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Year: 1870

The proprietors of The Home Journal an
pounoe that a, the beginning of its twentysxth year
that popular paper will be enlarged by the addition Of
eight columns, and will be otherwise improved and
altered In It's dress and with It's attractions it
will probably be greater favorite than with the
large class Of persons Interested In the topics with which
u deala-
Year: 1870

We advise Mr.. Bergh TO look after the
United States Senate. The treatment it is
giving Admiral Porter is cruel and unusual.
The Senate has left him for week hanging
like tho sarcoDhagus of the Arab prophet.
Year: 1870

The peasant girls of France are no longer able
to meet the great demand for false hair by the
sale of their tresses, and the men have taken to
cultivating their bears to make up the deficiency.
Year: 1870

~Bachelors are not quite so stupid
as involuntary maidens would have us
believe. One of the inveterates being
asked the other day why he did not Sc
cure some fond ones company in his
voyage on the ocean of life, replied, al
would If l was sure such an ocean
would be Pacific"
Year: 1870

w Boarding house chicken soup
can be made, it is said, by hanging up
a hen in the sun so that her shadow
shall fall into a pot of salt and water.
The only trouble is that on cloudy
day the soup is liable to be weak.
Year: 1870

re- A sporting young lady says
"If the course of true love does never
run smooth. why don't they water it
and roll it regularly so many hours a
day, until they get the course so
smooth that any donkey can run upon
it?n
Year: 1870

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and eifectual
for preserving the
hair. FADED on gray
halr IS soon restored
to ITS original color
aciM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

Are two of the most common and vrulent dis
orders prevalent on this continent. to these the
Ointment is especially antagonistic, its modts OPP
erandi is first to eradicate the venom and then
COmnletn the cnrn
Year: 1870

encd, falling hair checked, and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophicd and dccayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness BY this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous and
injurious to the hair, the Nigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for
Year: 1870

unbearable extent. The doctrine on
which he placed himself with an abso-
lutte faith in its legality was that en-
bodied in the noble and upright reso-
luton of recent Democratic Conven-
ton in Indiana, that the debt should
be paid in strict compliance with the
contract, the five-twenty bonds being.
payable in greenbacks. The law, now,
which authorized the issue ofNational
currency, said in very plain and SIM
pie words that it is legal-tender for
all debts, public and private, except
duties on imports and interest on the
public debt. Therefore, if the people
owe anything else beside duties on
imports and interest on the public
debt, greenback currency was legal
tender for its payment that rose at
once by a bare statement to full
force of demonstration.
Year: 1870

How SooN FoRGorTEN.-So lately.
dead; so soon forgotten. 'Tis the
way of the world. Men take US by
the hand and are anxious about the
health of our bodies, and laugh at our
jokes, and we really think like the fly
on the wheel, that we have something
to do with the turning of the EARTH
Some day we die and are buried. The
sun does not stop at our funeral eve
rything goes on as usual; we are not
missed in the streets; men laugh and
joke; one or two hearts feel. the
wounds of affliction, one OF two mem-
ories still hold our names and forms ;
but the crowd moves in its daily cir
cles; and in these days the great wave
of time ,syeeps. over the steps and
washes out the last ASestige of oun
lives
Year: 1870

build navy yards at League Island and
at New London, and amplify those at
Boston and Portsmouth, and all over
the country. If that should be the
policy, there could be a reduction of
expenditures so that thereby the peo-
pie might be relieved from the bur-
dens of taxation at one end of the av-
enue, and the public debt might be
paid at the other. 1t was with this
view, and because he believed it to be
test question, that would move to
lay the bill oil the table, and would on
that motion call the. yeas and nays, so
the people might know who would
stand by the Committee on Appropri-
ations in its attempt to curtail the ex-
penditures of the government.
Year: 1870

u &


:. WHEN you see a young lady so very
delicate that she can't make her bed,
or put a couple of plates upon the ta-
BILE, and yet trots all over town with
the speed of a race horse, to tumble
nonsense with the Softpates, and Jen-
kins. and Duzenberries, just chalk it
down that she's piece of calico you
can't invest single penny or. .pulsa-
ton in. A girl who hasn't the muscle
TO lift three feathers and a pillow-case,
but can tire locomotive and whole
omnibus line out of breath, is an in
stitution that is, to be kept clear of.
Young men will please button up the
fact in their memory.
Year: 1870




