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Year: 1870

From recent lecture-room talk ofHenry
Ward Bcccher. reported for the Congrega-
tionallst. we make The following extract


When I think Of the representations
made in the New Testament Of Chris
tian life, and compare them with the ef-
forts made by men. can imagine no great
cr contrast. Hundreds arc trying to NOR
tify the flesh; hundreds believe that they
ought not to bo happy-not simply in
wrong-doing. but they think that happi-
moss itself is wrong; they make il their
business To mortify their inclinations.
This is the same feeling that actuates the
heathcn in u grosser way, when they main
themselves; Ii is the same philosophy, and
ends Just about rs near heaven. The New
Testament calls us to no such thing-it
calls us to rejoice. The idea Of the Bible
is To develop Coils nature within US and
90 reconstruct our ruined nature. We are
told that we are adopted into happy
family, that great good fortune has bcfallen
US.


Now wish to say n word about the
Christian life; and first let me observe
that there Is universal Misunderstanding
about nature. Men think that the exer-
else of naturl powers is wrong-that
good Is something bestowed especially.
Now wish to set my foot on that. II
you do not serve God with your natural
faculties. YOU wont serve him nj all, while
YOU are to act with your natural faculties
under divine stimulous. The mischief
Is this: that men are waiting for some
thing 10 fall upon them like dew. Being
Christian Is using the power that God
has given You under the divine inspiration,
Christ being the pattern. and the divine
Spirit giving you power TO follow him (;
and this inspiration and spirit Is univer-
sal.


I would say next that Jesus Christ be-
comes to every soul center; certain
element from him stains. rs IL were. our
NATURE. You all know that you are not
doing your best all the time, that when
you are with people who influence you,
you restrain yourselves. A brutal man
draws hack the devil and lets out little
angel ut sight OF his employer. You have
seen men who say that II Is impossible for
them to stop swearing; but In the pres
ence Of ladies IL would take n dentists
instrument To extract an oath from them.


Now this familiar principle by which
we restrain the evil In us In the. presence
Of good. is the principle by which the
Divine nature acts upon MS. We are
taught to have n private relation to God.
I defy any man 10 bear the best fruits Of
love publicly. There Is something in love
that shrinks. even In the intimate love OF
husband and wife. This state Of intimacy
exists between the soul and God. There
are moments when you have feeling that
YOU can not utter even in prayer. when
you have such sense Of the tenderness oi
Christ that there Is only room for silence
These are the moments in which we are
the most rebuked for our want Of love tn
the brethren, for our consciousness and
unkindness. Out OF this secret relation
grows sense Of oneness Of interest with
Christ. feeling Of clanship. such rs the
Scots felt for their leaders, such rs soldiers
feel Cor a general. We are Christ's par
tisans. Every generous nature knows
that there Is nothing sweeter than giving
Year: 1870

up what we value to one we love; 50 Il Is
with giving up for Christ We doa thou
sand duties because we hear Christ saying.
do il for my sake" II is by the beauty
Of Christian life that the Master wishes
YOU to win men. rather than by the law.
This Is not 10 be set aside, but the power
Of the Christian is in proportion to the
beauty Of his life; we have no right to
be stifr, no right to bo stern and repul-
Year: 1870

The Rebels Surrounding Monfevideo-yA Few
ShOts Thrown Into the City-Pr0grcss Of the
Siege.


RIO JANEIRO Nov. 13 1870


The siege OF Montepideo still going when
the last mail left the river Plate but, with the
ception OF few shots from field piece outside and
OF skrmlsning shots between the advances the
military operations were trivial and the besiegers
appeared to trust chiefly to dissensons treschery
inside or to their blockade by land. During the
night OF the 4th the besiegers made an attack In
force, apparently as reconnaissance, but after an
hours firing both sides retired TO their camp.
According to the government account the only In.
jury done to the besieged was the wounding OF one
OF the defenders The government is In great dread
OF rising inside the CITY, and has issued an order
that any one appearing in the windows or on the
nat roofs after the first sound Of the alarm shall be
ut once arrested and tried at the drumnead "a an
accompiice OF the besiegers. The two government
forces In the north appeared TO be each waiting for
the other to join 1t before marching to attempt the
relief OF MOntevtdeO.
Year: 1870

blacksmith named Rudolph Klan who lived, a
single man, the fifth floor OF No. 22c Mott street.


