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Year: 1870

The London correspondent OF the
New York Herald predicts that the
coming session of Parliament, which
opens early in February, will be a
most eventful one. Apart from all
measures of law making, there is no
doubt that the health Of the Queen
of England is such as to render it
very probable that a regent will be
appointed Her tMajestyis health


has never been fully restored since
the death other husband, Prince AL


bert; but Iatterly she has become
less than ever fit for public business


The Prince of Wales would of course,


beinamed Prince Regent, suitable
allowance being given him to sup
port his position. That he will be
popular there can be no doubt as, in
deed, he already is to O very great
degree; and his wife more SO even


than himself. The change will be
very we'll received by the nation at
large, for the absence Of court pom D
and expenditure for SO many years
has caused terrible stagnation in


trade all over the kingdom. The
Prince of Wales has great fund of
common sense. He fully knows and
accepts his position for the future,
and understands better than any of
Lis AaNO over 0On0 AOW du
English king must rule, but not gov
ern-how he must be at one and the
same time the most and the least in
huential person in the whole king
dom. HIS mother was no doubt very
popular for many years, but the pub
lie got into their heads an idea that
she interfered, or rather that Prince
Albert thought she interfered in
State affairs, and then her pepulari-
ty ceased in great measure. Since
the Prince died she has been the re-.
verse of popular. At first, when her
widowhood commenced, English
men and women sympathized deep
lY with her; but her private sorrow
has made her forget her public duty,
and her long continued seclusion
from the world, which has now last
ed more than seven years, has, in
point of fact, removed from among
us the heart of England and greatly
changed-not for the better-the
tone of English society. Hence 1t is
that the appointment of regent
would be popular, and for many
principal reasons the Prince of Wales
would be most popular as regent.
He has his fauIts-who has nOt2-
but they are faults of the head, not
of the heart /; faults of youth which
will die out as he gets older
Year: 1870

It is not true that President Grant
accepts every present that is offered
to him. He declined last summer to
take fifty acres of sand in New Jer-
sey, and now he refuses the gift of a
dog. at least, such is the report
that comes to us from Washington.
The animal in question was sent by
express from Cleveland, and the
charges were SO, which the Presi-
dent would not pay, saying he had
no use for dog. Whether a differ
ent answer would have been given
if the freight had been prepaid is,
however, uncertain.
Year: 1870

Having suggested the name Of this dis
tinguishcd statesman for the state Senate,
he authorizes us TO say that 1t would not
be convenient for him to be candidate,
and he begs to be excused Every man in
Orange will regret his decision.
Year: 1870

CING SING CAMP MEETING.-THE ANNUAL CANT
- Meeting on the old camp ground at Sing Sing vii,
mence on Tuesday August and continue until Friday 18Th
By resolution OF the Board Trustees the will
closed during the entire Sabbath of tho meeting per-
advised to for the meeting on that day.
they cannot be admitted.
Year: 1870

\ writer suggest; that it would be Il
good thing for men and women were
they taught in childhood to use their
left hand equally with their right. The
use Of the right hand only for certain
actions, such rs writing and working
with mechanical tools, is entirely con-
ventiOnal and there does not appear
to be any reason why people should not
be ambideXter in every kind of manual
work. Persons who have lost -their
right hand by accident frequently ac-
quire great facility with the left, after
some practice; but grown-up-persons
have not always the patience to betake
themselves to the Necessary practice.
BY children the thing would be ac-
quired insensibly if means We're taken
to lead them to the practice of it. Chill
dren living in houses where two lam
guages are spoken acquire both with
great facility; and what is true Of
tongues would be equally 80 Of hands.
Year: 1870

aiding 70 II the Keystone Of the srch-Rome. Tho
Holy father and the ministry 1t the Vatc an openly
proclaim the finger q Goo in the reverses OF Napo.
leon, which shows that ingrattude is the vice not
alone Of republics. They claim that the rejoicing
over the victories OF Prussia is founded partly on
selfish grounds, but think whoever wishes to put
nnger In the Roman pie at this juncture would only
nave II well burned, and that adventurous Johnny
hOrner will certainly not be KING William.
The diverse sympathies Of the Mlanese show them
selves In different ways but the most quiet ana tell
Ing OF all Is that OF well-kn0wn book and eagrav-
Ing merchant here His windows are filed with
magnificent engravings; to-day the horrors OF war,
tomorrow the visit OF King William TO Napoleon,
the next day that gloomy masterpiece, the retreat
OF NAPOLEON from Russia in 1915. on the eve of
decisive battle, the effect Of that fallen grandeur,
bounded IN by the desol e skies OF the North makes
you shudder; IL seems prediction OF the downfall
OF the dynasty. You Will understand that l write
you Of the actual state OF pubic feeling rather
one who observes and narrates than as one who
feels.


