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Year: 1870

Girls don't talk slang! II necessary
that any one should do that let it be
your big brother, though I would advise
him not to adopt "pigeon English" when
there is an elegant systematized language
he can just a. well use. But don't you
do it. You can have no idea how il
sounds TO ears unused to or adverse to it,
TO hear a young lady, when she is asked
to attend place OF amusement answer
"not much;" or if she is requested to do
something she does not wish to, "can't
see itr'


Not long ago I heard Young miss,
who is educated aud accomplished, say,
in speaking Of young man, that she in
tended "to go for him!" and her sister
asked her assistance at some work, she
answered 'Not for Joe"


Now, young ladies Of unexceptional
character and really good education, fall
into this habit, thinking it shows smart
ness to answer back in slang phrazcs I;
and they soon slip fppantly from their
tongues with saucy pertness, that is
not lady like or becoming. Young men
who talk in that way do not care TO hear
it from the lips they love or admire. 1t
sou-d DIS much coarser then. 81 bet" or
"you bet,' is well enough between men
who trade horses or lands; but the con-
trast is startling and positively shocking
when young man is holding the hand
OF his lady love,to hear those words issue
from her lips. They seem at once to sur
round her with the rougher associations
of his daily life, and bring her down from
the pedestal of purity, whereon he had
placed her, to his own coarse level.


And really, slang does not save time
in the use OF language, as an abbrevia-
tive No! is shorter and more decided
than "not much ~ and 81 know" or 81
am sure" is quite as easily said as "I'll
bet" More than one promised wedding
has been indefinitely postponed by such
means; for however remiss young men
may be themselves, they look for better
things in the girls OF their choice; and it
does not help them mend bad habit to
adopt 1t too. Besides two wrongs never
make right. know the bright eyed
girl who reads this will think tie matter
over, aud say am right.
Year: 1870

HOME CoURTEsIEs.-I am one of those
whose lot in life has been TO go out into
an unfriendly world at an early age; and
of nearly twenty families in which l
made my home in the course of about
nine years, there were only three that
could he designated as happy families; |;
and the source OF trouble was not so
much the lack of love, as the lack of
care to manifest it. The closing words
of this sentence give us the fruitful
source of family alterations, of heart
aches innumerable, OF sad faces and
home circles. "Not so much as the lack OF
care to manifest it," What world OF
misery is issuggested by this brief remark
Not more than three happy homes IN
twenty land the cause so manifest, and
so easily remedied All, in the "smali,
sweet courtesies of life" what power re-
sides In look, word, a tone, how
much of happiness or disquietude may
be communicated Think of it reader,
and take the lesson home with you.
Year: 1870

If we knew why shadows lengthen,
Lengthen, till we're lost in night,
And why wells of mystic darkness
Hide the future from our sight.
If we knew why we are hidden
Climb life hill so rough and steep,
Knew the hand that leads us
Guides us through the forest deep,


If we knew, all If we knew.
If we knew why storms and sunshine
lntermingle DER us here,
Why the fair, bright flowers of spring time
Bless our sight, then disappear
If we knew that life's oppression
Were lighter, but for needless pain,
If in each course we're pursuing
We will meet with loss or gain, I


If we knew, all ! if we knew.
If we knew why fetters bind us
TO this lonely, cumbrous sphere,
Why so oft mid gloom and sorrow \
We regret that we are here,
Why we are so prone TO wander
In the way the evil tread,
Freely waste life's golden moments,
Then to number 'mOng the dead.


If we knew, ah If VIC knew.
If we knew why base suspicion
Links the innocent with shame,
Why the listless tongue of malice
Preys upon each guiltless name.
If we knew why friends should leave us
Suffering arrangements, blight,
Why the heart when well nigh breaking,
Seeks oblivion's darker night


If we knew, all if we knew.
Yet there is hope that fingers,
Bids us still in patience wait,
Heaven will list to our petitions,
And time WE'LL read our fate.
When we're safe at home up yOnder
We will all our longings know,
There we'll greet the loved and lost ones,
There no bitter tears will flow,


Then well know. YES, then wen know.
Year: 1870

An old negro preacher, referring to the
general tendency OF people to wish they
had the talents of somebody else, conf
dent that they would do a good deal of
good in the world, put the case thus
clearly: "What would de hummin bird
do wild de eagles wings? He could sip
de leastest sweet from no flower And


what could the eagle do wild de hummin'
birds wings9 He would kick de earth
all de time and nothin' else. Bredren,
use the wings of faith God can glib you,
and God will care for both de eagles and
de hummin's birds flight"
Year: 1870

