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Year: 1870

A society has been organized in Canada
under the title of the Union League, for the
purpose Of bringing aoout the annexation of
British North America TO the United States
This society has its headquarters in Mon.
lreal, but affiliated associations are to be
formed in all parts of the Dominion. Con
siderable sums of money are said TO have
been pledged for tho purpose OF agitating
the subject through the Provinces, and the
owners of real estate are especially called
upon 10 contribute, on the ground that the
incorporation of the Dominion with the
United States would add at least one-half to
the present value of land both in the cities
and in the country,


The object for which the managers of the
Union League intend first TO strike is the in.
dependence of the Dominion. They under.
stand that the British Government cannot
consent TO the direct annexation Of their
colonies to another country and accordingly
they design first 10 secure their indie.
pcndence, and then 10 bring about the an
ncXaton as soon afterward ny possible This
feature Of the new movement is not unrea-
bonable but it may well be doubted whether
the movement for Independence can be
much advanced by n society which confcsscs
at the outset that it Las not a sincere interest
in that object.


The statesmen of the Dominion-and we
must assume that there are statesmen there
must soon earnestly take hold Of the problem
that il before them A longer continuance
Of the colonial relation is evidently imprac.
ticable. Great Britain cannot afford to throw
away the large sum of money which the Pro
vinces are now costing her and for which
she receives no tangible return, The judi
cious solution of the problem--indeed, the
only solution-is independence but it must
be real, and not sham independence ; not
device 10 facilitate annexation but all hon,
est endeavor TO render the united Provinces
powerful and prosperous as a nation by them
selves II that experiment should fail after
having been wisely and faithfully tried, the
Canadian people may then, very naturally
be led TO consider the question of annexation
TO the United States, But this question can
not with propriety be forced upon them; il
must be left 20 the operation OF natura
growth and development, The Union League
may possibly BE- a useful agency ia rnlin,t
s"'nR TIA Canadian I"ouic Dwi il would l.,
Year: 1870

We call the attention Of all sensible men
in the country to a translation in another column
Of a late article in leading paper Of Madrid.
The Cuban army and the Cuban Government
which Gen. GRANT $50 much pretcnds to de-
spise " are declared and proved by this Spanish
writer to be more respected and better obeyed in
the island than either the Captain General OF
the Spanish Government.
Year: 1870

The editor of the Citizen demands that we
shall nominate him for the Vice-Presdency.
We are sorry to be obliged to decline. The Vice,
Presidency is not his forte; but in Congress he
would do very well. His personal beauty would
make him favorite with the ladies in the gal
lery, and his knowledge of fisheries would rem.
der him decidedly useful whenever any question
connected with the subject should come before
the House. Let the friends of Mr, ROOSEVELT
stick to him and return him to Congress
Year: 1870

The trial of JOIN REAL was a model trial
We do not know where in the history of the
criminal law in England or the United
States a capital case can be found in which
justice was more perfectly done and we
shall be very much surprised If the Court of
Appeals does not affirm the decision of the
Supreme Court, which tried and condemned
REAL
Year: 1870

The Finance Committee of the Senate
seem to be impervious to all arguments ofreuson,
policy, and justice concerning the income tax
They propose to retain the tax, but 70 diminish
the exemptions allowed in the bill passed by the
House. The better way would be to remove the
tax altogether. 1t is hateful to the people, unjust
in principle, and contrary to the Constitution.
What is the use of enacting a law which the
Supreme Court is sure to set aside soon as the
subject is fairly brought before ity
Year: 1870

White, Smith, & Perry have just published


edition of very excellent treatise on Pd"o ana
Musical Matter by Miss GABRIELLE NOTE, who
has been for many years Of the most highly esteemed
teachers in Boston The which her work has OBJ
tanned NAV be understood from the fact third edition
being lied for in the short period Of six months since
the first was issued 1t fully deserves its popularity
The first chapters are for the Of beginners the last
will be valuable not only for young pianiss but for all
xccpt ACCOMPLISHED artists Apart from It's thorough
ness the book admirable for its clear explanation OF
points in the science music which every learner ought
to know and almost every instruction book overlooks


