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Year: 1870

THE SUPERVISOR SYsTEM.-The
voice of the press of all parties, so far
as we have noticed, is unanimous
against the bill that has passed the
senate abolishing the supervisor sys-
tenn and re-establishing the old county
more papers in the state than there
are members of the legislature, and
we believe taken as a whole, they are
better exponents of public opinion in
their several localities. And yet we
see the entire press a unit against the
bill that has passed the senate and is
now pending in the house.


AT the same time, the present sys-
tenn undoubtedly needs some amend
ments, but would it not be better that
those be made rather than abolish the
whole system and adopt one which is
much more open to objection and faul-
ty?-Dubuque Daily Herald.
Year: 1870

The papers say that Prince Arthur is
at home in the company Of ladies. 1t
appears to run in the family. Now there
is Wales. lie is never SO much at homo
as when away from home, in company
with calico.-CHp.
Year: 1870

A most significant commentary up
on all that has been given out recent
ly by the Spanish authorities at EIa-
Vana, comes from Madrid, in the an
nouncement that Captain General De
rodas has made requisitiOn for rein
forcements to the amount of fourteen
thousand men. From forty to sixty
thousand men had previously been
sent to the Island of Cuba, according
to the information submitted by the
Committee on Foreign Relations to
our House Of Representatives. Since
then there have been repeated stale
ments, to the effect that nothing was
left of the Insurgents but few hum
dreds of guerillas, scattered about
among the hills. Now, the question
arises, does it require an additional
force of fourteen thousand men 70
finish up the work in suppressipg
these Insignificant bands Of guerilia5,
or has the powerful Spanish army,
sent to Cuba, been so terribly
reduced by casualties as to need these
fourteen thousand to fill up their va-
cant ranks; or going to the main
question, are we not to understand
that the stories about the insurrectiOn
having died out were false? Which
Is it2
Year: 1870

One OF the bills passed by Congress
on the last day of the session con-
tanned clause providing that mere
after no advertisement, notice or pro-
posal for any executive department of
the Government, or for any bureau
thereof, or for any Office Herewith
connected, shall be published in any
newspaper except in pursuance OF
written authority for such publication
from the head of such department,
and no bill for any such advertising
or publication shall be paid unless
there be presented with such bill q
copy of the written authority afore-
said. This will break up great
abuse which has existed in various
quarters.
Year: 1870

No less than four of the most able
republican representatives in Congress
from Ohio have positively declined a
denomination. Now 1t is rather in
teresting TO know whether their de-
clinatiOns were impelled by design
to get out of bad company or by feel
ing that their reelection was not quite
80 certain,
Year: 1870

n BURKE, AUCTIONEER, WILL GUARANTEE TO


~ those who have Furniture 10 sell 25 cent
the OF than they realize Otherwise by calling
him Immediately his Office, Nos. and West Twenty
third street, Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Year: 1870

A FIRST CLASS CORNER HOUSE, WITHIN TWO
n blocks of the main entrance to Prospect Park the
two adjoining Houses for sale cheap would trade
the above for smaller house neghborhood Inquire
the premises Warren street and Carlton
WIN. FLANAGAN, owner
Year: 1870

and continuous scream, utterly anoma-
lous and inhuman-a howl--a wailing
shrek, half of horror and half of tri-
umph, such as might have arisen only
out of hell, conformity from the throats
ofthe damned in their agony and of the
demons that exult in their damnation.


OF my own thoughts it is folly to
speak. Swooning, staggered TO the
opposite wall. For one instant the
party upon the stairs remained motion
less, through extremity of terror and
of awe. In the next, dozen stout arms
were toiling at the wall. 1t fell bodily.
The corpse, ALREADY greatly decayed and
clotted with gore, stood erect before
the eyes of the spectators. Upon its
head, with red extended mouth and
solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous
beast whose craft had seduced me into
murder, and whose informing voice had
consigned me to the hangman. had
walled the monster up within the
tomb!
Year: 1870

a man he owned terrier dog


bob-taied, onery cuss-
And that there purp got that there man
In many an ugly muss;
For the man he was ON his mussel,


And the dog was on his bite.
SO to kick that dog-goned animile


Was sure to raise fight.
A woman she owned Thomas cat


That fit at fifteen pounds;
And other cats got up and slid


When that there cat was round.
The man and his dog came along one day


Where the cat was prowling around;
ANA the purp he growled feroclously,


And advanced with hasty bound.
lie tried for TO chaw the neck of the cat,
But the cat he wouldn't be chawed;
so he lit on the back of that there dog


