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Year: 1870

TUE GARDENERS charged with the murder o.
Captain Alexander were finally discharged
yesterday, the Coroner's jury rendering YER
dict that the deceased came to his death from
natural causes. The innocence Of the
accused persons has been SO clear for some
time that the jury could not very well do other
wise. But in the meantime the Gardners,
man and wife, both old people, have been
confined in Jail, and have most likely suffered
greatly in body and property, and perhaps
reputation, by an unfounded charge. What
reparation are they to have!
Year: 1870

PROJECTION OR REyENUE.-A test vote was
taken in the House yesterday on democratic
resolution providing for revenue tariff as
opposed to protection. The House refused to
lay it on the table by q vote of 3S to us, and
then referred it to the Committee of Ways and
Means, which favors protection. So that on
one vote the House records itself in favor Of
low tariff and on the other in favor of high
one. We may presume, therefore, that the
sense Of the House on the tariff inclines more
toward buncombe than business.
Year: 1870

FALsE.-Prim, from beyond the Atlantic,
says the story that he had fixed any price for
the sale OF Cuba is absolutely false. This
story was put forth here as coming from Sena-
tor Sumner
Year: 1870

THE VICEROY OF EGYPT has ordered the
immediate commencement Of the building of
new works OF fertilization and defence in the
harbor of Alexandria. Cloudy in the East,
and with the Sultan aaainst the Papal schema.
Year: 1870

Africa.


Lord Napier of Magdala was examined
the other day before committee of the
British House of Commons on the subject
of the cost of the English war in
Abyssinia. The distinguished soldier gave
his testimony explicitly and off-hand. He
stated the difficulties and dangers of the cam
paign with great modesty, and proved that it
must have been expensive in order to be
victorious. Lord Napier said :-'T had not
one man too many at Magdala. l should
have been very sorry to have undertaken to
take Magdala with a less number Of troops.
If q few old women had got behind the
natural bastion and thrown down stones on
our troops they would have caused us serious
loss"


Lord Napicrs testimony thus confirms in
every particular the HERALD special kilograms
from Abyssinia, by way of Egypt and through
the Atlantic cable, as also our special letters
from Theodorus' country, in which we reported
the progress Of the Abyssinian war at the
time, the march on Magdala and the
assault, and also told of the gallant cheer Of
that Irish regiment in the Queens service
which carried her flag to victory on the heights.
The ''colored troops fought nobly" in Africa,
and Napier and his men found plenty Of work.
So says his lordship of Magdala the HERALD
said so specially long since.
Year: 1870

SILK STOCKING EoUEsTRIANIsM.-Dan Rices
circus is at last outrivalled, and while cham
pion equestrians stand aghast the Albany
hippodrome will this week resume with novel
and startling effects the performance of the
wonderful pantomime Of ''The New Charter"
The silk stocking equestrian, whose last weeks
tumbles have doubtless taught valuable les
son, availing himself of the interval of Sunday,
has diligently trained his glossy zebra and
unnamed calico colt, and with the infant
prodigy for the government of the city Of New
York upon his shoulders will again attempt to
ride through the Tammany Ring. Whether he
succeeds in governing his cavorting animal or
not the display will be unparalleled, and to
the democracy will, in the language of A.
Ward, Combine pleasure with profit in a
eminent degree"
Year: 1870

THE PROPERTY HOLDERS on some OF the
uptown cross streets are objecting 20 the
laying of the Stow pavement ON heir
thoroughfarcs at their expense. They eve
go so far as to charge the aldermen who
passed the resolution ordering such a pave
ment with bribery and corruption.
Year: 1870




HURRY UP THAT PROCLAMATION The rxdf-
Gals in Connecticut are anxiously awaiting the
PRONUNCIATION of the Presidents proclamation
announcing the ratification of the fifteenth
amendment. This will enfranchise several
hundred colored citizens in the State who
never before have voted, and whose right to
do 50 has been denied by majority Of the
white people of Connecticut over and over
again-the last time, we believe, by some six
thousand majority. The great bulk of this
new vote will undoubtedly be cast for the radi.
cal candidates, and as it may be required to
defeat Governor English. the democratic can
didate for Governor, the sooner that proclama-
ton, licking the Connecticut darkies into the
shape of old-fashioncd voters, appears the
better for radical purposes in the State.


