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Year: 1870

LECTURE ROOM rtLK, BY u w. nEEcuEn.


want to say a word tonight on the sub
jcct of working. The spirit Of labor for 9TH
ers is the right development Of Christian life
so much so that | almost despair of any
very great development Of Christian expert
ence, unless in some way it is connected with
work. | don't think grace was ever preached
into anybody Christian grace is ,rr0ugli
out Now there Is nothing that works out
the graces so fast or so dcycopes or forms
them as the right Kind Of distribution Of your
thoughts aud feelings to others. \ Christian
man is like garden Of fruits and flowers
and the world is as the neighborhocd round
about, to enjoy or to be forbidden


Every man has garden to himsclf--it is
a poor one with many Of YOU but neyerthe-
less, everybody has within his own heart a
garden, the root Of everything that is beauti-
iul and everything that is sayory and he is
expected by the Lord to bring it to some de-
gree Of perfection. Freely ye have received.
freely give Distribute your fruits, what
ever they are. To apply this see a great
many persons working with rebuking sense,
holding men too strictly TO accountability,
and talking 10 them too severely When a
person is going 10 work for others he must
have something in him worth giving to them.
Teaching them a few ideas is not working
There must be some hayor IN you some at
mosphere ia your own soul. In the garden
Of the Lord within you, you have got to de-
yelop your own tenderness, your generosity,
patience iorbcarance heroic selt-denial you
have got to take care Of your meekness, your
faith. There are great many motives that
would lead man to work. some love to
Year: 1870

How TO RIsE REFREsuED.--Eyery person
who tolls daily at any kind of labor requiring
great physical or mental exertion, should be
extremely careful to practice regular sys-
TEN Of ablution at the close Of each days
work. Sometimes a person may become SO
completely exhausted as to render this any
thing but an inviting performance; yet by
its omission a great deal of refreshment,
which the hours Of repose are designed to i'm
part, is lost, To be cleanly is strictly re-
ligious duty and is absolutely essential to
sound and refreshing slumberi hence the Ia
Dor of keeping ones person clean is amply
repaid by the elasticity which follows nightly
ablutons before retiring. Heed this advice,
and the reader will sleep soundly; disregard
it, 20 to bed unwashod and you will rise in
the morning uurefreshed, with feelings Of las
situde, which the exertions Of the day will
hardly be able to remove,
Year: 1870

The poorest men are those who have
nothing to do and the most unhappy are those
who make happiness their chief aim in life.


Learning will accumulate wonderfully
it you add little every day. Do not wait
for long period Of leisure. Pick up the
book, and gain one new idea, IL no morc.--
Save that one, and add another as soon as
you can.
Year: 1870


WILtGHT MUSIC.
That strain once more o touch those chords again
They call from out the past
Sweet Joys that could but last
In memory son refrain,


When the father and the mother
When the sister and the brother.
Beneath the old elm tree
shared one dear home with me
Al we'll can recall that evening hour
when /, mid childish play,
First heard that simple lay,
And FELT IT, gentle power,


Asawhile cntrAnced listoned
Fairy-liks the ire-hics gllstened
On the son evening breeEei
Fitting among the trees.
Then wake for once more That long, loud strain,
And by sweet musiCs power,
For this one blessed hour
ia be a child again


And through the twilight half discover
Angel forms that round me hover,
Their hands upon my head
In tenderest blessings laid
Year: 1870

Constable Coop, OF the Fourth ward OF Jersey CITY,
was engaged yesterday afternoon In examining and
testing his revolver, when 1t was accidentally dIs
charged and the ball passed into the palm OF his
hand, and taking an obIiqne direction, lodged be.
bind the thumb W.
Year: 1870

The YOUNG SHIP BUILDERS OF ELM ISLAND.


BY Rev. Elijah Kellogg, Boston: Lee &


Shepard, 1870.


