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Year: 1870

The fidelity with which the putative Nephew
copies the Uncle is absolutely touching. The
story now is that the Third BOnaparte has
attempted to commit suicide, just as the First
used to tell people that he tried to do the same
thing after Waterloo, only the poison had lost
its strength. OF course the mere assertion of
the most mendacious of monarchs settles moth
ing. 1t was impossible for this wonderful
warrior always to speak the truth and Louis
Napoleon, whether he be really a BOnaparte or
not, has the same iniirmty. But neither of
these men, being fatalists, would be likely to
kill themselves. for we find in them the child
like confidence of Mr.. Micawber at was not
"to be-" said Napoleon l., when he found the
poison too weak. But did he ever intend that
it should bel


-Sundry admirers of Marshal MacMahon in
New-Orleans are about to console him by send
ing him what is called ga sword of honOr.'
Many precious stones have been contributed
for the adornment of the hilt by the ladies'.
But the drollest contribution of all came with
the following note: "The dead who lived in
the hatred of Prussia should also subscribe.
" inclose, therefore, on behalf of my deceased
father and mother-One trancm Whether
this donation of eighteen cents and seven hun
dred and forty-One thOusandths of cent will
have any pcrceptible adverse influence upon
the fortunes of the Prussian monarchy, re-
mains to be seen; but really we cannot but
feel that gift of one-and-sixpence might be
made III way just a little less lofty.


Poor Sir Bernard Burke, the most eminent
of English genealogists, says of the late mon
arch of France that be was finally Empe-
ror, excelling in his love and maintenance
of peace. and rivaling as statesman and a
"soldier his uncle, the most memorable ruler
" and greatest captain of Francer-all of which,
we suspect, the unfortunate though courtly
Sir Bernard will be obliged to strike out of
the next edition of his book for various rea-
sons, one of which is that the object of his
eulogy has turned out to be particularly Door
statesman and no "captainn at all. If any,
thing can make the figure of the "Uncler more
imposing in history, it will be the involuntary
comparisons between the first and second En-
pire, from which mankind would be more than
mortal TO abstain.
Year: 1870

We ask no one to support ali incapable or
unworthy candidate for Office because he Is
called Republican and has regular nomina-
tion. On the contrary, we urge every voter to
strike from his ballot any name which he
knows to be that of dishonest OF unfit man,
no matter for the consequences. Conventions
and wire-workers must be taught that such
nominations will not answer, and this Is
the way to teach them. Do not ask us
to particuarize and denounce-for the
friends of the bad candidates would re-
sent such denunciation by striking at the
good ones-but do you make due inquiry, and
scratch off every bad mans name from the
ballot which you vote. The immediate conse-
quence may be disagreeable, but the ultimate
effect will be wholesome and benefcent. Un-
derstand, then, once for all, that we do not
wish you to vote for thief or a fool because
of his politics. If any Republican nominee is
unworthy, You cannot better serve the Republi-
can cause than by refusing to vote for him,
and thus compelling better nominations there
after.


But there are those who, disgusted with a
bad name on the ticket of their party, refuse
to vote at all: and that is every way wrong
and mischievous 1t does nothing toward
securing better nominations m future,
since the good nominees suffer equally with
the bad ones. 1t involves the reputation of
a grave public duty on pretext utterly insult
fcient if not wholly irrelevant.


If every voter would religiously exercise his
Right of Suffrage at each election, taking care
to scratch from his ballot any and every name
which ought not to be there, whether he put
a good name in its place or not, we should
soon have the right sort of nominees every
time. Unprincipled aspirants would no longer
pack primary meetings and buy nominations,
if the inevitable result would be their dis
graceful defeat. Let us all resolve to scratch
every bad nominee, but take scrupulOus care to
vote for every good one!
Year: 1870

The Citizen explains the recent invasion OF
Rochester by the Democratic rutfanism and
rascality of our City, by assuming that the
Young Democracy were expected to send
tbitber q crowd of shoulder-hitters to control
or overawe the Convention, whereupOn