them sffer they have arrived. We
founded the United States as a city
of refuge for the poor and the perse-
cuted OF all nations, and we cannot
shut our door against an orderly and
industrious race Just because we do
not like some of their ways. Orr
lands lie idle for want of hands to till
them. Our Territories are a wilder
ness because we have not men enough
to open them. An overcrOwded
empire sends us hard-working, frugal
sons Of toll, whose labor Is just what
we need; and instead of devising
means to keep them off, we ought to
be glad to get them. At any rate,
they are here, and they are still
coming in a steadily increasing &
stream, anisthere is nothing for the
dissatisfied to do but make the best
of the situation"
Year: 1870

FOr the living It would have been
far better had all the dead been
burned, for from all these thousands
of shallow graves a pestilentialstench
is now arising and filling the air
with the seeds Of death. Imight
fill columns with descriptions Of the
awful scenes on this battle field,
which covers space of ten miles
Exchange.
Year: 1870

The Abba Union says that the big
chunk Of copper which was found
some time ago in Cedar TIP. of Mon
roe County, and OF which general
mention was made at the time, has
been pronounced to be an aerolite,
and has been sent to the Museum OF
the Wesleyan University at Mt.
Pleasant.
Year: 1870

A stylish young lady came to
Richmond from New York, about
two weeks ago, and putup at ono
Of the principal hotels. She at
tracted much attention both for
her extravaganza Of dress and
rather mysterious antccrdents
On last Saturday night, however,
she explained the whole matter hy
taking huge dose Of Iaudanum,
IN leaving q letter to bo forward,
cd to an illicit lover Of hers in
New York. SO intent was shc on
committing suicide that she bit of
and swallowed portion Of the
stomach-pump that was used to
relieve her Of tho poison. She
can hardly recover.
Year: 1870

A WARNIXG--Slcel hair pins
have come into use in "iiNlng up"
the large quantity OF artificial
adornmrnt for the head, now worn
by ladirs, and they are proving to
he It dangerous article. a yonng
lady OF Maryland short time
since, fell and stuck one Of these
pins into her head, touching an
artery connecting with tho BRAIN
She is now lying dangerously i'll
from the effects Of the wound.
Year: 1870

Meanwhile thirty persons were
struggling in the water, clutching
at each othor, and at the frag.
mcnts of tho bridge. Some wore
even under tho bridge. Those of
the multitude who were on the
depot side could only stand there
in painful hclplessness ; those on
the other side managed to save
all but eight persons.
Year: 1870

past is not well cleared out we shall hear Of
It. There are many Frenchmen, we know,
who think that the empire has been expensive.
1t has spent money, but it has not reduced
taxation. Ministers under the new rsgimc are
to be questioned. If the past is not to be
blamed it will be all the better for the past,
and it will not be the worse for the present and
the future. On the whole it is our opinion
that Napoleon has done well. His very latest
speech has produced IAN unusually favorable
effect on the Bourse, the quotations remaining
firm and transactions active at the close yes
terday. The formation of the new Cabinet
has had very excellent effect in Paris, and
even the radical journals applaud the imperial
policy, and almost express the words that the
ruler is himself again. Ii the Parliament can
do better than this it win be all right.
Year: 1870

THE GAME Cook STATE E-South Carolina
was the first State to secede and the first to
pitch in for q grand civil war. Like an honor
able adversary, when fairly conquered, she
has succurnbed and been an exemplary men,
ber OF the Union ever since the disputed ques-
ton was settled under the Appomattox apple
tree. Determined to be right in all things,
she sets good example in the matter of her
public debt, which, being contracted before
the war, ought, in her opinion, to bear interest
in gold. Yesterday the January coupons were
paid in coin, and the agent in this city dis
bursed a,G7, SAG in their redemption.
Year: 1870

The MEANNEss OF THE LoBBY.-Our Wash
ington correspondent sends details OF the
operations of the lobbyists who started the
Postal Committee of the House on junketing
tour to New York and Boston to find some
way In which to make money out of the new
post Offices being erected in the two cities. 1t
discloses, among other things, the fact that the
lobby sometimes works for malice as we'll as
money
Year: 1870