Beautiful child by thy mothers knee.
In thy mystic future what wilt thou beG
A demon of sin, or an angel sublime
A poison Upas or innocent Thyme
A spirit of evil flashing d0,on
With the lurid light of fiery CROWN
Or guiding up with shining track,
Like the morning star that neer looks back,
Daniiest dreamer that ever smiled,
Which wilt thou be, my beautiful childf
Beautiful child in my garden bowers,
Friend of the butterflies, birds and flowers,
Pure as the sparkling, crystalline stream,
Jewels of truth In their fairy eyes beam,
Was there ever whittier soul than thine
Worshiped by love in q mortal shrinel
My heart hast thou 0laddened for two sweet
With ranbows of Hope through mists of


tears


Mists beyond which thy sunny smile
With its halo of glory beams all the while.
Beautiful child, to thy look Is gwen
A glen serene, not of earth, but of heaven.
With thy tell-tale eyes and prattling tongue,
Would thou couldst ever thus be young.
Like the liquid strain of the mocking-biTd,
From stair to hall thy voice is heard,
How Oft in the garden hooks thou'rt found
With flowers thy curly head around
And kneeling beside me with fingers 50


quaint,


Oh who would not dote on my infant saint?
Beautiful child, what thy fate shall be
Perchance is wisely hidden from me.
fallen star thou mayst leave my side,
And of sorrow and shame become the bride,
Shivering, quvering through the cold street,
With a curse behind and before thy feet
Ashamed to live and afraid to die;


No home, no friend, and pitiless sky,


Merciful Father, my brain grows wild,


Oil keep from evil, my beautiful child


Beautiful child, mayst thou soar above,


A warblng cherub of joy and love,


A drop on Eternity's mighty sea,
| A blossom ON Life's immortal tree


Floating Towering evermore


In the blessed light of the golden shore;
And as gaze on thy sinless bloom
! And thy radiant face, they dispel my gloom
feel He will keep thee undetiled,


And His love will protect my beautiful child.
Hdrper's Mdgazine.
Year: 1870

They discovered, the other day, in the
archievs of one of the old court build
ings i'll Vienna, an autograph essay OF
the Empress Maria Theresa, on the best
mode of torturing prisoners charged with
crime. The essay is quite elaborate, and
shows that the Empress was male OF
sterner stuff than she had hitherto been
believed TO have been. Here is passage
on the treatment of mur'lerers refusing
to confess their guilt Let the exection-
er explain to them the consequences OF
their obstinacy, and tell them that they
will be broken on the wheel from Jeio,o
if they do not confess If that does not
move them, let them be whipped, and
then let the executioner extract five OF
their sound teeth" Fortunately these
humane directions were never carried
into effect.
Year: 1870

The "Valley of Death" in the Island
of Java, is nothing m ore than the crater
of an extinct volcano, filed with carbonic
acid gas, which continually emanates
from assures at the bottom OF the valley.
The gas not only being invisible, but to-
tally irrespirable, causes every living
thing to be suffocated instantaneously,
SO that the margin is strewn with the
bones of men and animals.
Year: 1870

Dean Stanley is to deliver sermon on
the death of Dickens in W Westminster Abbey,
to morrow Sunday and intense eagerness
is manifested by the public to obtain places
in the Abbey on this occasion. The grave
of Dickens is covered with flowers, cast
there by visitors who have thronged the spot
ever since the burial.
Year: 1870

There is in Cincinnati q terrible feeling Of
depr ession, bordering on despair, on account
of the defeat Of the Red Stockings by the
Brooklyn At.antics 1t is supposed that
business will be suspended for the rest of the
week, and Grape tied on all the door-knobs.
Year: 1870

The City of Ragusa. the miniature steamer
which left Liverpool the other day, ran ashore
on the Irish coast and was damaged. She
was taken to Queenstown, however, and will
soon set sail for New York
Year: 1870

warranted not to cut in the eye-not head
ache in a hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than It's on your back in pound Of beef
and it carries bead like n necklace; for
sale by ~
Year: 1870

