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Year: 1870

The Leavenworth Commercial, of Jan.
uary Sd, has the following:


A gentleman who came up the road from
Fort Scott, yesterday, tells us a pleasant
story OF men and things as they exist at
Mound City, which i, a station on the Gulf
road. We give prominence to the affair,
not because we were an eye witness of what
We relate, or because we feel peculiar
interest in it, but because in this age of
affinities," we like to show how actively
the thing works. The story may or may
not be colored. On that point it wouldbe
rash to express an opinion. The duty of
faithful reporter is to give such partic-
ulars as may have come to his observation
at the latest moment. This We do, and
narrate the following:


My DEAR" said married man, step
ping up affectionately to his wife the other
morning, al have found much solace late
ly in the doctrine of affinity and |
think, without obtruding on your privacy,
that | have observed similar peculiarity
in your own sensitive soul. Let us obey
our instincts" Love-" murmured the
lady, "you look into Ely heart as into
another" That night the gentleman came
home and found his pillow occupied by the
head of neighbor. Like good husband
he stepped away softly for fear of disturb,
ing his wife, and sought the wife of the
man who was occupying his bed and in
whom he thought it probable he might also
find another affinity" On finding her
however, he was surprised to discover that
he had been forestalled and that her fond
ness for affinities" had been appcased
otherwise. He now began to think that
the doctrine was spreading, quite rapidly
and that he was left out in the cold Not
wishing to run all around the town, and
despairing of finding lady who had not
/" affinity" all ready to her hand, he betook
himself to hay stack where he slept all
night, and got back to find his wife ready
with hot breakfast, her hair all nicely
smoothed down and looking IS fresh as a
peach. That is the way the "afhnity'
dodge works
Year: 1870

A RAvINq MANIAC THROUGH FRIoHr.
A gentleman from Sparta, Tennessee. gives
us the particulars of sad affair which oc-
Cured In that part of the country recently.
AT one OF those periodical masqueradings
for which the rural districts are celebrated.
the subject of ghosts and spiritual vista.
tlons was discussed at great length, and
with all that exaggeration and high color.
ing which usually attaches to any theme.
in which the supernatural plays a part.
When the party broke up, one of the young
men of the neighborhood conceived the
idea of frightening two of the ladies, who
had some distance to 60 along lonely road
with their brother Wrapping himself in
a sheet from head to foot, he took short
path, and emerged upon the trio from a
copse of bushes just as they came up. As
the figure in white became visible, moving
slowly toward them, the trio set up the
most horrible shrieks, and fed down the
path In the utmost terror. One of the
ladies swooned and fell to the ground,
while the other reached the house with
reason unseated, raving maniac.-Nash-
vile Banner
Year: 1870

Information was received last evening at the
county physlcian's once, In Newark, N. J., OF q
shocking occurrence whicn took place in the house
No. q BOYD street. little girl Of the occupants,
Jeweller named August Wiedman, was left In charge
OF the house during temporary absence OF Its
mother On tine return OF the latter soon after the
child was quito dead, IL was burned almost to q
cinder All the clothes were nod completely OF
she body and only the shoes remained. The poor
child was between six and seven years OF age and
had evidently been playing about the stove.
Year: 1870

CORRECT SpEAKINa.-Wc advise all
our young people to acquire in early life
the habit OF correct speaking and writ.
ing, and to abandon us early as possible
any use of slang words or phrases. The
longer you live the more difictlt the
requirement of correct language will
be, and if the Golden age of youth pro.
per season for the acquisition of Lem
guage be passed in abuse, the unfor-
tunate victim, if neglected, is very
properly doomed to talk slang for life.
Money is unnecessary to procure thi,
education. Every man has it in his
power. lie has merely to use the lans
guagc which he reads, instead of the
slang which he hears, to form his taste
from the best speakers and poets in the
country; to treasure up choice phrases
in his memory and habituate himself to
their use, avoiding at tie same time
that pedantic precision and bombast
which shows the weakness of vain am
bition, rather than the polish. of an ed
ucatcd man.
Year: 1870

A clenr bright eye


That can pierce the sky
With the strength Of an eagless vision
And steady brain
That can bear the stran
And shock of the worlds collision:
A woll-knit frame.


