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Year: 1871

A man in Charleston audience, the
other night, cast the light Of bulls eye
lantern on ..Prof. Fay's dark seance,
which dissolved good deal Of its mys-
terry. The gaitar performances was re
vealed just as natural as a big fellow
sSinging that instrument could make 1t,
or as natural as Barney Hughes, of the
Railway Record, reveals the "invisible
hand Of qnartette Of table rapPers IN
the Bluff City. A party Of four were
sitting around with their hands on the
table. occasionally bestewiug cunning.
searching smile on each other, when the
medium, who was a banker, remarked I:
"If any gentleman desires it he can re.
quest the invisible hand to be shown,
and his Summons will be obeyed but to
make the hand have an object il will be
necessary to place some thing on the ia
BILE, so that its mission will not be fruit
less With some trepidity, but power
full curiosity, all sgreed to call the hand,
and temptingly arranged, with enticing
regularity, several columns of little,
round ivory checks Sufficient of these
having been accumulated, the hand was
requested to be shown; with astonishing
slacrity il obeyed and carried away those
little piles of ivory Just as natural as if
it knew these other hands around the
table could not check it. The party was
soon broke up, some of them Affirming
that the baud had a cold AIR about it.
Year: 1871

One of the most important general
laws that passed the last Legislature was
that which changes the time of the pay
mept Of the revenue into the State Treas
ry. The bill compels the Sheriffs, on
the first day of October in each year, to
make report to the Auditor. under
oath, of the money that be has then col
lected, and pay the same over immedi
ateIy; and every sixty days thereafter to
make similar report; aud to make his
final settlement with the Auditor on the
first day of April in each year. the bill
to take effeet in 1872. Five per ceut
damages shall accrue on all taxes unpaid
by the first day of April, which damages
go to the State, aud not to the Sheriff


This differs from the old law in the
following respect, viz: that under it the
revenue was due in the treasury on the
10th of December Of each year, after
which time the Auditor could take judg-
ment against the various Sheriffs in the
State who had failed to pay by that time
the entire revenue of their respective
counties into the treasury.
Year: 1871

MEMPHIS, April 1.-The Avalanche's
Jackson special says Governor Aleorn,
in message to the Legislature to day,
says the rewards for the detection of
men engaged IN outrages perpetrated by
what is called Ku-klux in any county.
shall. when paid by the Executive, be
made a special tax upon that county, with
a right to change the revenue on the
part of the State He asks authority to
organize and call into the field cavalry
regiment of picked men for operating
whenever masked assassins shall be seen;
the cost of subsistence of said regiment
to be levied as special tax on the county
to which they shall have been called by
the appearance of the masked assassins
With this power, the taxpayers who
shall dare tolerate, by their sympathies.
the performances of the Ku klux, will
soon find out that such liberation will
have cost them dearly.
Year: 1871

THEY have new style Of temperance
society down in Tennessee. The mem
bers may drink anything they pay for,
but pledge themselves not to invite any
one else to drink, nor TO accept an in
vitation from any one else. The society
has regular officers, and conducted in
many respects like the Good Templars.
Year: 1871

Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the house tops, over the street,
Over the head of the people you meet,
Dancing.


Flirting;


SkimmiDg along;
Beautiful snow it can do no wrong,
Flying to kiss fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lip in frolicsome freak.
Beautiful snow from the Heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love!
Oh the snow, the beautiful snow,
How the fakes gather and laugh as they 60
Whirling about in the maddening fun,
1t plays i'll its glee with every one.
Chasing,


Laughing,


Hurryng by;
1t lights on the face and sparkles the eye!
And even the dogs, with a bark and bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy around:
The town is alive, and it's heart glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful SNOW!
How wild the crowd goes swaying along,
Haing each other with humor and song,
How the gay sledges, like meteors. flash by,
Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye ;
Ringing,


Swinging.


