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Year: 1870

generally prevails when we most desire
to reach the Capital, viz: in summer or
winter.


But for another and equally cogent
reason, the people are opposed to a re-
moval of the seat of Government. 1t
will involve a cost which the State is
unable to sustain. The Auditors
estimate for .his year shows the closest
kind of fiuanceering will be needed to
get through without deficit. Next
year we shall probably have the interest
on our share of the Virginia debt to
face. The smallest estimates place this
at 5000, 900 annually or more than dou-
BILE the present available receipts of the
State. There is not the slightest chance
Of appropriatiDg anything for the Capi-
tai for years to come, certainly not
until the other public buildings shall
have been completed. And yet all exper-
ience would be contradicted if the very
first Legislature after the removal were
not called on TO make an appropriation
for Capitol buildings.


Charleston will be little benefited by
the seat of government unless money
be promptly and libsrally expended in
putting up those buildings. The peo-
pie of Charleston would very naturally
agitats constantly the matter of appro-
priatiou, so we should have the old
question revived in new shape and on
a new field. We say this Dotwithstaud-
ing the declarations of many well mean
ing gentlemen, that Charleston will
ask for no appropriation for several
years to come. Doubtless they think so,
but human nature is human nature.
The local interests of their town will
not be advanced without an appropIia-
ton, and these will force themselves
upon the attention of the Legislature.


SO far as we can learn, the voice of
the people at the last election favored
the Wheeling proposition. Here the
Capital can stay without expense to the
State until the development of the
State shows where it should be located
and until the people get ready to move
and build. The fact seems to be salts
factory TO the body of the Taxpayers
and we presume the Legislature will
respect their wishes.
Year: 1870

THIS is the way the New York Herald
strikes from the shouldar sometimes :
"The Boston Transcript echoes the yelp
of Harper'S Weekly that General ROBERT
E. LEE shouldl not be treated with the
respect due to his own private charac-
ter If every Radical member of Con-
gress should be treated with the respect
due his private character it might be
weighed in scales so diminutive that
they could be placed ou the point of a
cambria needle whitfield down to the lit
tie point of nothing"
Year: 1870

The Governor of New foundland. has
addressed q message to the Speaker of
the Assembly, deprecating the action of
House in formally voting no confidence
in the Government, and regretting that
the House should bave adopted the un-
constitutionality of naming to him the
members for whom he should send to
form new administration, and express.
ing the hope that no disTespect to him
CT his office was intended. The House
adopted resolution disclaiming any
intention to act disrespectfully toward
His Excellency, and stating its action
was founded on precedents.
Year: 1870

Letter TO Captain Hall from the Bremen
Committee OF the German Polar Expedi-
tiou.


The following communication will explain Itself


BREMEN Dec. 20, 1869.
To Captain CHARLES FRANCIS HALL, Arctic Ex-
plorer, New York.


HONoRABLE SIR-As Secretary OF the Bremen
Committee of the German Arctic Exploring ExDedi-
tt0n have the honor TO send you herewith q short
account OF the plan OF our expediton M nv wnich M et
1s69 In two ships, steamer and q sailing vessel.
1 presume that you, dear sir. as an ex-
perienced and celebrated Arctic explorer,
wIli nave peculiar interest in our enterprise You
Will from reports that the ships are provistoned
for two years Their plan Is TO reach the eastern
coast Of Greenland this year, and during the next
by land or water. Ships were seen last on the
LIST OF August IN latitude IS north ana longi.
the account received from whalers cruising
In these regions at that time we have reason
to believe that our ships will have succeeded in
piercing the icenoes which surround the eastern
coast OF Greenland, 80 that alter wnterng the ex-
pedgiOn might have good chance OF exploring these
unknown regions farther north than has ever been
tee it Is interesting IN the meanwhile to get every
new account Of Arctic travel, even from foreign
countries.


presume that you Will have drawn up q report OF
your long sojourn in those regions and given 1t to
some newspaper or society.


We should be very glad II you would kindly send
us such report. You intend understand, to re-
turn next year to the Arctic regions. In this case
You would greatly crafty US II you would give US
notice when you go and where you are going. We
may trouble yOu with some letters to Arctic
friends Though nor probable 1t is within the bounds
or possibility that such letters may reach them some
where through the Esqnlmaux.


