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Year: 1874

Detective Field, who was said to be the
original oi Inspector Bucket, in BLEAK
House" died recently in London. He
was Dickens companion in many rambles
about the metropolis, the results OF which
are embalmed IL the nOvelist's works
He was for some years chief officer in
the detective department OF London, and
after his retirement from this position he
was at the head of private inquiry Office,
Year: 1874

at a very great outlay, induced the Author of that capital story to take up his resi- dence in America, and write exclusively for Frank Leslie's Boys and Girls Weekly.

 In future, therefore, all the interesting stories of this celebrated writer will ap- pear exclusively in my publications

 You will read with delight, I am sure, the following from the pen of this favorite Author:
Year: 1874

THE New YORK NAUTICAL ScHooL.-The
Board of Education has proceeded so far with
the organization of q nautical school as to
make the appointment of Superintendent
and to ask the Secretary of the Navy for the
use of vessel The importance of such an
institution in this city under the auspices Of
the Public School Board cannot be overes-
timated. Our commercial marine ought to
have officers better fitted for the duties of
ocean navigation than is possible when the
forecastle is the only training school. Under
the old system of sailing vessels this was well
enough but the introduction of steamships
has made higher order Of ability and more
thorough education necessary. The techni-
calities Of seamanshlp have gone beyond the
grasp of the forecasue. Under these circum-
stances it is only by means of nautical schools
that growing demand tor well educated and
well trained officers can be supplied. Congress
has done wisely in providing for the establish
ment Of these schools, and we shall look for
ward with much interest to the success Of the
institution about to be fully organized by the
Board of Education under the authority of
that act and we trust the Navy Department
will-not be backward in placing proper YES
sci at tbs disposition of the Board.
Year: 1874

The particulars of the burning of the
steamboat Pat Rogers on the Ohio River,
which we print this morning, are sufficiently
heartrending, even in the absence of that
criminal carelessness which is usually the
cause of disasters like this. There seems to
have been no weak boiler in this instance, nor
was the disaster due to any of the ordinary
causes, and yet it was one which should not
have occurred Aspark, it Is believed ignited
some bales of cotton which were part of the
cargo and thus the vessel was destroyed, in
volving the loss of many lives Such an acci-
dent should have been impossible, and yet We
cannot call that carelessness which is general
usage. There is scarcely q steamboat on any
of our lakes or rivers which is free from dan
gers Of this character. 1t is impossible to
suppress the sparks. It is equally impossible
to hide away the boat and the cargo from the
smokestack. The cotton bales being more in
fammable than the ordinary elements of a
boats cargo should have been placed so as to
be least exposed to danger, and yet almost
every boat that traverses our waters has
equally infammable material constantly ex-
posed where the sparks may penetrate. 1t is
not case of individual carelessness, but it is
an illustration of universal fault Some
thing must be done to secure greater safety in
storing the cargoes and placing the furniture
of steamboats,, and we can see no reason why
the models of our river craft should not be
preserved at the same time that it shall be i'm
possible for sparks to penetrate places of
danger.
Year: 1874

selection of candidates somewhat similar
to that experienced by the administra-
ton republicans 1t has been decided by the
leaders not to call the Democratic State Con-
vention until after the republican nominees
shall have been put into the field. But when
the Convention meets so far as the New York
delegation is concerned, it will be found that
the representation is confined to the
Tammany politicians, while the outside democ-
racy of the city will be without q voice in
the nominations that will be made If the
democratic party desires success it will be
necessary to study this outside element and
to iberalize the ticket, for on the vote Of New
York city the result in the State will depend.
Here, also, there are rumors of intrigues and
plots which may or may not have foundation.
1t is said that the tactics of 1862 are to be
repeated, and that while one candidate or
another for Governor will be brought forward
and canvassed prior to the meeting Of the
Convention, the name of Horatio Seymour is
suddenly to be sprung upon the delegates
and carried through by acclamahon.
Whether success would attend such policy
as in 1852, however, is open to grave doubt
The sense Of the party outside the leaders
seems to be to bury past issues and to take
new departure, and it is this sentiment
which points to Judge Church as the
popular candidate on the democratic side for
the Office of Governor. The objection raised
to Judge Church's candidacy by his political
friends is based upon the fact that vacancy
would be created in the Supreme Court, which
would be filled by o republican Governor,
since the resignation could not take place
three months before the next election. But
the appointed Judge would only hold Office
until 1875, and the selection would be certain
to be wisely made by Governor Dix. Besides,
/ it would be but poor compliment to
Judge Church to urge his retention on the
bench of the Supreme Court on account of his
political opinions. 1t is certain that careful
and conciliatory nominations will be as essen
tial in the case of the democracy as they will
be on the part Of the republicans. The people
are held but lightly nowadays by the bonds Of
party, and success or failure in the next State
election, as in the city of New York, will de-
pend mainly on the popular acceptance or
repudiation of the personnel of the political
tickets.
Year: 1874