"Tammany was unnecessarily frightened, and under
took to meet this difficulty by gng opposition fighting
men and sending them to Rochester by special train
but this horde was not needed and merely injured Its
employers by outrageous behavior on the way, having
the ingratude pick the pockets OF those who paid
It, In fact from the manner in which these men be-
hayed it would seem though Tammany had lost It's
chief organizers Of the element and did not know how
70 concentrate and control the dangerous classes We
sincerely hope that this is the case, and that no no
mating Convention shall again be coerced as some
have been in times past"
Year: 1870

We publish this morning from our cor
respondent with the Italian army full details
of the occupation of Rome. His description
confirms all that has been said of the enthu-
sasm with which the people of that city were
prepared to welcome the soldiers of Victor
Emanuel. The narrative is not calculated to
increase confidence in the worldly wisdom of
the Pope, for it seems that on the approach
of the Italian army he armed all the criminals
in the Papal prisons, and formed them INTO
body guard for his defense. These fellows
were so obnoxious to the people of Rome that
they attacked them in the streets, and they
were saved from annihiatiOn only by the
Italian troops taking them prisoners. Subse-
quently the citizens of that part of the city
reserved to the Pope by the terms of the
capitulation made such angry demonstrations
against the troops reserved to him that he
was compelled to call on the Italian com
mander for protection from his own subjects.


These events suggest the impOssibility lof
leaving the Pope with any temporal power
whatever in his hands. The people whom he
has heretofore governed are evidently de-
termined to resist his authority, and he is
helpless to enforce it without the aid of the
King of Italy. The Italian troops have
restored order, and the Pope has appeared
in public without being molested, but is it most
likely that it is because of the presence in the
Leonine city of the Italian troopsf Victor
Emanuel cannot risk his personal popularity by
sustaining the Papal temporal authority in any
part of Rome.


If the Pope is not reduced to strictly spirit
ual authority he will still endanger the peace OF
the Italian Government.
Year: 1870

A friend asks us if Mr.. Boutwell, could
not help the Republican cause in our State by
a speech. We answer, Yes, most decidedly
and he need not step outside of his Office to
make it. Let him just telegraph to his Sub
Treasurer here, "Use all the Public Money
"not absolutely needed for other uses in buy
"ing up and canceling whatever form of in
"terest- bearing Debt you can buy to the best
"advantage n-and that speech will be worth
thousands of votes to us, not in this State
only, but more especially in the Wheat-grow-
ing North West, whose staple is coming into
market, and which necessarily regards. with
disfavor the locking up of Currency in the
vaults of the Government Silence, all, for
Mr.. BOutwell's speech!
Year: 1870

coward, and almost inevitably villain. We
have heard somebody"-yes, several some
bodies at the East-say that the Hon. James
Brooks, Editor of The Express, Representative
in Congress, and Director Of the Central Pa
cific Railroad. has made q great deal of
money out of that Road which he could not
have had chance TO make had he not been a
Member of Congress. If this be the fact, how
is there in their charges while they conceal
their names 7 Let no mans reputation suffer
because of anonymous charges or skulking
insiDuatiODs
Year: 1870

The N. Y. Tribune gives this
sensible advice to the negroes.


/. Never resent nor deprecate
the application to yourselves of the
term negroes. II means only that
you are in contradistinction to your
fellow-citizens, black; and that is
the literal fact. II Is in your pow
er to make the designation one Of
honor and pride by simply behav-
ing better than other men-which
cannot be very difficult. Let who
will call you negroes in welcome, so
that you prove yourselves true
men.


ii. Be far more anxious TO give
your. sons good trades than to push
them into office. Office is unstable
and fleeting, while trades are en-
during.


Ill. Don't waste your scanty
means in starting distinctive organs
or getting up negro churches, where
you are allowed equal privileges
with others in existing journals and
churches.