ApoiogizlnR for my request and the practical pur-
pose have suggested, yours most Respectfully,
Secretary to the Bremen Committee Of the German
Polar Expedition. M rt4
Address TO MENDssHAFRE & BREMEN.
Year: 1870

printed clearly on the margin that the sender can
see ~ glance how much nc has 10 pay ana the re-
Ceving clerk need be at no trouble IN calculating
divided into spaces IL prepared for q message of
fifty words when Is assumed to be sufcient Ia the
corner OF the page blank space is LETT for the
stamps, which viii probably be almost exclusively
used 10 cover the charges OF transmission. Attached
To the form are directions for tho guidance OF the
sender. with tariff OF charges and full information
as TO the arrangements for p0rterage
Year: 1870

The evening of every mans life is coming on
apace. The day of life will soon be spent The
sun, though it may now be up in mid heavens,
will pass swiftly down the western sky, and dis
appear. What shall light up man path when
the sun of life has gone down? He must travel
on to the next world but what shall ilumine
his footsteps after the Bightfall of death, amid
the darkness of his journey? What questions
more Important more practical, more solemn,
for each reader of our journal to ask for him
self? That is long journey to travel without
light, without guide, and without friend Yet
every man must perform it. The time is not
far distant when all must begin the journey


There is an evening star in the natural world.
Its radiance is bright aud beautiful, and cheer


ing to the benighted traveller But life even


ing star is found in good hope of heaven. Its
beauty and brilliancy are reflected from the Sun
of righteousness. whose bright rays light up
the evening Of life, and throw their cheering
radiance quite across the darkness of the grave
into Immanueps land. 1t has illumined the
footsteps of many traveller to eternity 1t is
the light of life. 1t is of priceless value. A
thousand worlds cannot purchase it and yet it
is offered, without money and without price, to
him who will penitently and thankfully receive
Year: 1870

The Enquirer does not relish the practical re-
suits Of the kind of Reconstruction which has
been effected in the Southern States 1t says


"A year ago negro Lieutenant Governor in
Louisiana; then negro on the Republican
State ticket 10 Virginia; then negro Secre-
tary Of State in Mississippi; then Senator Rev
ell and now negro on the bench of the Su-
preme Court of South Carolina.


This is Republicanism this is the party we
are invited to join on the ground that we must
eschew and put sentiment behind us, and 60
only for results.


We do not like the results We do not
like these negro legislatures, and these negro
Secretaries of State, and these negro Supreme
Judges.


1t is perfectly idle to tell us we'll ''get used
to it." we cannot get used to it. We have an
unconquerable prejudice In favor of the white
race.


Nothing but the most unblushing effrontery
would ever have dreamed OF forming white
Republican party in the South. Just look at
South Carolina. Two-thirds of the Legislature
negroes. And the whites of the South are
mildly invited to countenance and co-operate.


In Virginia we have got the majority, and
we intend to make use of it. The laws will be
executed; the negroes will be treated kindly
they will vote under the laws; but we shall TIL
the offices with white men.


It is enough to make the blood boil when we
recall all that has happened in the past five
years-and contemplate the present condition
of South Carolina or FIorida-or Louisiana
(where the law provides for mixed schools =
and then observe in some Northern or South
ern paper quiet expectation that some OF Us
here are going to join the Republican party.
1t is perfectly well known at the North that
nothing but Fear or some pecuniary advantage
could tempt anybody here to act with the Re-
publican party-saving and excepting a hand
full of original and consistent Unionists. And
when any politician here shall receive that
brand. aud join that column, be will first have
stifed all of his natural feelings, and have .e-
ieced from his future life all that finer expe-
rience of humanity which, classed under the
general head of the sentiments" we distin.
guish from the purely material and anlma
within US. Now no money can pay for such 9
loss as this; if our whole people were reduced
to such frame as this, they would indeed be
little better than ''the beasts that perish. =
All-aN would indeed be lost; and people may
sneer as much as they choose at what they are
pleased to denominate distractions but Ii
their view of the matter, Religion, Morality
Honor, Duty, Self Respect, all of the natura
sensibilities are nothing when set in the scale
against the Practical nothing, we mean, i
their ideas are pushed to their realization.
Now we submit this proposition: Pure utlll
acknowledgements IS tht
very worst practical life man can lead.
Year: 1870

