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Year: 1870

Self. control and presence OF mind are
doubtless in some measure natural gifts:
but they may be greatly strengthened
and nclcased by culture. Iouug folks
may learn valuable lesson from the
heroic conduct Of Annie Lamb, q little
girl Of twelve years. She had taken
passage with her molhc. on board the
propeller Fountain City, from Chicago
to Buffalo. The day after the departure
OF the boat, the little gitl, going into the
Kitchen, remark ed that the stove smok-
ed, to which the cook replied that she
was mistaken. The child had heard
heard her mother often say that she
dreaded going on n boat for fear Of fire.
With this in her mind, and taking an
other look at the place where the smoke
seemed to come from, sh" saw that 1t
did not issue from the stove. Going OF
deck she discovered the wood work
around the smoke task on fire. and the
flames had just eaten their way into the
cabin. Without giving any general
alarm, she went to the steward and told
him the boat was on fire. He informed
the mate, who called the deck hands aft
aud they cXtinguishGd the fire withou.
one of the passengers being aware that
anything of tho kind had occurred.
There were twenty-five ladies sitting on
deck in the bow Of the boat, among them
the mother Of Annie, while this was
going on. After the work had been
done Annie went to her mother, and
said, Don't he frightened, mother; tho
boat has been Oh fire, but it is all over
now" The captain was SO greatly
pleased with the cool calm. and quie.
manner IN which the child performed
her part, that he refunded the passage
money of both, and offered 10 take
them back TO Chicago free OF charge.
Had little Anna screamed "iire'' as
most children and the majority oil
grown people would have done, n panic
would doubtless have occurred among
the passengers, and disastrous conse-
pueuscs cnsued.
Year: 1870

An Irish girl in Harrisburg, who
was in the habit OF soaping the dirty
clothes before putting them to SOAK,
on being told y Few days since By her
mistress to geta dried Goldfish and
put u 10 soak FOR dinncr, did so, after
rubbing i over snlartly with good
quantity OF hard soap.
Year: 1870

a good story is told Of a rather
vordant agricultural laborer, who
having by hook and by crook scraped
together fifty dollars, took il TO his
with q request TO take
charge of it tor him, A year after
the la6orer went 10 another FREUD to
know what would be the interest on
ii. lie was told three dollars. "Well,"
said he, Il wish you would lend me
three dollars for day or two. Ny
boss has been keeping fifty dollars
for mo year, and want to pay Linn
the interest for it,
Year: 1870

In connection with The record OF The UOn-
ventou the following from the editorial columns Of last
nights Free Press will be OF interest The Free Press is
the anti i-Tammany Democratic organ:


The Democratic State Convention, which Is organized
to-day at Rochester viii be fruitful OF results vital % the
Of Democracy The situation Is ind Iced much more
c1ical than the Ogarchy imagine The session will not
De very one, 10 has been understood for some
time advance that the old ticket entire il TO be nOm
mated Among the important business of the session will
be the decision the rights OF the Regular Demo
delegates 10 hearing. How this point will he
settled yet in doubt. but thing is certain II they
be refused hearing the result will be the defeat OF HOh-
man at the November election.
Year: 1870

In the gold market the transactions have been large
and animated with III and lls the extreme range the


lowest price having been made early in the morning and
the highest between and o'clock in the afternoon.
The foreign bankers have been steady buyers although
the immediate effect OF the the theory which
governed speculation during the early days Of the
has been against the advance The short interest in
the market large and such the borrowing demand
gold in the afternoon TO deliver on speculative sales
that 4th of per cent per day was paid for Its use
The of the shipment tomorrow it is impossible
10 foree with reasonable accuracy the reports giving


II at sl,25OOOO TO s2OOOOCo. The following shows the
principal quotations during the session OF the Gold
E.nIu
Year: 1870

pared for it in Chestnut street, above Tenth,
where It will remain for several weeks.
About its future disposition no arrangements
have as yet been made, but it should by all
means be retained in Philadelphia. There
is no proper place for it in the State Capitol
at Harrisburg, and if there were, it would be
. pity to bury such work Of art in country
town, where comparatively few persons would
ever have an opportunity to inspect it.
Year: 1870

