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Year: 1870

The demand is gradually increasing
for reform Of the present method o
announcing to the world that one near
dear, or known to us, is dead.


Mourning costumes, say the agita
tors, are useless, expensive, and ohjec
tionable in influence. They arc otter
an inexcusable tax upon the poor
they thrust the petty thoughts of per
sonal appearance into those hour;
when, more than in any other, We
should be thinking of widely different
matters. 1t is a scanda%to our name
as a civilized people, that, what with
our pals, our hcarses, and funeral
robes, our children can hardly grow u
without an unreasonable terror of death
and the grave.


Mourning costumes answer but one
good purpose. They guard the wear
ers in their grief from careless intru
dcrs. But modest badge, like the
scarfon a mans hat, may just as well
answer this simple purpose. We know
uot a few good p ople who have laid
their families under loving pledges not
TO follow these expensive fashions,
when they surrounded their grave
and their example may well be copied
by all.
Year: 1870

The French people are reported RI
sing in every part of France, The three
hundred thousand who have thus far
enrolled themselves, may yet turn the
scale in saving the young republic.
Year: 1870

An insurrection in the interest of the
Neapolitan Bourbons broke out recently
in one of the southern provinces of Italy,
but was not formidable. The advices
from Florence announce the dispersion of
the insurgents by the government troops
Year: 1870




Journal says:


T happened to be one of the unfortunate
newspaper men pressed into the service to
assist in burying he late George Peabody,
and while at Portland my moral conscious
ness was shocked at some things witnessed
in that city. 1t was some time before I
could realize that it was funeral occasion,
and that George Peabody was the most
thoroughly buried man on this continent.
At the Falmouth Hotel, where everybody
of any consequence stopped, the three
days doings reminded one of preparations
for the arrival Of some great potentate, in
stead of funeral doings. Persons from as
far as Baltimore were present to assist in
the obsequies. ANY man who had his eyes
open might have guessed that Prince Ar
thur, or some such scion, were in town,
Judging from the weaknesses that were aired
by the British and American officers, and
their friends, about the hotel, and especial
lY in the upper rooms.


There was no Mine law in Portlandame
that tIme as the EN- apty bottles that ats
fling down the broad stairway in battalion
to the cellar below testified, and while the
officers of the war vessels of both nations
fraternized over the sparkling wine or the
dormant whisky, the memory of the dead
philanthrOpist was forgotten IN the self
praise of q Mutual Admiration Society.
Nor did this scandalous conduct end here.
Legislative and municipal committees
reveled in orgies that would have done
honor to a gathering of bar-room politi-
clans, and had it not been for the black
border around the tickets, "good for a
ride on the funeral traIn," it would hardly
have been known that the occasion was
one of mourning and even on the train
with the body of George Peabody resting
on a bier, surrounded by squad of United
States troops, the black bottle or the pocket
pistol went the rounds among those spirit
ually inclined; and there were not few OF
/ CI1olo
Year: 1870


have fancied, sometimes, the Bethei-bent beam
That trembled TO earth in the p2triarch's dream
Was ladder of Song in the wilderness rest,
From the pillow Of stone to the blue Of the Blest,
And the angels descending to dwell with US here,
''0ld Hundred and 'Corinth,'' and ''China, and
"Mear.


All the hearts are not dead, not under the sod,
That those breaths can blow open to Heaven and
All, ssiiver Street leads by bright, golden road;
0, it is not the hymns that in harmony flowed;
But those sweet humored psalms in the oid-fash-
To the girls girls that that sang atohe girls that sang air
stLet as sing in his praise the minister said,
ALI the psalm-books at once futtered open at
summed their dotted wings in the words that he


read.


While tie leader Ieaped into the tune just ahead,
And politely picked ont the key note with fork,
And the vicious old vol went growing along
At the heels of the girls in the rear OF the song
Ineed not a wing-bid no genii to come,
With wonderful web from Arabian loom,
When the world was in rhythm, and life was It's
Where the streams Of the years flowed up noiseless
That across it there foated the song of a sparrow;
For a sprig of green carroway carries me there,
To the old village church and the old village choir
when clear Of the floor my feet slowly swung,
And timed the sweet praise Of the song as they
Till the gI0ry aslant from the fternoon sun
Seemed the rafters OF godih Gods temple begun
You may smile at the nasals Of old Deacon Brown
Who followed by scent till he ran the tune down;
And the dear sister Green, with more goodnes


than grace,


Rose and fell on the tunes she stood In her place.
And where Coronation exultngly flows,
Tried to reach tie high notes on the tips Of her


toes


To the land of the leal they went with their song
Where the choir and the chorus together belong
O. be lifted, ye Gatesl Letme hear them again
Blessed song, blessed Sabbath. forever, amen!
Year: 1870

