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Year: 1870

Sometimes, without any assighables cause
the physical strength and animal spirits give
way, and strange torpor falls alike on the


body and intellect There is little or no pain


perhaps, butthe natural vigor and elasticity
of the nervous and muscular system seems to


have departed. and an indifference to the plea


sures of life, and even of its grave responsible


tiles, takes the place OF that earnest interest in


both which claracterizes every well balanced
mind when in q healthy condition. -


This state of partial collapse is often the pre-


mouitory symptoms Of some serious malady.


It indicates unmistakably that the vital powers
are laneuisbing and need q stimulant. In such
csaes the effect of few doses of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters is wonderfully beneficial.
The great tonic wakes up the system from its
dose The secretiops and the. circulation
receive q new impetus The relaxed nerves
recover their elasticity under the operation of
the specific. like the slackened, strength of
musical Instrument in the process of tuning
Lethargy snd debility are replaced by energy
and vigor, the spirits rise, and life that almost
seemed burden while the season of depres.
sion lasted, becomes once more enjoyable.
That such Radical change should be pro-
duced by remedy entirely devoid Of the pow
erful slkaloids and minerals 80 extensively
used 10 modern practice, may seem incredible
to those who pin their fifth on the medicinal
efficacy of active poisonA but If these skeptics
will take the trouble to inquire Of those who
have tested the corrective and Alternative vir.
tues of the Bitters under the circumstances de-
eribed, they will find the statement to be
rue. 80
Year: 1870

DoSr WHIP FEIGHrENED HORSE.
Never whip your horse for becoming
frightened at any object by the roadside,
for if he sees a stump, a log. or heap OF
tan bark in the road. and while he is eye
ing it carefully, and about to pass it, You
strike him with tho whip, it is the stump
or log, or pile of tan bark that is hurting
him, In bis wayof reasoning, and the next
time he will appear more frightened. Give
HIM time to examine and smell of these
objects, and use the war bride to assist
jects of fear. Bring all objects, if possi.
BILE, to his nose, and let him smell of them
and then you can commence to gentle him
with them. -Ex
Year: 1870

THEY now excuse Nspoleou's blunder
for going INTO war unprepared, by saying
that lac did not know the real condition of
his army but no one supposes he ever
did know much about military matters.
Year: 1870

BY MARY CLEMMER AMEs.
Who'll love me when my hair is gray
Who'll call me fair when / am old?
viii sunny children round me play,
With cherub cheek and curls of gOldl
Oh, may | then renew my spring,
In maiden grace in manly form,
While to my cold lips come and cling
Sweet childish kisses wild and warm2
May know the while my pulse grows less,
In bounteous life tis bounding on
In Younger veins, to love and bless,
And make life fair when am gOne2
Or, left the remnant of my race,
Shall behold my sinking sun,
And gazing toward the unknown lands,
Thank God, my day is almost doneg
The while pray with lifted hands,
And count between my falling breath
The friends that have lost in life,
The friends that / have lost in death.
Alas with eyes of wis'ful ruth,
must recall some coming day,
The grace and glory of my youth,
Who'll love me when my hair is gray
Who'll love me when my hair is grayg
All well know that there is one
Whose eyes will see me fair and gray
When faint and slow my life-sands run:
He'll see around my faded brows,
From whence the morning flowers are flung
The nimbus of eternal youth,
And love as If still were young.
Year: 1870

We wonder not at the ambition that
aims at the editorial chair; All OtheR
modes of affecting the public mind are
weak and narrow compared withit. The
pen is tile lever that moves the world,
and ink-roller of the printing press the
battering ram that smites into dust the
walls of ignorance and sin. But the
press is a strong team to drive; and Uhe
must be sure of the harness and the
wheels, or coming along a steep place,
there will be a capsze; and wreck from
under which the literary Adventures will
not have strength to draw themselves.
Pheton's attempt to drive the chariot of
the sun ended in grand stnash up:


