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Year: 1870

An English work on "The eonsti-
tuition of Papal Conclaves" gives
some curious information as to the
mode in which the Cardinals elect a
Pope. Upon the death of a Pope,
one of the Cardinals, whose duty it
is to represent supreme authority
during the interregnum, proceeds
with a guilt mallet to knock at the
Pope's door, and then to tap the
forehead of the deceased with u sill
yer mallet. The great bell of the
capital is then tolled, to summon the
conclave, bnt nine days must pass
before the actual meeting, to give all
time to arrive. On the ninth day
the Cardinals meet in the Church of
St Sylvester, and walk in procession
to the Quirinal palace, where they
are, three hours after sunset, closely
locked up until an election is made.


Each Cardinal has his cell, and is
supposed to fix his choice in perfect
solitude, free from all external infu-
ences. But their eminences are not
shut up alone. Each Cardinal may
have with him two conclavists, or
confidential private secretaries; and
these have sometimes been able to
play an important part in the papal
elections, their practice having been
more than once as adrOit and success
ful as those of our own "log-rollers"
Besides the conclavists, there is a
population of cOnfessors, .physisians,
DC, down to BARRIERS, carpenters and
sweepers. These being locked and
barred in, the Cardinals vote each
day until an election is accomplished.
\ simple ballot is taken in the fore
noon, and if no election is made a
second is taken in the afternoon,
but only to transfer votes to either
of the names voted for the morning.


If there is still no election, the
ballots are thrown upon the fire in
the chapel, and the smoke from the
chimney announces to the people
that the church is still without a
head. The strictest precautions are
used to prevent fraud, but not al
ways with success. Even Cardinals
have been known to resort to tricks.
Betting on a papal election was pro
hibited by bull of Plus ", yet
even Cardinals would send out by
the turning wheel used to introduce
/, their meals instructions for putting
numbers into the lottery,
Year: 1870

for either boys or men. y If you nev-
er drink a drop Of Intoxicating L.
quor, you will never be a drunkard.
If you depart from this rule, no man
can say to how low a depth of wretch
edness and degradation you may see
The worst drunkard in the land was
once a pure and innocent boy"


"Pn never swallow even q ealfr'
exclaimed George, starting up and
speaking with great earnestness.


"Touch not, taste not, handle not
the unclean thing" said Aunt Katy,
"and all will be well with you. But
indulge over so little in drinking as
you grow to manhood, and none can
tell into what a great depth Of hors'
less ruin you may fall"
Year: 1870

The Decay Of English Personal Courage.


The Pail Mall Gazette brings a
charge that a want of personal cour-
age, pluck, or nerve, is becoming a
marked characteristic with the Eng
lish people. Cases of murder have
been heard Of late, in which listeners
and spectators have retired to their
rooms and bolted their doors, OF
stood paralyzed, or followed at a safe
distance. If a fellow is hammering
or kicking q man or more often q
woman, or trailing about her half
dead body on the high road, nobody
seems braves enough to knock the
villain down. Take few instances
out Of many; A gang ofrufTians set
on a solitary policeman and nearly
killed him; not one Of the bystand-
ers lent the unfortunate constable a
helping hand. Not long since either
one or two persons were drowned;
there had been a fight, and they were
either upset or thrown into the river
they might have been easily rescued
but the spectators on the banks con-
tented themselves with jeering and
non-interference.


In the colonies a man beat his
wife most brutally; her screams were
awful, and many Of the neighbors
heard them and knew what was 90
ing on: but they also knew him to be
a dangerous man; )" and what he had
threatened 3" to do for any one who
interfered." In the morning the bo
dy of a woman was found still warm
and palpitating. The case Of a
man who is now under sentence of
death for killing the woman with
whom he lived, and the man who
he had good reason to believe hsd
been intimate with her is a erowning
illustration. Here several persons,
including several strong "navies,"
saw him dragging the poor creature
over stiles in the field, while she was
screaming for life, and saw HIM after
he had got the gun in his hand, and
none interfered. They said they
''did not think it would have been
safe" 1t is evidently the general
impression in England that it is not
advisable to interfere between man
and wife even to prevent murder.
Year: 1870

Victorious men of earth no more,
Proclaim how wide your empires are;
Though you bind in every shore,
And your triumphs reach as far


As night or day,


Yet you proud monachs, must obey
And mingle with forgotten ashes, when
Death calls ye to the crowd of common
men.