Mr.. Kellogg needs no introduction to the
people OF Portland where his fathers name Is
still so freshly remembered and where so many
boys and girls have already enjoyed the pre-
vious volumes of the sons juvenile series. The
present number has the same vigorous tone
and the same unobtrusive but very positive
suggestion of the necessity for energy, perse-
verance and hopefulness for all who desire
outward success !or inward content. As q
story it is bright and entertaining, and possess
es ore element, which-unless children are
very unlike what they were in our own young
days-is very attractive for young people, q
sort of Robinson Crusoe-like minuteness of
detail, and clearness of description, which
puts the reader in medias res in a very satis-
factory manner. For instance, while Charlie
is evolving boat out of his moral conscious
ness, we feel that we are present as his obsta-
cies are one by one surmounted, and that, hav-
ing thoroughly sympathized with and assisted
him in building, We are entitled to sail on
the first trip of the little vessel Also we
know SO we'll just how Fred's shop was stock
ed jSthat we should be able to hll out his orders
for him with ease. We are sure that the boys
who are not given over beyond redemption to
bloodthirsty stories of pirates and highway
men, will find much to enjoy in following tho
fortunes of the Young Shipbuilders.


"Life and Alone" from the same publish
ing house, is probably not intended for
iunevile work, although the heroine
commences what we may venture to technically
denominate her "tantrums'' at the age of
twelve when she falls in love at first sight, in
dulges in rhapsodical reveres before an open
closet door and enters into state of misan-
thropic isolation worthy of more advanced
age. AS she grows older the plot thickens, tho
relationships becomes sufficiently intricate to
allow of the most tragic complications over
which all the drdnaatis personae walk rough
shod, the heorine meanwhile freeing her mind,
to the "open closet door," and to the people
about her, with more frankness than elegance.
The old philosophical axiom that there is no eff
feet without clause, is left completely in the
lurch, and we have to trust entirely to the au-
thor's veracity to make things hang together
at all. Take it for all in all it is an extraordna-
~ production, but those whom it does not edi'
II 1t may possibly amuse. We wonder why 1t
was written and whether the author felt better
when she-we think we run no risk in select
ing onr pronoun-had got it fairly of her mind.
But this sort of surprise comes so often in these
days, at sight of the crowded shelves Of the
bookstores, that we end by wondering why we
continue to wonder. Perhaps it was only the
infection in the air that caused "Ljfe and
Alone" to spring into being, and we will not
bsgrudge it a harmless existence and a fair
share OF sentimental and not hyper-critical
readers. NJ. j. M s.
Year: 1870

THERE is no doubt about the Iaepuhli.
can party having gained strength through
the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment.
1t was shown conclusivcly at the recent
municipal election at Cincinnati that the
negroes go Republican. The party las
gained all the negroes who abide in Ken
lucky, for they will vote its ticket every
time there is a Republican TO he voted for.
The colored people Of that Stat" have
seen long ere this that the whites Of Ken
tucky never intended, nor never would
have given them voice In State affairs
until forced to do 80 by the action Of the
general government, and they naturally
esteem them their natural political an
.iagonisiS. The negroes ol Tennessee
vote the Republican ticket, and 80 they do
in every Southern State.
Year: 1870

A wedding in Memphis last
week, was spoiled by the failure
of the bridegroom to appear
The bride and the fair bridesmaids
were dressed, the guests assem-
bled and the priest on hand Al
ter waiting two hours beyond the
appointed time, the party broke up
dismally. The next day the sis
ter of the outraged girl bought a
cowhide, and visited the room
where the scoundrel lay OF his
bed with acigaF between bis teeth
He begged SO abjectly that she did
not strike him.. ID slt gaiezsouC5
Year: 1870

An old gentleman died in Can
terbury, Conn, the other day at
the age of seventy-five, and was
buried in a suit Of clothes which
he had procured when a young
man, and had worn constantly as
a Sunday sRit, for more than hall
a century. lie had been maFried
four times, and~on each occasion
wore the same suit 80 s
Year: 1870

A fine COW belonging to the ed
itor of the Marion, Ala, Common
wealth, came home the other day
with a big hole wantonly cut in
her side. He doesn't know who
could have done the mischief, Gas
the Probate Judge lives on the
other side of the town opposite to
where the COW ranges.
Year: 1870




