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Year: 1870

The Hon. Benjamin Vaughn Abbott, one Of the Com
mi sioners for the Revision OF the Statutes holding
daily sessions here, publishes card concerning the
effect OF the repeating clause in the Patent law,
which has been under consideration by the Commission
ers He states that the Patent law appears to
full effect the evident legislative purpose without
creating confusion IN other branches OF
he public service. The Commissioner concludes For
my self entered this detailed examination OF the
with apprehensions that the objections
positively urged against the act OF 1870 could Lot he
mounted by any rule OF legal construction; but these
AT prehensions have been wholly relieved The language
method Of statement employment by the act IL very
concise but s not too concise 10 afford trustworthy
guide"


The Treasury Department has received intelligence ot
the arrival ska Of the Revenue cutter Reliance Capt
selden from an extended cruise The Arctic Occan and
Behrng Sea, touching at important points along the
coast and performing duties OF great service 10 the Gov
ernment Capt seden had seized the schooner Louisa
Simpson in Kotzebue Sound for violating the Revenue
and Navigation laws. The would be tried at stka
the OF the holding OF Court there according to


late law Of Congress, otherwise the vessel would De
sent South for trial IL is stated that the coast OF Alaska
is yearly visited by numerous vessels engaged In Illicit
traffic, and the Revenue officers Will use all means
to break up the fraudulent business.
Year: 1870

The German Patriotic Ladies' Fair of this
city was opened at the armory of the S7th Regiment
Broadway between Thirth fifth and Thirty sxth-sts.
last night The front OF the building. Thirty fifth
was decorated with large transparency bearing the
red sanitary cross with the inscr pOn sanitary Fair
for the benefit OF all the wounded within the German
lines" while the entrance on Broadway illuminated
hy two arches Of gas jets On the wallis OF the staircase
leading u the Fair rooms, feszed pictures VI German
soldier were 10 be seen.
Year: 1870

Rer JUSTIN D. FULToS-Str: have just read with
wonder reports in the NewYork papers OF your re-
marks 10 your Boston congre CATION yesterday the
issue pending between you and me. These reports,
assuming them TO be correct, compel me TO say in point
blank Ell giish. that stand ready to prove,


First: That you did go into lager-beer saloon and
drink lager beer after preaching; and,


Second That your narrative OF your interview on
Saturday last with my informant and myself as false
as your denial OF the Or ginal charge.


Having threatened me with libel, you now announce
the withdrawal OF the suit This is because you dare
not 20 forward with it, challenge you to meet me in
court of Justice. THEODORE TmTos.
Year: 1870

ENFORCING THE AMENDMENT - Senator
Stewart 5 bill for the enforcement Of the Fif
teenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States appears to b strong and per-
emptory III its provision and, should it become
law, we apprehend that there are not many
Judges of Election or Registration officers who
would care to incur its penalties merely for the
pleasure of acting Stubbornly and maliciously.
The proposed law is intended to protect our
newly Gnfranchlsed voters. not from the dis
qualifying judgments Of officials acting under
State laws which have been superseded by the
Constitution, but also from al force, bribery,
threats and intimidatI0ns from other persons
who seek to prevent them voting or to compel
them to vote for certain candidates against
their will. Under the third section Of the pro
pOsed law it would seem that if any citizen has
been prevented from registering by reason Of
the delay or neglect Of the officers charged
with such duty, he shall, nevertheless, upon
presentation OF an affidavit setting forth the
facts and circumstances connected with such
refusal be enti;iGi to vote Tins provision
will hold up the Officers of Registration to "A
sense of their duty, and viii prevent factiouS
and unnecessary delays but we apprehend
that. in several of the States it will open the
door to fraud. la Mary we have suffered
much from the votes Of men not citizens and
not entitled to vote, whose names were put
upon the list by corrupt Registrars, and we fear
any provision of law that will allow the same
class of men to come in and swear themselyc-
through, when their is neither time nor Oppor-
tuuty for confronting them with the proofs OF


their perjury. We commend the bill to the


careful reading Of men Of all parties. - Bait
/ 1lUpyjcUl
Year: 1870

THE LIBRARY FEsTIvAL.-The strawberry
and floral festival for the benefit of the Smyrna
evenings of Thursday and Friday--the 2d
and 81 days of June The committee who
have charge of the arrangements wish to make
it the most attractive festival ever held here.
The flowers will be collected and arranged by
connosseurs in the art, and to this, as well as
the other departments, those Interested will
seek to impart novelty and interest If it is
not lively, pleasant festival, it will not be for
the want of good will and care upon the part
of the committee. Every one is interested in
the ohiect--everybody likes pleasant time-so
let everybody so.
Year: 1870

