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Year: 1870

The happy family Of democrats and republi-
cans are now collecting in Albany ready for
the constitutional opening of the Legislature
on Tuesday next more like museum happy
family than the picture of the millennium.
There are mice, cats, rabbits and snakes in
the hotel cages and but few lambs and
lions. To-day all the State officers recently
elected are to be sworn in, and through New
Years Day and Sunday every politicians pop
gun will be aimed at the bulls eye Of harmony.


Governor Hoffman's message will reach the
happy family about Tuesday afternoon. 1t
will be pitched at the high note Of q baritone
voice for economy. Inasmuch az most of the
claimants in the rural districts are republicans,
this pitch will harm them and generally benefit
the democratic future. He will preach for
lower taxes and the accommodation of canal
rates, 80 as to compete with Commodore Van
derbilt and James Fisk in carrying freight
cheap. He will give the State prisons a
serious overhauling and point out some excellent
reforms in criminal Jurisprudence. He will
wisely abstain from mixing himself up with
the fifteenth amendment, and leave the legisla-
tors to paddle their own canoes over the Con-
gressional rapids. He will recommend
uniform voter enrolment law, that can permit
of man enrolling even on election day. He
will demand in the name of Saint Gambrinus
and the Teutonic ballot box, that the present
Excise law be modified so as to satisfy the
lovers of potations without raising the ire Of
the religious element He will ask that in our
city the Mayor shall become in fact as in name
the Chief Executive, and be held responsible
for everything and everybody, and of course
get by statute the requisite authority. He
will recommend that the State return to
specie payment of the interest on it's bonds.


The Senate will make the political mistake
of appointing as Clerk a New Yorker. Albany
will get the Clerk of the Assembly. New York
will probably receive the Speakership; and as
New York already has the Governor, and the
Erie Railway and the Central corporation,
and in Bismarck Sweeny the Warwick of
democracy, of course the rural districts must
be contented with the chestnuts of pageships
and sergeants-at-arms and other little roasting
or swapping dishes. Brooklyn wants an origi-
nal Jacobs for Speaker, but she will have to
content herself with Henry c. Murphy, the
Father of the Senate, as honorary President Of
the Senate whenever Lieutenant Governor
Beach is washed away by an engagement.


The Office of Speaker requires practised
qualities, and public history demonstrates that
only few men are fitted for its delicate duties.
Whenever the right man for this right bower of
parliamentary euchre has been found and
proved his party usually hold on to him if they
are prudent. Thus the republicans for many
years gave Mr.. Littlejohn lease of the
Speakership at Albany and Mr.. Colfax at
Washington. The democrats will not be likely
to hunt after new material. This is all that the
uncertain white man of Albany yet develops,
but in all the foregoing particulars he has
spoken oracularly.
Year: 1870

AN ALMOST TRUE SENSATION. Of the
sensational journals stated yesterday that the
with arms and munitions for the insurgents,
and that Marshal Harlow inspected the ves-
sci, knew her character and destination and
consented to her sailing. Marshal Harlow
now states that he did know of her destination
and character, and that she had no arms or
munitions on board and did not sail for Cuba
Otherwise the report might have been almost
true.
Year: 1870

The DARIEN CANAL EXPEDITION. Our
Washington correspondent says that according
to the statements Of the authorities at the
Navy Department the Darien Canal expedi-
tion will certainly sail between the 18th and
goth of January to commence survey of the
canal The funds for the work are enough for
present needs and more can be appropriated
In time
Year: 1870

tion Of the dying man as to bis identity ID
great deal, and the remarkable corroboration
from his own lips that he had that night "fred
back" when shot at is even more. 1t is diff
cult to see how defence can avoid the force
Of these points
Year: 1870

ALMOST ANOTHER MINING HoRRoR.-The
breaker of the Nottingham mine, at Plymouth,
Pa.-the scene of the Avondale calamity
caught fire on Thursday while ffty-five miners
were below. No ntimation was given them
of their danger until the fire, by great exer-
tions, was extinguished. When the miners
came up and heard of the danger they had
incurred an indignation meeting was
held and they compelled the owner
of the mines to take greater precau-
Hons and arrange greater facilities for
escape before they would descend again. The
owner did SO grudgngly. Following SO
closely on the Avondale casualty and occurring
in the immediate scene of that horror, this
threatened disaster ought to offer an effective
warning to the mine owners, and on their
heads ought to fall the direct responsibility of
their neglect or refusal to provide against such
fatal accidents. But until the law reaches them
they will go on as before, even in the face Of q
dozen such disasters.
Year: 1870