The SOUTH AND THE THIRD TEEM.-We
publish in another column letter from ex-
Governor Hebert, of louisiana on the third
term question, in which that gentleman mani
tests great distrust of the Northern democracy
and intimates that the only salvation for the
South lies in the reelection Of General Grant
While Mr.. Hebert has been all his life identi-
fed with the interests of the section for which
be presumes to speak, it would seem ex-
tremely illogical in the South to anticipate
relief from the evils under which they labor
from the continuance in power of one who
has been repeatedly blamed by Southern
leaders as the chief cause of all their recent
difficulties.
Year: 1874

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET. If the professional
cricketers who have just been beaten at cricket
in England by the professional ball players
were playing to win their defeat is surprise all
the more agreeable for the fact that the Amer.
leans could not have been expected to ba
thorough experts at the English game, and
must, therefore, presumably have been better
men to prove superior with less knowledge
and trained skill. But if the Englishmen
were not playing to win other fancies OBJ
viousy present themselves; and it is just pos
sble they were at the old game of playing
soft match to inveigle the strangers and theil
friends into match for a good round sum Of
money.
Year: 1874

The TROUBLE in the Bureau of DISTINCTIONS
grows out of the hatred cherished by Comp
troller Green against the head of the, Depart
ment of Public Works. The bureau is under
the latter department; SO the Comptroller
seeks a pretence for stopping its supplies.
Meanwhile the streets are obstructed and the
public suffer. When will the end of this
miserable administration be reached?
Year: 1874

TIE FIRE COMMISSIONERS have presented
to Mayor Havemeyer their report for the
GUNNER months, showing that three hun
dred and eighteen fires have taken place
since the 1st of May, of which only ff-
teen did any considerable damage and ten
extended to other buildings. This is very
gratifying exhibit of the efficiency of our Fire
Department of which New York may be
Justly proud. The greater number of the fires
originated from carelessness and foul CHM
neys, circumstances which it would be well
to bear in mind. The experiments of the
corps Of sappers and miners in regard to
checking any confagration of too extensive
character to be resisted by ordinary means
have given entire satisfaction. In this era Of
c corruption and Jobs u is gratifying to be able
10 point TO one municipal department that is
aessgYipg Of QEaisS
Year: 1874

Despair of the recovery of the lost boy.
Charley Ross, seems settling upon the minds
of the good people Of Philadelphia. The
police Of that city have apparently never
thought his rescue worthy an effort OF theirs
to accomplish. Our correspondent now
presents the case in new light, which seems
to invest his new solution with much prob
ability. The bitter abuse of the mother
which forms o large portion of the contents OF
the unpublished letters seems to hint that the
crime was inspired by some more deadly mo-
tive than that Of avarice, and the question
occurs to the romantic reader, "Is there love,
disappointment and revenge behind it all Z"
According to the theory now advanced the
offer Of restoration of the child for a ransom
was meant by the criminals to divert the atten-
ton of the father from their true object.
While he was endeavoring to meet
their demand the child was taken
farther and farther away from his
home, and the traces of his keepers
were growing fainter with the lapse of time.
By the artifce of the letters and personals the
fond parents were deluded into hope, while
the supposed revenge or other object was
rapidly being consummated.


Every good citizen must still ferventlS
cherish the hope that the kidnappers will not
escape punishment. The imbecility or the
criminality of the police, however, has rem.
dered this desirable result highly improbable.