We clip the following item from the Della
ware GGzctte:


Senator Spraee is Of the opinion that the
negro vAing in Rhode Island will so disgust
the people that the State will go Democratic
overwhelmingly next year.


Negroes have been voting in Rhode Island for
a great many years-how is it the people have
not become disgusted before now and given
the State to the Democrats? That's a very
silly item-too silly for Sprague to take notice
nf
Year: 1870

GIN AND MnK.-This is the last sensation
in New York in connection with the trial OF
Rev. Charles B. Smyth, in the United PI esby-
terrain Church, Tor drinking intoxicating liquor
on Sunday, april llth, with certain reporters
OF the press who had been attending his SER
mon. Mr. Smyth in his defence acknowl-
edges that he drank gin and milk incidentally,
and 1t is presumed he did, for no one would
drink such an Unheard-ot dose as a beverage.
Tie further pleads that he was very much ex-
hauSted after his sermon, and his residence
being four miles from the church, he could not
80 home and return in time Tor his afternoon
duties; also that he went to OarespectablC hotel,
and that the gin and milk were taken at the
time he got his lunch of bcetSteak and other
substantIals. One OF the reporters drank gin
and milk " for the novelty OF the thing, the
other drank ale, but the cergymen says he did
not offer to treat them to liquors. nor did he
even pay the bill, because it was Sunday, pre-
terriug to call and settle the next day. The
affair came out through one of the reporters
who did up the incident for the gossip OF SEN
sation newspaper. A committee appointed to
confer upon the case reported that there was
no evidence that the accused was intoxicated
and that the newspaper statement was grossly
untrue however, he acted in an unbecomng
manner publicly calling for gin, which was Il
violation of the excise law, and conduct ncom
patlble with that Of clergymen. In concln-
sion, they recommended rebuke, which was ad
minlstered by Rev. DIR. Harper.
Year: 1870

MAD BULL.-A bull belonging to Col Hill,
of this town, on his farm, in the ALLEY,
went mad last week and had to be killed. 1t
was terribly ferocious. On Wednesday even
ing last he attacked passing aIriage, in which
horse from the vehicle, but did not inure the
horse or the team, strange to say. He was
pinioued while fit was on him and dispatchcd.
Year: 1870

POOUO - lUU
1t will be for the Trustees to devise ways
and means 70 adjust whatever difficulty may
appear in this exposition; whether by adding
to the funds in hand, or by re arranging the
Professorships. To fill these Profcs,orships
we should have corps OF Instructors, young
earnest, manly, thorough, able and well quail
fled, by training and inclination for their du-
ties. This will do more to give character
and success to our nstitution-which will be
so greatly dependent upon the favor OF the
community for its support--than a faculty of
older men with all the honors and titles of a
life time, but who are deficient in the spirit Of
modern inquiry and progress


We have been informed Ly the Committee
on Repairs that from the fund in the hands Of
the former Trustees of College, the buildings,
walks and enclosures have been thoroughly
renewed; and there are now rooms for sixty
students within the walls; and public recitation
and lecture rooms for the accommodation of
one hundred and twenty-five students.
Year: 1870

THE WHITE MANS CONVENTION called to as
semble at Dover on Thursday last was a failure.
The down train brought abuot ten whites" and
the up train about fifteen, and these were all
that could he mustered up in the State The
fifteen, it is said looked at the ten, and the ten
looked at the fifteen, and then all looked at
Sam Townsend, until some one said " Let us
90 home ~ when the White men dispersed.
NO organization was effected, and the only
thing accomplished by the move was to weaken
the force of the 'whte man. cry, bring ridi-
cule upon themselves and frighten the Sauls


burys fer the moment. 1t is stated that the
scheme, at it's inception, was endorsed by some
Of the most respectable Democrats in the State


but when the time came they saw the thing
was going to be fzzle and had not the pluck
to face the music If it had been success
we would have found some of our prominent
citizens fathering ii who now pretend to know
nothing about it. The New York Herah


thinks that if this is specimen of the white
men in Delaware there ain t many in the State
Year: 1870


