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Year: 1873

FELLOW CITIZENS l am glad to see so good
. response TO the call issued by the Committee Of
Seventy at the request OF other Reform organizations
aud citizens generally shan detaln you only moment,
az there gentlemen here well known TO you all, who
will address YOU upon tue issues connected with char
ter for the City Of NewYork which have met to
sder and beg to ask your earnest attention TO their
statements TIE necessity for reforms in the cty's
affairs which called the Committee Of Seventy into
istence in 1871 s exists, aud the earnest cooperation
OF all citizens demanded until the right Of the people
to an honest economical and efficient city government
Committee, its labors have been continuous
and arduous - with some good results as
well as not few disappointments. Last
FaD the large proportion Of members elected to the
Legislature upon the Reform platform and issues, and
not few OF them through the influence Of this Com
mttee and kindred associations without distinction Of
party entitled TO hope that the subject Of the Charter
would treated with other purpose than TO give to
this city charter by Of which substantial re-
forms could be secured in the several departments Of It's
government We have right to ask this Legislature
tor such Of permanent relief as are sorely
needed The entire responsibility for whatever get,
good or bad, must rest with the Legislature now in
power and with the party dominant in it. We do not
ssk for legislation in the interest Of any party,
but solely the permanent relief Of this outraged and
oppressed community.


will now introduce Prof Theodore w. Dwight, Chair
man OF the Committee on Legislation of the Committee
OF Seventy whose familiarity with the whole subject of
Committees OF the Legislature, all acquainted
Year: 1873

Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN The Com
nttee OF Seventy have called you together tonight in
order that they may discharge what they believe TO have
been duty imposed upon them by the citizens Of New


York, at the great uprising which you all well remem


Der. when we determined 10 shake on possible the
evils which 90 burdened our City Government Then.


gentlemen you selected that Committee and they have
felt ever since that there a trust imposed upon
them TO watch the interests OF the people. At
the time they wish TO continue to know what the
people desire, and when great crisis comes in the
Affairs OF the city they feel it to be their duty well as


great qualification 10 them here aud feel your
pulses and ask what the health Of the cty You can
tell IAppeuse After the great reform move ment
last Fall, IN which felt we had secured an over
vhemiDg triumph thought that this question Of the
charter would have been disposed Of IN such way as TO
promote the interests OF the city We therefore, when
the Central Republican Committee came forward 10
frame charter, determined % treat that proposition
With all candor and magDanimity, thinking that
fhsy would present one only In the In
sefest Of reform, and that IL would be only
ssssssS foT ~ " make sveb suggestions and amend
Year: 1873

What would you 9hink Of an amendment at
tached to the United States Constitution that the Senate
should nominate all the officers and then that the Ies
dent should have the power TO reectf After he had re-
iected, the majority in the Senate could
make the same appointments again. This
is what those gentlemen propose. They pro
pose TO have Board Of Aldermen select
officers and the Mayor reject and the Board of Aldermen
might again appoint the men again. What
would you think OF your President Of the United States
II he had such Office thati What kind of man
would you got TO hold the object Better abolish the
Office altogether No. they too shrcwd politicians
for that. They do not like the responsibility OF abolish
ing the Office, but they take away the Mayors power
and make him sort OF Grand Llama for the people to


look at, and attract the veneraton Of the simple


through the curiosity that would simply attain 20 him in
future days as the shadow of one mighty name.
Year: 1873

It ia incredible how many persons
outside Of towns neglect 10 take any
newspaper. The other day we met
a gentleman Of position and grad.
uate 81 one OF Our universities, so
uninformed upon topics OF common
interest, that he had never heard Of
the horse disease. He did not know
who was Cos. Brown, Of Tennessee,
and was ignorant for what Office
Andy johnson had been running for.
lie had bought the morning paper
to read of the great Boston fire, and
was utterly astonished at the amount
Of other matter he found.


