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Year: 1870

The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
contains noble and pathetic letter from
his distinguished statesman, which we
know our readers viii thank us for copy
ting:


/ am now little better than | have
been-am able to sit up, read and write
a little; but | cannot walk or even stand
without assistance


Please accept my thanks for the inter
est you manifest in my well being, both
physical and spiritual. Be assured | am
perfectly resigned to the will of God in
all my Affections | endeavor, with the
patience of Job, to bear whatever awaits
me under His dispensations, and with a
full faith in His mercy, through the atom
ing mediation of the Redeemer; and also
further, with a firm belief that " all things
work together for the good of those who
love Cod and put their trust in him.


A leading object with me for years
indeed from early youth, has been SO to
live-so to conduct myself in all things
so to discharge, by the assistance of
DlNlHS UTdCc, All lHc uuuIes Oh Jlls pro-
bationary term, as to be ready to leave
this sphere of existence tor another, a
brighter and a better one, whenever the
summons for my departure may come
This world, however much | may have
been engaged in its active scenes during
my day, has never had any real attrac-
tions for me. | have, it is true, taken a
deep interest in them, but at all times
more from a sense of duty than from any
other consideration.


| now feel deep interest in what is
going on in our State, and in reply to
your inquiry on this subject, all | can
say is, that if utter no word to the pub
lie, and take no part, even feeble as am,
it is only because | do not see that any
thing | could say or do could possibly
effect any good Cod in His infnitive
mercy, only knows what is to become Of
this country and its institutions.


can say no more now, except to re-
peat my thanks for your letter, and re-
turn to you my best wishes, now and for
ever. Yours, truly,


ALEXANDER II. STEPHENs.
Year: 1870

Do Nor WHITEwAsu Trees. We late
ly saw a beautiful apple orchard on Mar
tha's Vineyard all whtewashed. We were
sorry to see it. Do not whitewash trees.
Apply whitewash to fences and houses,
but use something more appropriate on
trees. Strong soft-soap suds would be
far more effective and appropriate. Sup
pose you were covered from head to foot
with a coating of whitewash Do you
not suppose it would stop the insensible
perspiration? Spread ashes freely about
the trunks and under the trees. Do any
thing but whitewash.
Year: 1870

lTs~ Why don't you trade with me p
said close fstcd tradesman TO one Of
upr new corners the other day


n You have never asked me to, sir.
have looked all through the Press for an
invitation in the shape of an advertise
ment, and have never yet found the sight
MANY. never go where | am not in
4ited."
Year: 1870

II is impossible to conceive finer bodies
of men than those which daily arrive IN
Prussia to join their regiments. They be-
long to the first reserve, apd all between
the ages of twenty three and tw6nty-eight.
A very large number of them wear the
decoration they wore in the Austrian war,
and are all trained soldiers. AS the trains
arrive they are met by small party OF
soldiers. and the men are escorted to the
barracks of the corps to which they belong.
Here theya furnished with their uniforms,
kits. and arms, and are ready in half an
hour TO take their place in the ranks.
Nptbinr can exceed the order and reguari-
tvwith which everything proceeds To the
great credit of the Prussian soldier, l can
State that since my arrival in the country
I have not seen a single man In uniform
the worse for liquor Glory, indirectly,
makes man more thirsty than does patri-
otism. II is at crisis like the present that
the full value of the Prlssian military sys-
tenn is evident The whole of the regi-
ments belong to various localities, from
which they are exclusively raised. Each
regiment of the line has regiment of re-
serve composed exclusively OF the men
who have served their time in that regi-
ment. Consequently when the reserve Is.
as at present, called in, every man finds
himself among friends. BY his side is his
younger brother, around him are his neigh
bors. He is at home at once, and has. be-
sides. every incentive to distinguish him
self in action. for he knows that his neigh
bors are looking on. and that every deed
of daring will be noted and told at home.
II would be difficult to imagine any system
so calculated to make heroes. In regiments
raised like those of England the local con-
nection exists only in name, and soldier
can scarcely hope that his deeds of bravery
in the field will become the common talk
of his neighbors and townspeople, and that
the girl he loves will look with pride upon
him as the acknowledged hero of the To-
cality. OF course, under our present vol
untary system this could not be carried out
in England: but when the time comes that
our long g-talked-of reserve is to become IA
reality, it is to be hoped that this important
feature of the Plussian system will not be
lost sight of.-Berlia correspondence Of The
London Standard.
Year: 1870

