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Year: 1870

Democratic Regard for the New Voters.


The fifteenth amendment seems to have
touched most effectually that particular chord
in the democratic heart that has hitherto
vibrated for the oppressed colored man. Now
that he can vote without doubt, and all
chances Of preventing his voting are lost, there
is nothing that democratic heart and head
(espccially hcaD can conceive too good for
him. Governor Bowie, Of Maryland, has even
mustered up virtuous indignation that culmi-
mated in veto over bill of the Legisla-
ture Incorporating new town wherein the
voters are described as white male citizens.
AS for Delaware-almost twin sister of Mary
land in politics and importance--the eyes Of
Delaware rested lovingly, even if somewhat
distended, on the process Of colored voting on
the school question in Wilmington yesterday,
and 1t is even said that democratic election
officer accepted the new voters ballots without
challenge or change Of color. Delaware is
thus the very first to accept the new political
element under the new amendment, and we
predict that her whipping post will be abol-
ished before long.
Year: 1870

To-day, as on all other Sundays, the
churches will be opened for divine worship,
and, IL the weather be fine, viii be crowded
by all classes Of people. some OF whom will
attend because they have no other place to go
to, and others from sincere desire to testify
to their devotion to God. Considered solely
as an institution whereby society is preserved
and civilization progressed Christianity has
undoubtedly made rapid strides during the
past century. But 1t is o matter for serious
consideration whether the Christian faith main
tains the same position in the hearts of the
masses that it did one hundred years ago.
Men and women will attend at Plymouth
church to-day and listen to Mr.. Beecher's dis.
course; but how many Of them will leave the
tabernacle impressed with sense of the great
ness and glory of God? They will hear Rev.
Mr.. Hepworth at tho Church of the Messiah
and DR.. Chaplin at the Church of the Divine
Paternity; but will their minds dwell moro upon
the subject matter Of the sermons than upon
the manner in which the sermons themselves
are delivered? And even in the Catholic
churches, where the rites are of too solemn
and imposing character not to affect the con-
gregation with religious feelings, do the wor-
shippers leave the sacred edifces with hearts
full of love and gratitude to the Christ whose
life and death they have just witnessed typiied
in tho services2


We do not ask these questions from any
doubt of the sincerity of those who attend tho
churches to-day. Undoubtedly very large
majority believe themselves earnest, sincere
Christians, sorrowful of sins and anxious for
the Divine pardon. What we fear is that there
is not that absorbing contemplation of Gods
power and mercy which is necessary in
religion; that men are too apt to think Of
their worldly affairs while the clergymen are
delivering their sermons that women are too
often given to the consideration of their neigh
bor's velvet cloak or to the style in which their
next new dress will be made, and, in fact, to
many other subjects which have no connection
with Christianity, and which, we need hardly
say, take no part whatever in tho saving Of
souls. And it is because of this, what we
might term unthin1xing irreligion, that we now
earnestly conjure our readers to cast aside all
worldly thoughts for this day and to devote
their minds to Him who made us and to Him
who alone can save US, when all of earth has
passed away and the spirit stands before the
judgment seat. Our clergymen are, alas!
falible beings and too prone to yield to every
whim society ciamors for-to practise innova-
tions which tend to lessen the influence of re-
ligion, and to make divine worship but the
fashionable observance of an old custom. But
in spite Of their derelictons of duty there is
much in their teachings to lead the sinner to
repentance and to heaven. To the churches,
then, we invite our readers this day, confident
beneficial to their spiritual beings.
Year: 1870

TIE FRENCH TRADE 'tSTRfKEs The
"strikers" at La Creuzot, France, it appears,
are bent upon mischief. The report is
that they had been doing their best to
provoke a bloody collision with the military,
but that through the judicious conduct of
the officers in charge the troops were
restrained from firing. Louis Napoleon is
well aware that little spark in France now
may kindle great fire, and hence the forbear-
ance of the army. The Emperor is on the
defensive and knows his enemy. Our cable
dispatches, dated in Paris at haif-past seven
o'clock yesterday evening, state the situation
at La Creuzot as being then very serious, and
becoming still more alarming hourly. The
troops were being reinforced. An idea was
floating around to the effect that the outbreak
was, to some extent, produced by foreign in
fuence. This aspect Of the case is serious
also
Year: 1870

AS in civil, political, commercial and other


operations of society, go also in religions, the


tendency of this age is to association and asso-


ciated efforts to promote common objects. The


axiom that in union there is strength may,


however, be carried too far and be accepted


too literally, and we fear that in religious


efforts this is so. We hear no more Of the


personal efforis of individual Christians


to lead their friends and acquain-


tances to the Saviour which were go


common half century or century ago.


