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Year: 1870

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Moral codes grow out of society. religion


belief to be OF Divine iauthority must be universal


From this standpoint sectariansm Is failure.
Transgresson being simply violation OF our moral
perceptions the pagan and the Christian must be
submitted TO the same standard OF judgment. To


ward the one for the performance Of an act under


certain irresistible influence would be as obviously


unjust to punish the other for the nOnperlormance
OF similar act In the absence OF such influence.


Hence, special Divine revelations are impossible.


There Is utter degradation In adopting as a dogma
OF our faith that which is wholly incomprehensibe;
for 1t may be true or false for aught we know. No


censure therefore, should attach to our lection
OF It, The God OF the Christian is the God OF the
pagan seen through different lens. Science and
learning will ultimately harmonize both into pure


Thesm divested OF bl0od-staned rags and purged Of
flthy essences. To accomplish this Chrlsendom


must be invaded with learned and logical forces that


admit OF no flnessing or special pleading. Instead


OF permitting Professionalism and Catholicism to quar-


rel the true Interpretation OF the text, Thou
art Peter, and upon this rOck,'' &c. we must de-
mand the proof OF any such wordslhaving ever been


uttered by Divine Being, and establish beyond any


peradventure, that the work in which the passage is
to be found is not only contradictory and irrecOncila


BILE with ITSELF but strangely unreliable from Genesis
TO Revelations. We must demonstrate that nobody
knows by whom large portions of 1t were writ
ten when they were written or TO what they
refer. The learned have put 1t In evidence that


Moses could never have written the Five BOoks''


attributed TO him. and thar our present Gospel Ac-
cording to ST. Matthew is possibly, spurious. In
addition II Is notorious that contemporary history is
silent upon some OF the most important events re-
lated IN the New Testament, while 1t Is equally GER
tain that the suierings OF Christ have been exag
eerated to pitch wholly unwarranted by the CIR
cumstances or the casetakng them all for granted
even. The probability Is he suffered as little as any
malefactOr tiat had ever been executed at Ieru-
salem. lie was in excellent health at the time OF
his being sentenced and ate good supper the night
before he was led to Calvary. Besides he died


after he had been nailed TO the cross and had none
Of his bones broken while he yet lyed Had he had
Year: 1870

We have received tickets to the fourth
anniversary celebration of the German
Protestant Orphan Asylum, to come off at
Orange Grove lin the late City of Jeferson),
tomorrow Sunday, and the next day.
Year: 1870

asking for writ of mandamus in the case
of Fuentes against Gaines. it was yesterday
ordered that the Judge Of the Second Dis.
trict Court show cause, on the eighth in.
slant, why peremptory mandamus should
not issue, commanding him to send the
naners in the case to this court
Year: 1870

principle Of representation, SO that one
person can represent given number
of others. Do we cndow this repre-
sentative with oligachical powers?
Not much. If he does his duty faith
fully and well, we love to honor him
if he does not, it is our privilege and
duty to scourge him. All this we
publicly proclaim, and adhere to; but
no sooner does a Prince, who repre-
sents no power, come into our midst
than we are all agog to show him
our servility. In the name of hu-
manity AMI liberty, let this thing be
stopped. Had he been clothed with
authority to do something for his
government in the way of business
with ours, then we would say, receive
him as respectfully as we can consist
emily as nation, but not grovelling
as though il were gracious conde-
scension upon his part to deign to
visit our country. Had his desire
been to simply come over and look
at our country, he would not have
come in the pomp and display of a
Prince. No, he was posted, and is
receiving the fondling and homage he
anticipated.


If we love our country and it's in
stitutions, let us look well that we
do not sycophantly lick the dust up
on which every Prince treads, for it
is known in despotic Europe quick
ly and as certainly as here, and gives
them courage, hope ard serves them
in nn,vnp
Year: 1870

