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Year: 1870

ENCOURAGING IMMGRATION--A WESTERN
MOVEMENT The Governors of the North
western States have issued call for
national convention to discuss the general
subject of immigration and the propriety of
transferring the interests of immigrants from
the authority of the several States 10 that of
the general government until they shall arrive
in the States in which they desire to settle.
The idea is to protect the immigrants against
the frauds and abuses Of certain sharpers.
When foreigners are invited to our shores all
possible protection should be given them.
Mr.. Grinnell organized an excellent system by
which the necessary inspection by Custom
House officials was speedily attended to, and
Immigrants arriving in New York were not
subjected to delay as they had been in former
years. A similar system at the other princi-
pal seaports would increase the comfort Of
incoming foreigners. If the general govern
ment should accept the responsibility Of send
ing them to the different States and Territories
It would no doubt be very agreeable to the
immigrants. The Secretary of the Interior
has promised to cooperate with the Governors
who have called the convention.
Year: 1870

POLITICs IN THE PULPIT. If even an ap-
preaching election supplies no excuse for
the bad manners Of the party press, none
can ever be found for the obtrusion Of
politics in the pulpit. Yet last Sunday and
Sunday before last several preachers SO far
forgot the duties Of their sacred office as to
pollute the temples of worship by violent
partisan harangues. No such harangues
should ever be made from the pulpit. Espe-
cially now, when political placards cover the
walls of eur city and the streets are filed with
political professions, and nothing is talked
about in clubs and public meetings or written
about in the newspapers except politics dur
ing the entire week, it in relief on the Sab
bath to escape for one day from all this din
and confusion. But the political parsons de-
prive their hearers of this delightful relief
Why can't they let us have at least q single
day of rest? Have religious themes lost all
their interest and Importance Why should
professed ministers OF religion be so engrossed
with the most trivial and evanescent excite
ments Of time as to lose sight Of eternity If
they deem it no longer worth while to preach
the Gospel let them turn political stump speak
ers, but not in the pulpit.
Year: 1870

f
The condition of France outside Of Paris Is
uncertain and dangerous. In such large cities
as Marseilles and Lyons and the other seats
Of manufacture, where the people-the
ougriers-form a powerful element, there
appears to be disposition to dispute the
authority of the provisional government at
Paris and to disregard the government at
Tours. An Independent spirit has grown up
In the manufacturing cities, involving strong
opposition to Capitalization Of power In the
existing government at Paris. At Grenoble,
Mines, Toulouse and other places demonstra-
tions hostile to the provisional government
have been made. The announcement of an
armistice does not seem to soothe the excited
temper Of the people in the outside cities. On
the contrary, they are reported to be greatly
infamed by the news; from all which we con-
clude that France is In very unhealthy con-
dition just now; that, so far from there being
any unity upon the question of republic,
there really exists throughout the whole
country a tendency to disintegration, which
looks about as like the establishment of a va
Ilcty Va ACpuuhVSy osAOA 0b AtoAy WAtuooncu
after the Roman empire was demolished, as it
does the consolidation Of France under one
republican government. It is evident that the
people Of the manufacturing cities must ap-
proach the election of members to the Con-
stituent Assembly in q better spirit than is
now said to exist If the armistice just pro-
claimed and the peace which is almost certain
to follow the cessation of hostilities is to result
in the establishment Of any permanent govern
ment for France. Affairs, even in this crisis.
look chaotic--a crisis upon which hinges the
future Of the country, because whether peace
or war be the decision of the new Parliament
about to be elected by the people, and which
is to assemble on the 18th Of the present
month, there is really no promise of unity in
the selection of o new form Of government
which can guarantee to France permanency
of prosperity or even prospective restora-
tion to her former prestige among the nations
Of Europe.
Year: 1870

TIE PEoK-WILsoN DIVORCE CASE now be-
fore Judge Jones is nice family story to
come before the public. Peck wanted money,
and his mother agreed to let him have $50, 900
if he would get rid Of his wife. Then his wife,
in order that he might get the $50, ,O0O, agreed
to make no plea against divorce, provided
that he would marry her again. So as II
stood it was nice conspiracy to cheat the
elderly Mrs. Peck, who deserved to be cheated.
But Peck being free did not feel like resuming
his chains again, and hence the litigation.
Year: 1870

