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Year: 1870

No wonder you are astOnished-Said
DicB-tO see such an article as that in
my possession, but if it is a strange
thing for me to have a Bible, the way l
came by it is stranger; I have had it for
three years, and ! intend to keep it as
long as I am upon this earth.


Three years ago was living by my
wits in the city of st. Paul. Perhaps l
gambled some; you might call it swim
ding.


At all events there was a chap out
there, a rich young scapegrace, who
loved to be fleeced, and no one loved to
fleece him better than Dick, and one
day he came to me looking very miser-
able.


Dick said he, 'pvc lost my watch, a
poor old turnip, but the old woman
gave it to me just before she died, and l
would not lose it for a splendid farm.


1 Imade some inquiries, and soon found
that the watch had gone into the Vir-
ginia backwOOd settlement.


How I found it out is nothing to you.
told Tom about it.


WELL he said, as tickled as a child,
all we have to do is to put an officer on
the track


You must make a sweet baby I in
terrupted. why, up there they'll shoot
an officer on sight,


Il would give five hundred dollars,
said Tom passiOnately, rather than to
lose that watch


|. Done I said, and the next morning
I started for Lake Howard, fortyseVen
miles in the dreary woods, dressed like
q backwOOdsman, with a couple of Der
ringers in my pockets, and mounted on
oT nj n1 thqt yU0C Onpn q hOr-o HayIioI,
we bought for S2S. A dreary woods it
was. To say nothing of the awful roads,
the backbone of my noble steed was
source of misery, for l had no saddle,
that would have excited suspicion at
once. So was glad at the end of the
second day, when five miles from the
lake I stopped to rest at log hovel by
the roadside,


The family were preparing their even
ing meal, l,-making it into mush-when
entered, and was about to take my
place at the table, when the old man
looked atme sadly.


Young man, he said, 4 see by your
looks that you don't know the Lord.


you are right there, old man. I said,
He's a stranger to me-


At that the old fellow groaned and
Immediately produced the Bible you see
before you.


Hear the words of WRATH he said, be-
ginning to read; and queer work he
made of it, knocking his mental shins
against all the big words.


l paid little attention to him, but I
got somehow vague impression that
his mind was not on his reading. Still
I did not set him down as a hypOcrite, as
I should instantly had he been any
where else but there where hypocrisy
seemed so sUpeTfluOus.


Wicked as I was, was rather pleased
than otherwise to find symptoms of
piety in that God-forsaken place.


The reading and the supper over, the
old man said inquiringly:


'Mebbe yer going into the Virginia
settlement p


There's just where Pm going,' I re-
pied.


Then if you take that ring with you,
violence will be done. Them people
don't know the Lord


Sure enough, like n COnfOunded fool,
as the wisest Of us may may be at times
l had worn my emerald ring all the
way.
Year: 1870

blue-set me to thinking of things al
most forgotten, and things that were
sad to think of then-Of days that were
different from these days: we'll


When Tom Vincent, like a man paid
me five hundred dollars I went into q
picture agency business, and have not
touched a card since.
Year: 1870

There's not joy The world on give like that II takes
away
When the glow OF early thought declines in feelings
dun decay;
'Tis not on youths smooth cheek the blush alone
which fades so fast,
But The tender bloom OF hearts is gone, ere youth
itzelfbe past
Then the few whose spirits hoat above the wreck Ol
happiness,
Are driven oer the shoals Of guilt or the ocean Of
excess:
The magnet OF their course is gone, or only in vain
The shore 10 which their shivered sail shall never
stretch again
Then the mortal codness Of the soul like death itseli
comes down;
cannot feel for others woes, it dare not cream its
That heavy chill has frozen Ger the fountain Of our
tears.
And though the eye may sparkle stI 'tis where the
ice appears.
Though wit may fash from fluent lips, and ninth
distract the breast,
Through midnight hours that yield Ho more their
former hope OF rest:
'Tis ivy leaves around ruin turret Wreathe
All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray
beneath.
0 could feel as have felt OF be what / have been
Or weep as could once have wept DER many q
vanish'd scene
As spring in deserts found seem sweet. all braekisl
though they be.
SO midst the witherd waste Of life these tears would