THE JERSEY JUSTICES are shrewd and un-
swerving in the administration of the law.
If they happen to make mistake on the side
of mercy, and find prisoner rather pleased
than otherwise at the extent Of his sentence,
they quickly reconsider the matter. In the
Essex County Court yesterday wife beater
was sentenced to six months Imprisonment,
but as he was going out the Judge detected
pleased expression on his face, and heard him
say ''Thank you, Judge, can stand that I"
1t was unfortunate for the wife beater, for the
Judge did not intend that he should have
punishment that he was pleased with. So he
called him back aud doubled his term.
Year: 1870

delicate manner in which they report reverses
to their arms is a model of official ingenuity
SinceGambetta naively announced that the ar
my of the Loire had ceased to advance by rea-
son of the resistance encountered from the
Germans, we have had nothing better than the
report from Paris of Fridays battle before the
Prussians retreating, leaving their dead and
wounded on the field, after which Ducrot's
forces re-crossed the Marine unmolested. Much
stress is laid upon the fact that the Prussians
did not oppose his crossing. The diplomacy
displayed in the dispatch will be appreciated
when it is remembered that the object Of the
Prussian attack was to force the French to re-
cross the Marne-something they would scarce
ly have done had they been victorious
Year: 1870

There are two hundred men employed on
the extension of the New Orleans, jackson
and Great Northern Railroad, from the
depot to the margin Of the river. They COM
menced working on Saturday at noon, and
worked all that night and Sunday. And St.
Joseph street, where they broke ground,
already shows the effects of their labor.
Between Carondelet and St. Charles, the
rails are laid, and from St. Charles to Camp,
the work was nearly or quite completed
last night.


The contractors, Messrs. John McCann
and Chris Wild, expect that within two
weeks the whole extension, from the depot
to the levee, will be completed. The extern
sion of the road is to run along the levee up
to the grain elevator in what was Jefferson
City. There will also be branch extend
ing from the depot to the Gas Works. This
track will cross a bridge on the New Basin,
the object of this last being to transport
coal from the gas company's landings to
their works. The new depot will be ON the
levee at the foot of St. Joseph street. near
the depot of the Chattanooga Railroad.


The depot at the levee will be the freight
depot, while the old depot will be used for
the present as depot for passengers only.
Messrs. McCann and Wild, the gentlemen
engaged in laying the rails for this extern
sion, are both men of great energy, and the
work will be rapidly completed in their
hands. Mr.. McCann has the reputation of
being the best layer of rails in the country.
Year: 1870

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
MORMON INSULT AT SALT LAKE
Third Victory Of the Lone Stars
no AID AND COMFORT TO BEILIGERENTs
NO INDICATIONS OF AN EARLY BATTLE
SHARP sKIRMIsH ON SUNDAY
The French Retire from the Field
THEY LEAVE KILLED AND WOUNDED
No Loss on the Prussian Side
Domestic and Foreign Markets
Year: 1870

PERsoNAL.-W. A. Bates, passenger agent
OF the Erie railroad has just returned from
a tour to the North, in company with our
fremen. His attentions to our boys along
the line of the road are remembered with
gratitude, as he contributed to a great ex
tent to the pleasures of the trip. The train
set apart for the use of the excursionists is
spoken Of as something peculiarly magniti-
cent. Mr.. Bates does not appear to have
fallen away much during his absence from
home
Year: 1870

Cultivate an agreeable temper; many
a man has fallen dead in fit of passion.


Eat regularly, not over thrice day,
and nothing between meals.


Go to bed at regular hours. Get up
as soon as you wake of yoarself, and do
not sleep in the day time, at least not
longer than ten minutes before noon.


Work always by the day and not by
the job.


Stop working before you are Gagged
out"


Cultivate generous and an accomo-
dating temper.


Never cross bridge before you come
to it. This will save you one half the
troubles of lite.


Never eat when you are not very hun
CRY, nor drink when you are not thirsty.


Let your appetite always come unn-
vited.


Cool off in a place greatly warmer
than the one in which YOU have been ex-
ercising. This simple rule would pre-
vent incurable sickness and save millions
OF lives every year.


Never resist call OF nature for single
moment.


