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Year: 1873




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It is sinful to do what we know, or
belive, to be wrong; as, for instance, to
lie, to steal, to slander. It is sin to
deceive or mislead another to his harm
There are many sorts, varieties, and
phases of sin, besides those indicated
in the Ten Commandments. We regard
it a sin to commit excesses in eating
in drinking, or in doing anything
which will impair the health of the
body, affect the mind injuriously, OF
dwarf the moral or spiritual sensibilities
Through dissipation one become the
parent Of an imbecile or an IDIOT. BY
transmitting consumptlve tendencies to
offspring, or by transmitting scrofulous
diseases, palpable wrong is done, aud
suferingis induced. Is not this sinful !
Preachers eonfine their rebukes to
what may be called moral sin,
seldom coming right down to our
physical transgressions, such as over
eating, drinking, chewing, smoking,
dosing, and drugging, which are among
the chief causes Of our most serious
SHINING.


Let us look at these things as they
are. We sin against the laws oI
health when we breath old and fetid
air, such as is confined in school house
public halls, churches and even private
dwelling houses. We sin when WI
gormandize or eat more than we need
when we rob ourselves or others o
necessary sleep when We over.ax the
minds of children, rendering them
precocious aud sickly; when We lac,
so tightly that we contract our lung
and impair health when we spoil ou
feet, producing corns, bunions, ETC., by
| tigh boots when we cause headache
BIZ great wads of false hair, or by all
tight hats; when we 60 to extremes il
anything whereby we waste vitality
and ergender disease. Extreme
greediness is product of undue
| sclfishness. and borders on dishonesty Y
lie who will not do as he would b,
done by is not, by any means, q saint
Each of us may hold the mirror up L
nature, and if we wish to do SO VI
may.


"see ourselves as others sec us"


Il it not sin to gamble, and ge
gain without earning it? Is it not
sin to sell rum to one whose appetit
is perverted, and whose mind is to
weak to resist the temptation? Is
nor sin to seduce or lead one from
life of virtue to lie of vice Is no
peevish, fretful, and ungovernabl
temper sinful? Is not good nature ant
cheerful countenance duty? Reader
goon with these questions OF self examir
alton and see where you stand? You ca
cipher them up, debit and credit
balance the account, and see exactl
where you are. True penitence wi
bring pardon, and, when forgiven pa
sins, we may start out with new resolve
to lead a new life, in accordance wit
higher principles than those of forme
, times. We may overcome besetting sin
+ We may improve. 1t is our privilee
and our duty SO to do. Let US try
chronological Journal.
Year: 1873

prudent with his disbursements, which accounts
for his immense wealth at the present moment.
1t was maxim with him that no man really wants
more than 5000 francs (sl,2oo) year; therefore,
when he had placed any needy soul in q way Of
earning that mucn he washed his hands OF him
thenceforth. AS to women, the Princes name was
mentioned throughout the Empire in connection
with variety OF scandals too numerous and
delicate to repeat; and 1t Is no secret,
for instance, that he was the first dis
coverer and iauncner OF the notorious Cora
Pearl. But he was never accused OF wasting
his substance in buying too many diamonds, and
1t Is stated that his generosity most frequently
took the form OF government contracts tobacco
onlces), or state secrets, which he could have for
the asking and which he retailed to his fair hear
ers in time to admit Of their pronting thereby in
Stock Exchange speculations. Altogether the re-
spectacle portion OF the public viewed him with q
cool and careful eye and their mistrust OF him was
heightened by the


ENIaMArIcAL PART HE PLAYED IN POLITICS


This part Is fresh In the recollections OF all read
ers. From 1862 to 1859 Prince Napoleon chiefly
signalized himself by the part he took in the
Crimean war and by his short-lived ten
ure OF the Ministership OF Algeria. Hav.
ing left sebastopol somewhat precipitately
at the moment when the trenches we're
opened, Prince Napoleon was branded
br the public. VINO Judge Of things auperactallL
Year: 1873