EC Neght levels all artificial distinc
tons. The beggar on his pallet Of straw
snores as soundly as king All n bed OF
down. Night--kind, gentle, soothing.
refreshing night--the earthly paradise of
the slave, the sweet oblivion of the worn
soul the nurse Of romance, ofdcvoton.
how the great panting heart Of society
yarns for the return of night aud rest.
Sleep is Gods special giftto the poor;
for the great there is no time fixed for
repose quiet they have none and instead
ofquietly waiting approach ofevents.
they fret aud repine and starve sleep,
and chide the tardy hours, as if to.mor-
row were big with the fate Of some great
hereafter. The torrent of events goes
roaring past, keeping eager expectation
tiptoe, and drives timid slumber away.
Year: 1870

H The racy correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, Mack" speaking
Of the sudden change in the fortunes OF
certain Congressman as witnessed in the
poverty OF their first appearance at Wash
ington and the evidences Of wealth a
short time .hereafter says:


by the way, everybody seem nova
days to have plan for paying the Ma
tional debt. Mine is this: Let some of
our loyal Congressman enlarge their sys-
tenn Of private economy to public scale,
Let them teach the nation what they have
learned themselves--how to invest--S5,-
600 year and milage, so that it shall
enable the owner to spend $4,000 year
and to save remaining hundred thousand
of accrued interest" Apply this prn-
ciple to the receipts of the Government,
and it will be seen at glance that the
National debt will be paid of before the
Fourth Of July next.
Year: 1870

The Little Rock Daily Gazette Of the
18th inst, contains an article on the ell
gibility of the Hon. HENRY c. Caldwell
for one Of the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States We fully
and cordially endorse every thing therein
stated in reference to the fitness Of Judge
Caldwell for the position indicated. We
have but one objection to his elevation
and that is founded in pure selfshness.
We do not like to lose him from the
bench of the District Court. He has so
completely satisfied the bar, here, in his
rulings, generally, and his demcanor to-
wards all having business in his Court,
universally, that the apprehension is.cn-
tertained that his place will not be easily
filed. His abilities, certainly entitle him
to the position spoken Of and We believe
he would do honor to the Supreme Bench
We are certain if Judge Caldwell is eli
waited to that distinguished position, he
will be the last man to endorse any Of
the unconstitutional measures Of Con
grcss, although he is strong radical in
politics. We have only to say, that il he
is nominated and confirmed, we will be
both glad and sad-glad to see merit,
even il it is located in the South, reward
ed, and sad to lose so good and upright
ajudge from our District.
Year: 1870

~ The New York World estimates
that, by the change OF political power to
be brought about by the next census,
New England will lose six members of
Congress and the Middle States seven,
while the Western States will gain four
teen and the Southern States four.
Year: 1870

TNHE undersigned would hereby respectfully
l. beg leave to return his sincere thanks to the
Democratic and Conservative voters of New Cas-
tie county for their partiality in selecting him as
their candidate for the Sherilalty, from among so
many other gentlemen, whose names were pre-
sehted to them on Saturday last, any one of
whom would have done honor alike to the office
and the great party to which they so long and
faithfully adhered.


1t would afford him great pleasure to visit his
friends in every Hundred in the county and to
tender to each, personally, his thanks for the
honor conferred upon him but as circumstan-
ces, which are best understood hy those who are
most intimately acquainted with him, render this
impracticable, he adopts this as the only availa-
BILE mode of expressing his gratitude to his fel-
low-ctizens for their past support and of solicit
ing continuation Of the same at the ensuing
general election, pledging himself that, should
he be so fortunate as to be elected to the said of:
ice lie will discharge its duties with honesty, fl
deity, and TO the best of his humble ability.