Every man in the State ought to
take at least one paper, If he take
but one paper, that one ought to be
his county paper. We uonld like
10 ace every man in this county take
either the Index or the Democrat,
wa wish this for the improvement Of
our people. The subscription pr.cc
ia too small to be considered. A
load Of wood, pig, a lew chickens
or a lew dozen eggs; a lew drinks
OF whiskey less, iewer chews OF
tobacco, aud you have visitor com
ing TO you every week, telling you



how your government is admins.
tered, advising with you for your
common welfare, telling you what
the world is doing, and entertaining
you, your wife aud children. If any
induftrious, honest man wants our
weekl, and will satisfy US that he is
too poor to pay for it, and has not
drank the subscription price in
whiskey or used it in tobacco, we
will send it TO him free. We in
tend going all over the county foon,
and we hope to meet one Of your
county papers at every house.
fColumbus Index.
Year: 1873

We heard story told the other day
that made our eyes moistcn. We have
determined to tell it, just as we heard it,
to the little ones:


A company of poor children, who had
been gathered out of the alloys and gar
rets of the city, were preparing for their
departure to new and distant homes in
the West Just before The time for the
starting of the cars, one of the boys was
noticed aside from the others, apparently
very busy with cast-ofT garment.


The superintendent stepped up to him
and found that he was cutting a small
piece ont of the patched lining Improved
to be his jacket, which had been replaced
! by a new one. had been thrown away
There was no time to be lost. 'Comc,
John, comc,' said the superintendent,
what are you going 10 do with that old
piece Of calico p Please, SIR" said
John, II am cutting it to take with me.
My dear mother put the lining into this
old jacket for me. This was piece Of
her dress, and it is all shall have to re-
member her by And as the poor boy
tnouSuJ Oh tnat ucal mOJner love, ana
of the death bed scene in the old garret
where she had died, he covered his face
with his hands and sobbed as if his heart
would break.


But the train was about leaving, and
John thrust the little piece of calico into
his bosom, ito remember his mother BY
hurried into the car, and was soon far
away from the place where he had seen
so much sorrow.


We all know many an eye will moistcn
as this story is told and retold through
out the country, and many prayer will
go up to God for the fltherlcss and mo-
therless in all great cities and in all
places.


Little readers, are your mothers still
spared to you? viii you not show your
love by cheerful obedience. That little
boy who loved so well, we are sure
obeyed.


Bear this in mind, that if you shoald
one day have to look upon the face of a
"dear dead mother" no thought would
be so bitter as to remember that you
have given hor pain by your wilfullncss
or disobcdicnce.
Year: 1873

Frequency of thunder gusts in our Vi
cinity within the past two weeks, has
suggested the following:


'eTwas born in moment, yet quick as its


birth


It had stretched to the uttermost ends of the


earth;


And fair asnn angel. II noatcd MS free,
With wing on the Garth and wing on the
sea-


How wide was the sweep ofits beautiful wingsl
How boundIess its circles how radiant It's


rings


re I looked on the sky, 'twns suspended in air;
II looked on the ocean, the rainbow was


there;


Thus forming girdle ms brilliant and whole
AS the thoughts Of the rainbow that circled


my soul


Like the wing of the Deity, calmly unfuried,
Ii bent from The cloud and encircled the world.


So sang ono whose spirit was MS bright
and full Of beauty as the radiant bow
that spans the summer heaven. There
are those who spend all the strength of
youth for the glory of laurel garland,
or crown of bays, and in mid-agc re-
ceive their reward; there are those who
watch and wait and struggle through life
for an earthly rccompense which never
comes but few arc they, who like Her,
come singing from the portals Of Para
disc, and return thither with Tyre and
crown, ere the dew has gone up from its
amaranthine blossoms. Soft as the
dreamy lull of Ginning waters, light as
the football of the summer wind, enchan-
ting as some fairy-pcopled vision, steals
upon our spirits the sweet music of her
Tyre. Poetical expression was not to her
that timer voice" interpreting the mys-
terics of our being; it was the simple
.'singing Of the fountains Of her soul !;
and poetry was not to her an "ocean to
the river Of her thoughts" whereunto
rolled great currents Of reflection, and
where swcllcd the tides Of passion; it
was the morning sunbeam looking daily
down into her heart blossoms, until, like
bird amid the dawning, her impulsive
spirit carollcd forth in ccstacy its lays of
love and praise. If ambition found a
place within her soul, it was but as the
sllvcry star-shadow upon the dreaming
waves, for laurels bloomed even uron
her girlhood's brow, and when the ma
turity of womanhood frightened over it
like halo, she passed away into the
Bright Beyond, Of which she had so Of
ten sung-the ideal heaven now her ra-
diant reality; And the lend Of earth"
has been to her also the end of the rain
bow for this bright arch is but "bow
of promise" which must needs have no
existence in the land of eternal fruition.
Have VIC ever thought there will bc no
rainbows in Heaven? !? For, ah ! it is but
beautiful child Of earth, born Of sun
shine and the cloud-and there are to be
no clouds, "neither light of the sun, for
the Lord God is the light thereof, and
ye shall reign with him forever and ever !