Mark Twain is to be married next
month. When will the other Mark
Twain


A st. Louis court has decided that
the guardian Of an orphan must
be of the same religious faith as the
child.
Year: 1870

came from the Prussian monarch to beg
him to enter room where the King was
alone. They remained together for
nearly an hour and half, speaking in
a very low tone. At the end of the in
terview the ex-Emperor got into a post
chaise with the Prussian arms in it, and
took the route by Luxembourg to Cassel,
where he viii proceed to Spandau. This
last is a fortress which protects Berlin on
the northeast side; it contains a State
Prison of very gloomy aspect. Those
who form the suite of the King pretend
that it is the intention of his Majesty to
leave Napoleon there to the end of his
days A perpetual imprisonment the
King is reported to have said, would be
only the just chastisement Of so great an
offender. An officer of the Prussian
staff, who is going to Namur and Brus-
SelS on special mission, af6rmS that
without the Intervention of the Prince
Royal and that of Count de Bismarck,
the King was determined to have the
Emperor shot, so great was his exaspera-
ton against him for having caused the
death of so many brave soldiers. The
equipages, carriages and the imperial
servants seized on at Arion by the
Belgian authorities the various persons
belonging to him were liberated on par
ole, but with a recommendation to get
rid of their liveries, which they very
readily did. You can have no idea in
Paris of the exasperation that prevails
against the Emperor and his friends
among the French who throng in here
from the field Of battle
Year: 1870




w E have had our Hammer on ths
outer wall, with PRICES SO Low that
no arm In the State Of Ohio undertook to
meet us. We have driven our foe to the
wail, and occupy the field without fear.


We have sileneed-an men who years ago
assumed some powerof competition. They
are now willing to confess eonhdentially
that there is no use trying to meet or beat
US IN prices, because we are game on a
Clothing 'set-tO." Theironly hope is sinthe
Ignorance Of their customers. who viii not
look around. to see the difference in our
prices and theirs. which amounts to at least
Year: 1870

Especial attention is called 10 our
Merchant Tailoring De-


partTmemt.
For excellent ITS and fashionable work
we are not beat in this or any other State.
This is not blowing but sober fact, as all
our work does show. Please give US call,


Respectfully.
REYNOLDS & FRANK.
Year: 1870

At a late discussion of manures at the


London Farmers Club, the following,
among other conclusions, were generally
concurred in:


If manure is taken directly from the
yard and plowed under, it Is handled but
once, loses nothing In the escape o. am.
monia, because no fermentation has taken
place, and is not injured at all by beating.


Covered two or three inches, it is soon in
warm and moist condition, SO that fer
mentation readily takes place and gases are
given off. These are srrested by the SOIL
as are also its juices, and are not only in q
state of readiness to be taken up by the
roots of plants, but act in double capaci.
ty by becoming food themselves, and act
ing upon other materials until they become
so.


In applying it in green state, much of
it will be in coarse condition, but fermen-
tation and the action of frost will tend to
pulverize it, so that second plowing will
usually incorporate it pretty thoroughly
with the soil. With these advantages,
then, we have no hesitation in recommend
ing this course with all the manure that
can be applied in the autumn. If COM
posted with any substance that Will divide
the wet manure % that 1t can be made
somewhat fine, then we would put it under
IN the spring as early as the condition OF
the soil would permit.


For these, and other reasons which
| might be urged, we are clearly of the opin-
ion that, so far as we can make it cOnye-
nient, it is best to put all the manure we
can under ground in it's fresh and crude
condition, and cover it not more than three
inches at the most.
Year: 1870

In the Herald of Health for November
We find very interesting article on The
tFruitfulness of the Human Mind" from
which we take this extract:


We are not apt to be aware Of the enor-
nous fruitfulness Of the human mind
There are some forty or fifty appetites, pas
sions, affections, sentiments and faculties
included in the organization of man which
minister either to his physical or spiritual
being. These are all of them open to ex-
element; and they are called into play
more or less every day, and every part of
each day by natural objects, by social con-
tact, by the exigencies of business and
pleasure, by our own volitions, reflections
| and automatic power. r.5 .#.- rs
| Though all these various appetites, and
passions, and affections, and sentiments,
aud faculties are not acting at once, yet
they SO alternate in action that there are
several of them acting together. For six
teen hours ont OF eve y twenty four, there
are some forty agents more or less active
within you; and the product in each hour
and each day must be immense, because
the mind acts quicker than any other
thing You think ten times quicker than
! you can talk; for the man OF muscle is
vastly lazisr than the man of thought. A
man can think as much faster than he can
speak, as he can speak faster than he can
write. How quick you plan but how
slow you execute The rapidity of mental
operations eludes any mans estimate.