Dashing they 40
Over the crust of the beautiful snow;
Snow so pure when it falls from the sky;
To be trampled in mud by the crowd rushing by,
TO be tramplel and tracked by the thousands


Tof feet
TIL it blends with the filth in the horrible


street.
Once I was pure as the snow-but I fell,
Fell like the snow flakes from heaven to hell
Fell to be trampled as filth on the street,
Fell to be scotied, to be spit on and beat;
Pleading,


Cursing,


Dreading to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing In shame for morsel of BREAD
Hating the living and fearing the dead
Merciful God have fallen so low!
And yet was once like the beautiful snow !
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like its crystal, heart like its


glow;
Once l was loved for my innocent grace,
Flattered and sought for the charms Of my face!
Father,


Mother,


Sisters, all,
God, and myself l have lost by my fall
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by,
Will take wide sweep, lest wander too nigh;
For all that is on or above me; know
There is nothing that's pure as the beautiful


[snow
How strange it should be that this beautiful


snow
Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go
How strange it should be, when the night


lcomes again,
If the snow and the ice struck my desperate


brain
Painting,


Freezing,


Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for moan,
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town,
Gone mad in the JOY ofthe snow coming down
Year: 1871

A Warsaw reporter saw a wax
among the wives and widows of War
saw, and remarks that "Of all the
wars we ever saw, we never saw q
war like the war we saw among the
wives and widows of Warsaw
Year: 1871

For a specimen of logical consecu-
ton of IDEAS we venture to commend
this, from a schoolboy's composition:
"Tobacco was invented by a man
named Walter Raleigh. When the
people first saw him smoking they
thought he was steamboat, and, as
they had never seen a steamboat,
they were frightened.r
Year: 1871

The Cleveland Leader has the
following singular narration:


A day or two since an Elyria
girl of seventeen summers arrived
in this city to visit some friends.
A friendly chat followed the hearty
welcome she received, and in the
evening three gentleman visitors
tapped at the door, were received,
and sat down in the parlor. They
were no sooner seated than the
Elyria girl approached and kissed
them, and then walked about the
room, showing the same favor to all
the gentlemen present. This done,
she confounded the already sur
prised company by bounding into
the yard, with a hearty laugh, and
smacking" her lips against the
gardeners, and then stalking into
the street to see who she could
next devour with her kisses.


The friends of Miss Elyria at last
became alarmed, and insisted that
she should accompany them into
the house. She did so, and to all
the questions put about her strange
conduct, answered with a wild,
ringing laugh and endearing cares.
scs. The visitors, seeing that i'll
sanity was at the bottom of the
most admired disorder that had dis.
turbed the good cheer of the even
ing, stood not upon the order OF
leaving, but left at once. The
young lady was left alone for the
evening, and the amazed family
next morning found that she knew
nothing of what had transpired
Her conduct was related to her, and
she was entirely ignorant of it all
This was a clear case of emOtiona.
insanity.


CHARLES PAUL DE KOCk.-This
somewhat famous author, whose
death is announced in late dispatches
from France, was the son of Dutcl
banker who perished on the scaffolC
during the first revolution, and was
born at Passy in 1894. From very
early age he devoted himselft to litera
ture, and his first book, pEntant d
ma Femme, was published when ht
was but seventeen years old. lts
failure did not discourage him, and he
continued to write plays of all sorts
for the minor theatres untilhe finally
attracted public attention, and achie
we'd considerable popularity. In 1872!
he again attempted novel writing
and with much greater success
How many he wrote may be inferred
from the fact that most of them ar
short, but when collected in 1874
his works made fifty-six good sizet
volumes. The quality of them il
decidedly inferior to the quantity
and but few have been thought wo1
thy Of translation into English. Yer.
many, however, have appeared unde


his name in this country, which h


did not write, and De Kock ma


therefore be considered as rathe


more decent than he has hitherto ha


the reputation of being.
Year: 1871

Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan,
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town,
Gone mad in the JOY ofthe snow coming down,
10 lie, and to die in my terrible woe,