The Swedish nightingale made her first appear
ance last night in the role of Lucia at the Academy
of Music her assistants being the same artists who
appeared in Donlzet.i's opera when Mile. Torrlani
made her debut. Having already discussed the
other characters in the opera as represented by
Campanini, and Del Puente, 1t only remains for
us to speak OF the bride OF Lammermoor,n as
Nine. Nilsson mpersonates the heroine OF
Scott's popular novel and Donizetti's favorite
opera The charm that the prima donna threw
around this role two years ago, when Nilssons
Lucia was in everybodys mouth, as was Malibrans
Desdcmona, or CRISIS Norma in days OF yore, has
lost none OF its attractive qualities. The first act
closed with as hearty an expression OF appreciation
on the part OF the public as when Mme Nilsson
made her operatic debut. The opening aria in
which Lucia awaits with mingled ardor and
anxiety the coming OF the Master OF Ravenswood to
the well-known trysting place, and the grand duet
with the tenor that closes the first act, gave a
impersonation. In the wedding scene Nine.
Nilsson rose to an altitude OF grandeur in ner
singing and dramatic expression Of the agony
oil the 1ll-lated Lucia that seemed to intensity the
interest which naturally attaches itself to these
sad nuptials. Through the glorious music OF the
sestet her crystaLlike voice, quiverlng with emo.
tion, rose on the air as II breaking heart mad
become Tyre and its pulsatons were instinct with
melody. parayzed at hrst by the awful realization
OF her position and the bitter denuncation OF her
lover she broke away rom her attendants tore
the hateful bridal veil rom her face and chung with
desperate tenacity TO the object OF her affection
whom she had unwittingly betrayed.


The mad scene Is the crowning success OF Nils
OF conventionalism. When she enters. her mInd
hlled with the ecstacy OF the premier
Jour dc 0onheur, the memory or the first
dawn OF love In her innocent breast eycry
feature glows as IN rapturous dream The
pantomlme OF supposed union with Edgar and
the horror at the recollection OF his stern denun
citation OF her, the appeal for mercy, which
becomes more thrilling as 1t Is uttered by
a wandering mind, and the last sad scene
dark river falls on her distracted soul
and the ecstatic spirit that dispels the
gloom surrounding the unhappy marriage of Lucia


we're In the hands OF Nilsson o crclet OF Jewels nj
to ad0rn the brow OF the most regal representative
OF the lyric drama. In the norid music or the mad
scene the nutc 0bllgato OF Herr Sicdler was very
efyecrive and contributed much toward the success
OF the prima donna, az In this peculiar music the
slightest mistake OF the flute might mar the best
efforts OF the Lucia. To Signor Muzio's chorus
and orchestra hearty praise is due.
Year: 1873

in feeling and patriotic style by an old Con
federaSe General, at daylight Saturday.


The party landed at the foot of s.. Ann
street yesterday morning and every one
expressed himself as having enjoyed The
pleasantest and most instructive excursion
il had ever been his good fueuroto par
ticipate ino
Year: 1873

that believe the said guarantors to be pecuni. arily responsible for and able 10 pay all damages the United States shall sulier by reason Of my falling to perform my obligations as such bidder
Year: 1873

UNDER ti.e benign rule Of the British,
criminals in India are no longer allowed
to bo tortured in order to exact a confess
ion. The India police, however, have
many ingenious ways of forcing their
prisoners to confess without actual tor
ture. One method, applied to opium
eaters, is perfectly simple and sociable.-
The policeman sits down opposite his pris-
oncr, and playfully keeps an opium ball
rolling about the palm of his hand OF
course, the prisoner suffers like Tantalus
himself, and the policeman very soon
gets his story and the prisoner his opium.
Another method, used where there are
number of prisoners suspected of the
same offence, reminds one Of similar pro-
cecdings in Arabian tales. One man is
taken from the number and locked up
alone, while his companions imagine he
is in the next room. In this room are
several inspectors, who proceed to stoutly
belabor an empty sack hanging in the
corner, ono of them violently groaning.
This over, the man is loudly called up
on to confess, and constable Stimulates a
confession In a low, mumbling tone of
voice. All this little comedy seems q
stern tragedy to the trembling prisoners
in the next room, and when the next man
ia brought out he is almost sure to make
a confession.
Year: 1873

a VERMONT paterfamilias has sued his
next neghbor for giving his family the
smallpox, and the defendant threatens a
counter suit on the ground that the plain
tiffs took IL from him violently without
his permission.
Year: 1873

q" Farmers all ever the County. are in
good spirits ever the continued rains the past


peek In some parts of the County corn and


Pou0le the wheat raised this year over last
(nd we hear of number of large farmers


hat will put in wheat next year, that have
lever before done so. Crawford county ought
pot to import a pound of -four Let us see