A literary gentleman, who had great dis
like for babies. was walking in the corridors OF
the Astor House, near the ladies' parlor, one
day last autumn, when woman elegantly
dressed, and Of most lady-like manners stepped
out with baby In her arms and requested the
gentleman to hold II moment while she went
up to her room for something. He accepted the
little burden with ayague missiying that II
would break In two, and carried the child some
what nervonsly for fully ten minutes. but the
mother didn't appear. Nor was the servant
able to find any one answering her description.
The celibatc philosopher felt as II he had drawn
hippopotamus in parlor rafle. and was COM
ple.cly at loss how TO dispose OF his incumbrancc.
lie concluded to advertise for the woman, and
IL she did not appear, to put the child In an as
ylum. lie took care Of Il that night, and was
touched In the softcst place In his heart by find
ing the arms Of the little creature aruund his
neck In the morning. The GENTLEMAN entrusted
1t to young lady. who offered to take care otto,
and for whom he had sentimental attachment.
lie visiei it every day, and at last, for the pur-
pose Of simplifying things, concluded to make
the baby's guardian his wifs--COr. CAiea9o
Republican,.
Year: 1870

IL Is by no means probable that even n
tenth part of tho violence, outrage and
murder, of which union men. white or
black, are the victims ut tho South, Is ever
known ut the North. If information
should be rcceived of the butohery of any
man SO prominent that his murder cannot
well be concealed, the sympathlzers at the
north vie with their southern friends In
blackening the character of the dead In
hopes to turn aside tho Indignation which
the mean an cruel act created. We re-
Gently had occasion to chronicle the as
sassination of prominent republican In
Alabama. A Boston correspondent
writes from North Carolina, Of tho
horrid murder Of republican state sena-
tor. The writer says:


There lived in Caswcll County gen.
tleman named Stephens, who was strong
ly opposed to the rebellion. Finding 1t
impossible TO avoid conscription for the
Confederate army he crossed the lines,
and remained until the war nOminally
closed (it never closed In CaswelD. On
his return he joined the Republican party,
and was elected to the State Senate. He
was prosecuted bitterly for his Republican
principle, and his life threatened. Ho
was member Of u Christian church and
man of influence. Last Saturday he
LEFT his family to attend public Demo-
cratic meeting in tho Court House, saying,
he should return us soon rs the meeting
closed. Aboutfou o'clock r. NJ, q friend
CD said to him, Lets go down. They
went out together and did not return.
Night came, and his family, alarmed ut
his prolonged absence, sent in search Of
him. The Court House was partially cx-
amined. but no trace of tho missing man
was discovered. Imagine, If possible, the
suspense and anguish of the long hours
of that weary night. Hour AFTER hour
passed away, and still no tidings of the
husband and father. In the morning, q
man looked through window of ono Of
the rooms Of the Court House and saw
the body Of man on the floor. Tho key
was not 10 be found, but an entrance was
forced, and on the floor lay tho body of
Senator Stephens.


A rope encircled tho mock. tho throat
was cut, and the body stabbed In three
places. This Is not the first, and fear
not tho last, of long. long list Of such
bloody crimes; we hear of such nearly cv-
cry day, aud we do not hear tho half.
They are constantly increasing. Let me
ask: Is any State that cannot prevent
such atrocities, that cannot suppress tho
organized band which plans and executes
such heart rending vioaltions ofthe public
peace, is any such State properly recon.
structed? If military government was
ever cmpcratively required is It not now,
when civil government has proved incf-
fcctualpn
Year: 1870

A correspondent Of the Rural New Yorker
says that he has known horsc that went for
twelve months on three legs from ringione,
made perfectly sound by tho application once .
day Of an ointment composed Of half IN ounce
Of rel prccipitate. half an ounce Of blue stone,
half q pint Of turp.ntine, thoroughly mixed.
Keep the hoof creased.
Year: 1870

Especial to the New York Herald.l
LONDON, September IA special CORES
! pondent with the French fleet writes that
| the sailors express much satisfaction at the
prospect of the raising Of the blockade, and
| their return to some point where active
service will be possible, When the fleet
left Cherbourg the Minister of Marine made
to Admiral Wllliaumez positive promise
that not alone should several of the IRON
| clad ships follow at brief intervals, but
what was of the first Importance that the
fleet transports would speedily join him,
conveying force OF 10000 or 10000 troops
for land operations.


