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Year: 1870

There is proposition pending in the House
to celebrate the approaching centennial an
niversary of Independence by an International
Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures on an
unprecedented SCALE under National auspices,
and consequently at Government expense.
Except that it would in all probability be
badly designed by men without experience,
miserably managed by Commissioners aD-
pointed for all sorts of reasons but the right
one of fitness, and made ridiculously extrava-
CANT in the matter of expense, we see no good
reason why we should not indulge i'll this
proposed exhibition of national hilarity. But
while Government ought to facilitate by all
means in its power the success of such
an exhibition at this appropriate time,
we trust it is not to attempt to man
age OF to pay for it. There are Industrial
Institutes in various cities of the Union, whose
experienced managers are far more competent
than any newly appointed Government officers
could possibly be to conduct The enterprise. and
to some one of these Associations its manage
ment ought to be entrusted. Philadelphia has
traditional claims to be selected as the place for
the exhibition, but unfortunately she has none
other while New York is the center of COM
merce and manufactures, and the only proper
and generally attractive site. The American In
stitute has already undertaken to get up such an
exhibition as Philadelphia suggested in Con-
gress and the Government will best attain the
end proposed by giving cOuntenance and aid to
the New-YOrk enterprise.
Year: 1870

There is reason for hoping that, after long
delay and disappointment, there will soon BE-
some positive progress made in the settlement
of the Alabama business. II is understood
that, with the appointment Of Gen. Schenck rs
Minister TO England, the Administration re-
cedes from its position of insisting that the
negotiations shall take place in Washington.
This was a measure adopted i'll the natural
feeling of disgust that followed the surrender
by Reverdy johnson of the whole question, in
that glow of good fellowship that illuminated
his mission. While the Government main
tanned this attitude the Embassy to London
was place of little importance. Mr. Motley
has been rather a social than a diplomatic rep
resentative, his instructions not justifying any
active efforts for the settlement of the only
important questions at issue between the two
Powers; and his recent personal arrangement
from the President and Secretary Of State has
seemed to render 1t not desirable to confer
upon him the full powers necessary for q
proper handling of the matter.


With the sailing of our new Envoy, which
ought not to be delayed a day longer than is
requisite for his confirmation and the prepa-
ration Of his instructions, the considerations
Year: 1870

The bOmbardment Of Paris is again threat
ened. This has become a cry which has little
terror in it, and we may still hesitate to be-
heve that the Germans will resoE to doubt
ful fire until it is shown that Famine must fail
so reduce the capital. Ii is a sore temptation
to men who saw Napoleon /. in the streets Of
Berlin to humiliate the city Of their hereditary
enemy. but they have already shown their ca
pacity to restrain this feeling.
Year: 1870

The death of Dumas-in some sense, at
least, The Dickens of Francois a loss of such
Importance in literature that we take pains,
on our second page, to present careful out
line of his career and estimate of his genius.
Year: 1870

We are at a loss TO understand precisely
Why the Government should provide, "a the
Senate proposes, a relief fund for its clerks by
assessing their wages. Where does Congress
Obtain the right TO compel an industrious
Year: 1870

An effort is making in St. Louis to regulate


what we agree to be the Social evil, the great
scourge of cities. An ordinance of that citv
provides for the exercise by the city authori-
ties of supervision over houses of prostitu-
tion for purpose of compelling them to observe


sanitary regulations. Various opinions are


entertained as to the propriety of treating the


difficulty in this way. Some claim that not
only are such regulations Intellectual for the
object sought, as they assert is proved by
the examples of European cities where such
methods have been tried, but that