pow much we can reGuce the imports next
oar
Year: 1873

THE Blast Furnace at Martins Ferry
belonging 10 the Benwood Iron Works
was blown out for repairs few days ago,
after run Of over three years. The work
Of demolishing the old stack Ia now
going Oh, and part of the material
Tor the new one Is already on the ground.
We understand that the company think
Of putting up a stack Of flfty'fye feet in
stead Of forty.two, as at present, and max.
log the new bosh thirteen or fourteen feet
instead Of twelve. They also think Of
materially increasing their Hot Blast ca
psci,y. The company hope to running
again in December. Meanwhile they
have taken hold Of tho upper furnace at
Steubenville with view Of supplying
their wants in the way Of iron at the Ben
wood Mill while their own concern Is out
Of blast
Year: 1873

The news from New iorkt thls morning


be,okens that financial matters have moi


come round all right In that city as yet


Wall street has had new spasm attel
the lull that has interviewed since the out


break on the 17th OF last month. But
Notwithstanding this fact the advices re-
gsrding trade in the city are cheering
Tho immediate cause Of the new depar
ture in Wall street Is an advance in the
discount rate by the Bank Of England tc
check the flow Of specie this way. It II
q curious fact to see gold coming to this
country when we owe such q large
debt in Europe, but 1t shows that
nobody over there Is scared as regards
government bonds and our securities gen.
orally. Because Of this confidence gold
comes to our shores TO buy wheat and
cotton. The bondholdera hold on TO their
bonds and send their cash. This Is GER
,alnly pretty fair evidence that our coun-
try Is in good crcdi. and good condition.
If it was not SO all our foreign creditors
would be like those depositors who want
their money when doubtful of q
banks ability TO pay, and would
be rushing bonds home instead OF for.
warding their gold. Under such clrcum-
stances II is lot worth while to go into an
argument to prove that there isno radical
unsoundness in the business Of the coun-
Try, for that much Is shown by the conf
dence exhibited abroad. II our pros
perity was delusion and not reality the
tables would be turned very suddenly.
And yet we have a panic among ourselves
and business Is demoralized, and millions
Of wealth arc to be lost to tho country by
q withdrawal ot labor from productive
employments Tor The want Of circu-
lating medium TO keep it going. In
q lew weeks however the people
will understand that such anecdless
sacrifice Is too costly to be kept up and
then everybody will ask how such a
panic was possible in a time Of profuse
aud irredeemab!e paper money, and in
tho midst Of the largest export trade
known Tor years. The explanation will
DO that the failure oftwo or three promi-
uent concerns in Wall street destroyed
confidence TO such an extent that paper
money was boarded by the people as II
It was gold. And this explanation will
prove just the opposite ol what great
many intelligent people thought and said
about tho imposslbility OF a general sus'
pension and panic on a paper basis. 1t
will also prove that no amount OF paper
noney and no amount Of prosperity can
become a substitute for public confidence,
aud that once q good deal Of rotteness
Is developed in prominent quarters
money In any shape takes tho alarm and
mysteriously disappears below the sur.
lace. Nothing but several days of calm
ness and freedom from failures and from
rumols OF further trouble will beget the
necessary confidence to set money flowing
Agsin. II an embargo could be laid on
New York news for about fortnight the
people and the banks would be pretty well
freed from their apprehensions and go to
using their means as usual again.
Year: 1873

New YORK, Oct. 14.-The publication
Ia made in tho Erening Post to-day OF Q
letter from President Grant to U. A.
Cowdry, OF the Continental Bank, dated
October 9th. The President says: "My
whole object In my letter to Anthony 6
Clafiiin was 10 restore confidence to the
public mind and 10 give the assurance
that the Government would give oil the
aid In It's power, keeping in view at the
same time the solvency OF tho United
States Treasury. alluded to the the fact
that the forty.four million reserve notes
In the Treasury would be regarded as
money In the Treasury subject to use for
the purpose Of showing that means are
at hand to give the reliet we prom
ised. ! do not believe the present
panic will work to individuals half the
injury It will work general good to the
country at large. Our monetary system
Is the creation Of o necessity! It has no
elasticity, but In other respects It Is the
best that has ever been devised. No one
now distracts the value oi his paper dol.
lar. On the contrary 1t is seized and
boarded with the same avidity now that
the gold dollar has been In former like ad.
versities. The panic will call attention to
the defects in our monetary system, and
will no doubt lead to legislation TO re-
lieve the want Of elasticity. The
panic has thus far brought greenbacks
about to par with silver. I wonder
that silver Is not already coming into the
market to supply the deficiency In the cir.
culating medium. When 1t does come,
and l predict that It will soon, we will
have made rapid stride towards specie
payments. Currency will never go be.
low silver alter that.h


