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Year: 1871

"COULD NE NUT WATCH WITH


ME ONE HOURy'
The night is dark; behold the shade was deeper
In the old garden of Gethsemane,
When that calm voice awoke the weary sleeper
"Couldst thou not watch one hour alone with


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o thou so weary of thy self-dsnials!


And SO impatient of thy little cross,
Is it so hard to bear thy daily trials,


To count all earthly things gainful loss?
What if thou alacrys suffer tribulation,


And if thy Christian warfare neoer cease;
The gaining of the greater habitation


Shall gather thee to everlasting peace.
But here we all must suffer, walking lonely
The path that Jesus once Himself hath gone;
Watch thou in patience through this hour only,
This one dark hour before tn eternal dawn.
The captive's oar may pause upon the galley,
The soldier sleep beneath his plumed crest,
And Peace may fold her wing Ger hill and val


ley,


But thou, o Christianl must not take thy


rest.


Thou must walk on, however man upbraid thee,
With Him who trod the wine-press all alonel
Thou wilt not find one human hand to aid thee,
One human soul u comprehend thine own.
Heed not the images forever thronging


From out the foregone life thou iv'st no


more;


Faint-hearted mariner, still art thou longing
For the dim line of the receding shorep
Wilt thou And rest of soul in thy returning
To the old path thou hast so vainly trod?
Hast thou forgotten all thy weary yearning
To walk among the children of thy God?
Faithful and steadfast in their conservation,
Living by that high faith to thee SO dim,
Declaring before God their dedication,


So far from thee, because SO near to Him.
Hast thou forgot thy Christian superscription-
"Behol@, zoe count item happy soltiith endures'
What treasure wouldst thou in the land Egyp.


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Repass the stormy water to secureP
And wilt thouyield thy sure and glorious prom
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For the poor ieeting joys earth can afford?
No hand can take away the treasure from us
That rests within the keeping of the Lord.
Poor wandering soul! know that thou art
seeking ra
Some easier way, as all have sought before,
To silence the reproachful inward speaking,
Some landward path unto an island shore!
The cross is heavy in thy human measure,
The way is narrow for thy inward pride,
Thou canst not lay thy Intellectual treasure
At the low footstool Of the Crucihed.
Oh! that thy faithless soul one hour only


Would comprehend the Christians perfect


life,


Despised with Jesus sorrowful and lonely,
Sit calmly looking upward in its strife.
For poverty and self-renunciation.
Their Father yieldeth back thousandfold;
In the calm stiffness of regeneration


Cometh Joy they ne1er knew of old.
In meek obedience to the heavenly Teacher
Thy weary soul can only find its peace.
Seeking no aid from any human creature,
Looking to God alone for its release. a
And He will come in His own time and power
70 set his earnest-hearted children free;
Watch only through this dark and painful
ffig, hour, sl7
And the bright morning will yet break fol


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-7Nsushts for Weary Hou,s.
Year: 1871

1t is most excellent rule in life, for
those who would keep out of trouble,
and keep themselves too out of the
reach of injurious busybodies, to have
their eyes and ears wide open, and their
mouths shut. They may see all that is
to be seen, and hear all that is to be
heard, but they need not tell to others
all that they may wish to hear. These
are seheming times. People are not
what they were twenty years ago. The
old fashioned notions of honor and fair
dealing, the sturdy old friendship and
neighborsbip, the kindliness of personal
feeling, and the reluctance to take ad-
vantages Of ones misfortunes that pre-
vailed when middle aged men of this
generation were youths, have disappear
ed, and given place to harsher feelings


between men and men. The struggle
for life and wealth has become 50 fierce
and intense, as to have broken down
many of the scruples that once govern
ed it. Matters spoken of in confidence,
or words dropped incautiously in chance
conversation, are not accorded the pri-
vacy they are entitled to. They are used
without remorse, wherever they can be
used to the advantage of one, or to the
detriment of another; and in this way
many a man who has honest schemes of
business in hand, or who may have the
misfortune to have unhappy secrets in
his household, or in his personal circle,
frequently finds the world cognizant of
them all, without scarcely knowing how
it obtained the information. An upright
just, and honorable person, who chances
to come into possession of knowledge
of his neighbours private affairs, will
lock his lips upon it, and suffer no one
else to obtain it from him. But all men
do not possess this high regard for 9TH
ers. There is class Of persons who
look upon the discovery of another's
secret as they would on the discovery