With n ruddy flame
Aglow, and the pulses leaping


With the measured time


or n dulcet rhyme.
Their beautiful record keeping;


A rounded cheek. f.


Where the roses speak
0fa coil ihnt is rich for thriving.
And chest so grand


That the lungs expand
Exultant, without the striyiDgJ
A breath like morn. s
With the crimson dawn
Is fresh in its dewy sweetnesss


A manner bright,
- And spirit light.
With joy at its full completeness;
o. give me these.


Natures harm onics,
And keep all your golden treasures;
For wha, Is wealth


To the boon of health
And its sweet attendant pleasures


--Ihrenoiogiedl journal.
Year: 1870

Bill in the Senate.
"A Final Attempt to Strike
Out the Income Sections
Defeated by a


Tie Vote.
Little Progress Made by the
Various Conference


Committees.
,Unfavorable Action by the House
= Committee on the Southern
Pacific Railroad


Bill.
Year: 1870

TEE CHICAGO WEEKLY TRIBUNE daa larEcr md
better circulation in the West than my other Journal
It s excellent medium for advertising. especially to
those who wish to the patronage Of the prodnc-
Ins classes limited number Of advertisement. will
be taken. at moderate rates. Subscription price Of TIE
WEEKLY Tn1nCNE, se per anuuln, with liberal rcduc
ton for club or ten or more,
Year: 1870

FESTIVAL IN souTH WHEELNe.-We
hear that d festival is to be held next
week In stubenrach's hall, South Wheel
ing. for the benefit Of the Third Presby'
terian Church in that place. We hope 1t
will prove grand success. The pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Cross, is one of the most faithful
and deserving ministers in this region, and
we understand this festival is given to as
sist tho congregational in meeting Mr.. C's.
salary. The object is a commendable one
and should receive a generous support.
Year: 1870

Here are over billion OF acres IN
all. Nor is any large proportion of
it worthless land. A gradual correc-
ton Of the public mind has been nee
essary and has been going on in that
respect. 1t was not many years ago
that the "Great American Desert" oc-
cupied the heart of the continent on
our school and other maps of the
United States and of North America.
The boundries of that desert, howev-
er, have been rapidly driven in, until
the best explorers deny that there is
any desert. Thus, Idaho is found to
be adapted to all cereals and ordin-
ary vegetables, and to the northern
kinds Of fruits, and is specially suited
to stock raising; Utah already pro-
duces over a million bushels of cereals
annually; Wyoming has fine grass
lands and fertile valleys; Arizona
produces grain, rice, sugar and cot
ton; Montana produces agricultural
staples of all kinds to the amount of
nearly four millions of dollars per an
nun; Colorado is said to constitute
zone of the most luxuriant pastures
of the continent" and to be capable
of successful cultivation by aid of ir-
rigation; and SO on. With regard
to Alaska, not enough is known to
speak with confidence: but there is
no question that the remainder of our
territories are not only abundantly
rich in mineral resources of the most
varied nature, but are destined to be-
come for immense populations homes
as near self sustaining as any locality
can be in these times, when the con-
tributions from the ends of the earth
come pouring into every kitchen and
parlor.


The population of this territorial
domain is now not far from 100000
possibly (for nothing is more un-
certain than the movement Of poDula-
tion both in and out Of it, it may
reach half a million. The tide of per-
manent increase, however, must con-
tinue to swell. New railroads are
continually heading westward, and
the emigrating fever in the older To-
calities Of the Union was never strong
er than it is at this moment. This we
predict will be shown in a striking
manner by the forthcoming census
When we consider, therefore, that our
territories have an actual area great
er by 175,000 square miles than the
area of all the admitted States of the
Union, we get some glimpse of the
vastness Of that seat of empire. and of
that unequaled national power on
earth OF which it is to form a constit-
uent part. The empires of Alexander
and Of Caesar will have been but the
preclldes of the grander drama set
upon the stages of this Western Con-
tinent.-Boston Journal.
Year: 1870

