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Year: 1867

The following is an extract from one Of
Gov. Foote's essays in the St. Louis Demo-
crat, in favor Of female suffrage:


No one will presume to deny that quite as
many of those females who have been called
to WELD the monarchial sceptrc over great
nations, in proportion to their number. have
cvinced the highest ability for government,
as can be found on the huge roll of male SOW
ereigns, the hideous crimes, and shameful
blundcrs of whom ovcrspread the pages Of
such numerous and nauseating volumes which
1t Is now iashic cnaOlG to call history | am
prepared to maintain against any adversary
that minority of our fair country wsmen are
quite as well qualified to choose Il President
or Vice President of the United States, a
Senator or Representative in Congress n Gov
crnOr or n member of any State Legislature,
Judges and ministerial officers Of any kind as
those who now so often elevate to the high
est places of civic rule the drunken, the cor
rupt, the imbec'le and the profiigate. The
truth is, that it is evidently high time that a
little more care should be paid to the morals
OF the asnirauts to official station than our
male voters would seem to have exercised of
late, II we wish to escape the deepest national
dshOuOr and the most irrctrievable ruin
The influence ofthe gentIer and purer sex is
wanting to keep our country exempt from
the horrors Of war. either foreign or domestic,
to heal the deep wounds which have been re-
Gently inflicted upon the national heart, to
suppress violence and injustice of every kind;
to quiet resentment to eztincuish the hell
lsh spirit of revenge; to counteract fraud
and trickery Of every description and degree;
to restore the ancient feelings of brotherhood
and affection everywhere and to bring back
that golden age once more to our, country,
when to hold high public station was to
have an assured claim to general recognition
as gentleman; when dishonesty in a place
OF high official trust was not suspected even
to he possible; when sobriety, and industry,
and intiexible uprightness were to be found
whcresoever official authority was held and
official duty was to be performed.
Year: 1867

"A dccoction Of the leaves Of common
chamomile will destroy every species Of in
sect, and nothing contributes so much to the
health Of the garden as number Of chauo-
mile plants dispersed through it. No green
house or hot-house should ever be without
it, in Il green or dried state; either the stalk
or flower will answer. It is n singular fact
that dropping and apparently dying plant
will, IN nine cases out Of ten, recover II you
plant ChamumiIe near il.
Year: 1867

A duel was fought in Texas lately bv
Alexandra Skott and John S. Mott. Mott
was shot and Shott was not. In this case it
was better to be Shott than Mott There was
rumor that Mott was not shot, but Shott
swears that he shot Mott, which proves either
that the shot Shott shot at Mott was not shot
or that Mott is shot Notwithstanding.
Year: 1867

SLEEPING IN CHURCH.-Here is a picture
that might have been painted by the pen Of
Dickeus: " In what other painful event of
life has good man SO little sympathy as when
overcome with sleep in meeting time p
Against the insidious seduction he arrays
every conceivable resistance. He stands Tp
awhile; he Piuches himself; he pricks him
self with pins. He looks up heIplessly to the
pulpit as it some succor might possibly come
thence. He crosses his legs uncomfortable,
and attempts to recite chatcchsm or the null
nplcatlon table. lie seizes 4 languid tan,
which treacherously Ieaves him in calm
He tries to reason, to notice the phenomena.
Oh, that one could carry his pew to bed with
him What tossing wakcfuluess there -
What fiery chase after somnolcucy! In his
lawful bed man cannot sleep. aud. in his
pew he cannot keep awake Happy man who
does not sleep in church :"
Year: 1867

- Satrap John Pope discovered that tho
Mobile police uniform did not suit him, and
issued an order ioTbidding the wearing Of
uniform in imitation Of the one worn by the
rebel army. i Committee OF Couucilmen
was appointed to inform the knowing John
that the uniform in question vas in imitation
Of the New York Central Park police. We
should have supposed John better acquainted
with the New York police CoI.,nzJus Cyists.
Year: 1867

