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Year: 1872

French Nationai Restitution to the Or


leans Princes.


The French National Assembly adjourned
yesterday for the enjoyment Of Parliamen-
tary recess during the Christmas holidays
Before the completion of their temporary
separation the members prepared for a due
observance of the great Christina festivals
by the accomplishment of an act of public
absolution and restitution which will rebound
vastly to the honor of the republican govern
mental institution, and may, also, have very
important and decided effect on the constitu-
tional future of the French nation. The Par
lament passed. finally, the bill for the restora-
ton to the Orleans Princes of their property
which had been confscated to the State. This
action will bring to the family descendants
Of the late King Louis Philippe a
very large amount of money, footing up in
the first instance over forty millions of
francs, with q rich territorial patrimony be-
sides. The progeny Of the late Bourbon ruler
Of France numbers to-day ffty-two persons.
The project for the main first division of the
restituted amount includes eight prominent
heads, as will be seen by the HERALD exposi-
ton in our columns. The features of the
Legislative arguments for and against the
action, which we publish, are quite interest
ing in view of the results.
Year: 1872

Hcr Foreign Missions.


On Sunday last we announced to our readers
that Friday, the Goth, had been set apart by
the Protestant Episcopal Church as day Of
special prayer, with view to invoke the
Divine blessing on the foreign missionary
operations of that Church. 1t was understood
that the day would be so observed in England
and all over the British colonies as well as in
the United States. Apart altogether from the
object, which cannot be too highly commended,
there is something exceedingly beautiful in
this united action of the Protestant Episcopacy.
1t has been the standing disgrace Of Prot
estantism that it wants that unity which the
Master so much insisted upon and which has
always been the principal characteristic Of the
Church of Rome.


tits gratifying to know that the day Of special
prayer was faithfully observed. In most
instances the congregations were large, and
the sober, earnest demeanor of the people
gave evidence of the interest which is taken
in the work of foreign missions. We learn
by cable that the day was religiously observed
throughout England. The Bishop of London
oficated at st. Paurs Cathedral, and Dean
Stanley conducted the services at Westminster
Abbey. At many of the metropolitan churches,
we are told, the congregations were large. We
commend this example of united action on
the part of the Protestant Episcopal
Church to the other Protestant sects.
The example ought not to be lost
on the Presbyterians, who are now talking
of the propriety Of holding grand general
council representative of Presbyterianism
throughout the world. A day OF special
prayer is possible. A general council is beset
with some difficulties. As little should the ex-
ample be lost on the Methodists, the Baptists
and the Congregatonalists. Our readers, we
feel assured, will all join us. in the wish
that the fervent prayers of Friday last may be
heard, and that the Lord Of the Harvest may
be pleased to send forth laborers into His
vineyard. Africa, now more than ever holds
out her hands unto God. "Come and help is
her cry. 1t will be shame to the Churches
il the help is not promptly and efficiently
given.
Year: 1872

groups on Christmas Day more than
q million Of people, young and
old, from the rich to those not
absolutely poor, to greet the joys of the season.
Outside of these circles will be thousands and
thousands who will not know that day from
any other, SO far as any difference Of fare or
cheer may count-who o week after will not
care whether the old year is dead or the new
year born. Now, both these cities are rich
For that one day the wealthy and the
well-to-do should see that this number of
easy to find the way if the heart is
inclined and the purse ready. Hundreds Of
charitable people have taken the good work in
hand. and it should not be difficult to find
them. In every asylum, house of refuge, hos
pital mission house and charitable institution
good Christmas dinner should be provided
for those whom Santa Claus would otherwise
have forgotten. This is an appeal made on
behalf of no one religious denomination, nor
OF any particular class of the friendless,
because it covers all alike. Charity is not or
should not be sectarian. The list to choose