Probably not more than a quarter Of
those who fell into the water we're men;
the rest were women, boys and girls,
Many Of those who were rescued had to
rubbed and treated in the ways usually
adopted in cases Of drowning before
they recovered their breath. One girl
fourteen, Who was raked up from the
bottom Of the river, was considered quite
dead, but careful treatment finally resus-
oitated her.
Year: 1870

Meanwhile thirty persons we're strug-
Cling in ths Sater, elutehing at each
other, and at the fragments Of the bridge
Some were even under the bridge
Those of the multitude who were on the
depot side could only stand there in
painful helplessness; those on the other
side managed to save all but eight per-
sons.
Year: 1870

FRASK BLAIR has always maintained that
Gen. GRANT would not leave the White
House quietly at the end of bis term, but
would undertake, by o military revolution,
TO make himself tho permanent ruler
monarch, dictator, ernperor-whatovcr he
might call it-ofth country.


This has always seemed to us mistaken
opinion; but the pigheaded obstinocy with
which he is trying to force upon the people
this foul aud odious San Domingo job, looks
ns though FRANK BLAIR night not be so
far wrong in this respect as most people
have thought him.
Year: 1870

The Blackmalcr JAMES b. MIX tried the
other day to levy bnckmail on us by means of q
publication which lie had inserted in the Tribune.
This publication was an elaborate falsehood, but
Nix thought he might perhaps get money to pre-
vent his publishing othcr falsohoods which Inc
threatened to publish. But instead of being met
with an offer of blackmail, as he was fool enough
to hope, he was met with an exposure of his
character and Of his vile practice Next on
Friday evening, be tried TO levy biackmail on u
well.Lnown railroad manager but being rather
more drunk than usual, hc got himself mpris-
oncd for the night in cell Of the Twentieth
street station house. Nix has now become u
worthless loafcr, and his attempts to extor black
mail must be about ended.
Year: 1870

through the Senate, at what cost any man
who is not a fool can understand.


All this grntuitous disturbance is due to
President GRANT alone. There was no reo-
son or occasion for any such outbreak. No
body cared for San Domingo except the
President aud the ring Of spectators who ex'
poet to get rich out of its annexation. When
Cen GRANT was nominated for the Presi-
dency, he said that, If elected, he should
ncv,r have any policy to enforce against the
will of the people. He would have done
Mcn 10 stick to TINT rule.
Year: 1870

1t is charged that teachers in the primary
school in West Twenty eighth street permit chit
drcn to attend who are known TO reside in houses
infected with scarlet fever. If such is the fact
the Board Of Education aud the Board Of Health
should take action IN the matter. Teachers can
not be too careful in guarding the health Of their
pupils md parents for their own protection and
the public welfare, should keep their children
from school when any member Of their family
is suffering from any contagious or infectious
disorder.
Year: 1870

To ne Eda0r or The Sun.


SIR: In regard to the attempt at removal of
prof j. A. Spencer, $. 7. d., Of the College OF the
CRY Of New York, which came up at tie las, meet
ing Of tie Board OF Trustees, It clear case OF
prosecutor and injustice for this distinguished
scho ar had already widespread reputation for his
eminent aiGity rs n discipnarian and teacher In
various cole and large schools. I he animus Of
TIE thing wa sho Sn by the fact that already weeks
before II was currently reported wi was 10 take his
place n. Y Il.
Year: 1870

played with you mid cowslips growing,
When was six and you were four;
when garlands weaving fowerballs throwing
Were pleasures soon to please no more
Thro' groves and meads, DER grass and heather
with little playmates, to and fro,
We wandered hand in hand together
But that was sixty years ago.
You grew a lovely, roseate maiden,
And still our early love was strong;
Still with no care our days were laden,
They glided joyously aloRg.
And did love you very dearly


How dearly, words want power to show
thought your heart was touched as nearly
But that was fifty years ago.
Then other lovers came around you
Your beauty grew from year to year
And many splendid circle found you
The centre of its glittering sphere
saw yon then, first vows forsaking,
On rank and wealth your hand bestow;
o. then thought my heart was breaking
But that was forty years ago.
And lived on to wed another;