Wit bed and shroud ef the beautiful snow.
Year: 1871

The dispatches from France published in
this mornings HERALD show that, although
the conservative republican candidates have
made fair exhibit of their strength, the
general tone of the people is in favor Of
return to monarchical form OF govern
ment The rabid utterances of Gam
beta and his faction are to be blamed
for this, as had they shown mode
rate tendency and desire to secure peace
at the price it might be bought different
result might have been expected. Jules
Favre understood it. He knew France was
powerless and unable to take decided stand
in opposition to the wishes of Germany, and,
therefore, he endeavored to make the best
terms he could with those who held, we
may say, the destinies Of France in
their hands. With the Bordeaux republi-
cans the case was different. They affected to
believe that they could carry France through
the desperate situation in which she is at
present on the bombastic utterances which
they expressed and the impractical theories
which they cherished. By this time, perhaps,
they have discovered how sadly they have
erred and how grievously they overrated their
ability to establish republic of their making
in France.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER CALAMITY TO THE FRENCH
The cattle plague 1t has broken out among
the immense drsves of cattle gathered at
Brest for the relief Of the half-starving popu-
lation of Paris, and is doing such havoc
among those herds that it is impossible to bury
them as rapidly as circumstances require. A
Gordon has been drawn around the cattle
affected with the disease, and as they die of
they are carted to the water side and tumbled
into condemned war ships, which, when filled,
are towed out to sea aud sunk. 1t is to be
feared, however, that when these carcases, in
the process of decomposition, rise to the sur
face, they will be washed ashore and create
another pestilence. Truly, the cup of misery
TO poor France has been filed to the brim and
she is drinking it to the dregs; but from the
very extremity OF her suferings there is at
least this hope-:hat she viii give up the fight,
and that her victorious enemy will not be
without generosity in his exactions-
Year: 1871

THE STEAM FRIGATE TENNESSEE. We enter
tain no fears whatever regarding the safety of
the Tennessee. She has doubtless reached
her destination, and in all probability the
Commissioners are enjoying summer tenn
perature under the shade of the magnificent
foliage Of that part of the world, little think
ing of how much uneasiness is felt at home by
reason of their not being heard from. We
publish in another part of the paper state
ment from parties who are thoroughly informed
regarding the means Of communication with
st. Domingo, and it shows how impossible it
is that we should have heard from the Ten
nessee before this, even if her passage had
been a quick one. We repeat, that we have
no fears whatever, and those who have friends
and relatives on board may rest easy and feel
assured that they will be heard from in few
days-all well.
Year: 1871

Protestant anarchy, and here we have


Protestant anarchy In perfection. Our isms
are countless as the sands by the sea shore or
as the stars of heaven. Every ism has its
own little following, its own little chapel, its
own little idol or its own little priest Amid
all our divisions we are professedly Chris
tian people but how the Master who prayed
that His people might be one even as He and
Ills Father were one can look approvingly on
American Christianity is more than we can
comprehend. Our divisions beget rivalry !;
rivalry begets jealousy; jealousy leads to
strife, and to-day we have in all con-
science rivalry and jealousy and strife
enough. We have been striving for
some time past to exhibit American
Christianity to itself, to exhibit every party
to itself and every other party to every other.
In other words, we have been holding the
mirror up to the churches in the hope that the
churches, seeing themselves as they ought to


see themselves, would feel ashamed and begin
to mend their ways. We are glad to know
that we have already been somewhat success
full. Like Elijah, like John the Baptist, we
have raised our voice in the wilderness and
it is our pride this day to know that promi-
nent ecclesiastical leaders in all sections of
the Church look to US gratefully and give US
good assurance that they will fight in the new
and holy cause. As we are already one
people, speaking common tongue, let us
hope that we soon shall be one people,
worshipping at common shrine. One Lord,
one faith, one baptism, with no isms. Let
that be our motto.
Year: 1871

CONGRESSIONAL LAUNDERING sometimes pro-
duces good results. The bill recently passed
by Congress for the partial repeal Of the test
oath is remarkable instance Of Congressional
stupidity aud carelessness; but notwithstand-
ing its glaring defects it is likely to prove of
great Importance to the country. The bill is
altogether in favor Of ex-rebels, but does not
cover the case Of Union men who were forced
into the service Of the confederacy. The
President favors the total repeal of the test
oath, believing that the Southerners would
behave themselves much better without such
Year: 1871

