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Year: 1870

The city horses have been harnessed to-
gether and toiled together for SO long period
that an intimacy seems to exist between them
which could not be strengthened were the
animals possessed of human intelligence.
The other day strange horse was harnessed
with one of them, and the grief and discon-
tent exhibited on account of the change was
SO great that the lonesome beast could only
be reconciled by the return of his companion.
Year: 1870

THE SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT.-We are au-
thorized to say that there is no truth IN the
report that Congress is about to submit to
the States for ratification an amendment to
reconstruction of the United States COM
pelling every man and woman in the coun-
try to buy tickets in the Louisiana State
Lottery. Such a constitutional provision
would be manitestly unjust; and Charley
Howard don't want to force people by legis-
lative enactments to invest in his company,
for he knows that, owing to his popularity,
integrity and good business qualifications
the company must thrive without the aid OF
any governmental forcing.
Year: 1870

It is so much the custom of the press to


praise theatrical performances that the


public mistrust has been aroused, and in


stead of taking for truth all that is written


in this respect. it often happens that ex-


travagant praise has the effect TO make


people doubt even when the performances


that are spoken Of merit the highest en-.


comiums that can be bestowed. The ladies


and gentlemen composing the Berger


Troupe have given series of the most


genteel and entertaining perform


ances at the Academy this week in


their peculiar line, and have no. fail


ed to attract large and fashionable


audiences that have been prompt


to manifest. their delight at the refined and


artistic manner in which they are nightly
entertained.


There is nothing in the performance of
this troupe of youthful artistes that can be
objected to by the most fastidious. They
are accomplished musicians, and have
modest, genteel way of going through their
performances that is at once novel and cap.
tiyating. Music, indeed, hath charms, vo-
cal as we'll as instrumental. 1t has power


of sympathy, as well as symphony, that can
not be resisted, particularly when youth and
female beauty are blended in the work.
We were not astOnished at
the success which has attended the per,


fo1mances of the Berger troupe in this city,
even at this advanced period Of the thea
trical season, for its members have much to


re recommend them to public favor.


Mr.. Sol Smith Russell, the great character
impersonator and comic singer of this com
pany, takes benefit TO- night, and it will be
strange if there is not crowded house.
The Berger troupe will continue their per-
| formances at the Academy until Sun day even
ing. People have only TO see and hear them
to have all doubt expelled as to the character
of these performances. After concluding
at the Academy they will perform on next
Monday evening at the Pavilion, on the
corner of Canal aud Vlllere streets. They
will then proceed to Mobile and fulfill a
| short engagement.


| We take pleasure in commanding them to
public favor, but feel that wherever they
are seen and heard this will be unnecessary
| as their performances will do that more ef-
| fectually than anything the press can say.
Year: 1870

Adjournment Of the Legisiaturo-Tbo Arcade


Abomination Passed.


Last night the State Legislature, having
finished the business of the session, adjourned
siso die. Reviewing It's work we find much
to praise and but little to oonusmn. 1t might
have been expected, and probably was, that
the democrats would make sweeping and
radical change in thd several departments
Of government. For the first time ia many
years they found themselves in complete con-
troll of the State, and there was nothing to
prevent their overturning everything estab-
ished by the republicans had they
felt SO disposed. But, on the whole,
they acted wisely, discreetly and with
view to future party victories. They pro-
missed to institute reforms, and have fairly
redeemed the promise. With but the excep-
ton of single bill, to which we shall speci-
ally refer, their Legislation has been whole
some and conservative. The troublesome
question of the canals has been settled in .
manner which promises good for the State,
and other measures have been instituted Of
character calculated to prove beneficial to the
people at large. But the most noteworthy and
the best act of the late Legislature was
tho passage of the New York Charter, by
which the metropolis has been relieved from
irresponsible partisan commissions and placed
under the immediate control of her own citi-
zens, who are the proper persons to admins
ter the government of the city. For this work
all the praise does not belong to the demo-
Gratis. BY promptly coming to the support OF
those of the majority who were opposed to
seeing New York handed over to the Morris
sey-O'Brien faction the republicans acted
with patriotic spirit and deserve commenda-
tion. Indeed, taken altogether, the legisla-
ton has been singularly devoid of partisan
measures, and the debates have been, in the
main, free from those asperities which have
rendered noteworthy previous Legislatures.