The EreJy- Day Book Of Modern Literature,
bv the late GEORGE II. TOWNSEND, (Scribner, Wexford
a Coz is an adaptation to modern wants OF the old idea
OF ELEGANT Extracts" a sort of patent laborsaving
contrivance for giving ignorant and lazy people super
fetal acquaintance with the style of great many


writer's as well as aOrdng occasional entertainment Tor
better class of readers. Mr.. Townsend has given
reading lesson if may call it for every day in the
year lie prcxes to each extract few dates and facts
in the history of the author. lie borrOws from no
writer than once, except in very few instances
He does not conflne himself to English and American
literature, but picks out few ransatonS from tat OF
the Continent Upon what principle these latter seec
tons have been made cannot divine. The greatest
names OF France and Germany not represented and
there is 10 selection from any Spanish author-none
even from Ccrvanes In the choice of specimens from
our own language we certainly cannot always commend
MI TowusendS Judgment and and then we are
puzzled alike by what he puts in and by what he leaves
out; s his list OF authors pretty full one and the
collection will serve its purpose book for the enter
taiuncn Of idle hours though it has little value as
literary museum.
Year: 1870

: VVI9UE7Sl w "


The tidal wave which was expected
this morning did not make its appearance,
The river Is lower than usual, and the
people living on the water side, who had
made preparations for protection against
the wave, have returned 10 their dwell.
ings relieved Of anxiety.
Year: 1870

( The British War Department has inves-
tigated g. recent invention of a locomotive
without rails, and it is pronounced in Off
cial reports far moro useful than any horse.
The Superintendent of machinery says he
has ''come to the conclusion that the ques-
ton OF steam traction on common roads is
now completely lived" that the appliea-
ton of the India-rubber tire is perfect
success; that it opens up an entirely new
field, and that he looks upon this applica-
ton as a discovery, rather than an inven-
ton. In the course of experiments wit
messed by Mr.. Anderson, the engine went
up q zigzag labrynth Of courts, and it can
describe any figure almost in space OF
twice it's length. The boiler employed is
an independent invention adapted to the
carriage. Its chief peculiarity is the cop
per pot used for holding water within the
furnace, and it is so contrived that if the
boiler contains any water the pot will


keeps the centre of gravity low, and al


lows the engine to run up hills of 1 in 10,


or go along an angle Of 35 degrees. The
wheel and its tire may be described as con-
sisting of q broad iron tire with narrow
fanges, upon which is placed ring of
soft vulcanized India rubber; this ring is
about twelve inches in width, and five


inches in thickness, which thus surrounds
the iron tire, and is kept in it's place by
| the hangs; then over the India rubber


there is placed an endless chain of steel
plates, which is the portion of the wheel
that comes in actual contact with the
rough road, the reticulating chain being
connected by a sort of vertebra at each
side of the wheel. The India rubber tire
and this ring OF steel plates have no rigid
connection, but are at perfect liberty to


move around as they please without con-
sulting each other, or even without the
concurrence of the inner ring of the wheel
which they both enclose.
Year: 1870

| Murat Halstead in his last letter saws


''Halt century after the battle OF Water
loo there is a sharp controversy as to man,


of the incidents of the combat, and yictoi
| Hugo raised storm of discussion by the
introduction OF his Waterloo chapter in
Les Miserables. 1t is not to be thouph,


amazing, therefore, if there are disputed
| points about the battle OF Gravelotte. One
the things talked about is q cavalry


charge ordered by Steinmetz. He is said
| 10 have directed regiment or regiments


OF lancers TO charge up the Paris road
where it passes the head of the dismal
hollow Or abrupt ravine behind Gravelotte
| that l have been trying to tell'about. The
story goes that there wera three thousand
OF them put in, and that but eleven hun


dred came out. This sounds like large
proportion of Il charging party to be des-


troyed, but there would be no occasion for


surprise if it should turn out that the facts


were as represented.


