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Year: 1871

The canvass in Kentucky is going on
with activity The rival candidates fol
the different Offices are travelling about
the State and holding meetings together
In the mountain counties Gov. Leslie
and General Harlan, who are running
against each other for Governor, are
spending all their time together, driving
from place to place in the same carriage
and, where accommodations are limited
even sleeping in the same bed This
custom of canyassing together is a good
one, and might be- extended to other
parts of the country with great advan.
tage Fancy Philosopher Greeley and
General Grant travelling about and ad
dressing audiences together as rival can
didates for the Presidency We do not
believe they would ever be able to live so
intimately with each other while engaged
in this duty as the candidates IN Ken
tucky. They might ride in one carriage
and eat at the same table, but they would
hardly be willing to sleep together. Be
sides, Grant would want to have with
him military staff of three or four
Brevct Generals, while the Philosopher
would go alone and carry his own carpet
bag. However, let them try it., and we
can guarantee for them the biggest kind
of meetings wherever they may appear to
speak.-N y. Sun.
Year: 1871

Walking, for young and active people,
is by far the best exercise riding is good
for the elderly, middlc-aged, and inva-
lids. The abuse of these exercises con-
sists in taking them when the system is
exhausted more or less by previous fast
ing or by mental labors. Some persons
injudiciously attempt long walk before
break fast. under the belief that it is con-
duciye to health. Others will get up
early to work at some abtruse mental
toll. The effect in both instances is the
same: it subtracts from the power of ex
ertion in the after part of the day. A
short saunter or some light reading be-
fore this meal is the best indulgence of
the kind; otherwise the waste occasioned
by labor must he supplied by nourish-
ment. and the breakfast will necessarily
become a heavy meal, and the whole
mornings comfort sacrificed by weight
at the chest, from imperfect digestion of
food. These observations apply especial
" to elderly pcrsons, who are prone to
fatter themselves into the persuasion
that they can use their mental or bodily
powers in age rs in youth.
Year: 1871

Whatever defects there may be il
home education, it is certain that the
exceptions are rare where the moral
training of the mother is not according
to her best capacity. for the benefit and
advantage of her offspring. Her influ


ence is often counteracted by the habits
and examples Of the father; but in such
case she is not responsible if her care
and teachings are of no avail. Home
education, where the parents are united
in sentiment, leaves its impression upon
the mind and heart which can never be
totally obliterated. The principal cause
of departure from the path of right is
evil associations. The poor mother, en-
gagged in her household affairs, dependent
upon her labor for livelihood, has lit
tie time to devote to her children; and
as soon as they are able to walk by them
selves they seek playmates, and the
youthful mind is readily impressed for
good or evil, according to the disposition
of the associations. The effect Of these
impressions is more lasting in most cases
than the influence and example >0f par


ents. If children were but early less
subject to such influences, there would
be less vice in the world. Home educa-
tion is the best for the youthful mind
The most determined man in every sit


uation of life will to the latest period Of
his pilgrimage be influenced by the ear
ly teachings of his mother, if the exam
Piles and the habits of the father are in
unison with her counsel and instruction.
Year: 1871

As speechmaker Gen. Sherman is
more Of 4 success than Grant, aud as it is
evident from his speeches that he does
not belong to the Grant faction, he is
liable to be accused of presidential aspi-
rations, Notwithstanding his protestations,
if he persists in the habit of talking his
mind at unexpected times and places.
His latest effort was on Thursday last, at
the annual commencement of the Jesuit
college in Georgetown. Though brief, it
was timely and pointed. He declares Sc
cession as dead in the South as in the
North, aud evidently has more confidence
in the Southern people than in some
classes Of the North.
Year: 1871