flow to me


lord byron
Year: 1870

The Congressional Committee on Banking
and Currency, engaged in the investiga-
ton of the great gold gambling con-
spiracy of September last, have been very
anxious to hear what the pious speculative
ring master Corbn has to say upon the sub
ject. but Corbin, having had his wings
clipped once before by an investigating COM
mittee, touching certain lobby operations,
shrinks from another trial threatening more
serious consequences; and so he has sent
chronic disease which makes his appearance
before them matter Of some uncertainty. He
is in bad way. He evidently lacks the moral
courage to make clean breast of it in frank
confession that Gould and Fisk led him into
temptation, aud that he was induced to
give them promises and assurances which were
all moonshine, but that really the possible
profits of that gold pool were too glitterng to
be resisted. 1t would seem, too, that he does not
like the idea of pleading guilty in the alternative
of going before the committee and declining
TO answer questions where the answer would
criminate himself. In any event it is the duty
of the committee to bring him to the Capitol
or to examine him at his lodgings for with
out Corbin this gold gambling conspiracy is
the play Of Hamlet with the part Of old Polo
MUS left out; and we presume that the COM
mttee will 90 to the old man if he is really too
sick to go to them.
Year: 1870

Our CUBAN NEWS. BY mail we have the
particulars Of the reception and serenade
given by the volunteers of Havana to ex-
Secretary Seward. In reply to an address,
Mr.. Seward made a very pleasant speech,
in which he spoke in manner calculated
to tickle the truly loyal Havanese. Re-
garding the close of the insurrection matters
present very unpleasant prospect 1t would
seem that the Spaniards are not particularly
anxious to crush the revolution Immediately.
Now that they are satisfied of the American
policy Of non-interyention they intend to take
their time over the work and put it down by a
slow and easy process We here perceive the
effects of the unwse policy Of the administra-
tion in not taking decided step, one way or
the other. in the matter Of the revolution in
Cuba. 1t looks as if the powers in Washing
ton were trying to ride two horses. The
Spaniards aow feel easy. There is no fear Of
Intervention, and they can afford to take their
time, and we are thus indirectly responsible
for the continuance of the wer.
Year: 1870

A HEAVY TAsK--The task undertaken in
Congress of a regulation OF the tariff
Between protectionists aud free traders it is
the great question OF the day, and whether
the two houses of Congress incline to the one
side or the other there will be some disturb
ances among the leading politicians and their
followers Of both parties. Look, for instance,
at the s.happy accord on thisquestion between
the free trade poets Of the Post and the pro-
lection philosophers Of the Tribune.
Year: 1870

THE Coal QUESTION. Prices Of Penn


sylvania coal showed decline yesterday in
Some cases Of over dollar per ton on the
prices of last month. Cumberland coal stock


also fell considerably in Wall street. Here we
House committee on Tuesday in agreeing to
abolish the coal tariff. The protectonists
have somewhat favored this repeal in order,
as they said, to let the people see if it would
Year: 1870

The PERRY-HAYKs MURDER. second
trial Of Edward Perry for the murder Of the
watchman Hayes in Brooklyn was commenced
yesterday, portion Of a jury having been
empaneled. We would not prej,rdge this
case, but certainly the evidence taken on the
previous trial was strongly against the prisoner.
A trial for life may after all be lottery, in
which the main chance hinges on the choice of
iurY
Year: 1870




Our correspondents in Central and South
America furnish us with the latest mail
advices from the Isthmus and the South Pacific
coast. The Darien Canal is the great topic
of conversation among the people of Colombia
They have taken up the subject in earnest and
express regret that the United States has been
SO tardy in making the preliminary surveys.
The Colombians are evidently alive to the
greatness Of the undertaking, and realize the
immense advantages it would confer upon
trade and commerce. In Chile the political
campaign is conducted with moderation; and
although no activity is lacking on the part Of
the political contestants and their adherents,
there is an absence Of those revolutionary ex-
hibitions and threats which were formerly
SO frequent during the progress of an cleo
ton campaign. Peru is marching along in
the road Of progress. Enterprises such as that
now in prospect of building railroad between
Lima and the Peruvian headwaters of the
Amazon, will prove an admirable panacea for
the disorders of revolution in the South Ameri-
can republics. This railroad will bo an
immense undertaking, and when completed
direct communication across the South Ameri-
can continent will be complete. What the
Pacific Railroad is to the United States tho
railroad from Lima across the Andes to the
Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon will be
to South America.
Year: 1870