The only bill passed which meets with our
unqualified condemnation is that incorporating
the Broadway Arcade Railroad. This was
rushed through the Assembly at the close oil
the session against the wishes of large
majority of our city representatives in both
houses, and in spite of the protest Of the pro-
perty holders along Broadway. We shall NOT
now consider what Influences were exercised
to bring about the passage of the bill. All
we shall do is to insist upon Governor Hof-
man vetoing it. His principal objec-
ton to the bills granting State aid
to railroads holds good with this Arcade
project. The people of the metropolis do not
desire it, the property holders directly inte-
rested oppose it, and he will be derelct in his
duty if he approves the measure. Thus far
his official acts have been statesmanlike and
proper, and we trust he will not permit any
political or other considerations to induce him
to abandon the high position he has assumed
in his administration of the affairs of the State.
1t depends solely upon him for this bill to be-
come law, and we call upon him to kill it.
Year: 1870

THE PROSPECT AT WASHINGTON. Fears
are beginning to be expressed that the present
session Of Congress will run into the dog days.
We think the two houses will have to clear
out before the lst of July; for the President
has probably limited to them that after that
date his private arrangements will call him to
Long Branch
Year: 1870

THE ScnEMERs FOR BIG SPECULATION in
the destruction of Broadway might as well
now give it up. II railway ring represent
Ing untold millions OF capital has failed to
secure the job it may be said that Broadway
can't be sold by our Legislature, though the
Legislature itself may be bought.
Year: 1870

that same hypothesis. Should the new constl-
tuition triumph In France all mouarchical
Europe win instantly feel the thrill Of reform.
Should it fail there is imminent danger OF an
insurrection, a coup 6stot or foreign war, to
be got up by the Emperor in order to divert
the minds Of his people. In any case 1t Is
evident that the Old World foresoes another
political earthquake.
Year: 1870

Little Hope for the City of Boston and Smidt.


The prolonged absence OF the steamers City of
Boston, bound from New York to Liverpool,
and of the Smidt, from Bremen to New York
leaves but very little hope of their safety. OF
the two vessels, there is less confidence felt in
the appearance of the latter than of the former.
The Smidt is said to be slow sailer, but the
winds have been blowing from the east, which is
the theory held for the non-appearance of the
City of Boston at Liverpool. Easterly winds
would thus be adverse to the latter, but would
be just the ones to bring the Smidt into port.
Destruction by icebergs is the most general
belief in connection with these steamers, but
the chance that their non-appearance is owing
10 other causes is just as great.


heavy steamer, with disabled machinery,
would have but little chance of surviving if
caught in one of those teYible storms that in
variably prevail on the Atlantic in winter. Wit
ness the President and San Francisco, and
others, American and foreign. Steamers are
rarely provided with enough spare sails to meet
such a contingency, and the City of Boston is
said to have been badly fitted out in this respect
Good seamanship is but of little avail under
such circumstances. A disposition has been
shown by some newspapers to blame the captain
of the City of Boston for his preference for the
northern route, as the chances of meeting ice
bergs are thus greatly increased. Captain Hal
crow is not singular in this preference-all the
European steamers take this route
and had he generally preferred q
more southerly and longer one,
these same papers would probably have been
the first to complain of his heightened passages
None but those who have encountered the hor-
rible winter gales of the Atlantic can thoroughly
realize their power; and If the missing steamers
should never again be heard OF, we shall be more
inclined to believe that they have succumbed to
the storm king than to any other of the many
dangers that constantly attend ocean navigation.
1t is now forty days since the City of Boston left
Halifax, and forty-seven days since the Smidt
left Bremen, and the fact that SO many steamers
and sailing vessels crossing the same routes, and
many on the lookout for them. have not fallen


in with them, leaves butvery little hope for their
n1timata
Year: 1870

We did hope for rest this
Saturday Night, all alone, with
no one to take our thoughts from
the beautiful study of life and Wis
iting with the good angels who
come at times trooping all around
US; each one suggesting good
thought and all smiling a happy
hearted approval to reward US for
honest Iaboring in the vineyard Of
life.