: The promise has been broken in both in
stances, and the fleet left to its own unaided
resources which has been barely sufficient
to maintain the blockade off the enemy's
ports, such service is tedious and unsatis-


factory. Our situation is in dangerous


waters, abOunding in hidden reefs and
shadows, no friendly lights to give warning
in the night, no buoys to serve as marks for


a guide by day, while we are compelled con-
stantly to guard against surprises by the
enemy, with but small means for retaliation.


In open ports we are forbidden to attack
the fOrtresses, and could not do SO with the
slightest prospect of success, as the heavy
iron clads draw from twenty three to twen-
tyeight feet of water, with the exception of
the ROchambeau, which combines fOrmida-
BILE armament with a comparatively small
draught. But little can be done with u
single ship. We might attack Kiel, but to
what purpose.


The forts commanding the entrance are
situated so high that it would be almost i'm
possible to elevate the guns sufficiently to
effect anything, while the ships would be
exposed to a destructive downward fire,
escaping which they would encounter more
formidable obstructiouns in the bay which
is filled with tOrpedOes, and made unnavi-
gable by the sinking of vessels connected
with chain cables, having only narrow
and torturous channel through which only
the smaller craft manage to pick their way.


Under such circumstances it would be
madness to attempt to penetrate far enough
to lombard the town by a few wooden
men-Ot-war. 1t would have been piece of
senseless temerity, and probably resulting
in another German triumph, hence the COM
plete and disastrous<9ailure of the French
fleet, in the hour of danger. notwithstand-
ing their heavy cost to the country There
should have been no fleet here, or one four
times us powerful.
Year: 1870

The Indiana Democracy have held State
Convention, and resolved that "the Federal
"Union should be preserved" This is excel
lent. but trifie late. If they had come to
such q conclusion about 1863-64, we should
have been vastly more obliged to them. They
do MT like the Reconstruction measures of Con-
gress. OF course not. They rellshed Seces-
sion too much in 1861. They don't
like tho Tariff because it has destroyed
american shipping and commerce" Inc
impression among ordinary mortals down THIS
way has been that those eminent Democrats
who navigated the Alabamas and Shenan-
doahs had something to do with the destrHc-
ton of American shipping and commerce. We
felt q momentary pleasure in reading their re-
solve "that we are willing to pay our national
"debt:n but our new born hopes were dashed,
on discovering farther along their opinion that
the debt is mainly payable in greenbacks. We
do not see that their "new way Of paying old
"old debtsn contemplates even remotely the
redemption Of the greenbacks with which they
propose to food the country. They demand
the suppression of the National Bank system,
and in the same breath insist that
the stock of the National Banks should
be taxed for municipal and State
purposes They protest against the Fifteenth
Amendment, and especially against Indiana be-
ing counted for it, We remember their making
such protest once before, in the form OF DIS
graceful desertion of their posts as Members OF
the Legislature in the vain hope of thus de-
fcating the will Of Indiana. They protest
against "any attempt to regulate the moral
ideas of the people by legislation. Let them
take courage There is no danger that any
legislation could possibly reach their case.
Year: 1870

ASK Spofford" is one of the proverbs of
Washington life, frankly confessng to a limited
familiarity with books and economically placing
the inquirer in the shortest and surest path to
knowledge The Librarian to Congress is an
index to his library. He knows the contents
Of his books. And that is a great thing TO
know; for he has charge of 1e5,227 volumes.
He is one of the few Federal officials we are
acquainted with, born for his Office And oil
his life he has been training for it. The value
of such man-the comfort of having such
man--cannot be measured. Hundreds of mem
bers of both branches of Congress have in the
last seven years unreseryedly testified to it by
"asking Spofford.n A member of the Pacific
Railroad Committee wants to know how much
timber and water there is on the Gila route, and
what Is the climate, and what are tho soil and
productions of the Saskatchewan valley. In


five minutes time ho has in his hand q penciled
memorandum of the books which contain the


information he needs, accompanied by the in
1ury if he will have them sent to his commit
tee room or to his lodgings. In n moment
Spofford can set tho Congressional fnancier
down among the historical facts and logical
sequences of the resumption Of Specie Pay
ments by tho Bank Of England after the
Napoleonic wars-and lie can assure his study
against error by telling him what authorities
are recognized and what are doubtful. Charles
Sumner wishing TO proclaim for the purchase
of Alaska--this Librarian can wall him around
with every book, pamphlet, and magazine u
newspaper article under the Capitol roof bear
ing on the geography OF Russian America. For
Jerry Black, hasty to make plea for the Balt-
more owners of Alta Yea. this library guide
can in minute indicate all the history and
Year: 1870