And bit! and clawed and clawedl
Oh the hair 1t flew ! and the purp he yowled!
As the claws went into his hide,
And chuncks of flesh were peeled from his hack
Then he ilummixed, and kicked, and died.
The man lie ripped, and cussed, and swore-
As he gathered a big briclk-bat--
That he would be burned essentially,


If he didn't kill that cat
But the woman allowed she'd be blest if he dld
Aud snatchedup an old shot gun
Which she fred and peppered his diaphragm.
With bird shot number one
They toted him home on q window blind.


And the doctor cured him up;
But lie was never known to fight again.


Or to own another purp
Folks may turn up their snoots at this ere rhym,
don't care a cuss for thatl
All want to show Is, that fighting dorgs


May tackle the wrong Toni-cat!
Year: 1870

For the most wild, yet most homely
narrative which l am about to pen, l
neither suspect or solicit belief. Mad
in deed would / be to expect it, in a case
where my very senses reject their own
evidence. Yet, mad anu J not-and
very surely do l not dream. But to-
morrow / die, and to day l would un-
burthen my soul. My imme diate pur-
pose is to place before the world, plain
ly, succinctly, and without comment, a
series Of mere household events. In
their consequences, these events have
errified-have tortured-have destroy
ed me. Yet / will not attempt to ex-
pound them. TO me, they have pre-
sented little but Horror-to many they
will seem less terrible than 6a1TogNes.
Hereafter perhaps, some intellect may
be found which will reduce my phan-
tasm to the -place-some intel
lect more calm, more logical, and far
less excitable than my own, which will
perceive, in the circumstances detail
with awe, nothing more than an ordi-
nary succession of very natural causes
and effects.


From my infancy was noted for my
d ocil lity and humanity of my disposi-
ton. My tenderness of heart was even
so conspicuous as to make me the jest
of my companions. / was especially
fond of animals, and was INDUCED by
my parents with great variety of pets.
With these l spent most of my time,
and never was so happy as when feed
ing an d earessing them. This peculiar
ity of character grew with my growth,
and, in my manhood, I derived from it
one of my principal sources of pleas
ure. TO those who have cherished an
affection for a faithful and sagacious
dog, l need hardly be at the trouble of
explaining the nature or the intensity
of the qualification thus derivable.
There is something in the unselfish and
self.sacrificing love of brute, which
goes directly to the heart of him who
has had frequent occasion to test the
paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity
of mere Man.


1 married early, and was happy to
find in my wife disposition not uncon-
genial with my own. Observing my
partiality for domestic pets, she lost no
opportunity Of procuring those of the
most agreeable kind. We had birds,
gold fish, a fine dog, rabbits, small
monkey, and a cat.


This latter was remarkably large
and beautiful animal, entirely black,
aud sagacious to an astonishing degree.
In speaking of his intelligence, my
wife, who at heart was not q little tine
tured with superstition, made frequent
allusion to the ancient popular notion,
which regarded all black cats as witch
es in disguise. Not that she was ever
serious upon this point-and mention
the matter at all for no better reason
than that it happens, just now,to be re-
membered.


Pluto--this was the cats name-was
my favorite pet and playmate. alone
fed him, and he attended me wherever
/ went about the house. 1t was even
with difficulty that / could prevent him
from following me through the streets.
Our friendship lasted, in this manner
for several years, during which my
| general temperament and character
1 through the instrumentality of the
Year: 1870

A MAN WITH A PROPENSITY FOR
SEEING HIS FELLOW BEINGS ASLEEP.


The Lewisville Courier Journal relates
this singular story.


A man who gave his name as Charles
Watkins, and who turns out to be Chas.
Livingstone, once a respectable mer-
chant in this city, was arrested while
trying to enter the house of Mr.. Schaef-
fer on Portland avenue, before daylight
yesterday morning. This man has a
strange mania for which name is yet
to be invented. He will break into q
house at night just for the luxury of
standing by the bedside of person and
looking at him or her, as the case may
be, as they lie asleep. He has been
known 10 do this on several occasions,
and, after standing there and gazing
fer hours, leave without disturbing
anything, and close the doors carefully
after him.