A woman whose name we have for.
cotton, lies, or lately did lie, very sick
at Hemlock, Cambria county. A few
days ago, in the daytime, the watch
ers returning to the room after tenn
porary absence, were Mortified to find
a huge snake coiled on the pillow of
the sick woman, and very near the
head. The woman was asleep. What
to do was question of terrible import
recommended to the watchers. The
woman was weak from illness, and
any sudden excitement would surely
kill her. 1t was therefore unsafe to
attack the snake while she was asleep,
because an excitement would thereby
be communicated to the system which
might prove fatal; while, for q like
reason, it was thought equally unsafe
to wake her up to realization of the
danger menacing her. The question,
in all its terrible bearings, was discus
sed by the watchers in a moment,
while their blood ran cold, and it was
decided to maintain, like Mcclellan
before Manassas, a mastery inactivity.
Ii the woman remained asleep and
motonless, she might escape. There
was a chance that the reptile might
withdraw without doing any harm.
After a few minutes, which seemed
like hours to the lookers-on, the Shiny
thing moved-frst one told, then an
other-it slid from the bed to the floor
it crawled rapidly through the room
and hall, and out into the garden,
where it was killed The woman slept
calmly throughout the trying scene,
and was spared an experience the mere
recital whereof is enough to banch
the cheek and cause the blood to cur
dle.-Ebensburg AiLeghenian.
Year: 1867

The columns of the European Ger
man papers are filed with the partic-
ulars of the greatest disaster that ever
desOlated any mining district.


On the first of July last the wooden
frame work Of 1900 feet deep pit CT
a coal mine in the neighborhood Of
Lugan, in SaXony, gave way, blocking
up, with an impenetrable mass of tim
Der and rock, the pit at depth OF
about 305 ellis from the top. At the
moment of the disaster 102 men, near.
ly all of them the supporters of large
families, were working in the bottom
of the mine. Their provisions were
calculated for one day. On the 5th of
July, the date of our latest news by
mail, the place where the fallen masses
had stopped the pit was such a solid
structure that the water was standing
on it many feet high. From all sides
the most avaIiable help was offered,
but the conviction that nothing could
be done soon enough to save the un-
fortunate miners, weakened as it seems
any energetic effort.


They were doomed to die of starva-
ton and want of fresh air. On the
4th of July all attempts to reach the
bottom of the mine by any quick pro
cess were abandoned, and slow but
sure plan was devised by which at
least the corpses of the perished could
be extracted. Iron tubes of about two
feet in diameter were to bes sunk through
the distractions to the bottom of the
pit. Among the dead are forty. four
married meC, one of whom had a wife
and nine living children. The scenes
at the entrance of the pit are described
as lamcntable without parallel One
hundred and thirty seven children filled
the air with their woful cries, whilst
the superintendent of the mines, to
whose negligence the disaster was as
cribed by the people, could only be
saved from being mobbed by his sud.
den imprisonment.
Year: 1867

While the Japanese were performing
in Chicago, there was beautiful CIR
of eighteen summers, the daughter oi
a merchant, who seems to have become
completely infatuated, and to have
captivated the heart of one of the Jap.
anese, who has the name of Sing-Ke
Chez. His father was a nobleman at
tached to the court of the Tycoon.
He loved and married girl in the
lower class, very pretty, very good
but not high blooded. The Tycoon
learned of it and his Indignation was
great.


There was but one way to make
reparation-tO commit hari karin
plain English, to disembowel himself.
The nobleman died, his property going
to the Tycoon. His wife, disowned,
joined company of acrobats. Years
after, this company was performing
before the Tycoon. In the bamboo
act, which is his favorite, the Ty.
coon was much struck with the daring
of the boy. Upon inquiry he learned
that the boy was the sen of his once
favorlte minister and friend, and had
high blood in his veins He took the
boy from the company and trained and
educated him. This boy grew up
about the court, and was none other
than Sing Kee-Chee, which in Japan
ese means the son Of nobleman who
had offended the Tycoon.