of treasure. They will spread the in
formation of it far and wide, with ma.
licious JOY at the mischief and pain they
are creating Even if the knowledge is
of no substantial value to them, the fact
that it is another's secret will invest it
with fascination, and cause it to be re-
garded with unusual favor. The only
safe rule in dealing with such persons,
and indeed with all persons, is to keep
your own eounsel-converse freely and


genially on ordinary subjects, but on
grave personal matters cultivate care
full reticence. If you have important
business projects in hand. keep them to
yourself, or,at most. limit the knowledge
of them to the few trusty friends on
whose discretion you can rely, and
whose advice and assistance you may
need. There are few successful business


men who do not make this an inaexible
rule in their operations. 1t saves them
infinite trouble, and is one of the secrets
of their success.
Year: 1871

R"About twenty odd years ago /
read in the Post very good thing, and
have been looking in vain for it to reap
pear in your paper. In these days of
the Heather Chinee,' ] think it would
fiji space, and be new to your young
readers -
Year: 1871

THE. Troy "Whig' says that as the six pared gig containing the Institute crew was being rowed down to Albany for the purpose of taking part in the regatta held there, she encountered strong gale to the southward. In few minutes the boat swamped and sank several feet under water. The air chambers at each end of the paper boat were not able to support the crew, but after it had sunk till the rowers were nearly shoulder deep in the waves, and were thus themselves supported directly by the water, the sinking process ceased, and the men sat in the water with their six heads sticking out in row. The excitement on shore was intense, and in five minutes thou sand people had gathered on the banks in the vicinity of the steamboat landing. It is probable that the discipline of the crew prevented serious accident.
Year: 1871

A CANAL SrEAMER.-An exchange de- scribes 8 novel steam craft, built to con- pete for the prize of one hundred thou sand dollars offered by New York State for the best mode of steam navigation for canals: The advantages claimed for this boat over others is that there is no lifting of the water, and, as a consequence speed is obtained with less expenditure, of power She has no rudder, and is guided by the action of the propelling wheel, which is attached to an upright shaft. Instead of the usual revolving paddle-wheel, this boat is propelled by a rotary, and it's direction is changed atwill by an eccentric attached to the wheel shaft, which can be changed in any. di- rection, as desired The boat is so com pletely under the control of the steers man that it can be turned round and round, as if upon pivot gT
Year: 1871

M. Becquerel has just communicated to the Academy of Science in Paris a new hypothesis concerning the origin of atmospheric electricity. In his opinion, its source resides in the sun, which, according to the recent discoveries of MT. Norman Lockyer, is surrounded by an immense envelope of hydrogen which, being mixed up with considerable proportion of watery vapor, is therefore positively electrified. This communi- cates its fluid to the whole mass of ethereal substance which fills the inter planetary spaces, and thence to our atmosphere. But as the latter is bad conductor, the consequence is, accord ing to our author, that the upper strata of the air must be saturated with positive electricity. Here, says French journal. we pause to ask what evidence he has, in the first place, of the existence of this ethereal substance ]; and secondly, of it's conduotibility |? M. Becquerel does not think it necessary to stop at such de- tails, but seeks to establish his theory by various arguments, such as, for instance, the fact that ias odcuo an electrified liquid evaporates more rapidly than when not in that state ]; and that an auroraborealis is accompanied by 8 noise which he finds to be exactly the same as that produced by an electric spark. 1 St

 THE SWEDISH COLONY. The people of Maine are highly pleased with the suc- cess of the new Swedish colony in the Aroostook region, which now numbers one hundred families. To each family farm of one hundred acres is given with 8 conditional deed, which requires for the completion of the title that the ground shall be occupied for five years, and that at the expiration of that time fifteen acres shall be under cultivation, and house shall have been erected. For the present, those of the colonists who are without means are supplied with the necessaries of life by the State, which they are to repay by labor on the public roads. All of the colonists are able to read and write, which is account ed for by the statement that in Sweden no person is allowed to marry unless he is a member of the church, and no one is permitted to join the church until he can read and write.
Year: 1871

JUST. IN sTnEE.-A young man from Savannah married 8 young lady from New York a month ago, and shortly after wards he left her, ostensibly on business. Not hearing from him, she took a steamer and arrived in Savannah just in time to prevent him from marrying another woman--she bursting into the room just as the knot was being tied. There was 8 scene of course
Year: 1871




The restoration of the old English Gath
edral Choral Service, at the Church of the
Advent, Easter night, will long be re-
membered as an important event in the
history of the church in this city. This
service has been to a considerable extent
restored in England, and is now no longer
the novelty that many supposed it to be
several years ago.