The Prussians have been smart-as in


nearly all things in this war (the especial


exception Is In railroad management lin


the matter of removing their dead. AS


a rule, they clear the ground of their own


dead and wounded with surprising celerity


and are Ilai - enagetie Ill the disposition


OF the French who are slaughtered and


thrown upon their hands. 1t would not


have an eXhilarGting effect upon Prussian


troops TO march in the thoughtful mood
that comes after the excitement of bat
tie among. their mutiated comrades and
1t lrparts to them lofty ideas of their SAN
culinary power to have strewn along
their path immense numbers of dead
trenchmen. The fact that the day after
the battle was for some time on the spot
where the bloody cavalry charge is said to
have been made, and that there were no
dead or wounded Prussians there, does
not prove that the statement of the destruc-
tive charge is inaccurate. What I saw
would rather corroborate the story. The
road was in that place bloody, though
there had been rain that would have re-
mos ed light stain The beautiful road
side trees were skinned and splintered and
battered in an extraordinary way. That the
lead and iron hail of the battle Storm
had been poured there with the utmost
fury was plain. Then there were a num-
Der OF broken lances, some of them
snapped by shot, and IN the gutter were
pennons ard helmets. 1t is related that
the cavalry, terribly cut up in this charge, |
had to retreat, and it is question whether
they did anything for the country other
than get killed in her name, and pursuant |
to the exacting orders Of the veteran Stein
metz, OF whom General Sherman will have |
a higher opinion when he learns that he |
hercely refuses TO have correspondents or |
other civilians Or visitors of anv descrip- |
ton, about his headquarters. lie says
Bismarck can do as he pIeases around the |
Kings headquarters, but he will have no |
historians in his camp"
Year: 1870

To PURIFY CIsTERN WATER.-Let the
spout run to the bottom of the cistern.
You will then have new water every time
it rains, the old water will be buoyed or
borne up, and throw off all old water and
give entirely new. II you have any doubt
of this, fill pail with water, run tube to
the bottom of it and by means of a tunnel
turn more water into it by way of the tube,
and you will see that the water you turn
into the tube VIII go to the bottom OF the
pail, and the water you put in first WI be
thrown of.
Year: 1870

TUBULAR KEROSENE LANTERNs.-Seeing


these lanterns everywhere, and everywhere


duc1d TO call st the factory where they are


made. Ne found a large double four-story
building crowded throughout with men and
machinery. st al points there was the most
perfect system, and nothing was lacking
which money and skill can supply. The ma
chinery is run night and day, and five Ian
terms are turned out every three minutes.
Tue principle OF the tubular was explained
to Us, ana We found that all that is said of il


in the advertisement Ill another column is
fully borne out. Power, safety. economy
| and reliability are secured as never before il
| q lantern.
Year: 1870

The following, from one Of our ex-
changes, SO fully and clearly expresses
our views upon the subject, that we
copy it without comment:


You have an undoubted right to stop
a newspaper whenever You are disposed !,
upon payment of all arrearages. Do
not hesitate to do so on account of any
tenderness of feelings" for the editor
Don't you suppose he would stop buy
ing sugar Of you, or meat, clothing. dry
goods, DC, If he thought he was not
getting Ii. moneys worth2 and why
should you not exercise the same priv
ilege with regard to him end his wares,
when you get tired of them2 And when
you discontinue q paper, do so manfully.
Don't be SO pitiful as to throw back to
the postmaster with contemptuous II
don't want it any longer!" and have re-
fused written upon the margin and have
the paper returned to the editor. No
gentleman ever stopped paper in that
way no matter if his head is covered
with grey hairs that should be honora-
BILE. If you do not wish longer to re.
ceive newspaper, write q note to the
editor like man saying so-and be
sure that arrearages are paid. That is
the way to stop newspaper.
Year: 1870

A writer in the last number Of Ap.
pleton's Journal says of hashish:


have often taken the drug rather
for curiosity to discover what it's attrac.
lions might be than for aught Of pleas
urable excitement / ever experienced.
The taste of the potion is exactly what
mixture of milk, sugar, pounded black
pepper and q few spices would produce.
The first result is contraction of the
nerves of the throat, which is any thing
but agreeable. Presently the brain be-
comes effected; you feel an extraosdi-
nary lightness of head, as it were; your
eight settles upon one object. obstinate
ly refusing to abandon it; your other
senses become unusually acute-un-
comfortably sensible and you feel .
tingling which shoots like an electric
shock down your limbs till it vOids
itself through the extremities. You
may stand in the burning sunshine with
out being conscious of heat and every
sharp pain is instantly dulled. Your
cautiousness and your reflective organs
are painfully stimulated; you fear every
thing and everybody, even the man who
want who prepared it; you suspect treach.