Never allow yourself to be chilled
through and through; it is this which
destroys SO many every year, in few
days sickness from pneumonia, called by
some, lung fever or inflammation OF the
lungs.


Whoever drinks no liquids at meals
will add years of pleasurablc existence to
his life.


OF cold or warm drinks, the former
are most pernlcious; drinking at meals
induces persons to eat more than they
otherwise would, as any one can verify
by experiment, and it is excess in eating
that deyastates the land with sickness
suffering and death.


After fifty years of age if not day
laborer, and sedentary persons aftertorty,
should eat but twice a day, in the morn.
ing and about four in the afternoon per.
sons can soon accustom themselves to q
seven-hour interval between eating, and
thus give the stomache rest for every
organ without adequate rest will soon
give out.


Begin early in life to live under the
benign influence of the Christian relig
ion, for il "has the promise of the life
that now, and OF thst which is to come.


w Halls Journal Of HsGlh.
Year: 1870

AT a meeting of colored persons in Balt-
more on Wednesday night last, Hon. ]. j.
Stewart related the following incident:


had occasion to apply to the President on
behalf of a poor widow lady in this city,
whose son was incarcerated in a Missouri.prison.
He had been a soldier IN the regular army
before the rebellion, was court martialed for
an act of insubordination by Colonel r. Z.
Lee, in Texas, and sentenced TO ten years i'm.
prisonment. He had served out a short period
of his imprisonment when the rebellion broke
out, but, escaped, Joined the Union volunteers,
and served oil through the war against the
rebels. After the rebellion he Joined the regu-
lar army again, was recognized and sent back
to prison to serve out the balance of his term.


The petition for his pardon was presented
and referred. according to usage, TO the War
Department, where the official having charge
of the matter, after the customary delay, gave
the usual decision against it,


then took a copy of the record and went
to the President, called his attention to the fact
that the prisoner had been court-martialed by
Robert E. Lee before the rebellion, and had
fought against him on the Union side till il
was suppressed, and expressed my conviction
that he had earned his title TO freedom.


1t would have done your heart good TO sec
the alacrity with which the President arose
from his seat, grasped his papers, and gave his
orders to Gen. Porter, TO release this man from
custody, and remit the penalty for services
rendered the United States since conviction"
He made no palaver about 1t, expressed TO
opinion, entered into no Argument, but just did
the thing right OF, as If he could not be too
quick about il /; and letter Of this day, re-
ceived from the delighted soldier, believed by
the grateful tears of his widowed mother,
proves to me that the President did righteous
act, which viii cause the prayers OF grateful
hearts 10 ascend for his welfare.
Year: 1870

JOURNALISTIC EDUCATIoN.-Many of
the foremost among American journalists
have received their preliminary training
at the printers case but this does not
by any means prove that to become an
accomplished editor it is necessary TO be-
come an accomplished printer. There is
a greater proportion of printers who
could never write the articles they put in
type than Of editors who have no practi-
cal knowledge of the art of printing
and yet, there is something in the early
associations OF the printing Office which
give 'ort OF ripened culture to the 9TH
erwise well trained Journalist. Upon
the same principle that the most efficient
managers of great industries are those
who have worked their way up through
the subordinate steps OF the GraIr, il is
true that the school of the printer gives
the best training for the journalist it
lmpaTts kind of sympathy with letters
that the mere scholar does not acquire.
The practical printer who becomes an
editor is apt to be, above all things. a
good paragraphist From having gone
thro' the slow process of picking up de-
posting the individual metallic blocks
that, one by one, spell out the words
wbita express the writer's thought, the
printer learns to place value upon each
letter aud word, and is very naturally
led 20 deprecate useless waste of either.
Whatever may be the achievement of
schools for journalists, we believe that
the best schools are printing offices and
active reportorial labors.
Year: 1870