As shown by the Patent Office records
from 1850 to 1860, nearly ninety eight
per cent. of applicants for patents for
agricultural implements we're from the
North, and slightly over two per cent
from the South. Since the war, however,
and the consequent decreased efficiency of
labor, our Southern planters have been
obliged to make use of machinery to cul-
tivate the soil, and it has been found up
on trial that very few of the agricultural
implements used IN the North are per-
iectly adapted to culture in the South.
Thus, corn planter cannot be used for
dropping cotton seed, and cultivators are
not adapted to destroying the weeds be-
tween the rows of the cotton plants. Our
ingenious mechanics and tllers of the
soil have therefore so effectually set their
wits to work that the Patent Office re-
cords now develop the fact that the ap.
plications for patents for agricultural i'm
plements from the RECONSTRUCTED" States
have risen, during the past two years,
from l per cent. to about 30 per cent. of
all the cases fled This demonstrates in
the most conclusive and satisfactory man
ner the close application to our case Of
the old adage-"necessity is the mother
OF invention" AS soon as the circum-
stances called for its exercise, the inven-
tive genius Of the South was practically
manifested on a scale and in manner
which at once convinced the world that
we have quick, active brains to contrive,
not less than the courage and strength to
execute, ingenious devices aud great en-
terprises. One of the most extraordinary
chapters of the late wars history-when
impartially written-will be devoted TO
the inventions and manufactures to which
the necessities of the Confederacy gave
rise. Had it not been for the almost un-
paralleled ingenuity aud skill evinced by
the Southern people in originating pro-
cesses for supplying munitions of war,
clothing and a thousand other articles
which could not have been obtained from
abroad, their struggle for Independence
despite the heroic valor of their soldiers
would have been brief indeed
Year: 1871

AS an evidence of the wonderful ex-
pansion of Methodism in America, the
church organ states the fact that during
the past year there was a new church
completed, on the average, every three
working hours, or four for every day 10
the year.
Year: 1871

A KANSAS journal ''Iearns Of woman
in Jefferson county, in this State who
took colt six days old to her breast, and
thus saved its life. 1t had lost its parent,
and, but for the kind interest taken in it,
would have starved"
Year: 1871

We understand that Hon. Humphrey
Marshall will shortly deliver himself on
the political issues of the day. He IS
expected to plant himself squarely on
what is dcnominatcd the New Departure
Democratic platform.
Year: 1871

If the eloquencc of Christianity follows the
old rule, and lies not in words, but in action,
action, action! there is at least one body of
workers among us who can lay claim to hay
ing made known their Masters precepts with
peculiar emphasis. We mean the American
Missionary Association, which now submits its
statement of work done, and urgently asks
for aid for work in the future. 1t is confined
to no sect and processes no creed, save that of
faith IN the Savior; its work is not argument,
but an unintermitting, earnest struggle against
oppression and ignorance wherever found.
1t was organized twenty-five years ago, and in
1867 supported over 200 missionaries at home
and abroad. Since that time the pressing i'm
mediate needs of the freedmen have absorbed
almost all their forces which they withdrew
from other work to do this duty that lay
nearest to them. Even the most bg0ted adj
herent to Slavery must have felt the necessity,
in self-defense, of civilizing and Christianizing
the half -barbarous mass so suddenly converted
from torpid, unreasoning property into
political power in the land But to dose who
comprehend their wrongs, no spectacle could
be more tragic than that of four millions of
human beings, dwarfed and stunted in body
and mind through generations of bondage,
thrown helpless and ignorant into the great
highway of nations, and left there to fight
their way with race among whom money
and knowledge are synonymous with power
and where an inexorable prejudice turns every
mans hand against them.


What this Association have done for this peo-
pie, they set briefly before us. Their schools
and churches are scattered through the former
slave and border States. The whole number
of missionaries and teachers commissioned
during the last ten years amount to $40
Year: 1871

There can be no dissent from the verdict OF
the Coroner's Jury as to where the blame
rests for the late disaster at West Pittston.
We might object TO the censure as not strong
enough, but where the facts are so plain the
natural instincts of humanity will supply this
deficiency. The laws of Pennsylvania, in re-
spect to the working of coal mines with due
regard to the safety of the miners, have been
grossly violated by Messrs. Blake g. Co., and
it is the fault of the laws if these gentlemen
cannot be severely punished, even to the ex-
tent of incarceration in the State Prison for
manslaughter The State Mine Inspector,
Williams, is also plainly guilty of Grim
inal neglect of duty. Such mine as
that at West Pittston, with only one opening,
ought to have received the Inspectors most
particular attention. Nothing could have been
easier than to obtain the information that
more than the legal number of men were
working in the fatal chambers. Two such
cataStrOphes as those at AvOndale and Pitts
ton, coming in such quick succession, forcibly
show that, in the northern coal field Of Penn
sylvania at least, we are still almost as reCk-
less as the savage of human life.
Year: 1871