the government should have nothing to


do with the evil except to war upon it in
cessantly, and that to regulate it, by demor-
alizing public sentiment, tends rather 10
aggravate the disease. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore
denounces the ordinance rs designed sto rem
der RIGHTEOUSNESS safe, cheap, secret and easy i
Others on the contrary assert that to try to
do more than control it is sure TO result in
the failure to accomplish anything. Amid
such divarsities of opinion the result of tSse
experiment In st. Louis will be watched W..
interest. The attempt to deal with this vice
by regulating it ought not to be rashly con-
demned. Considering that the "social evil''
breeds diseases which are transmitted through
the guilty to their innocent posterity, no suit
able means of protecting those Unborn from
so dreadful an inheritance, ought to he ne
elected. If the experiment fail it may shed
light on one of the darkest problems of social
science. Such regulations need not lend any
legal ssnction to this vice. They may simply
recognize it as matter of fact to be regulated
till it can be suppressed. Still the proper course
would seem to be not to show too much
haste in drawing conclusions, but to wait
for the teachings of experience. One excel
lent feature of the st. Louis ordinance, i
that it offers facilities for the reform of those
fallen women who wish TO abandon so degrad-
ing way of life. One curious though mel
ancholy fact disclosed by the proceedings un-
der the ordinance, is that of 652 fallen women,
317 or nearly half, declared that they became
such from choice. Seduction dragged down
81, and the rest were led away by various
inducements.
Year: 1870

In the night the old man, wto was
now alone, got up several times it
seemed to him that he heard his son
moving about in the sitting room, but
no one was there. He had GER
tainly forgotten something, thought
the old map,.-and now his spirit is
coming TO find it and take it away
The old maris, not free from super
stition, and it would certainly be no
kindness to. convert him. On the
window sill, where rosemary and pinks
were blooming, bunch of which tic
wandering son had stuck in. his hat, lay
the old mans hymn book, wrapped
up as his wife had always kept it, in
piece of white cotton; on this cotton
the moonlight, shining down from the
mountains, played so strangely, and
the old man laid his hand on it, as if
it gave him something to grasp. At
last he went back to bed.


In the morning, when the bells
were ringing, the old man went to
church with his -hymnbook under his
arm; he did not take it out of its COW
er till he was in church, then looked
at the number of the psalm which
was hung up, and began to turn over
the leaYes slowly with h S moistened
finger But suddenly he cried out,
so that every one in church started,
and his exclamation sounded above
the prelude on the organ1 1"Henry,
what have you done p There lay
the hundeed tlfaler note of the wan
derer, and it was his whole property
there it lay between the leaves. ~
Henry put it there, and that's the
reason that he said yesterday: "Fa
ther when you sing the psalm to NOR
row, think kindly of me" 7zH


The old man could not join in the
first verse, but with the second he be-
gan as if he had the voice Of his youth
again.


As they came put of church, all
were talking of the goodness and faith
fulness of the wanderer to his father.
The old man said not word; he on
ly pressed the hymn book so firmly
under his arm that it hurt him, but
this he scarcely noticed.


81 have the money still. L havn't
touched It., and it still lies in the
same place where he put it." So said
the old man, and had to go TO the
village with him, aud into his little
house. There lay the hymnbook on
the window sill, wrapped in a white
cotton cloth. The old man took the
book out and, to be sure, at the psalm
numbered I34 lay The hundred thaler
note ,1--,.-..


"Why havn't you put it out at in
t>rest ., ,.. ~. r...


The old man laughed and replied
at last; "That's what all the people
say, everybody, pies as wise as an
other, they only think of one thing
But 1 Will ,not.".


'.Y ou have the best interest from
the money, you feed yourself on the
good thought that your son is so ex-
cellent, I answered.


''There, thereI !" cried the old man
"you are the first person that has un-
derstood it. You must certainly have
enjoyed much kindness from. pr ooIe
because you understand SO WE'LL
You're not stupid, l saw that direct
w." CT bh9oE l5F5 - -c3i Fl


The old man was quite happy to
find man as shrewd as himself =
And when l asked him why he left
Year: 1870

The press dispatches from Europe


to New York during the past four


weeks numbered about one hundred


thousand words. New York has been


better posted on the issue of the war


each day than London, Paris or Ber-


lin. These dispatches have almost


wholly been sent by a single cable,


full One-third Of the whole to a single


daily paper, and with marvellous ra-


pidity and accuracy. Familiar as we
are with the work Of the telegraph, it


has been a marvel to US. To hun
dreds Of thousands Of minds the


whole process is and has been a deep
enigma. Here is q man sitting in a
dark room at Hart's Content. The
ocean cable terminates here A fine


wire attached thereto is made to sur
round two small cores Of soft iron.