JAMES ARMSTRONG.
| Newark, Del. June II, lS10-te
Year: 1870

Our suggestion last week, that commission
be appointed to test the quality Of confectionery
retailed in the city, meets the appreciation Of
candy firms, not only on Broadway but on
Wooster street. These practical experts also
offer additional suggestions which the commits
sion would find Of value. A simple mode Of
Discovering tA9sys who habitually adulterate
candy Is made known, Il seems tae marble
slabs on which the ingredients for candles 6fd
mixed have holes eaten into them BY the
poisonous adulterations, and manufacturer
suggests that an inquiry at the marble estab-
ishments will give clue as to what candy
establishments have their slabs replaned the
oftenest, the inference being, Of course, that
such most frequently make use of adultera-
tions. The suggestion is one that may be of
service to the commission, and the. fact that
we ought to have commission Of the sort is
without denial. We have Board Of Health
established to guard the city against con-
tagion coming from without OF generated
within the corporation limits. We have
recently had the questions Of adulterations in
liquor and food and fluid oils inquired into by
our sanitary boards, and the investigation
of the swill milk abuses is still going on. The
evil Of adulterated liquor, food or milk for
grown people is really no more crying an evil
than the adulteration Of candy for children.
s'The child is father to the man." and, there
fore, requires our first care. If children are
well taken care of as children they will be
able to take care Of themselves when grown.
Let rs legislate then, for the little ones.


Pure candy, it seems, can be made cheap.
A part of the adulteration lies in the fancy
coloring that is often given it to attract the
childs eye. In some cases the adulterations
consist Of the aayoring, strengthening aRd
Year: 1870

with an insatiate craving for money" felt, az
viii be seen, that he Is q ''man Of mark" but
in his system of demoralized physiology he
does not seem to care whether II is the mark OF
public attention or that of the guillotine.
England maintains her war with Rome.
London special newspaper man revving dead
cardinal as If to spiritualize the combat. The
description which is given Of the management
of the extensive estates of a noble earl in the
north of Ireland will tend to remove any sur
prise which may have been hitherto felt at the
extent of the Gladstone and Bright plans Of
land tenure reform for the island.


Our advices from Constantinople will COM
mand particular attention per Sc, as they show
forth the points of the different combinations
which are tending to complicate the interests OF
the great Powers in the East, as well as the
influence which the Suez Canal project exer-
cises over the diplomacy and its bearings.
Year: 1870

Our Cuban correspondence, which will be
found on another page, contains another Of
those bombastic proclamations for which
Spanish generals are famous. The present
one is issued by the Captain General, and
INDUCES in the usual laudations Of Spanish
successes and rejoicings over the reVerses Of
the Cuban revolutionsts. According to De
Rodas the Spaniards are all that is
valiant, chivalrous and humane, while the
Cubans are mean, cowardly and brutal. In
fact, the present proclamation differs very
little from previous ones. The Captain Gen
erals example is followed by his subordinates,
as may be seen by the decree issued by the
commanding general of Santi Espiritu. If
the example set is followed out we NAV
shortly ascertain that the reason of the present
inactivity of the Spanish army in Cuba is for
the purpose of enabling leading officers to
post themselves sufficiently well in rhetoric to
be able to issue good, telling proclamations
for effect at home as well as abroad. Now,
as there are eighty thousand troops in Cuba
and naval feet Of over fifty war vessels
surrounding the island, we think it is time
that these Spaniards should get to work and
put down the rebellion, if they can, instead Of
wasting their time over prOnunc5anasent0s
Let there be something decisive done one way
or the other. Proclamations are good enough
in their way, but really those Spanish decrees
amount to very little.
Year: 1870

In ordinary cases the first few days of the
sittings Of our Legislature may be compared
to the organization Of new volunteer mill
tary company. The first thing the members
do is to get up target excursion, go to some
out Of the way place and blaze away-all aim
ing to hit the bulls eye. OF course where tne
hits many shoot wide of the mark, if they hit
the target at all. So In the incipient stages Of
legislative proceedings it is common for young
members to jump up upon every opportunity
and blaze away at some proposition which
they vainly imagine will be the bulls eye of
the session. Some of these representative
goslings propose the appointment Of COM
mittees of investigation into alleged fraudu-
lent practices of gas companies, insurance and
trust companies, horse railroad companies, and
abuses of all sorts and violations Of charters
in all manner of corporations. Then see how
it all works. The managers of corporation
observe in the papers ''notice OF Dill
affecting their concern, introduced by MEM
ber from some rusal district. 1t is immed-
ately settled that the fellow must be ''seen,
and an agent Of the menaced company is
despatched forthwith. to Albany to clap
greenback plaster over the mouth of the
yirtuous and indignant member, who--although
he may have missed the bulls eye Of sensa-
ton and the chance of becoming the hero Of
the session-fnds in lieu thereof comfort
able wad of Uncle Sans promises in his
breeches pocket. Thus is one legislative
sproutlng smothered. Afterward come others,
among them, perhaps, few strikers" who,
if they discover they have no chance Of hitting
Year: 1870