pretend to give complete list of the places
where this trifing boon may be dispensed,
but we can furnish the names Of few with
out any detriment to those we are unfortunate
enough to omit. The House Of the Good Shep-
herd we have mentioned. The charity of the
Sheltering Arms of similar good work, we
may also note. Then there are the Children's
Aid Society, the Newsboys' Lodging House,
the Five Points House of Industry, the Found
ling Asylum, tended by the Sisters of Charity;
the Howard Mission and Home for Little
Wanderers; the Home for the Aged, made
homelike by the Little Sisters of the Poor;
the orphan asylums of all sects; st. Luke's
Home for Aged Christian Women, Trinity
Chapel Home for the Aged, the Industrial
School and Home for Destitute Children, the
House of Refuge on RandalIs Island, the
Juvenile Reformatory and Lunatic Asylum on
Blackwelrs Island, the Workhouse on Wards
Island, the Catholic Protectory for Boys,
Bellevue and the other hospitals; the
prisons and the numberless churches
which will give the poor children Christmas
dinner and distribute gifts from Christmas
trees. Do not hesitate then, ye of the happy
homes, to make sad faces merry; to brighten
older memories in those who think themselves
forsaken; to lift, or try to lift up all the poor
and lowly you can reach to innocent merry
making for one Christmas Day, so, when Old
Santa Claus looks in on you, he may be en-
couraged to call with heartier voice the next
time
Year: 1872

During two years past there has been q


quiet movement among some of our wealthiest
and most enterprising citizens to produce in


New York ono of those great international
SHOWS which, by its gathering samples of the
natural and manufactured products of all
parts OF the world, tend signally 10 stimulate
trade and develope excellence in all the indus
trial arts. London, Berlin and Paris have, in
their turn, attracted the curious by World
Fairs' and each has been indebted to its
Crystal Palace for large influx of sightseers,
while Its artisans have learned valuable lessons
from comparison of the best products in
their several departments. New York. when
only fraction of her present size, had her
Crystal Palace Exhibition in Reservoir square,
and was justly boastful of it. till fire reduced
1t and its treasures to heap Of blackened iron
bars and formless ruins. Why shall we not
have another Exhibition which shall equal
that now. preparing in ViennaP In 1870
an act of incorporation was procured
for this purpose and contract male
10 buy eight blocks of land, bounded by
Ninety-eighth and 102d streets, Third and
Fourth avenues-a high. rocky plot admirably
suited for the purpose. Here it is proposed to
erect, at total cost, with the ground. of
about ten million dollars. building Of which
America would be proud; the whole to be
completed and the Exhibition opened for our
Centennial Independence Celebration on the
Fourth of July, 1876 This new Crystal
Palace would be more central than, in its day,
the old one was. Its site is near the lines of
railways which enter the city from the north,
west and east, and is easily reached by horse
car lines. Among the names of the gentlemen
who are vigorously promoting this enterprise
are citizens of the highest sagacity and energy.
1t proposes for all who have individual or
property interests in this city decided and pos
tive advantages which seem to render it Ger
tain that the requisite capital will be quickly
raised and the work done. By all means let
us push on this project with all practicable
speed, and let New York show tho world that
the commercial capital of the American Re-
public can organize and carry out Worlds
Fair as amply attractive as any one yet pro-
duced by European monarchy, in an edifce
as vast, complete, appropriate and beautiful as
has yet been seen. If we do this we shall
all be the wiser, better and richer in more
ways than one for New York's new Crystal
Palace
Year: 1872

OLD FATHER THAMES has, as we are told
by cable from London, suddenly asserted
his power by rising from his Shiny bed
and swelling up huge volume of water
which overhowed the shore boundary yester-
day and inundated the surrounding country.
Home Park presents the appearance of q vast
lake, and the food is the greatest which has
been seen in that neighborhood since the year
1852. The occurrence of these sudden up
heavals of rivers in Europe may be influenced
to some extent, independent of rain and
storm. by subterranean volcanic action.
Year: 1872

The WEEK IN WALL STREET has been note
worthy for the further decline in gold and the
excitement and advance in Erie. While money
has been stringent there has been no depres-
sion in mercantile circles, and the new year is
likely to come in upon memories Of no un-
pleasant nature as regards the diving 1872
Year: 1872




