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Year: 1874

Here is a modern engraving, in which col
or is entirely ignored. and light and shade as
one are used to produce what is supposed
to be piece Of impressive religious instruc-
ton. But it is not piece of religious in
strution at all only piece of religious sensa-
ton prepared for the sentimental pleasure
of young ladies, whom (since am honored,
to-day, by the presence of many will take
opportunity OF warning against such forms OF
false theological satisfaction. This engraving
represents young lady in very long and,
though plain, very becoming white dress,
tossed upon the waves ola terrifically stormy


sea, by which neither her hair nor her be-
coming dress is in the least wetted; and saved
from despair in that situation by closely en-
bracing a very thick and solid stone cross.


By which farsought and original metaphor
Young ladies are expected after some effort to
understand the recourse they may have for
snnnort TO the cross of Christ in the mildest
of fhe troubles ofthis world. As those troub-
les are for the present in all probability limited
tn the occasional loss of their thimbles when
thew have not taken care to put them In their
work-boxes, the concern they feel at the un-
sympathizing gayety of their companions, or
perhaps the disappointment at not hearing a
favorite clergyman preach (for will not sup
pose the young ladies interested in this pic
ture to be affected by any chagrin at the loss
of an invitation to ball or the like worldi-
ness), it seems to me the stress ofsuch calam-
tiles might be represented in a picture by less
appalling imagery. And l can assure my
fair little lady friends-ifI still have any
that, whatever a young girls ordinary troub.
Year: 1874




WITCHERY OF HAIR.-Women know now
that there never has been anything found to
soften harsh outlines, to lend a suspicion of
beauty where beauty is not, to make a brow
white by contrast, to lend a charm of youth
TO every face, of innocence TO every express
sion, and to exalt the type of all the lowell.
ness there is, equally with the halfveiling,
halfrevealing coquetry of these blowing and
wandering little locks that frame a face like
picture. There are, indeed. very few faces
within the years to which any fanciful way of
wearing the hair is at all suitable that are not
set off to advantage by this method of dres-
sing it. The too high forehead is reduced,
the too low forehead is disguised, the eyes are
Swallowed, and made darker or softer, the thin
face is shortened, the plump face is idealized,
and the whole countenance loses that materi-
ality which it invariably has when the lines
of the hair about it are deep and thick, and is
lifted into the heights OF the picturesque.
And when to this light and airy garniture
which nature gives the face is added the effect
of the exquisite tints of those colors that have
come into vogue with the last few years, de-
nominated by all sorts of poetical names, as
glacier blue, shadow of the rose, frozen NOON
light, mountain brook, descriptive of pallid
and ethereal half-tones of color, each ofwhich
imparts something of its own loveliness to the
wearer, cooling too vivid blush here, adding
lustre there, we see that fashion has, by
slow approaches, reached really fit and ca
pable means of making almost every woman
beautiful. -.
Year: 1874

A correspondent at Paris tells The follow
ing amusing story: A very unfortunate young


man was pointed to me yesterday. He had


lived in the country till he was twenty-five


yeals OF age, when he became his own mas


ter, inherited large fortune, and resolved to


go and live in Paris. He was, however, de-


termined not TO vegetate IN the capital, but


10 become the talk of the town ffom the very


first, and to signalize himself by some eccen-


tricity or other. That was an ambition easi-


ly satisfied, since for the last few months it


has sufficed for gentleman to drive out dali


ly in a sledge in order to become the hero of


Paris for whole week. Our young gentle


man hit upon another idea almost as ingen-


ious. He possessed very fine white New


foundland dog, and black cat quite as hand


some as the dog. This couple led cat-and-


dog life in every sense Of the term. The


young gentleman resolved to make peace be-


tween the two enemies, and TO become IA


nous by their means. After few months


his efforts were crowned with success; the


cat would mount on the dogs back, and the


couple would thus follow their master, at first


when he walked, and in course of time when


he rode. In the small village where our hero


resided his success was prOdigious. He was


the talk even OF the whole department. When


he felt sure of his two animals the young


man started for Paris, taking along with him


his horse, his dog, and his cat. The day af-


ter his arrival in town, at four in the afteroon


on one of the recent fine days, he mounted


his horse, and made the cat mount the dog,


and all four started in the direction OF the


Arc de Triomphe. From the Place de la


Concorde up to the Round Point of the
Champs Elysees their march was one of tri-
umph. The young man, overjoyed at lis
success, proud OF his idea, gravely continued
his victorious march for in such cases cool