About six months ago he got himself
into serious trouble in this way, being
arrested as burglar and held to answer.
He entered the room of young lady
after she had retired and gone to sleep.
Taking his position beside the bed, he
stood gazing at the beautiful sleeper till
perhaps conscious of the presence near
her, she awoke and was frightened ter
ribly. By the faint light of the moon


as it shone through the lattice she saw
this stranger standing still and motion
less at her bedside. She screamed and
tainted, and the inmates of the house,
came rushing in just in time to catch
the intruder.


The affair caused good deal of ex-
citement and no little gossip at the time
but subsequently facts have been proved
that the man was harmless, and went
there just to satisfy this singular longing
of his. He has been caught in several
such places since then but at no time
has he ever disturbed anything or any
body. He was presented to the court
as suspected felon, charge hardly
justified by the facts in the case, and
held in $500 to be of good behavior for
twelve months. His case is q strange
one indeed.
Year: 1870

A WORD TO Young MEN.-Some-
body once said, "Our Government land
costs one dollar and quarter an acre,
and good whiskey two dollars bottle.
How many men die landiess, who,
during their lives, have swallowed
whole townships-trees and ALI" There
is food for reflection in this little para
graph. Every day of cur lives, and
almost every hour or each day, we
meet individuls not merely landless,
but house!ess, homeless, and pennyless,
who in the course of their lives have
swallowed ardent spirits enough to


pay for land and house, and have pen
nies and dollars for their pockets be-
sides. But it is not the drinker of ardent
spirits alone who thus deprives himself
of the comforts of home-the tobacco.
chewer, the cigar-smOker, the young


man who spends precious hours of each
day and evening in worse than listless
idleness. How rarely such persons IT,
fleet upon the folly of their course. The
young man who smokes three live cent
cigars day--and many of them double
the quantity at double the price-putfs
away enough in the course of ten years
to give him handsome start in bpsi-
ness, or to provide for himself and
family comfortable home. How freI
quently we hear such persons complain
of their inability to take a newspaper
ora literary magazine, or purchase an
interesting book They will tell you
they are too poor for that, and yet the
next moment will spend for a glass of
ale or brandy, or for cigar, sum
sufficient to pay for two daily papers
for week. And this folly is repeated
perhaps half a dozen times in the course
of every twenty-four hours. Young
men give this subject q moments re-
Election. Sit down and calmly think il
over, and If, when you have fairly
done so, you conclude that it is better
to drink and smoke, go on! The day
will come when you will discover your
error, and that discovery will be made
when it will be perhaps too late -Ere-
ming Herald.
Year: 1870

Speak gently lit is better far


To rule by love, than fear
Speak gently-let not harsh words mar
The good we might do here!
Speak gently!-Love doth whisper low
The VOWS that true hearts bind!
And gently Friendships accents flow;
Affections voice is kind.
Speak gently to the little child!
Its love be sure to gain;
Teach it in accents soft and mild
1t may not long remain.
Speak gently to the young, for they
VIII have enough to bear
Pass through this life as best they may,
'Tis full of anxious care!
Speak gently TO the aged one,


Grieve not the care-worn heart;
The sands of life are nearly run,
Let such in peace depart!
Speak gently, kindly, to the poor;
Let no harsh tone be heard;
They have enough they must endure,
Without an unkind word!
Speak gently to the erring-know,
They may have toiled in vain;
Perchance unkindness made them so;
Oh, win them back again!
Speak gently! He who gave His life
To bend mans stubborn will,
When elements were in fierce strife.
Said to them: peace, be STILL"
Speak gently tits little thing


Dropped in the hearts deep well;
The good, the joy, which it may bring,
Eternity shall tell.
Year: 1870

1t is easier to be a good business man
than poor one. Half the energy dis
played in keeping ahead that Is required
to catch up when behind will save credit,
give moro time TO business, and add to
the profit and reputation Of your word.
Honor your engagements. If you prom
ise to meet man or do certain thing at
a certain moment, be ready at the appoint
cd time. If you have work to do. do 1t at
once chcerfully, and therefore more spec
dily and correct. If you 60 out on busi-
ness, attend promptly to the matter on
hand, and then Us promptly 60 about your
own business. Do not stop to tell stories
In business hours. --.