And the woods against the stormy sky,


Their giant branches toss'd
And they, the chips of the old block, are
going to have famous celebration there
tomorrow, the two hundred and ffty-seventh
anniversary of the Decentralization from the
Mayfower, and we wish them good time.
Year: 1872

of worldly opinion who fourshes his fiery
sword of social disgrace above their heads is
pitiless as his prototype. But in that House
of the Good Shepherd may be seen other
women of angelic souls who minister to the
social outcasts, who guide the erring feet into
the right path, who lift up the sin-darkened
brow that the merciful light of God may shine
upon it. Good people, then, you on whose
freside circles this blight has in Gods and
the worlds mercy never fallen, can not you
think how the friendly smile of Santa Claus
upon the Christmas Day of these unfortunates
might call up the memory Of vanished
purity and severed home ties how it
might help along the great work Of the good
Sisters? Think, too, of the orphan boy and
the orphan girl, whom death has sundered
from their Santa Claus. Would it not make
your Christmas joy run smoother to think You
had helped these fatherless and motherless
little ones to some Of its innocent delight?
Do not, while looking on these sad reyerses OF
the picture Of Santa Claus, forget the tiny found
lings. II these little waits are in most cases
too young to appreciate all the poetry of the
myth, give them cause to know when they are
little older that old Santa Claus was forced
by you down the chimney of their dormitory,
first, to put some coal on the fire, and then,
with bundle Of mannikin clothing to keep
the life in their little bones.


1t is touching theme, and one that points
hundred morals and could adorn as many
al To- xt,a 81.
and Brooklyn there will assemble in family
Year: 1872

1 TWO CHARMING AND POPULAR WORKS
IL OF ART.


wide Awake and Fast Asleep"
TWO EXQUISITE FRENCH OIL CHRoMoS,
THE SUBJECTS OF WHICH ARE LIFE


SIZE, AND CANNOT FAIL TO PLEASE


ALL WHO LOVE ART OR CHIL-
Year: 1872

The charming pair of chroms,, ''Wide Awake" and
"Fast Asleep" of whose real beauty and attractive
ness Mrs. Stoves graceful sketch can give but an
imperfect idea-so pleasing they to all who love
art or chdrenhave always sold in the picture stores
for $40, and the original publisher has never been
able to supply the great demand for them even at
that price. And yet, although thousands of them
have been sold in America at that high rate they are
now within the reach of all, for they are
Year: 1872

Frequently whom out to tea, you will hear
Mrs. A., how is it you always manage to have
such nice bread?" 20. it is no trial at all to
make good bread, if you would always use
Woods four
Year: 1872

The seeds of cookie, chess, ard other
weeds that are mixed with the screenings
from the tanning mill, should be carefully
prevented from getting mixed with the
manure in the barn>yard. We once per-
mitted ncighbor to run few bags Of
grain through our tanning mill, and gave
the run OF the barn for that purpose
When he had finished, and during our ab-o
sence, lie doubtless with good intentions
scattered the screenings all over the barn.
yard, SO that the fowls might get the waste ,
grain. THis probably was intended as
sort of recompense for the use of tho mill :
Alas we never regretted more than on
this occasion the doing of favor that re-
suited badly for oursclves. Our manure
pile was thoroughly seeped with cookie
and chess, and probably ten years of labor
will be inflicted on us before those seeds
can be eradicated from the field ON which
chat manure was spread. We mention
this circumstance as a warning to others
rs a forcible reminder to all, that weed
seeds should be consumed with FIRE and
utterly destroyed. Don't feed them To-
poultry; they won't eat cookie, and the
seeds seem to last forever; by hook or
by crook they will get into the fields some
how. Put them in the stove, and you
will have seen the last of them.
Year: 1872

The New York Tribune does not take
kindly to the gentle lecturess. With refer
ence to her recent threat to send out five
hundred female orators, to make shrill and
incoherent the coming Presidential cam
paign, the editor ungallantly says:


Perhaps she can do it. Who knows? If
so, it will add petticoats and picturesque
ness to crusade which has hitherto been
somewhat bleak from the lack of those
alluring and attractive elements. The
twinkle of No. 2 gaiter with high heel
upon the rostrum would doubtless tickle
the great massmeeting imagination, stupe-
fed by long contemplation of No. IL bro
gan., double soled but we don't think
the discourses of the wearers of these be-
wildering boots would amount to much.
1t is seriously to be hoped that Mrs w.
will reconsider her alarming resolution,
and not wantonly flood the land with an
other deluge of talking virgins. There are
surely enough now. With babble of them
is the world filled, and of most of them the
emptiness isas the emptiness of innumera-
BILE drums. Of the other sort, so far as
heard from, it would appear that they de-
sire to have as little to do with Mrs.
Woodruff as possible.
Year: 1872