We read of beautiful example just set by the
venerable Princess Luperano of Naples She has
written play called II Denaro, which is highly
popular but ION the other hand she is eighty-two
years old, and this is her very first production If
her delay in doing her drama was occasoned by a
cc0scientious resolution to abstain from composition
until after her arrival at ripe old age why will not
some of our modern dramatists try the same expert
ment 1t is pretty evident that they are incapable
much save the bloody and the beastly, either in
the flush of their youth the yigor of their middle
age but just let them restrain themselves until they
are octogenarians and they may win our plaudts by
appeal to the tenderness due to senity. If they
die before reaching the eighties why all the better
Year: 1871

The twelfth annual commencement OF the
Cooper Union yesterday gave occasion Tor the
exchange Of some graceful and grateful praise
of the founder of tkis generous charity by the
students who have benefited by it, and OF
some sage advice TO the pupils from the patron
himself Not the least among the noble gifts
of Peter Cooper to this city is that OF his ex-
ample. His career is an example for all working
bows. and in briefly detailing the principles
which have guided him so successfully in a
long, happy, and useful life, he has added to
the Indebtedness of the community. 1t is sell
dom that such a scene as we describe else
where is witnessed in this OF any other com
munity, and only once in an age that public
benefactor lives to receive the full reward OF
lis labors in the visiL!e fruits OF his wise
charity now vOuchsafed to MI Cooper


The venerable philantbrOpist makes his
contribution to the pacifcation of the struggle
between Capital and Labor in few we'll
chosen and wise words. He looks to the recog-
nitioH by each Of the rights of the other, and
to the acceptance of fair arbitration as the best
means of solving the vexed problem.
Year: 1871

Before the late attempt of the Senate to eX-
ceed most grossly its just powers passes out
of mind, it is well that the public should see
with what mastery hand Mr.. Sumner dis
sected the unwarrantable pretensions Thought
full men at the Capital have for year or
two been expressing their fears of this
tendency to assume disproportonate author
ity in the Government, displayed by the SEN
ate. Mr.. Sumner has added to the long labors
of most useful life by resisting this new
danger and we present on our second page
the main points of his argument. The Press
of the country owe to him, as well as to Sena-
tors Sherman, Schurz, Morton, and other CO.
adutors, all thanks for the ability and umeh-
ness of their service.
Year: 1871

In the case of John Moran, on trial at Dedham
Mass for the murder Of Charles NJ. Packard, the
prisoner's counsel moved to change the venue 10
Suffolk on account of strong local prejudice against
the prisoner. Chapman, c. j.. denied the motion,
and in giving his opinion, said: Those who take
the daily papers are prejudiced, matter of fact
by whatever they read in them, but these impress
sions pass away and are replaced by others. The
opinion which is to disqualfy juror as stated by
Chief-Justice Shaw must be something more than
vague impression derived from newspaper reports
We put this opinion upon record about the most
sensible which we have seen the subject and if
we could have ruling like this in New-IoTk, ii
might save the courts good deal of time and the
county good deal of money. The general notion
that because Juror from what he has heard has
formed an opinion adverse to the prisoner, would
make wild work if it were applied to evidence.
witness might testify Il A., the prisoner, kill
b." Then you have prejudice against A." 81
certainly have" Pray would sucha prejudice inval-
idate the credibilty of the witness So, if juror
says: From what ! have heard and read have
believed the prisoner guilty; but amqute prepared
to find a verdict in accordance with the evidence
and the ruling Of the Court" Pray, how is that
fairly to be urged against the competency of juror
On the contrary, is it not evident that in man who
thus frankly confesses his previous opinion you have
the best juror in the world ?
Year: 1871