LET IT Cot is said that the project for
the removal of Sing Sing Prison has behind it
an offer Of Commodore Vanderbilt to give for
the property ten times the cost of the prison.
1t this be true 1t would seem that we may have
new prison on better plan in exchange for
the old one with no cost to the State. We
ought then, TO have it.
Year: 1870

THE New YORK BALL TO PRINCE Arthur
The Prince has accepted the invitation extended
him. and on Tuesday next, we understand, a
banquet and a ball will be given him at Del
monico's. This will be limited arrangement.
While the committee are about it why not
engage the Academy Of Music, and in COM
bining charity with hospitality turn the rccep-
tion Of the Prince to good practical purpose
Year: 1870

TIE PNEUMATIC TUNNEL. The Special Com
mittee OF the Assembly on the Pneumatic Tun-
mel reported yesterday that there was no
damage done to the surface OF Broadway by
the progress Of the work. The property owners
above the site of the work and the passengers
in heavy stages can therefore rest easy, it the
word of the committee is Of any weight
Year: 1870

PRINCE ARTHUR was present at State
dinner at the Executive Mansion yesterday.
These State dinners are TN important ele-
ment Of diplomacy, and this one is calcu-
lated TO create good feeling between our
government and Great Britain. We now feel
keener interest to see the upshot of the
approaching negotiations ON tho Alabama
claims.
Year: 1870

THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE proposes to
butt the afteenth amendment off the bridge
A resolution was introduced by one Of the
members yesterday TO punish any one who
entices negro laborer to leave his employer
OF who employs such a negro laborer after
wart,a
Year: 1870

The TRIAL OF SANDERS d. BRUCE on a
mcnced before Judge Bedford yesterday The
defence seemed anxious to procure postpone
ment, but the Judge refused on the ground
that tho evidence to establish the truth Of a
libel should have been at hand when the article
was published, or else the article should not
have been published at all. There is law and
fact in a nutshell.
Year: 1870

We were informed yesterday evening by
cable telegrams that his Holiness Pope Plus
the Ninth was ailing in Rome and that the
Ecumenical Council was likely to be dis
solved at On early day. rumor prevailed
in Paris after midnight that the Pope was
dead, but the report could not be traced to any
authentic source when our after dispatches
left the French capital Considering the ad-
vanced age Of the Holy Father, his arduous
tabors in the ministry from an early pc
riod Of life, his foreign travel, and the
recent annoyances of the Ecumenical assem-
blage, we would not be surprised if the rumor
should prove to be true. The event Of the
death Of Pho Mono just now would be
one fraught with the most important
consequences TO Earope, its governments and
peoples, besides agitating to a great extent
and for some considerable period of time the
whole Christian world. Further intelligence
from Rome will be waited for with anxiety.
Year: 1870

DIR. Hall, of New York, we'll said in re-
cent number of the Evangelist: "lf our
people weary and harass us with multiple
ity of small matters they could better man
age themselves; if they demand that we
swell the pomp of every social gathering, sit
through every committee, and be on hand
generally for anything and everything, then
we shall be inferior preachers"


The people help to make poor preachers
by requiring too much Of their time IN visit-
ing them.


There is an element of power in pastoral
visitation; and nowhere is it greater power
than in rural districts. But if our people
demand that their minister shall spend the
greater portion of his time in visiting them
that he be on hand at every social circle;
that he give time to the study of parlor
plays; and, in short, play the agreeable gen.
orally, then he will fail to acquire sufficient
knowledge to give him pulpit power. This
is an age in which men want earnestness and
argument. They will not be satisfied with
out them. They should find these, tempered
with piety, in the pulpit. 1t is hard for the
preacher to be earnest in saying nothing
But to say something requires study. Itis
essential to future usefulness and success
that the young preacher spend the greater
portion of his time in fixing aII systemizing
in mind not only the knowledge he gained
in the seminary, but constantly in storing
his mind with new acquisitions. He is con.
stantly coming in contact with errors new tC
him, and new phases of old errors. These
must be examined in the light of Gods word
their falsity exposed, and the true principle
or doctrine explained and supported by ar
gument. This demands study. And, since
the acquisition of knowledge is gradual tc
finite creatures, study demands time.