As the electric wave, produced by q
few pieces Of copper and zinc at Val
entia, pass through the wires, these
cores became magnetic enough to
move the slightest object. A looking
glass, half an inch in diameter, is fix
ed on a bar of iron one-tenth of an
inch square and half an inch long.
On this tiny glass a lamp is made to
glare so that Its light Is reflected on a
tablet on the wall. The language Of
the cable is denoted by the shifting Of
this reflected light from side to side.
Letter by letter in thus expressed in
this fitting idiom in utter silence on
the wall. There is no record made by
the machine except as the patient
watcher calls out to a cOmrade the
translated flashes as they come, and
which he records. It seems a miracle
of patience. There is something Of
awe creeps over US as we see the evil
dence of a human touch, 5000 miles
away swaying that line Of light. By
such a delicate process as this, and
after being repeated from line to line
five times before its ultimate copy is
in New York, have the late great bat
ties been recorded in our daily papers
with great particularly and sent
throughout the Union. Nothing like
it has ever been accomplished. The
enterprise Of New York press, of a
single press in New York, has eclips-
ed that of the wealthiest and ablest
presses in Europe. II is eharacteris-
tic Of the nation to do its work grand |
ly and well.
Year: 1870

DEAR CHRONICLE: Since wrote
you last the west has had a trial by
fire, and has come out only a little
scorehed after all, for the wheat crop
Is an average one and of a superior
quality. The corn crop is very heavy
and perfect, especially in Minnesota,
and was in market last month. Po-
tatOes, here, are plenty and nice
only thirty cents per bushel. Corn
and wheat eighty cents. Hay and
oats are a little scarce. Tame hay
ten dollars per ton. Hard wood, old
price, five dollars per cord. Guilt
waited wood not quite in market yet.
Fall seed is up high, and all things
look green again, except where a
light frost has left its mark on our
scattered forests.


And in golden tints OF autumn


All our oak openings now appear,


For those melancholy days are come.


The saddest OF the year.


Prairie winds have left their caves


To sweep the naked plain.


That lately rolled in even waves


In boundless fields Of grain,


That begins to push many matters
here that nearly came to a stand by
the glut Of the wheat Of last years
crop.


How patiently thousands of rich
farmers here seem waiting for young
farmers to come and take them as a
present from Uncle Sam, and settle
down for life, and find that happiness
that they are now looking in vain for
in crowded cities, subject to the silken
tie Of vice that leads thousands, bood-
winked, to an early grave. All farms
here that have q river boundary on
the side or end, have large and good
timber, good bottom and upland, all
as handsome and rich as God could
make it. Then, too, his pork barrel
(the river) never grows less of fine
bass and pike, the two best varieties
Of fish here, that have been aecumu-
lating for centuries in our rOck-bot-
toned rivers, that are full Of seams,
that are full of crabs, the faYorite food
and fat, as our streams are cold
of those fish, which are always hard
Even the past summer, and to my
rambles on the Cedar, in Iowa, and
the Pichatonica, in Wisconsin, I as
Year: 1870




The following letter, written by ex-
President James Buchanan a few days
after the murder of Mr.. Lincoln, to
the Honorable HOratio King, is pub
lished in the last number Of the Gal
dEy:


Wheatland near Lancaster. April 2, IS.
MY DEAR SIR: In
common with you, I feel the assassi-
nation Of President Lincoln to be a
terrible misfortune to our country.
May God, in his mercy, ward from US
the evils which it pOrtends, aud bring
good out of this fearful calamity Ny
intercourse with our deceased Presi-
dent, both on his visit to me after his
arrival in Washington and on the day
Of his first Inauguration, convinced
me that he was a man of kind and
benevolent heart, and Of plain, sin
cere, and frank manners. I have
never since changed my opinion Of
his character. Indeed, I felt for him
much personal regard.


Throughout the years Of the war 1
never faltered in my conviction that
it would eventually terminate in the
crushing Of the rebellion, and was
ever opposed to the recognition of the
NOAAEAAlAeAlE NA0h AAAAAEAAA ~ IN AT
which even looked in that direction.
Believing, always, secession to be a
palpable violation Of the Constitution,
I consider the acts of secession to be
absolutely void, and that the states
were therefore still members, though
rebelliOus members, of the Union.