Oyer-long prayers in public may unquestionably
be bore but il is difficult and delicate matter to
stop them without hurting the feelings of the sup
plants. At the Young Mems Christian Convention in
Washington the question was put to the delegates,
what do you do with people who persistently in
dulge in long prayersp ~ and, somebody answering,
Never give them chance to pray" another
brother luckily added the explanation, Except in
private" There is difficulty in reconciling entire
freedom of speech with the yOubilty of the weaker
brethren, which, Over-speech becomes more and
more epidemical grows harder and harder to sur
mount especially in societies based upon brOherly
love. The old anti-Slayery people as liberal in
this respect possible, but they obliged to put
a gag in the mouths of the wild ones of either SEX
At the same time we can fancy how sardonically
they would have treated a Christian church which
did MT allow its members to pray as long as they
pleased
Year: 1871

The delicate attentions which the Sultan has
been paving to the Car, in cOnferrlng on him
and his Ministers an Imperial order OF the
Ottomans, must have a strangely suspicious
look to the Powers which lately discussed a
settlement of the Black Sea question in order
TO prevent the two sovereigns from rushing
headlong into war. They will hardly regard
it as servile tlattery dictated by the Sultan's
fears; and will never suspect that the gifts
are those of genuine good will. The painful
truth viii probably dawn upon them in time,
and they Will then comprehend what mock
cry their Conference at London was rendered
by the complete understanding arrived at be-
tween Turkey Russia, and Prussia before the
Convention met.
Year: 1871

In time OF war, dispatches have been seized to
secure light on the Vaccinations of the enemy. In
tmeof peace it has been proposed to seize dispatches
to secure light on the source of published docu-
ment which the Government wanted published


The World is unable to any moral legal distinc


ton between the two acts but then we don't expect
acute perceptions moral or legal from that quarter
Year: 1871

The Frenchmen at Havre have evidently
learned nothing from their Teverses. They
are to take their revenge on the Germans by
refusing intercourse with them. That IS an
old folly of which great many nations have
been guilty and by which none ever proiited.
Year: 1871

The Boston Communists have been meeting
in conversion and declaring by resolution that
they are the only true reformers, that the
country and society are to be saved only by
reducing the wealth of the rich and increasing
the possessions of the poor, and that tins step
toward the millennium is TO be made
by shortening the hours Of daily labor


And the chief Of these ImDraetcables was
Year: 1871

ing both countries equally, and not capable OF
being repealed by either. What our corre-
spondent said was true in letter and in sub
stance, and what The World says is false in
both
Year: 1871

In Seville, which is popularity supposed
to be 10 Spain, there is in use most felici-
tious invention in the way Of making love,
clandestinely. After dark, young cabei.
leros steal beneath their lady's lattice-.
which. perchance, is in the third story
aid softly unscrewing the handle Of their
walking sticks, proceed to extract from
the same, which are hollow, length after
length Of hollow tubing, screwing them to.
gether after the fashion of Japanese
fishing pole, or the old apparatu, where
with sweaps clean chimneys. 4 mouth
piece is fitted into each end and one raised
to the window above. Soon, by the aid of
this improvised speaking-tubc, two souls
with certain unanimity Of thought, and
two hearts with possible unison or pull.
sation, are softly communing. Now all
this is very nice, seIuctively romantic and
all that sort of thing, but mark what the
knowledge Of it brought to a certain youth
of Baltimore. He had read or heard of it,
and happening to have supersttious af-
fection for a young and wealthy lady,
which she as superstitously reci procated,
he determined with her connivancc to
avail himself of it. He got tin pipe of
the desired length, made by tinuer, and
in each end of it placed, for want Of bet
ter mouth. piece, funnel. Delicious con-
versation went on, he sitting on the top
of water barrel and she leaning from her
window above. They would converse for
hours, and exchange all the soft nonsense
in the world, and he would uuship his ap-
puratus, put the tunnels in his pocket,
wrap the pieces up in newspaper, and 80
home in condition Of ETHEREAL bliss.