Devouring Famine, Plague, and War,
Each able to undo mankind,
Deaths servile emissaries are;
Nor to these alone confined,


He hath at will


More quaint and subtle ways to kill;
a smile or kiss, as he will use the art,
Shall have the cunning skill to break
heart.
Year: 1870

Special pains will te taken TO furnish
good article of Trough'ng. and to put it up in
a satisfactory manner. We don't claim to
compete with travelling tinkers or irresponsi-
bic parties but we do say that we can and
will furnish an article that will convince the
most skeptical that our mechanics ase first
class and do superior work. We employ the
Patent Fastener in all cases unless otherwise
specified.
Year: 1870

HINTS FOR THE DREssMAKER.--Trimmin put
on in the form of a pelerne, sloping from the
shoulder to the waist makes the shoulders ape
pear broader and the waist more slender.
cape gathered up in the middle of the back gives
one the appearance of being round-sho udered.
Trimming below the belt on the skirt that is
shorter in the middle Of the back than at the
sides, makes the hips appear higher and broader
To tie the bonnet-strings behind, under the hair,
displays a prettily-rounded cheek and we'll
formed earl bnt exposes scrawny neck and
angular jaws numerically. As hats ordinarily
match suits in color, white, black gray straw
are economical, to which may be added feather
flower or rosete of the color demanded, to be in
keeping with the rest of the dress. Black vel
vet ribbon and lace may comprise the rest Of the
trimming. When one has adopted becoming
pattern for garment, it is well to adhere to it;
modifying its trimming from season to season,
but not utterly throwing it aside till something
equally desirable presents itself Thought APP
piled to the judieious selection of'what is suit
able, convenient and becoming, year by year,
will really tighten tho care of dress for nine out
of ten styles will be at once oscarded as not to
be thought of for appropriateness.
Year: 1870

If you want the power Of a politi-
clan you must make the little passions
of men subserve your big passions;
and you will be their tmaster.--There'
in another power, which to obtain for
yourself, you must be honest and wise
and teach others to be So.


Those who rule over empires while
they are growing, are often accepted
as wise when they commit errors, and
on the other hand even the wisest
statesman when placed over decaying
nations, seem to do everything wrong,
and are blamed accordingly.
Year: 1870

VINO will care?
When we lay beneath the daisies,
Underneath the churchyard mold,
And the long grass o'er our faces
Lays Its fingers damp and cold:
= When we sleep from care and sorrow,
And the ills of earthly life
Sleep to know no sad tomorrow,
With its bitterness of strife


Who will care?


Who will care?
Who will come to weep above u.s.,
Lying OIL so white and still,
Underneath the skies of summer,
When all natures pulses thrill
To a new life, glad and tender,
Full of beauty, rich and sweet.
And the world is clad in splendor
Then the years shall e'er repeat.


Who will care?


Who will care?
Who will think of white hands lying
On still and silent breast.
Never more to know of signing.
Evermore to know of rest?
Who will care? No one can tell us.
But if rest and peace befall,
Will it matter if they miss us,
Or they miss us not at all? . ..-.s
Not at all?
Year: 1870

ought to have told you before this,
that in the above / have all along been
speaking of the Great Grand Duchy OF
Schloschenboschenstein, and that the
Copp aforesaid was acaptain in the great
Grand Duchess army.


Her majesty was at that period at war
with the Great Grand Duke of the next
kingdom but one-about ten miles of
and we were having it out-if / may
use that vulgarism-upon the kingdom
of the Great Grand Duke next door,
who was threatening an action for tres
pass against both parties.


Relative to this action for trespass,
Captain Copp and his company, and my
self and a couple of Junior clerks, waited
upon the Grand Duke next door, and
took few field pieces with us by way OF
backing up our arguments. The Great
Grand Duke, with some more field pie
ces, met us to arrange preliminaries.
The particulars OF this transaction are
of no moment to the coming narrative
Suffice it to say, then, that one saot only
was fired, and that shot was fired by the
enemy, and by mistake. Unfortunately,
Captain Copp and |, being at that mo,
meat in advance of the soldiery, and
within range of said shot, having little
private quarrel on our own account, we
lost our heads.