Don't crowd; this world is broad enough
For you as well as me;
The doors Of art are open wide
The realm of thought Is free;
or all eGrth's places you are right
To choose the best you can,
Provided that you do not try
To crowd some other man.
What matter though you scarce can count
Your piles Of golden orej
while he can hardly strive to keep
Gaunt famine from his door Z
Ofwilling hands and honest heart
Alone should man be proud
Then give him all the room he needs,
And never try to crowd,
Don't crowd, proud Miss, your dainty silk
Will glisten none the less,
Because II comes In contact with
A beggar's tattered dress;
This lovely world was never made
For you aud alonej
A pauper has right to tread
The pathway to n throne.
Don't crowd the good from out your heart
by fostering all that's bad
But give to every virtue room-
The best that may be had
be each days record such a one;
That you may well be proud
Give each his right-give each his room,
Aud never try to crowd.
Year: 1870

CONSISTENCY "A father never gains
the affection of his children byrefusing
to decide their disputes, or settle them
but he loses vast deal of respect If he
evades or shuns the subject And those
opinions expressed before the younger
members Of the family should be held
consistently. It will not do TO state
one thing in theory aud allow your
children to see you reverse it in prac.
tice daily and hourly; BY such a meth
ed one thing is insaFed--contempt; and
contempt is alike fatal to love, respect,
or imitation.
Year: 1870

PRovERDs.-If man cheat thee
once, shame on him; if he cheat thee
twice, shame on thee Ifa man deceive
thee, trust him not again ifbe insults
thee, go away from him; if he strike
thee, thrash him like smoke. If you
have lost your credit, be industrious.
and you will gain it. Ii you have lost
your property, be industrious, frugal.
and you will acquire more. Ifyou have
good wife, take care of her and if
you have not, get one Immediately.
Year: 1870

A Methodist festival in Buffalo listened
to song from an accomplished young lady
in that city Wednesday night, whereat the
Commercial gives her the rather Indifferent
praise of saying that ':she is fast, and very
deservedly. becoming u iayorite with the
public"
Year: 1870

Salnave In the power OF his enemies, mainly by
the detection of his own forces. In person Sal
nave was of very commanding presence, about
six feet in height of regular teatures large lus-
trous eyes, and dark complexion. He received
a good education in comparison with those
around him, and displayed remarkable sagacity
and force of character In his official cor
respOndence.
Year: 1870

G[ BLACKBERRY WINE.-To every
gallon OF the fruit allow a quart OF boiling
water mash the berries pour The boil.
ing wafer on them, and sir them up
well, cover and let il stand unll the fol-
lowing day. Then having stirred all
again, strain The liquid into the cass, add
ing good brown sugar in the proportion
Of two pounds to each gallon cork 1t
ughl. The wine will be ready for use
in tue course OF autumn. SILL another
way is to a keg or cask ihree-iourhs full
with sound black berries {; then fill up the
cask with moIasses, close it Iigbt, and set
in dry, cool place until winter The
liquid may then be poured off, and will
be found an agreeable common wine, and
The berries will make good pies.
Year: 1870

RESIGNArIoN.-Much to the regret of
pupils, associate teachers and school Of
ficers, Miss Bartha c. Arndt, for some
time first assistant in the Washington
Grammar school resigned her position
at the close of last month. We hear it
rumored that Miss A. has in view a
better situation. While we hope that
such may be the fact we may be per-
mitted to express the wish that her many
excellencies may be appreciated by those
with whom her lot may be cast in the
future, as they are by those with whom
she has heretofore been associated.
We understand that upon parting with
Miss Arndt the pupils Of the First Ward
Grammar School presented her with a
beautiful silver card receiver as a token
of their esteem and affection. We are
not informed by which ofthe pupils the
presentation address was made, but are
told that it was very handsomely and
appropriately done, and that it was fifty
responded to by Prof. Bundy, on behalf
of Miss \. who was so much overcome
by the circumstances of the occasion
as to be wholly unable to give expression
to her feelings in words.
Year: 1870

RIVER News. The river here is
stationary with six feet eleven inches
in the channel. At Pittsburgh five
feet and stationary is reported.