There are now no Harlan Pages who devote


hours Of each day to personal entreaties with


those whose souls he loved to become Chris


tians. We are altogether too apt to delegate


our duties to the association or the Church or


the minister and to content ourselves with the


assumption that the work is in some way, we


don't care how, attended to. This is grave


error either in business or in religion, and its


baleful effects are often witnessed in CONNER


cial and business enterprises. Personal reli-
gious activity was one Of the most marked
characteristics Of early Christianity, and by it
mainly were converts made from paganism.
1t has been the leading agency in all the great
religious revivals Of the Church, and through
it thousands have been turned from darkness
to light and from the power Of Satan unto God.
The Church of the future is to receive its
largest accessions also by personal efforts.
And the philosophy of it is plain. In minis


tering to congregations personal identity is, to
great extent, lost, so that the preacher can


not utter his reproofs nor urge his reasons for
ness which he can bring to bear upon indi-
viduals in personal conversation. And, con-
sidering these facts, 1t must be admitted that
the pulpit is doing as well as it can under pre-
sent circumstances. Taking two weeks, end
ing February "a and March 26, as examples,
we find in our religious exchanges four thou
sand three hundred and ninety conversions
reported. About one thousand five hundred
Of this number are reported in the Methodist
denomination. Now, if each one of those four
thousand converts should put forth personal


efforts enough to convert but one other in the
course of year, and the whole number should
| repeat these efforts year after year for sim
gle decade we should have one hundred and
| six millions of people protesting Christianity,
instead of about seventy millions, as there are


now. And If the seventy millions throughout


the world should exert similar efforts, and


succeed, the entire human family might be
| converted to God within the same period.


But we cannot hope for any such result so
| long as the individual Is sunk in the COM
| munity or in the congregation.
Year: 1870

THE FALL or THE FoRTY-sIxTH STREET
BUILDING inquest was held before
Coroner keenan, yesterday on the bodies OF
the Donnelly family, who were crushed to
death by the fall Of building on Forty sixth
street during the gale last Sunday. The evi.
dence clearly showed that tho building was
defective in construction, frozen mortar being
used, and its foundation being upon u
slanting rock but Coroner keenan,, in
laying down the law to the jury, said
that verdcts Of censure were of no conse-
quence, as the matter must be determined
by civil suit. The jury being thus circum-
scribed in their mode of expressing the indg-
nation naturally aroused by the evidence took
it out in censure Of the wind, which they
blamed with the casualty. Although it was
the general opinion of the witnesses that the
building would not have fallen but for the
gale, it is an equally probable idea that the
wind would not have blown il over but for it's
defective construction, and il there is any law
against the erection of unsafe buildings Coro-
ner keenan, had no right to charge the jury
against censuring the guilty parties.
Year: 1870

George Alfred Townsend has at least
done one good thing in denouncing that
preposterous humbug, the so-called sold wind
mill" at Newport. 1t is about time. That an
Insignificant summer house affair like that
built by some waggish citizens of Newport in a
single night in the early times Of that town as a
Watering place,-should have been for 90 long a
CINE considered a work OF antiquity must sur
pass the widest hopes Of the originators of the
fraud. IL demonstrates, also, how well secret
can sometimes be kept by a whole community
when its interest lies in that direction and that
. lie well stuck to often answers some purposes
a. well as the tuth,-particularly in the matter
Of gulling the public.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER interesting insurance case has
just been decided in the courts, this time in
New York. The Equitable life insurance
company of that city refused to pay $1,000 pol.
icy on the life of one Horton, who fell from a
wagon, while drunk, aud received fatal iniu.
rles, the ground of refusal being that the in
sared' when he took out the policy, gave a
written warranty that he was not addicted to
the use of spirituous liquors, claiming that
this warrant was evidently false, and that
they would not have insured man who was
habilually intemperate. Judge DAILY decided,
however, that the warrant was affirmatory,
not promissory, and that it bore reference on
ly TO the time when it was made, and, of
course, that the fact that the deceased came
to his death afterwards while intoxicated did
not invalidate the claim.
Year: 1870

