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Year: 1870

Authority.


The gentleman in Brooklyn who has been
appointed by the local Health Board of that
city to look after the sewers and cesspools
seems to have been seized with the idea, pro-
badly because of similarity of names, that
the Governor of the State, with the consent of
the Senate, made him the Health Officer of the
port of New York, or at least gave him
coequal powers with that important official.
DR.. Cochran seems not to be aware
that the jurisdiction Of the Health
Officer extends over all the waters and
everything that floats thereon in what is
termed 'tthe port of New York" which en-
braces an area, according to the acts Of Con-
gress, thirty miles distant in all directions
from the Custom House building. DR.. Coch-
ran contends that when vessel leaves the
Quarantine ground and lands at Brooklyn
wharf she is beyond the jurisdiction of the
Health Officer Of the port and becomes there
after subject to his orders, which is sad
blunder. AS sanitary measure the Health
Officer of Brooklyn has the authority to order
vessel away from any of the piers of that
city in order to abate a nuisance, but beyond
this he has no more right to control vessels
movements than stevedore possesses.


It would be advisable for DR.. Cochran to
make himself familiar with these facts, as any
further conflict of authority between the two
Health Officers may result in the Brooklyn
gentleman being sentenced to ten days con-
finement in the hospital ship on the West
Bank, which would afford him ample time to
study the Quarantine laws and the acts Of
Congress relating to ports of entry.
Year: 1870

ES- We are pleased to know, that Mr.
II. C. HAYMAN has again leased the Fer.
ry at this place for the coming year. This
is advantageous in more ways than one
in the first place he is. very attentive to
the wants Of travellers and uses every eff
fort for their accommodation then again
he is a good mechanic and as the ma
chnery gets out Of order, as at times il
will, he knows just how to put it in good
trim. Wen bet our new hat, that there
will be no reasonable cause for fault find
ing for the coming year, as Mr. Haynan
is determined that the Ferry shall be run
early and late, and if the hands he has
get negligent and unobliging, he will try
others, until he finds men that are willing
to work for his interest as well as their
own.
Year: 1870

ETA young man about 81 years of
age, by the name of Mathew Nelson, son
Of Martin Nelson, living some or 7
miles from Van Burcn, left the city on
Saturday, Jan. 1st, for home, just at
night. His horse coming home during
the night without him, search and in
quiry was made, but nothing could be
heard or clue to his whereabouts, until
last Sunday, when his body was found
over high bluff, about mile and half
from his fathers house, with his neck
broken The inference is, that he must
have stopped after leaving the city, until
it got very dark, and on starting again
lost hi. way; turning his horse loose to
90 home, while he would try and pick
the way on foot, and wandered to the
bluff, which is over so feet down and fell
over The impression that foul play had
been used towards him, is entirely re-
moved by the discovery of the body.
Year: 1870

city, in affluencc, and it was right, as
she had the means to have everything
in accordance with the circle of sOcie-
ty of which she is henccforth to be a
''part and parcel of for nomatterwhat
may he urged to the contrary, in this
degenerate age the reception bride
meets from her husbands side of the
house takes its coloring in great meas
ure from her dress. 1t even has It's
weight with the man of her choice.
Elegant and tasteful dress wicIds pow
erfUl influence. There are none of us,
however We may hcratc the fashionable
follies, Of the present time, but are more
or less affected by the appearance stran-
gers make. am a~ much opposed to
excessive display Of fincry as amy one,
and yet l find myself often influenced
by rcspcciUbHitY of appearance i'm those
with whom I am thrown i'm contact
cannot however endorse the habit brides
of fashion indulge i'm .ic.t Exposing
every minutia of the bridal wardrobe
to the broad gaze of vulgar outsiders.


see this is ''most too long a shot so
for PHYS sake indulgent reader III stop
with a promise Of "to be continued next
week, ~ as ! cannot let this subject go
without saying word or two more,
particularly Oh that branch which in
cludes "bridaI presents, wedding cakes
&c, as from what it has been my for
tune to see, ! am disposed to consider
the matter, one worthy of notice. Till
then an rcrOir.
Year: 1870