The public have but very imperfect idea
of the various steps taken by the Western Union
Telegraph Company to bind or bend the organs
of public opinion to their insane ambition
to become the great monopoly ofthe country.
Their first attempt to control the press was
made some years ago, when, on the plea Of
extending to the whole press Of the country
increased news facilities at largely reduced
rates, they undertook to organize news
company, of which the executive officers Of
the telegraph company were to hold majority
of the stock and SO control it's policy. The
well-known object of this conspiracy on the
part of the telegraph managers was to put in
their own hands the power Of life or death to
individual newspaper interests in the control
of the news of the world. Foiled in their at.
tempted coup detat against the press by the
premature exposure of their designs, the
managers of the company resorted to and ac-
complished by diplomacy that control Of the
press Of the country, with the single exception
of the NEW YokK HERALD, which they had
SO signally failed to accomplish in more
dishonorable way.


In the absence of effective action on the
part Of Congress, the press and the public will
soon find relief in the various movements now
going on for the Introduction Of improvements
in the rapidity and cost of sending telegraphic
messages, one Of which is the automatic tele-
graph invention of Mr.. Little, which we are
informed is capable of transmitting two hun
dred to four hundred words per minute over
single wire, which is ten to twenty times
faster than can be transmitted by the system
used by the Western Union Company. The
new system of telegraphy, we understand, will
be put in operation between this city and
Washington within few weeks Another is
the Inauguration of new company, called the
Metropolitan Telegraph Company, which pro-
poses to send messages for one cent per word,
and, if required, to put private wire in the
office of every business house in the city. This
company will have subterranean cables, con-
sisting Of copper conductors, perfectly insu-
lated and carried in galleries or tubes beneath
the surface of the streets, which will insure
reliable communication at all times and under
all atmospheric conditions. When these pro-
posed improvements are brought into practical
operation the public will be able to judge of
their merits and to reap benefit by the adop-
ton Of those which prove the most expeditions
and least expensive in their workings.
Year: 1870

probably the sweetening or acidifying; but
the purest favors are the most delicious and
the least unhealthy, such as the vanilla bean
and the juices of the strawberry and pine
apple. These, Of course, are expensive and
increase the prices, and the result is that
cheap and vile poisons are too often used to
lessen the expense, and for these the remedy
is required. The commission, with the power
to sample and analyze the CONNECTIONS OF all
our candy stores, Is what is wanted.
Year: 1870

SMALLPOX Harris made report to
the Board of Health yesterday to the affect
that this loathsome disease has been kept
within close boundaries by the vaccination of
the school children, and the fact that it has
not been altogether extinguished is owing to
the difficulty Of vaccinating oil the adults.
Year: 1870

THE TRIAL OF EDWIN PERRY for the mur
der of Hayes was concluded in BROOKLYN
yesterday, the jury failing to agree. The
Judge charged the jury, among other things,
that there was no motive for the murder
shown on the part Of Perry, but that there
was no necessity for the prosecution to prove
a motive
Year: 1870

Just fair enough to be pretty,


Just gentle enough to be sweet,
Just saucy enough to be witty,


Just dainty enough to be neat.
Just tall enough to be graceful,


Just slight enough for fay,
Just dress enough to be tasteful,


Just merry enough to be gay.
Just tears enough to be tender,


Just sighs enough to be sad,
Tones soft enough to remember,


Your heart through their cadence made glad
Just meek enough for submission,


Just bold enough to be brave,>
Just pride enough for ambition,


Just thoughtful enough to be grave.
A tongue that can talk without harming,


Just mischief enough to taste,
Manners pleasant enough to be charming,


That put you at once at your ease.
Disdain for to put presumption,


Sarcasm to answer fool,
Cool contempt shown to assumption,


Proper dignity always the rule.
Flights of fairy fancy ethereal,


Devotion to science full paid,
Stuff of the sort of material


Poets and painters are made.
Generous enough, and kind-hearted,


Pure as the angels above;
@, from her may never he parted,


For such is the maiden love.
Year: 1870

The following story. which we do not
remember to have seen in print. may be
old but it is received as true: -