Reflect that sound mind and body are L: the
most % necessary requisites to promote connubi'
al happiness, Induced without these the Jour
ut ney through lie becomes t. weary pilgrimage
The prospect hourly darkens to the view, tn ihi
mind becomes shnd1wed with despair, ana naieo
ness of another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1870

The pure, the bright, the beautiful,


That stirred our hearts in youth,


The impulse to q worldly prayer,
The dreams of love and truth;


The longing after something lost,


The spirits yearning cry;


The striving after better hopes
These things can never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need,


The kindly word in gref's dark hour
That proves a friend indeed
The plea for mercy softly breathed
When Justice threatens nigh;
The sorrow Of n contrite heart
These things shall never die.


The memory of a clasping hand
The pressure of n kiss,
And all the tritles sweet and fral
That make up loves first bliss;
With firm unchanging faith,
And holy trust and high,


Those hands have clasped, those lips have me
These things shall never die.
The cruel and the bitter word
That wounded as it fell,
| The chilling want of sympathy
| We feel but never tell;


The hard repulse that chils the heart,
Whose hopes are bounding high,
| In au unfading record kept
| These things shall never die.
| Let nothing pass, for every hand
| Must find some work to do;
| Lose not a chance to waken love,
| Be firm and Just and true.
| so shall light that cannot fade
| Beam on thee from on high,


And angel voices say to thee,
| These things shall never die.
Year: 1870

Dreamily stand watching


The glow in the western skies;
Tho the breezes softly WOO me,
Yet the tears are in my eyes,
Perhaps tits the mist that blinds me,
For the sunset seems rot so fair;
The scene not half so lovely,


Nor so soft and sweet the air.
AS when, In the far away past
l have stood in the sunsets glow,
And watched the crimson glory
Break over the fields OF snow;
All, yes, tits the mist of tears,


That makes the picture less fair
miss bright form from my side,
And glory OF golden hair
And far in the west sec,


A fair face all sbrouded in woe;
All the sunset was never thus Swallowed,
In the beautiful Long Ago.
Then my eyes shrink away from the sunlight
And close them to shut in the tears;
But they cannot shut out the wailings,
That come up the aisle of dead years.
Tho summer winds bring loved voices
On their wings "a broken prayer
A sobbingI open my eyelids-


A glmmer of golden hair;
And ever thus in the sunset,


When stand in the fading glow.
II brings me weary pictures


OF that bright aisle, long ago;
How the brightness waned and faded
That clustered around me of yore;
All me, It's death in life" to think
OF the days that are no more.
Year: 1870

pueSttOnS Answered Dy SCEC' &C.


Why is rain water soft Because it
is not impregnated with earth and min
erals.


Why is it more easy to wash with soft
water than hard? Because soft water
unites freely with soap, and dissolvcs
1t instead of decomposing it, as hard
water does.


Why do wood ashes make hard water
soft? 1st. Because the carbonic acid of
wood ashes combines with the oulphate
of lime in the hard water and converts
it into chalk. %. Wood ashes converts
some of the soluble salts of water into
insoluble and throws them down rs u
sediment, by which the water remains
more pure.


Why has rain water such an unpleas-
ant smell when it is collected in rain
tub or tank? Because it is impregnated
with decomposed organic matters.
Why does water melt salt? Because
the very minute particles of water in
sinuate themselves into the pores Of the
salt by capillary attraction and force
the crystals apart from each other.


How does blowing hot foods make
them cool 1t causes the air which has
been heated by the food to change rap
idly, and give place to fresh, cool air.
Why do ladies fan themselves in hot
weather? That the fresh particles of
air may be brought in contact with
their face by the action of the fan, and
as every fresh particle of air absorbs
some heat from the skin, this constant
change makes them cool.