The common washing sponge is still con-
sidered BY many naturalists as q vegetable
species. and in fact most people look upon
il rs Of vegetable growth Still, il seems
now to be definitely established that it be-
longs TO those low forms of animalcule that
are comprised under the term zoophytes.
"Will you make us believe" here you OK
claim, that this iberous net work in which
one In unable to detect the least Indication
Of anything that reminds us Of animal life,
j. mot moss or something" Exactly 50.
However, the sponge which you use daily
in ablutiOns, and which forms one Of the
most indispensable articles Of the toilet, is
not the animal as it lives and thrives, but
oaly its horny substance. its skeleton, il
you like to call it SO. When cut loose from
the Submarine rocks on which it is found at
considerable depth, the sponge presents
itself 70 you AZ black jelly.lite mass,
which. when ieA in the air for only fe~
days viii give off q M st disagreesble
smell, rffginating from the, gelatinous part
IN Question. In the natural sponge, You
have not one single individual before you,
but o regular colony Of animalcule. The
elastic horn like net work Of your toilet ta-
bic is then impregnated to its uttermost
parts with flimsy substance that is pene-
trated throughout by fine capillary tubes,
not visible to the naked eye. Upon exam
ing this curious being further, exceedingly


fine ella (eye laehes) will be discovered.
They project around the entrances OF the
pores, and by their motion produce a cur
rent which, in passing through the number
less tubes, leaving behind whatever they
may need for food. The horny net work is
probably only their secretion, like the house
of the snail. But that the sponge is of
animal origin is now proven by the iiscOv-
cry Of spermatOzOa and embryOs in the in
terror, as well as by the composition Of the
ibfous elastic part itself, which contains one
of the constituents Of silk and spiders web.


In order to prepare it for use, it is 6rst
left IN the air for a short time-untll the
gelatinous part is decomposed, then the mass
is washed in hot water, and afterward in q
bath Of diluted muriatic acid. The toilet
spouges are bleached by means Of chlorine
and hyposulpbate Of soda. The so-called
wax sponges, that are used by the doctors
for dressing ulcers, are purified sponges
dipped in fluid wax, and then pressed be-
tween two hot plates.


The French and Austrian governments
have lately commenced to rear sponges arti
ficially-the former on the shores Of the
Mediterranean, the latter on the coast Of
Dalmatia. The cultivation is said to bt
perfectly successful, and to yield large pro
Manufacturer and Builder.
Year: 1870




| shall have some words of consolation
for these gentlemen who are so pining
for more settlers but first let me call
attention to one fact bearing upon the
movement of population in its relation
to railroads. This fact is that our popu-
lation has observed a nearly uniform law
Of increase since 1870, that rate of in
crease being about thirty-6 five per cent.
during each decade on the population we
had at its commencement And this law
Of increase seems to have been about
the same before the introduction of rail.
roads as it has be since that time.
But a still more curious fact is this, viz.
that Mr.. Elkanah Watson's celebrated
table, predicting our population for each
decade from 1920, on to some time ia
the next century, table which has
proved so surprisingly accurate that be
Year: 1870

A SUBTERRANEAN POND AT WoRCEs-
TER.--The Spy says there is an under
ground pond of considerable extent in
South Worcester, Mass. The latest re-
minder of it was the sinking of piece of
land several rods square on Wednesday
night, near Southbridge street, which was
being filled up for house lots. Earth had
been hauled on till the surface was two or
three feet higher than the surrounding
territory, but the whole is now as many
feet under water. 1t was found by prob
ing the soil, which is not many feet
thick, pole could be easily thrust down
to the depth of thirty feet in many places
1t is here that several rods of Southbridge
street sunk some nine or ten feet under
water few years ago, after having been
used several years and it was at an
enormous expense that the Norwich rail-
road, which crosses the marsh few rods
to the west, was built at this point. The
most probable theory of this covered lake,
which is thought to be about eight acres
IN extent---is, that years ago there existed
BODY OF water there which gradually
became covered with leaves, moss and
earth, 80 that grasses and brushwood took
root and grew thereon, making a sort of
soil that by overlooking is broken
through.
Year: 1870