ANCIENT ANGLO-SAXON MARRIAGES..
If the old Angl0-Saxon law con
ccrning marriage were in force now,
there would be less occasion for run
ming of to Indiana to get divorce.
1t was the custom Of that people who
were the forefathers of most Of us, to
buy their wives, although the transac-
ton was not so bluntly designated
The contracting parties were "hand-
fasted,' the husband making promises
Of good treatment and protection, and
the wife Of love and affection. The
husband then handed over to the IA
thcr or guardian Of the bride, the sum
in money or cattle agreed upon. But
as courtship was out Of the question,
and the bride was generally taken on
the representation of her relatives, the
bridegroom not unfrequently found
the pig he bought in a poke was but
a runt, aud swore some good mouth.
filing AnglO-SaXon oaths over his
bad bargain. To remedy this, Ethel
bert, the first Christian king Of the
Anglo Saxons, promulgated this law


"Ifa man buys a maiden with cat
tie, let the bargain stand, if it be with,
out guile; but if their be deceit, let
him bring her home again, and let the
man give him back his money"


or course the law was sometimes
evaded 10y the purchaser agreeing etc
take his bargain "as she stands"
Year: 1870

Of the way in which Mr.. Webster
prepared himself for a great legal ar
gument, we have an account from the
pen Of his friend Mr.. Ticknor, which
Mr.. Curtis has done well to insert in
his volume:


In the spring of 1924 Mr.. Webster
was much concerned in the discussion
then going on in the House of Repre-
sentativeS at Washington upon the
tariff. One morning he rose very
early-earlier. even than was his Gus
tonic prepare himself to speak up
On it. From long before daylight till
the hour when the House met, he was
busy with his brief. When he was
far advanced in speaking, note was
brought to him from the Supreme
Court, informing him that the great
case Of Gibbon V. Ogden would be
called on for argument the next morn
ing. He was astounded at the intel
ligence, for he had supposed that at-
ter the tariff question should have
been disposed of, he would still have
ten days to prepare himself for this
formidable conflict, in which the con-
8titutionality Of the laws Of New York,
granting a steamboat monopoly of its
tide waters, would be decided.


He brought his speech on the tariff
to conclusion as speedily as he
could, and hurried home to make such
preparation for the great law argu-
ment as the shortness of the time
would permit. He had then taken
no food since his mornings breakfast;
but instead Of dining he took a mod
crate dose OF medicine and went to
bed, and to sleep. At 10 P. NJ. he
awoke, called for bowl Of tea, and
without other refre5hment went imme-
diateIy to work. To use his own
phrase, the "tapes had not been off
the papers for more than a year" >
He worked all night, and, as he has
told me more than once, he thought
he never on any occasion had so com
pletely the use Of all his faculties. He
hardly felt that he had bodily organs,
so entirely had his fasting and the
medicine done their work. At9 A, NJ,
after eleven hours of continuous men,
tai effort, his brief was completed.


He sent for the barber and was
shaved; he took very slight break
last of tea and crackers; he looked
over his papers to see that they were
all in order, and tied them up,-he
read the morning journal, to amuse
and change his thoughts, and then he
went into court, and made that grand
argument which, as Judge Wayne
said above twenty years afterward,
released every creek and river. ev-
cry lake and harbor in our country
from the interference of monopolies.
Whatever he may have thought of his
powers on the preceding night, the
court and the bar acknowledged their
whole force that day. And yet, at
end of FIVE hours, when he ceased
/ speaking, he could hardly be said to
have taken what would amount to
half the refreshmenJ of a common
meal, for above 30 hours, and, out of
the 36 hours Immediately preceding,
be had for 81 been in a state Of very
high excitement and activity.
Year: 1870