Does fan cool the air? No; it makes
the air hotter by imparting to it the
heat of our face, but cools our faces by
transferring its heat to the air.
Year: 1870

A speaker at juvenile picnic is said
to have delivered an address Of which
the following is sample: "Iou ought
to be very kind TO your little sisters. l
once knew a bad boy who struck his
sister blow over the eye. Although
she didn't fade and die in the summer
time, when the June roses were blow
ing, with sweet words of kindness on
her pallid lips, she rose up and hit him
over the head with rolling pin, so
that he couldn't go to school for over
month, on account of not being able to
put on his hat"
Year: 1870

AN old topper mistook pitcher of
yitriol for cider last week, at the rail
road depot in Scranton, Penn, and
emptied it before the station master
could stop him. Only for the prompt
ness of a physician in administering an
emetic the consequences would have
been fatal.
Year: 1870

A YOUNG LADY read in paper that
if two young ladies would each take
the pole Of a galvanic battery in one
hand, and then complete the circuit by
kissing, the sensation upon the lips WAS
exactly that Of the pressure of a mus


tache. She Immediately communica-
ted the fact TO number of friends: q
battery was secured, and the expert
ment tried, and found to work to a
charm. A large number of pocket bat
terics have been ordered, so that here
after when ladies meet and kiss, as is
their custom, they can shut their eyes
and fully enjoy the satisfaction Of feel
ing a gentleman's lips pressed to theirs.
Year: 1870

Some families are such good actors and SO
stimulated by pride that they are generally
looked upon as patterns of domestic pro-
priety and even felicity. They are sleek,
genteel, self-complacent, soft-yoiced and
smooth-tongued they hold, in fact that
place in the human kind that birds do in
the brute kingdom.


Those who know them best can tell some
very different things about them--how
they wrangle in private, have their own
genteel way about fighting, are fierce and
tricky; in word, imperfect, like every
thing else on earth, and not the same their
friends would make them.


The most universally ill-tempered things
in the world that makes any show of de-
decency are the birds. With all the talk
about their pretty manner, they are ruder
to each other than dogs and as for their
hymns ofthanksgiving of and woodland notes
Of praise, they never fail to quarrel at a
feast like pirates. These gentleman can
| fight harder for the fun of the thing, and
their ladies scream and scratch worse about
the possession of an empty knot hole, than
is by any means respectable; while, as for
connubial bliss, the bridegroom beats and
knocks his bride about in a manner that is
disgrace to his fine clothes. ~


About halt their pretty songs are given
in angry defiance Of each other. The jeal-
ousy of musicians is proverbial, and no.
where stronger than among the 'songsters
of the grovesn An outsang bird is very
apt to die of the most unworthy chagrin,
and when presumptuous warbler z"puts
in" with another's song, he is notified,
in burst of melody, that ''if he don't
shut up, he'll get his nose pecked off"
We have seen the supposed-to-be merry
little singer of our suburban gardens-the
pap--wth scarce feather on him and his
head ''bunged up" like a prize-fghter's aa


We do not think one person in fifty
appreciates the fitness of the slang
phrase so often applied to wild and un-
principled young men: Hes bird 1t
is meant generally as a pet name; but,
really its u hard name for any man.-New
Orleans Picayune.
Year: 1870

FRIDAY. April t--5 P.M.1


The Wall street markets were dun to-day, under 0
more conservative feeling, resulting from the


DECLINE IN GOLD,


which opened at 11lh, but was rallied to 1l15 upou
the announcement that the United States Supreme
Court mao determined to reopen tho decision In the
legal tender case. But here the market gave way
again upon the news that the Bremen, from Breaien
via Havre, had brought 100000 francs specie which
10 the third large importation OF specie winn few
weeks and verifying the prediction made In these
columns four or I've weeks since that gold would,
within sixty DAYS come this way from Europe.
1t will be remembered that attention was
directed TO the purchase OF some large amounts In
che Gold Room not many days ago, which were In
terpreted a. the mutation Of new bull movement
Tho principal item IN this buylng movement was
some three millions OF gold said TO have been taken
on Boston account. It now turns out that the coin
was purchased for the Manhattan Bank in order to
mcet tine payment OF interest on the old debt Of New
York, that Institution beng the financial agency OF
the state In this city. OF course the paying out OF
this gold agaia to-day helped the decline. The mar
ket was strong however, at the close, owing to
demand to cover speculative sales The course OF
"a naWTA d
Year: 1870