There Is nothing more beautiful i'm the
young than simplicity Of character. Il
is honest, frank, and attractive. How
different IS aifeCtatiOu3 The simple
minded are always natural. They are
at the same time original. The affect
ed are never natural. As fOS originality,
if they ever had it they have crushed it
out and buried it from sight, utterly.
Be yourself, then, young friend To at
tempt to be anybody else is worse than
folly. IL is contemplate to try But
suppose YOU could succeed in initiating
the greatest man that ever figured in
history, would that make you any bet
ter? By no means. You would always
suffer in comparison with the initiated
one, and be thought of only rs a shallow
Of substance-the echo Of q real sound
the counterfeit Of a pure coin Dr.
Johnson aDtly compared the heartless
imftator-f0r such is he who affects the
character Of anOther-tO the Empress 81
Russia, when she did the freakish thing
Of erecting a palace Of ice. II was spleH-
did and conspicuous while it lasted


But the sun soon melted ii, and caUst &


its attractions to dissolve into cummHr
water, while the humble stone cottage
Of her subjects stood drm and unmarried
Let the fabric of your character thouE
ever 50 humble, be at least rea Avoid
affecting the character Of anOT er, how
| ever great. Build up your own. Re
what God intended you tu be- yourself
and not somebody else. ShUn aflct b.
I ton.
Year: 1870

LOST NEARLY ALL.-Compostors in the
New York Tribune Office are fined ten cents
for each proflne word uttered on the premises;
the money thus gathered is given to the
poor, One unfortunate chap, a new hand,
lost nearly a weeks wages one night over
bit of Greeleys manuscript
Year: 1870

And that until his hand palsied it should
never be trailed in the dust-never! The la
dies didn't understand him they blushed and
said they were sorry they made it too long.
aside and explained the shirt to him in
whisper, and the next day he appeared at
the Office with that shirt mounted over his
coat, and he wrote four columns of explana-
ton for his paper. The shirts is much admir-
ed by the boys of the town, and whenever
the editor goes out for a walk they follow
him in regiments, studying the history of
Texas and the fine arts off the back of the
shirt.
Year: 1870

\ SnIRTLEs3 EDITOR. Editors havey,a
lirst-rate time in Texas. The ladies of a
town down there have given to the editor of
the paper an embroidered shirt, which con-
tains pictorial history of Texas, including
the war with Mexico, and the setting of the
Legislature, and also pictures of the fruits
and cereals Of the State, all worked in red
worsted The editor never wore shirt in
his life, and he thought it was banner for
the temperance procession which was to come
off next week. So he made little speech
of thanks, in which he said he would fling it
out forever to the breezes of heaven, that
they might
Year: 1870

The Sabbath is delightful theme :;
the very name cannot bat come over the
ear of the Christian with hallowed and
balmy influence; he cannot listen To
the name but it reminds him ofrcst-
rest for the weary, peace for the troubl
ed, comfort for the wretched. 1t re-.
minds him Of that Paradise where it
was first solemnized. And be it remem.
bered that this is the only column which
survived the Fall /; it stood erect amid
the wreck of dcsolated world, telling
US what that world once was it re.
mained the sole seal Of the covenant
with man, swecily intima,ing that God
had not wholly abandoned the earth
Or, to change the figure, it went forth
as solitary angel of mercy with our
first parents. When, "with lingering
steps and SLOW" from Paradise they
took their weary way, they carried with
them that day-doubly onJeared, not
mere y as a memorial Of their past, but
as IL type of their future rest not only
pointing them backward to the Eden
they had lost, but forward to the re.
demption which awaited them. If it
brought to their memories the glorics
of creation, it brought to their hopes the
far transcending glories Of redemption
Thus:


m'Twas great to speak word from naught,


Twas greater to redeem"


Thus that blessed day was at once
commemorative Of creation and predic.
tive of redemption; it indicated that
mercy was mingled with judgement.
In the day of Almighty wrath, this bow
OF the covenant still girdled the storm
And further yet, the hallowed day leads
us forward and upward to heaven
The man who loves not his Sabbath
could never love heaven he has moth
ing of communion aud fellowship with
those blessed spirits that there surround
the throne of God in unceasing worship
and eternal songs. And is it not strange
that men who have been called Chris.
taius should talk Of our investing the
Sabbath with puri;anical gloom and
ascetical darkness, by endeayoriug to
vindicate it for hallowed purposes and
heavenly pleasures / would ask such
persons to abandon Christianity alto.
gether, orelse to renounce such unchris.
tain sentiments. Are we to be told
thatwhat forms the brightness of heaven
will shed gloom and darkness on earth
-Rey. H. .StoreH
Year: 1870