10 the early part of November
a little German girl in Brooklyn,
Cuyahoga county, o., took sick
with the lock jaw, and rumor says
that in a few. days she was thought
dead and was buried. On the
evening of her burial, the mother,
for some reason, was led to the
grave, and, with her ear pressed
close to the ground, thought she
heard noise and believing her
child to be movingin in its coffin she
Immediately procured a spade and
began to dig. Soon she came to
the coffin, opened il, and there
found the body of her child, nine
hours after its burial, as warm as
if it were living. She took the
chilI.to her house where Il phySi-
clan was Immediately called in and
every restorative applied. But it
was too late. The soul had taken
Its flight, and ina few hours more
The body was cold and icy. 1t is
only within the last week that
these facts have become public.
Year: 1870

tersman on the border familiar with the present
state or indian AFFAIRS who does not
expect war this season, and the circus that
was made OF those Indian chiefs East 10
cause Of anger and alarm to every settler. 1t the
belief OF many Intelligent miners who have come
mere rom the Sioux country, and with whom have
freely couversed. that the return OF Spotted TAIL
Red Cloud and the OF the chefs to their tribes
VII be followed by outrages and massacre all along
the Northwestern froptier The Minnesota mas
sacre ma far less to Indicate ts approach, and the
complaints OF the Inlians at thai time sink into in
slgni1cance compared with the late demands OF Red
cloud and his associates. The latter demanded
arms ana ammunition, refused 20 promise peace,
Jerked themselves into and out OF the presence OF
the President with. irritating ins0lence, and with
malice and murder In their hearts they have has
tened back TO their tribes to tell new stories OF the
White mans Difference TO Indian warriors. Let us
hope That the curtain In the next act OF this sing
drama may not rise upon scene OF murder, torture
anu plage.
Year: 1870

That the millennium will come sooner In some
places than In others Is quite probable, but that any
place In the oil regions had already reached the
happy state where 1t s unnecessary for to say to
his nelghbor "Know the Lord" we did not suppose.
Yet chance paragraph Informs us that the Young
Mems Christian Association In Warren, Pa, has
been sorely tried by finding nothing TO do. They
had resolved TO visit the prisoners IN the JAIL but
when they applied Tor admltance on their merclful
errand they found the Jail was empty. They men
vertsed for applicants for their charity none re.
sponded The town has a population OF 2, 500 and
seven churches. Grog shops are unknown. ana all
the Inhabitants are either Christians church going
people.
Year: 1870

We have authority for stating that the Executive
Committee OF the Evangelical Alliance have unani.
mousy decided that the General Conference to be
held In this city In September next, shall not be
postponed on account OF the present war in Europe.
Some of the delegates from the Continent who are
expected may possibly be unable to attend; but II
So they will send the papers which they have pre-
pared, TO be read at the Conference. We doubt not
that this information Will be gladly received by the
multitude Of friends OF the Alliance, who are antic
patng with the deepest interest the grand convoca-
ton OF next autumn.
Year: 1870

Just fair enough to be pretty,


Just gentle enough to be sweet,
Just sancy enough to he witty,
Just dainty enough to be neat.
just tall enough to be graceful.


Just slight enough for a faJ,
Just drcs.y enough to be tasteful.


Just merry en- oush to be gay
Just tears enough to be tender,


Just sighs enough TO be sad.
Tones soft enough to remember.


-FOUR heart through their cadancc made
Just meek enough for submission.


Just bold enough to be brave,
Just pride enough for ambition,


Jast thoughtful enough to be grave.
A tongue that can talk without harming,


Just mischief enough to tease,
Manners pleasant enough to lie charming,


That put you at once vt your ease.
Disdam to put down presumption,


Sarcasm to answer u fool.
Contempt enough to show assumption,


Proper dignity Always the rule.
Flight Of fair fancy ethereal,


Devotion to science full paid,
Stuff Of the sort of material


Ofwhich really good housewives are made
Generous enough to bt kind-hearted;