The record OF horrors served up in one issue
OF the daily press gives an appalling view Of
the state Of society we present, with morality
and early training gone to the dogs, as they
are, and all our preachers and teachers dis
cussing philosophical and Gsthetical principles
and problems. In one issue we had the story
OF an frishman in Hartford who tried to kill
his wife with an axe; of a man in Bangor who
shot woman four times with revolver; Of
man at Sleepy Hollow who varied the enter
tainment of his dinner party by shooting two
men, his guests, and beating his wife to death
with the butt of his gun; Of policeman shot
in the street in this city; and of the Elizabeth
street tragedy with its strange murder and
suicide. Only the two cases of accumulated
savagery are difficult Of comprehension. No
satisfactory explanation seems forthcoming of
The crime at Sleepy Hollow, and this very
want of apparent motive at once throws the
cass mtg that largely Increasing glass stFl-
buted to insanity. What else but insanity can
account for an outburst Of savage fury that
drives a man to butcher all the members of his
dinner party? Well, then, was the German up
jn Elizabeth street insane also? His fury was
no less inconsistent as he took the life Of the
woman he is supposed to have loved, and then
killed himself, perhaps, because he would not
be in the world without her. 1t is thought
that jealousy may have led to this, and if it
prove otherwise this crime also will be set
down to insanity. II is an uncomfortable re-
Election for people who would be safe that this
sort of insanity so often gives its first mani
fesation with revolver.
Year: 1870

SUMNER RWnIsKY-D1ring the recent cold
weather, an Indianapolis liquor dealer sold a
customer jug of whisky, and the nextmorn.
ing on uncorking the jug it wouldn't run,
was frozen up! When the man returned to
the shop, the dealer swore at his assistants
for giving the gentleman "summer whisky
and ordered supply of the winter beverage.
Year: 1870

A nice young man in New Orleans ran
away with and married the supposed daugh-
ter of a highly respectable lady, and came
back for the lady's blessing, which was free
ly given, together with the information tina,
the girl was not her daugher but quondam
servant girl. He said it was swindle, and
left for parts unknown.
Year: 1870

A member of the Brooklyn Woman's Club
hit the nail squarely on the head few even
ings since, when she declared that one great
need of tie women Of the present day is more
justice and charity for each other.
Year: 1870

A horrid man expresses the opinion that
giving the ballot to woman will not amount
to much, for none of them will admit that
they are old enough to vote until they are too
old to take any interest in politics. On, tie
wretch
Year: 1870

How fitting to begin with those
who are at once the centre of the do
mestic circle, and the source of that
influence which binds all its mem
bers into one. Households there
may be, well-ordered, and abounding
in comfort; families there may be
whose various members live in har-
mony and love; but homes, in their
true sense, there cannot be where
there is not within. its inner circle
one whom manly choice has made a
wife, and infant lips have learned to
honor with the name of mother.
She may not be, in common accep-
tation, the "head'' of the household.
But if she is not the head of the fam
lily, she is the heart. In her more
hidden sphere originates the tide OF
love, whose beating pulse is felt in
every part, dispensing life and cheer
fulness to every member. Herself
subject to authority, even her obedi-
ence becomes tributary to her pow
er. And the same Gospel which
enjoins the submission, has exalted
her upon the throne of love, and in
its own true spirit taught her how
to overcome by gentleness, and to
rule by meekness and lowliness OF
heart. -''
Year: 1870

An editor describes clergyman's
wife who never forgot herself in any
momentary fit of enthusiasm. She
would count the strokes of the clock
amid his kisses, and look to sec
whether the pot was boiling with
her eyes full of tears which he had
wrung from them by a moving story.
While he was listening in rapture to
her singing, she would break off in
the middle of a verse to ask him
what she should cook for supper;
and he would never forgive her hay
ing once interrupted him while she
was listening with deep emotion to
his very best sermon, to tell him not
to put on his left stocking the next
morning till she had mended it.
Year: 1870

A breeder of merino sheep in Ver-
mont had a large native cosset
which he valued highly. His son
came in one morning and informed
him that the old cosset had twins.
Indeed" says he," am glad. She
will bring up two as well as one."
Soon after, the son reported one of
the twins dead. The father replied
that the zone left would be worth
more in the Fall than both" In the
afternoon came the intelligence that
the other lamb was dead. 81 am
glad" said he, "now can fatten the
old sheep" The next day the old
cosset was reported dead. THAT is
just what wanted. Now / have got
rid of the breed"
Year: 1870