A DRUNKEN FELLOw in Dawson, Ga, be-
came involved in controversy with the door


keeper Of circus yesterday and proposed to
shoot him. Upon being demonstrated with he
became insuted, and, determining to wipe out
the insult with blood, opened fire on the
gathered crowd. He was joined by two other
desperadoes, and the sum total Of their mo-
ments work was the killing Of one man, who
was not even interested in the fracas and who
was sitting inside the circus with his child in
his arms, and the wounding Of lady. All Of
which resulted from the insane custom too
prevalent in the South of carrying concealed
weapons and Of resenting imaginary insults
with murder. fN tse
Year: 1870

BAD MANNERS OF THE PARTY PREss.-The
bad manners of the party press are always
offensive enough, and about week or 80 be-
fore an election they usually become intoler-
able. This year, however, we were so agree
ably surprised at the exceptional absence Of
the food Of billingsgate which the political
almanac had taught us to 'look 'ous for about
this time" that we could not refrain from COM
plimenting the party press on decided inn
provement in it's manners. But we had scarcely
uttered word of premature praise before it
was utterly forfeited by sudden outburst Of
all the fiercest and vilest expletives that form
the vocabulary of abuse. The conductors Of
the party press began, as if by Esutual concert.
to fling their heaviest brickbats and their rot
tenest eggs at each others heads. Ne must,
therefore, take back the compliments which we
were ready to bestow on tltsm, aIld express
our deep regret that, instead II being mentor
and moralizer of the public,S the party press is
its shameless demoralizer.
Year: 1870

WALL STREET. recent decline in gold
has started general speculative movement
In Wall street and the activity Of the Stock
Exchange is daily increasing The winter
the ssbulIs" and s'bears."
Year: 1870

A LUCKY ESCAPE FOR THE DEMooRACY-
When Governor Hoffman saved his life on Fri
day by leaping from a wagon, the horses Of
which had come in contact with the fire tele-
graph wire on the Tenth avenue, near 155th
street, and were furiously running away. In
view Of the auspicious escape, it is very pro-
bable that the Governor will reach Albany
safely by steam after the next election.
Year: 1870

Brigham Young Is troubled in consequence
Of the gradual decline of his absolute authority
in Utah. So is his Holiness the Pope at the
loss of his temporal power in the Peninsula;
Both these heads Of the Church have been
pronounced infallible but now neither has any
longer that undisputed sway in his dominions
which each respectively held so long. 1t Ia
only few weeks since the regular semi-annual
Conference Of the Saints met and adjourned
as usual. But Brigham summoned all the
faithful to assemble in the Tabernacle q
week ago in special council. The saints
were getting too worldly, he said, and
they needed some more spiritual instruction.
Perhaps Brigham Young had new revela-
ton to communicate privately to the
bishops. IF SO. was it to resist the
authority Of the United States government,
in Utah, or to quietly and sensibly submit to
it9 The policy Of the federal officials bothers
him. The recent decisions of Chief Justice
Mexican have deprived the Mormon courts Of
much of the jurisdiction they have heretofore
assumed. The Governor firmly refused to
permit the annual muster of the Mormox
militia under the Mormon commander. Somef
of the city authorities have been on trial before
the federal court for destroying all the valuabla
stock in Gentle liquor store, and the jury
have rendered verdict Of over fifty-nine thou
sand dollars-three times the vslue of the stock
destroyed-in favor Of the proprietor. The
reformers who have seeded from the Church
are seriously undermining Brigham's influence
among the saints. The Methodist and Episco-
palian missions have already accomplished.
much In the way Of dispelling superstitions.
The mines are attracting crowds of Geutiles,
and the railroad affords facilities for eonve-
nient communication with the outer world.
All these things trouble Brigham Young, who
feels gliding from his grasp the power he
welded once not so wisely as so well.
Year: 1870

THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN DA-
MAscUs has been revived, and fears are enter
tanned that it will culminate in another mas
sacre. Christianity has met with opposition
in every age, from the birth Of Christ down to
this nineteenth century. But the Gospel and
the other civilizing elements that 60 hand in
hand with it have been gradually gaining
ground throughout the world, and though
ignorant barbarians and fanatics may
add to the ''roll of honor" of the Chris
tian martyrs of ancient and modern times,
civilization and Christianity will be univer-
sally triumphant in the end. These reports Of
persecution and impending massacre, while
they awaken our sympathy for those who are
oppressed, should also make us thankful that
here in the United States perfect religious
liberty is enjoyed
Year: 1870

Dress Fashions from tho Antipodes.