was last night found dead In his room. He had not
been for the last two days, and the key Of his
room being visible in the lock on the inside, the


neghbOrs suspected something wrong, and commu-
nicated the facts cer Croker, Of the Fourteenth
precinct police. The officer at once entered the
house and forced open the door, when the body OF
Klan was discovered extended upon the moor. with
ghasty wound from pistol shot In his left breast.
Year: 1870

Whe going TO the carriage at the door General Pils
bury said that the prisoner had interviewed had
behaved himself with great propriety during Dls
stay and had won the sympathy and respect OF all
VINO came In contact Win him.
Year: 1870

termihing the ratification of an amend
ment to the Federal Constitution. based
on one introduced by Bingham. The
first section makes it the duty of the
executive to forward certificates of rat
ification to the State Department,
where they shall be ON file.


The second declares that after the
certificate Of ratification has been given
il shall be unlawful for any State Of
fcer to certify to any repeal unless Con
gress shall have proposed to repeal.


The third section declares that after
three .fourths of the States have rati-
fed any amendment, persons SO at.
tempting to repeal, either by color Of
State law or ordinance, shall be deemed
guilty Of misdemeanor and on convic-
tion be subject TO fnc and imprison
mcnt.
Year: 1870

A special dispatch from Washing>
ton to a. Chicago paper, under date of
the 11th lust has tho following con-
cerning the presentation of the Legal
Tender cases in the Supreme Court:


There was very lively scene in the
Supreme Court this morning, the old
est lawyers practising there having
witnessed nothing like II in their day
1t arose in cohncction with the legal
tender case, which it was expected
would be again argued on its merits
At the proper hour, Mr.. Potter, of
New York, who is counsel in one of
the cases on which the Court had con-
sented to hear further argument, in eff
sect asked postponement. for the rea>
son that the senior counsel was engag
ed elsewhere, and others were absent
on account of illness.


The Attorney General responded
against postpcnement, aud 10 the course
of his remarke spoke of the necessity
for an early hearing and decision, be-
cause the country is disturbed and will
continue disturbed until the whole
question at issue is settled. He also
alluded to the fact that these two cases
involve points somewhat like those i'm
the cases recently decided, and in re-
ply to Potter, denied that any order
had been made which prccluded hear.
ing on the point then decided. The
Chief Justice here interrupted, to say
that, according to bis recollection, such
an order had been made. This was
said with evident feeling. and Justice
Miller remarked with equal feeling
that he knew of no such order. JUS
/ tice Nelson came TO the rescue of the
Chief Justice, and Justice Davis spoke
up that he concurred with Miller. The
Chief Justice repeated his statement
with emphasis aud hardly suppressed
passion, and upon the suggestion oI
Judge Davis, who remarked that il was
not worth while to handy words, it va:
decided that the cases might go over
to next Monday. The Attorney Gen
eral meantime bowed to the reeollec.
ton of the Chief Justice. and merel,
expressed his regret that in matter
of this Importance there was no record
| The point on which this dispute, ST
astonishing in the Supreme Court, came
up, seems to be whether there was OF
was not such an order made wher
Evarts was Attorney General, as pre-.
vents further hearing on the qucs,
ton whether the Legal Tender Act ap
plies to debts contracted before it
passage.
Year: 1870

Henry Pettiboue died suddenly in a
fourth.rate gambling hell in East Broad
way.


There have been at least half dozen
other sudden deaths 10 faro banks in
this city during the past year, to say
nothing Of three who have committed
suicide there.
Year: 1870