No cause she gave me to complain
And when heard you were mother,
did not wish the children mine.
My own young flock, in fair progression,
Made up pleasant Christmas row,
NY Joy in them was past expression


But that was twenty years ago.
You grew matron, plump and comely,
You dwelt in fashions rghtest blaze
My earthly lot was far more homely,


But l, too had my festal days.
No merrier eyes have ever glistened


Around the hearthstone's wintery glow,
Than when my youngest child was christened
But that was twenty years ago.
Time passed. My eldest girl was married,
And now am grandsire gray;
One pet of four years old Pve carried


Among the wildfowered meads to play,
In our fields of childish pleasure,


Where now, as then, the cow-slips blow,
She fills her baskets ample measure


And this is not ten years ago.
But though first loves impassioned blindness
Has passed away in colder night,
/ still have thought of you with Kindness,
And shall until our last good night.
The ever rolling, silent hours


Will bring time we shall not know,
When our young days of gathering flowers
viii be an hundred years ago.
Year: 1870

AT least bOO votes.


Now to the balance Of the District,


the writer says withot hesitation. it.


would be well enough for y0u to bear


these things in mind. Remember that
the next Legislature will probably be


opposed TO us,-that nothing would


please them better than to 80 district the


State, for all district purposes as to elect
men of their own faith. Now this


would be calamity much to be dreaded.


But If our Conventions are 10 be con-
trOlcd by schismatical creatures, and
petty and corrupt politicians, who with
money, trickcry, chicancry, and rascality
control the Conventions and FORCE upon
the people incompetent and unworthy
men for positions, then, and in that case
the honest masses, however much they
may regret the act. will be compelled to
SAY to you four counties ''you deserved
just what yOu have received" The
remedy would be heavy dose, but
probably it would be efficacioua medi-
!cine.


| To Orange. Crawford and Dubois,
when you attend and each county
should send heavy delegation. of it's


best men-men who are above and be-
yOnd purchase, ,-men who look only to
the good Of the party, who look to its
success, and care noting for individual
Imen-the Convention at LeavcnwOrth,
on the 18th, consult together among
yourselves; ascertain who is the best
qualified for the position; who has the


brains, legal qualifications, and honesty
for the place, and on him unite, and to
that man give your united strength,
whether he be some one who is now
seeking the place, or whether he be some
one who has not been spoken Of in con-


ncction with the Judgeship. BY all means


nominate some one who will reflect hon


or and credit upon the position. Re-


member that the position is really .


more responsible place than that Of Cir


cult Judge. With the Common Pleas


Increased Jurisdiction, its meeting


three times year makes it really the
peoples Court, and the people ought to


see to it that the very best legal talent IL
lplaced in nomination on the 18th. By
nominating our best men-none can be


too we'll qualified for any place--is the
way, and the only way we can expect to
Iattract our opponents to our standard


If we nominate incompetent men it will


not be long until our best men will be-
come disgusted,-they will not continue


to act with persons who are controlled


by corrupt and profigate w0uld-be
great men, who buy their nominations.
The writer has no feeling for any Of
the many candidates; to stir up the peo-
Iplc to feel that thoroughly honest and
capable man should be the nominee IL
all that is desired by


UELVIDIUS.
Year: 1870

Here is man sitting in . dark room
At Hearts Content. The ocean cable
terminates here. A fine wire attached
thereto is made to surround two. small
cores Of soft iron. As the electric wave,
produced By few pieces Of copper and
zinc at Valentia, passes through the
wires, these cores become magnetic
enough to move the slightest object. A
lookins-elass, half an inch in diameter,
is fixed on bar of iron one.tenth OF
an inch square and half an inch long.
On this tiny glass lamp is made to
glare so that its hight is reflected on a
tablet on the wall. The language Of
the cable is denoted by the shifting of
this reflected light from side to side.
l. tier by letter is thus expressed in t Is
fitting idion ia utter silence on the
wall. There is no record made by tns:
machine except as the PATENT watcher
calls out to comrade the translated
flashes as they come, and which he
records. 1t seems miracle Of patti
ence. There is something of awe
creeps over US as we see the evidence
OF human touch 5000 miles away
swaying that line Of light. By such a
delicate process as this, and after being
repeated from line to line five times be-
fore its ultimate copy is in New York,
the late great battles have been record
ed in our daily papers With great par
ticularity throughout the Union, Moth
ing like it has ever been accomplished.
The enterprise Of the New York press,
Of a single press in New York, has
clipsed that Of the wealthiest end
ablest presses in Europe. 1t is charac-
teristic of tho nation to do it's work
grandly and well.-Jou>naz Of the
Telegraph.
Year: 1870