Having prayed night and morning
for the restoration of the Union, the
Constitution, and our civil liberties,
and fondly believing that President
Lincoln was the destined instrument
in the hands OF Divine Providence to
accomplish these inestimable bless
ings, the awful news of his diabolical
assassination, at such moment, over
whelmned me with sorrow.


These are my heartfelt sentiments
which you invite. but they are not for
the public eye. When, on the first
after the first battle of
Bull Run. expressed strong opinion
to 4 public meeting in support of the
war, was assailed as violently for
this asif I had uttered treason.
If were now to write to the public,
which 1 could do with heartfelt emo
ton, on the subject Of the assassina-
tiOn it should be treated in a similar
manner. JAMES BUCHANAN.


Hon. HOratiO King.
Year: 1870

'OUT OF BUSINESS. I'VE place this


title between quotation marks for the
sufficient reason that it is a aquOtation,
and we have a holy horror of being
charged with literary larceny. We
hear this expression once or twice a
day on an average, and it invariably
suggests to US one thought. We will
express this thought, even at the ex-
pense of another set of quotation
points: ''In time of Peace, prepare
for War; The most sensible thing a
young man who is out Of employment
can do, is to prepare himself more
completely for the duties Of whatsoev-
sr position in life he may hope to
8ttain.s n fact there may be no good
reason why = sound man should be
Dgt Of business; for Of all the employ
ment In the wOEld-lOOking to a future
1i honor and usefulness-thato of ac-
luiring knowledge Is the most prOfita-
5le.-N, =. Erder.
Year: 1870

One drop Of ink viii blaeken a
whole glassful Of pure water. So will
one evil communication make the
whole heart foul. Oh, beware of
those evil words. You might drop
in many, many drops Of pure water
into the inky tumbler, but it would
have no pereeptible influence. So il
will take thousands Of good preeepts
and good instructions to root out this
evil wOrd.-Er.
Year: 1870

Youthful generosity was illustrated in Alba
ny recently A little boy, smeared all over
with molasses, came running up from the river.
hourishinC dirty shingle, and screaming At
the top Of his voice to a comrade: Oh, Bill
Bill get as many boysand shingles as YOU can.
there big hOgsit of 'lasses busted on the
pavement-busted all to smash -
Year: 1870

A New York paper says 1.-THE magnificent
white satin cope worn by the priest at solemn
yespers' in St. Ahan Protestant Episcopal
Church, lis made of the wedding dress of one
Of the ladies of the parish"
Year: 1870

How NOTED MEN BECAME Rich BY
CHANCE-Many years ago young Scotch emf
grant arrived in New York, penniless He was
mechanic, and labored at his trade without
getting more than a living One day he saw
man selling flowers in the market, and being
passlOnately fond of them, he bought a pot for
trlte and trudged home with it. A gentle
man who met him was attracted by the beauty
OF the flower and asked its price. The me
chanc named small advance, and the gentle
man at once purchased it. This trihing incl
dent led the mechanic to the flower trade. and
he became florist and founded a seed and
gardening establishment which has been kent
up for sixty years. Those who are acouaint
ed with his history will recognize in the hum
bic individual referred to no less parsonage
than Grant ThOrborn. These instances are not
confined to New York Fairbanks. when keen
ing country store, was obliged to tinker his
scales In order to get correct balance, and this
led to making a new one of his own invention.
From this beginning has grown up the great
establishment OF st. JOhnsbury, which now fur
nShes a large part of the country with the i'm
plement.