On Friday night last, in the House of Lords,
message was received from the Queen ask
ing for a dowry for the Princess Louise
suitable to the dignity Of the crown. The
message was read and made the order of the
day for Monday (to-morrow). What will be
dowry for this amiable Princess ''suitable
to the dignity of the Crown?" Twenty or
thirty thousand pounds sterling a year, we
suppose. The British people are becoming
somewhat dissatisfied with all the costly
royal appendages of their Church and
State establishments; but, considering
the popularity of the match which
has been made between the Princess
Louise and the Marquis Of Lorne, the son of
Argyll, we presume that ''her Majesty's royal
subjects" will not complain should the dewry
Of this Princess be made even forty Thousand
year, inasmuch as instead of going, as usual
with these royal dowries, to the support of
some impecunious German prince, it will 60 to
strengthen home establishment of the nobil-
ity and one of the most popular aristocratic
houses in ''the three kingdoms" There will
be change, it is widely believed, in all these
things by and by; but meantime the Princess
Louise may be set down as sure Of "a dowry
suitable to the dignity Of the Crown"


The CANADIANS take hopeful view Of the
future, and congratulate themselves upon the
prospect of an early settlement of all diff
ferences between themselves aud the United
States. If this be done the Kanucks will soon
sink into hopeless stupidity. The only
causes of excitement which have kept them
alive for several years have been Fenian
invasions and the fishery question. These
matters quieted, our Canadian neighbors
will be at loss for frst class sensations
10 stir their sluggish blood aud keep them
wide awake.
Year: 1871

cid and throwing S0otnlny palm on the
troubled waters of religious strife.


We ask then, the conflicting synagogues to
reflect that the differences of opinion which
have split Protestant Christendom into such a
variety Of creeds are in many respects more
serious than those which divide them, and yet,
thanks to the NEW YORK HERALD's influence,
the bond Of sympathy which unites all
humanity in the same fellowship becomes
stronger from week to week and scars over all
dissensions of dogma. Let US impress on them,
as on other conflicting sects, that, whatever
may be their discord on social or culinary
tenets, they all bow down with the same zeal
before the one Heavenly Father and cling
with the same devotion to the Old Testament
as Christians do to the Old and New.
The members of synagogues are like those of
churches and even mosques and Brahmin
pagodas are naturally subject to those out
breaks of freedom of conscience and intel
Exemption from them might only exhibit
effetaness and vegetation, while their exist
ence is q symptom Of vitality and buoyancy.
Even the Roman Catholic Church, which
heretofore seemed alone among all others to
stand steady and immovable, is showing some
symptoms of uneasy agitation, and while many
good Catholics regard the temporal power of
the Holy Father as indispensable for the sta
blIty of st. Peters throne there are not few,
no less pious, who look on the separation of
the religious from the political power as q
Year: 1871

Now as tho fact becomes more patent every
day that tho various dirty and filthy preparations
advertised as Reviewers Restoratives &c, are
but compounds of Sugar Of Lead and Sulphur
and therefore should be Stunned by all who
value their health, it is scarcely 4 matter OF sur
prise that tho demand for NATTANS' CR1S
tai DISCOVERY, admitted to be perfectly
harmless, and yet accomplish all, and moro, than
the poisonous articles claim TO do, should have
increased go rapidly. 1t restores the color and
growth of the hair positively in u few days;
strengthens tho roots, makes an excellent dress
ing, soiling noither clothes nor scalp but on tho
contrary it gives the scalp pure and cleanly
look, removing all dandruff and scurt 1t is the
most economical preparation in use Put up IN
large bottles, ut orc dollar.
Year: 1871

DEEf IhNEhy NOuu JAH. lob 1911.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD:-