The remainder Of the letter is devoted
to the views OF the President on silver as
circulating medium and substitute for
currency that have already been made
public.
Year: 1873




NEW YORK, Oct. 14-Bishop Cum
Minis, oi KY, has written letter vindica.
ting his own conduct and that Of the Dean
Of Canterbury 10 the matter OF their CON-
munion in the Presbyterian Church. He
says: N deny most emphatically that the
Dean Of Canterbury or myself have viola
ted any ecclesiastical order Of the Church
OF England or Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church In this country, or have been
guilty of, any act OF open hostility to the
discipline. There Is nothing In the eccle.
sisstical order or discipline OF the
Church Of England or OF the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church in this
country iorbldding such acts Of
intercommunion among Christian people
who are in faith and love, one In Christ.
Their great head, as far as I know the
liberal Epiacopallans of New York, re-
joice In the action Of the Dean OF Canter.
bury and thank God for It. When the
Episcopal Church Of England and the
United States has been able to clear her
sell, which may God In His infinite mercy
soon grant, OF the deadly evil Of ritualism,
whose last development Is the revival oi
the confessional, then. and not I'LL
then, may she become haven oil rest to
manned souls who would rejoice TO see
her the common centre and bond oi Or
gauic unity TO all Protestant Christen-
dom"


Bishop Potter when spoken 10 on the
subject at issue between Bishop Tozer and
Bishop Cummins, declined to make any
public statement until the time came for
him 10 act.
Year: 1873

An ETERNAL LEAP YEAR. Among the
Cos,ack of the Ukraine, leap year iseter-
nal. When young woman feels ten
der passion for q young man, she seeks
him at the residence of his parents, and
allresses him as follows: "The good
ness see written in your countenance
is sufficient assurance to me that YOU
are capable of ruling and loving a wife,
and your excellent qualities encourage
me to hope that you will make a good
husband. 1t is in this belief that have
tpken the resolution to come, and beg
YOU, with all due humility, to accept me
for your spouse She then addresses
the father and mother and solicits their
consent to the marriage. Ii she meets
with refu ;al she declines TO leave the
hol,e, aud such conduct is usually
crowned with success. The parents of
the yoansman never put the young maid
ems away if they still persist in their
stay, believing that by doing SO they
woald bring down the vengeance of
Haven upon their heads.
Year: 1873

SEX IN WAGES. What we claim is,
that wages for the same work, whether
done by man or by woman, shall be the
same. All talk about the less cost at
which woman can live, as agood reason
for defrauding her, is simply the cruelty
and the impudence of the stronger par
ty. The device of cutting down their
wages upon the plea that they can live
at less cost than men, was hit upon by
those who were willing to make money
out of nheir helplessness, and it has
been made excuse for shameful swind-
ling ever since. However, we are get
ting away from the proposition with
which we started, which is: The same
wages for the same work, whether done
by masculine or by feminine hands.
Year: 1873

a A drug firm at Cincinnati propose
to test the practicability of employing
women in the pursuit of pharmacy, but
forewarns the sex that it will require
much nerve to make the experiment.
Now Heaven forefcnd that rival or early
lover of those clerks should seek drugs
in that pharmacy.
Year: 1873

SECRETARY robson BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMIT


TEE-HIs VIEWS RESPECTING THE NECESSITY


FOR COMPLETING THE NAVAL PREPARATIONS
lBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBUSRI


WASHINGTON Dec. 9.-The Secretary of the Navy
was before the House Appropriation Committee tnis
morning in support of his application for an add-
tional appropriation Of $5.OO0OOO to continue the
work of putting the navy on a war footing he
gave the Committee detailed account Of the pres
en strength and disposition of naval forces ana
Of the steps taken by him to increase their efficiency
since the capture Of tho VirgiDius Gong over
the entire navy list he described the condition, sze
and armament of every vessel, and indicated the
present station Of all now in commission. lie said
that Key West the depot of supplies OF the North
Atlantic Squadron, had been selected IA the rendez
vous for the armament designed to operate against
Cuba in case of war. The vessels dispatched from
the various navy-yards had been ordered TO tha'
station. and also number of ships from the Euro
pean and South Atlantic Squadrons. The Secretary
reminded the Committee that he had never before
been to Congress for deficiency, and had always
kept the expenses of his Department within the
appropriations. He asked for $4,0OO,OOO to make
good the amounts used from the funds OF the
different bureaus to meet the present emergency
and to complete the repairs and equipment OF Vesses
now on hand at the yards, and also recommended
tnaI an adultlonai appropiiatioh vi Si'oVV'O'o
be made as fund to be used at the discretion OF the
President in any pressing necessity shouid
arise during the holiday recess of Congress. Gen.
Garfield will prepare bill distributing the SioOooo
among the bureaus of the Departments in accord
ance with the requirements of each. Ii is probable
that the additional appropriation Of 81 100000 VIII
be made with provision that any portion OF IL
remaining unexpended on the 18th Of January snail
be covered into the Treasury. The Committee Will
take final action on the subject tomorrow.
Year: 1873

rulers here have resigned. i can see two American
vessels coming IN as write to swell the number Oh
our cOuntrymen here. Of these there are already
goodly number The only personal danger appre'
hended by Americans-and indeed that is shared py
all speaking the English language the British ss wen
as Americans-is from some mob movement OF these
ignorant Volunteers, who think and say they are
equal to the whole world, and are anxious TO cope
with it. There two opinions among thinking
people One is that the Volunteers will burn OF SINK
the Virgnus before she leaves the harbor; ana tne
other is that they will e1pend their valor in tax
BY the time this reaches you you will be more apie
than perhaps any one here just now to tell which Oh
these two opinions is nearer the truth
Year: 1873

FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ITS TERMS
rHE AGREEMENT CONFIRMED AT Manufactures


MAspAy FIXED As THE TIME FOR sURRENDERING G.


THE vIRGINiUs


We are informed by special dispatch from Wash
ington that the protocol signed by Secretary Fish
and SeHor Polo has received the formal confirmation
of the Spanish Cabinet 1t seems however. to have
been first made more definite by providing that
the Virginius must he delivered to our
Government on Christmas Day. Orders TO
this effect have been sent to Havana
and, notwithstanding the excitement which was
created few days ago Ito which reference is made
in our special correspondence given below, the
prospect of peaceful surrender sregarded as favor
able Secretary Robson was before the Appropr'a-
tions Committee of the House of Representatives
yesterday, and explained the condition OF the navy
in detail giving the reasons on which he based his
request for special appropriation
Year: 1873

| unusual punishment Mr. Wilson ended bis speecn
by declaration in favor of restoring the old rate Oh
pay


After one or two other speeches. Mr. Lamison took
the floor He voted six times for the back pay took
it, kept il, and glored in it. He was twice asked
by his constituents to resign, and finally told them
to Go to -" He to-day took very fierce blus
tering course, but his speech not remarkable
until toward its close, when he took up the case OF
Mr.. Lawrence. He showed himself a master OF
satire when he described his colleague,
and he said it was source OF infinite
happiness for him to be able to announce
that such an object of virtue aud consistency would
never be lost from observation. He said that manv
of the Crooks and Romans, distinguished in their
day and since, had passed away and left no like
ness and Imagination could only attempt to portray
them but this was not the with his colleague
He here took from his desk q public document OF
perhaps six or eight hundred pages, which he SAID
was the report of a subcommittee sent to New-fork
during the XXXIXth Congress to investigate the
election frauds in THAT city. Mr.. Lawrence was
the Chairman of the Committee. and the report was
of the ordinary character such is made by every
investigating Committee.


Mr. Lamison, in humorous terms, opened the book
and held it up to the House. Ii contained a fne
steel portrait of Mr.. Lawrence. A roar OF laugnter
followed, and cheering, stamping, and clapping OF
hands from all parts of the House and from the gal


eres almost drowned the Speakers voice and gavel
To add to the defeat of his opponent, Mr.. LaInson
was handed a copy of The Globe OF the
XXXIXth Congress, which contained short
speech by Mr.. Lawrence. using the argu-
ment (which Senator Carpenter has since
overwhelmingly, that a member OF Con-
gress is bound by the Constitution to receive what
ever pay is provided by law. This was the complete
overthrow of the now demoralized Congressman,
and scene of great confusion followed. 1t is SAID
that tomorrow Gen. Butler, or some other of those
who favored the Salary bill, will exhibit to the
House late agricultural report, containing pic
ture of a ram owned in Ohio and named Judge
Lawrence The discussion on the bill will probably
last two or three days.