Time and again, in our childhood
VIC have listened to old nurses tales o.
Year: 1873

| walk down the Valley Of Silence


Down the dim, voiceless Valley--alonc
And hear not the fall of q footstep


Around me--save Gods and my own
And the hush Of my heart is MS holy


As hovers where Angels have flown
Long ago-T wns weary OF voices


Whose music my heart could not win;
Long ago, was weary of noises


That fretted my soul with their din;
Long ago was weary Of places


Where met the Humankind Sin.
/ walked thro' the world with the worldly;
craved what the world never gave;
And said s'In the world each ideal


That shines like star on liie's wave,
Is tossed on the shore of the Real


And sleeps like dream in the graye.'
And still did pine for the Perfect


And still found the False with the True;
| sought mid the Human for Heaven.


But caught n mere glimpse of Its Blue;
And wept when the clouds of the Mortal


Yelled even that glimpse from my view.
And toilcd on, henrt-tired of the Human;
And moaned mid the mazes of men;
Till knelt long ago at an Altar



walk down the Valley of Silence


That lies far beyond mortal ken.
Do you ask what found in the Valley?


'Tis my Trysting Place with the Divine;
And | fell at the feet of the Holy,


And above me voice said BE mine;''
And then rose from the depths of my spirit
An ccho-"My heart shall be Thine"
Do you ask how live in the Valley?


weep-and dream-and pray,
But my tears are sweet MS the dcw-drops


That fall on the roses of May;
And my prayer, like perfume from ccnsers,
Ascendeih to God night and day.
In the hush Of the Valley of Silence


] dream all the songs that ! sing;
And the music floats down the dim Valley


Till each finds word for wing,
That 10 men, like the Dove of the Deluge,


The message of Peace they may bring.
But far on the Deep there are billows


That never shall break on the beach;
And have heard songs in the Silence


That never shall float into speech;
And have had dreams in the Valley


Too lofty for language to reach.
And have seen thoughts in the Valley


All me how my spirit was stirred
And they wear holy wells on their faces,


Their footsteps can scarcely be heard;
They pass through the Valley, like Virgins,


Too pure for the touch of Il word
Do you ask me the place Of the Valley?


Ye hearts that are narrowed by care
1t licth afar between. the mountains,


And God aud his Angels are there:
And one is the dark mount of Sorrow,


And Que the bright mountain OF Prayer.
by Father Ryan.
Year: 1873

THE man who can't be happy unless
his mother-iu-law lives In the same
house with him. isn'ta resident Of New
York. lie lives In Jersey City. He
says she is the only woman who can
tackle his wife successfully. They take
up so much time jawing each other
that he has q peaceful life.
Year: 1873

THERE was society wedding in
Washington the other day, where the
groom wore black kids, welded the
bride with diamond ring. and only
took the chew Of tobacco out Of his
mouth when he attempted to kiss the
minister, as he supposed he must.
Year: 1873