None but Cinnamon could heretofore
make gongs to perfection. 1t used to be
supposed that they possessed the secret of
mixing the allov of which the clamorous
lDsurunl9ii.s Iefmed, or else some means
of tempering the metal to allow of its being
beaten into shape, and afterward hardened
to q sonorous density. For a genuine gong
is brittle; it will crack if struck with hard
substance; and yet it bears hammer marks
all over it. We do not know whether
English musical instrument makers have
not supplied gopgs because there is no
demand for them, or because they could
not make them. But if the latter,
there need no longer be a scarcity
in the market; for a French metaIurgist
has been experimenting upon gong
and cvmbal metals, and has revealed the
Chinese secret, if secret it has been. The
nature of the alloy has long been known;
it consists of eighty parts of copper to
twenty of tin. But the shaping; attempt
to heat this compound into dish-form,
and it flies like porcelain. The trick lies
in first heating it, and hammering it while
at dull red heat; it is then malleable as
soft iron; allow it to cool and il relapses
into friability. The making of q gong
must be tedious work, though, for the thin
metal will soon cool, and there must be
incessant reheatings. A barbarian's pa
tience must be required jor the task. Per-
haps it is the labor thus spent upon gongs
that renders them so expensive.
Year: 1870

last s'orlng was severe blow to him, and
no doubt accelerated his death. Weakness
and pain confined him to his house during
nearly the whole of the winter; soon after
Christmas an attack Of his disease so weak
ened him that he was forced to remain in
his room. 1t will please his friends at
distance, who may read this, to know that
he was unchanged to the last, retaining
his cheerful temper, and the quiet humor
which distinguished him to the end. He
took an affectionate farewell, not only of
his family, but of the old servants of the
publishing house, many of whom had been
his friends from his own younger days. He
fondly recalled in these last days many of
the incidents of his early life, and it seem
ed to be peculiar source of happiness to
him, that he ad secured the attachment
of SO many of those who had been in his
employ. He passed away thus, calmly, re-
signedly, cheerfdlly, being in his death, as
in his life, Christian gentleman N. Y.
Post, 14th
Year: 1870

RED as a RosE Is SHE. BY the author of
"Gometh Up as q Flower, 1 vol, vo.,
paper cover. Price 60c. The author of
'Cometn Up as a Flower" rapidly won
popularity which places her IN the front rank
of modern novelists. We are assured by a
lady friend that the story is so absorbing that
she was obliged to finish it at one sitting.
Her characters are all Iife-hke portraits, and
you seem to see before you just such men
and women as we arc in the habit of seeing
from day to day. Nothing so fresh and
charming has come before us for may day.
D. Appleton & Co., New York, publishers.
Sent free by mail to any address on receipt OF
the price
Year: 1870

The Chatham Planet of recent date re-
cords q most extraordinary and sudden rise
of the waters of Lake st. Clair, particularly
observable in the vicinity of the mouth Of
the river Thames and along the south
shore of the lake to and beyond the river
Ruscom. Parties resident on the lake
shore say that at first two loud reports We're
heard, resembling the reports from cannons
fired at distance, after which was exper-
fenced sensation as from gentle sway
ing to and fro, as though an earthquake
had been awakened from a century's re-
pose. Upon visiting the water line it was
discovered that the ice had been suddenly
showed upon the shores and piled up sew
eral feet in height, carrying with it trunks
of trees and logs, which had for quarter
of century lain imbedded in the sand OF
the beach. At the mouth of the river
Thames and vicinity, the Ice was thrown to
the height Of two or three feet, while at the
river Ruscom it was raised at least four
feet above its ordinary level. So sudden
was the action of the water in the lake,
that the ice and trees and logs We're abso-
lutely piled in q jumbled mass several feet
in height along the shore for distance OF
several miles, but it was most observable
in the south and southeast quarter.
Year: 1870

Nothing can be done well that is done
in hurry" oracularly declared a certain
pompous passenger in a carriage one morn
ing lately. ''How about catching Q train p
asked wag at his elbow. The oracle was
silsnced,
Year: 1870