AN English writer thinks the
American early potatoes will come to
an end ere long, for as each new variety
is claimed to ripen about ten days ear
lier than any other, tbs. time between
planting and digging will soon be used
Year: 1870

An immense quantity Of modern
confession of sin, even when honest, is
merely sickly egotism, which will
rather gloat over its own evil than lose
the centralization of its interest in
itsclt.-Ruskin.
Year: 1870

From the London Athenoum.


There could be no tight lacing if
girls would be made to understand this
simple tact-that men dread the fact of


marrying a woman who is subject to


fits Of irritable temper, and to bad head
aches and other ailments we need not
mention, all of which, everybody knows
are the direct and inevitable product Of
the compression of the waist. Men like
to set small waist, certainly, but
there is very great difference between
the waist that is we'll formed and in
proportion to the rest Of the figure, and
waist which is obviously and arti6.
ci.lly compressed, to the destruction of
that easy and graceful carriage, which
is one of the chief charms Of a wo-
mans appearance. An unnaturally
compressed waist is far more certain Of
detection than mass Of false hair, or
a faint dusting Of violet powder. The
rawest youth who enters a ball room
can pick out the women who hav"
straig ghtened themselves artifcially; aud
there is no more ready handle for his
harmless jokes. IF the young lady
who, to obtain the appearance ofa drag
on fly, has been subjecting herself to
considerable pain, and who has been
laying up for herself pretty store Of
ailments, which only want time to pro-
nounce themselves, could only see the
stare of ely.disguised contempt,
and understand the scornfnl pity which
greets the result Of her labor, we
should have change of tashion-and
it is merely fashion. There is moth
ng intrinsically beautiful in an uunat-
urally small waist, and If it were the
fashion to 60 ino the.opposite extreme,
women would see beauty in padded
waists. It is a great misfortune that
popular taste never alters in this as it
alters in other matters. Observers may
notice with what a regular ebb and
flow, wide skirts aud narrow skirts al
ternate ; how we have the peg-top gar
ment of men followed by the sailors
vide ankled attire; how square-pointed
boots give place to pe'k-toed boots, and
how the peak.toes 60 out again for the
square-points. Through all changes
women remain true to only one fashion.
Whether her clothing is as long and
lank IS that Of = Grecisn virgin, or.
whether she builds around the lower
half Of her figure a rotund and capaeious
structure Of steel, she is forever faith
full to the tradition of small waist;
and she will weaken, she will make her
hands red, she will incur headache, she
will crack her voice, and she will ruin
her digestion, all to procure a malfor-
nation which wise men regard with
pity and fools with derision.
Year: 1870

EXTENSIVE FENcING.-The Railroad company
are fencing thciI entire line Of road from Rose
Vile through Lincoln to Marysville. Men are
now at work erecting the fences in the vicinity
OF Lincoln. The work is being we'll done So
We learn from friend from Lincoln.
Year: 1870

XXI FaCxe "A key was found this week on
the pike below towa aad left at this Office. The
owner can hare it by calling at the hERALD
ONCE. The key is small bright one, and bears
the appearance of having been carried ia the
pocket constantly.
Year: 1870

Ar WonK.-Asscssor Boggs commenced the
assessment of property for this county this week
We learn that Deputy Collector Moore will &C
company the Assessor through the lower district
and collect the head aud personal taxes as they
are assessed.
Year: 1870

nD-We are glad to learn that the Pain kiii
er is having so large sale in our city. We have
every reason to believe it to be an almost never
failing cure for pain, and medicine that no
family should be without. Montreal Pilot.