For day or two past the fogs on
the river have been so heavy as to
completely put a stop to steamboatng
from dark uStil the beams Of the rising
sun rolled up the misty curtain. The
Anderson was greatly detained during
her last trip up by the fog. We heard
yesterday that it took the ferry boat at
Wellsburg fully an hour to get across
tie river there because OF the density
Of the vapor. 1t was so thick that
Admiral Huseman cut piece out OF
it and put it away in the ice chest and
has it yet to show as a curiosity. The
piece he got was so heavy that it took
four men to see it.


The Science has been laid up for re-
painting and refitting. We hear that
ii is contemplation to give her larger
wheel and to make such other improve
ments as will add very materially to
her speed


The Major Anderson will leave for
cincinnati this afternoon at 3 clock.
TO the travelling public We recommend
the Anderson as one of the safest, most
comfortable and reliable boats on the
nver, and her officers as accomplished
and gentlemanly men.


The fast, commodious and splendid
packet Express is to-day's Parkersburg
boat, lfyou want TO 60 to Parkers'
burg in style secure a berth on the Elk,
press, and Capt. Phil. Anschutz will
take you through little faster and a
good deal more comfortable than ever
you went before. She leaves at III
o'clock this morning.


The Matamoras packet Hope leaves
at 10 clock this morning. The Hope
is as reliable as clock work, and those
who wish to 60 to Matamoras or have
freight to send, will consult their inter
ssts by going or sending by the Hope
Year: 1870

LABoR.-Labor is capital. Bestow
good health upon man, so that ne can
labor every six out of seven days, and
no matter how poor he may have been
at the commencement Of life's great race,
he will be certain to accumulate q
fortune, provided he takes care of his
earnings. PLANTATION BITTERs is GER
tain to make the weak ones strong, and
to preserve the health Of the healthy
From four to six hours is considered
the ordinary limit for brain study. AT
the expiration Of this time the phos-
phorus is carried off, and the man be-
comes irritable and nervous. If he is
poor, and continues on at his task, as
most of poor doctors, lawyers and edi-
tors do, he will be certain to shorten
his days and fiji an untimely grave, as
did Sir Walter Scott, unless he uses
Plantation Bitters, which speedily re-
stores his vital energy, repairs his in
digestion, and corrects the sluggish Cir
culation OF his blood.
Year: 1870

WHoLEsALE DEsTRUcTIoN OF TRoUT.-We are
informed by several gentlemen who have passed
the summer in the mountain that wanton des-
truction of lake and brook trout is continually
going on. The fish driven into traps near
the mouths of streams that run into the various
lakes, and caught with gill nets when running
mp the stream to spawn. Tons upon tons of fish
are caught in this manner and unless the men
engaged in the business are by law restricted 70
fish at certain seasons in the year, and in a
legitimate manner, mountain trout will in few
years be entirely exterminated. Our Informant
furnished us with the name of one fisherman
and ranchman who has caught and fed thousands
of pounds of trout to his hogs during the past
summer. Let a stringent law be passed by the
next Legislature, similar to the game law. The
piesent law in relation to mountain trout is in
operative and easily and continually evaded
The members from Eldorado, Placer and Nevada
should not fail, when the Legislature assemblies
to attend TO this matter, as the principle lakes
and trout streams are 10 their counties. .-Folsom
Telegraph.
Year: 1870

RED RIVER TaouRLEs.-A special dispatch
dated DECEMBER 3lst states that the President is
about to issue proclamation of rigid neutrality
in the dispute between the Red river country
and the Canadiun government. The proclama-
tion will be aimed both at the sympathzers who
may be disposed to aid the rebels and at Cover
nor McDougal, who seems to imagine that he
can organize an expedition on American soil to
gain authority over the insurgents. The insur-
rection in the Red river country is viewed in Of
fetal circles as serious impediment to the
schemes of the English government to unite all
of British North America in a confederation, and
II is not therefore regarded a matter to regret,
although the final success of the rebels is not
counted on.
Year: 1870