At an early hour this new and beautiful
church was crowded to overflow, extra
seats and chairs were for q while in redui-
sition, but at last many were obliged to
go away. unable to obtain even standing
room. The customary Easter Floral deco
rations were very beautiful and appropri-
ately arranged On the q tar were two
large vases with pure white flowers. While
the chancel lecturn, Episcopal throne,
pulpit, font, and choir stalls we're beauti
fully festooned, and decorated with living
flowers. Promptly at s o'clock the soft
notes of the organ were heard, and
in the distance the singing of the
Ohoristers becoming louder and louder as
they approached, until the vestTy door
opened, and they filed out, two by two,
the smallest in front, and gradually in
creased in size to full grown men They
were neatly surpliced in black and white,
and as they slowly marched up, singing, and
took their places in the choir, it was one
of the most impressive sights we have ever
witnessed. The service then commenced,
which is the usual Evening Prayer, Of the
Prayer-book. The opening sentences and
lessons, were read by the Rector, the Rev.
j. M. Schwrsr, who has, in the short time
he has been in our city, done great work
for his parish, and is held in high esteem by
his congregation. The sermon was by the
Rev. NJ. S. Royce, of the Church Of the
Holy Trinity, and was an eloquent and
earnest representation of the privileges to
be received from the fact Of the res1rrec-
ton of the body, which this day CONNIE
morates. After the offertory, which was
rendered in a very impressive manner, the
blessing was pronounced by the rector,
and the choristers slowly filed out in the
same order singing recessionsl hymn
Thus ended one of the most impressive
services we have ever seen. The
service was entirely choral, and tco
much praise cannot be bestowed
upon the choir, which is composed
chiefly of small boys, for their reverent
department during the whole service. 1t is
composed of 16 boys and 4 men, led by
one of our most respectable citizens, who
deserves much praise for his unceasing
energy and devotion to this work One
of the features of the service was an an
them sung by one of our most talented
singers, during the taking up of the offer
tory. The organ accompaniment to the
whole service was rendered in a very
skillful manner by one Of the organists of
the parish. This service is to be contin-
sed regularly every Sunday evening.
Year: 1871

A son of the late President Tyler, only
twenty-one years old, is an Uhlan in the
Twelfth Army Corps of Saxony, and
served throughout the Franco Prussian
war. He has been for five years a mining
student at Freiberg, but when the clash of
arms came he laid aside his books and
sought admission to the service. By an es-
pecial favor of the Minister of War this
foreigner was permitted to enter theranks
of the King of Ssxony. Being q fine
looking, gallant young man, he made sn
excellent soldier, and his record as son of
an American President was enough TO
cause every officer and private to seek his
companiOnship. During the latter part of
the war young Tyler is said to have car
rcd his cavalry lance into several hot en-
gagements.
Year: 1871

The following rather decided utterances
are those Of the workingmen Of the coun-
try:


What Is the great national Republican
party doing in this matter? We are told
that we ought. to be exceedingly grateful
to that party. Good heavens What have
they done, in the creation OF the national
banks, their profligate squandering of the
full! They are creating great feudal sys-
TENS by creating the Pacific railroad, and
other like great corporations. They are
doing all they can to make proletaireS of
the working classes Of the United States.
These things should damn the Kepub-
lican party to everlasting infamy Zap
plausel, and will do so. When be-
fore was there ever period IN The
history Of the American Government
when peculation and embeZZlement and
fraud were actually the rule, and not the
exception? One o1lice-holder now dare not
trust another out Of his sight; and all this
has come from the Gebauchery resulting
from favoritism and the granting of enor-
nous privileges by legislation. Even the
President of the United States to-day is SO
approachable that he will take all the
houses and horses that you give him. [hp-
plause.] I tell you, that between the cree.
tion of the national bank system, the land
monopolies, and other iniquities which the
Republican party has perpetrased, with its
dealing in Arctic frozen regions and tropi.
cal earthquakes, the American people find
themselves between Polar ice on one hand
and tropic fire on the other; and if they
continue to follow the dictates of the Re-
publican party they will soon find them
selves near the hcll-tre beneath them.
Year: 1871