The social Generalization and domestic dis
turbances which have been produced on the
Continent of Europe by the waryy combined
with the nothing to wear" necessities which
the pauperizatisns of the great struggle have
forced on the people of Paris, have resulted
in a temporary interruption of our special
weekly dress fashions letter. We have had
no despatch from our correspondent by the
two latest Cunard steamships. The cause has
been, most likely, lack Of material. Paris
is completely confused and vests itself, so far
as the inhabitants may have Q good supply of
clothing, very probably after the style of Bryan
O'Lynn, with the wrong side of its coat turned
out and the skirt tails tied round the neck.
Distressed humanity is hardly ever permitted
to languish iGar any great length Of time. The
''chocls and balances" Of the globe tend to
make things square at any one particular point
of difficulty. In our present dress fashions news
emergency Australasia, the antipodes, comes
to the relief of New York Paris, in its men
tai and physical decay, is likely to be super
seeded by the active mind and inventive genius
of the free settlers who cultivate the territory
of the aborginals. BY the Australian mail,
just to hand, we received the description of
grand costume which was worn by the May
Dress of Melbourne at recent municipal en-
tertainment in that city. 1t was an original,
brilliant and most artistic combination of
clothing material, trimmings and Ornamental
ton. Almost all the countries of the Old
World had contributed something to the
makeup. The lady appeared in the room a
brilliant, yet homogeneous, graceful and patron
izing cosmopolitan friend to both foreign
and home industry. The description of her
costume, which we publish ts-day, may well
console the fair ladies of New York for the
absence of our Paris letter, for in this Austria
lasian toilet were blended the germs and points
of ideas for the newest and grandest sort of
combinations by eur nodtstes. Van Dieman
was, as may be seen by his portrait, a very
graceful fellow, indeed. May the children of
his land Of discovery continue to flourish in an
earthly glory which is equalled only by the
plumage of their own parrots and macaws!
Year: 1870

Lieutenant Doyle, who was some time
ago degraded from the position of report
er for Louisville paper to the rank Of
lieutenant in the army, is now having
some funny experience among the Com
anche Indians.


The last story we get from him-and
as he was newspaper reporter it must be
true-is an old Comanche who brought
his young wife, of whom he was very jeal-
Gus, to have her daguerrotype taken.


The artist got the squaw in position,
and stepped into hts dark tent for some
purpose. The old Comanche thought
he'd take look into that funny box the
artist had his head in and see how it was
done. He inserted his his head under the
cloth and looked, and, oh, horror! there
was his squaw standing on her head.


He jerked out with savage look at her,
and wanted to know what capers she was
cutting before all the soldiers. She de-
MED doing anything, at which he told her
she lied, that he had seen her.


He resumed his investigation, stuck his
head under the cloth again, and there was
the wretched squaw standing on her head
| again. lie gave yell, ana rusnlnS at
her, gave her a whack on the head, and
told her not to try that again with him,
but she stoutly denied doing anything.
And now to catch her at it. He kept an
eye on her, and raised the cloth slowly,
and tried to look at her with one eye, and
through the camera with the other. He
could not do it, so he moved his head
down slowly; and as she disappeared from
the eye he had on her, there she was
standing on her head as seen through the
camera. He jerked his head up quickly,
and there she was, standing placidly be-
fore him.


He jcrked down and she was on her
head again. He then walked off in a
brown study, and as he philophosized, he
concluded that that machine was exceed
ingly bad that could stand squaw on her
head in half second so he wrapped his
blanket around him and walked off; but
nothing could ever induce him to have
anything to do with daguerrotyping a
gain.
Year: 1870

