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Year: 1870

The precise motive which which led to the
trial of the Rev. John B. Clark, DID,, before
the Allegheny Presbytery, for breach OF promise
to marry Miss Lille Hawkes., is not at once
evident to the unregenerate mind. There could
be no mercenary motive on the part OF the young
lady in having this clerical deceiver tried before
an ecclesiastical court, nor can we suppose that
the ecclesiastical body itself had any relish for
the work which has resulted in the rebuke and
disgrace of one its members. 1t must be supposed
that the persons concerned, with the exception
of the principal, have acted from disinterested
regard for the principles of justice and
morality, and have made this public exposure OF
purely private affair with view to the pOssi-
BILE amelioration of future contingencies of a
similar nature.


The Rev. Mr.. Clark, it appears, fell in love
with and became engaged to Miss Hawkes..
The engagement was kept for nearly year,
when by mutual consent, it was agreed to re-
consider the proprety of fulfilling it, and q
month or two later the gentleman broke it off;
hence the recent trial. The excuse offered by
the clerical culprit was that narrowing doubt
possessed his soul as to the entire recovery Of
the lady from mental indisposition. This fear
with regard to her complete restoration be-
came so fixed upon his mind that he could not
remove it. He struggled against its power,
until others, whose judgment he regarded
as unbiased, and who were ignorant
of the relationship existing between the young
lady and himself, expressed the same opinion
in his hearing This decided him. He became
convinced that to marry her would be doing
wrong, and that further courting was a
grevous sin. He therefore stopped proceed
ings, and has since been proceeded against
He confessed imprudence and want of judg-
ment, and was rebuked sOlemnly and tearfully
before the Presbytery. Upon the last day OF
the trial his letters to the young lady were pro-
duced, and the course of love traced for year
or more. The adage "faithless as a lovers
"vowsr finds force therein. PrOdigality of
protestation is kept bravely up till near the
close of the correspondence, and the impas-
stoned el0quence of love is simulated with
some success.


Distressing indeed to both parties then must
have been the breaking off, which was fore
boded by a feeling of "wear and tear" upon
his part and made necessary by the final con-
sciousness that he "could not come close to
"human hearts as he once did," and that his
"higher nature" would not be benefited by
the proposed marriage. 1t is melancholy
commentary upon the gentleman's character
that his higher nature" appears not to have
troubled him till the last moment, when he
suddenly discovers that he has one. The un-
prejudiced mind must heartily echo the senti-
ment which he expresses in his final letter,
that he has been fool. He has been re-
buked. The young lady may be properly con-
graduated on her escape. The clergy and the
public generally should consider themselves
warned against similar folly. And here endeth
the lesson.
Year: 1870

the great advantages offered to him but he has
borne himself through the fiery trial of sudden
prosperity, in every instance brought before
the public cOgnizance, as a man on level with
the white man in character il not in knowledge.
With singular gentleness, and quiet, humble
gravity, he gives the most hopeful of all signs,
an unexaggerated comprehension OF his place
in the body polite; he knows the degradation
he has thrown off, and the mighty chance OF
redemption which is placed in his hands. We
have heard no boasting except from white men
of the desperate bravery of the negro regiments;
the night schools in the South are paid for, and
well paid for, too, by adult field-hands. These
are pregnant facts, and every day offers others.
Reves's first act was one of forgiveness and
Cancellation toward mis- late OppressOrs What
ever his future record may be, this beginning
of public duty was well conceived. 1t was the
Masonic sign given on entering the temple, on
taking his place on behalf Of his race among
his peers; the best sign, tOO to prove that he
held the council of q now free people to he
temple in which he owed duty both to his
fellow man and to God OF the political future
of the negro we say nothing. 1t rests with
himself. But, so far, no man can deny that