All that excess of fattering or petting
OF which women are SO fond becomes a
bore to man if required as part Of the
daily habit of life. Out in the world as he
is, harrassed by anxie:ies OF which she
knows nothing, home is emphatically his
place of rest where his wife il his friend
who knows his mind; where he may be
himself without fear of offending, and re-
lax the strain that must be kept up out Of
doors; where he may feel himself safe,
understood and at case. And some wom-
en-, and these by no means the coldest or
the least loving, are wise enough to un-
derstand this need of rest, in the mans
harder life, and, accepting the quiet Of
security as part of the conditions OF mar
riage, content themselves with the unde-
monstrative love into which the fever of
passion has subsided. Others fret over it
and make themselves and their husbands
watched because they cannot believe in
that which is not forever paraded be-
fore their eyes. Yet what kind OF home
is it for the man if he has to walk as II on
egg-shells, every moment afraid of
wounding the susceptibilitles of woman
who will take nothing on trnst and who
has to be continually assured that he still
loves her, before she will believe that to
day is as yesterday OF one thing she may
be certain; no wife who understands what
is the best kind of marriage demands
those continual attentions, which voluntary
offers of the lover, become enforced strib-
ute from the husband She knows that
as wife, whom it is not necessary to
court or fatter, she has nobler place
than that which is expressed by the atten-
tions paid to a mistress. Wifehood, like
all assured conditions, does not need to
be buttressed up; but less certain posi-
tion must be supported from the outside,
and an insecure self-respect, an uncertain
holding, must be perpetually strengthened
and reassured. Women who cannot live
happily without being made love to are
more like mistresses than wives, and come
but badly off in the great struggles Of life
and the cruel handling of time. Placing
all their happiness in things which can
not continue they let slip that which lies in
their hands, and in their desire to retain the
romantic position oflovers lose the sweetse-
curity of wives. Perhaps if they had higher
aims in life than those with which they
often make shift to satisfy themselves,
they would not let themselves sink to the
level ofthis folly, and would understand
better than they do now the worth Of re-
alties as contrasted with appearance.


London Saturday Review.
Year: 1870

At a State fair, held in Utica, N. T., u
gentleman had on exhibition russet apples
grown year before. These apples were
plump and of good flavor, quite as good
as the same kind of apples ordinarily are
on the approach of spring. We inquired
as to the manner of keeping, and were


informed that the apples were put in refuse
boxes obtained at the groceries, and in
the following manner: A layer of dry
sawdust was sprinkled at the bottom of the
box, and then a layer of apples placed in
SO that they did not touch each other. Upon
these was placed a little layer OF sawdust.
and SO on until the box was filled. The
boxes were then placed on the wall in the
cellar, up from the ground. where they
kept perfectly retaining their freshness
and flavor, until brought out and exhibit
e,: at the fair. He says he has kept apples
in this way some months later. Apples
should be handled carefully, and the less
moving about after being packed the better.
Year: 1870

PRoF. OWENS LETTERs.-For some
time past we have not printed any of
Professor Ovens Letters, our space
being taken up with political matters.
We furnish our readers this morning
with his interesting account of Smyr-
ma and the Greeian Isles, and shall
print one Of his letters per week until
the series are finished. We think
all who read his letters will find in
them much interesting and valuable
information.
Year: 1870

WAsHINGToN. October Ex-senator
Morton has formally declined the
Mission to England, giving as a reason
for doing so that in the event of his
resignation as Senator. the Democrats
being in the majority in the Legisla-
ture of Indiana, they would not fail
to elect his successor from their own
party. Setting forth the impropriety
of such course on his part in con-
neetion with the interests of the ad-
ministTation, he cordially thanks the
President for the mark of dis
tinguished favor, in rendering the
Mission, and it is understood that
the President replied in terms equally
friendly.
Year: 1870

PORTLAND THEATRE.-Luclle Western
drew crowded house at the theatre last even.
ing, the audience in the parquette being re-
spectful and appreciatiye, while the fishermen
filled the galleries and attempted to assist the
orchestra by keeping up noise like the rust
ling of forest leaves caused by the crushing of
peanuts, which was not appreciated down
stairs The play was OF the sensational school,
and the concentrated sensational at that, but
it was especially adapted to the company and
to Miss Western, and the result was of the
most interesting aud well acted performance
that has been seen on stage in this city for
many day. Whatever we may have thought
OF Lucille Western 10 certain situations in
East Lynne, we came away with no two i'm
pressions as regarded by Margaret Rookley, in
"The Child Stealers.'' 1t was most power
full piece of acting aud possessed that rare vir-
tue of being true to nature, which is the per-
fection of acting. Her agony and remorse at
the end of the prologue, where she finds she
has sold her own child, and her confession of
who she is, with her defiance of Lord Lans-
dale at the end Of the second act, were espec-
tally remarkable. Tie former of the two
situations reminded US strongly of the story
told Of Charlotte Cushman, when she first
tried to get an engagement in London, and
when refused by the manager of the theatre,
she got down on her knees and cursed him
with such vehemence that the manager
changed his mind, and engaged her saying,
mine God if the she-devil can act like that
my..fortune's made.''