The PosTAL-CAR CoNTRovERsY.-It SCENE
rather ridiculous that short railroad, ninety.
six miles only in length, should ferment and
distract the brains of the Post Office Depart
ment in so fearful q manner as has been done
recently. President Hinckley, representing the
owners of this iron thoroughfare, has declined
carrying the United States mails at the CONT
pensation heretofore paid him. This refusal
was not absolute. 1t was, however, couched
in plain English. It has been discussed
and reiterated and modified during
several days past, and still the relations
of the controversialists ara not very well de-
fined. The postal cars will be allowed to
move on until bill for increased compensa-
ton shall have been dishonored. Without all
this trouble the position of the Railroad
President might more easily have been tested
by Offering the mail contract to another com-
pany and preventing the possibility of
serious interruption in the transmission of the
mails at the will Of ON irresponsible corpora
ton. As the matter now stands the trouble
may be renewed at any time, until Congress
shall choose next winter, to settle it after ito
own fashion, by establishing new rates for the
carriage of the mails.


INTERNATIONAL CRICKET. If the professional
cricketers who have lust been beaten at cricket
Year: 1874

city without the slightest reference to the
safety of persons in the neighborhood Of the
contractors work. A Coroner's jury censured
one of those heartless individuals short time
since for his criminal carelessness, and now
we have another case up town where piece Of
rock few through the window of room in
building and injured woman so severely
that she may not be able to survive the
shock. Cannot the attention of the proper
authorities be directed towards this evil and
means be taken TO suppress ita
Year: 1874

From a Sermon by Prof. Swing of Chicago.l


1t is only human religion such as
that of Buddha, or Thor, or Jupiter, that
may fear the growth of intelligence, and
that may fade as the light of reason
dawns; but if a religion from God, given
| by inspiration, the first distinguishing
principle must he that it will reveal its
reasonableness as fast as man unfolds
his own intelligence, and still become
more glorious where there is the most
culture. The medieval Christianity
having been disfgured by ignorance and
superstition, the subsequent growth of
religion had to express itselfin infidelity.
When Dante describes hell to mankind,
and his frightful pictures become the the
ology of the church, sweeping through
Romanism over into Professionalism until
Edwards says God will dash the sinner
down on hell's floor and stamp upon him,
then in6delity must follow, not simply to
save a man from such horrors, but to
rescue Gods blessed name from such un-
speakable infamy. In such a hell as
Dante's, it is not man that is punished,
it is God that is destroyed. From such
ideas we must fly to a more reasonable
religion, carrying the cross and our molly
faith away from such degradation.
We must, indeed, separate forever the
righteous and the wicked; but, as the
drunkard is punished in this world, and
as the murderer accepts of his arrest
without blaming God, as the soul feels
its own wickedness, and does not re-
proach the Creator, so the lost world is
place, not where God is seen as cruel
monster, but where the human free will
stands. forth in all its divine powers,
and reveals q selfpunishment over
which we can almost imagine the
Heavenly Father Himself to shed tears.
Such is the perdition of reason-a place
not where the Savior and God become an
inquisition, but where the sinners own
will and own heart have woven them
selves garments of perpetual sack cloth,
and where the tears of sorrow fall not
from a malicious decree of God, passed
from eternity, but fall out OF the sinners
own wretched soul and misspent life.
Thus, over almost every idea Of the
Christian religion, there is lying
drapery of reason fresh from the God of
infinite wisdom, and beautiful to man,
the image of the rational God.
Year: 1874

Ny friend would be he who would
take a pistol and blow out my brains,
and thus relieve me of my misery" So
said Egdar Allen Poe. His lips curled
bitterly. These were his dying words.
Such was the unhappy state Of one
whom dissipation had robbed of the
pure enjoyments of life and brought to
hopeless ruin. BE had been reared in
The most elegant society, and educated
in the most polished schools. BE pos
sesed poetic gifts of unwouted beauty
and brilliancy. The productions of his
muse we're few and fragmentary, melan-
chely prophesies of what be might have
been; but they made him a marked man
among the lovers OF poesy throughout
the world. He lacked symmetry Of
character, and with all these advantages
that he possessed over others, be was
wayward as a youth, passionate in ma
turer years, and always unnamed at
the sparkling Of the intoxicating cup.
he blazed awhile in the armament, the
Year: 1874

Are weakness of body and mind help.
lessness, shallowness of thought and
knowledge, frivoity of taste and pursuit,
absorption in the art of men pleasing
are these, indeed, the essential charac-
teristics of womanhood, and is she who
combines them the type of the


perfect woman, nobly planned;


To cheer, to comfort, to command?