WASHING Hrs HANDS IN INNOCENCE.
Some twenty years ago beautiful little church
IN the West was ready for conservation. On
the day appointed the venerable bishop Chase,
with several clergy, was present. Just before
going into the church, the bishop had written
the "deed of conservation" and, in so doing,
had soiled his hands with ink. He did not
observe this until after he was in the chancel,
and during the progress Of the services; and,
when his eye rested upon his blackened fng-
ers, he was apparently much annoyed. He
called some of the clergy 10 his side, and ex-
hibited his soiled hand, and said he must wash
it. But he was very heavy and unwieldly,
and could not get out and in the chancel
without great difficulty, and therefore declin-
ed going out into the vestry-room, where
there was a bowl. "Bring the bowl and tow
el to me-" he said.


One clergyman ventured 10 suggest to him,
soto uoce, that wet towel might do as well,
and would be less noticed by the congrega-
ton.


The bishop looked at him over his specta-
cles and said: "Sir, never wash with tow
ell"


At last the senior warden of the parish was
obliged to go out and bring in bowl of wa
ter. And, by singular coincidence, just as
the officiating clergyman was giving out the
tI,a
Year: 1870

CHAP. VIII.


The three were invited to 90 to a
dinner party the next day, by a wealthy
family who lived near, but India had a
sore throat, and although It was not
dangerous, the doctor had forbidden
her going out in the cold air for one
day at least. Sidney Morton and Violet
wished to decline the invitation on her
account, but India would not hear to it,
as the party had been made almost en-
tirely for them. '-.s.U


India was not afraid of any explana-
tion being made between the two; TIE
Professor had promised her not to mem
ton 1t to Violet, and she knew Ofcourse
that the latter would say nothing about
it. India sat in the library, dressed in
costly robe de c4ambrs, with some scar
let flowers in the shining braids Of her
black hair. She was just pale enough
to be interesting, and made a very pretty
invalid. So thought Sidney Norton
when he came in and foundher there.


$50 YOU haven't gone yet" she said
with smile. ' g1


''No, it is not time, believe ! re.
gret your illness exceedingly; Miss In
dia. Do you think you caught cold
when we were out yesterdsyl


"Oh no My maid left d window up
in my room last night. That vas the
cause of it, l think" asAo4h a'


The Professor stood gazing abstract
edly into the fire, with one arm resting
on the mantle. He was thinking Of
Violet's strange conduct of yesterday;
1t was inexpliCable to him. A sudden
thought entered his brain Perhaps
she was offended at what he had said to
her in the library, and had taken this
method to show her displeasufs. He
would have said more, perhaps, had
it not been for India's entrance. He
was thankful now that be did not.
While he was looking at the fire, India
was looking at him, and wondering how
she could ever have called him ''ratber
good looking" man, To her partial
eyes he was perfect. The tired look on
his face had entirely vanished, and his
cheeks now wore the hue of health


He was faultlesslt attired; but be was
a man who did not owe his appearance
to his tailor, and would have been hand
some had he been clad in rags. Violet
came in presently, ready to start.


q am SO sorry you cannot go, IrdiaF
she said, smoothing back the hair from
India's brow. saea .


"And ! too" said Morton, ''Is
seems so bad to leave you alone, Miss
India" Now this speech Of bis vas
very unfortunate. Violet thought how
he had left her alone yesterday, without
regret, and hardened toward him in@
stantly. India saw the ocldness that
existed between them, and applauded
herself for the success Of her plan. Soon
after they had gone Mr.. Richmond
came in. He had just been out for q
walk. T


III he continued
Year: 1870

where they exist in readily soluble form, and
are capable of being at once assimilated by the
growing crop. This is the secret of its great sue
cess and the reason why our most capable and
intelligent farmers prefer it to any other manure.


march 26-3t
Year: 1870

ENGLAND Our OF HUMoR.-Johnny Bull
is once more scolding bis dear mistress.
the Queen, with that petulant spirit
OF domestic dissatisfaction he can vent In no
other way, and he even gives some sdswind-
ers indicating that other members OF the royal
family have fallen under bis great displeasure.
He does not like 1t that the princes can find
no better occupation than deer stalking lust
now, when John him self is so sadly bothered
with this Prussian war, and the confoundinr
and astonishing success of tde Prussians who
go ahead 80 famously that they can afford to
do without his sympathy and defy his neu-
trality- the last extreme Of foreign imperti-
nence. It seems to be the objectionable
offence on the part Of the Queen that she
does not find London the pleasantest place in
the world to live in, and that she INDUCES the
taste of lady to live where she likes, not
asserting to the notion that q queen must be
less free in this than other women. Well, this
being his great present grievance, what Is
John Bull going to do about it?
Year: 1870