Sing Kee.Chee is obstinate and de
termined. He has written TO the Ty-
coon full account of the matter. At
present, two anxious hearts await his
decision. Sing Kee-Chee knows very
we'll that if consent is not given his
fate is sealed; for with the refusal
would come a notice that by the ask
ing of such favor he had offended be-
yond redemption, and only the COM
INITIAL of hari kari would wipe out the
insult


At Detroit, Sing Kee-Chee was sur
prised again to meet the lady, who
found the world blank desert after
her heart had become another's, and
there he first began to discover the Sc
cret. The company told him to be.
ware-that he should take a lesson
from the fate of his father, who had
loved without the consent Of the Ty-
coon, and if he persisted, his fathers
fate would be his. Sing-Kee Chez did
remember this, and tried to Danish her
from his heart, but it was q useless
task. The more he tried the deeper he
loved, and before the company left De-
troit. he made the romantic maden's
heart happy by declaring that he loved
her, and if the Tycoon's consent could
be gained by the strongest entreaties
he should make her his wife; and with
this assurance the maiden returned to
her parents in Chicago, who are stri-
wing by every means in their power to
eradicate the notion from her head.
Year: 1867

Said to my neighbor, John Stout, one day,
81 think IN your fields, rs 1 came that way,


The cattle were running;
And fear heavy loss aud expense,


Should the fire in the swamp
Run across to your fence"
"God give you his blessing" all he could say,
For he lost not moment but fastened away


To check the impending combustion;
And he called me his brother and friend,
And his gratitude seemed without end,


For saving his farm from destruction.
said to him, "John, you are healthy and strong,
But you know no heing can endure very long


Such villainous drinks in the system;
am sure you will ruin your health,
Lose standing, and squander your wealth,


Unless you commence reformation"
How he stared at me then; said ne guessed
needed business" that he "knew best


What TO drink, without my opinion"
Then he few IN rage about "meddlesome friends i"
And preaching up temperance for mere selfish ends


And cursed the whole reformation.
'Tis curious fact, to myself said sadly,
Advice to save money is taken quite gladly;


But let a bad habit be mentioned.
And passion is up. He would save from the fire
His barn and his fence, but let the desire
For strong drink destroy and iniame
His very hearts blood, and rum his name


In this and all generations.
Year: 1867

The Terrible Resuh-Three brothers,
the eldest of whom is not over twelve
years old, living near Harmon's Sta
ton, on the Cincinnati and Indianap-
oils Railroad, have been in the habit
of lying between the ties of the road
and mourning the terrible risk of hav-
ing a train pass over them at full speed.


They repeated this recently, at sad
cost, with the passenger train run by
Conductor George Drain. This train,
out from Cincinnati, was running along
at the usual speed, when the engineer
happened to discover three little hu-
man forms curled up in holes between
the ties, just as the engine was within
a few yards of them. There was no
chance to stop the train until it had
passed over them, and then proceeded
some distance further. The officers
of the train then returned to the spot
and found the three children terribly
bruised. All had broken limbs, and
one of them had his head mashed in
such terrible manner as to make his
recovery a matter of doubt. 1t seems
that in selecting their nests they had
not calculated correctly as to depth,
and that the brake-box had caught
them. They are children of Mr.. John
BOuse.
Year: 1867

with unusual velocity, they went ont
and found the little girl at the bottom
of the we'll alive and sensible, strup.
Cling to keep herself from drownins
BY means of the bucket, rope and
windlass, they soon restored her to
terra firma, when it was found that
she had sustained no injury except a
slight cut over the right eye, and tri-
fling wound on the top of the head.
The well is twenty-eight feet deep,
with eight feet of water in it, il walled
with stone, and has a diameter of only
three feet. How the little thing could
escape dashing her brains out in the
fearful descent, or being drowned in a
depth of water twice her length, is al
together astonishing and inexplicabIe.
Lock Hdvcn Republican.
Year: 1867

We have not heard anything for a
long time more surprising than the fol-
lowing facts, communicated to US by
Mr. lands Berry, who resides on the
hill few doors beyond the toll gate
at Lock Haven. Mary Birch, little
girl nine or ten years old, daughter OF
Moses Birch, living near Mr.. Borry's s,
has been in the habit of going to his
well to draw water for her mother.


On Monday last she went to the we'll
as usual, and while STOPPING over the
curb in the act of filling her vessel with


water from the bucket, she lost her
balance and fell headlong into the well.
Mr. Berry and family were at dinner,
and hearing the windlass revolving
Year: 1867

kSsA- among the many new appIi-
cations of electromagnetic tism to The
arts and manufactures is that of max
ing it instrumental in the smelling of
iron. A fixed electro magnet is placed
opposite an opening in the side of the
furnace, containing the metal to be
smelted, and current of magnetism
is directed into the molten metal. The
effect on the iron is said to be very re-
markable, rendering it extremely tough
and hard. The process is carried on
with great success at one OF the most
important iron works in Sheffield.
Year: 1867

The silly Young Rabbit.
TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN.