(mhl9 lm1
Year: 1870

The common house-fy isa very neat lit
tie fellow. His wings are made of tissue
paper, and his eyes of small pieces of
glass, fitted together at various angles so
that he can see on all sides of him with
out the trouble of turning his head. His
eyes protrude so far that the lids can never
cover them, and when dust collects upon
them it must be scraped off with pen
knife. He is always fashionably dressed
in tight pantaloons and shoo-fy neck:ie.
When he alights upon an upright surface
he invariably rests with his head down.
ward. The mosquito and all those flies
provided with strong sharp lancets, always
rest on an upright surface with the head
upward. The final destruction of the
adult fly, said a scientific work, is large
ly due to the growth of a parasite fungus
which attacks it, anil developing rapidly
in its interior, soon exhausts its vitality.
When we see fly sitting in chair with
his feet wrapped in a shawl and resting in
another chair, we way make up our mind
that he has the gout, and that his end is
near.
Year: 1870

u of the United States, in the Territory Of Idaho
You are hereby notified that there is now file in
the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the
First Judicial District of Idaho Territory in and for
the county of Idaho, the complaint of Thomas Nc
Garvey. claiming that you indebted to,plaintf in
the sum of two thousand dollars, being balance due
on account for salmon fish furnished and delivered
to you. at your request by plaintiff, in the years
1867 and 1861 and you hereby notified to appear
and answer said complaint within ten days excusive
of the day Of servce after the service you OF this
summons. if served within Idaho county if served
out of said county bur in said First Judicial District
within twenty days. otherwise within forty days and
that If you fail to appear and the said
plant, as above required, Judgment will be taken
against you by default for the said together with
COSTS in accordance with the prayer of the complaint


In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand
SNand affixed the seal of said Court at my Of
III tk6SSlice in Leesburg in said county, this 2Sth


day of August 1863 A. s. STILES, Clerk.


n42w5 BY VIM. H. THATCHER. Deputy.
Year: 1870

The Boise Statesman frequently harps upor
the subject of election frauds in New York
City, and refers to the New York Tribune Of


authority. That paper did publish false ac.


count of the number of voters in certain wards
and precincts, and stated that more votes were
polled than there was population; but that pa.
per afterwards discovered that it was in error,
and we find the following retraction made by
it, which our neghbor, in spirit Of fairness,
would do well to publish:


Finding in the Times table of certain un.
official returns from the present census of total
population IN particular election districts, at
the May election. we hastily accepted the fig
ures and made them the basis Of some rather
outspoken comment. But it turns out that the
figures were grossly inaccurate, the vote of an
entire ward being gwen as that of single cleo.
tlon district in it We utterly withdraw our
comments, apologize to our readers for having
trusted the Times ON anything, and promise to
never do SO any more. is


Notwithstanding this retraction by the Tri
bune, small fry Radical sheets all over the
country still pers st in denouncing election
frauds In New York, and have published the
which appeared some time ago in
the Tribune, but have rever published the cor.
recton afterwards made by that paper The
Sacramento Union, which lays claims to being
the leading Radical paper on the Pacific coast,
and one of the most respectable, has never


,,l 4 A. r Il IL.
Gle by the Tribune, but in spirit of Unfair
ness has attempted to deceive the people by
eading them to believe that the first Tribune
article was true in every respect.
Year: 1870

STORY OF A VERY NAUGHTY MANA


London anecIote, the publication of which was


suppressed In the English papers. has reached


this side of the sea. A nObleman, living near


Belgrave square, received visit short time


since from police officer, who stated to him


that he had a man servant in his house who
had escaped from Botany Bay. His lordship
was somewhat surprised, but called up the
male part of the household, at the officers re-
quest, and passed them in review. The culprit
was not among them. The officer then request
ed to see the female part of the establishment,
and to the inexpressible astonishment of the
whole household. he laid his hand upon the
shoulder of the lady's confidential maid, and
informed her that she was his prisoner. A
change of dress was Immediately sent for, and
mladi's dressing-maid was re- metamorphOsed
into an effeminate looking fellow, and marched
off to new trial 1t is most extraordinary
thing that he had lived unsuspected in the fam
lily for nine months, performing all the functions
of confidential Abigail, and very much in "a.
vOr with bis unsuspectng mistress, who is
rather serious person; and would as soon have
thought of turning out to be man herself It
is said that the husband once made a remark
upon the huskiness of the maids voice, but no
other comment was ever made rejecting in the
least upon her qualities as member of the
beau sere. The story is quite authentic, but
hushed up out of regard to the lady. -