ness is halt the battle. Alas! the finest
| dreams are the first to be dissipated. The
Round Point became the Tarpeiau Rock of
the cavlier who was mounting to the Capitol,
Just as he was passing in trout of the Italian
Ambassadors scavenger, jealous of his ris-
ing fame, spouted the water with which he
was laying the dust, against the dog and cat.
At the unexpected attack dog and cat set up
dismal howl, and forgetting their role,
scampered off in flight, one right the other
left, before their master and teacher had time
to calm their terror. The crowd laughed
loud and long, the unfortunate young man
never more set eyes on either the dog or the
cat, and returned home as obscure as he went
ont ........
Year: 1874

The election on the 18th, has satisfied
thoroughly, the most sanguine of Gen'l
Thomason's friends, that there is no
show in the world for his election to
congress on the Sd of Nov. next, as the
great masses of the Democracy will stick
closely to the nominee Of the Convention.
They feel that it is but tabor lost, to make
any effort in his behalf. Some Of them,
we know, would rejoice if he would but
withdraw from the race and leave them
free to cast their votes for the Convention
nominee, no matter how much they may
dislike him. 1t lis patent to every observ-
ing man, that Thomson cannot be elect
Cd and that his remaining on the track,
only assists Mr.. Hynes, by taking votes
that would naturally go to Judge Will
shire. We ask you. democrats, to act on
your better judgment, and give your
votes to the choice Of the Democratic
Convention
Year: 1874

EDITOR VAN BUREN Press:


From the present status ofpolitical af-
fairs in this State, that there is great
cause for congratulation on the part of
every good citizen and true friend OF
good government, there is but little
ground to doubt Never in the history
Of the entire country has State consti-
tuition been 50 heartily and - sup
ported as in our recent election. Or
course this fact will operate as a great
and potent argument in our favor at the
meeting of the next Congress. We have
evinced to the world, in n calm, delibe-
rate and quiet manner, our sincerity and
purity Of purpose in asserting the right
to self government, and that we are sim
cere in accepting all the issues brought
about by the result Of the war Our op-
pressed and tax ridden people can now
look forward to right and glorious fu
ture. With broad, liberal and comprc-
hensive constitution on which all are unit
ed, we have only to be true to ourselves
to work out great destiny. Emigration
will soon set in towards our unsurpassed
farming and agricultural facilities, which
will rapidly augment the value Of real
estate, and stimulate all the material in
tercsts of the country. Itseems that the
people throughout the United States are
fast getting back to the old and cardinal
principles Of the democratic party, which
goes to brighten our own future, and
cheer the heart of every patriot and lover
Of his country.


Let our State indebtedness receive a
searching and fair investigation at the
hands of the proper tribunals, and not
one dollar repudiated that is probably
due. This course will give us character
abroad and go to establish confidence in
our honesty purpose. Let US all unite
and march forward in solid column to
the accomplishment Of the great princi-
pies enunciated in our fundamental law.


STONEWALL.
Year: 1874




the carpetbag convention at Chattanooga
the other day, one Of the Arkansas dele.
gates said it was the intention of the
Brooks Republicans to disregard the new
and the election under it,
inaugurate Brooks as governor, and call
on the President to support him with the
army. We shall see now, since the late
election, If they are mad enough 70. such
an enterprise But if they are. we hope,
with the Chattanooga Times, that in such
a game they win find that when it comes
to powder and ball, Garland will hold
the strong cards, and play them more eff.
fectively than Baxter did"
Year: 1874

T Shall our State be put in
jeopardy, that one ambitious man
shall have few votes for Congress?
We warn you, Democrats, few
votes given to Thomson, may in
sure the election of Hynes, and the
Brooks-Clayton dynasty again put
in power in the State.
Year: 1874