..
Written by Mrs. Emily G. Judson, soon aft
he death Of her husband Rev Dr. Judson,
3irmah. THE widowed heart of the gifted on
With her apostolic husband just gone before h
0 heaven, thus exquisitely tells the story of the
ove:"


I gazed down lifes dim labyrinth,


A wildering maze to see,
Crossed Ger by many tangled clew,


And wild as wild could be;
And as gazed in doubt and dread,


An angel came to me.
I knew him for a heavenly guide,


l knew him even then.
Though meekly as child he stood


Among the sons of men
BY his deep spirit-loveliness,


knew him even then.
And as / leaned my weary head


Upon his proffered breast
And scanned the peril haunted wild
From out my place of rest,
I wondered if the shining ones


OF Eden were more blest.
For there was light within my soul.


Light on my peaceful way,
And all around the blue above


The clustering starlight lay;
And easterly l saw upreared


The pearly gates of day.
So, hand in hand, we trod the wild,
My angel love and L
His lifted wing all qulvering


With tokens from the sky;
Strange my dull thoughts could not divine
Twas lifted but to fyl
Again down life's dim labyrinth.


grope my way alone
While wildly through the midnight sky
Black hurryingsclouds are blown,
And tbickly in my tangled path


The sharp bare thorns are sown.
Yet firm my foot, for well / know
The goal cannot be far.
And ever. through the rifted clouds,
Shines out one steady star.
For when my guide went up, he left
The pear]y gates ajar!
Year: 1870

A WoRD-A straw will make an impression
on the virgin snow :: let it remain but short
time, and horses hoof can scarcely penetrate
it. So it is with the useful mind A trihing
word may make an impression on it. but after q
few years, the most powerful appeals may cease
to influence it. Think of this ye who have the
training of the infant mind, and leave such i'm
preston thereon as will be safe for it to carry
amid the follies and temptations of the world.
Year: 1870

There are dark hours that make the history
of the brightest years. For not whole month
In any of the thousand Of the past, perhaps, has
the sun shone brilliantly all the time. And
there have been cold and stormy days in every
year. Aud yet the mists and shadows OF the
darkest hours were dlssipated, aud fitted heed
lessly away. The cruelest Of the ice fetters,
have been broken and dissolved, and the most
furious storm loses its power to alarm What
parable is all this of human fear. of our inside
world, where the heat works as it's destined la
bor Here. too, we have the overshadowing of
dark hours. and many cold blast chills the
heart to its core. But what matters it? Man
is born hero, and it is only by darkness and
storms that heroism gains its greatest and best
development and illustration; then it kindles
the black cloud into blaze of glory, and the
storm bears it rapidly to it's destiny. Despair
not, then, Disappointment will be realized
Notifying failure may attend this effort and
that one; but only be honest and struggle on,
and it will all work we'll
Year: 1870

RICH WITHOUT MONEY.-Many man is rich
without money. Thousands of men with moth
ing in their pockets are rich. A man horn with
good heart and good limbs, and a pretty good
head piece, is rich. Good bones are better
than gold, tough muscles than silver, and nerves
that flash fire and carry energy to every func-
tion, are better than houses and land 1t is bet
ter than landed estate to have had the right
kind of father and mother. Good breeds and
bad breeds exist among men as really as among
herds and horses Education may do mach to
check the evil tendencies, or to develope good
ones, but it is a good thing to inherit the right
proportion Of faculties to start with.
Year: 1870

SABBATH PIETY. is bit of spicy
suggestion from some anonymous source:


There is mystery about this effect of the
weather on piety. Sabbath heat seems hotter
Sabbath cold COLDER and Sabbath rain wetter
than that of any other day. For the same mea-
sure of heat or cold or rain on week day will
not keep him from his usual business. We
need Sabbath Almanac, calculated for our
churches, that will show by lis weather scale
when it will be safe for vigorous Christian to
expose himself on the Sabbath by going to the
house Of God. Such an almanac would enable
pastors and superintendents of Sabbath schools
to know whom they could depend on in church,
Sabbath school and prayer meeting | have
recently been examining microscopic views of
the different snow flakes, hundred or so of
them. [ would suggest to our curious savans
an examination of Sabbath snow, to see if it
has peculiarly sharp and injurious crystal. !"
Year: 1870