We must look for the answer somewhat
deeper than the surface and conven-
tional rules of society, and, going to the
constitution of things, ask ourselves
what special functions woman has to
perform in this world as woman, apart
from the functions common to all human
beings in virtue of their humanity. That
function is motherhood. 1t is in her
motherliness that we find her womanli-
ness. She may not be, or ever become,
mother, but she cannot be a perfect
woman unless she possess all the attri
butes which belong to perfect motherhood
What, then, are these attributes. First on
the list stands tenderness; the mother
must, above all things, be tender and
pitiful, for her love is the highest type OF
human tenderness, the truest symbol oi
the divine. Next comes strength; the
mother must be strong and helpful, for
how else shall she protect and guide the
helpless lives clinging to her? She
must be pure, not only with the purity
which is ignorance, but with the purity
which, knowing evil, abhors it, for is she
not the representative to her children oI
divine purity2 She must be true, for il
her children find their trust in her de-
ceived, in whom else viii they have
faith2 She must be lover and pro
moter of order, for order in the family
is like law in the without it there
is only anarchy and confusion. She
must be Just, for children have a keen
sense of justice, and win pay respectful
and cheerful obedience only to the rule
they feel to be Just. She must be self
controlling and self-forgetting, for she
cannot rule her children unless she
can rule herself, and she cannot
have that perfect sympathy with
them that shares aud lives
in their life, unless she can forget her
self. She must have high ideal; for
how else shall she inspire her children
with the love and worship of q good
ness, justice and beauty transcending
that of earth2 And, finally, she must
be crowned with wisdom; for her love
must give light as well as warmth; she
must be able to guide as well as to cher.
ish. This is the type Of the perfect
mother, and therefore it is the type Of
the perfect woman. Here, then, VIC
have the standard We wanted, and may
lay down as the rule, whose application
Year: 1874


An explosion occurred in a cOlliery near
Haney Staordshire this morning, causing the instant
death OF eight miners AS is generally the
Monday, the number of men at work small. Had
the full force been hand doubt many more would
have been killed
Year: 1874

TAUGHT by sad experience, the people
Of Richmond are naturally afraid OF
insecure buildings and we are not SUR
prised that o Grand Jury has coaT
demned the old City Hall, and the city
officials and the Hastings Court retuse
to occupy it any longer. A similar
foresight might have saved The valua-
bic lives lost by the fall OF q floor in
The Capitol buildings o few years ago.
Year: 1874

This prominent organ, although lead
ing feature. vet few of us care tc be led
by,eXcept in the direction of a good din
ner. This need not prevent us from
pursuing it as a subject, showing where.
in the Importance of the organ is not du-
lv estimated.


As feature of the face, it more than
any other, changes it character although
not so capable of expression as the ewes
and mouth. Its ideal beauty varies with
different races. The Africans OF Sierra
Leonese prize the fiat nose, and the Ep-
yptian ootes on the veritable. pure E un-
adulterated pug. The Tartar races ,hav-
ing very small noses, consider them the
very highest type of beauty. The most
beautiful woman in all Tartary was con :.
sidered so because she had only two
holes where the nose ought to have been.
There seems to be no universal stand
ard of nasal beauty. The Romans ador-
ed the aqailine, the Greek the straight
lime-the latter, coming nearest our idea
of The beautiful, is accepted as the stand
ard in this latitude.