At a spiritual circle the other even.
ing, gentleman requested the medium
to ask what amusement was popular ID
the spiritual world The reply was.
" Reading our own obituary notices.
Year: 1870

The taller men are, other things being
equal, the more lungs they have, and the
greater number of cubic inches of air they
can take in or deliver at a single breath.
IL is generally thought that a mans lungs
are sound and we'll developed, in proper
tion to his girth around his chest yet OBJ
servations show that slim men as a rule
will run faster, and farther, with less fa-
tigue, having "more wind" than stout
men. If two persons are taken, in all re.
spects alike, except that one measures
twelve inches more around the chest than
the other, the one having the excess will
not deliver more air at one full breath,
by mathematical measurement, than the
other.


The more air a man receives into his
lungs in ordinary breathing, the more
healthy he is likely to be; because an i'm
portant object in breathing is to remove
Impurities from the blood. Each breath
is drawn pure into the lungs; on its out
going, the next instant, it is so impure, so
perfectly destitute of nourishment that If
re-breathed without any admixture OF
purer atmosphere, the man would die.
Hence, one OF the conditions necessary TO
secure high state of health is, that the
rooms in which we sleep should be con-
Sldully ItCtlVluB nCW ouPpAASS VI hSSh
air through open doors, windows, or fire.
places.


If persons lungs are not well de-
veloped, the health will be imperfect, but
the development may be increased several
inches in few months, by daily out
door runniugs with the mouth closed, be-
ginning with twenty yards and back, at a
time, increasing ten yards every week,
until hundred are gone over, thrice a
day. A substitute for ladies and persons
in cities, is running up stairs with the
mouth closed, which compels very deep
inspirations, in natural way, at the end
of the journey.


AS consumptive people are declining,
each week is witness to their inability to
deliver as much air at a single out breath
ing as the week before; hence the best
way to keep the fell disease ut bay is to
maintain lung development


1t is known that in large towns, ten
thousand feet above the level of the sea,
the deaths by consumption are ten times
less than in places nearly on level with
the sea. Twenty five persons die OF con-
sumption in the city of New York, where
only two die of that disease in the city Of
Year: 1870

One Sunday, as stood in the low desk,
reading the opening passage of Scripture
to the comparatively still room-full, a
little fellow, with the agility and gro
tesqueness of a monkey, ran in at the
door and up through the room to just be-
fore my desk, and there, throwing him
self forward on his head and hands,
fiourished his bare feet almost in my very
face. The scene was not very proYoca-
tive of quiet and good order. 1t will be
believed that that boy had more attrac-
tions for the scholars than had the Bible
just then, It was trying moment tor
the school authority. But Father Haw-
ley, the eVer.vigilant and judicious city
missionary, was equal to the emergency.
Stepping quickly to the boy, and putting
one hand on his chest and the other at
his heels, he turned him over in trice,
and as he set him squarely on his feet,
said firmly, but in kindness, "All right,
my boy, only the other side up in this
rooml" The boy took his seat. The
laugh subsided. The Bible reading was
resumed.


"But why didn't you thrash him out OF
the room with cart-whipf" asked an
indignant Christian conservative, as he
heard the story of this boy short time
later. "Any boy ought to know better
than that"


Yes, any boy ought to know better :
and 1t was to teach boys to "know bet
ter" that that school was started. But
that boy had not been taught "better y
before. What was his homer Hi;
home was den of squalid poverty in d
swarming tenement house, into which
crept the most forlorn children of crime
and misfortune when nothing was lei
them but to die. Is there any wonder
that the little fellow came wrong side NJ
to tho sunday Schoolsp