WIsDoM.-Here are few pithy sentences
which are truly suggestive: Sorrows best
antidote is employment. Beauty devoid of grace
is like hook without bait. Con6ne your ex-
penses, or they will confne you. If you cannot
do as you wish, do as well as you can. Promises
made in time of affliction require better me-
mory than people commonly possess. When
YOU hear man say life is but dream, tread
or his corns and wake him up. Life is real -
Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorn-
er, and dumb to those who are mischieyiously
innuisitiye.
Year: 1870

FAILURE NOT DEFEAT.-If ever failure SEEM
ed to rest on noble life, it was when the Son
of Man, deserted by his friends, heard the cry
which proclaimed that the Pharisees had drawn
the net around the Divine victim. Yet from
that very hour of defeat and death, there went
forth the worlds life; from that moment of ap-
parent failure, there proceeded forth into the
ages the spirit of the conquering Cross. Surely,
if the Cross says any thing it says that apparent
defeat is often real victory, and that there is a
heaven for those who have noby and truly fail
ed on earth.
Year: 1870

CoNFIDENoE.-Esteem your brother to be
tuous man, and he becomes wholly virtuous
Encourage your pupil by the assumption that
he possesses certain faculties, and they will be
developed in him ; look on him as incapable of
cultivation, and he continues So Pronounce
yourself in health, and you may become so. All
nature is but the echo of The mind, and from
her wo learn the highest of all laws-that the
real springs from the ideal; that the ideal by
degrees remodels the world.
Year: 1870

iHE PHlLADELPHIA ELECTION DIFFICULTY
lished last evening dispatch from Philadel-
phia giving an account Of a difficulty which
occurred in that city yesterday At the meeting
of the return judges to count the ballots, during
which Crawford, q return judge, shot q man
named Shea Nolan in the neck. Later dis
patches say that there was much excitem ant
for several hours, but fortunately the city es-
capped any Iurther disgrace. Mayor Fox and
several Of his police officers were absent in New
York attending the funeral Of Police Superin-
tendent Jourdan. The case of Crawford was
heard before Judge Allison. After listening to
the evidence on both sides, the judxe ordered
the return of the prisoner 10 Q meeting OF the
reiarn judges, so as to complete the Official
count. Judge Allison took occasion to censure
the police force for suffering such a disturb
ance, and said it was q disgrace to the CITY that
such an affray should have occurred SO near the
courthouse. Crawford was then Conducted
back to the return judges room, and after com
pletion OF the count was conveyed to prison by
the rear Of the building, in order to prevent any
attack upon him by the crowd that at thai
time nearly blocked up Chestnut street. A riot
was seriously threatened, and many arrests
were made.
Year: 1870

PARKS AT HUNTINGToS.-We understand
that the pl opI etors OF the rev iowa OF Hunt
ineton, on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad
have given TO the place two handsome parks
which are to be surveyed and laid Off, fencedip
and otherwise much improved at an early day
These parks are both centrally located in said
town, and lie one upon either side of the rail-
road, and each embrace groves OF fire shade
trees, fine springs OF water, etc. We are glad to
see this; 1t is what makes a counti place agree
able and pleasant. Our people do not want to
go into the country to be housed up Just as they
are in the streets of the city. IT Huntington Is
10 be laid out for all to enjoy in common, with
parks for daily resort, and with suff fcent as.ur-
ance for being built up, we predict that at this
important point Of our new railroad will be
found pleasant and happy neighborhood for
our towrG-people.


To in measure repay them for the liberal
donation OF these public benefits, the proprie-
tors have, We understand, decided to hold the
building lots surrounding and fronting these
paris at fifty dollars each, instead Of twenty
tve dollars, at which latter figure the lots are
now selling. All will admit that the lots are
well worth the money in either case and that
the paris will be q continual pleasure to all
residents there. A number Of our city people
are already erecting future homes at Hunting
ION, anu All certainly loofs most prom sing.


We shall look forward to the entire success of
this suburban place, and endeavor to from time
to time advise orr readers OF progress made.


ARMY OFFICERS DIsCHARGED-Ca CAPTAIN
VIM p. Wilson, unassigned; First Lieutenant
Louis r barley, eleventh infantry; First Lieu
tenant Thomas Dunn, unassigned. and Captain
Chas. b. Gsskill, twenty-nffh infantry, have
heen honorably discharged the service of the
United States under the provisions Of the recent
act of Congress.