Independent.
Year: 1870

CHARLES LAME To YoUNG MES.-"The
waters have gone over me. But out OF
the black depths, could ! be heard,
would cry out 10 all those who have bnt
set foot in the perilous flood. Could
the youth TO whom the flavor of his first
wine is delicious as the opening scenes
OF life, or the entering upon some newly
discovered paradise, look into my desola,
ton, and be made to understand what a
dreary thing it is when man shall feel
himself going down precipice with
open eyes and Il passive will--to sec his
destruction and have no power to stop
it, and yet feel it all the way emanaiing
from himself; to see all godliness emptied
oat of him, and yet not able to forget a
tint when it was otherwise; to bear
about him the piteous spectacle of his
own ruin. Could he see my fevered eye,
feverish with the last nights drinking
and feverlshly looking for to-night's rep
etition OF the folly; could he but feel the
body of the death out of which / cry,
hourly with feebler outcry, to be deliver
ed, it were enough to make him dash
the sparkling beverage to the earth in
all the pride Of its mahtling teinpta,
tion.
Year: 1870

The very able gentleman who writes
the "Review Of the Week" in the Boston
7rdUeler quotes that fiue birthday ode OF
Lord Byrun's in which he informs the
world that his days are "ih the scar and
yellow leaf" and then remarks by way
of comment that it Is ''impossible TO be-
lieve that tile fiian who could thus write


was capable of committing the foul crime
that has been attributed to him OF late"
He might as we'll say that it Is ''impossi-
BILE to believe that the man who wrote
the ''Vicar of Wakefield" was capable of
luddling himself with prostitutes and
cheating his tailor, or that the man who
wrote "The Christian Soldier" was capa-
BILE of deceiving his wife and of wallowing
not untrequently in the gutter The list
might be extended indefinitely. There
never was clearer case for the appllca'
tion OF the 1eductio dd dbSardanl. The
argument in nutshell is that n man
who writes finely cannot act foully. II
that Is the most Lord Byron's friends
Gan say for him, they had best hold their
peace altogether. y
Year: 1870

Up the hill whip me not
Down the hill hurry me not;
In the stable, forget me not "A
Ot hay and corn, rob me not
or clean water, stint me not
With sponge and brush, neglect uie not
OF soft, dry bed, deprive me not;
If sick or cold, chill me not;
With bit or reins, jerk me not
And when you are angry, strike me not.
Year: 1870

Reflect that sound mind and body are tho
mos. necessary requisites u promote connubi-
al happiness, Indeed without those the Jour
ney through life becomes weary pilgrimage,
the prospect hourly darkcns to the view, tho
mind becomes shadowed with despair, and filed
with the melancholy reelection that the happl'
ness Of another is blighted with our own
Year: 1870

They NIingle their Tears at New CastIe-A


Gloomy Look mt the Handwriting on the
Wall.


The Wilmington Commercial continues to
make the Delaware ''white" men laughing
stock. We take the following from its report
of one OF the late forlorn attempts of the De-
mocracy of that section:-


For some weeks call signed by Mr.. Samuel JEFF
ferson Chairman OF the last County Convention OF
the Democratic party for this county, mas been be-
fore the people calling on all white men to meet at
New Castle on Saturday to take measures TO pre-
vent the ascendancy OF this dreadful radical party"
Iu response to the call, about two hundred or tive
hundred and 1fty sin0n-pufe Democrats Cid meet
thtre. About twenty from the lower end OF the
COUNTY came up on the morning train, Newark
sent delegation OF about thirty, and brass
band THIS party feeling the soiemnlty OF the
occasion, and seeing the grave prospect ahead,
formed themselves into a funeral procession, Mr..
REYNOLDS and somebody else riding ahead as preach
ers, the band-wagon representing the hearse and
and decOrousy, at true funeTeal pace and with
than funereal soemnity. The midday train from
Wilmington brought another brass band and the
remainder OF the two hundred. They walked up
from the depot in procession, but all OF them ap-
peared az ahamed OF the business, and in the attempt
OF so many TO appear spectators there was soon no
Finding Court in session, the meeting was Or
ganzed on the east side OF the JAIL the stoop OF the
Sherifrs house answering as platform for the


MI. Wniteiey was called for, and made brief
but clustering address that awoke responsive echoes
in the market-house opposite. He spoke, he said a.
a Democratic politician OF thirty years standing
and advised the Democrats TO lay aside all past DIFF
ferences as 10 tariff etc., and ask all Republicans td
Join them for this campaign assuring them tnat tn'
eleventh hour convert should be as good as th'
oldest party man amongst them. Mr. Whiteley de
clared he would vote for no man VINO WOuld ask
negro to vote for him. AS he grew more violent n
awakened some excitement and q man In the Grove
Year: 1870

Memphis is very proud over an Irish jaunt-
ing Car.


The ladies are SO anxious to invade male
colleges-why don't they admit men to theirs?
We suggest to Mrs. Stanton that Rutgers Fe-
male College and Vassar should be thrown open
to male students Immediately.