II some invention of science should give
the brain recording power like that oi
the telegraph, it is probable that the
thoughts, the fancies, the feelings and the
volitions of single day would fill large
volume. Three hundred and sixty five
volumes in year would be written, if the
definite reflections, motives and emotions
that evely day passes distinctly through
your mind, and have relation to your char
acter and eternal destiny, should be print
ed in book. What enormous fruitfulness
and how much OF it seems to drop unno
ticed ..


1t is simply impossible for man to tax
note of such flow of inward life. 1t i
impossible for man to take note Of such


flow of inward life. 1t is impossible for


man to take note of even that which is out
ward. How much of what you said yestel
day do you remember to-day? Probabl
there was not much that was worth re
membering; but if you tried, how muc
could you remember of it!


There was Vocalization, thers was def
niteness of thought, separated from tn
flow OF emotion and fashioned into word;
and yet how much do you remember of tn
outward life of yesterday And, after al
, that was not ten-thousandth part {
what took place. The things that are ten(
ing toward action are more than th
things that accomplish actien. Thos
: thoughts and feelings which lie behind el


preston are immeasureably more fruitfl


than expression itself can be. And if yo
= cannot remember the outward life, no
j, much less can you remember the inwal
! life! It wenld be easier for man to oou


the drops of the river that flows by hi
j deep and rapid, than to count the though
a and feelings and fancies that make the ri


er of life that flows from the soul.
Year: 1870

The apple crop throughout the Union
will probably exceed that of any previous
year since the culture of fruit assumed Its
present importance, and became so widely
known


Not unfrequently certain sections are en-
tirely without apples, even if peaches and
pears are reasonably abundant; but this
year the crop is general in its distribution,
and must be very large ia It's aggregate.
What can be done with them? Early
fall apples can be gathered and made into
cider. Nine bushels viii make barrel,
and that barrel turned to vinegar ought to
bring itsowner, within a twelvemonth after
it is ready for sale. at least so cents gal
lon. Good cider-vinegar has been worth
! 60 cents, and may reach that figure again
before another apple year.


Some of the miserable com pounds that
people call vinegar, and which are bought
and sold for such, cost less IN cash, but are
far more expensive TO whosoever is beguil-
ed into using them.


Another appropriations your cellar is
not good for making vinegar, or your
neighborhood lacks barrels which can be
| bought at reasonable price-is, to teed
them to hogs. Our practice has been to
boil them with potatoes, IN the proportion
of one bushel of fruit to two of vegetable,
and the stew was not only palatable, but
we believe the apples possessed an actual
value not far from 20 cents bushel


AS to winter apples, they should all be
gathered, and with more care than would
be bestowed on q crop which vas small,
and, of course, sure CT ready sale.
When there is scarcity, anything viii
sell; when the supply is abundant, the best
always finds the readiest market, and the
poorest frequently none.


Besides, good apples, well gathered and
well preserved, cannot fail of finding re-
munerative sale some time before the next
season, if not this fall or winter. There
cannot be an overstock next June, and If
care in gathering and preserving
will give to the 1ruit-grower d sure
market, then the bestowal of both is alike
the dictate OF prudence and economy
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1870

The week opened upon an easier feeling In money de


spite the uuisyorsbe bank exhibit Of last week The
more general rate 10 borrowers on call was g. though the
Leading bond dealers freely supplied AT s. and no
new business reported per cent The currency
movement is comparatively nominal In the paper mar


ket there il moderate demand reported at bank but
I'm view the impoverished condition Of the banks they
are taking no new lines. There is a scarcity OF prime
paper offering in the open market, though Of lower
grades large amounts are pressing. The following
Year: 1870

The gold market was very dull, and the price
nuctuated between the extremes Of 1l4N 114%,
the former being made on the early presence OF a
short interest," shown in the oanfng rate, and the
latter subsequent to the large bids for the govern
ment gold. The bulk Of business was at ll47l. The
rise in the afternoon was also due In part to the
further postponement Of the currency bill, the con-
sideraton Of which has been deferred to Tuesday
next Tne chief fluctuations are shown in the
table,
Year: 1870

According to the Albany correspond
eDt of the Buffalo Express, the following
bill is to be offered in the New York
Legislature:


"Section l. Any female of chaste
character, under the age of seventeen
years, who shall, with evil intent, win
ningly, winsomely and willfully decoy
and seduce from his domestic duties
married man Che being the father Of
family and having children over ten
years of age,) and by artful wiles draw
him away from his family, shall, on
conviction, be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and shall bs imprisoned in a
housa of refuge for not less than two
days. If, on trial of such young and
artful female, it shall be shown that
the married man so seducedand enticed
away is q minister of the gospel in good
standing, the offender shall in like man
ner be sentenced to not less than one
hour nor more than two hours in the
county jail"
Year: 1870

versity as partisan institution cannot
get home patronage worthy of the name.


We have probably devoted more space
to this subject than was necessary. In
conclusion we shall lot apologize for
what we have said by parading our
friendship for the University. So far
as it may be fairly, imPartialiy
and economically managed we are pre-
pared to wish it success. When it fails
in these respects We do not want to see
it aided, and we believe the people are
of like mind. For the present year it
should be allowed to get along without
State assistance.
Year: 1870

Grants economy is shown by one of
the features of the order just issued
from the War Department, changing
the staff officers on duty in Eastern
posts to the frontier, and bringing
other officers from distance to take
their places, is the economy of the af-
fair. The cost of putting the order in
to execution will be one hundred thou
sand dollars for mileage and other ex-
penditures. Inasmuch as the admiais-
tration is pledged to economy, this lit
tie manGuvre to expend considerable
sum to no purpose whatever is worth
notice,
Year: 1870


From the Japan Gazette, March 81


The evening before last we mentioned
that telegram had been received ir
town to the effect that an assassin
entered the bedroom of Col. G. o. Shep-
ard the United States Consul in Jeddo.
The following particulars we learned too
late for insertion last evening;


Colonel Shepard resides in the Jeddo
Hotel, his flagstaff being put up in the
hotel compound. He occupies one of
the wings up stairs, to which there is no
direct staircase from below, and to which
a greater length of passage has to be
traversed than to many of the sleeping
apartments, besides turn in the pas
sage having to be made. A man in the
dark, therefore, could hardly arrive at
his door without special design 1t hap
pens also that Colonel Shepard locks his
bedroom door at night. There are two
keys, one of which he keeps to lock him
self in; the other is kept by his japanese
boy to let himself in when he calls his
master in the morning. 1t appears that
Col Shepard was awoke and fancied he
heard the noise of the lock being turned
and the door opened, but so uncertain
was he as to whether it was really noise
or only dream that an instant after he
was asleep again. 1t was quite dark, and
although an intruder stepped noiselessly
into the room, he stumbled on a pair of
boots Just inside the door, and thus fairly
reused the Colonel, who jumped up in
bed and demanded Who's there?"
He then seized his pistol, and the man
ran out of his room. He followed, how
ever, and, dark as it was, perceived by
the sound of his feet that the man was
running along the passage to the grand
staircase. He fired along the passage,
but evidently without effect, for the steps |
still retreated. He then ran swiftly |
along to the staircase and fired another
shot as the fugitive reached the first |
landing, when the fellow cried augh,
leading Colonel Shepard to think he had /
hit him; another ere he reached 1
the foot of the stairs, down which Col. (
Shepard pursued him; and gave a part
ing shot as he passed out of the door
which stood open. As all this time
merely the faintest image of man in
retreat had been actually seen, the shots
were made by the pursuer, himself in
motion, at a mark the whereabouts of
which was rather judged of by sound
than by sight BY this time the whole
of the inmates of the hotel were aroused
Col Shepard did not follow the fellow
further, as the night was very dark. A
light having been procured, a short
sword was found sticking in the stairs;
and search being made at daylight, the
scabbard Of the sword was found near
one of the iron stays of the flagstaff, and
a mark showing that the man had run
against the guy.