Now, shall we take up the other wOuld-be
class of votersf The great majority OF women
do not want suffrage. Miss Anthony and her
cOhort persist in thrusting it on them, as Mrs.
Saueers administered birthstone and treacle to
the writhing victims of DOthebOys Hall" for
"ther good" Is it for their gOOdf What use
have the few tumultuOus candidates for pOlit-
cal rights made of the ground they have
gainedf Now that they have snubbed the Do
nestle Woman, and dismissed her to her
"tiresome, pulling children" their souls have
elbOw-roOm, and they manifest themselves,
unchecked, in incessant speeches in the old
click-clack of conventions spiritually, and
bodily in marvellous Difference to fashion, or
in the trowsers and bOnnets of the female
NJ. DIS, or the more aggressive garments OF
DR.. Mary Walker. Are we to look for evil
dence of their grave conception of their duty
as citizens in the Oft-repeated rant OF these
aforesaid conventional of their humility, in
the chorus of peans to each other in The Rero-
lutioni Is it true that the first attempt at
massed political action of women was to in
dOrse tObaccO-the next, to legallze prOstltu-
ton Are these the wisdom, the purity, the
religious clements which were to sanctify the
ballot-bOx when wOman's influence was brought
to bear on itf We and the public were grow
ing tired of the babble of words, words, words,
about woman suffrage. We asked for facts,
and the facts concerning the few women who
are willing to vote, are coming to us. Shall we
draw the most obvious conclusions


The idiots have fortunately not yet applied
for a vote. We must be thankful. If these
things are done in the green tree, what would
be done in tho dryf
Year: 1870

The Senate, undecided between its own and
the House bill for tho enforcement of the
XVIII Amendment accepts neither. For nearly
the whole of the present week Senators have
talked away first on one measure and then on
the other without suggesting single amend
ment or a substitute. We don't believe any
legislation is necessary to enforce the XVIII
Amendment, unless it be in few small dis
tricts and if the bill as submitted authorizes,
as is charged, the interference of the military
at the polls, we doubt the wisdom of adopting
II at all
Year: 1870

Captain General DE ROdas does not repose
much confidence in the virtue Of consistency.
lis proclamations to the people and his orders
o the soldiers are generally contradictory ;


nd when he is loudest in asserting that the
.ebellon is crushed he is most desperate in
bis war measures for its suppression. His
latest effort is a proclamation freeing and
arming the slaves of the insurgents. One is
forcibly reminded by this method of crushing
a rebellion of the sad experience of Mr.. Jeffer-
son Davis in sustaining one by arming the
slaves DE ROdas's proclamation, like that Of
Year: 1870

All! this is encouraging! Senators are dis
cuss;np their uncourteOus manner in debate,
and there is therefore some hope that they may
reform. The Senator or Representative Is with
out excuse who mistakes denunciation for ar
cument in considering grave and important
measures. 1t may be interesting to Congress
men who indulge in personalities to know that
though readers enjoy the debates in which
"pungent though not supplementary re-
marks are made, they invariably rise from their
perusal with feeling somewhat akin to dis
p1ls
Year: 1870

Democratic journals admit the enormous and
shameless repeating at the late election in this
city, but playfully charge that it was done by
Republcans-but for whose unlawful action
the Democratic majority would have been even
greater than it was. The figures show that in
the Wards in which the repeating swelled
enormously the Democratic majority swelled
enormously. 81 have nothing to say agin them
" sassengers; l only notice that where them
" sassengers is plenty dogs seem sca'ce."
Year: 1870

We are panied to observe that The Wash
ington Star does not approve of our PROPOSE
ton for considering the question of a removal
of the Capital. This is indeed unaccountable
and passing strange. Who would have sup
posed that The Washington Star, of all papers
on the continent, would oppose this measure
We could better bear the opposition if its en-
tirely disinterested nature did not make 1t in
Hunntial
Year: 1870

Davis's, comes little too late to be either
graceful or effective. As the Cubans have al
ready declared the freedom of all the slaves
the proclamation of De ROdas in freeing ohiy
a part of them is not generous from the ha-
manitarian point of view, while 1t is eminenty
absurd as a war measure. 1t will deceive ho
natriOfs and defeat no rebels
Year: 1870

Congress has finally decided to adjourn on
July IS. We were assured during the deDate
on the joint resolution that the naming OF
time for adjournment would spur the mem
bers to action. 1t is rather Illuminating ad-
mission to make, but, if it has this anticipated
effect, the country will not object.
Year: 1870

THE PATTI CONCERT GIVEN UP.