Some manufacturers are trying to frighten
the revenue-reform Congressman by holding
meetings looking to the stoppage of the manu-
facture of pig iron. But the slipperiness of that
pig is pretty well understood


1T is said that some ladies who are troubled
with large feet are trying to bring Dame Fashion
back to her old and bad habit of long walking
dresses Let it be generally understood that al
advocates of this step backward are physically
jl!srsslsd!
Year: 1870

A WISE MoTHER.-When / was a
girl, my mother taught me every variety
of domestic work, leading me on from
simple and to difficult processes In this
manner: My daughter" she would
say, now if you will make this skirt
very nicely, you shall make next shirt
for your father, and he shall know that
every stitch was set by your fingers. =
How eager was to learn the mysteries
of shirt.making, and how patiently my
mother taught me to set the stitches in
the bosom, to baste the gussets, to stroke
the gathersl How many button-holes |
worked on odd scraps of muslin before
she could quite trust me to make those
in the bosom and wristbandsl But that
shirt was my apprenticeship to the nee
die, and since then dress-making, millin-
cry, tailoring even. has had no terrors in
my imagination, for if / could learn to
make shirt we'll, could learn to make
anything. In the same way, she stimu-
lated my industry in culinary matters
" When you have learned to wash and
wipe the dishes very nicely" she would
say; 81 will let you make some biscuit.
Then l was permitted to rise step high
er, to the dignity of bread-making, the
concoction of cakes and pies. | really
thought in those days that l loved to do
housework, to cook and sweep and iron,
but since then / have found out that it
was my mothers admirable management
that made pastime of drudgery.-Er-
change.
Year: 1870

BY LOIS BROOKE.
All the year long the moon gives light,
And makes a silver day of night;


But once year
She seems more near
Shows every night her steadfast face,
And fills the sky with tranquil grace
'Tis hard to tell when day is DONE
For night and day flow into one.
So Heaven shines downward all the while,
And lights us with its constant smile;


But once year


1t draws more near;
Wide open stands the shining door,
With CLEANS of light unseen before;
And all across flash glimpses fleet
Of upper joys and radiant feet.
'Tis ever so since love broke through,
And down the widening spaces few:


That blessed year


Our Lord came near
For Him swung back the starry bound;
Deepened far up the great profound;
All Heaven swept outward at his BIRTH
And naught was narrow but the earthl
Now evermore He stands and waits
Some lifting of those lower gates;


But once year


He waits more near -
Shall the blest door be thrown so wide,
And only we the entrance hidel
Unbar all hearts. make room within,
And let the holy Christmas in


-Seribner'sf for Jahua1r
Year: 1870

The mellow year is fastening to its close;


The little birds have almost sung their last;


Their small notes twitter in the dreary blast
That shrill-piped harbinger of early SHOWS.
The patient beauty of the scentless rose


Oft with the morn's hoar crystal quantity gassed,


Hangs pale mourner for the summer past
And makes little summer where it grows.
In the chill sunbeam Of the faint, brief day.


The dusty waters shudder as they shine;
The russet leaves obstruct the struggling way


OF oozy brooks, which no deep banks define;
And the gaunt woods, in rugged scant array,


Wrap their old limbs with sombre ivy twine.
Year: 1870

"a rufan shot me last night" said a
penurious man, and my life was saved
by the balls striking a silver dollar in
nv vest pocket" Whoever takes true
aim at your heart is very certain to hit a
dollar" said one who knew him.
Year: 1870

MET THEIR MATcH.-Two fellows in
Cleveland set themselves up for highway
men, taking their stand on railroad
bridge to wait for workmen, who had
that day received their months pay. A
little after dark sturdy cooper came
along, when they demanded his money
or life.' !" I'll give you all my money,
sir, if you'll wait till I get it from my
pocket, but don't take my life," said the
man. He quietly placed his pail and
umbrella on the ground, raised his arm
as if to put his hand into his pocket, and
then turning quickly upon the two men,
hitting one in the breast and knocking
him into the river, the other taking to
his heel and running off as fast as his
legs would carry him. During fifteen
minutes the cooper watched for the body
but was unable to discover it. 1t had
fallen the distance of about forty feet.
Year: 1870




The HORRORS OF WAR.-A Tribune
correspondent at La Loupe, in describ-
ing q recent engagement, says:


"The French troops were of the most
irregular kind, chiefly boys from four
teen to sixteen years of age or old men.
The uniform generally consisted of a
red strap sewed on the shoulder, be it a
coat or the peasants blouse, and red
stripe sewed on the pantaloons. Differ
ent military caps appeared to have been
sparingly distributed among them, but
most of them wore their own common
hats. They were all well armed with
Chassepots, but unskilled in their use
One boy who was taken prisoner told me
he did not know how to discharge his
gun. This band had torn up the road
and otherwise obstructed it by cutting
down trees, As the Germans approach
ed, they discharged volley from behind
these works and scattered pell NELL to a
safe distance, where they re-discharged
their pieces and broke as before. About
seventeen of them were taken prisoners !;
| saw the rest of them throw away their
guns and run as fast as possible. The
inhabitants of the town took pleasure in
searching out these men and delivering
them over to the Germans.


The Germans themselves appear to
have become ferocious from this kind of
warfare. At one time | saw three wretch
ed boys and an old man who had been
found with arms in their hands, and the
soldiers at whose head they marched
testified their pleasure in the fate that
awaited the captives, for they were all to
be shot. A moment afterwards | heard
the platoon firing, and the screams Of
the victims, and l confess that to me the
occurrence was almost sickening, al
though I have become tolerably harden
ed by being in so many battles. An Of
fcer of the Lancers told me that he had
heard heavy musketry fire from a
clump of trees, and was astonished to
find that it came from a single old man.
l asked them what they did with him.
81 sent lieutenant with four men to
| him, and then" and he made signi.
fcant sign of the Lancers piercing the
man with lances. l after ward learned
more Of this incident. 1t appears that
when the Lancers came up with the man
he was lying on his back on the ground
and although one of them had thrust
him through with his lance in such way
that it took two men to withdraw it, he
had strength enough to discharge his
piece and kill one of the Lancers, and
after the lieutenant had shot him through
the breast with his pistol, he once more
discharged his gun and it required three
more shots to kill him.
Year: 1870

CURIOUS THINGS TO KNOW
Besides the fact that ice is lighter
than water, there is another Curl
Gus thing about it which persons
do not know, perhaps namely,
it's purity. a lump of ice melted
will always become purely distill-
ed water. When the early nav
igators of the Artic seas got out
of water they melted fragments
of those vast mountains OF ice
called icebergs, and were aston
ished to find that they yielded OH
ly fresh water. They thought
that they were frozen salt water,
not knowing that they were form
ed on the land and in some way
launched into tho sea. But if
they had been right the result
would have been all the same.
Tho fact is, the water in freezing
turns out of it all that is not wa
ter-salt air, coloring matter and
all impurities. Frozen sea water
makes fresh water ice. If You
freeze a basin of indigo water it
will make it as pure as that made
of pure rain water. When the
cold is very sudden these foreign
matter have no time to escape
either by rising or sinking, and
are thus entangled with the ice


but do not form any part of it.
EI-
Year: 1870

"THERE is NO WAR AFTER
.''-Such was the magnan-
imous reply of the Prrssian am
bassador in an invitation to attend
the funeral of the French diplo-
matte representative in Washing
ton yesterday. The sentiment
was worthy of a great soul, aud
we honor the man that uttered it.
God grant that the inspiration
may strike home in some OF tho
baser Americn hearts about Wash
ington which have delighted i'll
pursuing the dead and heaplng
indignity on their graves. We
commend it especially to the saw
age head Of the army Of the Re-
public, and bid him learn from
this stranger ola foreign land now
engaged in deadly strife, the SEN
timents and customs of a civilized
age. Baron Gerolt's humanity
can drop Il sprig upon the grave
of his country's enemy in the
midst of war yet, five long years
after its din has been hushed IN
this professedly christian land Il
flower from the hand OF kindred
and friends is refused to the rest
ING place Of the Confederate dead!
We thank the Baron for his re-


buke, and commend the lesson tt


all.-iSaranayh Republican.
Year: 1870

The Washington correspondents say it 10
now definitely ascerssined that majority OF
the Committee of Ways and Means are pro
tectionists. There are only three free-trad.
ers on the Committee. The admission oil
Virginia is sore problem for many Rat
icals. and there are various schemes sug
gested for admission Of the State, with tests
designed to secure Radical and carpet bag
majority in the Legislature.
Year: 1870

Tho franking privilege is oDe of the mos.
prominent as well as most unnecessary leaks
in the Federal Treasury and those senators
who talk SO eloquently about retrenchment
and economy, will have chance to ties,
their sincerity when their own pockets are
concerned. How will the member from
this district vote.
Year: 1870

1t turns out that the message which the
President will transmit to the House mex,
week regarding the Darien Ship Canal
merely suggests an appropriation to defrAy
expenses most likely to be incurred by the
surveying expedition, now fitting out for the
Tsthmus
Year: 1870

Arrangements Perfected for tho Fight-DIace
the Favorlte at Pressut-Whereabouts OF
tho Pugiiists.