Nevertheless while admire and respect the great
German nation, which has great destinles fulfil,
confess that, contrasting the despotism OF Prussia
with the LIBERAL though ambitious policy or France,
cannot restrain the hope that the latter may at
least preserve her position the sole exponent OF
progressive democracy In Europe. France mas COM
United many International wrongs; but the germ OF
liberty brought by Lafayette ana his followers into
her midst watered with the blood OF her revolution,
spranR INTO vital existence and has already 'bOrne
iruit tor the healing OF the nations"
Year: 1870

The Prussians have achieved an almost
uninterrupted succession Of SPLENDID vic
tories over the French, but. alas, AT what
a fearful sacrifice Of life, The European
correspondent Of the New York Times
says that the awful slaughter Of the Ger
mans in the battles around Metz has sent
n thrill OF horror through Prussia and
saxony Their losses ut that place alone
are said TO DO not less than one hundred
thousand Of their bravest and best men.
The flower Of the Prussian army, includ.
ing the magnificent regiments Of Berlin,
Brandenburg and Pomersina, commanded
by the young noblesen of tho kingdom,
are almost annihilated All Berlin is in
mourning, and there is hardly one Of the
noble families that has not been stricken
down with sorrow and grief at the loss of
some relative in the army. Such, alas, is
the sad havoc Of war.
Year: 1870

RxIy. There's a man living in Calhoun
county, Miss, who is supposed to be the
strongest man in the State, if not in tho
entire South. He is 35 years Of age, and
weighs two hundred and twenty-five lbs:
Ho has been known to carry three bars OF
railroad iron, when it takes from three to
five ordinary men to carry one. he can
take a cask containing forty gallons Of
whisky or water, the former is preferred)
raise Il from the ground, and drink out
of the bung-hole, with as much ease as
others could out of common, pitcher;
and he has frequently taken barrel OF
flour under each arm, and, balancing a
sack Of salt on his head, carried them Sow
eral hundred yards with apparently little
effort
Year: 1870

To THE EDITOR OF THE BERALD:-


We are constantly nearing the complaint that we
are TO have short supply or Ice IN consequence OF
the mid winter. But the poor have many reasons
70 be thankful: had the winter not been q mild one
there Is no doubt Dct the price OF coal would have
gone 10 thirteen or fourteen dollars ton. AS II is.
not only has the price OF coal been kept down and
Is likely TO go lower, but Hour be bought lower
than for the past ten years Thus TWO OF the most
essential needs oil those who LABOR for their daily
wages have been Kept down within reasonable
prices. We may have 10 pay more for ice next sum-
mer: pay more Tor our ice creams, claret punches,
mint Iuleps and all the other Injuries IN whicl Ice
plays an important pars; baG let us recollect
that the mild winter which denies q large supply OF
Ice benefits ile poor and lends to cheap bread and
coal JOB GOODMAN.
Year: 1870

We don't know wiien that will be If they 60
on violating that Constitution as they are
doing now. CeaM the court, having been
one of the authors of that Constitution,
consent to see q. crippled before lit is set
upon it's feet Z He did not appeal to the
selfish feelings of the court as man, but
he appealed to the courts sense Of right.
Thnt Constitution began 10 operate before
representation in Congress began. II it
did not We could have had no Representa-
tives there.