If you have q place Of business, be
found there when wanted. No man can
get rich by sitting around stores and 81
looms. Never "fool, ron business matters.
II you employ others, be on hand to sec
that they attend to their duties, and to di-
rect with regularity. promptness, libcrrlity.
Do not NEEDLE with any business you
know nothing of. Never buy an article
simply because the man that sells 1t will
take it out in trade. Make your place OF
business pleasant and attractive, then stay
there to wait on customers.
Year: 1870

Nothing betrays so much rs the voice,
save perhaps the eyes, and they can be
lowered, and so far their expression hidden.
In moments Of emotion no skill can
hide the fact of disturbed feeling, though
strong will and the habit Of self-control
can steady the voice when else IL would be
failing and tremulous. But not the stron-
gest will, nor the largest amount Of self
control, can keep II natural rs well rs
steady. II is deadened, vailed, compress
ed. like wild creature tightly bound and
unnaturally still. One feels that il is done
by an effort, and that II the strain were
relaxed for moment the wild creature
would burst loose in ragc or despair. and
the voice would break out into the scream
Of passion. or quiyer away into the falter
Of pathos. And this very effort Is as elo-
quent as IL there had been no holding
down at all. and the voice had been left
to its own impulse unchecked.


We all know the effect irritating or
soothing. which certain voices have over
us; and we have all experienced that
strange impulse Of attraction or repulsion
which comes from the sound of the voice
alone. And, generally. If not absolutely
always, the impulse is true one. any
modification which increased knowledge
may produce Is never quite satisfactory.
Certain voices crate on our nerves and set
our teeth on edge, and Others arc just ~
calming as these are irritating. quieting
us like composing draught, and setting
vague images Of beauty and pleasantness
afoat in our brains. A good voice, calm
In tonc and musical in quality. Is one Of
the essentials for n physician-thc "bed-
side voice. which is nothing il il is not
sympathetic by constitution. Not false. not
made up. not sickly. but tender in itself.
Of rather low pitch. well modulated.
and distinctly harmonious in Its notes. Il
Is the very opposite Of the orators voice.
which is artificial in its management and
made voice.
Year: 1870

Russian Demand for Criminal Extradifion.


ZURICH, Feb. Is, 1870
Russia has made peremptory demand OF rhe
Swiss government for the surrender Of o certain
felon, who TOOK refuge in this country some time
ago. AS there Is no treaty between Russia ana
Switzerland for extradition the government Will
deliberate upon the matter.
Year: 1870

Men Of all religions, who love and
worship God, are Masons at heart, al
though they may, from prudential mo-
tives or mistaken ideas, affect to despise it,
yet, nevertheless, it lives within them, AID
its principles, heaven born as they are,
indispensable to every heart that seeks
God, through whatever avenue of saliva
ton each may select for himself.


Freemasonry does not presume t. save
any ones soul, but it does presume to tell
mankind that If he can not love their
brethren whom they have not seen, they
cannot love God they have not seen. Its
lessons are intended not alone to make
them brethern, and to love and forgive
each other, but they increasingly keep the
eye upon the greatness, goodness. power
and mercy Of the erternal Father who
possesses the omnipotence Of Pardon
Erch.
Year: 1870

A00VuAJs


The study of nature leads every man
naturally to the love of pure religion
hence every Mason seeks God through
some form of worship most acceptable and
agreeable to himself, therefore our
charges impress upon the candidate that
he should respect the religion Of any
country wherein he may reside. This
leads us to the universally of Freemason.
ry which is also beautiful ideal, for il
recognizes that each man is or ought to be
q worshipper at the shrine of the Great
Eternal, and that to interfere with this
idsality Of universal worship of uaiver.
Sal Father would be Masonic oneIce'


we DO not by the study Of nature mean
20 ignore the study Of divine revelation
Tor the 'Great Light is never absent
from the Masonic altar but any man
who can pass through life and call him
self a worshipper, who does not pause and
reflect upon the natural evidences Of God
and his goodness, mercy and love, is q
paradox and Of all other Frcemasons
should most study the grandeur OF nature
and in proof Of that God in when each
Of them must profess trust before they
can become members of the fraternity.
Year: 1870

The blood circulates through the body
Of man in about two minutes. The
amount of blood does not vary much from
twenty four pounds, so that twelve
pounds pass through each minute. 1t is
estimated that the blood moves at the rate
Of two and half feet in a second, or at
about the rate OF two mii.s an hour.
Year: 1870

Judge Alexander c. Morton, of Colum-
bus, Ga, friend and executor Of Thorn,
AS Paine. has in preparation life Of the
celebrated free'thinker. The ground tax.
en- upon the mooted question of Paine /.
belief is defined in the following extract :