Pure as the angels above
Oh! from her may l never be parted,


For such is the maiden love.
Year: 1870

A Glen's Fall merchant re-
Gently hired a new clerk, and of
course initiated him at once in-
to the mystery of the "trade
mark" The same afternoon
the newly inducted knight of
the yard stick was showing
some goods to a lady customer
when she demurred to the price
of the articles. The feelings
of the merchant may be imag-
ined when the young man call
ed at the top of his voice.
"What shall / sell this for7 1t
is marked $3.50 and cost fifty
cents"
Year: 1870

away any share OF their riches


to others. "What I have,


made by my own labor, and ]


have a right to do what ]


please with it's supposed to


embody the highest of all hu-
man rights. It certainly does


express a legal right; no one is


bound, and no one ought to be


legally bound to give away the


fruits of his labor to 9th ers; but


there are moral obligations that


are above all merely legal


duties. IF all persons were


selfish, and each one were to


refuse a share of his earnings to


others, what would become of


the needy, the feeble and the


unfortunate3 It is said that


when a gang of wild horses on


the pampas Of South America,


become frightened at the ap-


proach of an enemy, they start


off at full speed, in a compact


body; and if one falls through
feebleness, or old age, he is
trodden to death beneath their
hoofs. or left to the mercy of the
foe. This is very horse-like,
but not very human. This
sick, the young, the infirm, and
the unfortunate of mankind,
who, in the furious struggle
for wealth and power in the
race Of life, fall beneath the feet
of the struggling mass, have a
claim on us for q gentler fate
than to be crushed to death, or
left to die in neglect and
To feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, give drink to
the thirsty and shelter to the
homeless-to lift up those who
have been unfortunate--these
are duties measured only by
our ability to do them. Those
who have little, need give but |
little those who have much, |
are bound to give of their
abundance; for with all the Civ
ing that we are disposed to do,
there will still be an immeasur-
able amount ofunreleived pow
erty and hardship in the world. |
But giving is not only q duty;I
it is a privilege and a pleasure.
Not to him who doles out his |
starved charities reluctantly, |
and grudges them as they fall |
into the thin hands of suffering;
to such a one. it is anguish and
torture. His heart does not
give, with his hand, and he does
not give at all, except from
shame or cofnpulsion. But to
him who gives for the sake of
dispenses charity
10 relieve suffering, and to wit
ness the delight that it affords


It's recipients, and who rejoices
70 have it in his power to give
TO such a man, it is one the pur-
est joys the earth affords.
None of the thrifty maxims of
business, incalculate the duty
IF giving, or intimate the value
If it as an agent of accumula-
ion; but the Bible, which con-
aims more maxilns of wisdom
han any other book in the
world, tells us: "There is that
gives and yet gathereth; and
Year: 1870

Twenty-fourth. The sixth section Of the
mining Act of July %, 1866, provides that,
"Whenever any adverse claimants TO any
mine located and claimed as aforesaid shall
appear before the approval Of the survey as
provided in the third section Of this Act, all
proceedings shall be stayed until final set
tlement and adjudication in the Courts Of
competent jurisdiction of the rights Of pes-
session of such claim, when a patent may
issue aR in other cases.


An opposing claimant must file his adverse
notice with the Register and Receiver, and
in order that it may appear to those officers
whether or not the adverse claim is such
one as is contemplated by the said sixth see
ton, they will require the opposing claimant
to present this affidavit setting out IN detail
the nature of his adverse claim stating when
and how it originated whether by purchase
or location; the names Of all the original To-
Gators, with a certified copy Of the original
location from the Mining Recorders office;
and if he claims as a purchaser, an abstract
of title, certified by the said Recorder, trac-
ing the title to the possession from the orig
inal locators to the claimant, should be fur
nished


Such affidavit and accompanying papers
will be carefully examined by the Register and
Receiver, and il in their judgment an ad-
verse claim is made out, they will suspend
all further action on the application for pa
tent until an adjustment is made in the local
Courts; if they find otherwise they will re-
fuse to suspend; but in either event the pa
pers filed, both by the applicant for patent
Il o1n Io 10
this Office for review, when the decision Of
the Register and Receiver will either be
affirmed or set aside, and all parties in inter-
est notified Of the result.


Twenty -ffth--In the case of placer claims
upon surveyed lands where no survey is re-
qured, the adverse claimant should appear
before the entry is made; but if from any
cause such adverse claimant should be una
bic to appear within the time specified, and
should appear before the patent is issued,
the Register will nevertheless take his sworn
statement and transmit it to the General Land
Office for such action as the Commissioner
may deem proper.