Admirers of Miss CarlOtta Patti will regret tA
learn that the farewell she to have given this
evening at steinway Hall will not take place, Her
agents that she is too much fatgued after her
Western journey to undergo the labor Of this perform
ance and, she sails Monday for Brazil, last o
portunity Of hearing her has therefore slipped away
Year: 1870

An exchange says a lazy
boy will make a lazy man, as
sure as a crooked sapling will
make a crooked tree. Who
ever saw a boy grow up in idle.
ness who did not make a shift
less vagabond when he became
q man, unless he had a fortune
to keep up appearances? The
mass of criminals and paupels
have come to what they are by
being brought up in idleness.
Those who constitute the bust
ness part of the community


who make our great and useful
men were taught in their boy.
hood to be industrious. Boy,
take that pipe out of your
mouth and think Of thisl
Year: 1870

There seems to be no end to
the corruption and degradation
of our politics at Washington
under the present regime. The
latest developement is the sale
of cadetships in the Military
Academy at West Point, and
in the Naval Academy at An,
apolis, by Radical Congress.
men. The age Of purity and
honesty that Republicans
promised to bring upon the
country is the most corrupt and
di~honorable in our history
How long will an honest peo-
pile endure the rule and ruin of
such a party?
Year: 1870

The Louisville Commercial
published a long account of
how Kriel, the wife murderer,
was galvanized back into life
after being hung, This brought
out a card from KrePs broth.
Ell in which he says: The story
that my brother, William Kriel,
is still alive, has no foundation
in fact, and it seems to me that
its publication was a great out
rage upon his family. They
have suffered enough already,
and all they ask is that they be
permitted to live in peace. |
have opened the coffin Of my
hr' ther and fnd his body there
as it was placed after his
death
Year: 1870

There seems to be a screw
loose somewhere at to the
adoption of the fifteenth amend
ment, o as to its effect, when
it is incorporated in the Consti-
tuition. The effect Of the adop-
ton of that amendment was
supposed to be the enfranchis-
ing of the negro, and putting
his right to vote beyond all
question. The fact that Mr..
Bingham, of Ohio, attempted
to introduce a bill in Congress
a few days ago to enforce the
right of citizens of the United
States to vote in the several
States who have hitherto been
denied that right on account of
color, looks very much as if
there was a great doubt Of the
legal adoption of the fifteenth
amendment. If that amend
ment has been or can be lie.
gally made part Of the Constl-
tuition, what necessity is there
for an act of Congress on the
subject. The first section of
Mr.. Bingham's bill provides
that all colored citizens of the
United States, resident in the
several States, shall be entitled
to vote at all elections in the
State of their residence, subject
only to the same conditions
which may now or may hereaf-
ter be required to qualify white
citizens to vote therein. The
second section enscts that when
the constitution or law Of any
State requires the payment OF
tax as a qualification of elec-
tor, any assessor acting under
the laws of such State, who
shall refuse or neglect to assess
the person or property of any
colored citizen Of the United
States shall for every such Of
frnse pay the sum of $500 to
any person who will sne for the
same, and in addition be fined
not less than $500, and be i'm,
prisoned one month. The third
section provides for a similar
penalty, to be enforced upon
the members Of any levy court
required by the laws of any
State to make or correct any
assessment Of persons or prop
erty who neglect or refuse to
treat the colored citizens quail.
fed to vote in the same manner
as the whites. The fourth and
fifth sections are of similar i'm.
port, except that they apply to
clerks and collectors of taxes
who overlook or refuse to rec
ognize Sambo as q full-aedged
citizen Of the United States and
of the State wherein he is a
resident. The sixth section in


flicts a Iik' penalty upon the
presiding officer or Judge Of
elections who refuse to
receive the votes of colored
citizens. The seventh section
gives the Circuit Court of the
United States jurisdiction in al.
Eases arising under this act.


Are the Republican managers
afraid that the question Of the
legality Of the adoption of the
amendment will be brought
before the Supreme Court o


the United States, and that tha'
! Court will hold that no State
not in the Union has a right t(
vote to amend the Constitution?
Year: 1870

In the land where am going,


When my ca thly life is Ger
When the tired hands cease their striving,


And the tired heart aclIes no more
In that land If light and beauty,


Where no sorrow ever came
To o'ercloud the perfect glory


What shall be my angel pame3
When the spirits who await mo
Meet me at my enteriug in,
With what pane of love and music,


Will their welcoming begin!
Not the one SO dimned with earth stains.
Linked with thoughts Of grief and pain
Mol the name that mortals gave ME