The King will be liberal and magnanimcus.
As to a guarantee Of future peace, PRUSSIA nas
got that really tarough the wonderful success
OF her arms. There is no fear OF France ever
making war on Germany again for supremacy
in Earopc or from dynastic ambition. France
will remain mighty nation, an equal with the
FIRST Powers, but she can never again claim to
be the controlling Power. This war has fixed
the political status both of Germany and
France In the affairs of Europe. A prolonged
war would not change this. There is nothing
really to continue the war for, and if Prussia
will be magnanimous in the hour Of victory
and Fraaes will yield something in her defeat
for the sake Of peace the war can be closed at
once, and these two great civilized and pro-
'gressive countries of Europe may become firm
friends. That is the advice and hope Of
America.
Year: 1870

ACCIDENT AT TOMS RlvER.-An ex curs;on
party from Long Branch while CROSSING tho
bridge at Toms river, New Jersey. vesterdov -
met with disastrous accident. The BRIDGE
gave way beneath them and one hundred
people were precipitated In the river beneath
OF whom eight were drowned.
Year: 1870

Senator Drake opened his canvass oi
the State of Missouri with a speech at
Hannibal, Tuesday night, in which ne he
charged the boiling Republicans with
a design to break up the party ana
give the State to the Democrats. In
regard to disfranchisement he SAID !,
was simply question Of clemencv ana
expediency, and that the Republican
party had not plighted its faith upon 1t
Year: 1870

Ihe Elton E0yte gives us some railroad
information Of importance and value:


We had this week the pleasure OF meet
ing Colonel George w. SappingtOn, OF Ar
kansas, who has paid MS a visit in the inter-
ests of the Pine Bluff and Vicksburg Rail
road The Colonel informs us that as far
down as Eunice, Arkansas, the road is in
process of rapid completion, and from that
point has a connection with the interior of
Arkansas, and that there is a good prospect
of bringing it to the Arkansas line. The
point for the consideration of our people is,
to take the matter in hand from the Arkan-
sas line, and by donations or stock sub
scriptions of lands to aid in the further
ance of this most important work.


When it ls remembered that this railroad
is guarantee Of a secure levee system,
that thousands of acres of the best and most
productive land in the parish will be re-
claimed and increased tentold in value, that
these lands are valueless without the
scheme, that by it we will be brought with
in two days of ST. LOuis, that over it an un-
broken stream of immigration will be pour
ing into our borders, filling up our unoccu-
pied lands and quadrupling their producing
capacity, it seems strange that any one who
owns real estate should hesitate for mo-
ment to become interested in it.


Any owner of back lands, who is to-day
poor from the very fact of ownership, could
become rich by donating One-half his lands
to company that would build a railroad
through the parish. The company only
asks for the lands in the event that the road
ia built. We would be 10th to believe that
anyone is SO sordidly selfish as to sit down
quietly and see his neighbors contribute to
the work, and let him reap the benefit.
Everyone should aid in the means by which
he will become enriched.


We would be glad to have some express
sion Of opinion from our planters and land
owners on this subject, and being author
lied by Colonel Sappington, to receive for
the road donations or stock subscriptions.
Unless something is done Immediately, We
will be deprived of an important benefit.
The road will stop at Eunice. From that
point connections will be made with Gre
NADIA, Mississippi, an important railroad
centre, under liberal offers made by the
State of Mississippi, and the tenders OF
adequate capital, and there is an end Of it
as far as Carroll parish is concerned. Let
this matter be thought of.
Year: 1870

THE PLACE WHERE TO Buy CHEAP
GooDs-Is Croner's, corner of Magazine and
st. Mary streets. Their stock is as Large as
that of any house in New Orleans, while
their prices are less than those of equal
standing on Canal street, by twenty or
thirty per cent. Barriere, MeGibbon and
Syme can not begin to compete with Messrs.
Croner, for Mey pay too much rent, and be-
sides, have not the liberality to do it.
They must make their one hundred per
cent or they fail; while the Croners can
live on twenty or Thirty per cent.
Year: 1870