EL DoRADo.-Many years ago there was
supposed to be kingdom somewhere in
South America called Ell Dorado, or the
"gilded," which was thus described :
'The king was every day covered with
powdered gold, so that he looked like a
golden image. The palace of this glitter
ing monarch was built of brilliant marble
as white as snow. The pillars of the pal
ace were porphyry and alabaster; its en-
trance was guarded by two lions, who
were fastened to a tall column by chains
of massive gold. After passing the lions
fountain was seen, from which gushed
a continual shower of liquid silver thro
four large pipes of gold. The interior of
the palace was too splendid to be describ-
ed. 1t contained an altar of solid silver,
on which was an immense golden urn
Lamps were continually burning, whose
dazzling radiance was reflected from nu-
merous objects of silver and gold" Such
was the splendid fiction invented by some
fertile brain, and actually believed in Eu-
rope; and countless unfortunate adventu-
rers abandoned everything to seek this
happy country, which they soon discover
ed had never existed.
Year: 1870

A WASHINGTON BELLE.-Madame Po-
desdad, wife of one of the Secretaries of
the Spanish Legation, is an American.
She was Miss Chapman, of Virginia.
Her mother was Miss Mary Randolph, a
great belle in Virginia many years ago.
This Miss Randolph was especially noted
for her fearlcssness in riding. On one
occasion, it is said, when staying at the
Warm Springs, in Virginia, she started
out with a riding party for the Warm
Spring Mountain, and dared the gentle
men accompanying her to do whatever
she did. This mountain is quite high,
and has at its summit rock jutting out
over precipice. To the extreme verge
of this rock Miss Randolph rode, to the
great CONSERVATION of her friends. She
did not even leave her horse room to turn
around, but, having accomplished her
purpose, she backed him from the danger
GUS position and faced the rest of the par
ty in triumph. Not man would follow
her example, but one youthful piece of
inexperience stood on his head in his sad
die and dared the lady to do that. OF
course she cried "quits."
Year: 1870

A CHEERFUL FAoE.-Carry the radi-
ance of your soul in your face. Let the
world have the benefit of it. Let your
cheerfulness be felt for good wherever you
are, and let your smiles be scattered like
sunbeams, on the just as we'll as on the
unjust" Such disposition will yield
you rich reward. for its happy effects
will come home to you and brighten your
moments of thought. Cheerfulness makes
the mind clear, gives tone to the thought,
adds grace and beauty to the countenance.
Joubert says, " when you give. give with
joy and smiling" Smiles are little
things, cheap articles to be fraught with
SO many blessings both to the giver and
the receiver, pleasant little ripples to
watch as we stand on the shore of every.
day life.


They are our higher, better natures res
sponses to the emotions Of the soul. Let
the children have the benefit Of them
those littlo ones who need the sunshine Of
the heart to educate them, and would find
level for their buoyant natures in the
cheerful, loving faces of those who lead
them. Let them not be kept from tha
middle-aged, who need the encouragement
they bring. Give your smiles also to the
aged. They come to them like the quiet
rain of summer, making fresh and verdant
the long weary path of life. They look
for them from you who are rejoicing in the
fulness of life. BE gentle aud indulgent
to all. Love the true, the beautiful, the
just, the holy.
Year: 1870

Come back, oh Spring of Earth


Come back, thou long-lost Spring
We long for the light of love and mrth


That airs of April bring;
We long for the soft moss-rose,


For fresh green on the leaves,
For the sunny bank where the daffodil blows,
And the swallow in the caves;
We are tired of the winters gloom,


OF the snowflake cold and pale;
And we long for the orchards crown of bloom
And the song Of the nightingale.
Come back, oh Spring of Youth


Come back to the hoary head;
We long for the light of joy and truth,


And the hopes that are long since dead;
We long for the brooding wings


OF those blue eternal skies
That guided the dullest and meanest things


With the glory of Paradise.
We are tired of the ceaseess beat


VI waves on weary shore,
Of the clash of tongues and the tramp of feet,
And the heart too dull to soar;
And we long lin vain) for the sunlight sweet
That is vanished for evermore.
Come back, oh Spring of Lowell


Come back to the heart grown cold;
We long for the moon in the elm-tree grove,
And the autumn's noon of gold
We long for the evening hours


When the rocks had gone to rest
And from the myrtle scent of garden bowers
We gazed at the crimson west.
We long for one hour to borrow


The heart of deep content,
The light of a time when all our sorrow


Was an hour in absence spent;
We are tired of u loveess strife


With toll, and sin, and care;
And we long for the light of nobler life,
And the loving heart that's there.
Come back, oh Spring of Heaven


Come back to world forlorn;
We long for the twilight of earth's sad even
TO melt in golden morn;
We long for the msts to rise