BY DAVID BATES
Speak gently 1t Is better far
To rule by love than fear
Speak gently-let not harsh words mar
The good we might do here
Speak gently Love doth whisper low
The vows that true hearts bind
And gently Friendships accents flow;
Affections voice is kind.
Speak gently to the little child
Its love be sure to gain
Touch IL In accents soft and mild;
1t may not long remain.
Speak gently TO the young, for they
VIII have enough to bear.
Pass through this life as best they may
'Tis full of anxious care
Speak gently TO the aged one
Grieve not the Care.worn heart
The sands of life are nearly run
Let such in peace depart.
Speak gently, kindly, to the poor,
Let no harsh tone be heard
They have enough they must endure,
Without an unkind word
Speak gently to the erring-know
they may have toiled in vain
Perchance unkindness makes them so /;
Oh, win them back again
Speak gently He who gave his life
To bend mans stubborn will,
When elements were in fierce strife,
Said TO them, Peace be still"
Speak gently It's little thing
Dropped in the hearts deep well
The good, the joy, which it may bring,
Eternally snail tell.
Year: 1870

EYEs.-The language of the eye is very
hard to counterfeit. You can read in the
eye of your companion while you talk,
whether your argument HIS him, though
his tongue will not confess it. There is
a look by which man shows he is going
to say good thing, aud a look when he
has said it. Vain and foLgotten are all
the fine offices of hospitality, if there be
no holiday in the eye. How many fur
tive Invitations are avowed by the eye,
dissembled by the lips. A man comes
from company, he has heard no impor-
tant remark, but it in sympathy with
the society, he is innocent of such o
stream of life as has been flowing to him
through the eye. There are eyes which
give no more admission into them than
blue berries others liquid, and deep
wells that men might fall into and 9th
ers are oppressive and devouring, and
take too much notice. There are asking
eyes. and asserting eyes, and prowlng
eyes, and eyes full OF faith-some Of good
and some sinister omen. =.
Year: 1870




CHEAP PLEGsEREs.--Did you eter
study the cheapness of some pleasures !?
asks some writer. Do YOU know how
little it takes to make a multitude happv?
Such trities as penny, word or smile
do the work. There are two or three
boys passing alohg-give them each
hestnut and how smiling they look !
they will not be cross for some time
a poor widow lives in the neighborhood,
who Is the mother of halt dozen child
rem. Send them halt peck of sweet
apples, and they will all be happy. A
child has lost his arrow-tbe world to
him-and ne mourus sadly help him to
find it or make him another, and how
quickly will the sunshine come over his
sober-tace a boy has as much as he
can do to pile up load Of wood assist
him few moments, or speak pleasant
word TO him and he forgets his toll. and
works away without mlndiLg it. Your
apprentice mas broken mug, or cut the
vest too large, or slightly injured piece
OF work. Say ''you scoundrel," and he
feels miserable ; but remark, 81 am sor-
ry," and he will try to better. You en-
PiOy Hahs pay MN SneeIIulIN, anu
speak pleasant word to him, and he
leaves your house with contented heart,
to light up his own hearth with smiles
and gladness. As you pass along the
street, You meet a familiar face say
"Good morning." as though you felt hap
py, and it will work admirably in the
heart of your neighbor. Pleasure is
cheap. Who will not bestow it liberal
ly? If there are smiles, sunshine, and
flowers all about us, let us not grasp
them with miser's fist, and lock them
up in our hearts. No; rather let ns take
them aud scatter them about us, i'll the
cot OF the widow, among the group of
children, in the crowded mart, where
men Of business congregate, in our fami-
lies and elsewhere. We can make the
wretched happy, the disconted cheerful,
the afflicted resigned, at an exceedingly
cheap rate. Who will refuse to do it :?
Year: 1870

Hints on DRESsMAKING.-Shou
seams are placed on the shoulder, not at
inc back OF II, as SaS formerly the case,
The shoulders do not extend over tba
arm, but are short cnough TO make the
arIn-hole in its appropriate place. There
is no attempt TO make the back look mar
row by placing the side seam behind the
arm Instead of under il.


Ihe waist Is of natural length, neither
lmmoderatcly short nor long, but termi.
mates Mt the natural taper, Just above the
hips; nor is it compressed by tight la,
cling.


Easy-htting corscts, with but few whale.
bones, are worn to support the figure,
but not to make it smaller.


Many ladies prefer to have the
dress-sklrt separate from the waist and
attached to belt. In this case, TO pre-
vent the two portions of the dress from
parting, 1t is well to extend the bodice
over the hips in loose, easy basque, to
be thrust under the skirt of the dress !;
or else attach eyes to belt round the
waist and hoop, AT regular opposite dis
tances upon the belt Of the skirt. so that
the skirt can be hooked OH to the waist
without trouble. The whalebones do not
extend over the hips, but stop at the mar
rowest taper of the corsage.