To come back to this city. John Jacob As
tor was led in similar way to that specially
which made him rich He was selling TOYS,
when ne met a man who had some very fine
turS. lie knew their value in London, and
soon commenced dealing in furs, which he con
tlnued until he controlled the market on both
sides of the ocean. Had John Jacob Astor
followed the predictions of most of his coun-
trymen he would have opened a corner grocery
and sold sugar and soap.-TrOy Times
Year: 1870

Too MUCH LEGIsLATIoN.-Th Vermont


adopted the policy of biennial sessions of the
Legislature This rule is general in the Yves.
tern States and on the Pacific coast, and has
also been incorporated into the constitutions OF
a number of the reconstructed Southern com
mOnwealths There is but little necessity for
annual sessions OF the Legislatures in any of
Year: 1870

indovs smashed the night before by mob nfurated
because one Of the firm had imprudently exclaimed-
"The French whippedl good for emil" or words,
Dreher says not 10 that effect On the corners Of
this exchange Office the Imperial arms OF Russia,
showing the Rue Rcheleu and the Boulevard, and
the mob thinking the Russian eagle was the Prussan.
were about TO tear II down, when policeman posted up
a piece OF paper with Respect the Russian arms u
written on II, and saved the symbol


But In coming back after my errand was accom-.
pshed few hours LATER found the aspect Of things
astonishingy changed Some news and good news too,
had evidently arrived The first sign-but did not pay
much heed to it--was the appearance Of
an open voture with three gentlemen in It,
each holding a large French flag, and singing
the Marsellaise / thought them recruiting agents,
though they too for that but
few steps further showed that they were only the ad
vance guard OF o great popular movement. Looking
down the street, that, by sort OF onchantment
the whole street was In simmer OF red,
white and blue with the thousands Of flags
that were waving in the air from every
window in every story, and in the hands Of
men, women, and children, while as in theater when
great Transformation scene Is opening, and all Is
not quite ready, but here and there workman Is ad


usting this that bit OF decoration, 80 here men with
ladders and men with bundles Of flags, and the excite
ment increasing with every step took And such a
buzz and such forming Of noisy groups and bursting
out again Of the Marseaise everywhere that since the
yesterday had the heart to sng No sooner was
one seen to address another than the two were i'm
mediately surrounded by excited crowd huddngone
another to hear what there to hear. And twas
plain that what they heard startling news, for i'm
medaey every member Of the group became the center
of new one and people shouted, people laughed more
flags were put up, everybody that had sou bought


flag with It, and those with sang the Marseiaise,
and IL was as we all uproari0usy drunk together
And do you wonder were little high TO hear such
! piece of news NJ thisi N..
Year: 1870

From the Toronto Telegraph May III


According to all accounts the Fenians intend doing
or attempting to do something towards frustrating
our plans respecting the Northwest 1t has been
positivey stated several hundred Of the brother
hood passed through ST. Paul only few days ago,
bound Fort Garry and that Others are assembling
at Duluth, Marquette and other points on Lake Supe-
rtor for the purpose OF operating against our forces
while on the march. Whatever they might accom-
plish by crossing the Plains from St. Paul, provided
the American authorities did not interfere we have
no fear OF their harassing our troops, should they
only reach Fort William in safety In order TO reach
our line OF march the Fenlans would have TO
pass through 200 or 300 miles Of wilderness. We
accomplished half the journey, for the simple reason
that there is not distillery or tavern In the whole
country. Fenian army would melt away in Two
days under such circumstances.


But there Is plenty Of whskey at Sanlt Ste. Marie;
and as the Sault Is easily reached by steamer from
Buffalo, Cleveland Detroit and other places it is
lust possible that an attempt to interfere with our
cxpeditIon may be made there by the FenianS. We
do not think they have any idea OF fighting our
forces. They would be satisfied could they capture
turn to the protecting folds OF the stars and
Stripes. covered with Fenian glory. This IS
what they are most likely to attempt, should
they attempt anything 1t Is evident that
our government have reason to think that such an
attack is not improbable; and, in oraer to Illustrate
the scheme ana protect our transports the gunb0at
Rescue has been ordered the Sault and Is now on
her way up. She was laying IN the Weand Canal
when Captain Wyatt the gunbOat agent, received
the order on SATURDAY 10 send her away, ana she
Immediately started She Will call at Goderich for
ammunition and men and probably sail from that
port for the Saut tomorrow "Wednesday, May 1s).
In case the Fenians make an attack on our vessels,
ana In case the Rescue gets Within gunsnoJ OF tnen,
satisfied she Will give good account OF ner-
self and make 1t unpleasant for the heroes In green