No one need be afraid that, in mar
rying, he must so entangle himself
with the affairs of this life that he
shall necessarily be distracted by
them from the highest spiritual SER
vice of which the heart is capable;
that be must satisfy himself with low
er attainments in piety than he might
otherwise reach; or that he must be
contented to do less for the advance
nent of the divine kingdom than he
might otherwise do. No woman need
fear that the thought of husband and
family must necessarily keep her from
as close a communion with God as
she could maintain if single, or that
to be a good wife and mother is low
er sphere of service in the eyes of the
Almighty than the undivided work
which, if unmarried, it is at least pos
sible that she might give to others
All may look forward TO Christian
marriage as a sphere in which every
grace Of the Christian life may be ex-
hibited, and every duty Of the Christ
tian's service of his Lord performed !;
in which faithfulnesS, zeal, devotion,
spirituality of mind, and heavenly as
pirations may play as important a
part as in the celibate condition, while,
at the same time, by the new relations
in which it places the married, the
new obligations which it imposes up
on them, the new field which it sup
plies for the cultivation of the affec.
tions, for forgetfulness of self, for su-
preme regard for the interests of 9th
ers, for watchfulness, tenderness of
heart, the discipline of their own
character, and the moulding the char
acter of children, it opens up a deep.
er, fuller life to be filed with God
than the celibate can know. Every
apprehension, therefore, that the mar
ried life involves in its very nature,
and apart from peculiarities Of dispo-
sition and time, less perfect tone of
mind and aim that the unmarried,
ought to be at once dismissed. The
dangers and temptations that beset it
ought, indeed, to be kept in view ;
the distracting influences ofany course
of life whatever ought to be delibe.
rately considered by us before we en-
ter on it; and that divine help ought
to be sought, which is needed to over.
come them. But, having done this,
we may marry in confidence and
hope.-Wi1iam Mulligan, IN Sunday
Magazine.
Year: 1870

There was young rabbit


Who had q 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 brrrow close


hid"


For hear the dread sounds


Ofhuntsmen and hounds,
Who are searching around for rabbits like you.
Should they see you by your head
They would soon shoot you dead,
And the dogs would be of with you quicker than


boo.


But poor, foolish being,


When no one was seeing
Looking out from his burrow to take a short play,
lie hoped Ger the ground


With many a bound;
And looked around proudly as if he would say,
Do fear a man


Now catch who can
So this Young rabbit ran to a fine apple tree,
Where gnawing the bark,


he thought not to bark,
The coming Of hunters, so careless was he.
Now rs rabbits are good,


When roasted or stcwed,
A man came along hunting rabbits for dinner;
He saw little Bun


Then raised his big gun
And there he lay, dead, the foolish young sinner.
Year: 1870

The female penguin Of the Antartic
Ocean, instead of making a nest, holds
the egg which it deposits between the
legs and feathers of the belly, bear
ing it about her wherever she goes
until it is hatched.
Year: 1870

How few realize the immensity of
our territorial area, destined even in
the near future to be the seat of nu-
merous and hourishing States. The
following is table of these territories,
made up as accurately as can be done
from official data at Washington
Year: 1870

The decree is published in Paris convoking
the High Court of Justice for the trial of the
persons accused in the plot against the En-
present to the world at once its whole case on
this charge. In England the journals begin to
whisper suspicion that this plot is an inven-
ton of the authorities, worked up to put the
opposition 1agrantly in the wrong before the
country. Here this was the first interpreta-
ton put upon the statement Of the facts, but
we see no reason why an attempt on the EN-
perors life should be so incredible thing as
this idea would suppose. The revolutionary
elements that ferment In Paris have always
held assassinations Of this sort not only JUS
tifable but praiseworthy, and have at
tempted them frequently. Nobody supposes the
Orsini attempt was government fiction, and
the excitement of the time in France is as
likely as excitement ever was to provoke such
an endeavor. The situation in France to-day
is, indeed, not altogether unlike that in which
originated the second empire. Olivier has
just satisfactorily shown that the basis of op-
position is party that proposes republic
on extreme democratic ideas, and against such
party the empire appeals to the people. 1t
was just the same in 1852, when the Emperor
appealed to the nation to sustain the stroke by
which he rescued the country from party Of
political philosophers, who also had extreme
democratic ideas. The certainty that the result
will be the same now as it was then already
frenzies the republicans and puts them to des-
perate enterprises.
Year: 1870

There is some pother In the world just now
on the question whether women shall be per-
mitted to attend hospital clinics. 1t is an
unfortunate fact that all professors are not
gentlemen, and If they take any notice of the
presence Of women as students they take an
offensive or brutal notice. It is further unfor-
tunate that among medical students coarse
vulgarity of manner end thought is more COM
mon than refined intelligence. These facts
compel women to make veritable sacrifice of
themselves in their efforts to pursue their
studies in this profession but the remedy Is
still in the hands of the women, and may be
applied in this city. Let the women Of wealth
who are anxious in these days to be known for
charitable, generous and philanthropic natures
establish in connection with the Woman's Col
lege woman's hospital. There is plenty OF
room for 1t, and the State will help 1t, as it
helps all similar institutions. Here the women
would be present by right Of original posses
sion, as students, or practitioners, or in any
capacity; and the best surgeons or physicians
would not refuse their services for operations
or cases illustrating all the possibilities OF
surgery and medicine.
Year: 1870

During the last week the average daily mass
of advertisements in this journal of all descrip-
tions was about forty-three columns, or some
thing over seven compact pages in small type
greater average than that of any preceding
week since the issue of our first number.