These facts seem to place beyond
doubt the deliberate intentions Of the
man
Year: 1870

The muscles of the human jaw exert d
force of $50 pounds. The quantity OF
pure water which the blood contains is
very great. 1t amounts 10 nearly seven
eiehths. Kiel estimates the surface'of
the lungs at $50 square feet, or ten times
that Of the external body The blood IS
a fifth of the weight Of the body. A man
is taller in the morning than at night, to
the extent Of half an inch OF more,
owing to the relaxation Of the cartilages,
There is iron enough in the blood Of
Of fortv-tvo men TO make plowshare oi
twenty-four pounds. The human brain
is the twenty-eighth party Of the body
Good Health.
Year: 1870

With singular delicacy the courts of
Utah give the condemned choice of the
mode of execution-hanging, shooting
or beheading. Instinctively they all
turn from hanging. One white man
only has ever been hung in the Terri
tory, and his preference for the rope
was induced by the hope held out by
some of his confederates that they would
rescue him from the scaffold. 81
Louis Democrat.
Year: 1870

HoUsEwoRK FOR GIRLs.-It isthe law of
God that no human beings can have sound
vigorous body, accomplish much physi-
cally, and enjoy long life, without good
muscles. Though there is a variety of
ways by which exercise may be obtained,
yet domestic labor is best adapted to de-
velop and strengthen the whole system.
Within few years much interest has been
awakened upon the subject of physical ex-
ercise, particularly as connected with
schools and seminaries of learning. Be-
sides the outdoor exercises and games,
calisthenics and gymnastics have been in
troduced inside the school-room, and are
becoming part Of the regular exercises
in many Institutions This is an improve
ment in the right direction, and is good as
far as it goes, but is entirely inadequate to
meet fully the demands of nature.


No kind of exercise for girls is so well
calculated as household work to develop
all the muscles of the body-to do it in
early life, and gradually, under circum-
stances favorable to health generally. The
girl and young woman must thus be train
ed year after year, otherwise She will nev-
er obtain that hardihood of constitution,
that strength of muscle, that power OF en-
durance; or in other words, that balance
of temperament so essential to good health
and happiness in all the social and domes-
tic relations of life-Dr. Allyne.
Year: 1870

Let us accompany good orthodox jew
ish family through their calm and cheerful
Sabbath and see how they keep it and enjoy
it. select an orthodox family, instead of a
reformed" merely Because the orthodox
jew is an historical person; as he keeps
his Sabbath as his fathers have kept it for
many centuries. The Jewish Sabbath be-
gins on Friday evening half an hour be-
fore sunset, and ends on Saturday even
ing half an hour after sunset, or when
star is visible in the sky. On Friday, the
day of preparation, the women and girls
OF the family are busy in providing for the
morrow the best food OF the week for
whatever is eaten or drank during the joy
Gus sacred hours must be the very best the
family can afford. Poor Jews will pinch
all the week in order that their wives and
children may have something delicious to
eat on the Sabbath. But that savory food
must be cooked or prepared for cooking
before the Sabbath begins; for our Israeli
itish brethren observe with Just strictness
the law which gives rest on the day of rest
to their servants. They shame us in this
particular. They will not use even their
horses on their Sabbath. On Sunday,
about twelve NJ, you may see in front
of DIR. Adams fashionable Presbyterian
church in Madison square, New York, or
around DR.. Tyng's fashionable Episcopal
church, in St. Georges square of the same
city, from twenty to forty well-appointed
equippages waiting for the last hymn to be
finished; but you will never see a vehicle
before the superb Temple Emmanuel, a
Jewish synagogue in the Fifth Avenue, al
though there are many families within who
could ride home, if they would, in their own
carriages. l do not say that the Christians
are wrong or the Jews right in this. 1t is
no ones business but their own. But il
we borrow the Hebrews word Sabbath,
and adopt, verbally, their Sabbatical law,
our practice perhaps ought to conform in
some degree to our profession. 1t prob
ably does not severely tax those coachmen
and footmen to show off their gay turnouts
and brilliant liveries on fine Sunday
morning in the Fifth Avenue. But for the
heavy-laden drudges ofthe clearinghouse
kitchen, and the maid-ot-all work in aver
age families, | could wish we were all Jews
from Saturday night till morning. 1t is
dastardly shame to compel or permit
women, who have faithfully toilcd for US
from Mondays tub to Saturdays scrub, to
work hard all through the best hours of
Sunday merely that we may gorge our
selves with dainty food. The Jews avoid
this barbarous meanness. Their servants
rest on their Sabbath. h.-James Patron in
the atlantic.