Ii cannot be that this earth is man,
only abiding place. II can not be that
OlTlife is a bubble cast up by eternity tC
float a moment on its waves, and siuls


in nOthingness. Else why isit the glo-


riOUs aspiration which leap like angels


from the temple of our hearts and for
ever unsatished? Why is it chat the
rainbow and clouds come over us with
beauty that is not OF earth, and then
pass off and leave us 10 muse on their
loveliness? Why is il that the stars
which hOld their festival around the
midnight throne, are set above the
grasp of our limited faculties, forever
mOCking us with unRpprOachableg glory
And finally, why is it that bright forms
Ofhuman beauty are presented 70 our
views and taken from us, leaving a thou
sand streams of our affection to flow
back in Alpine torrent upon our
hearts?


We are born for higher destiny than
that of earth. There is q realm where
the rainbow never fades: where the stars
are spread out before us like islands that
slumber on the ocean, and where the
beautiful beings which pass before as
will stay forever in our
presence. .-SClecfed. -.-..-...
Year: 1870

we want to live aS well as others,
said Esther. 1 am sure you C2n afford
ii as we'll as the NOTgaus and ThOns
we do not wish tO appear mean


Georges check crimsOued.


Mean ! am not mean he exclaimed
angrily.


'ThCn we do not wish tn appear 81,
said his wife To complete this TOOEl
and make it look like other peoples
rooms, we want piano and fashionable
lamps


we want-we Wantr muttered the
husband, there's no satisfying wOman's
wants, do what you may aud he al
Hptiy left the room.


How many husbands are i'm a similar
dilemma? How many houses and
husbands are rendered uncomfortable
by the dissatisfaction Of a wife with
present comforts and present provisions ?
How many bright prospects for business
have ended in bankruptcy and ruin
to satisfy this secret hankering af-
ter fashionable necessaries Could the
real case of many failures be known, it
would be found to result from useless
expenditures at home; expenses to an
swer the demands OF fashion and what
people viii think.


My wife has made my fortune, said
Il gentleman of great possessions, by
her thrift, prudence and cheerfulness
when l was just beginning


What world does this open To the
influences which wife possesses over
the future prosperity Of her family =
Let the wife know her influence and try
10 use il, wisely and we'll


Be satisfied tO commence on q small
scale. 1t is too common for young
hOUsekecpeTs to Eegin where their moth
ers ended. Buy all that is necessary to
work slillfully with; adorn your house
with all that will make it comfortable.
DO not look at richer homes and cOvet
their costly furniture. If secret dissat-
isfactiOn is ready to spring up, go step
farther and visit homes of the suffering
poor; behold dark, Cheerless apartments
insufficient clothing, and absence of all
the comfort and refinement of social
life, then return to your own with a
joyful spirit. You will then be prepared
to meet your husband with q grateful
heart, and be ready to appreciate the
toll of self-demial which he has endured
in the business world tn surround you
with the delights Of home; and you will
be ready to cooperate cheerfully with
linn i'll 81 arranging your expenses that
his mind will not constantly be harass-
ed with fears lest his family expendi-
lures encroach upon public payments.
BE independent; young housekeeper
never needed greater moral courage
than she does now TO resist the arrO-
gance Of fashion. DO not let tine AS
and BIS decide what you must have,
neither let them hold the string TO your
purse. You know best what you can
and ought TO afford. 1t matters little
what people think, provided you are
true TO yourself and family Woods
.Hdgn-itC.
Year: 1870

There are rumOrs of disagreement
among the agents of the principal rail
road lines from the east, westward, and
Of a probable reduction oC freight and
passenger rates during the summer
months,


The peace conference between Spain
on the one hand and Chilli, Peru and
Bolivia on the other hand, will meet i'm
Washington about the end of this
month. Our government is to act as
mediator in the matter.
Year: 1870

TAKES ON DIVIDENDS AND COUPONS.