Will not be my angel name!
] have heard it oil too often


Uttered by unloving lips;
Earthly. care, and sin and sorrow,


Dim it with their deep eclipse.
shall change it like garment


When leave this mortal frame,
And at iife's immortal baptism


1shnll haye another name.
For the angels will not coll mo


by the name l bear on earth;
They will speak ho!er language


Where have my holier BIRTH
Syllabled in heavenly music,


Sweeter fur than ca, til may claim,
Very gentle. pure and tender


Such will be my angel name.
1t has thrilled my spirit often


In the holiesl Of my dreams;
But its beauty fingers with ME


Only like the morning beams
Weary of the jarring diseord


Which the lips of mortals frame,
When shall l. with joy and rapture,
Answer to my angel names
Year: 1870

We call this pretty incident, which
occurred recently in Western town: In
one of the rooms of the public school is a
lame girl, whom the teacher allows to be
dismissed before the others, so that no
harm may befall her when they crowd out
together. Not long ago the building
took fire, and the scholars rushed for the
doors from all the roons but one-the enc
where the lame girl had her desk. There
the girls sat quietly in the excitement
until their unfortunate companion had
passed out before them, as usual, when
they followed with an outburst Of fright
as intense Us their conduct was noble.
Year: 1870

James King, a citizen of Dover New
Hampshire), recently celebrated his
eighty first birthday and second wedding
day simultaneously, by leading to the
hymenial alter blooming bride of seven
ty-six.
Year: 1870

The following we fud floating in the
papers:


\ poor young widow in Berlin, one
evening lately, found on her table note
addressed to her, reading as follows:
"Madam-I came here with the intention
of robbing you, but the sight Of this
respectable and peaceful attic room,
decorated with religious pictures -and
adorned with pious souvenirs, and above
all, your two little children, which were
quietly sleeping in their little beds and
smiling in their dreams, have touched my
heart, and instead OF depriving you of the
little money I found in your drawer, l
take tt liberty of leaving here $50,
hoping that you will accept them as Il
| tribute of my respect and admiration.
True, the money has been stolen; but
perhaps in the course of every day life
you have taken money from many worse
man than your obedient servant
Year: 1870

\ SAMsoN.-There is a man living in
Calhoun county, Miss, who is supposed
to be the strongest man in the State, if
not in the entire South. He is thirty
five years Of age and weighs two hurdrcd
and twenty-five pounds. lie has been
known TO carry three bars ofrailEoad iron
when it takes from three to five ordinary
men to carry one. He can take cask
containing forty gallons of whisky or
water (the former is preferred we
presume), and raise it from the ground
and drink out of the bunghole with as
much ease as others could out of a com
mon pitcher; and he has frequently taken
u barrel Of flour under each arm, and
balancing a sack of salt on his head
carried them for several hundred yards
with apparently but little effort. He offers
to bet he can lift thirteen hundred
pounds.
Year: 1870

When you see the sun rising before You get
out Of bed, It is a sign that you'd not Do for a
farmer.


When you see a man yawn and close Lis
eyes during the sermon, it is a sign that be is
getting sleepy.


When you sec a man trying 70 convince a
Imp pos: that it is impolite to try to get in
the wa7 ofa gentleman, it is a sign that he has
been drinking-lemonade perhaps.


Wien you see boy throwing stones on tie
street and speaking imprudently to old people,
it is a sign that his parents don't care much
for him.


When you see a girl throwing kisses and
y7inking at the boys as they pass her window,
it is a sign that she is too young to be ou. Of
sight Of her maternal relative.


When you see young gentlemen and ladies
whispering aud gigling and writing notes in
church, It is a sign that the man who teaches
good manners omitted to give them 4 call
when he came along the last time.
Year: 1870