That hang over the good and true,
To see once more, through opening skies,
The eternal stainless blue
And to walk by the palms of Paradise,


Where Heaven and Earth are new.
We are tired of the dreary gloom


Of earth and earthly things,
And we long for the souls inlmortal bloom,
Where joy and love are her rich perfume,
And Glory" the song she sings.
Year: 1870

Etiquette is the art of behaving your
self Manners not only make the men,
but the women, too, what they ought to
be-ladies and gentlemen-whether they
roll through life in their carriages, or
trudge along the pavement in the lonely
Blucher. True gentility is the exercise Of
due regard for the feelings of your
eighbors, and etiquette is the essence ot
gentility.
Year: 1870

The bonds of wedlock" are often
spoken of in poetry and prose but the
tangible exponent of this " tie that binds
two willing hearts" has throughout all
ages been restricted to that magic golden
circlet, the wedding ring; in form, a
symbol of eternal union; in material, typ
ical of the pure metal Of hearts best
love.
Year: 1870

THIS NEW AND POPULAR SALOON IS


L now open for the accommodation OF the pub
lie, who have already occupied the premises in
force. and proceeded to makethemS,lves at home
The people know good liquors when they taste
'em and good cigars when theys smoke 'em; and
therefore when they have once been to the
UNION they are bound to call again and repeat
The proprietors will keep none but the best arti-
cies, and they fatter themselves that they know
how TO mix aud serve them. Call o2.tf.
Year: 1870

BEAR RIVER DucM.--The water was turned out
Of this ditch. if we recolect ari ght about Ccto-
Der Ist, and the channel OF the main and lateral
bitches has been thoroughly cleaned out and
enlarged. The water was again turned in u
short time ago, but owing to the dryness Of the
winter aud the coldness OF the w.ather in the
mount aims since the late rainr, Bear river has
not furnished enough Of water yet to fll the
ditch This. and the lower Bear river ditch be-
longing to the same party, Mr.. Reamer, furnishes
the water for mining district reaching from
Clipper Gap to the plains, and taking in the
whole distgct south, lying between the north
fork of the American and the plains to near
Folsom. More rain and warmer weather would
Get many men to wolk in this large district.
Year: 1870

Ats famous and fashionable watering
place, a gentleman one night was suddenly
seized with an excrutiating pain in the stom-
ach, which neither brandy, No. 6, nor any
other remedy could remove. His wife, after
trying number of tb ings in vain, and having
exhausted all her stock of remedies, left her
husbands bedside for the purpose of get
ting warm application. Guided on her
return by a light which she saw shining in
= chamber, and which she supposed was the
one she had just left, she softly entered
but was not little surprised to find her
patient apparently in a deep slumber. How
ever, thinking he might still be suffering
she gently raised the bed Clothes etc, etc
and laid the scalding police upon his stem
ach-but not the stomach Of her husband
which no sooner touched the body of the
person than he, greatly alarmed, and writh
ing under the torture of the burning appIi-
cation, shouted HalIoo! hallool what in
the name ofheaven and earth are you about
there? then, with one spring from the bed,
he made for the door, and rushing down
stairs. declared, in frenzy of excitement,
that some one had poured a shovel of red hot
Goals upon him. The woman overcome with
excitement and alarm gave frantic scream,
which brought her husband hurridly from
the next nextroom to her rescue. The hus-
band was so much excited, and also amused
with the singular mistake and the ridicu-
lous position of his better half, that he for
got all his pains; but early the next morning
his wife and trunks left. for parts unknown.
The poulticed gentleman still retains the
handkerchief, beautiful linen fabric, with
the ladys name on it, which he considers
of rare value
Year: 1870

A Colonel of regiment, which served
during the rebellion for short time, met
one of his men in the street few days
since, and, after talking over camp life, the
former private said: 81 tell you what it is,
Colonel, the boys used to grumble about
you, but they were ungratefuI fellows; they
ought to be thankful to you, for you always
kept them outo of danger, Colonel"
Year: 1870

The STATE Poll TAx-The bill reducing
the poll tax from one dollar and twenty FIVE
cents to fifty cents, on both white and color
ed, was passed on its final reading June q,
1870, and with the signature of the Govern
or will become law When collected it
will be paid over to the Trustee of each
county and be appropriated to the schools
of the county as the law directs. No report
of it to the Comptroller will be required
hereafter.