'lle was not an atheist or an infidel,
aor was he a scoffer of religious views and
teachings, but he had his own. !Ie pro-
mulgated them in his Age of Reason,
when he wrote, i believe in God, and
hope for future existence. The kew of
Heaven is not in the keeping Of any sect,
nor ought the road to be obstructed by
any To Samuel Adams, in 1903, he
wrote: i trouble not myself about the
manner of future existence. / content
myself with believing, even to positive
conviction, that the power which gave me
existence is able to continue it in any
manner and form He pleases, either with
or without this body and it appears
more probable to Inc that shall continue
to exist hereafter, than that should have
had existence as now have before that
existence began. consider myself in
the hands Of my Creator, and that He will
dispose of me after this life consistently
with His goodness and JUSTICE"
Year: 1870

The Secretary OF the Navy, accompanied by Ad
mrai Smith ana q distinguished party or
ladies' and gentlemen, visited the Broad
way Underground Railway yesterday morn
Ing and rode back aud forth for few
miles under Broadway by atmospheric pressure
The Secretary was much Qratiied with the success
OF this simple method OF locomotlon, examined
every part Of the novel machinery with great IN
terest and expressed the hope that the system would
soon be extended throughout the city.


After the riding he viseu the air chamber OF the
great blowing machine and enjoyed personal ex-
perlcnce OF the mechanical hurricane which sweeps
under Broadway ana gives motion TO the car


The pneumatic postal despatch was then set In
operation, and the Secretary witnessed the trans
mission Of large mail or letters and newspapers.
AT velocity OF sixty-tnree miles an hour, through
the atmospheric pipes The velocity il 80 great that
the letters lock like mere specs as they issue
from the air tube Into the receiving box, and it is
only when the hopper at the bottom Is opened and
the letters drop out that the fact OF such rapid
transit IL realized.


These tubes, It VIII he remembered to be placed
under tho streets In connection with the lamp post
letter boxes, the arrangement being such that all
letters when deposited in the boxes will slide down
into the tubes and be instantly carried forward by
the air current to the Post ONCE Hub.POst ONCE.
This Will effect great saving OF time In the coec-
ton and delivery or city letters.
Year: 1870

The United Stnfes Senators Their Way to


the CRpitnl-Their Numerous Erienas who


Call and Get Disappointsd-What n Senator


Has to Sny About the Coming Session.


The presence OF Ex-Governor Fenton, Secretary
Robeson Senators Morrill,, OF Vermont and Roscoe
Conkling at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday had
the effect OF drawing together in the vestibule all
day long large number OF politicians, many OF
whom hold fat offices and others who want
to hold fat offices. or course they all
went TO the hotel to pay their respects to
some one OF the grave and reverend seignorsn
above mentioned, and drop in word occasionally
about their uncles and nephews who have nothing
as yet 70 do In an official way Indeed, poor Carr
and his associates had as much az they could do to
attend to those who wanted their cards sent up
The pell boys didn't relish the thing bit, and
wished In their hearts and souls that there never
had been such


SPECIMEN OF OFFICIAL INFLUENCE
In the world as government dlgnltary. The hand
some Roscoe after getting rid OF his batch of tor
ceuld, and In his hurry came very near running
down Governor Fenton, who was going up stairs at
dld not tarry TO chat about politics, or anything
else not even on custom house affairs.


among tnose who called upon the Senator'S were
q numDer OF ''lntervleWistsn OF the press but the
nnonoraoles" got wind OF their arrival and p r.
sstenty refused to leave their rooms ana be
morrill, ans IN q
1ect OF the next Congress- that gentleman expressed
hls opinion tnat the coming session weuld be q tho
roughly business one, and that. on account OF It's
brevity, there would be no time for gushing, mem-
bers to


MAKE BUNCoMBE SPEECHES.


As for the rumored coalition OF the democrats and
revenue reform republicans, 10 was all humbug
Whatever was necessary to be done in the way or
revenue reform every republican would DO SO there
would be No need OF the coalition. He remarked
that the tariff would be subject OF serious con-
sderatlon during the coming session. Taxation. IN
his opinion conld be reduced at least twenty live
per cent, but ne thought high tariff necessary
In reference TO the election in Missouri ne said that
Carl Schurz had made what he considered great
mistake In the course ne had taken during the eec.
sincere republican In the country. He did not
believe that any attempt would be made to keep him
out OF the caucuses.