Affairs were then amicably arranged
without further bloodshed.
Year: 1870

Why are horses IN cold weather like
meddlesome gossipsP Because they are
bearers of idle tales.
What is that, from which if you take
the whole, some will remain The word
wholesome.
Wy are washerwomen great travel
ers? Because they are continually eros
sing the line, and running from pole to
pole.


When should woman 60 into the
lumber business ? When she pines for
her lover,w who is spruce young man and
Of whom she thinks great deal. -


Why is drawing from nature infec-
tious It's sketching. -.
If the petrifed giant wer e to wake up
suddenly, what great African traveller
would he resemble2 Living stone.


Why is fashionable society like a
warming-pan? Because it is highly pol
ished but very hollow.
Why is a pretty girl like the hub of q
cart? Because she always has fellow
around her.


What difference is there between a
schoolboy and a postage-stamp? One
you lick with stick, and the other you
stick with lick
What is the difference between a
matchmaker and q jailerp The one sells
watches, and the other watches cells.


Why is man who never lays wager
quite as bad as one who does? Because
he's no better
Why is fascinating woman like a
successful gambler2 Because she has
such winning ways.
Year: 1870

At a large and enthusiastic meeting of
Germans held in New York, on last We'd
ncsday night, Senator Carl Schurz made
Il speech, which we think so forcibly and
eloquently depicts the characters of the
combatants, and the issue involved in this
struggle between France and Prussia, that
we give u portion of it:


In one of the evening papers the story of an
Englishman is given, who, having seen the two
armies in position, says; "ln the French camp
there is loud and hilarious enthusiasm The
soldiers are drinking, shouting and cheering
In the German camp all is quiet, but that quiet
bespeaks determination And it is good
sketch. With the usual French enthusiasm and
bravado, the French army will cross the Rhine
and enter Germany, there to be silently but
firmly met by German bayonets The Germans
no longer are the soldiers of Jena, rs Napolean
vainly tries TO make his army believe. They
have learned since then and Sadowa shows
what they have learned But what will be the
end of this all? Not evil only. One great
great thing has already been ACCOMPLISHED.


Germany is united 1t was not so week ago
the factions still rankled and glOwed in the
German breast; to-day nothing is there but a
brotherly feeling, a sentiment of hate against an
aggressive tyrant Naturally our hopes are
with our flag. The victory of Prussia will be
the fall of despotism, the fall Of system which
has made slaves of Europeans, the fall Of a sys-
tenn which has spread damnable poverty and
ignomny, and above all it will be the erection
of a great kingdom in the center of Europe, q
kingdom which will be peace in reality and not
name only
Year: 1870

The people in the country laugh ut the
contemptible effort made by the enemies of
Judge Temple TO bring him into disrepute,
by attempting to show that he has no re-
gard for the common people" They
think it a huge joke, that the unsophisti-
Gated youth who fathers the organs edito-
rials, after II residence here of less than
four years, should attempt to enlighten
them upon the character of Judge Temple,
whom they have always known Affable,
kind and courteous towards ALL whether
White or colored, rich or poor, Judge Tenn
pie has effected lodgment in the conf
dence and esteem of the honest people,
which can never be shaken by the clan
destine or open attacks from "cliques' of
small men who aspire to control our Judi
cial affairs.
Year: 1870

A singular wedding took place in Morgan
county, Mo-, not long since. A widow was
married to youog man on condition that it
h,r truant busband should at any subsequent,
time express willingness to live with her he
should be allowed to do so. and her union with
the young man should be null and avoid from
that date.
Year: 1870

Senator Carpenter of Wisconsin is named as
one of the persons whose action on the Georgia
bill it was sought to influence by bribery.
Thus far only the most general and contempt
ible insinuations are INDUCED in, and the
charges, as they first reached us, are not sIls-
tanned. We doubt if there is as much basis
for these intimations of dishonesty as for
those of corruption in the sale of cadetslnps'
which the House chose to overlook. We SIN
cerely trust, however, that the investigation
begun in this instance is not to stop short, as
in the former one, leaving the public mind
full of suspicious and doubts.
Year: 1870

