship Will not take any great
gth Of time The baterydeck Is clear. the guns nav
ing an been removed some time ago; Waterman
excludes visitors from going below tho deck.
There l. q OF understanding among those cognlzaht


OF anything concerning her that she 10 be taken TO sea


as soon finished on g trial OF speed, ana
when at sea there will be no trouble about
transfer In fact, 10 Is generally under
stood that once In salt water aud outside the marine
league she will be steamng In Cuban waters under
the Cuban dag IL has been said that the purchase OF
the Atlanta was private speculation. but war craft OF
her weight aud style would scarcely be suitable Tor
gentlemans pleasure yacht, even though he medtaed
taking cruise among Chinese pirates or Cape Cod coast


WI ltnllAuelphla iuQulIcI'
Year: 1869

"A citizen Of Dalton, Mass, missed q
valuable horse a few mornings since, and
afler alarming various ofiieers by telegraph
and otherwise, found the horse in the
barn, where he had been carelessly left
the night before without hitohing. q
Year: 1869

american Girl was five lengths ahead. Time, l:l3.
Golng into the Flushing end American GIT looked
almost impossible for Lady Thorn to over
take her with the lead she had This feellng
American Girl was half way through the lower
turn she broke up and jumped and bounced untll
Lady Thorn had reached her head, and In moment
afterwards was leading length. American Cir.
came after her rapidly and reached Thorns wheel
when about midway OF the homestretch, but she Was
not trotng squarely nor had she been so since she
entered the stretch, and was waiting for chance TO
break at every step she took. Being urged little
more she broke and her chances for winning were
all gone. Lady Thorn came over the score winner
by over length. Time OF the heat, 2:2I. The
owner OF American Girl now began looking about
for another driver, as he did after two heats had
been lost In the race OF the week previous, and he
soon found capable driver. one ready aud willing
that all chance of American Girl winning was next
to impossible. However. NJ. Rodin was willing TO
make the attempt 10 satisfy the people.


TYtlrd Hedt.-American Girl had the best or the
start but Phfer sent the old mare from the at
rapid rate and was soon on even terms with Ameri-
can Girl and they went head and head around the
turn until American Girl broke up. Rodin caught
her IN an instant. not allowing Lady Thorn 10 get
clear OF her and she was only half length ahead
ing into the backstretch Lady Thorn got little fur
ther In 'front.' the head OF the young mare being at
gained, inch by inch, until she was parallel with
Thorn and at the halfmile pole showed her head IN
as on Se was eDw 2d r s efcs ns ana as
seemed to be trotting very steadily but IN an instant
aferward she broke but, as before, she was caught
after jump losing only half length.
Thorn passed the half-mile pole half q length In
front, in 1:l4. Going INTO the Flushing
end American Girl trotted up to Thorns
head, and they had neck and neck struggle for 200
yards. Then American Girl showed her head and
neck in front, and when they passed the three
quarter pole they were az even as could be. Coming
on the homestretch American Girl broke up again
and lost length, which she was never afterwards
able TO recover, and Lady Thorn beat her to The
score by about that distance. Time OF the heat 229.


The following is


SUMMARY.


FASHION COURSE. May 10-Match $1,000, mile
heats, best three in five, to wagons.