Have you ever read of angels
visits? Some people say they are
lew and far between. Not so, if
we would have them freqpen
And much of this wits ma all 10th
rest. We believe IN the visits of
angels. Not the looked-for en-
bodiment with wings and white
raiment, which appear to wander
ing imaginations. But the guod
any CAS-, WAOSO AOLAC ~ 10 SpaCc-
whose resting place is Over There
who live in the yellow sun light
of the Eternal, and whose mission
is to welcome There the ones who
believed in them, and liberal, no.
BILE lives here. sse-


Our good angels never yet have
deserted US. Each year more
come-none are missed. We
know many of them. We can see
them as plainly as the tracing on
the paper before us. Sometimes
a troop of them come to have si-
lent talk with US, then away they
ali go TO their missions Some of
them go on missions of their own,
as beautiful birds fly through the
aires the spirit--the thought, an
initiates space. a
Year: 1870

SPEAK KINDLY TO THY MOTHER
Young man, speak kindly to your
mother, and courteously, tenderly
of her. But little time and you
shall see her no more forever.


Her eye is dim, and her form is
bent, and her shadow falls toward
the grave. Others may love you
fondly; but never again while time
is yours, shall any ones love be to
you as that of your old, trembling
weakened mother has been.


Through helpless infancy her
throbbing breast was your safe
protection and support; in way
ward. testy boyhood, she bore pa
tiently with your thoughtless rude
ness she nursed you safely
through a legion of ills and mala-n
dies. seu


Her hand bathed your burning
brow, or moistoined your parched
Ibis her eye lighted up the dark
ness of nightly vigils, watching
sleepless by your side as none but
her could watch. Oh, speak not
her name lightly, for you cannot
live SO many years as would
suffice to thank her fully. Through
a reckless and impatient youth,
she is your counsellor and solace. 2


Toa bright manhood she guides
your steps for Improvements nor
even then forsakes or forgets. Hi q


Speak gently then, and revercnt-
ly, of your mother and when you,
too, shall be old, it shall in some
degree. Tighten the remorse which
shall be yours for other sins, to
know that never wantonly have
you outraged the respect due Ito
your aged mother. z; as
Year: 1870

A man in New Jersey has inven-
ted q stove which will consume
its own smoke. Now, if hefwiu
devise a method whereby tobacco,
can consume their own
smoke, he will be entitled to the
thanks Of all the ladies in the land.
Year: 1870

The pathway they go--the way
they come--is not dark to us. It
was once. But we have looked
for light and looked and looked,
till at last it has come to u.s. We
would not stop looking till we saw,
and understood. Every day these
unseen visitors come to us: They
are our friends. Sometimes one,
sometimes more are with US At
times they leave US alone, and 60
away to call upon others. Some
times we send them on errands
for us, miles away-to whisper
words, or thoughts, to absent
friends. Aue they come back to
tell us what their hearts replied,
and where they were, how looking,
and how in health: So we are a
thousand times a day here and
there--with those who write us let
ters-with the poor who often
think of US as we do of them-with
the weary and the overworked. ata


Sometimes all our good angels
leave us for hours, to grope in the
dark, as it were, and to feel sad,
depressed. unnatural, as one
who halts in wilderness, with the
night and the storm all about him,
and he in distress. Then we make
haste to call for help, and our
spirit reaches forth and goes out
for the golden shadows which
bring us light.


And they come. One whispers
hope. Another tells US to be brave
and truthful, and all will be well.
Another tells US that the golden
shore is for our reaching, that we
must not sit idle, but push on like
man. Another good angel comes
and tells us what others have done
another one tells us who loves
US and who is glad when we are
in such heart-warmed company
other angels go with US to point
the way, and show where we must
walk and not fall; and once more
we are on the road.


Som etimes, when our good
thoughts or good angels come to
US not, dark shadows come over
us. Bad thoughts and selfish de-
sires enter our spirit temple or
life. But light dispels darkness,
and the good triumphs over the
bad as we seek the light or remain
content to grope in darkness, and
to sleep under this hedge or that
bramble because others who do
not, and perhaps do not care to
see as we see, are content to think
there is but one path to the Eter-
nal! .aft t


And that one over thorns, and
GOALS, and poisonous points of
granite-as if q Power that is Love
Eternal wants agony instead OF
earnest manhood and goodwill in
the beautiful Land Of the Leal.
Year: 1870

little pie and sandwich, and Of
saying a few kind words TO that
man?'