Tonight everybody should not fail to see her
as Nancy Sykes" Dickens great creation.
Miss Western is excellently supported by Mr..
Herne, who is finished actor, and by the rest
of the company.
Year: 1870

The Coal QUEsTIoN.-"B." shot wide at
the mark yesterday in his attack on "P,'' who
treated the subject of city coal contracts in an
onnarentlv fair and candid manner "P" is
one Of our largest dealers and is not the man
to be accused of irregularIty in dealing. Ii
we understand the subject, Sugar Loaf coal is
as much within his reach as any dealers in
Portland "B." fired at the wrong "P. and
the author of the original article on city coal
Contracts is unhurt in reputation.
Year: 1870

To MEN OF BUSINESS no house in Boston is
better than the AMERICAN, its position being
the centre of commercial life, while no effort
Is spared to maintain the high rank the house
has held so long
Year: 1870

This Company are now pushing their work
forward with great rapidty, and the entire line
necessary to connect St. Louis and st. Paul is
graded and under contract to be finished this
season. The fact that this enterprise has been
undertaken by combination of leading bank
ers and railroad capitalists of well known
wealth, experience and ability, insures its early
completion and future success.


The road runs through the richest and most
thckly settled portion of Iowa, and is built
in the interests of the great Northern system
of roads which centre at St. Paul. The
Year: 1870

Best dried eurran 3
do raspberries
do biackberries
do cherries


do apples
do peaches
do plums .. .-u .
Best variety canned or bottled fruit
Second ditto
NO. 48.-PANTRY STORES.


MRS. EMMA RICE, Superintendent
Best butter in pots. not less than
second ditto
Best butter in rolls, not less than n


Second ditto
Best butter in pots, not less than h. made


by girl under III years OF age
second ditto
Best cheese s s-&
Second ditto


Best loaf homemade bread
Best loaf of bread made by girl under 10


years ofage
Second ditto
Best ham. boiled.
Best oat Graham bread
Best loaf corn bread
Best raised biscuit
Best apple butter
Best plum butter
Best peach butter
Best trrit cake
Best pound cake
Best jelly cake
Best marble cake
Best sponge cake
Best cake ofAny other kind
Beet honey. not less than ~ pounds
ooCond ditto
Year: 1870

" NHE most honest of all Quakers, Toby
Il Simpton, lived in London, in pleas
ant little dwelling graced by the presence
of his daughter Mary. She was not quite
seventeen years of age; was charningly
fair had blue eyes, and possessed as much
modesty as beauty. All the young men of
her fathers acquaintance were her suitors
all those of the neighborhood sought to
gain her notice. Vain efforts Mary was
no coquette, and instead of enjoying the
effect produced by her charms, she was vex-
ed on account of the manners of all her adj
mirers, except one Edward Weresford,
young artist, admitted to the intimacy of
the family.


A simple event had caused this friend
ship. premature death had carried off
the Quaker's wife. She was young and
beautiful; and desiring to perpetuate the
image of her who was so dear to him, he
had caused the artist to come to the bed of
death 1t was there that Edward saw the
desolate damsel it was there serious first
love took place, amid the tears of one and
the pious work of the other. The year
which elapsed after this epoch had but
strengthened the bond formed under these
auspices, and the young man had showed
to the father both his desire and hope.


The excellent Toby had no reason what
ever for opposing the mutual inclinations
of the two young persons Without being
rich, Edward earned, by means of his pen-
Gil, what sufficed to support a family hon
orably. His father, Mr. Weresford, an OLD
merchant of the city, had retired from
business with a fortune Increased more than
ten fold. This was a rare example of rapid
success in speculatiOn-so rapid indeed that
few were able to follow it's progress. Yet
Weresford, of blunt and stern disposi-
tion lived alone in suburb of London, and
without caring what his son was doing, left
him entirely at liberty. He was one OF
those accommodating egotists who trouble
no one, provided they trouble not them
persons of perfect complaisance if you ask
nothing of them.