There was young rabbit


Who had bad habit
Sometimes he would do what his mother forbid.
And one frosty day,


His mother did say,
My child, you must stay IN the burrow close hid,
For hear the dread sounds


of huntsmen and hounds,
Who are searching around for rabbits like YOU
Should they see but your head,
They would soon shoot you dead,
And the dogs would be of with you quicker than bool
But poor, foolish being,


When one was seeing,
He stole from his burrow to take short play;
He hoped DER the ground


With many bound,
Looking proudly around az if he would say,
Do l fear mani


Now catch me who can!"
And away rabbit to a fine apple tree,


Where gnawing the bark,


He thought not TO mark
The coming of hunters, so fearless was he.
Now, as rabbits are good,


When roasted or stewed,
A man came along, hunting rabbits for dinner.
He lit Bun


He raised his big gun
Poof! There he lay, dead the foolish young sinner


Little Corporal
Year: 1867

one day, after waiting awhile, and be.


coming rather impatient, he innocent


ly asked, Can't you give me a piece
of gingor- without my asking for
it !?


One evening, little daughter, after
she had been listening, with eyes full
of tears, to q story of some colored
children near them, who were very
poor and distressed, carried her trouble
to her Heavenly Father-surely the
little ones teach us-and after repeat.
ing her usual evening prayer added
this petition: 90 God you have made
these poor children black, and now will
you please make white people kind to
them
Year: 1867

REGIsTRATIoS N THE FIFTH WARD will
commence on Monday the Stl instant.
The office will be opened on the corner of
Broad and Henry streets from the Sth OF
July to the 18th, inclusive. Belle Isle is
included in this magisterial district.
Year: 1867

POLICEMAN RonBED.-Y estcrday morn
ing negro woman applied at the house OF
policeman White for situation. She
was sent away and told to come again,
After she had left, it was found that She
had carried off q gold watch and lockct,
which lay upon the window Of room in
which she had been.
Year: 1867




The other day telegrapher, who had
looked into the matter, told me, in few
words, how the Atlantic cable was worked.
had read column after column in the
papers, in the vain effort to understand
how il was done, and was asIonished
enough 1 assure you to see how simple
thing was the instrument that takes across
the sea.


Imagine very little needle--it weighs
only three-sevenths of grain-set SO
that either end points TO the powerful fixed
magne.. Over this needle is board in
which is small hole, above and behind
which is small black board. One end of
this. needle or rather magnet, is the posi-
tive and the other negative one. The
battery is taken off at onc end of the
ocean by the action Of the magnets them
selves, when operator at either side is
writing. The battery used at either end
contains only three cups a wonderfully
small number when you know that it takes
a thousand or mole to work the various
wires leading TO l45 Broadway, the head
Office here. The application of current
| from battery to .he positive magnet at
| Valentia, induces an attraction of the nee
die by the negative magnet at Hearts Con-
tent, or vice versa. The movement of
the needle is so very small, however, that
it could not be detected by the naked eye.
A powerful magnifier, however, carries
the reflection of the motion Of the needle
through the hole in the board above, and
transfers il in an enlarged, and with the
aid of light. an enlightened form to the
blackboard. The alphabet is similar To-,
though not exactly like, the " Morse" and
a motion of the needle one way implies a
dash, and the other way dot; of course
as many of each can be used as is desr-
able, the magnets being equally attractive,
holding the needle stationary when no
other influence is applied. And now the
reason why a small battery works best. 1t
is not that large battery, as has been
1 popularly supposed, would eat up the con-
Quoting wire, but that it would make the
motion of the delicate needle too violent
to use vulgar phrase, it would be perpet-
ually waLbling about" The small cur
rent used has no effect.-N. Y. Cores
po,sdeat Louisville Courier.
Year: 1867

II is said that at recent audience
given by the Pope an American lady step
ped forward upon the entrance of his Holi-
ness, and with the peculiar nasal twang of
the New England States, thus spoke /:
allow dye do, Pope Plus Ninth? want
to introduce you to my darter Jane" His
Holiness appeared to take the affair very
good naturedly and to appreciate the joke,
while the Federal Americans present were
quite overwhelmed with feelings of NOR
tification and disgust.
Year: 1867