Yes


DO you know me, now ?
@'Yes-I know you to be that
man, for whom I was sorry


Well, sir--I am that man. And
to night I come to pay You for
that pie and that sandwich. Will
you accept this little gold dollar
as an evidence of friendship and
gratitude? I ate the food you
gave me-and ate no more till I
earned it. The taste of that food
was in my mouth many hours. but
it was not SO sweet or so nourish-
ing as the kind words you gave
me, never forgotten


'Ob, yes! I have forgotten
themr


We'll, have not, and will tell
you them. You said, Take this
lunch and little courage-then
take care of yourself and help me
sometime


That was not much to say


1T was great deal to me. I
looked at you as I ate, till you got
on the cars, and then / walked
away. Your words gave me pluck.
The idea that / could ever help
you seemed ridiculous. Then l
said, why not9 I walked away
from walked out, away out
Euclid avenue, and found a chance
to work five days, helping q man
fix a barn. And l didn't drink
any more. as


Then got work in a warehouse
for month. Then went to Idaho
and made money. Two years
since I saw you in Chicago, and
remembered your face, 1 follow
ed you till learned who you were.
Now my business called me to
New York, and l come to tell you
that the poor, drunken vagabond
you gave few kind swords to a
4 few years since is now well off, as
the world counts, and that l want
you to take this little keepsake and
wear it, Or give it to some poor
creature


4 will accept it with pleasure.
And keep it as long as I live, to
remind me of forgotten incident
which was nothing


But it was quite something to
me. It gave me food, and courage,
and something to think OF. I said
1 would try to be kind to myself if
q stranger could be kind to me-


'And you have done well, have
you2


Yes, first rate. / kept at work,
saved and worked. Went West
soon as could, and kept going
West. Made little money at
Chevenne. Then I went to mining
and knocking around in Idaho
Sometimes it was pretty blue, but
I stuck to it, and now am all
right. Some day, when you want
a friend, call on me. and l will re-
pay you kind word spoken. and
never forgotten


And soon he went away, and we
to our work, and to enjoy the re-
ward which is ours this beautiful
Saturday night.--'BRICK' PoMERoY.
Year: 1870

The idea of general Shakspearean
commemoration is one in which the bet
ter class Of American citizens will take
especial interest We feel sure that it will
he universally honored, and that it's influ-
ence will be of the most refining and ele-
waiting character. 1t will create desire
with the coming generation to read the
works Of Shakespeare and to see them ably
represented. The annual festivals in the
principal cities, on the 23d of April, will
call forth the best and wisest men of the
nation, they will meet the good and great
Of the stage, and each will learn the true
value of the other. 1t is quite time that
'he men and women who give character to
the dramatic profession were more fitly
recognized. The day has long gone by
for press or pulpit to underrate the posi-
ton and power Of the drama. A national
"Shakspeare day" would do much toward
correcting the false impressions that still
!nger in some minds.


'.The pulpit orator may lift his eyes,


And with his finger pointing to the skies


lIuri forth his thunder IN the actor race,
And call the playhouse most sinful place.
Yet, let the preacher and the church remain,
To lead the soul to heaven, and to gain


Rich c0nquests over wickedness and sin
The outward signs Of excellence within
Shall we condemn the church, that those who teach
=" not precisely practice what they preach.
Belize there as bad men in the church


As ever lett the erring in the lurch;


And on the stage, perhaps there are as good
As ever earned poor old mothers food.
Then let the drama follow her course,
RebD king foley, showing the remorse


IN vice attendant, and the earthly pain,
That ever breeds where crime hath left a stain.
Religion and the drama, hand IN hand,


Might spread docility throughout the land.
This of the soul, the other of the mind,


Be thus the mission Of the two combined"
Year: 1870

were breathing anathemas and curses.