The bronze statuary just now so pop
ular is manufactured by a simple
enough process. Over the clay model
is poured q coating Of plaster Of Paris
which, having been allowed to set, Is
taken off in sections, thus affording q
hollow mould Of the figure. From
such q mould is produced q stucco du-
plicate, either in the entire statue or Of
such a portion thereof as Is intended to
be cast ct time, and on this again is
formed a second mould Of greater thick
ness and solidity for the reception Of
molten metal. The material used fOr
the final mould is a composition OF
stucco and brick dust. This Is applied
in a plastic state to the stucco model,


from which It's inner surface takes the
form OF the figure. We're statues cast


solid, it would now only be necessary
to separate mould from model, and run


melai into the former till its interior


was filed. This, however, would in-


vcive absurd waste. nnd IN order TO


economize material a solid core IL placed
inside the mould, leaviDg only such


space all round as will zeoeiye the thick
nessea OF metal deemed necessary for


the work IN hand. The mould with its


core having been thus completed and
firmly hooped round with bands Of iron,


il placed IN a kiln to bake 70 perfect


dryness. This precaution is necessary
/ from the circumstance that even q
/ trsee of moisture might on the appliez-
/ ton Of molten metal occasion danger
| Gus explosion In the case Of the cast
/ ing now in question the drying Of the
mould occupies some weeks. On the
removal from the kiln the mould is
/ buried in dry earth below tho floor Of
/ the foundry, only the aperture for re-
| ceivihg the metal and the vent-hole foI


the escape Of air remaining visible.
Year: 1874

In Sweden a peculiar plan has been
adopted by the friends of temperance
for preventing the evils resulting from
an excessive use of intoxicating liquors.
The authorities of GotteL burg in 1865,
began movement which afterward ex-
tended throughout the kingdom, and is
said to have been attended with the
most beneficial results. 1t was based
on two ideas, first, no single individual
out TO be permitted to derive any gain
from the sale of spirits and second,
that spirits ought not to be drank with
out the accompanying consumption of
solid food The method adopted to
carry ont these views is this An in
corporated company in each town, con-
sisting of the most respected members
of the community, takes the entire re-
tail liquor traffic under its supervision,
selling at costssafter deducting d margin
for leakage and breakage. The persons
put in charge of the places where
liquor is sold are paid salaries by the
company. The expenses paid includ-
ing the current rate of interest for the
capital invested, all profits are paid into
the town treasury. Of course where
liquor is sold at cost no profits can
accrue from that trade but each public
house is allowed to sell at profit food,
tobacco and Misunderstanding drinks, and
what is an important part of the plan,
every place where liquor IS sold Is
bound to supply wholesome cooked
food at all times during business hours.
The result of this system has been q
| great decrease in drunkenness. 1t may
seem singular that making drinks cheap
should lead temperance, but the secret
/ of the business is very simple. In the
first place habitual drinkers of small
means being able to satisfy their erav-
ings for liquor very cheaply, are, there
fore, enabled to buy nOurishiBg food


without depriving themselves Of alco-


holic stimulants, which to them is the


first necessity, the food being always


ready at hand. And, in the second
place, as the traffic Is not conducted for


gain there is no temptation TO sell i'm
pure, poisonus liquors which excite 6


desire for excessive indulgence, and al


the same time ruin the digestive organs


and destroy the appetite for natural


food.
Year: 1874

aud caparisoned. Let him carry a bsn-
ner and have an American flag in his
hat. Let him also have a drawn sword
with which to keep of the small boys
and yellow dogs, and thus the last man
IN the procession will cease to be the
most wretched object in e1istenes.
Year: 1874




There are two tendencies in our newspa-
pers, one toward the purely intellectual
side of journalism, making the newspaper
a medium of opinions and intelligence; the
other toward the merely commercial side,
making il a convenience for the publiea-
tion of advertisements.


The late Mr.. Bennett was an original
and peculiar man, and as long as he lived,
he made the intellectual predOminate in
his paper. We have known him on going
away at night, 10 give an order to leave
every advertisement out of next days edi-
tion if il should be necessary in order to
make room for important news. This, how
ever, is not the present policy Of the Herald
nor of the majority of our city newspapers
They sli run after more advertisements,
and think more of them than of important
news, or brilliant wit, or cogent logic in
the editorial columns.