In a corresponding ratio our daily circula-
ton has been and continues to be steadily and
rapidly increasing.


In it's advertisements and circulation, the
HERALD having been for many years recog-
nized reflex and index of the prosperity and
expansion of this great commercial and lnan-
cial metropolis and of its fluctuations in
business affairs, we may submit our charging
prosperity Of this season as fair indication of
general revival of business here and through
out the country.


From present appearances, looking at the
growth of the city itself, and of its surround
Ing suburban cities and villages on Long
Island, Staten Island, and in New Jersey,
Westchester and Connecticut, and at tho
increasing demands of our advertisers and
subscribers within this radius, and from all
parts of the Union, the Continent and the civil
ized world, we expect soon to be required to
issue daily quadruple HERALD, and to meet
demand which we are prepared to meet,
rising from one hundred and fifty thousand to
two hundred thousand copies every day in the
wear
Year: 1870

The frightful catastrophe at Richmond that
has plunged 50 many families into mourning
and sent thrill Of horror through the whole
nation revives subject which it is the duty
of the press to keep before the people. The
construction of too many Of our public build
ings, especially those dedicated to popular
amusement, is criminally faulty. The 'job"
spirit has been allowed to pervade our whole
social system, until human life has come to be
looked upon as commodity of much less
value than the raw material used for tenn
porary profit. One Is particularly struck with
this impression while sitting in some of our
theatres when they are crowded. He feels by
the quiver of the floor beneath him that there
is danger below, above and around him-on
all sides-and as he glances towards the doors
his heart sinks at the thought that hundreds
could find no egress in case Of fire, the giving
way Of beam or rafter, or any other sudden
alarm.


A statstician computes that since the begin
ming of the present century one thousand per-
sons have perished from fires in European
theatres alone-the number Of such being now
one thousand four hundred and eighty on the
Continent. The United States, with their less
carefully built establishments, must have had
far larger ratio, and we will venture to say
that thorough scrutiny Of our State houses,
halls, theatres, concert rooms, courts, &c,
would now reveal the lurking death that
pounced so cruelty upon three SCORE victims
the other day at Richmond, only awaiting the
extra strain Of few hundred pounds, or the
careless sweep of gasburner to slay another
holocaust We contend that those who know
ingly build insecure structures or neglect the
conditions Of their safety afterward are
morally accountable for oil the woe that their
heartless cupidity or sluggish inattention may
induce. Here is q matter in which the most
rigid inspection is merciful kindness to the
public.
Year: 1870

If we are to Judge from oil our recent intelli-
gence from Great Britain regarding the Glad
stone policy towards Ireland, we have no hesi-
tation in saying that it has not been success,
at least such success as Mr.. Gladstone looked
for. The Church Disestabishment bill was
good-the present Land bill is good-but, true
to her ancient character, Ireland still cries
"Give" The latest demand is not new but
it reveals spirit which we fear is too strong
to be quieted by any sedative. Ireland now
raises afresh the cry for repeal of the
Union; or, to put it more mildly, she
demands an Irish Parliament. It will not
surprise us if it should come to this. There
is no good reason why Ireland should not
obtain from England what Hungary has
obtained from Austria. It is a curious and
not uninstructive fact that while in this country
we have done much to kill State rights, State
rights have loomed up as a big question in
Europe. Is there any good reason why Great
Britain should not have a number Of local
legislatures as well as an imperial Parliament?
We have our Congress, but we do not find the
unity of the republic incompatible with State
Legislatures. The British Parliament has
already too much on hand. A subordinate
Parliament in Dublin, another in Edinburg,
another in York might make the work of the
imperial Parliament at once more easy and
more satisfactory. At any rate the revival Of
this ancient cry is deserving Of some attention.