Shoulder-seams are no longer corded.
a cord is not required around the neck,
If standing band is used. II the dress
is cut away low at the throat, according
to the summer fashion, it is corded with.
out blnd.


Arm-holes are always corded, and
should be ample enough for comfort
Many dressmakers object to cording the
bodice at the belt, as the cord is apt to
draw we use, instead, a bias-facing
stitched OH to give it sufficient strength.
The inner seam of the sleeve should fall
over the center of the arm.


When the sleeve is being sewed in the
arm-hole, the sleeve should be held above,
it order that its slight fulIness may be
gradually gathered into the arm-hole :;
the sleeve will then stand out properly
around the hole.


Demorests Monthly for January.
Year: 1870

The original model Of the telegraphic
battery fled by Professor Morse, when
be got his patent, has been unearthed
from lot Of old rubbish in the cellar Of
the Patent Office, where it has been ly-
ing for years The clumsiness of the
sisnalkey, as compared with the one Of
the present day, is ridiculous. Il is
nearly two feet long, and hag large
lump Of lead at.the end fnrthest from the
hand, to throw the key up and break the
circnit. rerrH r. a..
Year: 1870

Nh. 4 lady was told the other day
by q travelling gentleman that i'm a GER
tain country every lady who had q
small mouth was provided with hus-
band 10y the government.


18th it possible, said the lady, ma
king her mouth smallas she could


The gentleman added, that ifa lady
had a large mouth, she was provided
with two husbands.


My gracious, exclaimed the lady, at
the same time throwing her mouth
open to its full extent.


The gentleman became alarmed,
made his escape almost Immediately,
and has not been heard of since.
Year: 1870

How TO INSURE GOOD HEALTH--
The best way to insure good health,
Is to see that the blood is renewed
and the system built up from good,
digesLble, nutritious food, taken
without condiments or stimuIhnts,
and only in such quantities and at
such times as nature demands.
Year: 1870

IT does not appear that any one con-
nected with our Government fears any
disaster will happen to this country, apart
from tho effect Oftless war upon our ship
ping, or that We can become involved in
a European war, there now being nothing
to excite such fears;
Year: 1870

The first merchant vessel that ever displayed from
her peak the dag of this republic Is reported sunk IN
the harbor OF Payta Peru She was built in 1882,
bark rigged. about 800 tons and called the Maria.
few years ago the writer of this paragraph saw her
In harbor on the South American coast flying the
Lone Star dag of the prosperous little republic of Chill
where after many vcissitudes OF fortune she was
employed In the grain trade With The surname OF
one OF the arstocrAc families Of that country,
PachecO added TO her original designation.
AS might be expected, the Maria PachecO was
quaint-looking craft reported good saier and not
wlthstandng for elghty-eight years she had ridden
the stormy seas of ocean and wlthstood the violent
blasts OF Boreas was sound and stanch, giving no
more evidence Of old age in her live oak and locust
frame than many Of her juniors by half a century
that were noatng ABOUT her. Her history would DO


interesting If 1t could only be faithfully recordej.
After long service In the merchant marine she was
purchased by firm In Nantucket and for number
OF years was successful cruiser OF the adventurous
American whaling fleet from that island and tho
port OF New Bedford Subsequently she was pur.
chased by u Chan merchant, who named her for
his wife, and ator serving him as long as many
modern ship lust from the stocks, treacherOus leak
gained the mastery, and the brave old bark now
rests beneath tile waters OF the Pacinc.-N0rtctch
Year: 1870

the power TO preach, TO Others teach ana to others
the ability TO give, and in the great day OF reckon
Ing all would be equally rich they
acted up to their responsibility. He was thankful
God had given him the means and made him the
agent In supplying what he believed to be an EN-
Cient lnstrumentality In promoting thorough men
tai discipline. In conclusion Mr. Judd expressed
the hope that further alluson himself personally
In this matter would cease. Rather let them stimu-
late each other TO toll earnestly the allotted time
given to them here, and when the final reckoning
came the life work OF them all would be seen TO
have been much alike and equally valuable In the
eye OF Him who seeth not aS man seeth.


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