He was not thrashed out of that room
with a cart whip. lie was treated ten
derly. His teachers said to him as h,
groveled head downwards on the floor
" In the name of Jesus Christ of Naza
reth, rise up, and walk" And the,
Year: 1870

my revolver, fortunately reserved until
now, played among the attacking party,
and man was dropped at every shot; so
they drew Oft Dick managed, with q
great effort, to drag himself through the
window, and then tainted away from loss
of blood and exhaustion; and when / ran
down the ladder to make fast the window
again, found him comfortably reclining
with his head in Rosita's lap, the latter
having been stunned by her unceremo-
NOUS entry. But could not stay to help
here my post was on the roof l hur-
rled up the ladder, noticing for the first
time that L had myself suffered in the
scrimmage to the extent of slight flesh
wound from bullet. The fight was over
Throughout the remainder of the night
the Indians fingered about, and stole most
of the horses and some sheep, but they
had not pluck again to encounter the
deadly breech. .loaders. Seldom indeed,
had such q severe lesson been taught
them; and when the glorious sun rose
(never sight more welcome) we saw them
ride beaten off the field, bearing with
them five of the slain six other corpses
were lying in front of the winaDw, where
the fiercest struggle had been, and two
more were afterwards found, who had
crawled inte the ditch like wild animals
to die.


We learned from the pretty Rosita,
whose gratitude was most touching, that
she had been captured while walking in
the orange garden near her fathers house,
short time before we were attacked.


"You, noble caballeros," she said, shave
preserved me from death, and from what
is far worse God will reward you, for l
can never"


l think Dick, however, was of differ
ent opinion at all events he has always
seemed remarkably satisfied with the re-
ward he persuaded her to make him.


Some years have passed since that
eventful night. Dick and Rosita are hv-
ing at Don Ramon's estancis, that worthy
old gentleman having departed this life
shortly after their marriage. I, too, am
with them as partner in the land, focks,
and herds, of which we have goodly
quantity; and whenever the increasing
stock of little Dicks and Rositas ask me,
as they invariably do of an evening, to
tell them a story, know that nothing less
will content them than full, true, and
particular account of the night attack.
Year: 1870

comes evident that it cannot he safe
to leave the permanence Of the Union
to depend upon mere chance or
natural affinities. There must be
enlightened and organized effort to
increase and strengthen the unity OF
the nation. :.


Notwithstanding all that has been
done in our country in the way OF
popular education, we are still far
behind Prussia in this respect. Off
cialinvestigations have demonstrated
that we are even in reality vastly
behind the position to which we
generally think we have arrived.
Even at its best our system Of educa-
ton is not sufficient either in quality
or in extent, ,and it lacks also a proper
grading and arrangement and q
better application to the practical
needs of life. We must learn tc
learn outside of books, as well as in
tnem, In our SCHOOLS.


Now comes the second glorious
opportunity for the Republican party
The record of that party hitherto has
been noble. 1t has crushed the great
rebellion, destroyed slavery, recon.
structed the rebel States, paid mill.
ions of the Public Debt, preserved
the country from the financial panic
that is almost inevitable after grea!
war, and has been endorsed by the
people. Among its first duties now
are, to enforce the Constitutional
Amendments, uphold the national
credit, adjust the revenues in the
most satisfactory possible manner
carry out the policy of peace and
good faith with the Indians, main.
tain the honor of the Government in
its foreign relations, and reform the
Civil Service. To all these grea,
ends the Democratic party is essen
TALLY unfavorable or unequal. Fol
their fulfllment the continuance OF
the Republican party is therefore
essential.


But the Republican party is "a party
of progress. It's intent from the first
has been to accept and act wisely
upon the issues of the times as they
arise. The Republican party must
therefore take stand upon the
unihcation and education of the
people. ft must incorporate these
principles into its National and State
Platforms. ga system Of compulsory
education, established for more than
two centuries portions Of Germany
and for more than a century and 6
half i'm Prussia, has brought forth
fruits which the world see. Il
The lesson should not be lost on the
American people, especially upor
the Republican party"
Year: 1870

A contemporary states on the authority
of the late Nathaniel Hawthorne that the
old Mayfower, of hallowed memory, after
having landed boat load of white people
at the Plymouth Rock, returned for an
other cargo, and next time brought over
a load of irrepressble and hitherto mex
terminable negroes, and dropped them
down at or near jamestown, Va.