tion detect objects the most complex
edly villa inous. Your thoughts become
wild and incoherent, your fancy runs
frantic. If you happen to exceed lit
tie, the confusion Of your ideas and
the disorder of your imagination will
become intense.


recOllect on one occasion being per-
suaded that my leg was revolving upon
its knee as an axis and could distinctly
feel as we'll as hear il strike against and
pass through the shoulder during each
revolution. Any one may make you
suffer agony by simply rem arking that
q particular limb must be In great pain,
and you catch at every hint thrown ont
to you. nurse it and cherish it with q
morbid eagerness that savors~ strongly
to insanity. This state is a very dan
gerous one especially to a novice; mad
ness and catelepsy being by no means
uncommon terminations to it. Ii an
assembly are under the influence of tho
drug. and a single individual happen to
cough or to laugh, the rest, no matter
how many, are sure to follow his exam
pie. The generally used restoratives
are q wineglassful Of pure lemonade
juice, half q dozen cucumbers eaten
raw, and few puffs OF the hookah, and
you may conceive the state Of your un.
happy stomach after the reception of
these remedies. Even without them
you generally suffer from severe indi-
gestion; for. during the into xication,
the natural hunger which the hashish
produces excites you to ca. q supper
sufficient for two days with ordinary
circumstance.
Year: 1870

Never be sorry. then, for any gener-
Gus thing you ever did, even if it was
betrayed. Never be sorry that you was
magnanimous, if the man was mean af-
terward. Never be sorry that you gave.
1t was right for you to give, even If you
were imposed upon. You cannot afford
to keep on the safe side by being mean.
You had better, many times in your life,
for the sake of keeping yourself in the
practice of benevolencc, do things that
are questionable, rather than to judge
so narrowly, that you will always be on
the side of cold calculation. Give your
heart some Roadway and in the long
run it will be safer for you.-(Beecher.
Year: 1870

Any of our lady readers whose hus-
bands have been 'alienated' will be in
terested in the following recipe for win
ming back their love, which was given
by fortune teller to a wife in Dayton
Procure black hen, cut her head of at
single blow with an Ak, cut her open
with pair of scissors, and cut out her
heart. The heart should be wrapped in
hair and slightly roasted in the ashes /;
then clean it, wrap it in piece Of blue
silk, and place it under her husbands 8
pillow, so that he would sleep on it for
three nights.
Year: 1870

Nobody is more like an honest man
than a thorough rogue.


When you see man with a great
deal of religion displayed in his shop
window, you may depend upon it he
keeps a very small stock Of it within


Do not choose your friend by his
looks; handsome shoes often pinch the
feet


Don't be fond of compliments remem-
Der. "rhank you, pussy, and thank
you, pussy" killed the cat.


BY no means put yourself in another
persons power; if you put your thumb
between two grinders. they are very apt
to bite.


Drink nothing without seeing it; sign
nothing without reading it; and make
sure that it means no more than 1t
says.


Don't go to law unless you have moth
ing to lose; lawyers houses are built
on FOOLS heads.


In any business. never wade into wa
ter when you can not see the bottom.


Put no dependence upon the liable of
the bag and count money after your
own kin.


See the sack open before you buy
what is in it for he who trades in the
dark asks to be cheated.


Keep clear of the man who does not
value his own character.


Beware of no man more than your
self we carry ohr worst enemies with
u.s.


When a new opinion or doctrine comes
before you, do not bite till you know
whether it is bread or stone; and do
not be sure that the gingerbread is good
because of the gilt on it.


Never shout till You are quite out Of
the wood and don't cry fresh fish till
they are caught in the net.


There's always time enough to boast
wait a little longer.


Don't throw away dirty water until
you have got clean.