The course of true love never did run
smooth. and one evening the old gentle.
man, smoking in tho back garden at an
unusual hour, saw the young gentleman
arrive. fix up his apparatus, and commence
his soul.communipg operations. He made
up his mind in minute He went into the
kitchen and asked for pitcher Of boiling
water it was handed to him, and off he
posted up stairs. Just as he reached his
daughters door he commenced calling to
her. So telling her lover to wait min
ute, she came to the door. "Nellie, my
dear, run up to my room and get me my
spectacles I'll wait here till you come
down." She disappeared up the stairs,
and he stole cautiously to the window.
The moment he touched the funnel the
amorous and uususpectiug youth clapped
his mouth to it to resume where he had
broken Off" my darling, you cannot
imagine how -" just then the old gen.
tleman commenced assiduously filing that
funnel with the hot water. aud the rest of
that miserable youths sentence was never
heard. He wore -four on his face for a
fortnight after, and declines to go into
society just at present.
Year: 1871

Women. to dress we'll, should buy fewer
dresses, be more careful what they buy
and wear them as if they were, as indeed
they arc, part of their personality.


One of the largest and most exclusive
houses in the country makes its walking
suits and costumes just to reach, not te
touch or lay upon the ground, and has re
ceived as yet no orders to the contrary
from its most fashionable customers.


The newest style of spring mantle is /,
short sack, with or without sleeves, and 6
cape forming in effect double cape
This is imported in fne black cashmere
very richly embroidered with black OF
white, or with a mixture of black and
white, and bordcred with lace or fringe, o,
both.


Black lace basques and jackets are
making their appearance in great variety
and promise to be very much worn. Open
or flowing sleeves are so much newer, aud
considered so much more desirable than
the close ones, that there is difference ol
several dollars between the cost of the Que
and the other.


The costume of the period is a work Of
art. One part is made with exact refer
encc to the other, and one part cannot be
altered without changing the whole
Moreover, the street suit or costume, when
made of handsome material, is very costly
Purchased in store or made by dress.
maker, silk or poplu suit will run up
from $50 to $3.50.


Costumes in black or pearl gray. form.
ing tunic skirts or jackets, or a polonaise
with basqucs, for wear over silk skirts,
long or short, richly embroidered or trim.
med with gulpure lace, cost from $3.50 to
$3.50, but arc really distinguished and in
high favor because they can be worn with
short black silk skirt for walking dress,
or with u long lavender or pearl colored
silk for visits aud receptions.


Nearly all ladies, even those who for a
time discared it, have returned to the
small hoop, with curved back, forming a
small hustle, finding the slight distenson
1.-THE new hooped skirts only measure sixty
five inches at the base essential to COM
fort, especially with the lighter spring
dress materials. Over this hoop some
young ladies', and some who are older and
ought to know better, wear an enlarged
hustle, giving them the appearance of
possessing an unnatural and most grotesque
hump or proturberance.
Year: 1871

A woman that strikes her husband shall
be punished us the court directs.


A wife shall be deemed good evidence
against her husband.


No man shall court maid in person, OF
by letter, without first obtaining consent
Of her parents: 81 penalty for the first of.
fence l0l for the second and for the
third, Imprisonment during the pleasure
of the court.


Married persons must live together OF
be imprisoned.


Every male shall have his hair cut
round according to cap.


Mote. The above laws were originally
printed on blue paper, on which account
they we're called the Blue Laws."1
Year: 1871

A Coon SUGGEsrloN.-A Down Easter
lately came to New York, aud took lodg.
ings at one of the high houses. Telling
the waiter he wished to be called in the
morning for the boat, both of them pro.
ceeded on their winding way upwards till
having arrived at the eighth fight OF
stairs, when Jonathan caught the arm OF
his guide, and accosted him thus -


"Look here, stranger! if you intend to
call me at six o'clock in the morning, you
might as well do it now; as twill be that
time afore can get dows again"
Year: 1871

r. All but thirteen of the Radical
Legislature of South Carolina are negroes.
Of all the negroes only nineteen could
read or write. The whole crew openly
sold their votes to the highest bidder, and
reveled 10 all the luxuries of the day At
the expense of the tax. payers Of the State.
Each ebou Legislator had page for his
Year: 1871

~ The Chicago Post gives the fol-
lowing information: Those who have worn
their hats five years will be pleased to see
that they are just in fashion again and
those who have pantaloons they bought in
lS4S will be glad to know that they (the
pantaloons) will also be. with their elastic
footings, the pride of the man of fashion
this season, even as they were his pride
twenty three years since.