1t is a mistaken notion some people have
that their minister, having studied through ;
seven years course, has nothing further t.
do in that line; that henceforth his life il
one of ease; that all he has to do is to as
cend the pulpit twice Sabbath, and oper
his mouth. Far from it, His best sermons
those which have an impelling power in them
are the hardest studied and most earnestly
prayed over; sermons which have possessed
him. These are the only kind of sermons
that have moved the world.


If the pulpit is commonplace, weak, igno
rant, pastoral visitation can not make up the
deficiencies there. To be the power it wai
designed, the pulpit must be strong, vigor
Gus, and Instructive The minister knows
best his forte. The conscientious and judi
cious minister will devote to each element o
power the proper allowance of time. II,
must be the judge.-Herald and Presbyter
Year: 1870

The first is, that, in order to be true fol-
lower of Christ, one must leave brightness
and happiness behind, as when the traveller
sees the sun setting in glory from the noun
tain's top, and then walks down in the shad-
ows and the dampness to be with the owls
and the bats.


1t is pitiful mistake, groundless and un-
scriptural, but it hinders multitudes from
yielding themselves to Christ, and beginning
joyful Christian life. And, without doubt
that same mistake contributes largely to
make perdition populous.


remember the trials / had, when a boy,
with certain intelligent pony. The little
animal was usually in the furthest corner of
the pasture when l wished to saddle him,
and at the first glimpse of the halter would
display his heels. And even when | would
approach him with bucket of oats, the hal
ter concealed in the vessel, at the first dis
covery of the treacherous moose, he would
wheel with snort and kick, and, in min
ute, would be quarter of a mile away
Shyer than that pony of the halter, are the
children in many households, of the prayer
meeting or the minister's study. They are
ever on their guard lest they be entrapped
into forsaking the brightness of life, for
gloom and Righteousness. Alas that lie
should be so well believed.


The second mistake is more common than
the first. Many regenerated persons take
it for gospel. 1t is, that a Christian life can
be bright and happy ONLY IN SPOTS. The
notion is, that the follower of Christ must
experience alterations of joy and gloom,
life and death-delight and despair.


Those who go by rail from Bologna to
Florence, during few hours ride, go through
forty tunnels and more as they perform that
mountainous journey-so, many persons sup,
pose the Christian life must be-.


1t is not denied that the follower of Christ
does sometimes leave the world of light and
comfort. There is no mistake about that;
but it is a mistake to suppose that the high
way of holiness is badly tunneled route.
1t is a hurtful mistake to believe that light
and darkness necessarily alternate.


And thousands of we'll disposed Christians
do live checkered life-of mixed despon-
dency and joy-only because they think they
must live so. There is no need of it. There
is no excuse for it, but they think they can
do no better, and, of course, they do no bet
ter.


"Reoice always" should be the Christians
motto, and the text for his life sermon, He
that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life." All his
life ought to preach that text, no matter
who despOnds and walls and utters oracles
of gloom round about him. If an angel of
light flies down from heaven to tell him that
text is not literally true, let him say, "Get
thee behind me-
Year: 1870

The Religious Herald gives good advice
to young ministers in regard to the selection
of their fields OF labor:


1t may be of service to any young minis
ter seeking settlement, and that settlement
in city or large town, as pastor over a
numerous, wealthy and influential church,
to be reminded that Rev. DIR. Calvin Chaplin
was pastor of the small church, comprising
less than one hundred and fifty members, at
Rocky Hill, seven miles south of Hartford,
for nearly sixty years and that on the oc-
casion of his funeral, Rev. DR.. Joel Hawes
said of him, that ellis advice to those Just
entering upon the sacred work of the minis
try was eminently judicious. 1t was not to
seek great things for themselves; not to be
over-anxiouS as to what place they should
fill; ever to follow the leading of Providence;
to preach where they were invited, no mat
ter how humble the spot; and to make the
winning of souls to Christ the grand aim of
life. He loved his own home and his own
parish better than any other on earth, and
often said, that for happiness, mental and
spiritual improvement, and extensive public
usefulness, small and retired parishes were
most desirable, and that in such country
as ours it was of far less Importance where
minister was located, than young men
generally suppose Let them 60 where they
will they may have enough to do, enough to
care for, and if they have a right spirit,
enough to be happy in.
Year: 1870