FOUR NEGROES were hanged in Norfolk,
Va, yesterday, for the murder of white
man named Gray, in December last. AS an
Instance Of brutality and inhumanity and in
excusable bungling, the execution exceeded
anything we have yet read Of The four con-
demned men were dropped together amid
their appealing cries to Heaven and to man
for mercy. The ropes of the two outside men
broke and let them fall to the ground, where
they lay writhing and squirming until strangu-
iation had done its work upon the Others The
hangman, after cutting down the two who we're
successfully experimental upon, dragged the
bodies along the yard and dumped them into
their cofans. Then he walked the two sur
vivors up the steps Of the scaffold, amid more
shrieks for mercy, tied them to the ropes
which yet remained intact, and dropped them
with such improved skill that, after hanging
fifteen or twenty minutes, they were both
declared dead. Then this model hangman
cut them down, dragged them to their cofins
and dumped them in as he had the others.
Altogether the whole proceeding must have
been very entertaining sight, especially to
tne white females who were present.
Year: 1870

may and do feel for the situation Of France
he must not belittle his own government In
Hoing So He must remember that diplomacy
does not admit Of personal emotion; and that
It differs from electioneering canvassers In
Illinois this far-the less buncombe in
diplomacy the better
Year: 1870

The FRENCH STEAMER LAFAYETTE has been
detained here by orders from the French war
Minister until next Tuesday for the purpose Of
taking on board large quantity of arms said
to have been purchased in this city for the
French republic. There is no violation of the
law in such shipment, and as the French suf-
fer especially from the want of arms there is
an excellent way Of assisting the new republic.
Year: 1870

The journal Of Commerce argues elabo.
rately with Senator Revels to prove that he
is white man, or at least that, being
thsee-foorths white, there is no reason to
believe TINT his one-fourth of black blood
hns spoiled his ability as legislator. The
present attitude Of conservative Democra-
cy, therefore, is that a man one-fou1th
black is fit to bo Senator, but man one
hall black is Lot. Democracy will maintain
this attltuds until some man one-half black
shall be elected. Democracy will then find
its fnith in white blood SO enlarged that, il
thera be but fourth or tenth Of white
blood, it will redeem very large quantity
Of hIeck
Year: 1870

To DE TESTED. From the Yreka Journal we


learn that test-c0se has been made up in Sski-
you county, to be submitted to the Supreme
Court which will settle whether the Democratic
Anti-Mortgage Tax Law, passed last Winter, is
unconstitutional or not Should it be declared
unconstitutional, then mortgages will be subject
to taxation the same as other property. The
Journal concludes an article ON this subject with
the following pertinent remarks;


The interior counties have to pay all this tax,
but the city of San Francisco has always gono
clear, thus robbing the interior counties Of more
than their just share of taxation. The San
Francisco capitalists were assessed under Re-
publican rule but they held back their money
and got Democratic Legislature TO pass n bill
relunding them this tax, together with an addi-
tionol law exemptiug altogether the tax ON mort
gage funds. Political intrigue in the Democratic
ranks will continue this system Of uoutaxation
in San Francisco in some shape, no matter how
the Courts decide, for the sake Of success, which
the people of the interior must make up by moro
than their just share of taxation. As long as
such as Governor lIaight and his combination
ring, just so long viii they sell the interests of
the people to gain their own ambitious ends.
We hope the men who have to pay not only
their own tax, but also make up the tax ex-
cmpted to capitalists in San Francisco, will re-
member Governor lltiRht and his clique whose
whole aim in state affairs has been partisan
gain, rather than the public welfare.
Year: 1870

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILwAY.-A committe OF
this company will very soon locate the western
terminus of that road somewhere on Puget
Sound. Twenty miles Of track will be


built Immediately, beginning at the lermnns
Year: 1870

EVERY day quail are sold in this
market that have been caught in nets,
This is violation of the game law of
Indiana, aud ii should be stopped.
Being found with quail thus caught is
prima facia evidence Of the guilt of
the party. We hope that some one
buying or selling such birds will be
made an example of and fined, to
deter others from the unsportsman
like process of numbering the birds by
whole coveys. No sportsman would
net a quail. Madison Courier.
Year: 1870

We have occasionally noticed ex
pressions of contempt for rag carpets
ia agricultural journals. Some ladies
have expressed their gcorn Of the Ia
Dor OF making rag carpet when
good carpet can be bough for 81 so
per yard and even a man has given
expression to the same sentiment.
Not long since we saw a calculation
by man that rag carpet made BY
his wife, cost 81 so per yard. We
know a woman-not the wife of one
dependent upon hard toll for a living.
but one wko would. we presume. from
her position feel herself a little 100
proud to make rag carpets. This
woman has just completed enc that
has cost as follows.