Just at this moment of suspense the
counsel for the defense, presented an
affidavit setting forth their inability to
supply copies of motion, evidence and
so fourth, missing from the record, and
the rights of defendant would be pre-
judiced by sentencing him before they
were supplied, which could be supplied
some day next week, whereupon the
case was continued until Thursday July
14th, at 2 o'clock p. M. When in all
human probability he will receive his
sentence, after which the supreme court
and Executive clemency will be the only
sources to which he can look for hope
to escape, fate that in the opinion of
SO out of every hundred who have
heard the story of his horrible murder
Of the Haggerty family, he richly de-
serves.
Year: 1870

In the neighborhood of Boston once
lived two clergymen, one of whom was re-
markable for his dry humor and the other
Cor his prolixity. The former meeting the
latter, asked him to preach for him at his
Preparatory Lecture. The latter replied
that he could not, as he was busy writing
sermon on the Golden Calf. That is
just the thing" was the rejoinder, "come
and give us forequarter Of it."
Year: 1870

LEARNED LADIEs.-Miss Maria Mitchell
has been made Professor Of Astronomy by
Vassar College. Heaven help her husband
it she ever secures one. Learned wo-
men meyer make good housewives. We
have known many sssch women in our day
both in this country and in Europe, but
not solitary one happy in her domestic
relations. Not one. The moment you ed
ucate one of the sex up to the standard Of
rare distinction, you unfit her for domestic
duties, you unfit her for her proper family
position. She must wed milksop and be-
come the head of the family herself, ,or else
her married life will be perennial scene
Of quarrel, petty chickering's and acute no
tions. A learned woman may be happy
as an old maid; she never can be as q wife
and mother. 1t is pity, but it is the
truth.
Year: 1870

Yesterday morning young man, named Aaron
Burre, was in the act OF jumping the front plat
form OF car on the Newark ana New York Rail
road while the train In motion, az the depot in
Bergen, aud, his feet slipping he fell under the
wheels, which crossed his body and mangled IT In
frghtul manner. The watch which he had in his
vest pocket was completely 1attened out lie was o
carpenter, and was proceeding with his father to
Newark where they were employed. The remains
were taken TO the residence of hs father on oxford
Year: 1870

To THE EpIrCH OF THR HERALD:--


In your Saturdays issue you have corTespon.
dents criticism on the circular OF the National Bank
Committee, in which he says that you cannot debit
more than seventy dollars against 81 900 invested at
per cent What he means by that Is not clear,
but his statement OF the pro1 to be made by 1000
invested In a bond OF four and half per cent and
the currency that may be issued thereon what the
statement Of school boy might be who had only .
part OIL The facts relating 10 the sum he was nguring
out.


The following is a statement OF tho most that can
be made on that business, without any charge for
dong II or losses on lOanS:--


Interest 900 at four and half per cent. $45
Circulation OF $500 at seven per cent. ....... So
Year: 1870

The estimate for the year 1871 should, there
fore, be $659, ,406. Inasmuch as we have reason
to expect that the grand list of the State will
be increased, it is hoped that the tax required
to meet this estimate will not greatly exceed
the tax of last year.
Year: 1870

One of the best definitions Of
newspapers is that of Henry Ward
Beecher. He says:


A newspaper is a window through


which men look out on all that is
going on in the world. Without a


newspaper a man is shut up in a
small room, and knows little or
nothing Of what is happening out.
side of himself. In our day,


newspapers keep pace with histo-
Try, and record it. A good news


paper will keep sensible man in
sympathy with the worlds cur.


rent history. 1t is an unfolding


encyclopaedia; an unbound book
forever issuing and never finished.
Year: 1870

A young lady in Newark, when
her jealous admirer sent back her
letters with a request that she
should send his, answered that she
regretted that she had lent them
TO a young gentleinsn TO read.
Year: 1870

A Connecticut baby leaped from
his nurses arms, the other day,
through a second-story window.
The nurse went down to pick up
the lifeless remains when she saw
him hanging safely by his dress to
the blind fastening
Year: 1870

How many of our readers know
that there is in the eye of every
person a spot which is "blind,
and which is known to physio-
logists as the "blind spot p To
illustrate, we have provided on,one
side Of the column black dot, on
the other cross.


+


Close the left eye, and look
steadily with the right at the cross
on this paper, held a foot distance
from you. Now move the paper
slowly toward the eye, which must
be kept steadily fixed at the cross.
at certain point the star will dis
appear, bat as the paper is brought
still closer, it will be brought to
view again. Itlesults from optic
al principles. How many of the
students in our schools can explain