Keep on scraping the roads till you
can get better work for the poorest
pays better than none, and the humblest
office is better than being out of en-
ployment.
Always give up the road to bulls and
madmen and never fight with coal
HEAVIER, or contend with base charac-
ter, for they will be sure to blacken you.
-lSpurgeon.
Year: 1870

! ne sums AS'A -,


From the Buffalo Express, Nov. l01


The SUMS atmosphere, say the scien>
tific men, is in q highly excited condi>
ton. A column of magnetic light is
shooting out further and further from
the solar sphere, and it is now stretch
ing out forty five millions Of miles. In
other words, it has accomplished half
the distance between US and the sun J!
The interesting question, and one on
which, perhaps, We do not wish any
more light of this character, is: How
long will it be before it finishes the rest
of the distance and bridges the gigantic
chasm between the earth and the sun
Is il q messenger sent out to snatch US
up as food for the insatiate monster that
keeps himself warm by devouring plan
cts and whose fire eating propensities
this whole earth would satisfy for few
days only If so, how long will this
emissary be in reaching us, and carry
ing the globe away as if we were gi-
gantic lump Of coal for q roaring fur
mace The column of light at intervals
indicates its approach by flashing and
corruscating with fresh brilliancy. So
decided are its effects that two astrono-
mers. one at London, the other at Ok
ford, and neither knowing the expert
ence Of the other, supposed that the
dark glass of their telescopes had been
broken Or put out of range, so strong
was the fash of golden light upon the
vision. 1t is predicted that before the
end of next year this magnetic light will
have got near enough to US to make its
immediate and actual influence upon the
earth distinctly felt. 1t is announced
that in consequence we may expect to
see a phenomena that has never been
seen or known before by the human race.
If any of our readers are therefore yet
disposed to complain Of the weather and
the earthquakes let them remember that,
by this time next year. they may have
an entire new line Of experience to ex-
plain and endure. in comparison with
which the ftful winter and rough, rude
autumn of TO- day, may seem like June
corning in paradise, and the earth
4uake's shock and lightning's storm a
placid rocking in the cradle with pleas
ant lullaby Of thunder.
Year: 1870

The old spirit 10 not yet extinct even
as far North as Maryland. A school,
teacher there was guilty Of the heinous
wrong of teaching black children. where
upon his house was surrounded, last
week, by an infuriated mob, yelling that
they wanted to lynch him, and he es-
capped only by promising to close the
school. Slavery is not entirely dead
yet.
Year: 1870

correspondent Of London journal gives the
following account OF Nj. CremieuX OF the French
Provisional Government, and public assemblage
which he attended Having stated that the subject
of NJ Cremieux's speech was "The Marsellaise
Hymn the writer proceeds


NJ. CremieuX is now seventy-four, though his voice
and spirited bearing showed no symptoms OF this
advanced age and no less than fifty years ago he
made his first hit as rising advocate by his defense
of four prisoners accused of singing that seditiOus
song, the 'Marseillase." From a book recording
the history of his triumph M. CremieuX to the
audience (0r rather delivered over again-lt was
given with so much gusto and sprit his speech a
young barrster of twenty -four, describing with
great nGUete how he Mortified the Judge, but charmed
and conciliated the jury, by reading in full Court
the ''seditious song" with all the emphasis and
fire Of which he was capable-committing himself
in fact, as 1t were over again the
very crime with which the client he was defending
pose. The verdict was a triumphant acquittal, aud
NJ CremeuX was thenceforth made man. The
Jury could not have been more pleased with the
young advocate than the Porte st. Martin audience
apparently risk of being encoIed, when he was
rescued from this trying compliment by the advance
OF Madle Agar to sing the song he had just been
dscoursing upon-the MarSeillaiSe. Her voice was
strength, but her management OF it was good, and
her play OF feature sngularly striking and impress
sive Her dress was that OF the classical Goddess
of Liberty-a tunc of simple white dropping loosely
over her figure, the expressive movements of which
it neither fettered nor concealed, and leaving the
arms bare Her long black hair falling disheVelled
down her shoulders and dark eyes full OF the fire OF
enthusiasm, gave her almost the appearance of one
inspired, and when at the last stanza she grasped
the tricOor flag, and, kneeling down, half shrouded
herself in its folds, the entire audience which filled
every corner and crevce Of the theatre from gallery
to fOor to their feet simultaneously as by the
same impulse, and with one voice burst into that
most magnificent of popular refrains, the "Aux
aTmes, ctOyens!"