NEW ORLEANS. May s. 1870.
All the arrangements have been perfected for the
coming prize fight between Mace and Allen
stakeholder has been finally agreed upon and the
contracts for the excursion to the fighting ground
have been made.


At present Mace is the favorite at three to two but
when the Western delegation arrives the betting
Will be more nearly even. Great interest In the
affair is manifested here, and large or money
have been staked upon the result.


Mace Is still at his training quarters In Mobile ana
Allen is reported en- route for this city.
Year: 1870

Ayoung woman named Mary Ann McMahon, q
teacher in primary school No. 49, located In Nine-
teentn street. near avenue b. fell down the stairway
Of the school shortly after three O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. Her fall so sudden that she sustained
serious injuries. The police Of the Eighteenth pre-.
cinct were notified OF the accident and at once sent
for al ambulance, but before 1t could arrive the IN
deceased was removed to tie residence OF her pa
rents No. 5S7 East Twelfth street. Miss Mcmahon
was eighteen years Of age. Coroner Rollins was
notified and will hold an IN quest
Year: 1870

The following record win show the changes IN tts
tcmperature OF The weather for the past twenyfour
hours III comparison with the corresponding day OF
nuts pharmacy HERALD Building Broadway cor.
Year: 1870

FByVUUIUHIUttI NItN UI


The critic of the New Orleans Republican
airily throws off the following in the course of
a two column article


Has it ever occurred to any one that his fam
cied one nights sleep is typical of the resurrec-
ton? That while inebriety and the worthless
ness it superinduces are yiyidly portrayed by
the actor, the author typi6ed the beyond, and
the stage gives its emphatic Endorsement of the
grand idea of Irving?


Has it ever, too, occurred to any one that
whatever genius, with its God-giyen capacity OF
hammering out immortal sparks from the anvil
of thought places its hand on locality, and
these sparks take the form of sentient beings,
tbenceforth and forever that locality is imper-
ishable in the memory of man? We need not
ask the question of thinker. And If the stage,
which is one of the great transmissory vehicles
of genius. costumes each sparkling thought and
gives it the vitality of men and women in robus-
tuous life, the world is all the better for the
costuming and vitalization.
Year: 1870

The Louisiana Savings Bank is building
large vault. Admission to it is gained through
large wrought-iron doors, to which are affixed
patent locks. These locks were put in order
lately by locksmith named Tympe. After
arranging the fsstenings on the door he lit a
candle and proceeded inside the vault to see
how they fitted. Closing the door after him the
eccentric catch of the lock fell locking him in.
Those upon the outside could render him no
assistance, since it was a combination lock, and
no one knew the numbers at which it was set
In this narrow cell, shut in by the four walls of
the vault and the huge iron door, the man felt
as if he was buried alive. The only means by
which he could obtain air or drink was through
a small hole in the door, not the twentieth of
inch in diameter. The atmosphere of the
cell-like place was fetId and noisome, and the
man felt as if he would suffocate Fortunately
he had carried with him into the vault ham
mer and chisel, and with them, the only instru-
ments he had, he proceeded to cut his way out.
The work was slow and tedious, and required
two hours and half of incessant labor. He
succeededa at last, however, and was taken,
more dead than alive, from the vault. The
wonder is that ne did not suffocate.
Year: 1870

NEW YORK, Nov. s-Afternoon.-The city is
very quiet and there are no signs of disturb
ance. A large number of arrests have been
made by both the Federal aut critics and the
police. In the Eighth ward a slight disturbance
was occasioned by deputy marsh H. who
thre atened to assault legal voter, but he was
promptly removed, and the trouble ended there.
The negro marshals have so far conducted them
selves with great propriety. They are atten-
tive to their duties, and avoid giving offense.
large vote is being polled, most of the interest
concentrating in the contest Tor he Mayoralty.
In the upper part of the city Ledwith is run
ming ahead, but the lower wards are strong
for Hail.