At famous and fashionable watering
place. gentleman one night was sudden
ly seized in bed with an excruciating pain
in the stomach, which neither brandy, No.
6, nor any other remedy could remove
His wife, after trying number of things
in vain. and having exhausted all her
stock of remedies, left her husbands bed
side for the purpose Of getting warm ap-
plication. Guided on her return by a
light which she supposed was the one just
left, she softly entered, and was not a lit
tie surprised to find her patient apparent
ly in deep slumber. However. think
ing he might still be suffering, she gently
raised the bed-clothes. &c., and laid the
poultice upon stomach-but not the
stomach of her husband. which no sooner
touched the body of the person than he.
greatly alarmed, and writhing under the
torture of the burning application, shout
ed /: ''Hallo halo! what in the name of
heaven and earth are you about there p
then, with one spring from his bed, he
made for the door, and. rushing down
stairs, declared, in frenzy of excitement,
that some one had poured shovel of hot
Goals upon him. The woman. overcome
with excitement and alarm. gave a frantic
scream, which brought her husband hur-
riedly in from the next room to her rescue.
The husband was SO much excited, and
also so much amused with the singular
mistake and the ridiculous position Of his
better half, that he forgot all his pains !;
but early next morning he, his wife and
trunks left for parts unknown. The poul-
ticed gentleman still retains the handker-
chief-a beautiful linen fabric, with the
lady's name on it, which he considers Of
rare value. 9


G%A couple of negroes were walking
together one moonlight night, when one
asked, the other, II wunder what dey do
wild old moons, Sambo ?" "rse don't
know. Pomp, unless dey cut dem into
stars"
Year: 1870

the murdered souls of thousands of my
fellow-men. Their blood stains its walls,
and from that pit they have gone down
to another pit where no sounds Of mirth
ever come. Now. I ask, what right have
I to enter place where the tragedies that
are.played off before me by painted wo-
men and dissolute men are as nothing to
the tragedies Of lost souls that are enact
ed in some parts Of that house every night?
What right have l to give my money and
my presence to sustain that moral slaugh-
ter-house, and by walking into the thea
tire myself to aid in decoying others to
follow me?


Now on the same principle (not Of SELF
preservation merely, but of avoiding what
is dangerous to others, y what right have
[ to sustain those fountain heads of death
from which the drink-poison is sold p
What right have I to advocate their IL
cense, to patronize the traffic, or even in
any way to abet the whole system of drink
ing alcoholic stimulants at home or abroad?
If glass of wine on my table will entrap
some young man or some one who is in
clined to stimulants into dissipation, then
am I thoughtlessly setting trap for his
life. I am his tempter. I give the u.s.
age my sanction, and to him the direct
inducement to partake of the bottled de-
mon that sparkles SO seductively before
him. If the coatents of that sparkling
glass make my brother to stumble. he
stumbles over me. If he goes away from
my table and commits some outrage un-
der the effects Of that stimulant, am to
certain degree guilty of that outrage
I have partnership in every blow be
strikes, or in every oath he may utter, or
in every bitter wound he may infict on
the hearts of those he loves while under
the spell Of my glass Of 'Cognac' or Bur
gundy.' I gave him the incentive to do
what otherwise he might have left undone.
The man who puts the bottle to,his neigh
-hnis lips Is accouata6Ie Tor whit comes
from those lips under the influence Of the
dram, and is accountable, too, for every
outrage that the maddened cup may per-
petrate during his temporary insanity.


In this view Of the question, is it too
much to ask Of every professed christian.
and every lover of his kind, that they will
wholly abstain from everything that can
intoxicate? For the sake of your chill
dren do. For the sake of brother, hus-
band or friend. For the sake of those
who will plead your example; for the sake
Of frail tempted ones who cannot say. No!
for your fellow travellers sake to Gods
bar and to the eternal world, touch not
the bottled devil, under whose shining
scales damnation hides its adder-sting T.
Year: 1870

a coUNrkYMAN took An eight gallon kag
TO shop to have it lied with liquor. lbe
shopkeeper declared that be had put in ten
gallons, and demanded lay accordingly
The counlryman handed it over with the
remark, that "be didn't mind the money so
much az he did the strain on the old keo."