School Commissioners had cause to complain of bad
spelling In the schools


have HAD my attention called to the system of
teaching spelling practiced in Of the schools Tor
more than two years past which is that the scholars
shall not make any distinction or syllables, but
must spin out the word to its full length then pro-
nounce II. If they did ch lnce TO spell correctly
word OF four or five syllabes cannot see how they
could correctly pronounce it. II the School Com
nssioners are not satisfied that this ls the trouble
let them take two classes Of the grade In two
schools and teach one by the Old-fashlpned way Of
pronouncng each syllable and the other by what
can only call the modern style, and after a few
months OF practice bring both classes together
for test OF spelling and pronunciation without par
ticular preparation. l should Ike to know how
many editors in New York or how many OF your
large number OF reporters were taught TO spell with
out strict regard to eacn syllable. Modern i'm
provements are good n many things, but not III all;
and II the present mode Of teaching spelling not
an Improvement give this mint To the Commission
ers thinking IL Tor the public good. W. A.P.
Year: 1871

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Knowing the influence your most valuable paper
has on the public mind would ask you II some
thing cannot be done to break up the many games
OF .'Kenon now operation In the neighborhood OF
Houston street and Broadway. In any OF them at
any hour between p. M. and 6 "A. M. may be found
boys from fifteen years upwards, who spend all they
can lay hold OF, expecting great deal, but receiv
ing nothing. know that IL you Will give this mat
ter airing many parent will thank YOU. As /
am In position where see all and am known
TO all parties II Will not answer 10 sign anything but


AN ENEMY TO GAMBLING.
Year: 1871

several hours, during which It was visited BY the
mob shouting az the top Of their vsces, "Where arc
those Massachusetts, -2 They have freed ~
and now they want to hang u.s.


Our Informant who II o reputably brave man.
says that eli attempts TO quiet the mob would have
been futile, for all the negroes were armed with pis-
emerged In solid body from the rear OF the town OF
BrasheaT while the white men present were entirely
unarrned and too few In number to cope with the
excited mob Further details win be given IN our
next issue.
Year: 1871

The figures of the last or new cen
sus show the negro population of the
country to be (or was in 1870 1880,
O09. This is almost exactly one eighth
Of the whole population Of the country.
The voting element of this class Of our
people is estimated at u total Of S79,-
40 voters. This is quite a significant
fact considering that not one in ten Of
this class on an average can read and
write. Quite dangerous class of vot-
crs to hold the balance Of power in a
country like ours, and to be made the
tools and dupcs Of unplicipled, heart,
less, political demagogues. But this is
the "stuation of the United States
to-day, and we confess the alarming
fact with shame and regret.
Year: 1871

White Hiycr Junction.


The Vermont Central Railroad is
building a round house, with stalls for
33 engines, at White River Junction,
intending to make that place more
central point than heretofore in the
operation of their line, This is good
news for the Junctionites.
Year: 1871

weather been propitious there would undoubtedly
have been q multitude OF citizens along
etaten Island shore to see the entrance
OF the combined heets through the MAJ.
rows and pleasure boats steamboats, and otner
cra would have added to the briliancy Of the spec
taclc. BuE as it was only very few person left the
city yesterday morning for Staten Island, and those
who did 20 preferred, when landed. to protect
themselves nom rhe inc.emency OF the weather
rather than inenectually strain their eyes
to catch glimpse OF the vessels pass
ing by. In fact, 1t was impossible to discern
the forms OF any OF them owing 70 the thick haze
that settled over the bay. Some experienced lndi-
viduals OF the little crowd who ventured to watch
for the Grand Duke thought they could see In the
aim distance the Svetlana and the Congress.
side Dy side, but no others OF the neets
were visible. The result OF tAis was, OF course, .
disgust toward the clerk OF the weather. and the un


OF patriotism and anxiety had only left them the
doleiu pleasure OF soitenina down their chagrin IN
nelghbOring refreshment places. On the boats
coming from Staten Island more uncomfortable


looking people could not well be seen. Wet
and detected, and suffering from other easily
imagined Ills, they retired into corners or grouped
In sultry silence around the sIcky stoves, pictures
OF disconsoate sightseers On nearing the city
they seized the only available pleasure left them


some speculation ~ to the menof-war lying
in the harbor stripped Of al decorations and
deserted Of all anticipation OF Q gorgeous dis
play. Altogether, the rain spoiled very pleas ans
day on Staten Island, and made lew people rather
more miserable than otherwise ~ss =