AT Milwaukee, a little over week since a
German laborer named Weber gave his wife a
$50 bill for safe keeping. Not having had so
large sum in the house at one time for years
Mrs. Weber naturally felt very soicitous about
its safety, and after much thought secreted it in
the bowl of tbs cofee-mil, as a place not likely
TO be spied ont by burglars. Her husband, on
rising the next morning, ground the coffee, as
usual, and with it the precious earnings of
months. The poor woman swooned on discOv-
ering the mishap, and has been confined to her
bed ever since the unfortunate occurrence.
Year: 1870

New DREss.-The REPUBLICAN appears
in an entirely new dress, and in typo
graphical point of view, is one of the neatest
papers i'll the country. That it is a pros
porous journal is evidenced by the scores of
columns of official Observation-Disclosures
Orleans Bulletin.


The New Orleans REPUBLICAN comes to
us with a new and improved dress and "a
cheerful word as to its business success. 1t
is now as handsome as any of its cOntempo-
raries, and we only repeat a common busi-
ness remark when we say that it is quite as
able and much more earnest, manly and re-
liable than its more pretentiOus neigh
bOrs.-LOuisidna State Register


The New Orleans REPUBLICAN has
donned new dress, and looks as neat as a
pin. 1t is the best daily in New Orleans or
throughout the South and should be read
by every Republican. 1t would also do the
''true SouthernOr'' considerable good if he
would carefully peruse its colums.-Attaka-
pas Register.
Year: 1870

We take great pleasure in calling public
attention to the correspondence published in
this days issue, by which it will be seen
that the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, has
settled with its wonted promptitude and
reliability, claim of Mrs Regina Morse, on
policy of $1,000 ON the life of her husband,
Major Horace F. Morse, lately deceased.
By special reference to that publication it
will be seen that the Phoenix" one of the
oldest and staunchest companies in the
country, is the only organization of SINH
lar character that does not deduct its out
standing notes from the face amount of the
policy, and this consideration is wise and
liberal enough alone to invite public patron
age and secure the confidence of policy
holders. The office of the company is cor
ner of st. Charles and Canal streets and is
most ably and faithfully represented by
George S. Darling, Esq, general agent.
Year: 1870

acted without fee or reward, and it will be
consolatory reflection, when death shall
shuttle off this mortal coil, to know that [
an about entering land where no such
rascality as have treated on 30 much at
length, is being perpetrated. This, as 1
said before, is probably my last epistle, and
sincerely trust it's contents may have a
beneficial influence in converting to sense
Of honesty or shame, those who take a
pleasure, if not a pride, in grinding the poor
man in the dust, needless alike of the curses
of mankind and their Creator.


T. G. NOEL,
Year: 1870

then tried his new gun with load Of buck
shot at the side of the barn as target. The
doctor picked the shot out of her, and the
husband will have to wait the slow process
of divorce before he can marry the woman
of his choice
Year: 1870

increase Tho water supply ct the city, to


pay for tho LaSa1ls street tunnel, and to


build new school housea We do not see how
those expenditures could be very vel
avoided, assuming that the new school
houses are built ufon rational plan. to
accommodate The children now excluded
for want of room It will never suswer
to allow the city to be exposed
to the rayagea Of fire for want
Of an ample water supply. It will not an
sver 10 leave the public dependent upon
the single tunnel now in use, which may
be choked with sand at any time, or be
rendered useless by some other accident.
Nor can we, much longer, avoid the ne
cessity of erecting new pumping engines.
Moreover, the water debt pays its OWL in
terest and more too These are e1pendi-
lures which cannot be avoided; but the
canal appropriation we look upon as the
extreme of folly.
Year: 1870

at IL O'Clock a. NJ, for the purpose of nominating
candidate for Representative to the Forty-Seeond
Congress.


The basis of representation in the convention will
be delegate for each city town and plantation,
and an additional delegate for every hundred votes
cast for the Republican candidate. for Congress in
tional delegate. This basis will give delegates as