Section 10 OF the act OF July H. 1s7o reduce in
ternal taxes and for other purposes provides that
there shall be levied and collected for and during
the year 1871, tax of "a per cent the amount of
all interest or coupons paid bonds any other
evidences Of debt Issued and payable In or
years after date, by any OF the corporations in
said sections enumerated and also on the amount
OF all dividends, incomes ana gains declared after
the passage OF the act by bank, savings nsSitu
tlon, trust. insurance, railroad, canal turnpike.
cadai navigation and slack water companies when
ever and wherever the same shall be payable. Ow-
lug TO the peculiar phraseoiogy OF the section the
Internal Revenue ONCE rules that tax is TO he
withheld upon the interest OF coupons OF SAID COM
panies falling due during the last Ave months OF the
current calendar year. but that such interest must
lie returned, like other interest In me annual IN.
come returns in March next. 1t rules that the
tax upon dividends during the same period accrues
at the rate OF two ana half per cent but sim
lar reason the law providing that 1t shall be col
lected during the year 1871 t should be assessed
and collected until the expiration OF the present
year. circular OF instruction tis effect will be
Immediately prepared and sent TO all the revenue
officers throughout tae country.
Year: 1870

A Farewell Salute for the Young Democracy


The Court of Special Sessions ReOrgan:zed


Under the Old System-Ihe Appointing Pow


er Vested in the MayOr-A Chance for Judge


Bowling to ChucixIe-COmptrolIer Connolly


Renpp0inted for Five Years.


1t Will be seen by the following clause taken from
the tax levy as amended and passed by the Legsla-
ture, that the only successful move which the
"youngr (and short lived) democracy could
claim the prestige OF carrying has been
completely extnguished. The Court OF Special
Sessions, formerly held by Justices bowling and
Kelly, was the first point OF attack by the Tuscaro
ras early the legislative session. They deprived
those parties Of the power OF holding the court and
distributed the terms in rotation among all the po-
lice justices. The following clause abolishes the
young democracy system and provides tnat the
court shall be held by two justices to be designated
by the Mayor. Justice Dowling will be one OF the
appontees ana the second is yet to be named. This
gives the coup grace the revoters and leaves OF
them merely bitter memory of banied hopes and as
pirations:-


The Court OF Special Sessions Of the peace in and
for the city and county OF New York shall hereafter
be held by those two Police Justices OF the city OF
New York who shall be designated for that purpose
by the Mayor OF said city, under his hand and seal,
Whereupon they shall, in holding said court, ex.
clusively possess all the powers and du-
ties now possessed by justices 0f said court,
and also the power to adopt court rules and
to appoint and at pleasure remove all clerks, steno
graphers and other officers In said court. In the
event OF any vacancy the Mayor shall Immediately
in like manner aforesaid designate any other Police
Justice TO fill 1t. In of any disability OF either
OF the two Police Justices TO hold court 1t shall be
legal for the other TO hold 1t while such disability
continues. All provisions OF law inconsistent here
with are repealed.


Comptroller Richard b. Connolly was yesterday
reappointed by the Mayor Comptroller OF the city
and county for term OF five years. Mr.. Connolly
duly qualified and at once entered upon his new
lease OF official life.
Year: 1870

There was little or no reaction in the course Of
still upward. The market was Strong and closed
firm at the highest prices Of the day. The cliques
are all inlaccord the question of advancing quota
tions to still higher 1sures. Tie Of the
present movement is due IN great measure to the
TACT that there is organized opposition on
the "bear'' side 10 SOW the seeds OF dis
trust in the public mind. Usually such pro-
successful for the reason that the 'bears''
unSete confidence by fearlessly selling the
market down. with the OF tumbling out all the
long stock held by the street. Now they all the
"Dull' slde-the natural position IN an easy money
markot-and the bearlsh Efforts OF outsiders only
strengthen them In their operations by providing
demand for stocks which would otherwise exist.
Were there no 'bears'' there would be ''bulls.'
Among the special features of the day was the
scarcity Of Northwestern common-the cash stock
commanding as high per cent more than that
sold regular, Two or three ''beaT" firms were
unable to make their deliveries at the usual hour
and tile purchasers had the stock bought at the
board under the rule" There is great excitement
concerning Northwestern, and ''corner" is not i'm
probable Pacific Mail also strongly active under
the effort Of the shorts to cover their appleensons
being aroused by the further recommendation of the
Postmaster General for increase OF the subsidy TO
the China route. The extreme fluctuations were as
fOlOws:-