~. Warn your people against
spending too large a share of their
earnings on fine clothes, dancing,
drinking and other modes of sensual
qualification. If they had saved
half the money they have thus
wasted they need now ask favOrs OF
no man.


V. Turn your attention largely
to the cultivation OF the soil. It's
your fathers calling, and you can
succeed in that if in anything.
Earth, air and water are as free and
as bounteeus to you as to others
you might settle whole counties if
you would, and thus choose your
own neighbors and manage your
own schools. Don't say you lack
money for nine.tenths of the pio-
neer settlers of all lands have been
quite as needy as you are but take
hold and hew out for yourselves
farms and homes from the public
domain or elsewhere.


vi. Wait and serve, shave and
black boots while you must, and
never doubt that any kind of use.
iul though humble industry is pre-
ferable to idleness and dependence
but do not accept this as your inevi.
table destiny. Plan and save while
youare in it to get out as soon as pos
sible, and never rest till you live in
your own houses and till your now
FARMS"
Year: 1870

We are requested by Major J..
G. Richardson to state that he is
authorized by Colonel John Ray
to say that he will pay $500 to-
ward the construction of good
roads, or the improvement Of the
roads leading to and from Ray
vile. This is a liberal offer. Will
some public spirited energetic
man start a subscription upon
this suggestion, heading the list
with John Rays s5OOS Put the
ball in motion; we need the roads
very much, and a few such con.
tributions would construct such
roads in the country that a person
could ride over without the dread
OF aoundering in the mud every
two or three hundred yards.
{ La. Beacon, Goth.


Colonel Ray had better take
this $500 and pay his starving
railroad hands, now in this city
without money.
Year: 1870

AT one Of the recent concerts at the
Tulleries zone Of the most beautiful wo.
men" Of Paris attracted much attention
by tho Empress conversing with her
for some time, aud on her returning to
her seat all eyes were turned upon her


The lady, accustomed to this homage,
thought it was as usual paid to her
charms. But suddenly she discovered
that one Of her beautiful eyebrows,
made of felt, had dropped in her lap,
and that this it was which attracted 50
much attention She tainted, Of course,
and no doubt will take better care in
future Of her fxings.
Year: 1870

THE HUSBAND. Ladies' sometimes
do not value their husbands as they
ought They not unfrequently learn,
the value OF a good husband for the
first time By the loss of him. Yet the
husband is the very roof tree Of the
house--the corner stone Of the ediiice
the keystone OF the arch called home.
He is the bread-winner Of the family
its defence and its glory-the beginning
and ending Of the golden chain Of life
which surrounds tits CONSIDER, law
giver, and its king. And yet we say
how frail is that life on which so much
depends. How frail is the life Of the
husband and the father When he is
taken away who shall fill his place |?
When he is sick, what gloomy clouds
hover over the housel When he is dead
what darkness, weeping agonyl Theu
poverty, like the murderous assassin !;
breaks in the window--starvation like
a famishiug wolf, howls at the door
Widowbood is too often an associate Of
sack.clcth and ashes. 0rphanhood too
often meaus desolation aud woe.
Year: 1870

A we'll known judge, when he 6rst
came to the bar, was very laundering
speaker. On one occasion when he was
trying a case, involving a right Of prop
perty to q lot Of pigs, be said: Gentle
men Of the jury, there were just twenty
four pigs 10 that drove--just twice as
many as there are in that jury box"
Year: 1870