But there are other uses for the nose
beyond its element of beauty or the re-
verse. The sense of smell is popularity
supposed to be the only service it is call
ed upon 10 perform, at least we should
judge so from the the open mouths
we meet sailing along the streets. One
of the main objects Of the nostrils is for
respiratory purposes. There is very lit
tie doubt that air passing through the
nestrils is refined, purified and elimina.
ted of all injurious gases, injection
and dust, before being permitted ac-
cess to the lungs. It is very easy to
see how habitual respiration through
the mouth is not only unnatural, but
productive Of disease. More especially
At night we should accustOm ourselves
to sleep with our mouth closed. All
the energies of the system are then at
resi-, and its power Of resistance at the
lowest ebb. II the mouth be open, the
enemy is allowed to enter, and we NAV
be sure he fastens upon the most delicate
part Of our organization. baa


In recent lecture by Prof. Tyndall,
he demonstrates fully the danger OF
sleeping with the mouth open, . prac-
tice unknown to the lower animals. He
saye: IF l were to endeavOr to be-
queath the most important motto which
Year: 1874

PARsoNAGEs.-The Christian Secretary
gives this good counsel to the churches on
the subject of parsonages


To minister who is called 10 settle in
any locality one of the potential considera-
tions which will induce him to accept the
call and cast in his lot with the people
resident there. is a pleasant, commodious
parsonage. This offered him. he Is deliver
ed from the veXations of finding dwell
ing-place; he knows just where he shall
live and bestow his family and goods, and
just where he will have home indepsnd-
ent of the caprices of landlord until he is
dismissed from the pastoral charge. Ac-
cordingly it is for the interest of every
parish to nave as an appendage to the
church edliice good parsonage. There
by is parish more likely to secure de-
sira5le minister and retain him. This is
true not only as to large and strong par
ishes, but to small and weak ones. An
attractive, comfortable parsonage is any,
where requisite to ministerial and parish
success. SO confident are we of this
taught by long observation-that were not
ecclesiastical organizations too numerous
already, we should go for inaugurating a
parsonage building society. One minister
whom We know would appreciate the i'm
portance OF the work, and take hold with
tbs, for he was forced to move three times
in rs many years. No wonder that the
fourth move drove him to Il new field of
labor. and the parish lost an excellent
minister, for the want of place to set him
Year: 1874

Mr.. Murray, doesn't believe in early
rising. In his new lecture he thus dis
courses about waking up with a snap:


On! the blessedness of that moment
when, with the eyes half open, you lie
in the vergeland between sleeping and
waking, and the nerves that have been
lying numb in the sweet death of sum-
ber, begin to come to life. and shoot
their preliminary shocks OF feeling
through the drowsy tissues, until the
great cords themselves begin to feel the
working of the miracle in them, and the
feet are drawn up and put down again
with sense of satisfaction that no
words can describe. After such ar ex-
perience have said to myself. well,
now | know how Adman felt when he
was being created" People talk about
waking up with snap. Why that is
horrible way to do it. met a friend
the other day who said, 81 always wake
mp witha snap, and get up with jump"
Why, the sweetest experience OF life
comes to us leisurely. WHAT would YOU
think of the sun rising with snap?
Ot roses opening with a snap? Ola man
eating beefsteake with snap? OF a wife
kissing her husband with snap? Now
all tins applies with teniold more truth
when the line of slight is elevated to the
level of mind and soul. All the finest
mental results are reached leisnrelv, or,
II swiftly, after a season of rest. In lit
erary work no man can ever do his best
until he WORKS leisurely. Scores of lit
erary men here know that.
Year: 1874

There are good many stories afoat
about the punctilious observance of
Sunday in Scotland, but we remember
none more illustrative of the absurdity
to which the custom is carried than the
following, which is told by the Count
De Medin Pomar, in his newly publish
ed work, "The Honey moon:" at
was at the old hotel of Dumbarton. l
had just got up, and rung the bell for
some hot water for shaving. A waiter
answered my call Il want some hot
water, if you please said. And what
for do you want the hot water?' For
shaving said I. 'Ye canDa have hot
water on the Lords Day for sic thing
a. shaving said the waiter, horror
struck at the idea. insisted again but
with the same effect. Ma, na,' said he,
we Gamma have it, Necessity is the
mother Of invention, 'tis said, and this
aroused mine. thought that i'll could
arrange the order in such a way that it
would not effect his religious scrupies,
he would bring it directly. therefore
proposed that | should have some tod
dy, and told him to bring me the ma
terials for making it, consisting of
whisky, sugar and boiling water.
These he brought without the least de-
mur. l gave him the whisky, which
he drank, and used the hot water. So
conscience was satisfied.