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.-Passen.
GERS by the down-train of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad on Wednesday report the
narrow escape from death of little boy in
the neighborhood CT Beaver Dam depot.
The freight train bound west was approach
ing the station at a speed of twelve or four
teen miles an hour, and this little fellow
was running along the track on his way to
school. It was raining fast at the time, and
the boy had thrown his overcoat.cape over
his head to keep off the rain. He was, OF
course, prevented from hearing the ap-
preaching train, and before he knew it was
coming he was struck by the cow-catcher
of the locomotive and thrown from the
track. He recovered himself. however,
shortly, and was found to be uninjured.
Year: 1871

DRAMATIC ENTERrAINMENT.-T musical
and dramatic entertainment at Virginia
Hall on Tuesday night was well attended,
and passed off so pleasantly that it will be
repeated tonight. Harmony Division, Sons
Of Temperance, have the matter in charge,
and the performers are ladies and gentle
men Of talent. They ought to have fine
audience tonight.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER DEAD INFANT FoUND.-Yester-
day morning an officer in the Third Ward
found the body of a still-born infant in
vacant lot on Adams street. between Broad
and Grace. The coroner was notified, and
after viewing the body was unable to de-
eide whether it was white or colored. An
order was issued for its interment.
Year: 1871

THE OPERA.--The theatre was well filed


last night, and the performance passed of
even better than the first or second. The
qualification of the audience was iattested
by frequent applause and repeated encoreS.


We hope it viii not be long before we have
another opera rendered By this talented
q n +.
Year: 1871

QUEEN OF MAY ON sKATEs.-The only enter
OF the kind ever given In this country
Will take place to. night at Assembly Hall This
being something new, ought to attract large
crowd. Admission same as at other skating as
Los.
Year: 1871

Don't fall to witness the ceremony oftha corona
ton of the Queen Of May on skates, to take place
Tonight st Assembly Hall st O'Clock. This VIII
be the only entertainment OF the kind ever given
in the United States.
Year: 1871

THE CAPITAL DISASTER MEMORIAL TAB
LET.-The committee OF the Richmond
Press Club appointed to inaugllrate q
movement for the erection Of tablet in the
capital in memory ofthe victims of the dis
aster ofahe 26th Of April, 1870, will meet a
number of leading citizens at the Chamber
Of Commerce this evening for the purpose
of organizing Capital Memorial Associa-
ton, of which Governor Walker will be the
President.
Year: 1871

Look most to your spending. No
matter what comes in, If more goes
out you will always be poor. The
ar:is nos in making money, but in
keeping it; little expenses, like
mice in a barny when they ere
many. make great waste. Hair by
hair, heads get bald Straw by
straw, the thatch goes off the cot
nge, and drop by drop, the rain
comes in the chamber. A barrel
is soon empty, il the tap leaks
but a drop minute. When you
mean TO save, begin with your
mouth; there are many thieves
down the red lane. Tic ale-jug
is great waste. In all other
things keep within compass. Never
strcch yoar legs farther than the
blankets will reach, or you soon
get cold. In clothes, choose suit
able and lasting stuff, and net
tawdry fineries. To be warm is the
main thing; never mind the looks
A fool may make money, but it
needs o wise man to spend it .
Remember it is easier to build two
chimneys than to keep one going.
If you give all to back and board,
there is nothing left for tho saw.
ings bank. Fare hard and work
hard while you are young, and you
have chance to rest when you
are old
Year: 1871

A man in Wisconsin has applied for
divorce, upon the grounds that his wife
married him under false pretenses. He
says she told him while he was address,
ing her, that she could hee an acre of
potatoes and split two cords of wood be-
tween breakfast and dinner; and she had
proved herself fearful fraud because
she could only split cord and hoe only
three times across the field 1t seems
hard that men are continually to be made
the victims of these designing women.
Why will wives trife in this manner with
the tenderest affections of their husbands?
Why will they thus shatter their heart
strings2
Year: 1871

From the New York Evening Post & Rad


II is reported from Washington that
gentlemen IN Congress expect to pass
The Ku KluX bill this week, and ad-
i0urn on Saturday. Are they not


LITTLE TOO sANGUINE?