The question Of Jurisdiction wss then
argued, and it was claimed that in this
inchoate condition of the State it could
hardly be questioned that Jurisdiction did
exist. When Congress has declared the
conditions of admission, the courts must
hold that those conditions continue until
Congress decides to the contrary. Would
the provisional government have ceased in
any particular if these conditions had not
been complied with? The State was not
admitted to the Union until the members of
the Legislature had taken the oath of office.
The court plainly had the power to
interfere in the matter of the mayor
alty. !, 1t. could interfere in case
lasy50f did not take the oath of Office
within. thirty days. In that case this
c7rrt -ncate his office. He contended
th&s tNs s3sssne act passed by the Legisla-
ture req"i'sug the fourteenth amendment
oath from oi;ice-holders for year he would
have been entitled to hold Office under the
State Constitution, which expressly declares
that all prrsons entitled to vote shall also
be entitled to hold Office. This Constitution
had been approved by Congress; had the
weight Of an act of Congress, and he re-
carded it as a removal of his disabilities.
If he had been elected to al Office holding
this view of the matter, and the case had
been brought before this court upon y
charge of perjury, the court would have
dismissed it, for it would have known that
the animus Of perjury was not in the act OF
taking the oath. The case would have to
be tried in chancery to test his title to the
Office. 1t is true that Federal courts must
find their jurisdiction in acts of Congress,
and it was also true that where acts Of Con-
gress created Il right the jurisdiction arose
out of that right. Not by implication, but
ny reason Of the right; and if the common
law does not give the remedy, then equity
must be used.


At this point in Governor Wise's remarks
the court, at his request, adjourned until
this morning ut 10 o'clock.
Year: 1870

HORRIBLE MURDER IN CHARLES Cry
Intelligence received here last evening in
forms us that colored man was murdered
there on Sunday by his wife with g
fat iron. He was asleep at the time,
and she advanced upon him stealthily
and killed him. She has been arrested.
We are unable to get further particulars.
Year: 1870

~ The FREsHET on THE CHESAPEAKE AND
OHIO RAILRoAD.-The recent rains are re-
ported to have been very heavy on the line
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio road. The
bridge which spans Jackson's river near
Goshen depot was injured to considerable
extent, and the track washed badly near
Coyington.


At a late hour yesterday evening we Tis-
tied the depot to learn the effects, but up to
that time the assistant superintendent had
not been able to learn by telegraph the ex-
tent of the damage. done at Covingtcn.
Goshen bridge has been repaired, through
the enterprise and energy of the proper
officers, and trains con now pass safely over.
Year: 1870

UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE
The assessors Of internal revenue are very
busily engaged in registering the name of
everybody in every branch Of business for
license tax. All are liable to registration,
and will be arbitrarily assessed if they do
not see that they are properly assessed.
All should comply with the requests of the
assessors. 1t costs nothing to 60 to the
Office, but it may if you wait for them to
hunt you up; and there is no lodging
them, for they have detectives everywhere
nowadays in the departments. You need
not pay your license before the lst of May
unless you wish to do SO. If paid now you
will obviate the crowds around the collec-
tors Office at that time. But it is necessary
to register in the assessors Office, and that
promptly, for the books will be closed be-
fore long.


The assessors report the names of 100 de-
linquents to annual income out Of several
thousand returns. These gentlemen had
better be making terms with the officers by
going early and often until they are re-
leased from the penalties.
Year: 1870

The best charity is not that which
giveth aims, but that which prompts US
to think and speak we'll of our fellows
men. 1t is noble charity, if they be
condemned, not to gall their wounds by
multiplying knowledge Of their offence.


We are all ashamed to confess that
our quickest instincts are to think ill Of
others, or to magnify the i'll of which we
hear. There is a universal struggling of
the shoulders, as much as to say, We'll,
I suspected as much, Its just like him.
Il have suspected her some time, I
could tale unfold and SO on through
an endless chapter, with which every
person is more or less familiar.


He who says Il could tale unfold,
yet holds it back, leaving the hearer to
infer any and every evil. stabs charac-
ter with the mealest, deadliest blow
Yet who is there that carries not this
ever ready weapon, this poisoned dag
ger!


The charity that gives to help, and
not to humiliate, is good. but the chari-
ty that makes US think no evil is bet
ter.