EXCITEMENT IN NSAvANSAH-SecretaryB Bout
wei received a dispatch yesterday from MT
Robb, Collector Of Customs at Savannah, an
nOuncing that he found the flag at half mast on
the custom house in that city yesterday out of
respect TO the memory of General Lee. by or
der of the DEPUTY Collector, but that he (the
collectorl had the flag at once hoistsd to full
mast This action had caused Considerable
feeling among the people, and no little excite.
ment, and he therefore telegraphed to know IL
he was sustained by the department.. The Sec
retsry replied that his conduct was approved.
II not being the custom to half mast the n aes
on the pubic buildings of the government eS-
cept in cfses Of the death of some high official
CT ez Official Of the Federal government.
Year: 1870

In distributing their large stock of Cotton Goods
this season will adhere to their usual plan of pla
cling them among their customers, who purchase
whole or uncut) pieces at the lowest wholesale
prices.
Year: 1870

Whether the German crown will ence more
seek association with the sceptre Of St. Peter
whether the restored empire shall be conse-
Grated by the chief Of Catholic Christendom,
we know not. This. however, 1t seems safe
to say, that at the hands Of this new and
mighty Power the Pope is not likely to receive
any injury. While the Eastern question waits
for solution, while Paris still refuses to sur
render, while the whole European horizon Is
black with portentous clouds, 1t is gratifying
to find that the conqueror Of the hour offers
words Of comfort to the aged and honored
aad now much afflicted chief Of the Catholic
Ghnrch
Year: 1870




Every now and then our genial representa-
tiyes in Congress relieve the dry deliberations
of the session by exquisite Scrlptural humor.
On these occasions they study the Bible tho
roughly, cramming with quotations, until the
good old family edition in the library looks
like new land survey with its dog ears and
reference marks. Whenever member makes
a Scriptural quotation the House roars. The
members enjoy Bible joke better than any
thing Joe Miller ever said or Bill Mungen ever
had printed in the Globe RI sweet morsel
about Sunday schools or delicate touch upon
the 'anxious seat" is administered they laugh
till tears roll down their cheeks, and If neat
representation Of the old-fashioned camp meet
ing is improvised by some especially ambitious
joker, like Mr.. Lawrence, Of Ohio, they clasp
their hands over their stomachs and cry
''peccavi" at once; while if that member rises
to the very pinnacle Of wit and humor, as he
often does in this line, and actually gives out
the lines of Methodist hymn, the very but
tons of the members vests and pants fly off,
like poor Peggoty's back buttons, and they
give up without any further effort.


The actual comfort and instruction
that can be got out Of humorous
rendition of the Bible is only to be
realized by view Of Congress on these
biblical Held-days. Cox, with a few judicious
improvements on the old reading, can throw
more interest into Bible sketch than DR..
Clark ever did in his "Commentaries," and
consequently he induces more people to listen
to him. No donbt the well-timed and witty
discussion which Messrs. Cox and Lawrence
carried on in the House on Thursday, on the
subject of mercy and amazing grace, evidently
by preconcert, ensnared some few OF the
unholy members into knowledge Of Gods
Word which they would never have acquired by
their sober Sunday reading or hearing of it.
The glorious fact that there is such book
may have been let in even, for the first time,
upon the darkened minds of some savage
members from the far Western wids, or some
bigamous or dishonest members from even
more highly cultivated portions of the Union.
instituted earlier we might have had a
better record OF Congressional morality. Mr..
Bowen, of South Carolina, and Mr.. Butler, of
Tennessee, both Of whom listened to the jokes
on Thursday with unusual zest, might not have
so suddenly brought sorrow upon q promising
Congressional revival by falling from grace,
even into the pits of bigamy and perjury, and,
possibly, into the unclean cells of State
prison. They might not, and then again they
might. ''What's bred in the bone will out in
the flesh," and Congressional psalm singing
is not likely to have touched the hearts of
such as these. Indeed it is not unlikely that
these two may already have leavened the
whole lump, and that the crowd of members
who find such sport in the new Coxonian
reading of the Bible may be permeated
through and through with bigamists and
frauds