Edward, therefore, could without inter,
ruption, court his pretty Quakeress, well
assured that his father would never think
of opposing his marriage. The situation Of
the loving couple was, to all appearance,
very prosperous; and honest Toby did moi
put off the day of their marriage Longer
than to collect the arrearages of his rents
he destined the money for the extraordinary
expenses of the ceremony For this pur
pose he went to his country seat, some miles
from London, in order to regulate his af
fairs. He had passed but one day from
home; and as he was about to put up his
horse for the night, he perceived at some
distance horseman, who barred the road
He stopped, uncertain whether to 90 ON Oh
turn back. Meanwhile the horseman adj
vanced towards him. The Quaker coulc
not even think of escaping he therefore
put on good face, and brought his hors,
to walk. In approaching the man VIII,
caused his uneasinsss, he perceived that h,
was masked, grievous augury, which wai
soon confirmed. The unknown showed :
pistol and directed the muzzle to the trav
eller, demanding his purse. The Quake
Year: 1870

t8- A learned divine was in the habit of
preaching so as to be rather beyond the
comprehension of some of his hearers. A
friend of his wishing to give him a gentle
hint on the subject, asked him one day the
duty of a shepherd.


"Too feed the flock, of course" was the
reply.


"Ought he, then," said his friend "to
place the hay so high that but few of the
sheep can reach it?'
Year: 1870

The returns published by the British
government show that the United States
have now quite eclipsed Russia in the
English wheat market, and forward to the
United Kingdom more than third of its
whole supply. In five years the increase
amounts to l23 per cent, the largest increase
in proportion to the quantities sent having
been In the import from the southern ports
on the Atlantic. For the present the States
return to the second place Oh the list of the
countries who supply England with GOTTEN
British India being still at the head.
Year: 1870

vt is standing rule Of our church,
said one clergyman to another, for the
sexton to wake up any man that he may
see asleep" Il think" returned the
other, THAT it would be much better
for the sexton, whenever a man goes
to sleep under your preaching, to wake
you up"
Year: 1870

Two little girls were heard one morn"
ing engaged in dispute as to what
their mothers could do" The dispute
was ended by the youngest child say
ing: well. there's one thing my
mother can do that yours can't-my
mother can take every one Of her teeth
out at once"
Year: 1870

1t appears from the report Of care:
full survey by nautical man. published
in the London Shipping Gazette, that
the Suez Canal in every respect is a
great success and is working handsome
" ; but the most interesting fact report
ed is that throughout the canal steady
current moves from the Red Sea into
the Mediterranean varying in its veloci-
ty from three knots an hour, near Suez,
to knot and half at the Mediterranean
outlet. This current proves that the
level of the Red Sea is higher than the
level of the Mediterranean, and the
question naturally recurs, if so, why :?


1t is simply because Of the tremendu-
Gus evaporation Of the Mrditerranea".
This great inland sea is fed from the
east by the powerful current Of the Bos-
phorus and the Dardanelles from the
Black Sea, and from the Atlantic
ocean in the west through the Straits
of Gibraltar, and by numerous rivers on
both sides, and yet the hot and thirsty
winds which sweep across it from the
great desert of Africa keep it down by
evaporation below the general ocean
level. The evaporation from the Red
Sea per square mile, with a roasting
desert on each side, rearer the equa-
tor, is immensely greater than that from
the Mediterranean but5as the Red Sea
is only narrow gulf running up from
the Indian Ocean, its aggregate loss is
comparatively small and is easily sup
piled. At its Northern extremity, at
Suez, therefore, it is kept nearer the
general level of the ocean than is the
Mediterranean along the African coast.


But, granting all this, what does it
sigify in a practical view of the Supz
Canal2 1t signifies that the canal has
become a river or an arm Of the Indian
Ocean flowing into the Mediterranean.
aud that unless this continual current be
checked, the flow oftbis inlet will in time
wash down the sandy banks of the ca
nal in its channel aud fill it up. That
is what it signifies in a business point
of view. If the report in question il
correct land we have no reason to doubt
it), pair of locks will be necessary at
the suez Inlet to regulate the flow from
the Red Sea. Otherwise heavy wind
up this sea of several days duration
may create such current in the canal
as to fill it up with washipgs from its
banks in single night.-lNew York
Herald. ..-