President Grant will be fully justified in de-
clining the new and unusual duty which the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations abb
surdly seeks to impose on him. The Consti-
tuition does not require the Executive to sit as
umpire in the contests of North Pole naviga-
tors; and his somewhat neglected nautical ed
ucation does not qualify President Grant to
pronounce which of the two, Dr. Hayes or
Capt. Hall, is the better navigator of ice-bound
seas. The mooted question of the qualifica-
tions of the rival explorers is one which the
people do not care to have settled at their ex-
pense, particularly if it is to cost the neat sum
of 100000. And Science can afford to post
pone the solution of this momentOus matter
until-well, at any rate until the national debt
il funded
Year: 1870

us as the milk cf the Word, nobody is deceived.
We all know the muddy bed fiOm which IL
came. But the most i'll l-disguised attempt 10
convert the filth of the sewers into salaoie
article and give to it the fragrance of prim-
roses, is made by the ordinary scandal-mOnger;
the unhappy man or woman whom disappOint-
ment has sOured and set at odds with man
kind, especially those portions of it who arc
of higher grade and nobler motives than
their own. These gossips may be found
in all sorts of disguises nowadays; III the
sewing circle the editorial chair; the lawyers
desk, plying their unclean trade; but always,
whether it is pure woman or syren that
they defame, or whether they vent their
malignant il-will at the dead or the living,
they give to their poor spite the name OF
virtue and morality.


Now, how it may be with our ncighbors over
the water we do not know, but Americans as
rule, have clear and keen eyes and use them
both with discrimination and justice. "Thames
"butter," in any shape does not long deceive
them They take keen delight in mailing the
counterfeit coin to the counter; in tearing to
pieces shoddy cloth or shoddy aristocracy;
there is no scOundrel whom they run to earth
with as ready Nai as your hypocriCe; 'heJ
know him by instinct, by "the pricking OF
"their thumbs" No sham has been long sue
cessful in this country. The rough common
sense that overthrow a mock authority, knows
how to deal with other shams. So out OF
long experience of these people, we5 warn
our manufacturing friends that their trade is
bad One and one which in the long run will
cheat only themselves. They will find few
men who will not detect their trick, cover it as
they will. Whatever they may think now,
they will find in the end that the pay was
poor. People will not accept as genuine sham
patriotism or insincere Christianity, nor credit
poisonous gossip because it is offered to them
in the name of virtue, any more than they Will
eat the filth of the sewer, however golden
tinted it may be or perfumed with daisies.
Year: 1870

The ST. Louis Tribune thus responds to those
journals and representatives who boast of what
the Vest will do against Protection after her
power in Congress shall have been increased
by the Ninth Census


large majority of the Western people Protec-
ticnists and the minority is becoming smaller every
day. There is great deal of misrepresentation on this
subject in the East growing out of the fact that leading
journals Of great cities supported by dealers In for
egn goods Free Traders People In the East do not
know that country press nearly m in favor of Pro-
lection. While dealers in foreign goods, moreover, in
our large Cities are naturally FreeTraders largest
and best merchants who deal In American products,
mostly in favor Of Protection. The President OF the
Board of Trade in ST. Louis Major Shryock Is Protec
ZIONIST is hr Lewis the President OF the Merchants
Union Exchange. The Governor Of Missouri moreover,
Is Protectionist So much for this State.


ain Iowa. II well known that two lifelong Protection


lists have recently been elected TO the u s. Senate and
Minnesota stands on Protective Tariff platform. II
will be seen therefore, that the three great States west
the Mississippi decided Protectonsts 80 also are
the three great States east Of Illinois, Indiana, and
Wisconsin. The great newspapers In the great cities


may make II appear otherwise distant people, but it Is
nevertheless true. 1t must from the nature OF things,
be true. The Western people are just beginning to build
up their industry They want fair play and no foreign
competition They do not foreign goods as the peo-
pie the East do but homemade clothing and are
only satisfied with it, but proud OF it, We intend,
possible to make all we want In every depart
ment Of life. woocnfactories going all this
country shall into cotton manufactures.
Iron-works are multiplying on every side, and now We
going into the manufacture Of Iron and Steel Rails,
and shall be able to supply all the Western railroads
Protection to Home Industry is therefore, to be here
after the great economical doctrine Of the West Even
to-day, the Western people more in favor Of Pro-
tectve Tariff than the Eastern There good reason for
1t industry is still in its infancy that Of the East
people well established. They endure foreign
competitions cannot, will people permit It,
the next elections of Congressman will show The Free
Traders will be left at home and Protectionts only will
be returned. With increased representation, Con-
gress will then be Protectonst than ever and the
American people will enter upon the high road which
leads to great rich, independent and powerful nation
Year: 1870