Flowing may, in sense, be called the
basis of agricultural industry. 1t is pre-
pairing the soil for the reception of the seed
and the crop depends quito as much on
the manner in which the soil is prepared
rs it does on the nature of the soil ITSELF,
Inferior soil, we'll cultivated, often yields
more than that which is better, because
the better is poorly cultivated. Every
farmer knows that deep. loose, and we'll
pulverized soil will always produce more
than that which is hard, sod, or cloddy,
and also that it is much easier worked.
Why, then do not all farmers have deeply
and thoroughly pulverized soil? The rea-
son, undoubtedly, is because of the amount
of hard labor it requires to make il.


Many farmers do not fully appreciate
the value of deep culture, and even thoss
who do, find it practically out Of their
reach, on account Of the labor and expense
of obtaining it.


Machinery must be used before tho
ground is properly prepared for the recePl
of the seed. The experience of the past
seems to prove that thorough and deep
culture will never be generally secured
under the old system of plowing.
Year: 1872

If youth is wooingly disposed towards
any damsel, as he values his happiness
let him cali on that lady when she least
expects him. and take of the appearance
of all that is under her control-Obserye
if the shoes ft neatly, and the hair is well
dressed. And we would forgive q man
for breaking and engagement, if he dis
covered greasy novel hid away under
the cushion of sofa, or a hole in the
garniture of the prettiest foot in the world.
Slovenliness in woman will ever be
avoided by q well regulated mind
A woman cannot always be what is called
dressed : but she may be always neat
And rs certainly as virtuous woman is a
crown of glory to her husband, so surely
il siovcnly one crown Of thorns.
Year: 1872

Social intercourse fer Farmers.


Farmers necessarily live at considerable


distanc IS from each other. and in conse-


quence Of this. and their habits of steady


labor, conine themselves too much to their


own fields and fircsides. They and their
families need recreation, need pleasures.
need something to counteract the effect of
the constant labor in which they are en-
gagged. The mechanic in the village OR
city has his mind frequently drawn away
from his work by that which is going on
around him but the farmer. being differ
emily situated. finds nothing to break ap
the monotony, unless he seeks for 10 else
where. tits quite probable that more
work. would be accomplished, aud better
tone offeeling be experienced, 10 say
nothing of the more cheerful countenance
which would be worn, if talf a day each
week were given to social Intercourse with
fellow farmers, instead of tlevoting sis full
days each week to unremitting labor.
After day spent pleasantly away from
home, the labor is not so irksome; the Ia
bOrer is happier. Allowing that as mueh
was not accomplished by giving little
time to relaxation, it should be borne in
mind that food and raiment for the family,
forage for the stock. and noney for tile
bank are not the only things worth striv-
ing for. We need happiness. But 'ifa
portion of this time be given to wide
awake farmers club. ideas will be gained
practical knowledge acquired, which in
time will bring about results far ia exees.
of these which will be realized by the far
msr who does not improve these epportu-
mites. a -
Year: 1872

Lead thy mother tenderly


Down life's steep decline
Once her arm was thy support,
Now she leans on thine.
See upon her loving face


Those deep lines of care:
Think it was her toll for thee
Left that record there. sa
Ne'er forget her tireless watch
Kept by day and night,
Taking from her step the grace,
From her eye the light.
Cherish we'll her faithful heart
Which, through faithful years,
Echoed with its sympathy


All thy smiles and tears,
Thank God for thy mothers love,
Guard the priceless boon;
For the bitter parting hour


Cometh all too soon.
When thy grateful tenderness
LoOses power to save,
Earth will hold no dearer spot
Than my mothers grave!
Year: 1872

Lieut.. Fred Grant; who is noM making
"the grand tour" in company with Gen.
Sherman, does not seem 10 be making a
very favorable impression abroad-if we
NAV Judge from what was recently writ
ten from Madrid by a correspondent OF
the Paris Figaro. The writer says:


"On the night after the arrival of the
American party King Amadeus entertain
ed them at a banquet, where young MIR.
Grant was treated as if he were the scion
of royal family. He occupied a seat by
the side Of the King, and / have. been
told he shocked the very footman by his
somewhat boisterous mirth after he had
,imbibed several glasses Of the strong
Spanish wine. king Amadesis is man
lof most. polished manners, and by no
means stckler for punctilious etiquette.
But on gala occasions he takes good care
not to offend the peculiar notions of his
subjects, with regard to the ceremonials.
Hence it must have been somewhat an
moving to him to sec his young guest by
his side acting altogether as if he were
the most prominent parsonage at the Ia
BILE, talking great deal in . loud voice.
leaning nsgligently back in his chair, and
even picking his teeth It was probably
owing to these breaches of propriety and
good breeding that the. papers next morn.
Ing, in their reports of the banquet, had
less to say about Lieut.. Grant than they
would have had if he had displayed more
modesty and reserye.@
Year: 1872

organized forthwith:


"In our humble opinion, there is no
hope for the redemption of our poor pun
dered and degraded State, unless a large
number of the honest men of both races
who have heretofore acted with the Re-
publican party, and submitted to the die
tation of its shameless and mercenary lead
ers can be found with patriotism and man
illness enough to declare themselves free
from the shackles of the party as organ
lied and governed in this State, and reor-
ganize it in the interest Of honesty and
good government. We believe that large
number of that party do feel the disgrace
which has been put upon them by the
base and shameless conduct Of 80 many Of
those whom they have elevated to high
position, and that they sincerely desire to
wipe out this disgrace and to secure thor
ough change in our State government. a
party thus reformed and reorganized could
and would secure the hearty and earnest
cooperation of every honest man IN the
State. Let those men, then, who prom
ised us such reform in 1870, go about it in
some such practicable and sensible way as
this, unmindful Of, and unawed by the
crack of the party Lash. and new era
will dawn upon oHr State, and new hopes
b. given to those whose love and devotion
to their native soil now causes them to
hang their heads in gloomy dependency;
The Republican party has entire control
q the State, and viii be held responsible
for its government. Let those of the par
F, therefore, who desire to atone for the
past, and who are unwilling to surrender
Ihe State to the ruthless hands which now
rule and ruin it, take measures to arrest
lhe tide which is sweeping everything to
destruction. and place themselves in po.
sition to receive the support, and merit
the we'll done, OF host Of good men. who
will cooperate with them without any
hope or expectation Of iqdgeships or ether
offices Of trust and honor. By oil thatis
sacred and dear to every native and adopt
ed son Of Carolina, we make tins earnest
appeal to honest and true Republicans"
Year: 1872

And also in pursuance of an act approved
the 29th day of April 1914, directing the
mode of selling seated lands for taxes, and
the several acts supplementary thereto the
following tracts of seated lands and in and
out lots i'll the said County of Forest afore-
said, or so much thereof as will pay the
arrearages oftaXes and costs accrued there
on will be exposed to public sale at the
time and place aforesaid for the sale of
unseated lands, and be continued by adj
jOurnment from day TO day if it should be
found necessary so to do.
Year: 1872

We have no disposition TO consider now the
consequences Of the reelection OF President Grant
While we hope for the best, when consider his past
course we nave every To fear the worst Trust
ing however that his policy toward the South may be
sOfteued and tempered by time that the devices Of
his malignant advisers may be exhausted we are pre-
pared to gracefully TO the decision OF the major
fty And now may we not hope that the war between
the North aud the South ended that this Is tho last
time its passions and resentments will be evoked to
we shall enter upon an era OF peace and good fellowship
The South know stands ready and anxious for recon-
ciliation-and why should We not have peace


THE COURSE OF TIE GOVERNMENT MARKED
Year: 1872

'INII '7'IV0'N.7 VIZ
victorious Republicans ON every hand and the air
charged with - Old John Brown" shan not attempt
To read the lesson OF the splendid victory by which
Ulysses s. Grant is reelected President OF the United
tion-a cheat and XplOded aud the course or
the Government marked out for the next four years. II
not for a generation. The people Of America have
shown flat they intelligent 10 be misled by cam
paign captrap but capable OF looking over ana beyond
The dust raised by interested and designing parsans
no matter speciOus the preenses under which they
seek 10 secure their confidence.