The President intends in his annual Mes
sage to renew the recommendations con
tanned in his special message Of last July to
Congress for the removal of restrictions on
foreign built vessels, SO that they can be
furnished with American registers. He will
elaborate this position, and maintain that if
it had been fulfilled by Congress in July,
the present carrying trade would have been
more generally in American bottoms.
Year: 1870

The Supreme Court room at Washington
looked like small graveyard one day
lately, fourteen large slabs of marble having
been brought In to aid the Judges in de-
Gliding whether the slabs were white, within
the specification of contract for the deliv-
cry Of white marble.
Year: 1870

ARTISTIC PHorOGRAPHY.-We lately Wis
tied the gallery of our friend Washburn, on
Canal street, and saw specimens of pho
Biography which would do honor to the best
artists Of Paris. Absolute perfection in
feature and outline appears to have attended
the operator when he took that picture of
Mrs. General +. M, for we have seldom
seen a more perfect likeness anywhere
even igom the pencils of Page or Healey;
and who could doubt the identity Of those
of Colonel Field, Judge Abel, and others.
That of the lady in question was so perfect
that gentleman yesterday recognized her
Immediately, ON seeing her in store, al
though he does not yet know who she is.
Said he to us: THAT is the lady whose por-
trait l saw yesterday at Washburn's." OF
course il was.
Year: 1870

division Of the Chattanooga railroad:


The price of passage to Mobile has been
fixed at five dollars, and freight will be
taken as low AZ by any other route. We
have always believed the Chattanooga road
would greatly benefit New Orleans, and in
reducing the rate Of passage to Mobile to
one-half what our people have heretofore
been paying, we have evidence Of the good
it will accomplish when finished to Chat
tanooga on the one side and the interior of
Texas on the other.
Year: 1870

From the Utah Reporter, June 10


To day we give the facts as we


have taken them, relative to the dis
cOvery Of the subterranean outlet to
Great Salt Lake. This inland sea,


the briniest of all the waters in the


world, and which former investiga-
tiOns pronounced as being kept at its
level by the evaporation, has itself
solved the mystery of the mountains.
The lofty hills and all the lonely
islands have for countless ages found a
mirror for their grand majesty in the
bosom OF our lake, and its FURNISHED
face has been kept bright with the
crystal supplies of q thousand streams
from out the roaring canyons, ctefts,
and snowy reservoirs of the rocky
chain. The eye of science has scanned
with care the agencies which, it was
supposed, held the aqueous wonder in
its place, and the HumbOldts and Sill
limans of ta'O continents saw no e5-
capement for the changing Sea" save
through the aerial pathways of the sun.
Many years ago the bureau of tOpOgrl-
ply sought to explain the permanent
equilibrium of Great Salt Lake,
whose thirst absOrbs a greater supply
Of fresh water than Michigan or Erie,
but still the deduction was the same.
Every trial said its shores were saved
from flood by the evaporating power.
This is no longer a theory, aud never
was correct.


One night last week the Schooner
Pioneer, Capt. Hannah, on her vOy-
age from COrinne to Stockton, when
at Il point in the Lake between FIRE.
mont and KimbalI Island, nearly OPP
pOsite this city, came suddenly in cOn-
tact with something the captain
thought more solid than water, belieV-
ing his vessel to have stranded upon
rocks. Instead of this, however, the
men on the Pioneer discovered that
she was in the Whirl of q mael5trOm,
| for the vessel revOlved as if in a circu-
lar current, and the motion was 50
rapid in the revolutions made that the
men could scarce stand at their duties.


Capt. Hannah being an old sailor
and understanding the danger he was
in, at once added sail, and, a brisk


wind blowing at the time, the craft


was, after an hours detention, borne
1 beyond the vortex of the eddy. H9
informs Gen. ConnOr, the owner Of ths
schooner, and from whom we get these
interesting facts, that while in the


trough Of the ugly hole the deck was
lower than the water outside the


whirlpool, and that he owes the safety


of vessel and men to the stiff breez5


which fortunately sprang up at the


time. The noise of the waters as they


descended denoted that some mighty
airless cavity below gave strength tU


the suction, and the surging, frOthy
foam above, wasslike the boiling of a


mammoth cauldron. That this is the
safety valve Of Great Salt Lake ther5
seems to be no doubt, and we can rea-
IsOnably assume that similar openings
are numerous on the bottom. The
steamer Kate COnnOr will be ready in
two or three days to go on the lake,
when the General, accompanied by Il
party Of gentlemen from this city,
will go out and examine the mack
strOm.