LADIES FAsHIoNs.-The material to be
introduced for bonnets is China Grape,
and the flowers imported are the pale
hues in which the Grape is made, or in
deep rich colors, forming strong contrasts
with it. Flowers will be worn in profu-
sion theylare mounted in clusters. with
out much foliage, and, as we repeat every
season, there are more roses than anything
else. A tasteful novelty is cravat ends or
tabs of point lace, to be worn with a
brooch at the throat. The Partisan taste
this season is for trimming of white lace
on very dark silk and even Jet black
dresses. Handkerchief neatly made,
with diamond medallions of Valiencinnes
in the corners and a border of the same
lace, very fashionable.
Year: 1870

GENTLEMEN We are we'll aware of


the past prestige that our State has had


for producing the finest horses in America.


To say that we have supplied the gentle


men of our eastern cities with the most


genteel, spirited, intelligent and lasting


roadsters that our country afforded, also


those in many of our middle and southern


cities, and in earlier times furnished ex-


press and stage teams superior to any


other section of our country, and in later


times breeding stations and mares in


large numbers for all parts of our country


and even opened call for them in South
America, Australia and Europe, is to
state simple truth which we all know.


We are proud of our past record and
justly so. But our glory is fast depart
! ing. For nearly ten years past this has


been apparant to almost every casual OBJ
server. 1t is true too, and we cannot fail
to observe it, that with our present man
agement we can never again occupy the
proud position we once held. Before
looking for the proper course for us to
pursue in order to reach our former stand
ing, it is well to turn to the past sutfi-
ciently to ascertain how We obtained our
former reputation. ..a...


Our superior horses were produced, 1st,
by our excellent climate, soil, fosd and
water, SO well adapted to perfect the high
est type of horse. I'd, by having the
best blooded horses to start our stock
from. Whatever may be said against our
first Morgans, we think it will be long
time before better horses for the road will
be obtained. We speak of our first Nor
gans, not the culls of our later times Sd,
our distance from market and the rather
small size of our early Morgans caused
the horse buyers to shun us in measure.
This allowed some of the best animals for
while at least, to remain in our midst
for breeding purposes, and about the year
1S45 we unquestionably had the best stock
of horses in America. This was acknowl- |
edged throughout the country. Notice
carefully that our worldwide reputation
was not gained by any careful breeding.
No man had made it matter of much |
study; to get the most money for the
present stock was the aim of all. No as
sociations of any real value were found to
enable US to retain our best stations,
much less our best mares. Seldom, very
seldom, did any horse-raiser select his filly
and refuse tempting offer for her that he
might retain her to improve his stock
Any buyer could readily get our first,
second and third best mares by paying q
little extra for them. Sound Judgment
and scrupulous care in breeding did not
give US our excellent stock and great repu-
tation.


And what have We done with our su-
perior stock and reputation /? simply let it
run badly down. For the past 10 to 20
years we have been breeding carelesslY a.
ever, while our great reputation has
Year: 1870

Friday morning the mercury stood at
IL below zero, and at Stanstead, few
miles further north, it did not go above
zero all day. This morning we had lit
tie more of the same sort-we presume it
came from over the line. Everybody step
ped about lively-no one was inclined to
stand still more than half an hour. How's
the thermometer ? Well regulated ones
marked twenty-six below zero, whils a
number little more erratic went down
to 80. But how still !! Not breath Of
air was stirring. The sun shone brightly
and the smoke coiled upward in beautiful
wreaths, while the heavens beyond wore
the beautiful tints that are seldom seen
in the lower Connecticut. The pure
bracing air is worth inhaling, even if it
requires little extra motion. After the
thermometer reaches 10 below it is gen.
orally all the same in feeling if lower
point is indicated, and when the mercury
reaches 30 and 40 below, as have sever
al times experienced it, one can hardly
realize the difference if warmly clad. But
this winter has been more mild in north
ern Vermont than usual, although the ice
on Lake Memphremagog is two feet thick
and as clear as crystal. Three years ago
the average temperature for the entire
winter was several degrees below zero in
this town. That might have been called
a smart spell of weather, and when l
thought of it l was inclined to forgive the
little ecoentrioity manifested in the morn
ing.
Year: 1870

of the scriptural suggestion that he who
takes the sword may expect to perish by
it. Who his assailant was is neither
known nor guessed but the second as
sault undoubtedly grows out of the first.
Small and sick men sometimes have friends
to revenge their injuries, or at least the
money to buy them.
Year: 1870