The World thus portrays an exaction of the
Tariff which we are confident does not reach
many of its readers:


"such is brief view of Protection which searches,
it were the very veins of oppressed people, and
II TO cut them off from any consolation under afc
ton will not permit them to read so much a chapter
in their Bibles without paying to protected horse
leech duty on that good book OF IS per cent"


The American Bible Society supplies the
larger number of the cheap Bibles required by
our people. That Society stands always ready to
sell Bibles at their naked cost, no matter what
may be the duty imposed on their importa-
ton. We assert as fact that no protected
"horse-leechn has never charged any one "25
"per cent?" nor any per cent, more for Bibles
because of the Tariff. And what is true of
Bibles is true generally.
Year: 1870

We read of a model Mayor in Burlington,
VT, Mr. Linsley by name. The salary attached
to his Office is not what you may call munif-
cent, being but 5000 year. This is such an
insignificant sum that his Honor refuses TO
take it. His motto is "More or none," and we
don't blame him. We presume that in those
pastoral localities there are no facilities for
municipal stealing; and, if there were, we
may be sure that this Mayor would not avail
himself of them: for the man who refuses
5000 is MT the man to misappropriate any
larger sum. Here in NewYork, $500 officer
would pocket the regular pay and as much
more as he could manage to pouch.
Year: 1870

Congress till it shall have been fully discussed
by the People. They give the law, not take
it. When they shall have duly inquired ana
reasoned, and pondered, they will announce
their conclusion. Until then, whatever may
be done will necessarily be provisional III i'S
nature, and might well be forborne.


Our expectation is that, after the present
House shall have proved itself incompetent 10
deal with the Tariff question, it will lay the
bill on the table or postpone it to the next
session. And either conclusion by which
nothing is concluded" will prove as generally
acceptable as any Tariff that this Congress Is
likely 10 make.
Year: 1870

had strong friends, who may prove stubborn
in refusing to see it thus Topped OIL. The
amendment adopted in lieu of it declares the
cxistinr State Government merely provisional,
constitutes it military district ana proVides
for the election of Legislature on NOV TO-
1870. Thus, for the third time, the Senate
insists that Georgia shall be again recon-
structed. 1t is not at all certain that this
harsh policy will receive the countenance OF
the House. We do not believe it is calculated
to cement the Union whose formal reconstruc-
tion il defers
Year: 1870

The investigation of a Committee shows that
the House, in discriminating in the pending
Tariff bill against hemp and in favor of ma
nila, violated an existing treaty with our
friend the Car of all the Russias. There VIII
be those so lacking in reverence for the wis
dom Of the House as TO consider this display
of its ignorance a reason why it ought not to
tinker with the Tariff
Year: 1870

A vote on the Georgia bill was reached after
long debate at late hour last night and then
the measure was not fnaHy disposed of. The
Bingham amendment was killed, and there
fore the bill will have to go back TO
tie House. in which the rejected amendment
Year: 1870

must confess that his staying to face the
music seems to us by far the most gratifying
part of the whole business. Next to stealing
the public moneys, is the meanness of running
away with the funds in pocket BY this pol
troonery, whatever chance there may be OF
n restitution is lost, and the necessary investi-
cations are greatly retarded by the absence OF
the only person who, in many instances, can
be of any real assistance We might say word
of the unfortunate lawyers thus bereft OF fees
by the elopemcnt of the most promising clients; (;
of the public which misses the pleasure of an
exciting trial and of the evil example which
this facility of evasion shows TO rogues MAJOR ara
minor. Wherefore, we beseech the next gen
teman who helps himself to nobly rema III
and trust 10 the uncertainties of the law.
Year: 1870

MARSHALL WARD.-A meeting of the
Conservative Club of Marshall Ward will
he held this evening at o'clock at Spring
field Hall. Business Of importance will be
before the Club, and full attendance Of
members is expected.


The Legislature having passed on Satur-
day last the bill for the registration Of the
voters Of the State, business in connection
with the registration of the Ward will be up
before the Club Tonight, and it is therefore
desired that every member be present.