The Cincinnati Gazette, referring to the pro-
test OF the navy yard mechanics against having
their wages docked on the occasion of public
funerals, says with force:


81 he effect of putting the Government de-
partments in mourning on the death of a public
man Is TO give all hands a holiday on full paw,
except the mechanics and common laborers who
WORK on day wages. These have day of forced
idleness at the loss of wages. Therefore thew
are justly discCntented. The Government can
not continue this unfairneSs. 1t must either
give tAem paid holiday the same as the rest or
allow them to work. To good man the diving
thought that many families will be stinted be-
can of the loss of wages by his death will not
be comfortable. If this form of public mourn
ing Is proper, the Government should not make
its mechanics and day labOrers bear the brunt
OF it. Let them have their wages, the same as
the salaried men, and then let the Government
exercise moderation in ordering this suspension,
Year: 1870

We learn that the project of a railroad from
-'le1andria to Fredericksburg has been taken
Up by parties who are able if they choose. to mt
1t through without delay. These parties are
Identified with the Pennsylvania and New York
Central Railroads, and it is hardly necessary to
add that the construction of the road will not be
III the interest OF the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The next step In this programme will probably
he the construction Of a road from Frederieks
burg TO GordOnsville tapping the Orange IL
AleNanGris railroad at that point. The monster
railroad corporations OF the north seem to be in
chned 70 vary their Titanic fight for western
business by striking out in competition for the
trade Of the south and Southwest. We shall
watch re Developments in this contest with
.atf1est and in the hope that something NAV
grow out OF them to break up the embargo laid
uIOn US by Garrett & Co.
Year: 1870

1t is not necessary to journey from the
tropics to Alaska in order to experience
the extremes of heat and cold. Thousands
undergo all the inconveniences of this
thermometricaT change every day, or
every other day, as the case may be, with
out the trouble Of moving over the thresh-
old. A word with these Involuntary
shakers. What are they doing to expe-
dite their leturn to medium tempera-
ture s-to break the chills and Danish the
fever? Are they dosing themselves with
quinine, thereby imperiling the soundness
ftheir bones aud impairing the vigor OF
their brains and nervous systemi Some
Of them are, no doubt, but not the major
ity Of them, it is believed. The value of
Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a harmless
and certain specific for fever and ague is
understood and appreciated in all parts OF
the country where intermittents prevail.
The residents of such localities begin to
take it early in the spring as prote ctfon
against the miasma by which they are sur
rounded; not all of them, perhaps, for a
blind adherence to error is the specially CT
some people, but the greater number.


Ifthere is any fixed fact in therapeutics,
it is this: that the Bitters are far better
safeguard against all the varieties of peri
odlc maIadies produced by unwholsome
exhalations than any drug or compound
in the matcria medica OF the profession.-
This assertion is made with all due respect
to the faculty, but being an important truth,
and one that nearly concerns the health Of
large settlements in various parts of the
country, and indeed of the public at large,
it is made fearlessly. Founded on ample
and unlmpeaehable testimony, it defes dis
proSal.
Year: 1870

The State is now entering upon one
Of the most momentous elections ever
participated ID by her people. 1t Is
important that every one should be
we'll posted as to all the issues involved,
and more fully learn the enormlties OF
Radical rule.


The Sor4uEENER enters the con-
test with its whole soul, determined to
lay on aud spare not the foul party
which in August next will make an
other, aud. it is to be hoped, the last
attempt to hold the reins OF power
In order to more efectual!y assist in
their downfall, we will send the SOUTH
ERyER to any address for the small
sum of TWENTY FIVE CENTS FOR THE
ENTIRE CAMPAIGN.


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