In the neighborhood of Syracuse. in
Sicily, is cave of great depth, which
is said to have been built by Dionysius
the Elder, tyrant, or usurper, who
was born about B. c., 430, aud died in
the sixty.third year of his age, and the
thlrty-ninth of his rule. This cave was
two hundred and fifty feet long and
eighteen feet high. 1t was fashioned
in the form Of human car, and the
faintes. sounds were carried from all
parts to central chamber, which cor.
responded TO the tympanum or drum of
the ear. In this remarkable Whispering
gallery Dionysius imprisoned ali who
were the objects Of his suspicious, while
he himself was in tho habit of passing
entire days in the innermost chamber,
listening to the conversation of his
victims, in order that he might ascertain
for himself who were really his enemies.
Ancient writers tell Us that the work.
men who constructed the cavern were
put to death to prevent them from di
vu'ging the use to which it was to be
put, and that whole families we're some.
times confined in it at once. Modern
travellers relate that even at the present
day Notwithstanding the changes which
have been wrought by time, the echo is
such that the tearing of a sheet of paper
ut the entrance can be distinctly heard
IN the remotest part Pieces OF iron
aud lead have been found iu making
excavations, and they are thought to
be the remains of the chains aud sta.
pies by which the prisoners we're con.
lined Otieer Optics .Hagasiae.
Year: 1870

OF ALL THE GREAT CCRIOSlTIES WHICH
" attract the most attention at the Mechanics
Fair, are the wonderful improvements which are
now attached 10 the we'll known WHEELER B.
WILSON SEWING MACHINE. without the com.
plction OF the others. This is the only Family
Sewing Machine with the new Silent Feed Mo
tion. II makes one thousand button holes per
day. on linen. cotton or wooden goods. 1t sews
on the binding of Il dress. without previous bast
ing. in four minutes and while sewing on ono
tuck, makes the line of marks for another; gal b.
ers and sews on al the same time; hens silk or
woolen goods with equal facility; cords and
braids with surprising quickness; makes articles
for mems as well womens wear; takes two
thousand stitches per minute. which is fifteen
hundred stitches more than any other lock stitch
can make. gf


This wonderful machine has no shuttle 10 thread


five or six times before starting, which is n
great saving OF time. 1t is Il positive fact that
WHEELER Il WILSON'S FAMILY SEWING
MACHINES will do all the same kind of work
that the other machines now on sale will do =
will make the sumo single thread loop stitch that
raves out very conveniently, because you can
sew with one yard OF thread all day long. sewing
in your thread then raveling it and sewing it in
again, and so on all right and very convenient;
but you will find that the same WHEELER X
WILSON FAMILY SEWING MACHINE that
does all these wonderful things, makes also the
only straight solid lock stitch which cannot be
raveled; perfectly sale to walk to church with
clothing IN ,de with this stitch; also this machine
will make the three thread embroidery stitch.
which is the -oop-stiteh and lock stitch combined
and forms the most beautiful ornamental finish.
perfectly SECURE against raw cling. and very dura-
BILE. The AMERICAN INSTITUTE, New York, re-
ports. This machine makes the
Year: 1870

loved friends, on both sides of the water
He received me with bright smile and
warm pressure of the hand, and without any
parley, approached the one subject. was
surprised and delighted to find him capable
of sustained conversational though his
utterance was labored and broken, his
thought was as trenchant and consecutive,
and far more matured, than when we parted
three years before. 1 alluded in form, as
far as possible from offensive, to the tempta-
ton of his rationalistic surroundings at
Heidelberg. I'VE will not waste words on
that matter said he; thank God never had
doubt about the truth of his revealed re-
ligion.


"The very next sentence showed me how
squarely he stood on Gods platform, as to
the whole subject of his relations to God.
Never have I met the mind and heart which
worked SO truly, and soundly, and purely in
understanding itself and its condition, and
in apprehending and appreciating Gods
plan of salvation. The ordinary confusions
of the intellect and delusions of heart were
alike and at once sifted, solved, crushed,
abandoned. You will pardon one ilustra-
tration. Well knowing his peculiarly hon.
orable and spirited nature, I feared that he
would hesitate to rest freely and fully on the
mercy of God in his extremity, not having
given him his days of health. l alluded to
this, as subtle suggestion of the Evil One,
and was attempting to answer it, when he
stopped me with something approaching i'm
patience, saying, You need not dwell on
this point; have no such difficulty, and
that for two reasons: First, because did
not and do not seek God under the pressure
of approaching death alone. 1 tried to be
Christian, before the failure of my health, to
crafty my family; not the highest motive,
certainly, (God forgive me, but not the low
est And besides, if l sincerely seek Him
nos0, as refuge in trouble, He surely could
not cast me off because had not sought be-
fore. He is above making such point of
etiquette with his poor creature. My pres
ent helpless condition is, believe, rather
an appeal to Him, than barrier against
His Grace


"Nothing, in my judgment, could better
illustrate the clear cut, definite character of
all his mental processes, his remarkable self
intelligence and the simplicity and beauty
of his Bible-faith."