1t would astonish some Of our old
house painters Of Baltimore if they
could witness the manner in which the
painters of Paris climb over the fronts
of those six and seven-stsry houses, and
paint them from roof to door sill with
out the use of ladder, scaffold or any
other wooden contrivance either for
themselves or their paint pots. One
man, without any assistance, can paint
the entire front of one Of these tall
houses in two or three days. Directly
opposite our quarters six-story build
ing, fronting about eight feet, is under
going a complete renovation, and the
painting Of the entire walls has been
accomplished by two youths, apparently
not over nineteen years of age. They
are each provided with rope about an
inch in diameter, extending from the
apex of the roof to the pavement, on
which knots, one foot apart, are made
throughout its entire length. By means
of an apparatus with straps, clamps and
hooks, to which is appended board on
which they sit, and stirrups to rest the
feet in, which are strapped to their legs,
they move up and down the rope with
great rapidity and apparent ease. They
move the clamps from knot to knot, and
without changing the position of the
rope, are enabled to aint about six feet
on either side Of them. Their smaller
brushes are stuckin littleloops appended
to the seat, and the paint-pot is suspen-
ded by a smaller rope, on which it is
fastened by a spring of some kind, and
is raised or lowered with ease as they
may desire it. Long practice has given
them great agility, and they seem to
move up and down and pirouette and
oscillate along the front with a great
deal more ease than if they were on
ladders. They use brushes for most Of
their painting nearly double the size of
those used in America, and make rapid
progress with the work. House-paint.
ing in Paris is very extensive business,
as periodical renovation of the houses
is rendered imperative by law, no one
being allowed to disfgure a neighbor-
hood by presenting stained and disfg-
ured walls. The houses being all of a
soft cream-colored sandstone, many of
the finer structures, instead of being
painted, are redressed by the stone-cut-
ter, and come ont, after undergoing the
process of scraping and scrubbing as if
fresh from the quarry. In alluding to
the amount Of work these lads perform
in day, it should be understood that
they commence work at six o'clock in
the morning and stop at seven o'clock
in the evening, twelve hours being a
days work among the mechanics in
Paris.-Cor. Baltimore american.
Year: 1873

That the millennium dosnt hurry Ap.
THAT mosquitoes will sing as well as
sting.


THAT brokers ahead generally mean
breakers.


THAT Germans should be SO found Sf
spectacles.


THAT everybody should have UNHAPPY
thoughts.
THAT there should be 50 much ''gin-
music everywhere.


THAT Wall street couldn't be per
manently walled up.


THAT muscle should so often obtain
the mastery over mind.


That nautical persons had rather
board ship than board a sailor.


THAT otherwise nice people should
light matches on their pantaloons.


THAT necessity, which knows no law,
should support so many lawyers.


That the custon of watering stocks
makes them altogether too thin.


THAT so many people should be mas
ters of all tongues except their own.


THAT so many Of our city churches
should be little more than music-boxes.


THAT the world still moves, butseems
to be moving in the wrong direction.


THAT money should be such a power
in the world and make such Pow-wow.


That 50 many people, men and woman,
should csm1nit suicide without knowing
it.


! Tan YOU can collect much more
money to bury man than to keep him
alive.


THAT, after all, perts are often less
disagreeable than what are called e1-
perts.


THAT there should be nothing i'm
maculate in this world, not even savings
banks.


THAr it is so much easier to preach
than to practice physicians excepted, Of
course.


That there should be so much hard
work to do in the world and 50 few hard
workers.


THAT our hotels on the European
plan should be so unlike anything in
Europe.


THAT any person in this world, with
good home and good health, should
be unhappy.


That the illegitimate dramma shenld
be more popular than the legitimate all
over the world.


That there should be so many dema-
gogues in a country where there are SO
many pedagogues.


THAT good Americans, born with
'inalienable rights" should so often
find them alinated.


That some Of the worst and stupidist
journals in the country should have
such large circulation.


THAT at certain time Of life the
clodhopper, like the grasshopper, should
become a burden.


THAT snu&-takels can't have their
noses turned down-side-up 1t would
be so much more economical and con-
venient


That nearly everybody should think
himself better than anybody else, which
is about all the thinking that nearly
everybody does.


That any sensible person should be-
lieve in the doctrine (Which nobody
cares to put into English VoT popuH,
uor Del.