Let us seek to possess this charity and
practice it, for it alone Is the charity
that covereth o multitude of SINS
Year: 1870

A writer describes the present ap-
pearance of the place where languages
got mixed AFTER ride Of nine miles,
we were at the foot Of the Bier-Nimrood.
Our horses feet were trampling upon
the remains of bricks which showed
here and there through the accumulated
dust and rubbish of ages. Before our
eyes uprose q great mound of earth,
barren and bare. This was Bier>Nim-
rood, the ruins of the Tower of Babel,
by which the first builders Of the earth
had vainly hoped to scale high heaven
Here, also, it was that Nebuchadnezzar
built, for bricks bearing his name have
been found in the ruins. At the top of
the mound great mass Of brick-work
pierces the accumulated soil. With
your finger you touch the very bricks
large, square shipped, and massive
that were thoroughly burned, the very
mortar, now bard as granite, handled
more than 1000 years ago by earth's i'm
pious people. From the summit of the
mound, far away over the plain, We zee
glistening the gilded dome of mosque.
rejecting the bright rays of the morning
sun. This was the tomb of the holy
Ali. To pray before this at some peri
Cd Of his life; to kiss the sacred dust of
the earth around there at some time or
other; to bend his body and count his
beads, is the daily desire of every de-
vout Mohamedan."
Year: 1870

According to the Esquimaux, the
seal constructs its habitAtion beneath
the surface of the ice in such q manner
that it can enter il from the water be-
low; here the young seal passes its in
fancy, and when the returning heat Of
Summer has destroyed its igloo or
dwelling, the young seal is old enough
to take care Of itself; but this mode of
lodging its young beneath the ice is
well known 10 the bear, who with its
keen sense soon detects the whereabouts
OF the seals nursery, and in order 10
gain an entrance, the bear, retiring
short distance, makes q spring, and
comes down with all his weight on the
roof Of the fgloo, brushes it in. and inn
mediately seizes the young seal with its
paw. Here it might be supposed the
hungry bear at once devours his prey
but no, it is far too wary to do SO; it
knows full well that where . babe is,
there must be mother. and that she
will be in search Of her darling, there.
fore the bear scrapes away the snow
from the seal hole, and holding the
young seal by the firper, allows it to
founder about, and when the mother
approaches, the bear slyly draws the
young seal towards it until the old one
is within reach, when he seizes it with
the other paw, and thus captures both.
The mode in which the bear captures
the seal on the ice is very similar to
that followed by the Esquimaux. When
at distance from the seal, the bear
throws itself down aud stealthily crawls
or bitches along towards the seal, and il
the seal looks up it lies perfectly still,
and makes at the same time noise
which lulls the seal; the bear repeats
the operation until it approaches its
victim SO near that escape is impossible,
when it falls prey to Bruins appetite.
Another Id ode of obtaining food by the
bear is to watch from cliff the move
ments OF the walrus, who are fond Of
summing themselves on the rocks, and
when one Of these has taken up con-
venient position for the bears purpose,
the latter lifts large piece of rock, and
with astonishing accuracy, throws it
down on tho animals head. If the wal
rus is only stunned, the bear runs down,
and with the rock hammers its victim
on the head until it is dead When at
tempting to capture seal in water, the
bear sinks his body beneath the surface
of the sea, leaving only the head above
water, which resembles piece of float
ing ice; when the seal raises its head
above the surface. Bruin quietly sinks,
and swimming under the seal seizes it.
Year: 1870

Has been fitted up with Laundry, and has for the
past few months been successfully engaged in
washing and ironing. By this means we have been
able 10 contributs largely towards supplying The
daily wants of the Home We would respectfully
solicit the patronage of the public and sat
isfaction Clothes will be sent for and returned in
good order at As low rates lower than anywhere
else The application for washing may be left ct the
post Office at the Home South 9th street, the
corner Of Market, with any one Of the managers.


On behalf OF the Board.


R.M. COFFIN, President.


Richmond, Sspt.I 1903.
Year: 1870

The Sherburn, New York, News says
that a man, recently married in that
town, helped his wife, while courting, to
cut and sew together rags enough to
make sixty yards of carpet If the in
dustrious nature of this young man had
been known among the manageable la
dies he would have been in great de-
maud.
Year: 1870

WILL SICKNESS MAKE US RELIaIoUs?-
One should think said friend to the
celebrated DR.. Samuel Johnson, that
sickness and the view Of death would
make men more religious Sir re-
piled johnson, they do not know how
to go about it, They have not the first
notion. A man who has never had re-
ligion before, no more grows religious
when he is sick, than a man who has
never learned figures can count when he
has need of calculation
Year: 1870