The Republican Union General Committee
will meet this evening at their rooms corner
Of Twenty -sccondst. and Broadway, when we
trust an organization will be effected. We
presume none but members who hold certifi-
Gates of election win he admitted pending such
organization. The Republicans have been suf-
ficieDtly weakened and shamed by feuds in
This City for which neither reason nor excuse
las ever existed. ienceforth, they are resolved
20 be a unit, even though it should be neces-
sary TO torn over n few score of inveterate
fac6Onists and tralickers to Tammany Hall,
and compel them TO stay there. We have
said nothing, and shall say nothing, cal
culatcd to fix the blame of last Thurs
days proceedings on any one; but, when the
Committee shall have been duly organized, as
wo trust it will be this evening We shall re-
card and treat all who seek TO perpetuato
feuds and cabals az outside of the party.


We cntrcat members Of the Committee to
bear in mind that they act for the whole
party, and do nothing that may serve as a
pretcxt, even, for further factiOusness. "Let
"uk have pcaccm
Year: 1870

II seems that there arc persons connected
with the French Cable who believe they can
lobby through Congress whatever legislation
may be necessary to get the Company out of
It's difficulties. After they have tried this bus
mess, they will probably find out that they
were mistaken. But it may save them even
the trouble of trial if they arc reminded in
advance that they have no sort of chance of
lobbying through" President Grant any of
their schemes. The President has already had
something to say about the conduct of
the French Cable Company; and he would
have something more to say before any legis-
lation could be Of any account. 1t is not worth
while, therefore, for anybody to begin the
work of Lobbying through"
Year: 1870

Our readers arc no doubt familiar with the
story of the man who ordered his dog out Of the
house, and when the animal crawlcd toward
thc bed, exclaimed, well, get uDder the bed,
q chem I'll make you mind. anyhow" If the
lumo- telcgaphed from Paris is true, they
must have been reading this story in Rome.
The Council IS TO decree the infallibility of the
papc, gays the Memorial DiplomatiQue, with
the understanding that nobody need believe it
unless he has mind to, 1t might be difficult
70 say what the decree would mean in that
case, or how the Council could make belief in
Il doctrine absolutely necessary and perfectly
at the same time. But the story is
not more absurd than many Others which come
II ms from Paris.
Year: 1870

There is a dreadful pother in Newark about
the alarming detection of an Alderman OF some
officer of that sort, who was supposed to be
faithful Democrat. but who has had the moral
and political independence to vote just as the
theory of our Government intended-that ls,
according to his convictions. 1t seems that the
Democrats have enough votes, counting In this
recusant, to seize and WELD the City Govern
ment, and with watering mouths they came up
to divide tho spoils; but, imagine their
CONSERVATION when tho vote wasi counted to
find dead lock! This audacious man had de-
fed the caucus whip, and voted as he pleased
Hang him!r XII him." "Kick him out y
was the cry of the banditt who had supposed
themselves jnst tho point of securing the fat
things of public office; and SO high ran the cur
rent that the offending party was for some
time guarded by the police. This Newark
affair is only a small rock tumbling down the
side of the mountain. by and by will come
the avalanche for it is not in human nature
to abide for any considerable time the iron
dCsp0tsm now welded with whip and spur
over the masses of their voters BY the Demo-
cratic leaders. The sooner these cOnspirators
find their Waterloo, the better pleased will be
the honest people of all parties.
Year: 1870

his hands; but given over to the Mayor, IL
nsight be welded against him. The Fire De-
partment has so commended itself to property
owners that any return to the old order OF
things would arouse storm of remonstrance.
To restore tho good old times when ev-
cry engine and hose house was a Tree
lodging place for shouldor-hitters and
repeaters, might provoke an opposition that
even the Big Indian would shrink from. No
doubt Peter is willing to wound, but he is
afraid to strike. Therefore the people should
not be surprised to find him making use OF
these Commissions instead of abolishing them.
1t would be instructive to read list OF names
of applicants for Office in these Boards; but
such disclosure would betray great party
secret and we must wait the developments OF
time,