1t is, however. denied by the journal to
which we are indebted for this statement
that the Mayaower furnished the mate
rails for the first white settlement at Ply
mouth. 1t states, on the contrary, that
the Pilgrims brought over by that famous
boat found at least one very respectable
Quaker family by the name of Wood, al
ready having been settled at Old Plymouth
for at least four years. Captain Standish
and company Immediately gave Friend
Wood and his faulty notice to leave any
time within thirty days-thcse days being
graciously given to be used in preparing
a dug-out to get away in. The old gen.
tleman being thus driven off, kept close to
the shore till he found spot that pleased
him, and there built small city-still
standing, and known as Woodville, New
Jersey. In his new home he became the
father of numerous progeny, among
whom Hon. Benjamin and Fernando Wood
of New York, are numbered. So that the
pious family of the Woods are the Original
Pilgrim Fathers, and Quakers at that
Year: 1870

Writing to the Observer from Jerusa-
lem, Eusebius" says:


Apart from the sacred associations of
the Mount of Olives it is one of the most
interesting places in the region of Jerusa-
LEM The view of the city itself is the
finest to be had from any point. The
summit of the Mount Of Olives is three
hundred feet above the area of the temple,
on which it looks directly down, as upon
the whole city which lies spread out like
a map before ones eyes. Every point in
the city can be distinguished, and every
mountain round about can be seen, and,
looking eastward, we see the Valley of the
Jordan. The Dead Sea itself, although
nearly twenty miles distant and three
thousand nine hundred and thirty Eve feet
below, is as plain to the sight as Jerusa-
lem. If the view is 30 interesting now.
what must it have been when Jerusalem
was in its glory and tho land of Palestine
like garden2


was greatly interested, when ascend
ing the Mount of Olives at different times,
in tracing out the path that David took
which l think may be quite closely
identified he fed from the treach-
cry of Absalom. And David went up by
the ascent of Mount Olivct, and wept as
he went up, and had his head covered,
and went barefoot; and all tho people
that were with him covered every man his
head, and they went up, weeping as they
went up. Nothing in the history of the
reverses which kings have suffered could
be more touching than this. The scene
was constantly recurring to my mind as
went up the mountain from time to time
l was almost expecting to meet Shimei as
I passed over its summit. The Moham-
medans were there with their curse if he
was not !"
Year: 1870

Ere in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of autumn, all around our vale,


Have put their glory on.


The mountains that unfold,
In their wide sweep, the colored landscape round,
Seem groups of giant kings in purple and in gold,


That guard the enchanted ground


roam the woods that crown
The upland, where the mingled splendors glow,
Where the gay company Of trees look down


On the green fields below.


Ny steps are not alone
In these bright walks the sweet southwest at play,
Flies nesting, where the painted leaves are strewn


Along the winding way.
, And far in heaven, the while,
The sun, that sends the gale to wander here,
Pours out on the fair earth his quiet smile


The sweetest of the year.


Where now the solemn shade
Verdure and bloom where many branches meet,
So grateful when the noon of summer made


The valley sick with heat2


Let in through the trees
Come the strange rays the forest depths arc bright
Their sunny colored foliage in the breeze,


Twinkles like the beams of light.


The rivulet, late unseen,
Where Pickering through the shrubs, Its water run
Shines with the image of its golden screen,


And glimmerings of the sun.


But meath yon crimson tree
Lover to listening maid might breathe his fame,
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,


Her blush of maiden shame


Oh, Autumnl why SO soon
Depart the hues that make the forest glad
Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon,


And leave thee wild and sad2


All 'twere n lot too blest
Forever In thy colored shades to stray
Amid the kisses of the soft southwest,


To roam and dream for aye.


And leave the vain, low strife
That makes men mad; the tug for wealth and
power;
Tho passions and the cares that withcr life,


And waste its little hour.
Year: 1870

CURE FOR SrAMMERINa.- cffectual
cure mainly depends upon the determine
ton of the sufferer to carry out the follow
ing rule: Keep the teeth close together.
and before attempting to speak inspire
deeply; then give time for quiet utteranos.
and after very slight practice the hesita-
ton will DO relieved. No spasmodic so-
ton of tho lower jaw must be permitted TO
seperate the teeth when speaking. This
plan. regularly carried out for six months,
cured me when twenty years old. ] was
painfully bad, both to myself and to others.
Without determination to follow out the
plan, it is of no use attempting it.