LABoR.-By the recent returns of the
Agricultural Department, it appears that
the wages of farm laborers average $25.13
per month, 40 per cent. more than the
English laborer receives, wkile at the
same time the cost of living is consider
ably greater to the latter. If we pa9s to
the continent we find the contrast between
the wages and the condition of farm labor
ers there and in this country very much
greater in favor of the latter. If we con-
slider the less civilized nations, the con-
trast wideus still more broadly. Yet it
would seem that labor is more discon.
tented and agitated where it is at it's
greatest disadvantage. There are many
sides to this great labor question in all its
departments, and study of the condition
of other portions of the earth cannot but
have a wholesome bearing upon results.


PROBABLE INCREASE OF EMIGRATION
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office is in almost daily receipt of letters
from our ministers and consuls abroad,
and agents for emigration and private in
dividuals in Europe, and especially from
the herman States, asking for reports, cir
oulars and maps containing information
relative to lands in the Western Terrific
ries, all denoting that the tide of emigra-
tion to this country the coming year will
be greater than ever.
Year: 1870

THE STEAMER ONEIDA.-It is eppar-
ent from late intelligence from Yokohama
that the United States is represented in
Japan by live American, who fully real
izes the Nervousness of the crime commit
ted by Captain Eyre, of the British
steamer Bombay, in running down and
leaving to her fate the steamer Oneida.
1t appears that the American minister
was of the opinion that the British cap
tain had not been sufficiently punished by
his sentence of suspension for six months,
and demanded his arrest and trial for the
commission of criminal offense. The
simple suspension of Captain Eyre was
altogether too light a sentence, and is so
regarded by all right-minded men, no mat
ter what their nativity. Our minister in
Japan is entitled to the thanks of the en-
lightsned world for his attempt to bring
to justice the man who disgraced his uni
form, his nation and his race, by an act of
cold-blooded atrocity, for which we can
not readily recall a parallel
Year: 1870

A FEMALE JUDGE-The female Judge
of Wyoming Police Court is reported as
severe in her Judgments. If man is mp
tent of the law, and no amount of plead
ing or promises will soften the Judicial
heart. Then if weak sister is caught,
there is an end to her SHINING, for she Is
locked up hard and fast and kept In dur
ance vile until she is ready to migrate to
other lands where no female judges are.
Year: 1870

WHooPING CoUGH-As the whooping
cough is quite prevalent in this vicinity at
present, physician requests us to pub
lish the following recipe for the cure of
this disease: .. ..


"To one ounce of the dried leaves of the
common chestnut tree add quart of boil
ing water, and when the infusion is cold
give cup full three times a day, the last
dose being given when the patient retires.
After twenty-four or thirty-six hours the
patient will be relieved, and then the dose
may be administered in smaller quantity" !"
Year: 1870

A. SUICIDES NoTE.-The following is
the pathetic note left by Benjamin A.
Smith, who committed suicide at the St.
James Hotel in Boston, Friday evening !:
Homeless, wifeless, childless, penniless,
hopeless, right arm nearly useless, almost
friendless, | close my career on earth.
Some kind hand will place me quietly at
rest at Mount Auburn. I feel that my
mission is ended and that the Almighty
will pardon me for thus early laying off
the great burden of my life"
Year: 1870

A BAD PLACE FOR Young MEN
Mr.. Stewart of Nevada hoped that moth
ing would be done in the way of redistri-
buting offices which would induce any of
the young men of his State to forsake
honest labor, and come here to be ruined,
When young man came to Washington
and remained in one of the departments
for few years he was never fit for work
again. Whsn they were turned out of
office they had no money to get away
from here. They were able to do nothing,
and so they became paupers, and added
to the poverty of this district. Now this
was all wrong, and he had too much re-
gard for the young men of the country to
do anything that would favor their COM
ing here to go through this system of
destroying their usefulness for life.
Year: 1870