1t is evident that this tendency to con-
vert influential journals into immense ad-
veFtising sheets cannot 60 on forever.
There will in time be change. The pub
lie will grow weary of turning over
dozen pages of advertisements in order to
get at two or three pages Of reading matter.


Who will start newspaper from which
advertisements shall be excluded? Ii Will
come some day, and then there will be
journals for advertising alone, and others
devoted to information and political and
general discussions and not to advertise
ments; and these will probably be e.
teemed the true models of journalism.
Year: 1874

When we turn to read Gen. Grants mes
sage one thought occurs to Us which can
not be shaken of from beginning to end Of
our perusal. The Presidents position is
not what it was. He is still President, and
can not be removed from his Office until
March, 1877, but he has received warning
that his second term then comes to an end,
the meaning of which can not be misap-
pretended. Though not unseated, he is
practically discrowned, and as we
follow one train Of his observations,
the reflection arisfs whether he
has been consciously or unconscious
ly, induced to make them under any
dreamy hope that they might serve to Sc
cure that reelection for third term which
has been supposed TO be the object of his
ambition. When, passing from this, we
take up another group of suggestions, a
second thought occurs TO us-whether
Congress will pay any attention TO the re-
concentrations Of a Chief Magistrate the
end of whose authority is clearly defined.
This second speculation may be set at rest
without any doubt or hesitation. The
present Congress will do nothing.
Year: 1874

We learn that a party Of Michiganders
have purchased large quantity of land in
the northern part Of this and Coffee ooun-
ties, in the neighborhood OF Mr.. VIM. Hart,
and they viii move their families down
between this and spring. They propose to
establish colony, and in order thereto will
want TO purchase about 10000 acres more
land. We hail this movement from the
icy regions Of the North to our mild and
sunny South as the precursor of a.heaEy and
constant Influx Of men who are not afraid
or ashamed to do manual labor for their
bread--Of men who will do something to-
wards showing of what our soil and climate
are capable.
Year: 1874

We publish Judge Fite's address to
the voters of the Fourth Congressional
District. 1t is the kind of document
we expected of him--plain, pointed and
patriotic. Careful heed should be given
to his closing suggestion about full
vote at the polls.
Year: 1874

JUDGE Fire, Democrat, has been
nominated for Congress for the vacancy
In the Fourth Congressional District of
Tennessee, to succeed DIR Head. who
is dead The pee lie Of the District
although unsuccessful in their attempt
to put Head on the FcTty-fourth
Congress, still show Fite-CiRciRnah
GqzeEte.
Year: 1874

This forenoon two negroes entered the
clothing store of Hammer, at the corner Of
Main and Winchester streets. While one
was examining suit Of clothes, the other,
named Brooks, attempted to steal pair OF
pants and run with them. Hammer dis
covering the theft, seized Brooks, who drew
a razor and cut Hammer across the cheek,
barely missing the jugular, and then across
the hand. Simon Hammer, coming to the
assistance Of his brother, was cut severely
on the arm and hand by Brooks. Hammer
then drew pistol and shot Brooks in the
groin, and both jumping on him, beat him
until he surrendered and was carried to the
station-house.
Year: 1874

The highest price in the early part of
the year were due, not 50 much to the
combination against production, as the
great expectations based upon it. Az
ter that combination fell it resolved it
self again into individual atoms, and
prices wavered along in an uncertain
condition until midsummer, when the
figures began to grow less.


The Millerstown district reported
largely during June. The latter part
of July the rich deposit at the point
now called Modoc sent it's first geysers
in the air, and on the 9th of August
the now famous Troutmann we'll sent
up it's thousand berrels daily to load
down the market. This oil was worth
on the spot 81. 20, and three days later
(12th) was worth only sixty cents pei
barrel


Since that time the oil market has
been in a very debilitated condition, 90
much SO as to cause a large amount OF
the production to be slowed away to
await brighter days for the illuminator,
which the sanguine speculators think
is near at hand. For the sake of bust.
ness in the oil region, it is to be hoped
oil will go up to q figure that will
encourage honest industry,
Year: 1874

A YOUNG man at Austin, New, tho
other day made serious mistake. He
boue lit handsome dress pattern for
his wife and pair of red flannel
drawers for himself. He delivered the
wrong bundle to the young lady. Re.
sult-A broken head and ruined fry
Year: 1874

establishment. You will remember
that Dickens says he saw one run
across his face as he lay asleep.