That after four thousand years warn
ing, the great majority of people havn't
found out what stupid thing it is to
get in debt.
Year: 1873

\ late number OF the New York Even
ing Post contains a long a carefully
written article on the coffee crop abroad
and the probably advance in the price
of the stimulating berry. From the
article we learn that the crop of this
year will probably be inadequate to
supply the constantly increasing de-
mand, the supplies on hand being
smaller than they have been, in this
month, for years before. The crop in
Brazil is much better than it was at first
reported to be /; but planters there made
so much from the sale of last years
crop that they have evinced an inten-
ton of holding back the supplies this
year, and waiting for an advance in
price.


From the same article we learn that
the consumption of coffee in this coun
try has largely increased since 1869.
During the first six months of the
present year the distribution for con-
sumption at the six ports of New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mo-
bile, and New Orleans, was II, 43S tons.
Observation has shown that Rio coffee
is actually preferred by the working
classes on account of its stronger aud
more pungent taste, their palates fail
ing to detect the delicate flavor of Java
or Mocha.


In conclusion the article say:


"On one point all importers and large
dealers in coffee agree, and that is the
deleterious character of almost all adul-
terations. Pure ground coffee can very
rarely be purchased, and the compost
tions sold under that name are generally
injurious to health. Ii it is necessary
to economize in this direction, the gen.
nine should be bought in the berry, i'll
lesser quantities.


EXCESSIVE USE OF WATER In the
manufactures of all kinds, water very
often iced) is placed within easy reach
Of every person, male or female, and the
effect of this constant invitation is seen
in the drinking of what the physicians
must regard as unreasonable amounts.
The food is thereby diluted, and the
stomach is oftentimes chilled below the
temperature of the blood, and by re-
peated drafts may be kept i'll this condi-
ton. The processof digestion is in this
way seriously interfered with, A GER
tain amount 60 to 100 ounces) of water
is required daily for the nutrition of an
average adult; but of this total re-
duirement % to 80 ounces are contained
in the so-called solid food, leaving about
sixty ounces to be supplied in some form
of liquid, as tea, coffee, and water. If
this amount is greatly exceeded, it forces
additional and needless work on the Or
gans of excretion. -ErOhGnge.


In view of the present high price of
nickel, DR.. Percy, the eminent metallur-
gist, proposes to substitute manganese
for it in the preparation OF German
silver, and maintains that it is impossi-
BILE for the most experienced manipula-
tor to determine the difference, except
chemically. A further article on this
subject, in the Chemical News, indicates
the best method of obtaining manganese
sufficiently pure for the purpose, as also
for refining it and it is there suggested
that there is nothing to prevent rure
metal being obtained in large quantity
! aud at a comparatively low price,
Year: 1873

an advantageous and agreeable impress
sion. Upon their frst appearance they
were dressed alike in the Austrian
national eolors--a light yellow robe with
black sash and trimmings, and yellow
waist with black bodice. The directress
wore black trained robe, trimmed with
yellow. The boys we're dressed like
pages in the same colors. The direct
ress used her silver baton not only with
grace but with dexterity and precision,
and the ladies followed all her move
ments with great sxactness. On sub
sequent evening the ladies made very
handsome and tasteful group as they
all appeared in rose colored silk,
trimmed with lace, and their modest,
maidenly behavior touched the heart as
well as their fine music pleased the ear.
The dirsctress, Frau AmannW Weinlieh,
directed with evident anxiety fine
waltz OF her own composition, which she
has named Edelweiss and Rauten. p"
The gem OF the evening was little
"chansons d'amOur" from Taubert,
which they played with exquisite taste
and feeling, and were obliged TO repeat.
The charm Of the ladies' orchestra lies
in the lightness, pleasantness, and beauty
Of their music, for they must not be
judged with the severity of an orchestra
that has devoted itself to classic music.
But the high plane to which their cor
rectness aud perseverance have brought
them shows clearly how few fields Of
labor there are in which women cannot
acquit themselves honorably if they
enter it with determination and will.