In order TO make the bill a law, the
President will have to sign it. Before
signing it he viii have to examine it.
Inexamining il, he will naturally COM
pare its provisions with the COnstitU-
ton of the United States, the Supreme
law Of the land, which he has sworn
to defend and preserve.


The President is not lawyer; but
it does not need the skill of q lawyer
to discover that the ku-KluX bill
VIOLATES BOTH THE LETTER AND


THE SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION.
that it is, as HUper's Weeks
this week shows, as we have
shown, as a large and the most
influential part Of the Republican
press has shown, opposed to the prin-
ciDies OF the Constitution, and con-
trary to the system and theory Of our
government


HnDeT's Weekly, whose article we
reprint elsewhere, has been the most
faithful friend and admiTer OF the
President. Il asserts, what is per
fectly true, that


THIS BILL Is UNCONSTITUTIONAL,
unwarranted by anything in the Con-
stitutiOn. What If the President
should happen TO think 50 too? What
If. feeling his solemn trust as the
sworn defender of the Constitution,
he should be cOmpelled-as we hope,
for his own sake and the cOuntry's,
be will be-tO send the bill back to
Congress?


He would do the country a great,
an almost inestimable service; and
one in the very line Of all his past


GREAT SERVICES TO THE UNION.
For as he fought in the war for the
maintenance of the Constitution, 50
now he would once more appear as its
defender. Let him remember, and
read over, the words Of his great pre-
daeessOr. Lincoln: would save the
Union - wrote Mr.. Lincoln, 81 would
save it the shortest way, under the
Constitution And this was in a time
of war. And again ne said: 81 am
naturally anti-slavery; if slavery is
not wrong, nothing is wrong. Yet ]
have never understood that the Presi-
dency conferred upon me an


UNRESTRICTED RIGHT


IN act officially upon this Judgment
and feeling. 1t was in the oath / took
fhat would 20 the best of my ability
protect. preserve and defend the Con-
stitutiou OF the United States. 1
couId not take Office without taking
the oath: n0lc was it my view that /
might take an oath to get power, and
break the oath ia using the power"


President Grant can do no better or
wiser thing than to follow the exam
Die of President Linc0ln's


DEVOTION TO THE CONSTITUTION.


He cannot by any act within his
mower more endear himself to the
people than by keeping his oath and
maintaining the Constitution hesW0re
10 defend, preserve and protect


II he does this Congress may not
s6j0urn on SatUrday-but the ku-
Kfux bill viii never become a law.
1t needs only one of his calm, clear
messages to rally most the whole Of
the Republican strength ia Congress
10 bis side, and to make him the true
and worthy leader Of his party.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE case Of
J. Gould against the Deputy Marshal,
for assault and battery while serving
an injunction on him at the Opera
House the other evening, was investi-
gated by the grand jury yesterday,
and that body decided by dismissing
the charge, that the serving of Judge
BlatchfOrd's injunction on Gould was
executed in polite and proper man.
ner.
Year: 1871

The following rules are full of the severe
irony Of truth. Strictly obeyed, they will
secure to any boy or young man the bitter
est failure that his worst enemy could wish ::


Spend your leisure time on whisky
barrel. Drink as much as you can pay for,
or get others to pay for, or get on credit.
Smoke cigars in the same ratio. Master
the intricacies of dominoes, billiards, and
checkers. Above all things make yourself
an adept at card playing Chess, the
game of intelligent young men who foolish
ly desire to be somebody, you should eschew.


Don't read anything but the dime nov
els of the day. Cultivate the impression
that all women like to be lnsulted, and
that all men are thieves. If you should
ever become conscious of decent emotion
to which weakness, alas the most of us
are liable at odd moments-crush it out
with little improntu backguardism, or
drown it in horn OF whisky.


Make fun OF your mother behind her
back, and never think-because thinking
is dangerous-of how much she has done
for you. Cheat your father, and borrow
your sisters little savings


Do these things, and whatever else vile
and worthless that shall suggest itself to
you, and your ambition will be sated.--
You shall stagger and swagger thrc ID life,
too insignificant TO be despised, and tumble
into your grave almost to loathsome to be
pitied.