"He sp oke to me in low, rather
plaintive tone of voice, and gave me
the impression that he was laboring un-
der certain amount of fear or appre-
hension. Part of his conversation,
which otherwise was perfectly rational,
conveyed the same impression. He in
timated that his relations were against
him, and 1 understood him to give this
as reason why his house was barri.
caded. So far as I could make out
through his prison-like bars, he was
lab oring under a partial insanity-a
monomania of suspicion or persecu-
tion. He would not attach his name
to any deed or paper bearing her Males
ty's stamp, the reason assigned being
that she was not the rightful heir to
the throne. Nothing could induce him
to use either postage or receipt stamp,
lest he should seem to admit the
Queens supremacy. With curious in
consistency, he had no scrsple against
making use of the coin bearing her
image. From the same objection he
would not cash his dividend warrants,
which remained in his house, forming
an accumulation Of very dirty papers.
He had the characteristic fear Of poi:
son; his diet was bread and cheese, red
herrings, milk and gin. For some years
he had given up milk, suspectins that
poison had been put into it. The great
novelist, and others more accustomed
to Insanity than he, did not consider
that Mr.. Lucas was person whom the
law could properly take under it's guar
diaaship as a person of unsound mind.
We cannot help thinking that it would
have been far kinder and more reason
able 10 recognize his obvious imbecili-
ties, delusions and miserable alterations
Of opinion and conduct as constituting
him q lunatic, requiring proper care
and decent attendance. Mr.. Mopes is
a picturesque monster enough Mr..
Lucas, from whom he was drawn, was,
we think, neglected lunatic. If the
lunacy laws were always as loosely in
terpreted we should have, large crop
Of such hermits, and neither society
nor the individuals concerned would be
the better for the license to hoard
their pence, neglect their property,
wallow in filth, and fout the laws Of
decency and sense.
Year: 1874

ing severely dropped.> But that was
one thing which the refined: Sumner
actually did and he was forced to
it by the feelings which swelled his
heart when. having returned to his
office, No. 4 Court street, in full dress,
from some festive occasion, he saw the
mob dragging Garrison through the
streets with a rope around his neck.
Hilliard, to whom he spoke, can tell
what he said at the moment. History
has told US what he did. From the
pinnacle Of social fame he plunged into
the sea of the ostracised below, and
became to the blue bloods Of Beacon
street as 70 better than one of the
wicked; and it was that speech in Fan.
euil Hall, entitled sour Immediate
Anti-slavery duties," on Nov. 6, 1850,
in which he threw himself into the
anti-slavery cause with his whole heart
and soul, which centered on him the
eyes of the State, and in which he
made himself the coming man. 1t was
in this speech, which Judge Jay pro-
nounced "the greatest effort of the
kind in the English language," that he
struck the key note to the impressible
conflict about to follow, in these words:


'There is legend of the church, still
living on the admired canvass of a
Venetian artist, that St. Mark descend
ing from the skies with headlong fury
into the public square, broke the mana
cles of slave in the presence of the
very judge who had decreed his fate.
This is known as the Miracle of the
Slave and grandly has art illumined
the scene! Should Massachusetts,,
hereafter, in an evil hour, be desecrated
by any such decree, may the good
Evangelist once more descend with val
liant arm to break the manacle of the
slave.''


The point in the speech was the des-
cription Of the picture, and the lesson
he drew from 1t. The next day some
one sent him an engraving of the scene
he had depicted. When in Europe, in
1857, he purchased the study from
which the great picture was made.
Both are now in Boston, and photo.
graphs Of them are being largely dis.
tributed throughout the land and this
seems to be the origin of the statement
that Tintorrentto made Charles Sumner
Senator.-A. B. Johnson IN Scribnsr's
for Nouember.