The suicidal mania seems to be on the in
crease and we have another instance OF the fact
to record to-day. About 10 o'clock last night
Arthur Mowbray, native of Canada, twenty
two years of age, and residing at No. 81 Clinton
place, returned home from visit to Kelly d
Icons minstrel performance, at No. 72O Broad
way. There he had gone with some of the female
Having but just returned from an extended visit
to his relatives in Drummondville, Canada West,
Mr.. Mowbray seemed to be in excellent spirits,
and in no mood for sudden entry into the
other world. A few minutes after reaching his
boarding-house the misguided young man re-
tired to his room, whence issued the report OF a
pistol scarce ten minutes later, when it was
ascertaned that he had shot himself through
the heart, death ensuing in a few seconds.


When our reporter visited the house at mid.
night, he found the deceased in third story bed
room, occupied by him while living. The body
was lying in bed just as he was found by those
entering the room after the shot was fired. De-
ceased had evidently partially undressed him
SELF removed his watch and money from his
pockets and laid them on the bureau hanging
up the clothing he had removed Having thrown
himself on the bed, Mowbray had placed the
muzze of a large-sized Sharpes revolver over
his heart and soon sent the fatal bullet through
that organ.


None of his friends could give any reasonable
motive for the commission of the rash act,
in a strange manner, having alarmed the family
by firing his revolver one night at fancied bur
glar. Their theory Is that he was temporarily
deTanged at the time, induced by over excite
ment, The inquest to-day will no doubt elicit
the real facts. The deceased was employed by
one of the ocean steamship lines in this city and
was highly respectfully Y. Times.
Year: 1867

ELOQUENT PAssAGE.-The finest thing
Geo. l.. Prentice ever wrote is this inimita-
BILE passage: st cannot be that earth is
man only abiding place. 1t cannot be that
our life is bubble cast up by the ocean OF
eternity to float moment upon its waves,
and sink into nothingness. Else, why is it
the high and glorious aspirations which leap
like angels from the temple of our hearts,
are forever wandering unsatisfied Why is
it that the rainbow and cloud come over us
with beauty that is not of earth, and then
pass off and leave us to muse on their love
illness? Why is it that the stars which hold
their festival around the midnight throne,
are above the grasp of our limited faculties,
forever mocking us with their unapproach
able glory? And finally, why is it that the
bright forms of human beauty are present
ed to our view and taken from us, leaving
the thousand streams Of our affections to
flow back in Alpine torrent upon our hearts !?
We are born for higher destiny than of
earth There is a realm where the rainbow
never fades, where the stars will be spread
out before us like shadows, and stay forever
in our presence.
Year: 1867

On that deep retiring shore,


Frequent pearls of beauty lie,
Where the passion waves of yore


riercely beat and mounted high.
Sorrows that are sorrows still


Lose the bitter taste of woe;
NothIng's altogether ill


In the griefs of long ago.
Tonbs where lonely love repines,
sGhastly tenement of tears,
Wear the look of happy shrines


Through the golden mist of years.
Death. to those who trust in good,


Vindicates his hardest blow.
Oh we would not if we could,


Wake the sleep of long ago.
Though the doom of swift decay


Shocks the soul where life is strong,
Though for Trailer hearts the day
Lingers sad and over long.
Still the weight will find leaven,
Still the spoilers hand is slow,
While the future has its heaven


And the past its long ago.
Year: 1867

Among the private soldiers now on duty
at the jackson barracks, below the city of
New Orleans, is one by the name of Schultz,
who served during the late war, as Colonel
OF an Illinois regiment, and upon leaving
the service was breveted to the grade of
brigadier. Finding, no doubt, a charm in
military life, he re-entered the service and
enlisted as high private But here's the
rub. By an act of Congress, all ex- officers
OF the United States army are permitted,
upon military occasions of importance, to
wear the insignia of their brevet rank
Therefore upon the next parade, will be
presented the curious anomaly of briga-
dlers star carried oD the same shoulder with
musket. Will the inspected outrank the
Inspector?
Year: 1867

E,oR sALE--THE BROWN STONE POUR STORY
basement House IS West Thirty eighth street between
Fifth sixth perfect order handsomely deco
rated completely extensively furnished price, with
Cedar street