Such was the life aad death Of this inter-
esting young man. His life was short and
apparently uneventful, yet it was full of
thought, feeling, and development. trust
this short memoir may serve in some measure
to preserve his memory, and may at the same
time cheer, encourage and instruct many Of
the young students who are preparing them
selves to walk in the path which he had
marked out for himself.
Year: 1870

In that part of our Directory of Wor-
ship" which relates to "The Sanctifcation
of the Lords Day." we find the following
section


Let the time after the solemn services of
the congregation in public are over, be spent
in reading, meditation, repeating of sermons,
catechising, religious conversation, prayer
for blessing upon the public ordinances,
the singing of psalms, hymns, or spiritual
songs; visiting the sick. relieving the poor,
and in performing such like duties of piety,
charity, and mercy"


Most of our congregations are in the coun-
try, and where they have but one public
service. Consequently the afternoon and
evening of the Sabbath are at the disposal
of the people, to ELL them up in such way
as shall be most for edifcation. No better
outline could be given than the one provided
in our excellent Directory. There are two
extremes to be avoided. Let it not be day
of sloth. 1t never was made for ignoble in
diligence. But on the other hand let it not
be day of intense hustle from morning till
bedtime. There is such thing as an over
doing activity on the Sabbath. The fuuda-
mental idea of the Sabbath is day of rest.
Let the idea of repose, as far as possible,
pervade all Sabbath arrangements, and be
spread over the whole day.


What blessed memories are connected with
Sabbath days, and in my memory especially
with Sabbath evenings. Sweet hymns, SOL
emn prayers, repeating of Catechism and
Scripture, parental counsels-all these come
up now, after fifty years, as delightful
picture, and feel that they are worth to me
more than all that earth could give. Ifpa-
rents would exercise little holy skill, this
day would not be looked forward to with ap-
prehension, but with delight. All would
account it, not ga weariness,' but "the
holy of the Lord, honorable"


The Sabbath evening! All the grace and
all the glory of the Sabbath seem to meet
and mingle at its close. The days duties
and engagements have hallowed the spirit,
and earth never seems so close to the
gates of heaven. The foot of Jacob g ladder
seems then to be placed on our earth, and
the angels of God 60 up and down upon it
with busy feet.


" O time of tranquil Joy and holy feeling
When over earth Gods spirit from above


Spreads out his wing of love:


When sacred thoughts, like angels come appealing
To our tentdoors; O'eve to earth and heaven


The sweetest of the seven!


How peaceful are thy skies, the air is clearer!
As on the advent of gracious time:


The sweetness of its prime


Blesses the world, and Eden's days seem nearer;
hear, in each faint stirring breeze,


Gods voice among the trees.


O, while thy hallowed moments are distilling
Their fresher influence on my heart like dews,


The chamber where muse,


Turns to a temple! He whose converse thrilling
Honored Emmaus that old eventide,


Comes sudden to my side'


EvENTIDE,
Year: 1870

Is IT NOT A WONDERFUL THING that the
sum of the Revelation which God has given
to us in the Bible may be compressed into
few words, yea, into one word, CHRIST {?
1t is mercifully so ordered, as every minis
ter of the gospel can attest. How often are
we called to the bedside of the dying, when
few words may be all that the poor soul
can understand.


"This is a faithful saying, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners. !"
Here is the core of the gospel in few
words; and yet the world cannot contain
the books that might be written in order to
exhaust this theme.