Brown and Smith were met bv an
overdressed individual. DO you know
that chap, Smith, said Brown. Yes,
know him; that is, know OF him,-he's
q sculptor Such fellow as that
SCULPTOR surely You must be Mistaken
He may not be the kind OF one you
mean, hut know that he schiselled'
tailor out Of q snit of clothes last
week.
Year: 1870

THE APPRENTICESHIP SYsTEM.-The large cities
of the United States now infested by class
of juvenile offenders who combine the cunning
of veteran evil doers with the dashing audacity
peculiar to youth. The New York EDening Post
publishes some interesting statistics, compiled
from the last report of the prison association,
showing that Of 3 4o6 prisoners in the peneten-
tiares of thirty States, in 1867, more than three
fourths had never learned a trade. These fig
ures are highly suggestive. The young man
who has no trade by which he can earn a living
is exposed to overpowering temptations to crime,
while who is master of a trade can at all times
earn an honest subsistence. Every prudent
father should see to it that his sons are thor
oughly taught some trade. No matter how
bright their prospects, the mastery of some
handicraft is an anchor to windward which may
prove blessing in the day of adversely. The
old fashioned apprenticeship system ought not
to be superseded. All the young men Of the ma
ton cannot be merchants, lawyers or doctors.
Every one of them who does not inherit for
tune ought 10 learn a trade. Parents who are
soictous about the future of their boys would
do well to ponder the significant fact that
seventy-seven per cent. OF the convicts in the
United States consists of men who never
Learned trade"
Year: 1870

COOPERATION OF WIvEs.-No man ever pros
pered in the world without the cooperation OF
his wife. If she unites in mutual endeavors or
rewards his labors with an endearing smile, with
what confidence will he resort to his merchan-
disc or his farm fly over the land, sail upon the
seas, meet difficulty and encounter danger, if he
knows that he is not spending his strength in
vain, but that his labor will be rewarded by the
sweets of home Soictude and disappointment
enter the history of every mans life, and he is
but half provided for the voyage who finds but
an associate for happy hours, while for his
months of darkness and distress no sympathiz-
ing partner is prepared.
Year: 1870

A YOUNG man, who has tried until he knows
tells us that if you go to call on young lady
and she sews diligently all the evening and only
says Eyes" and "no," you can go away about
nine or a quarter past without breaking any ol
the rules of etiquette.
Year: 1870

JEFF. 0AvIs-APPLICATI0N OF MS OLD PLEA,
" LET Us ALONE. 1.-Two or three journals, with
more zeal than discretion, bring the name of
Jefferson Davis again before the people and in
n conspcuously unfortunate way Davis, 1T
seems has inst written private letter. in which
he speaks of a time when "men had not reached
the degree Of qualification which caused the
withdrawal of certain States from the Union to
be called trebellion';" and the Phladclph Press
and the New York lVortd publish the letter, with
comments, written in the spirit of the mclan-
choly DAYS when the withdrawal of certain
States from the Union" was the question of the
day, and all fierce passions were enlisted on one
side of it and on the other. The best thing that
can be done with Jefferson Davis, both for him
self and for the country, is to let hfm drop out
Of sight and out of mind as quickly as possible.
His narrow mind and poisoned heart his cruelty
to brave foes when in his power, and his fright
full mismanagement of the resources wrested
from a people whom he first deluded and then
crushed, his melodramatic efforts at tragic
grandeur in Washington and in Richmond, and
his farcical flight under n cOwardly and Judi
crous disguise, when the runHe had wrought
came home to him; in short, his execrable
crimes and childish blunders will still occupy
page in history, and he will always be the most
contemplate figure among men prominent in the
affairs of this century. But let him remain in
history. and not rise with all his shame upon
him. to affront and excite us now. We want
peace, brotherhood, oblivion, union. Men like
him, who learn nothing and forget nothing, who
cannot even accept the judgment of events
and lay down the language of treason, are better
in the past than in the present. He cannot be
brought, as living man, before the American
people, without awakening curses which are
asleep hatreds which have no place in tue work
of to-day His is the head on which lies the
blood of our brothers and friends slain on both
sides of the contest his wicked ambition pro-
voked and of those murdered by slow torture
in his prison house the head of which is the
symbol of fraternal strife and national devasta-
tion. Away with his name from our sight, and
let us and our children forever, as citizensare-
gard it as Christians do the name of judy
New York EeeaiAg Io5t,