SAVE LITTLE EVERY man who is obliged
to work for his living should make it point
to lay up a little for "rainy day." which
we are all liable to encounter when least expec
ted The best way to do this is to open an
account with savings bank. Accumulated
money is always safe; it is always ready for
use when needed. Scrape together five dol
lars, make your deposit, receive your band
book and then resolve to deposit given sum,
small though it be, once a month, or once a
fortnight, or once week, according to circum-
stances. Nobody knows without trying it
how easy thing it is to save money when
an account with bank has been opened.
With such an account man feels a desire
to enlarge his deposit. gives him lessons
in frugality and economy, weans him from
habits of extravaganza, and is the very best
guard in the world against intemperance, dis
spation and vice.
Year: 1870

TRUE-The man who will take newspaper
for length of time, and then send it back
refused, and unpaid for, would swallow q
blind dogs dinner, and then stone the dog
for being blind. .-EE.
Year: 1870

The following rates, AS FIXED By LAW, will be
charged for all legal advertisements and notices


For the first insertion, one dollar and fifty
cents per square of two hundred and fifty ems
and one dollar per square for each additional in
ssrtion, up to four, and thirty-fve cents per
square for each subsequent insertion.


,y. All legal advertisements must be plainly
written, and the number of insertions must al
ways be marked on the margin of each adver-
tisement, or they will be continued and charged
accordingly. The publisher will not be respon-
able for faulty or Illegal manuscript.
Year: 1870

lying here three months and-and there was
so little money for you! What have you
done2 Who has helped you? Am l in


"You are at home, darling" she said;
"and no one has helped me. have helped
myself People have given me plenty Of
work for my needle. And now that you
know me, and can speak to me, am SO
happy"


She put her cheek to his az she spoke,
and in the awful darkness of his blindness,
he twined his arms about her.


"Tell me again" he said, "Have you
nursed me, helpless and wandering, and
worked also for my bread and yours for
three long months You, little Tillyl Why
half Of that is one mans work; and girl has
done the whole! What strength was given
you? Whence did it Gomez"


She put her lips to his ear.


"Once you told me that love made man
weak, my DEAR" she said. at makes a
woman strong. A woman can do anything
for the sake of the man she loves; and have
loved you very much, Stephen" Whether
he ever loved her before or not, the man
lONtu HtI litl. IA kiuu vi dtlDidtloH lOI
her strength and truth and constancy was
born in his mind, and never left it.


1t was Gods will that he should draw all
his days out in blindness and helplessness
Sight and strength returned to him at last;
but ere that time Tilly had been eyes for him
and right hand also, and he was cured of
many things besides bodily ailments. His
theory ofloves weakening power-hs fancy
that woman was frail, tickle, folish, un-
reasoning thing, to be stenly kept in hand
like an unbroken colt, and his shame of yield
ing to any gentleness or softness, had quite
left him. lie saw in his fair young wife the
helpmeet Heaven had given him, thanked it
for the gift, and refused her nothing Of that
need of tenderness and love which all good
women long for, without which married life is
to them more miserable than any lonely lot
with dreams of what might have been in it..
Year: 1870

reckless fslsehoo9 toFard others ard his
steadfast truth towaa me. Its as certain
IS that we sit here that one of Faunsleroy' s
last efforts in this Horld vas the effort he
made to preserve me from being loser by
the trust that had placed iB him. There
Is the secret Of ny strange tenderness for
the memory Of . felon: that is why tie word
william does somehow still CRATE on my heart
when | hear it associated With his name.
Year: 1870

the face of good msrried man who has a
good wife, that bachelors cannot have. Il
is indescribable He is little nearer the
angels than the prettiest young fellow living
You can see that his broad breast is pillow
for somebody head, and that little fingers
pull his whiskers. No one ever mistakes
the good married man. II Is only the erratic
one, who leaves you in doabt. The good one
can protect all the unprotected females, ahd
make himself generally agreeable to the
ladies, and yet never leave doubt on any
mind that there is a precious htale woman at
home worth all the world to him.
Year: 1870

ALBANY, March In assembly
tonight, q bill to regulate the sale of
liquor was passed to the third read
ing an amendment that the question of
license or no license be submitted to
the people of each town having been
previously rejected.