Twenty nty-sixth--When the parties are no.
tilted that an adverse claim is made out, it
then becomes the duty of the adverse claim
ant to Immediately commence action in Court
and to prosecute the same to final judgment
or decree, by which the further proceedings
of this Office will be governed; yet in default
os such suit being instituted within reason
able time, the original claim will be dealt
with as if no adverse interest had been as
serted


You will afford every facilities to parties
desiring to avail themselves Of the privileges
accorded by these enactments; and when
cases are completed, promptly report them to
this Office.


Monthly returns must be made Of all en-
tries of lode and placer claims, with details
specifically showing what lands have been
so entered.


Very respectfully your obd't serv't.


Jos. S. WILSON, Commissioner


To United States Registers and Receivers
and Surveyors General.
Year: 1870

MUST it not be very romantic to be on
your knees before a lovely one Of Ewes
daughters--heaving up torrent Of sweet
words between her glowing parted lips, rails
ing roses on her cheeks by the acre, bring
ing tears of pleasure to her eyes at the iden-
teal moment when she is going to swoon
away in your arms, to hear her anxious
mother cry, "You Sal, have you fed them
ere hogs?"
Year: 1870

JIMMY, my boy take these eggs to the
store, and if you can't get quarter, bring
them back The boy went as directed, and
came back saying; Father, it takes me to
make trade. They all wanted to pay forty
cents, but screwed them down to twenty
five
Year: 1870

Tie Republican Convention, on
Saturday night, though largely attend
ed, transacted its business systematic
ally and without confusion. 1t was
the expressed opinion of all the dele
gates in attendance that they never
saw so large a Mass Convention han
die itself SO intelligently and so eff
fectively. Much of the credit for this
is due Col. Butterfeld. the efficient
President of the Convention, who
discharged the delicate and difficult
duties of his position in a manner
that highly gratifed his friends. The
intelligent and gentlemanly deport-
ment Of the members of the Conven-
ton successfully seconded the efforts
ofits President in transacting the bus
mess of the Convention in an orderly
manner.


The ticket put in nomination can
hardly fail to meet the approval of
the Republicans of the city. There
is not O man on it. with only
two exceptions-neither of whom
by reason Of age and lameness were
able to do military duty-but aerved
calamity in the Union army during the
war. Two of them are now suffering
from wounds received in the service.


WILLIAM HELDER, the candidate
for City Clerk, received the nomina-
ton without any solicitation on his
part, other than the mere announce
ment of his name. For two weeks
past he has been out of the city. dis
charging the duties of first clerk on
the steamer Mary Miller, now on her
way up from New Orleans He was a
soldier and is. we understand. good
mechanic. For some time past he
has been she book keeper for Helb-
ling & Co.'s large Foundry. and dis
charged the duties of that position to
the entire satisfaction Of his employ
ers. That he will make an efficient
and faithful city clerk, his friends
have not q particle Of doubt.


Capt. A. LEE EWING, the nominee
for City Collector. served during the.
entire war as d Captain in the Sixty
Year: 1870

Courage, brother, do not stumble,


Though thy path be dark as night;
There's a star to guide the humble;


Trust in God and do the right.
Let the road be rough and dreary,


And its end far out of sight.
Foot it brave!y. strong or weary,


Trust i'll God and do the right.
Perish policy and cunning!


Perish all that fears the light!
Whether losing, whether winning,


Trust in God and do the right.
Trust no party sect or faction;


Trust no leaders in the fight;
But in every word and action,


Trust in God and do the right.
Trust no lovely forms ofpassion;


Fiends may look like angels bright;
Trust no custom, school or fIs, ion,


Trust in God and do the right.
Simple rule. and safest guiding,


Inward peace. and inward might,
Star upon our path abiding.


Trust in God and do the right.
Some will hate thee. some will love thee
Some Will ilatter. some will slight,
Cease from man. and look above thee,
Trust in God and do the right.
Year: 1870

Ihe Sorosis has done ut least one
glod thing, and we haste to give the
sisters credit for it. At a recent meet.
Ing they resolved that ''if an effort
should be made to revive the dirty and
disgusting fashion of trailing skirts in
IN the streets, that the universal voice
OF American women should utter pro.
t'st that would be heard throughout
THIS country and Europe, and prove
that Whosocvcr mag choose to follow
the sensclcss lead Of fashion, American
women can think for themselves"
If all the Resolutions of the Sorosis
were as sensible as this one, all man
kind would say Long live Sorosis."