We generally speak of the diamond as
the most valuable Of gems, but this is
not really the case. The ruby is the
most valuable, but it depends for its
rarity on its color. The ruby is the next
hardest thing to the diamond. 1t is
found principally in the East Siam,
and Ava, and Ceylon, afford the most
plentiful supplies. In Burmah, the find
ing of these jewels is made State
event; the grandees of the empire go to
meet it with elephants and all the
grandeur of Eastern state. There are
many shades of red, but the most ap-
proved, and commanding the highest
price, is that of the pigeon blood"


The ruby, in common with other pre-
cious stones had magical properties at
tributed to il by the ancients; indeed we
do not doubt that in the East the super
stitious ideas connected with it are as
rife as ever Our ancestors believed that
it was a preventative against evil
thoughts, and that much dreaded thing
of Old-poison. 1t kept the wearer safe
from all evil spirits, and what was more,
its sanitary power was held to he so
great that he was said meyer to suffer in
bodily health. Moreover it was supposed
to be endowed with o certain occult in
telligenoe. 1t was believed that the gem
darkened when danger awaited the per-
son, and grew bright again when the
danger had passed away.


The King of Burmah, one of whose
titles is that Of Lord Of the Rubies, has
one the size of a pigeons egg. The
value Of these gems goes on increasing
at a much higher ratio than that of the
diamond When its weight is as much
as four carats its value varies from f4O0
to sts0i 4 spm more than double that of
the diamond of the same weight t.-Eri
chance.
Year: 1870

Circuit Court Of Milwaukee county do hereby certify that
appended to the foregoing deposition, was, the
the County of Milwaukee dqy authorized to administer
that the signature the said deposition is genuine
hereuno hand and affixed my official seal this 10th


JAMES HICKCOX Clerk
Year: 1870




Last evenings performance in the Acade-
my Of music was interrupted for Il few min
utes by Frank Gibbons the uapeze gym
mast, who, while attempting to make an ex-
traordinary evolution, missed his hold, and
fell to the stage from the ceiling above.
He was about to close his performances,
apparently endeavOring to accomplish a
feat not in his usual line. His daring efforts
lust previous had elected considerable ap-
plause. and several ladies almost tainted
from fright at his flights through the air
from point to point.


Apparently he intended to catch the last
trapeze with one leg and then descend, but
unfortunately he did not properly calculate
the distance or his ability, and went ume-
strained through the air to the stage.


When he struck the boards his body-was
quite straight, his back downward, the dull,
heavy sound sending a thrill Of horror
through the large audience, causing ladies
to scream from the shock. Had his body
struck in almost any other direction, in
stant death would have been the penalty.
The curtain went down after his inanimat e
body had been carried off the stage.


In three or four minutes after this Mr..
Gibbons appeared on the stage, to show the
audience that tall of thirty or forty feet
had not killed or particularly harmed him.
The audience reassured, cheered Justify to
see him before them, and then the perform
ance proceeded as usual.
Year: 1870

We were standing in the doorway


NY little wife and L
The golden sun upon her hair


Fell down so silently,
small white hand upon nv arm.
What could 1 ask for more
Ihan the kindly glance of loving eyes.
AS she Kissed me at the door?
Know she loves with all her heart
Inc one who stands beside!
AND the years have been so joyous
since first I called her brideI
We've had so much of happiness
Since we met in years before,
But the happiest time of all was


When she kissed me at the door.
Who cares for wealth or land or gold,
Or fame, or matchless power?
1t does not give the happiness


OF just one little hour,
With one who loves me as her life
She says she Gloves me morer-
And 1 thought she did this morning,
When she kissed me at the door.
Attimes it seemed that all the world,
With all its wealth and gold,
LIS very small and poor indeed


Compared with what holdl
And when the clouds hang grim and dark,
/ only wait the more
OF zone" who waits my coming step
To kiss me at the door,
If she lives till age shall scatter


The frost upon her head,
1 know she'll love me Just the same
As the morning we were we'd;
But if the Angels call her


And she goes to Heaven before,
I shall know her when L meet her,


For she'll kiss me at the door.